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  1. Naval artillery question...

    As has been said there is a practical limit on size. The handling equipment that was needed to give the Des Moines and her sisters full auto added about 4,000 tons to the displacement of the ships and cranked the ship up with the size of a WW I Battleship (actually the cruisers were 150 feet...
  2. WI: No Columbine?

    This is one of the most pointless efforts to derail a thread into political napalm strikes I've seen in a while. It is also remarkably close to conspiracy mongering. Grind this ax in Chat when you come back, if you feel compelled to do so. DO NOT do it in the regular forums. Kicked for a week...
  3. Retrospective United States Presidential Elections: 1972

    Back to the grave zombie! With Salt and Blood I bind thee to the earth to rise no more!
  4. Sealion paper

    Actually, that isn't what the paper says. It clearly concludes that the Luftwaffe had to prevail in the BoB, have a much stronger navy, and extrapolates that a fascist Spain would join in, or at the very least, provide unfettered access to Wehrmacht forces to act against UK interest in the Med...
  5. Famous People In Alternate Realities

    Back to the grave zombie! With Salt and Blood I bind thee to the earth to rise no more!
  6. Plausibility check: Czechoslovakia defeats Germany alone

    And, here we go again... To quote the fairly awesome movie Defending Your Life: Eventually the Universe just throws you away. You are right there, right now. Last chance time. Another round of pointless, anger filled postings in multiple threads when you come back from this kick and you...
  7. Lots of basemaps, all made in TACOS

    Sorry buddy, but the minimum age here is 13. See you in a couple years.
  8. What if the Pope threatens to excommunicate Hitler?

    Back to the grave zombie! With Salt and Blood I bind thee to the earth to rise no more!
  9. Operation PX

    1. Probably. Even though the U.S. had patrols and alert aircraft it lacked the sort of AEW that is common today. Aircraft could, and did, get lost in surface clutter. As a guess figure between 1/3 and 1/2 get into range of AAA, which is close enough to drop, even if not on the exact target of...
  10. DBWI: Just found this map.

    Back to the grave zombie! With Salt and Blood I bind thee to the earth to rise no more!
  11. DBWI: Just found this map.

    Two Years? Really?
  12. WI: Bin Laden kills Obama?

    Might have been a cool dream, but it ignores reality. The POTUS has MASSIVE protection everywhere he goes. People talk about Seal Team Six or Delta being Death on a Pale Horse, where do you think the Secret Service gets people for The Detail? Sure they clean up nice, and some of the members...
  13. Terrorist attack on 10th anniversary of 9/11.

    No one will survive an attempt to hijack an American flag air carrier for at least a generation. Mortal lock that at least one in four people on the plane will immediately go into "let's roll" mode as soon as the hijackers start (based on my friends and co-workers, both men AND women, that...
  14. Columbus's ship sinks.

    You REALLY need to chill out. You are way over the top in this thread, for no reason I can find. This is your second warning in a couple weeks. By my calculations that makes the count 0-2.
  15. Columbus's Ship Sinks.

    Since you have one of these in pre-1900 - Locked
  16. Vandalia: A Barbarian Barbary

    Back to the grave zombie! With Salt and Blood I bind thee to the earth to rise no more!
  17. Vandalia: A Barbarian Barbary

    I can not believe that I actually have to do this. You were warned to cut out the necro threads. Every time you do it, the thread gets locked, but you keep it up anyway. Methinks it is time to focus your attention. Kicked for a week. When you came back, leave the shovel in the garage.
  18. Just for fun: The most hated person on this board

    glances around, slowly raises hand
  19. About the Moon and moonholes.

    You really need to stop have three or four triple vodkas immediately before you post. BTW: This isn't a kick/ban only because your posting history indicates that you are not, despite this post, utterly insane. A repeat will indicate that you are, in fact, either crazy as a bedbug or a troll of...
  20. WI England Wins Hundred Years War

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