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  1. Cuba without the sunshine, or the Daily Mail tries its hand at Alternate History

    Can't avoid the newsreader rules by posting outside of Chat. Locked.
  2. A Long and Flowing Whig: My New Timeline

    Necro = Locked
  3. WI: Sonic the Hedgehog was COINTELPRO

    Oh, its you. Banned.
  4. Guns the great equalizer of Combat, and the destroyers of Honor ?

    WTF? Did you mix up the LSD and corn flakes this morning? You are kicked for a week. That will give you time to come down from the trip. Of course if this is the real you posting, don't bother coming back a'tall.
  5. The Ultimate Papal-Wank

    Necro = Locked. Now I have go unkick somebody! :mad: Kick reinstated. BTW: I HATE IT when people respond to Necro's!!
  6. The Ultimate Papal-Wank

    Well, that is rather needless flaming and asshat behavior. Kicked for a week
  7. AHC and WI: No Thatcher

    Well this took all of two replies to get political as all Hell. Clearly way too soon. Locked.
  8. American naval decisions in the 1930's

    7 Depends on what you mean by fortress. Much like Tarawa or Midway, you can't put a huge army there, but you can make it so it would TAKE a huge army to invade with any hope of success. Put a full Marine Defense Battalion there instead of the rump battalion that was there IOTL and fully prepared...
  9. American naval decisions in the 1930's

    You really don't need to do that much to have a huge impact. Fortify Guam. Install The same sort of set-up as eventually existed on Wake, except use two-three Marine Defense Battalions, with provisions/factilites to reinforce with Army units. Fortify Wake and finish the runways/revetments by...
  10. Fill in the blanks ATL dreadnoughts.

    Can't be done. Technology simply isn't there. You would, fairly quickly, reach a point that the size of the vessels overwhelms any possible engine power. As a really simple example of the weights involved. RN gun weight (one tube, with breech) 12"/45 Mark X = 129,348 pounds (58,626 kg)...
  11. Would an American Yamamoto help or hinder in the Pacific War?

    Chester Nimitz? Well, he won the war. Be fore you protest Nimitz 1. Attacked the Japanese at every opportunity from the minute he assumes command, including ordering unrestricted submarine warfare. 2. Green lit the Doolittle Raid. 3. Went against the Kido Butai at Coral Sea even though two...
  12. Radically different post WW2 US Navy carrier policy

    Problem is that you need at least 40,000 tons just to play the game (de Gaulle being the best example). You need nuclear power (the Kennedy used to lose 5-6 knots when she diverted steam to her cats). de Gaulle cost $4B, the Ford will cost twice that, but she will at least four times as capable...
  13. Radically different post WW2 US Navy carrier policy

    What is being forgotten here is that you need larger carriers to operate the later aircraft. Even the Midway class ships were too small to handle the F-14. The F-14 was critical to the role the USN had for the carrier in case of a confrontation with the USSR in Europe. The fleet would have...
  14. AHC/WI: Japanese Invasion of Hawaii ends in disaster

    I've actually been playing with this, mainly so when it comes up, someone can say "look here" and be done with it.
  15. Japanese naval decisions in the 1930's

    The thing is that it actually doesn't matter. The U.S. was going to build 25 fleet carrier and 14 fast battleships regardless. All that changed those figures was, well, we won the war and the ships were not needed. Same goes for cruisers and DD, the only types that mushroomed were subs, escort...
  16. Guns the great equalizer of Combat, and the destroyers of Honor ?

    I'd much rather fight with Nerf balls, but that's just me. :D The era of edged weapons gave all the advantage to 1. The wealthy. 2. The really wealthy. and 3. The guys with the most money. A sword cost a year's wages, maybe more. A Battle Axe was damned near as expensive. Armor, even mail...
  17. Guns the great equalizer of Combat, and the destroyers of Honor ?

    There is nothing more equal that two people with firearms. Assuming equal training (which is vastly more important than you seem to realize, at least as critical as it was in the edged weapons era) the victor will be the man, who is smarter, more clever, or better prepared. If both men are...
  18. Did the United States Hide a Battleship in 1942?

    It was also LONG before [FONT=Calibri][SIZE=3] which was when you claimed the IJN first engaged with her battleships [SIZE=3][SIZE=3]This statement, BTW is also in direct [SIZE=3]contradiction to your statement that [SIZE=3]
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