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  1. Allied WW2 Improvements

    When looking at the Heer 1938 tank force it is worthwhile to consider that this was the Panzer force vehicle at the time: When looking at the Heer 1938 tank force it is worthwhile to consider that this was the Panzer force vehicle at the time (BTW, those are 7.92mm machine guns). The entire...
  2. Hitler stays patient

    The issue here is the same as always, somehow by waiting, or by being a bit less Nazi, the Reich does better. The world also just sits around and does nothing while the Germans expand their military unchecked. This ignores the basic fact that the world is not a vacuum. 1. Japan. Japan is...
  3. WI: U.S. fleet at Pearl Harbor stays intact.

    Well, for starters the U.S. didn't have six deployable CV at the time. Hornet was still on shakedown, didn't even have a regular air wing yet, she still had SCB-4 Helldivers as her scout/divebomber. She was also not combat ready, after her December cruise she returned to Norfolk to have...
  4. WI: U.S. fleet at Pearl Harbor stays intact.

    Flight distance from Wake to Clark is 3,050 miles. Wake to the various Marshall Islands is 600-800 miles (it is 700 miles to Wotje & 680 to Kwajalein, as a comparison the range to Berlin from East Anglia is 600-650 miles) Saipan is 1,300 which the B-17 can reach with a half bomb load, the B-24...
  5. Flag Thread III

    Actually its sucks pretty bad. Every time you post a Meme here, a baby bunny cries. Don't make baby bunnies cry.
  6. WI: U.S. fleet at Pearl Harbor stays intact.

    Depends when. There are a number of threads where this is discussed at great length. While I am not one to yell "SEARCH IT!!", in this case you might find some truly worthwhile posts if you do. Short answer, however, is this - 24 hours warning = IJN withdrawal (per the written attack orders)...
  7. WI: U.S. fleet at Pearl Harbor stays intact.

    In the long run, you are 100% correct. If, however, the U.S. was stupid enough to send a formation of 18 knot battleships with entirely inadequate AAA defenses into the reach of the JNAF on Formosa in early 1942 the results would have been a defeat of rather epic proportions, something that...
  8. WI: U.S. fleet at Pearl Harbor stays intact.

    Unfortunately, much like the bumblebee, it appears that the B-17 and the USAAF were unaware of the inability of the B-17 to land or take off from Wake and had staged through Wake en route to Clark Field for several months before the war. In fact one of the complaints that the Marine...
  9. WI: U.S. fleet at Pearl Harbor stays intact.

    Actually, Wake changes the entire Pacific War. U.S. B-17 and/or B-24 from Wake can strike the Mandates at will (that was why the contruction crew was on Wake, to build it into a B-17 base). The Marianas are now right at the top of the invasion plan, along with the Marshall Islands. Wake allows...
  10. WI: U.S. fleet at Pearl Harbor stays intact.

    The war plans called for the fleet to stay away from the Islands. Everyone in the U.S. military with the brains to open a door recognized that the PI were indefensible. The fleet would have stayed away unless political pressure was so great that a relief effort was impossible to avoid. If a...
  11. ATL USN carriers.

    Well, since the A6M had a land based combat radius that was realistically more limited by pilot endurance than fuel you will need some damned long legs on even the float planes (and God protect the sub crews who would have to surface, in daylight and within range of land based enemy air, to...
  12. La Larga y Oscura Noche

    OP's been banned for a year, so the chances are pretty dim. Oh yea... Necro = locked.
  13. WI Canada stays french

    Necro = locked
  14. Was German success in WWI at all possible?

    Arguments like these are almost impossible to follow, are entirely pointless, and eventually reach an absurd level. Like now. It is not forbidden, but it is not looked upon in a loving manner. If it was forbidden both of these posters would be on a break.
  15. Was German success in WWI at all possible?

    Next person who posts a wall of text, counter point by point message in this thread gets kicked for a week. Grow the hell up. CalBear in Mod Mode
  16. AHC: The US Green Party Gets 10% in 2012

    Seriously, this would require divine intervention. Greens are a joke in American politics, not just because of the environmental issues, where they have some support, but because the Party is quite far left (arguably socialist, if not communist) in its party platform. When they do manage to...
  17. Was the Panama Canal a Soviet ICBM target during the Cold War?

    This be enough of these. It has already be pointed out to you that the Soviet target list has never been released.
  18. Were any Soviet missiles targeted on Israel during the Cold War?

    Unquestionably, although the chances of either superpower releasing their targeting lists in the lifespan of anyone current breathing is minute.
  19. Terrorist attack on the Panama Canal

    Why 12%? Based on a quick guess it looked like about a 25% increase in transit times, and I then halved that to account for the option of using the idled hulls and/or Suez. Al lot does, but many trips still uses the Panama route. Suez is for heavier-weight shipping, but it is often easier to...
  20. Terrorist attack on the Panama Canal

    Taking out the Canal is a LOT harder than you might think, although it could be done. The "best" way would be with a cargo ship rigged to detonate while in the lochs. The global economic impact would be incredible. Over 14,000 vessels, most of them cargo ships of one stripe or another, use the...
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