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  1. Question: French Military?

    Not the WILL not to fight as much as a failure to adapt. The senior French leadership were, in the main, veterans of the Great War. They have four years of extremely hard won knowledge on how to fight wars and they had tan old man's inflexibility to go with it. They were sure they were right...
  2. Is USSR doomed if Japan invades?

    Not at all. The Japanese Army was not up to fighting a set piece battle against ANY European opponent. It was a light infantry force that did very well in certain, rather limited conditions against Western Colonial formations and in small unit actions in jungle terrain. The IJA's greatest...
  3. Question: French Military?

    Actually the French had both population AND industrial output sufficient to withstand the Reich. There were more Germans overall, but this was more than balanced by the alliance with the UK, not to mention the need of the Reich to garrison Poland, Czechoslavakia, and Norway. The same can be said...
  4. 1788 Federalist Primary (version 2) in California

    Please don't start up a bunch of these sorts of things. We don't allow them in post-1900 and that isn't going to change in pre-1900.
  5. WI/Challenge: A U.S. with Universal Health Care

    Easy. Keep Nixon from exercising ALL of his paranoia in an election he couldn't possibly have lost in the 1st place. Nixon wanted UHC, Kennedy wanted UHC. No Watergate and it happens, probably by 1974.
  6. Best Warships in active Service in 1Sept39

    The Soryus were a dreadful design. Utter death traps with pitiful survivability. The Yorktowns were much more survivable, although vulnerable to torpedo damage. The Yorktowns also had much more useful range, a far greater maximum air wing (perhaps best illustrated by the fact that at Midway...
  7. Russian/Soviet Boneyard?

    The Soviets used everything until it fell apart. At that point, they sold it to someone.
  8. 2004 "Wonga Coup" Succeeds

    Moved per OP request.
  9. WI:Yugoslavia doesn't give up in 1999?

    Second verse, same as the first. Yugoslavia was GONE. You had Serbia doing its best to keep two regions that wanted to nothing but get the hell away from them. Yugoslavia died with Tito. It just took a bit for the body to fall apart.
  10. WI:Yugoslavia doesn't give up in 1999?

    There was no Yugoslavia in 1999. There was only Serbia with pretensions.
  11. Best warship conversion/rebuilt program?

    Not really. Bad hull form, bad internal space, slow (27 knots MAX design speed, real world make it 23-24). 73,000 tons and it would had an air wing the same size as Independence Class CVL, all 11,000 tons of them. The Japanese planned for her to be a combination carrier/replenishment ship :eek...
  12. AHC Design the ideal escort vessel for WW2

    They built this. Take a look at the Tone class CA, Cut down on the armor and replace the8" guns with some 5" and 3.9' AA and you're set.
  13. 1974 General Election: Who would you have voted for?

    I warned you about these when you carpet bombed the Forum with the first set. I guess the warning and the locking of ALL of the first set wasn't sufficient. Lets see if this is more noteworthy. Kicked for a week.
  14. Retrospective Labour Party Leadership Election 2010

    Don't. Just don't.
  15. Optimal Post-WWI Polish Borders Map Survey

    You were kicked for Nationalist rantings in January and didn't come back to post for seven months. Since July 21 you have made five posts (including two you later deleted, as a BTW for the future, albeit elsewhere, on most Boards the Mods can read deleted posts) three of them have been...
  16. AHC Design the ideal escort vessel for WW2

    Given what you say above, then the ultimate escort is this, with a couple modifications: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Atlanta_(CL-51) Dump the "C" turret and replace it with a Hedgehog, replace the original 1.1 mounts with 40mm twins, and the 'wing" 5"/38 mounts with 40mm or, from 1944...
  17. STS-7 explodes on launch

    It gets an official warning not to be a jackass? Sort of like you?
  18. Let’s subjugate women!!!

    Well, this was quite the debut. Three years here and you start your posting history with a Flamebait thread title? Hell of a way to introduce yourself to the Board. I really, really recommend that you think before yanking out the gas can again.
  19. WI: Britain goes to war with America during the ACW

    Well, that earns a vacation. Call it Seven Days. You may want to check out Coventry during your time off. Next time you pull this sort of crap you'll be moving there permanently.
  20. A Nuclear 9/11

    I don't know about ever. It is pretty bad, and it was Necro'd. Necros get locked.
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