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  1. Know Nothings

    per OP request.
  2. Transatlantic invasion and occupation of Europe?

    As a disclaimer, this is utterly impossible in any version of reality I can come up with. The requirement of of a North American country that wanted to invade Europe, more or less for no reason other than the idea it warms the country's icy black heart, is virtually ASB. As far as the actual...
  3. Challenge: Vietnam Keeps American POWs After the War

    I always thought it would be nice to have a couple of firearms that NEVER RAN OUT OF AMMO, no matter how long your fired them. Be handy.
  4. Challenge: Vietnam Keeps American POWs After the War

    The question that has to be answered is a lot simpler than "Did The Viets or PL or KR PRC or USSR keep any PoW and who, if anyone in DC knew?" The question is actually this: Does ANYONE believe that EVERY White House since Nixon along with EVERY DCI, DDI, DIA, NSA, SecDef, SecState, member of...
  5. Navalized Ki61 Hien

    The Navy tested the Ki-61. They were remarkably unimpressed. http://www.wwiiaircraftperformance.org/japan/Tony-I.pdf Short version of the file is that the Tony was inferior in performance to everything the fleet had in use post F4F, it had very poor forward visibility, and had remarkable...
  6. Overlord vs. Barbarossa vs. Bagration

    Agreed that you can't compare them. Barbarrosa was designed to "Blitz" the USSR straight out of existence in one massive Zerg rush. It failed, for so many reasons it is almost silly. Bagration was a strategic level assault designed to crush a specific portion of an enemy force therough...
  7. What If Germany never declared war on the US?

    I have to disagree with this. The nexus for the European phase of WW II, and for the Western/Japanese Phase of WW II was, quite specifically, the rise of Hitler and his band of murderous followers. This is not to say that, at some point in the 1940s, that a European War could not have broken...
  8. Franco-Prussian War: Inevitable?

    Don't insult people. You know better than to do this.
  9. Challenge: Alliance names other than "Entente", "Central Powers", "Allies" and "Axis"

    WW I Old, sick, withered, & landlocked Confederation The League of "Yes, we do have money coming out of ears and not a lick of sense to back it up" "Let's kill millions of innocents over the kid nobody liked" Coalition "We have one more cousin than you do!" Compact WW II Frank & Winnie's...
  10. What if Iraq big subs force during first Gulf war

    Besides bankrupting the country? Just the flat purchase of the hulls, assuming they were Soviet (at the time) sourced boats, would be $25 billion dollars without parts, weapons and the like. Where would Iraq come up with that sort of funding, especially when it had to get MASSIVE economic...
  11. AH fiction that deserves a film/tv adaption

    Please do not violate the dead. This thread was dead for a year. Necromancy is contrary to Board policy unless you have something of considerable substance to add. Even then it is preferred that you start a new thread on the subject.
  12. WI conscription outlawed in 1954?

    EIGHT YEARS? EIGHT? To post that? Be glad I'm in a good mood. NEVER even THINK about pulling this again.
  13. The Road

    Please do not resurrect long dead threads (and two years is REALLY dead). This is contrary to Board policy.
  14. Did Germany have better allies in WWI or WWII?

    Neither. In WW I they were chained to a dead body in AH and they had to buy off the Turks. The Turks proved to be useful in that they absorbed a lot of Entente effort (mainly for no good reason), but that wasn't really all that helpful in the critical theater. In WW II Italy was the only real...
  15. Germans Build Carriers Instead of Battleships?

    The carrier wasn't seen as an auxiliary, not in the way you mean or in fact (auxiliaries in the military sense are oilers, tenders, tugs and the like). Carriers were seen as a better version of the cruiser, a fleet scout capable of independent operations as long as they didn't have to square up...
  16. Retrospective US Presidential Election: 2000

    Really? No, REALLY? Give the NAZIS 45 years? I am currently wobbling on a kick or a Ban for this little jewel since you have not, at least in my review of your posting shown any other outright support for Murdering oh, 35 or so million people beyond the 30,000,000 or thereabouts who the...
  17. Map Thread IX

    Actually it isn't. We call it trolling here. Don't do it again. If you decide to be funny again put it into the general Shard World's Forum where it can die a much deserved death by disinterest or in the Frivolous Thread, where it can join other jokes that aren't funny.
  18. Map Thread IX

    Well that's a bit over the top, don't your think? Like half a parsec? Don't do that again.
  19. Japanese Barbarossa

    You can't have one without the other. You can't blow the pougies out of the harbor with naval shelling and not have to engage the forts. You simply can't. The Soviets had guns ranging in size all the way up to 14" defending the port, including a number of 180mm rifles (interestingly, these are...
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