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  1. WI: Longer Maginot Line

    Actually the Line was a very powerful defensive structure, this is best shown by the way the Heer avioded it like the Pox. The French, contrary to post-war beliefs, had no intention of sitting behind the Line and praying that the Germans ran out of ammo. The goal was to stop the initial Genam...
  2. WI Japanese had launched a 3rd strike in Pearl Harbour?

    Enterprise was the only ship that close. Lexington was about two days out toward Midway with the intention of delivering some USMC Vindicator dive bombers to the island. Six to one is not good odds.
  3. WI Japanese had launched a 3rd strike in Pearl Harbour?

    The Japanese operational plan was specific on the issue of a third strike. It was only to be done if additional effort was required to destroy fleet units (specifically it calls for bombers to carry torpedoes). I posted the link to the OP in another one of these threads. The Japanese...
  4. USA Black education after end of Civil War

    Not on this Board we can't. POD are a necessary part of a reasonable discussion. If you either can't be bothered to come up with a reasonable Point of Departure, then do not post. Handwaving is not acceptable in the pre/post 1900 and Future History Forums. Please keep this in mind. CalBear in...
  5. WI: everyone over age fifty disappears

    Joe Mulk gets kicked for posting yet another inane thread? This make FIVE actions for this sort of BS. This is you final chance. Next time you post this sort of crap, you are gone. Kicked for a week
  6. Could there be AT with settlement/colonization of Antarctica?

    When? You could call a couple of the the bases there today settlements since they have year round residence: McMurdo, Amundsen-Scott, Halley, Vostock, and the Norwegian station with the charmingly monicker of Troll (the unofficial AH.Com research station) to name just a few. There are several...
  7. The 'Civilising' Effects Of Wars On Future Generations

    I don't know if I should shake my head at your ignorance or at at your blatant bigotry. The United States obtained the entire Southwest under conditions that were, at best, dubious at the time. That being the case, the term invader is a bit ironic in this context. As far as Mexico sending...
  8. AHC: Building the Hong Kong Defense Force

    I'm putting this back in post 1900. If it goes into game mode I'll send it back here.
  9. Underestimated countries

    FIVE YEARS? FIVE! This isn't necromancy. This is digging up a skeleton and playing a tune on the bones. DO NOT DO THIS!
  10. AHC: Building the Hong Kong Defense Force

    Walks like a game, quacks like a game. Games go to Shared Worlds.
  11. Operation Sealion - intervention of Japanese or Italian navies.

    And they would have had to go the LONG way, no cutting through Suez or Panama.
  12. Operation Sealion - intervention of Japanese or Italian navies.

    When you can get it into position, super heavy artillery, at least in the pre guided weapon era is far more effective than bombing when used against fortifications. Once you get a gun on target it will hit pretty much the same spot as until you wear out the barrel (or liner). That was what...
  13. Failure of Sealion

    It wouldn't get that bad, but the loss of the entire airborne arm if the Wehrmacht (both Heer and Luftwaffe) would have huge implications, even if that was ALL the losses suffered by the Reich.
  14. Photos from Alternate Worlds

    Wouldn't the Organians find this something to intervene over?
  15. Operation Sealion - intervention of Japanese or Italian navies.

    While there are numerous problems with the Gibraltar scenario under discussion, it is important to note that ANY fortification can be reduced. I will simply point to the Japanese reduction of Corregidor's defenses in 1942. The Rock was was as heavily fortified as any spot on Earth but the...
  16. Operation Sealion - intervention of Japanese or Italian navies.

    The Japanese lacked sufficient tonnage to properly handle all their domestic import needs, including food. Send much of it off to the North Atlantic is counter indicated. BTW: As noted earlier the A6M is not yet in wide spread service. The first squadron didn't deploy to China until July of 1940.
  17. WI: Chuck Yeager Killed in the Indo-Pakistani War

    Yeager was over several of the lines. He was too old, he wasn't a college graduate, and he wasn't the type to play lab rat.
  18. WI: Chuck Yeager Killed in the Indo-Pakistani War

    Yeager wasn't that much of a national hero in the early 70's. As the book & movie The Right Stuff illustrates quite nicely, Yeager wasn't an astronaut, which meant he didn't matter. If you were a pilot and not an astronaut the John Q. Public didn't know you from Adam. The NASA media machine made...
  19. DBWI: Sealion never launched

    Depends. If you look at the plans the U.S. had in the 1930s they thought that the U.S. would have fight all the way across the Pacific to retake the Islands. The plan thought it would take a couple years, which seems silly today, but at the time it was a reasonable estimate. You need to keep in...
  20. DBWI: Sealion never launched

    The differences would, of course, be huge. If it hadn't been for SeeLowe the U.S. would probably not have gone full bore on the construction that was approved by Congress in the Two Ocean Navy Act. That means that, instead of the Japanese running into 150 P-38s and 100 P-47s operating with...
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