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  1. Japanese Success At Pearl Harbor - Japan Still Doomed?

    Logistics. The Japanese couldn't put troops onto Oahu in sufficient number to overcome the American troops in place there. I doubt that there was a country on Earth that could have successfully invaded Oahu in 1941. Even if the Japanese could have moved and supplied the number of troops...
  2. WI: U.S. Military Retains M-14 Rifle

    Not realizing that the only reason they were alive to complain is the the other guy wasn't able to kill them because the "damn rifle" took the baddie out first. It is really hard to see the original M-14 continuing. A modified version with an "assault" stock and a three round burst selector...
  3. WI: U.S. Military Retains M-14 Rifle

    If?:confused::confused::confused::confused::confused::confused::confused::confused::confused::confused::confused::confused:
  4. Pacific War Redux

    This week's update. Comments? March 23, 1942 06:00 local (DEI) – After several delays due to surprisingly strong Royal Navy actions in the area the West Java Invasion force under General Hitoshi Imamura anchors in Bantam Bay, Java. Invasion force is made up of IJA 2nd Division and...
  5. Pearl Harbor WI: Lady Lex outs the Kido Butai on December 6th

    The U.S. never lost a battleship at sea for a reason, actually a couple of them. Fighters, gun laying radar, and the 5"/38 DP gun. All of these would have been in short supply in this scenario. The Battle Force would have been in a LOT of trouble if they had been caught at sea. The fleet's AAA...
  6. Pearl Harbor WI: Lady Lex outs the Kido Butai on December 6th

    Sorry I'm late. :p The way the course tracks worked out the Lexington doesn't have any practical way to be where she need to to allow this to happen. The Japanese weren't scouting out much beyond 200 miles and either was Lexington. If Lexington leaves earlier, she is even further away from the...
  7. Pacific War Redux

    The U.S. and the Japanese have already fought one carrier engagement off the Marianas on ATL January 29,1942 that cost the IJN the Akaigi & Shokaku as well as the Kirishima and a light cruiser. The Kido Butai has, for the moment, shot its bolt.
  8. Pacific War Redux

    In the ATL the 1940 Congressional permission to improve Guam's defenses was followed up on instead of being back burnered. This is described early in the T/L. With the reinforcement received since the initial invasion was repulsed and with the addition of Tinian, which was take by invasion, the...
  9. Pacific War Redux

    I see I have to change the encryption of my outline again. :mad: :p The situation is similar, although Alexander was also trying to ship out civilians on every ship that brought in supplies, it was only the barest of dents (and as you note the mindset of the times, most of the civilians who...
  10. Pacific War Redux

    Ah, my mistake. Right now the Japanese have the greatest need to: 1. Take Java and secure the defensive perimeter for the Southern Resource Are3a. 2. Secure Singapore to allow use of the Strait. 3. Secure the Philippines. 4. Cut off China from Allied resupply. 5. Capture or neutralize...
  11. Pacific War Redux

    In a situation like the on faced ATL March 22nd, 1942 the ideal number would be ZERO. The Island is more or less indefensible at this point, at least in military terms. It can be used to bloody the Japanese, but short of a massive reinforcement with plenty of weapons, aircraft and the like (all...
  12. Pacific War Redux

    That is ALMOST a bad enough pun to use it in the T/L.
  13. Pacific War Redux

    The PI are unreachable, as was demonstrated by Operation Blazer. Many of the late OTL Australian reinforcement to Singapore have been redirected to Rabaul. The IJA troops who seized Rabaul , the South Seas Detachment, were ATL expended in the Guam operation (where they were successful, with...
  14. Pacific War Redux

    I thought you were asking about the food supply IOTL. The change in supply ATL is the same thing that happens in pretty much every similar event. Refugees moved with the army into the "safe" area, in this case around 30,000, which is about 10% more than IOTL. He had 50% more mouths to feed and...
  15. Pacific War Redux

    The POD is both the Naval Bill and the other defense bills that Congress passed IOTL's blind panic after France fell combined with a greater sense of urgency to spend the windfall. As far as food lost, are you asking about OTL? The U.S. troops were not ordered to withdraw (as WP 3, aka...
  16. Japanese crush the Soviets in Battle of Khalkhin Gol

    Based on Japan's basic strategic mindset, I would imagine that this would happen immediately after pigs fly. The Japanese had no idea of what was needed on the modern combined arms battlefield. Whether this was due to the fact they didn't fight on the Western Front in WW I (my favorite theory...
  17. Which defunct countries you would like to survive in an ATL

    You have been here since the Board was established. You should know better than almost anyone how things work here. If you have issues you report them to the Mods. You don't start taking shots at other posters. If you were a newbie this would have been a warning You aren't. Kicked for a...
  18. Sensational discoveries in the Bible!

    Not quite sure if you are spamming or just garden variety insane. Either way, thanks for stopping by. Banned.
  19. WI Japan Launches Pearl Harbor- On Canada

    No, they can't. Not if they intend to actually make their move to the Southern Resource Area (which was rather the entire point of the exercise). The made it to Pearl by DECK LOADING fuel drums on most of the ships, including a couple of the carriers, while all the ships had fuel oil loaded into...
  20. What if 1990 nuclear war happened?

    Okay. You use two accounts to praise each other in a spammy to begin with thread. What to do? Ah... Kick both accounts in a rare double troll take-down. Kicked for a week.
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