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  1. Right descisions in right time

    Interesting premise, but it seems somewhat optimistic. IOTL the RN had to literally sneak the Invinvibles past the Budget Hawks by more or less lying about what they were. "Through-deck cruisers" indeed. Also a minor nit. Ships in your navy and those of your allies are refered to using female...
  2. Alaskas

    When it comes to armor quality I tend to lean more to Nathan Okun as a reliable source simply because his work is based on data. I will say that the source (who I am unfamiliar with, a Net search turned up only a video game blogger and a comedian) you provide is the ONLY one I have ever...
  3. Alaskas

    Well, things are not quite that clear cut. That is why I didn't answer your earlier question. The Iowas were longer than the Yamatos by around 25', they were around six knots faster , and tended to operate at higher speeds than the Japanese ships (mainly a fuel usage issue). It is worth noting...
  4. HMS Vanguard in Operation Corporate

    The difference between a torpedo and a ASM are fairly dramatic, even if they have the same size warhead. Beyond the obvious, namely that the torpedo hit below the waterline (or detonates under the keel). the underwater explosion tends to be magnified by having its shockwave mainly forced back...
  5. HMS Vanguard in Operation Corporate

    Because the Argentinian Air Force/Navy lacked any sort of AP bomb? Because they lacked any sort of real anti-ship weapon besides the already discussed and inadequate Exocet? No navy on Earth was properly prepared to deal with battleships in 1979. No navy is properly prepared to deal with them...
  6. Nuclear fission impossible

    Uh... Without radioactive decay the Earth would be dead as Mars. Among MANY other things the molten core would be a big solid chunk of pig iron so there would be not magnetic field to keep the solar wind from stripping off the atmosphere one atom at a time.
  7. Nuclear fission impossible

    Well it has little or no effect until, well... Physics as it exists in our universe fails, resulting in the universe never forming. BTW: a nuclear detonation is NOT a controlled fission reaction. That it is uncontrolled is rather the point of the entire exercise.
  8. Alaskas

    There are worse ships to use as fine example of naval architecture than the Yamatos (the Alaskas being among them) but not many. Overweight pigs with poor overall weapon layout design (two DIFFERENT secondary batteries rather than one DP caliber meaning the ship had too few of either, no medium...
  9. would nixon of won in 68?

    You REALLY need to put a bit of effort into making your posts, especially those starting threads, make so sort of sense. Proper capitalization would be a start as would some sort of reasonable syntax. There are multiple reports on your posts being trolling. At this point that is an open...
  10. HMS Vanguard in Operation Corporate

    There was nothing in the Argentine inventory that could handle a BB. They could have tossed ALL their Exocets at one and all they would have managed to achieve was surface damage and some casualties among exposed crew. It is possible that the British would have had vastly lower ship losses if...
  11. Utah War - more violent & a more strong Mormon secessionist/nationalist movement?

    Official Warning!! Breed with Mormons? Really? No, REALLY?? I am going to assume that this isn't what it seems to be since it would be a banning offense for utter racism and trolling on an epic scale. I am going with English as a 2nd (or 3rd) language or a major brain cramp that dropped...
  12. Alaskas

    Because you already did build a battleship? You just built it poorly and called it a Large Cruiser? Because you constructed an 800 foot long monstrosity that took 2,200 men to operate but was incapable of even opposing the ship you had built it to counteract the mythical Chichibu class cruiser...
  13. WW2 US army anti tank doctrine

    The American doctrine was basically flawed in that it failed to anticipate the marked improvement in tank design as the war progressed. The best proof of this is that the doctrine was abandoned as soon as equipment changes permitted. This was not so much a matter of the American tanks being...
  14. Nazi Victory Scenario: What happens to Russia?

    Its not just you. The Nazi goal was to rule over a vast number of serfs, with the subject races (happily I might add, as bizarre as it sounds, after an adjustment period) doing the work and the Ayrans doing the thinking. In a way it was meant to be a (per)version of the British system in the Raj...
  15. Nazi Victory Scenario: What happens to Russia?

    I still answer general questions! (I just did this morning!!!):) Without hijacking this thread too much... The Russians had trouble, not quite to the level that the Poles did. Poland had been mainly given its insane Reich remake and been turned into a farming colony (along with extraction of...
  16. The Anglo/American - Nazi War

    Thanks for the feedback. OTL is actually close to a wank for the Allies (one reason it is so difficult to do a fairly realistic ATL for the era is the massive economic mismatch), so it is unsurprising that the status is wankish. As far as the various Communist movements, it is clear that many...
  17. What if... A more libertarian America?

    SEVEN YEARS OLD? Seriously? This thread is dead, it is decayed. Let the dead lie.
  18. Nazi Victory Scenario: What happens to Russia?

    There are a couple possibilites for the 'Stans. Those that had anything useful would be either looted or absorbed and those thay we useless would be saddled onto the USSR the better to weaken her. You would likely see the Western Allies engaging in the Caspian Sea region (Georgia, Azerbaijan...
  19. Alaskas

    Thank you. My point exactly. You could crew it with around 1,600 men, but wartime staffing (so you could man all the weapons at the same time, have full boiler room staffing, etc. was 2,000+). They were also 58 feet longer than a KGV and only a couple feet shorter than the Vanguard (although...
  20. Nazi Victory Scenario: What happens to Russia?

    Why, thank you! :D BTW: The TL does give a very detailed answer to the OP, but to give the thumbnail view - European Russia is effectively obliterated as a political reality. Significant, virtually constant, low intensity warfare along the demarcation line. A brutal "peace" that...
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