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  1. The Anglo/American - Nazi War

    ACK! Bad joke Alert!!! grumble... Jealous I didn't think of it first... grumble
  2. Call The 20th Century With Conscription Universally Forbidden?

    May not be any more crazy, but short of a flock of ASB it is a literal impossibility. Fascism, that great stain on the 20th Century was built of turning the state into a military machine. Soviet style communism (the OTHER great stain) also had unquestioned service to the State as a condition...
  3. AHC: US adopts the MG-42...

    The MG 42 was one of the truly great firearms. The German army STILL uses the damned thing (dressed up and rechambered for the 7.62 NATO round as the MG 3). It is, to this day, at the top of my list of medium machine guns. I wish the U.S. used the MG 3 as its medium today instead of the heavier...
  4. The Anglo/American - Nazi War

    The German economy was nothing more than a huge Ponzi scheme. The Mark was extremely valuable because the Reich had the resources of the entire European Continent to back it. The Belgians, French, Italians, etc. are still in the Great Depression. Most of Europe's economy is still horse based...
  5. Discussion: Japan at war in -39

    The Japanese were far weaker in 1939 than in 1941. The IJNAS benefited greatly from the rapid changes in aircraft design and technology that swept the industry in the early war years, with the A6M reaching service at exactly the right time to be a significant force (the IJAAS benefited, although...
  6. The Anglo/American - Nazi War

    The propaganda war has been waged on both sides. The Allies, however, have had the advantage of actually being very much on the side of the angels in this war. The testimony from the few Jews who came out in 1947, the testimony of survivors from the General Government area, and even reports by...
  7. The Anglo/American - Nazi War

    There are a number of very advanced designs in testing, not to mention a few that are close, but not quite ready for their close-up. As mentioned a couple times the F4 Phantom, the UH-1, the Forrestal class carrier (ITTL the Kitty Hawk class), Paveway PGM, the Arrow, and other really fun toys...
  8. The Anglo/American - Nazi War

    November 1958.
  9. Reagan impeached

    You might as well ask what would happen if Santa Claus was impeached, or the Easter Bunny. American politics had not yet reached the disgraceful level that exists today and one party would simply never have attempted to throw the entire country into turmoil for short term political gain. Even...
  10. So I'm nearing the end of the 3rd Emberverse book and I really dislike them

    Welcome to the Board! :) If you dislike the books, who did you ever get to the end of the 3rd one?:eek:
  11. bigger germany today

    Victory? Maybe, if you endorse the concept of occupying a ruined wasteland populated by sullen rebellion people as a victory after suffering somewhere north of 200,000 casualties for the privilege of claiming victory. Switzerland is a hedgehog that was and is armed to the teeth and accessible...
  12. The Anglo/American - Nazi War

    There is a constant effort to put VoA and BBC broadcasts into Occupied Europe. The result is an electronic war that started in 1940 and never stopped. The closest analogy IOTL is Cuba and Radio Liberty, but the Reich has been far more effective in jamming. The Reich has also had the advantage...
  13. The Anglo/American - Nazi War

    They did get some news while on holiday, but the general reaction was to consider anything that wasn't in line with what they got at home as Allied propaganda (which, truthfully it often is, or at the very least spun like hell). A decent analogy would be an American tourist watching the news...
  14. The Anglo/American - Nazi War

    The Allies are working on PGM (as is the Reich) but the technology is in its infancy. There are some primitive TV guided weapons in the pipeline (the Walleye among them) and some other visually guided missiles available none of them are in general use. The best results are still gathered by...
  15. The Anglo/American - Nazi War

    Here is the next update. As promised it looks into conditions with the Reich. Comments encouraged. 34 The Allies surprise at the Waffen SS withdrawal is indicative of the general limits of intelligence gathering during the final phase of the war. While able to read almost all Axis...
  16. The Anglo/American - Nazi War

    The Nazi's have pretty much ensured that the Waffen SS was prepared to fight the Eastern Front again and not much else. As was the Party's actual plan, the professional military staff was been replaced by Party loyalist and the Heer entirely supplanted by the Waffen SS as soon as the Soviets...
  17. The Anglo/American - Nazi War

    The Allies aren't finding much as they move into France except burned out villages and civilians who are either so terrified they can't remember their own names or hostility from family members of French troops the Allies killed during their advance so far. Between the Jagerbombers and the SS...
  18. The Anglo/American - Nazi War

    You are on the right track with this characterization. The next post will be about the Reich (probably should have done it a few weeks back, but I am being a little liberal with my outline :))
  19. The Anglo/American - Nazi War

    The NKVD and GRU have throughly penetrated Manhattan, just as IOTL. They have used their knowledge to deceive the Reich (as is mentioned early in the T/L) and the Russians probably have enough knowledge to start a bomb project, or would if it was all available to the same people. Unfortunately...
  20. Co-ordinated German/Japanese invasion of the Soviet Union 1941

    The Japanese lacked the industrial capacity, and just as critially, the raw materials, to build a large number of Pz. III while continuing with their naval construction campaign. There is less than no chance of the Navy letting that campaign stop. Since either the Army or Navy could bring a...
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