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  1. The Anglo/American - Nazi War

    Which is why I will be doing a single overview post at the end. I literally shiver at the prospect of having to do a detailed T/L of the post war period to TTL 2010.:eek::eek::eek::eek: It will be an interesting overview, with butterflies coming to roost, but it will NOT go on for 50K words.
  2. The Anglo/American - Nazi War

    A number of very interesting comments. I won't even begin to address them all, but for a few: The RN is a smaller force than the USN, and noticeably so, for the reason you bring up quite correctly, money. The RN has been pushed about as far as the pounds will go, even with the U.S. providing...
  3. Jet powered alternative to the V-22

    Oh. So the question is actually asking what if it was set up like an AV-8 or the S/VTOL version of the F-35?
  4. Jet powered alternative to the V-22

    The Osprey is jet powered. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rolls-Royce_T406
  5. The Anglo/American - Nazi War

    I will actually be touching on part of this in either the next post or the one after that. The Reich does have some defenses around "Inner Germany" but things are a'changin'.
  6. The Anglo/American - Nazi War

    Hmmm... Ships with 305mm guns that should never have been built in the first place. If only somebody had been dumb enough to waste steel on something like that...
  7. The Anglo/American - Nazi War

    Thanks for the kind words. Some of the comments have been really interesting (the recent one about China being a good example). As far as destruction, the Allies can, when the site is within range of the gun line, put down destruction at a mind numbing rate. Even beyond the big BB guns the...
  8. The Anglo/American - Nazi War

    This is correct. (Un)fortunately the SS is still playing out of its "urban combat=massive attackers casualties" playbook and expected to have the Americans play by it and stage a mini-Stalingrad in the street of Bruges which would have the happy side effect of destroying the cultural treasures...
  9. Could Al-Andalus Have found The New World?

    One quick point. Columbus literally ran into the Americas by accident. The fool thought he was in Asia what he hit the Bahamas and Cuba. He had a belief that the Earth was far smaller than was actually the case (and the correct size was well known at the time), that Asia was far larger than it...
  10. The Butterfly Century

    Huh.... Glad you took my advice to start small. :p I would suggest that you need to get a bit more background and some sort of solid Point of Departure. Right now much of what you have is of the "handwavium" variety. It is both difficult and tedious to write up the background of a T/L...
  11. The Anglo/American - Nazi War

    Maybe. It was actually pretty good writing. I'll have to see if I even still have it.
  12. The Anglo/American - Nazi War

    Why, thank you! :p The thing is I write about war, and war, contrary to some opinion, tends to be a bit unpleasant, even in the best of circumstances. If you thought Endless Summer was a bit somber, you should have seen my initial ending for Skunk Works.:eek:
  13. The Anglo/American - Nazi War

    Here's the update Comments? :) 28 The remarkably rapid collapse of the Axis forces on the Cotentin Peninsula was a dramatic change from the tooth and nail fighting that had marked the weeks after the Dunkirk landings. At the time the Allies were encouraged by the ease of their advance...
  14. Vietnam War: Battlefield of the Future

    Add to the above: Smart Bombs, SEAD, air assault.
  15. AHC: San Francisco Giant

    L.A. was an afterthought until 1906. San Francisco was the biggest city west of St. Louis with 3.5 times the population of Los Angeles and six times that of Seattle. That being said, San Francisco would have been hard pressed to make the top five, much less top three. San Francisco is...
  16. Iriish Republic invades N Ireland 1969.

    Is insanity something that is encouraged in Erie's political or military leadership? If it isn't there is no way this happens. If there is, the entire thing becomes a severe embarrassment to Erie when its military is effectively grabbed by the ear and paddled by a Major Power. The UK in 1969...
  17. KGV Regunned

    Yes they were. The key is designed. The ships were built to accomodate the 15" gun and shells. The Japanese did the same thing with the Mogami class cruisers. They built them from the start to be heavy cruisers, but initially sent them to sea with triple 6" guns instead of 8" twins...
  18. The Anglo/American - Nazi War

    At the top of every Forum there is a button "New Thread". Click it, title it, and you are in business. I suggest you start small, this particular thread is now over 55,000 words, which is a short novel and not close to finishing. Go with something you are very familiar with and be ready for...
  19. KGV Regunned

    Which U.S. 16" gun? The 16/45 would add roughly 40 tons of topside weight and the 16/50 would add better than 200 tons. I would guess, depending on the rest of the refit, that the 16/50 would make the ship extremely top heavy, to the point that the ship would be a hazard. The 16/45 added...
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