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  1. AH Naval Challenge: Sink the Iowas

    Not really. Kill the ship maybe. Maybe not. The list of ships who made it home 450' long that left port 550' long has a lot of entries on it. There aren't a lot of targets that USN boats would be firing at that displace more than 10,000 tons except maybe a tanker so I can understand the...
  2. AH Naval Challenge: Sink the Iowas

    With all due respect to the submariners, unless the warhead filler contains plutonium it is rather unlikely that one fish would sink a CVN or even an unladen Suezmax+ supertanker.
  3. AH Naval Challenge: Sink the Iowas

    Where do you get the stuff you post? Do you even try to find actual truth or are you so used to buffaloing people with BS that you think you can always get away with it? The Myoko was never sunk. :rolleyes: It was disabled prior to the RN minisub attack by a conventional torpedo hit and had...
  4. Expanding an ATL WWIII (1989)

    The Soviet Union couldn't reverse the rot, not in two years, he'll they still haven't 23 years on. No funding, insufficient training, and effective loss of good order and discipline not just in the ranks but up to the highest levels of theofficer corps as well ensured that. I would suggest...
  5. Expanding an ATL WWIII (1989)

    While unlikely by 1989, mainly because the Soviets simply couldn't get enough ships, planes and tanks to actually move, I wish you luck with this TL. I would note that you are ignoring some very basic tactical moves in your set up. This is best illustrated in your having the Soviets bring all...
  6. AH Naval Challenge: Sink the Iowas

    I stood all I could stand and can't stands no more!:p
  7. AH Naval Challenge: Sink the Iowas

    I generally ignore your ill informed, generally silly opinions on naval vessels. In this case you are so far off the reservation that I simply can't let it lie. The only real similarity between the South Dakota class and the Iowa class is that they both were American ships and both had 16"...
  8. AH Naval Challenge: Sink the Iowas

    The Japanese force was gutted by 3 DD and a DDE making topedo attacks. All four Iowas would have, at a minimum, 12 DD and 4-6 cruisers in attendance. The term for what would have happened is curbstomp. And the IJN would not be the stompers.
  9. The Anglo/American - Nazi War

    The Army had a chance to replace the '06 when they adopted the Garand, which was orginally presented in .280. It didn't. ***RANT WARNING*** Moving from the 30-06 to the .308 was probably the dumbest thing the Army could have done, since the change was so small and the advantage of the new...
  10. Perfect Storm on Yankee Station...

    In 1968 the U.S. was still able to draw on much of the WW II shipping as well as new construction. Figure two pure amphib and Air Cav.
  11. Perfect Storm on Yankee Station...

    Properly stage-managed you get a three division amphibious landing that cuts though the North and over throws the Communists.
  12. The Anglo/American - Nazi War

    The means? Maybe. The desire... I have plans for the BBs. :D The Iowas aren't in the Med. Now the North Carolina... The Allies are very good at mine sweeping, Just cleaning up after themselves around Japan was a graduate course. The Germans have some experience, and they have had...
  13. The Anglo/American - Nazi War

    OPPS! Yes STEN Guns.:o
  14. The Anglo/American - Nazi War

    I have gotten a few questions regarding small arms and other infantry weapons in use by the main players in this T/L, along with other gear related questions. Before the next update I figured it might be worthwhile to give some answers. Battle Rifles & Submachine guns: The U.S. battle...
  15. Hochseeflotte and Royal Navy go full bore in North Sea 1914

    Oh hell. My prayers go to you and your Mon.
  16. WI: singapores big guns well supplied with HE rounds?

    The British were, lacking the series of improvements that Marcus has in his T/L, screwed. Singapore alone, even if it had landside defenses at the water's edge and plenty of bombardment rounds, was isolated. Eventually you run out of fighters, shells, ammo and even food. It happened on...
  17. Hochseeflotte and Royal Navy go full bore in North Sea 1914

    The HSF gets wasted, as does the Grand Fleet. However, since the RN was used to actually fighting battles at sea, including accepting losses, and the UK yards could outproduce the German yards about 5-1 the end result is a dominant RN and the HSF failing to exist as even a fleet in being. The...
  18. No Wall Street Crash, Yellowstone caldera one instead.

    Congratulations. You are this week's winner of the Humbolt Squid award. This highly prized award recognized scenarios that eradicate the Human Race and most and based life thereby clearing the decks for further explosive evolution of cephalopods to their proper place in the Animal Kingdom.
  19. Directive 51: DtF done RIGHT!

    Rather my point actually.
  20. Stalin does something good- US T 34s

    The problem here is two fold. The U.S. didn't think it needed a different tank and the Soviet tank was actually not that much better in 1941. The Red Army itself actually preferred the Sherman, with the Lend Lease models being highly prized. The Sherman was an excellent vehicle based on...
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