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  1. What if the 'Business Plot' had been offered to MacArthur?

    Not necessarily. What kind of cookies?:confused:
  2. What if the 'Business Plot' had been offered to MacArthur?

    That he led the attack on the Bonus Army for no good reason is part of it. The fact that he was given a Congressional Medal of Honor for &^%&ing up the defense of the Philippines is part of it. That he destroyed Wainwright's career to preseve his reputation is part of it. That he wasted...
  3. What if the 'Business Plot' had been offered to MacArthur?

    Are you out of your flipping mind? I would go into chapter and verse on this, but I also know that it is a waste of effort. Galileo said it best
  4. What if the 'Business Plot' had been offered to MacArthur?

    As anyone who has even a passing familarity with my posts regarding the man knows I despise MacArthur as much as it is possible to despise someone you have never actually met in person. That being said, and with full acknowledgement that MacArthur had a God complex equal to anyone in the 20th...
  5. Conditional Japanese Surrender and the Cold War

    I touched on it, just didn't emphasize it (6th paragraph). You are also correct that most Asian countries feel fear anytime there is even a rumor that the Japanese of today (whose culture bears little resemblance to the one fostered by the warlords from 1880 until their 1945 obliteration) are...
  6. Conditional Japanese Surrender and the Cold War

    What in the name of Christ are you talking about? Take the WORST behavior by American Troops (and that covers some pretty nasty activity, especially against Native American populations), including actions that American military courts have EXECUTED troops for, and it isn't even a light...
  7. Conditional Japanese Surrender and the Cold War

    Not to mention the fact that the Germans had come to the conclusion that constructing a weapon was, well, impossible. While the reason(s) that Heisenberg et al came to the conclusion that the amount of fissible material needed to create a critical mass was off by a factor of ten-fiftheen are a...
  8. Conditional Japanese Surrender and the Cold War

    I actually use this as part of the backstory on my current Anglo/American vs Nazi T/L.
  9. Conditional Japanese Surrender and the Cold War

    This is so far out of the limits of reality that it is almost unimaginable. Kurita never got within three hours, at flank speed, of the invasion force. The USN had 450 aircraft on all the Taffy flattops (the Japanese had less than 400 operational at Pearl) between them and the landing...
  10. Conditional Japanese Surrender and the Cold War

    In point of fact the Japanese did get a conditional concession; the Emperor wasn't hanged as a war criminal, or even brought to trial. Many historians think it was a mistake to make that concession; personally, while I think Hirohito probably deserved to swing, having him alive and as a symbol...
  11. The Anglo/American - Nazi War

    Well, the first part is a WW I Tommy helmet, but with one side of the Brim bent up. :p
  12. Ultimate Challenge: Unternehmen Seelöwe

    No rules, but if one posts utter implausible crap with no sort of realistic backing beyond, "well, it just happens" an is unable or unwilling to respond to direct question that point out the utter folloy of the T/L, then one can reasonably expect to have some negitive feed-back as a result...
  13. The Anglo/American - Nazi War

    To be honest I haven't thought through the uniforms that deeply. The Waffen SS will still be using some version of "woodland" pattern camo, but I have (in the mind's eye) still seen the traditional helmets in use. The "National forces are a hodge-podge. Some are using "pre-war" styles while...
  14. The Anglo/American - Nazi War

    That is a little different from the way I looked at the eventual problems of the Nazi leadership, but in the ball park. As noted earlier, this T/L was originally introducted to look at the lunacy that the Nazis had planned for a subjugated Europe. The Reich is also, in most ways, behind the...
  15. The Anglo/American - Nazi War

    Again, the difference in tanks from OTL is based on a different experience in the past. The M26, with its 90mm gun, was considered to be more than enough for the expected mission. The mission itself proved to be not what was expected. American armor theory is stuck in what was OTL 1943, tanks...
  16. Ultimate Challenge: Unternehmen Seelöwe

    S-boats are more of a hit and run effort than a sustained attacking force. Hit fast, preferably in the dark, and run like hell. The secondary batteries on the big boys will turn them into scrap long before they can get close enough to attack once they are identified. Hell the Destroyers (a...
  17. Ultimate Challenge: Unternehmen Seelöwe

    You have CHOSEN to post a T/L about the most repudiated Alt History subject of all time. You have CHOSEN to do so despite a trail of broken and battered T/L submitted by actual, honest to God, knowledgeable about the Wehrmacht members who have been unable to make a silk purse out of this sow's...
  18. German internment in WW2

    442nd. Tough bunch of bastards. Most were Hawaiian by place of birth. They saved a Texas NG unit that was surrounded after a couple other attemts failed. Reputedly, for several years after the war a Japanese male couldn't buy his own drink in Texas. Drinks were on the House or on...
  19. Ultimate Challenge: Unternehmen Seelöwe

    Uh... The skip-bombing tactic was found by the U.S. by accident, after the war had started. It was also of limited use against rapidly moving warships, now against transports and barges (like those in, say a landing armada...) it was a different matter. You are using 20-20 hindsight here...
  20. The Anglo/American - Nazi War

    Actually it wasn't really designed to be a techno thriller when I started. My goal was really to play with what would happen in Europe IF the Nazi's had gotten a chance to put their insanity into pretty much full force. The actual "war" part of the war was supposed to be after the preface and...
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