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  1. Patton Lives

    Patton lives to come back to the States and everything he does from that point would do nothing but tarnish his reputation. He was the classic example of someone who had no brain:mouth filter. The public ate it up during the war, but in peacetime it would have been a different matter. There is...
  2. Carriers in port at Pearl Harbor

    All it take to save Arizona is a good puff of wind as the bomb is released. A two or three foot change in the point of impact could very well save the ship from the catastrophic magazine detonation that killed her.
  3. Need help on a Alt Pacific War timeline

    The lack of a ETO doesn't really speed up the demise of the Japanese, nor does it make life better. The addition of the RN will be very helpful, if it is a major part of the force, and that would depend on the treaty with the Reich. I doubt the British would put much faith into any piece of...
  4. Carriers in port at Pearl Harbor

    A tempting solution is to give back an island group that the U.S. had no interest in keeping past 1945 (ever hear of the Tydings-McDuffie Act)? http://www.chanrobles.com/tydingsmcduffieact.htm In return the U.S. gives the Japanese Empire everything they were demanding before they attacked...
  5. Japanese Navy vs RN Circa 1940

    What kind of dog is it?:confused: Generally speaking I like dogs.:D Demi-trolls on the other hand...
  6. Worst fighter of WWII

    Kittyhawk Mk I: Might have helped if the RAF hadn't ordered the deletion of the two cowl mounted .50s (which they had in the Tomahawk aka P-40C) with the intention of adding 20mm guns to the wings that they never actually installed. This decision left the plane with only one gun in each wing...
  7. WI: The Back up plan to counter Yamato

    Well, they did have the advantage of being 20,000 tons larger than any other ship as well. :D I will admit they took a LOT of sinking.
  8. Carriers in port at Pearl Harbor

    The California was, of course, actually a failed attempt at alternate damage control methods.
  9. Japanese Navy vs RN Circa 1940

    Lord knows why I even try anymore, however... I have no idea where you got the quote, but the data is, like so much you post, a fatally flawed mismash. It goes from the A6M1 straight to the A6M5 (aka the Model 52), which was introduced in late 1943. If we are going to play that game you need...
  10. Worst fighter of WWII

    The Buffalo, for all of its faults, doesn't even deserve a mention here. This is less a complement to the Buffalo than a condemnation of other designs. I would also say that, if anything, the A6M is over rated, not under rated. The main advantages the aircraft had were incredible range and...
  11. WI: The Back up plan to counter Yamato

    IJN Armor was remarkably uneven in quality. Pieces tested post war from the same batch were found to be both of poor quality AND the strongest armor ever tested. This was a result of available materials more than any flaw in the Japanese QC effort, although the Japanese used a fairly old...
  12. Carriers in port at Pearl Harbor

    The Enterprise is probably the more questionable of the two. Lexington's overall structure was quite a bit more "capital ship" than her younger cousin. The biggest question for both ships would be the number of torpedo hits the hulls absorbed.
  13. Carriers in port at Pearl Harbor

    I doubt it. 67th Tigers is very Euro-centric, but I have found most of his data to be accurate, even if the follow on analysis tends to be skewed. HMS Warspite is simply a demi-troll in the tradition of Bard32.
  14. Sealion!

    The British might be hesitant to move troops into Africa. They may well not be the only ones. The Germans might be more than a little hesitant themselves. IOTL the Heer was only deployed to Africa to save the Italian's bacon. Germany's (rather Hitler's but the overall impact is the same) main...
  15. WI Airforces kept helicopters?

    Regardless of which branch is operating them if you only have 10 or 20 platforms it is going to be extremely difficult to develop the knowedge base needed to keep the machinery in proper operation. This extends well beyond helicopters or even the military. A very rare piece of equipment will be...
  16. Sealion!

    Having wandered off the original question (as we are wont to do here), the overall impact on the Wehrmacht as a whole (meaning the Luftwaffe, Kriegsmarine & Heer), would be considerable. The actual losses would finish gutting the KM, while the Luftwaffe would suffer significant losses, and the...
  17. Japanese Navy vs RN Circa 1940

    So Markus is close to the desired point. The RN would prevail, probably with fairly disturbing losses in cruiser actions and in early air battles over the RN formations.
  18. Sealion!

    British gunnery wasn't spectacular, especially in the open waters of the North Atlantic when in action against warships that were also maneuvering at 25+ knots (although it was good enough to more or less wipe out the KM in Norweigen water despite fairly stupid deployments). In the Channel...
  19. Japanese Navy vs RN Circa 1940

    It wouldn't be the Allies. This one of those A vs. B scenarios. Its the Royal Navy vs. the Imperial Japanese Navy. If the engagement is in Indochina in 1940 the RN has some significant, perhaps even insurmountable, advantages. Operating that close to Singapore (which, in the scenario seems to...
  20. Japanese Navy vs RN Circa 1940

    This isn't quite as cut and dried as it appears. A really important question here is WHEN in 1940. If it is very late in the year, when the Zero has begun to appear, the IJN had the capacity to do severe damage to the RN with pretty much no real hope of the FAA being able to respond in kind...
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