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  1. WI Nazi Germany made an attempt to reconquer former German colonies

    This is a self supporting fallacy. The Germans lacked these ports because they could not move sufficent supplies into the Western Desert Theater to defeat the British Which was because, no surprise here, the British were able to provide logistical support to their forces, both from home and...
  2. WI Nazi Germany made an attempt to reconquer former German colonies

    Where? In the Pacific? The U.S. and Japan will likely object. Japan was going to return the Mandates when they were pried from their cold dead hands. The USN is an utter overmatch for the Kriegsmarine, especially when the German fleet is operating at the end of 16,000 mile supply line. In...
  3. Japan v Great Britain Naval Battle

    Which is why I gave three different scenarios. Open water is different from confined waters like the Strait, both are different from within significant land based air support from the RAF. It is unlikely that the Japanese even attempts a move if the RAF had 300+ front line fighters. They were...
  4. Japan v Great Britain Naval Battle

    The Seafire wasn't even available until the very end of 1941, when the RAF decided to add tailhooks to a couple squadrons of Spitfires (note that they didn't do anything else like beef up the landing gear or add folding wings) and was not deployed until a an improved version (that didn't tear in...
  5. Japan v Great Britain Naval Battle

    Fleet battle in open water? Late 1941 (which was the the first time the IJN had six fleet carriers)? Japan in a walk. Neither side ever sees the other except through the eyes of its pilots and the other side's aircraft. Damned few of the British pilots manage to get home, so the RN only sees...
  6. the Sea Mammal that wasn't quite

    The base problem remains the same. The RN controls the Channel, the RAF controls the air over the Channel, or at least denies control to the Luftwaffe (one reason there were so few RAF aircraft in France relative to total inventory is that Fighter and Bomber Command withheld most of the force to...
  7. WI Admiral Kimmel and/or General Short had reacted more wisely?

    A-20 - 12 B-17 - 12 B-18 - 33 PBY - 71 (Two squadrons of these were not really available for serious patrolling. They were at Pearl for training prior to forward deployment and their crews were grass green. Actually available for patrol duties is around 17 aircraft, 2 PBY-1 and 15 PBY-3) SBD...
  8. World War III starts in 1945

    A proper flight modeling program would be useful. Unfortunately, a proper flight sim model would sell less than 10 copies because, well, that is about how many pilots of Il-2 or P-51D would buy them. What is available it a game, one that is designed for game play, not accuracy. The fact that it...
  9. World War III starts in 1945

    I would urgently suggest that the fact that a flight sim, designed around a specific Soviet aircraft and meant to be played by the average joe is a rather lousy way of determining the capacity of the respective air forces in question. To wit: The MiG-9 didn't even fly for the 1st time until...
  10. WI Admiral Kimmel and/or General Short had reacted more wisely?

    The AAA is really what would make a difference in the losses. The Japanese lost signnifcant numbers in the 2nd wave from the still spotty AAA, this was another impact from the generally light construction of the Japanese aircraft (the B5N was especially vulnerable to AAA, as losses suffered at...
  11. WI Admiral Kimmel and/or General Short had reacted more wisely?

    The best possible hope for the U.S. at Pearl (short of the scenario laid out in my T/L) goes something like this: 1/3 of fighters moved to dispersal fields as far away as Maui. 1/3 of Fighters armed and fueled at each field, including dispersal fields, with orders already in place to go to a...
  12. Großadmiral Erich Raeder get the Graff Zepelin operational

    Wow, the Germans learning carrier operations from the Japanese. Two countries that can't figure out how to deck spot and ignore motorized tow vehicles. Cool.
  13. Pacific War Redux

    It wasn't due to the poster you mentioned. He was actually helpful, although replying did make me dig in to some data files. There is a lot going on in various places. I also have the Anglo/American vs. Nazi T/L going and a few other projects as well. As I have said, the T/L isn't dead. It...
  14. World War III starts in 1945

    The YaK-3 was a decent aircraft, not as good as the La-7, but a decent aircraft. It was not the equal, at any altitude to the P-51D or the Spitfire XIVe (or later variants of either aircraft) and at low altitude a P-47 bubbletop was at the very least the YaK-3s equal, although the Yak-9 Was a...
  15. Kido Butai: After the Wave

    The Fuel farm would require a bomb for every fuel tank. Nagumo, especially in the state under discussion, would have to dedicate the entire strike to the farm to have any effect. Most of the horizontal bombers would miss, and even the dive bombers would be less than 75% effective. When...
  16. Kido Butai: After the Wave

    Nagumo was a very dedicated, professional officer. If it was possible to accomplish the mission, even with a 50% chance of success, he would have proceeded because he would find it a matter of duty and honor. It all comes down to his losses, especially in deck crew and among his armorers and...
  17. Kido Butai: After the Wave

    Assuming the carriers themselves do not sustain damage, which is very unlikely (carriers have lots of flat surfaces that tend to get crumpled by heavy waves like that described here, IJN carriers are especially vunerable given the design of their forward flight deck and its exposed supports...
  18. WI The Japanese don't surrender.

    Hokkaido is strategically useless to the U.S. The U.S. would, if needed, have taken the Island if the Japanese Government had managed to retreat there instead of surrendering, but otherwise it was quite literally not worth the effort.
  19. WI The Japanese don't surrender.

    The Japanese were down to around 1100 calories a day in July of 1945 (around half of the daily needs for an adult doing light office work, well below that for individuals doing hard labor like farming). Food in Rural areas was, of course, more plentiful, but even there the U.S. had begun a...
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