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  1. The Anglo/American - Nazi War

    Here is the latest update. Comments very welcome. “Warm” war and the decision to invade The Period between the defeat of Japan and its subsequent occupation by the Allies (including the remarkable reclamation of the remnants of the Japanese culture during the period of General MacAthur’s...
  2. No Pocket Battleships!

    Short answer is no. Rememeber the Reich was under blockade. It was hard enough to get a 28 knot warship out before the RN fell upon them with the wrath of God. Sending out a fleet train would have been a disaster.
  3. No Pocket Battleships!

    Problem was they COULDN'T kill any cruiser, nor were they well aromored enough to handle any 8" gun CA (check the armor penetration on the USN 8" gun vs. the deck armor of a panzerschiff)which would be anywhere from 4-7 knots faster with clean bottoms on both ships. This is magnified because, as...
  4. How successful can Japan be in WW2?

    The Japanese had a number of boats around the Hawaiian Islands. They had the five mother ships for the mini-subs and a dozen more I-Boats in patrol lines around the Islands to hopefully pick off stragglers (a total of over 20 full sized subs were dedicated to the overall operation). Japanese I-...
  5. How successful can Japan be in WW2?

    It was quite a bit easier to claim the Yamatos were BB replacement within treaty limits (which is why the main battery was listed as "special 16" guns" instead of the true 18.1") that claim a few new carrier decks weren't carriers.;)
  6. How successful can Japan be in WW2?

    Edit: paragraph removed after rechecking data. Did both sides do what they could to make the most out of the Battle of the Atlantic in the court of public opinion? Of course. However, Britain was also under severe rationing due to U-boat sinkings. Tens of thousands of merchant ship crewmen...
  7. Japan versus the USA

    Hey, if the Brits could get away with "through deck cruiser" a helicopter cruiser should be a breeze. I'm just waiting for the JNSDF to introduce the Helicopter utility ship. 70,000 tons, nuclear powered, with electromagnetic cats.:p
  8. What if Japan invades India in 1942?

    I don't think that most, or even a noticeable minority, of the Indian Army would rebel. If the IJA had tried India they would have gotten fed their lungs. The IJA simply wasn't up to fighting a modern force in the open or on the offensive. It would, however, have been an issue for the British...
  9. Japan versus the USA

    The Iowas are far from obsolete, in the right supporting role. They are unlikely to even be brought back for all the reasons you mention (with cost and crewing being the dominant problems), but they are a now unique platform that can do things that simply can not be done with anything else...
  10. How successful can Japan be in WW2?

    Of course, you also have results like this: HX-72 11 sunk, 3 damaged out of 41 ships (1940) http://uboat.net/ops/convoys/convoys.php?convoy=HX-72 SC-118 12 sunk, 1 damaged out of 61 ships (1943) http://uboat.net/ops/convoys/convoys.php?convoy=SC-118 DN -21 4sunk, 2 damaged b y a single...
  11. Japan versus the USA

    The Navy would have to decide in 1938 that the battleship would be obsolete due to advances in aircraft that didn't happen for several years into the future. They would, as you note, have needed to be forutune tellers, to know what the end game held. They would also have been seriously wrong to...
  12. Japan versus the USA

    I can only add my concurrence to the first two posts. There may be a slightly faster build up of fleet units in the Pacific, but the carrier decks, which are the key, will still take time. Some of the action in the Solomons will be easier with more men. On the down side, with more men, there...
  13. Any plausible way to invade US?

    In Hawaii? Barely possible, but lasting a month is questionable in the extreme. Along any part of the West Coast? Zero chance unless we stretch it to mean a couple guys holed up in the forest waiting for a sub to come and rescue them.
  14. How successful can Japan be in WW2?

    One boat was off Diamond Head a few miles to the north of Oahu, the other two boats were in transit fro San Francisco and a day or two out. The one off Diamond head was around 120 miles from the Japanese Fleet position, the other two were better than 200, maybe as much as 400 miles away. Put...
  15. How successful can Japan be in WW2?

    The 1905 versions of HE Artillery and the machine gun were not anywhere near the killers that they had become even a decade later, much less by 1917-18 when the massing of very heavy guns and bunkered machine guns had advanced from haphazard to systematic. The Russian-Japanese war was nasty...
  16. How successful can Japan be in WW2?

    To get the Japanese to do better against the Red Army, you have to completely alter the entire Japanese military. The IJA was a light infantry force with very little armor and a below average amount of artillery. It had no combined arms doctrine and no real understanding of the way that war had...
  17. How successful can Japan be in WW2?

    The whole point of the Pearl Harbor attack was to take out the U.S. Fleet. If the Japanese had believed that the BB could be ignored, there was no reason to make the attack in the first place. The target list you mention is more or less what the Japanese did IOTL with the two attack waves...
  18. How Hitler Could Have Won World War 2??

    Subtle. :D:p:D
  19. WI Stalin had been cleanshaven?

    Yes. It would have caused him to spend more time every day in the bathroom. Fall of communisim was just a whisker away.:p
  20. How successful can Japan be in WW2?

    Japan was as industrialized as it could get. There was only so much money, resources, and time available. Japan wasn't a "Great Power" by any measure outside of self-confidence. Its military build-up had effectively bankrupt the country. All that armor does for the IJN & IJA aircraft is slow...
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