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  1. French/US Invasion of the british Isles ??

    Yes, under conditions that last existed around 1100 AD. The Royal Navy LOVED fighting the French Navy (save one fateful day off the Virginia Capes). The French produced great ships that made wondeful additions to the Royal Navy. The French fleet made more then one British captain a rich man...
  2. German invasion of America?

    Sure. filler
  3. German invasion of America?

    Germany couldn't support warships 3,500 miles from home. They lacked coaliers, coaling stations and the general logistical lift to make it happen. Landing would have been a bitch, very likely impossible. The local militia and Police would be able to pick the poor bastards off as the got out of...
  4. Alternate Outcomes For World War 1 and 2?

    The entire RN had 41 Capital ships not counting their pre-dreads. The USN doesn't compare favorably to the Grand Fleet in capital ships, nobody did. The HSF didn't either. Combined the USN & HSF would have been barely a match (40 capital ships vs. the RN 41), and RN battleships were, in...
  5. Alternate Outcomes For World War 1 and 2?

    You do realize that the USN was a horribly unbalanced fleet in the WW I era, right? How about that the Germans CAUSED the Red Revolution as we know it IOTL? The Kaiser had his cousin's blood all over him to his dying day. The U.S. has good, bordering on spectacular, battleships, arguably...
  6. Smaller but more Modern Royal Navy WW2

    You can't really do any of this until the London Treaty expires. You now need to find the money, which was VERY tight at the time. The old BB would be very marginal as carriers due to speed. Now if you had a half dozen 30 knot BC hulls just lying around...
  7. US on side of the central powers

    There is also the matter of the general American distaste for absolute monarchies by 1910 or so. The King of England was bad enough, even with his being pretty much defanged, but the Kaiser & the Tsar? Something that is also often forgotten is that a lot of Americans, especially in policy...
  8. Pacific War Redux

    December 31 actually. Like a lot of other platforms she is ahead of OTL schedule because of the actions taken back in the fall of 1940.
  9. Pacific War Redux

    It will rise again. Just have to get off my lazy tail. Try to get something this week.
  10. Possible Dogfights...

    The classic: USN F-14 vs. Iranian F-14 during the Tanker war.
  11. WII:Pearl Harbor 3rd wave

    After the two Japanese strikes, but before any sort of repairs on damaged aircraft were made the USAAF had 14 P-26 (which could actually be a threat to the D3A & B5N) 16 P-36A 25 P-40B 2 P-40C for a total of 43 modern fighters and an additional 14 that were of use against the IJN attack...
  12. WII:Pearl Harbor 3rd wave

    In addition to the relative lack of effectiveness, there is a different, extremely important point that always seems to get missed (much as it was in my initial post); Japan was not actually expecting to have a WAR with the United States. The Japanese High Command was ignorant to the point of...
  13. WII:Pearl Harbor 3rd wave

    What 3rd wave? No third wave was ever planned. No third wave was ever seriously considered in the planning for the attack. No third wave was ever seriously considered on the day of the attack. The only time a third wave was even considered was after the successes of the first two waves when...
  14. Plausibility Exercise: Warsaw Pact Attacks NATO Nukes in Europe Conventionally?

    Well, you do realize that Sarah Palin can see the Strait from her house right? She might pack up Todd and the kids and go there on her own.:D
  15. "We hang all the guilties".

    Problem was that FDR thought Stalin was joking. Churchill knew he wasn't.
  16. Plausibility Exercise: Warsaw Pact Attacks NATO Nukes in Europe Conventionally?

    So they hit the Pershing IIs, maybe even the nuke stores in Germany. The difficulty is that the bunkers where the warheads were stored were designed to survive a near miss (300 meters) by a one MT ground burst. What are going to hit the bunkers with that will do that sort of damage? The...
  17. Convoy System Introduced Earlier

    Probably. That would, however, be an engraved invitation to the U.S. to enter the war, or at least abandon any sort of neutrality at least a full year earlier than IOTL.
  18. Convoy System Introduced Earlier

    The main problem would be lack of suitable escorts. The ASW game was so new that there was not any sort of system to really counteract subs. It took a couple years to get even early hydrophones in place and depth charges that were up to the task.
  19. A Humanitarian United States

    How do you get sufficient forces, with decent support into Rhwanda? The country itself is landlocked, meaning the normal naval flotilla is of little use. You will have to fly in every bit of transport, every bit of supply, everything. You get to do that to a country with ONE runway capable of...
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