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  1. WWII: U.S. decides to proceed with Japanese invasion

    Hiroshima was also the HQ for Field Marshal Shunroku Hata's 2nd General Army. This was the Command responsible for the fortification and defense of the Kyushu invasion beaches. Killing Hata was similar to killing Rommel in March of 1944 along with his command staff and destroying a large...
  2. A Greater Pacific War 1914 - ????

    The IJN gets curb stomped. The IJN has TWO Modern BB, one modern BC (the very nice Kongo), 4 2nd class BB (effectively armored cruisers with "all big gun" main battery), 14 pre-dreds (including 5 Russian war prizes and 4 coastal defense ships), 8 armored cruisers, and 6 light cruisers. The IJN...
  3. Challenge: Germany wins air superiority

    The best... Oh, why bother. No point in trying to convince a Luft 46 fanboy.:rolleyes:
  4. WWII: U.S. decides to proceed with Japanese invasion

    The difficulty with this concept is that, AFTER having well over 100,000 people killed in Tokyo in a single bombing raid (more than at either of the A-Bomb sites), eating two nuclear weapons in three days, experiencing the shock of the Red Army beginning to tear massive chunks out of the...
  5. WI the European & Pacific wars weren't mostly simultaneous?

    That is another reason that a really early start to the Pacific War is unlikely, the Royal Navy. The IJN tries for the "Southern Resource Area" in 1938 and the Brits will stomp them flat. The A5M was the first Japanese Monoplane carrier fighter (fixed landing gear, open cockpit, somewhat...
  6. WWII: U.S. decides to proceed with Japanese invasion

    No Bill, don't hold back like that. Say what you really mean. :p:D:D BTW: Couldn't agree more. Also don't want to forget the number of PoW who would have died in any extension of the war.
  7. WI the European & Pacific wars weren't mostly simultaneous?

    The biggest difficulty with moving the Pacific War around is the window where Japan had the smallest chance of success is so small. They needed six decks to deal with the Pearl Harbor attack; it was a miracle that the Shokaku & Zuikaku were both worked up and ready by 12/7/41 as was (Zuikaku was...
  8. Lexington and Saratoga are built as battlecruisers

    Internal revolt fed by Soviet support. The Soviets had a ton of reasons for turning the Japanese and a totally bankrupt country is fertile ground for some sort of massive upheaval. It may not be the most likely result, but it is well within the realm of possibility.
  9. WWII: U.S. decides to proceed with Japanese invasion

    Where did you see the 30,000 figure? Even best case that seems almost impossible. The Japanese had well over 10,000 Kamikazi ready to fly against any invasion of Kyushu, that, by itself even if none of the aircraft got to a target, would indicate 10K+ Japanese KIA. Even if the American invasion...
  10. Lexington and Saratoga are built as battlecruisers

    A treaty was the best for all concerned. This POD more or less requires that the Naval Building Race happens. Otherwise what you get is the same deal, just with the next two BC hulls. One thing the Isolationists in Congress firmly believed in was a navy capable of defeating any enemy. That...
  11. Lexington and Saratoga are built as battlecruisers

    Since that would mean that the Washington (and by extention, London) Naval Treay was never signed, you would find that Japan (and probably the UK) bankrupt themselves somewhere around 1930 trying to keep up with the U.S. building program. Japan may even have gone over to the Reds. So it...
  12. American jets in '44

    Cool as hell, as long as your folks didn't live on a targeted location. ASB, beyond any doubt, but it would look good in a video game. BTW: The B-2 can't handle a 50,000 kg bomb load. B-52 couldn't/can't either, same for the B-36. As far as I know the heaviest bombload ever was the B-36...
  13. WWII: U.S. decides to proceed with Japanese invasion

    1950???:eek::eek::eek::eek::eek: Where do you come up with this stuff? By October of 1946, if NO Allied ground soldiers landed on either Kyushu or Honshu (I think that the Soviets landing on Hokkaido by spring of 1946 was unavoidable whatever the U.S. chose to do) Japan would have been...
  14. American jets in '44

    And, of course, the Allies would have remained running in place while the Reich advanced. I would imagine that, after the work was done on the Atom Bomb and the B-36 to carry it (above the theoretical service ceiling of the Ta 183) the U.S. might get around to building a high performance jet...
  15. Hypothetical Racial/Social hierarchy in a Japanese-occupied Australia?

    This needs to be in ASB. There was no possible way for the Japanese to conquer a Continental landmass. There was no way that the Japanese would have won the war. There is no way that, even if the first two ASB events were put in place by what would have to be a flock of ASB, that Japan...
  16. Red Plague

    There are lots of scenarios that play this card up to today. Toward the end of the USSR, the ability to REALLY genitically alter bugs was available, and Soviet scientests were some of the leaders in the field. Problem with kill 'em all diseases is, well, they do.
  17. USA-USSR WWIII with conventional weapons

    There are a number of threads here where we kicked this around. It isn't that cut & dried. The Western Allied have a major advantage in airpower, and an advancing force would be especially vulnerable to air attack. Directly after WW II the U.S. had somewhere around 5,000 multi engine bombers...
  18. 25 Year War

    Well, WW II/Korea ran from 1931-1953 without there ever being a single day of peace.
  19. MacArthur is Elected

    A couple points about the PRC. Mao was the key to the entire country. He held the Party and the nation together by sheer force of personality. Without Mao, the entire country falls back into the same sort of civil war that had marked the rest of the 20th Century The Soviets were NOT going to...
  20. USA-USSR WWIII with conventional weapons

    Thye thing about Siberia until very close to this decade was that there was no "there" there. The resources were technically almost impossible to reach with the equipment available before about 1965, and much of the area was the same as it had been during the reign of Peter the Great. What had...
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