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  1. Japan in the Allies

    Welcome to the Board. The Japanese not going into China is almost impossible. You would need to completely reshape Japan almost from the time of the Shogunate to avoid the Empire. Without China, there IS no Empire.
  2. Japan invades Australia after Coral Sea

    They could have scrapped up around a division, maybe two if the IJA would release forces from China. Of course that would have required an Imperial Rescript or close to it. There is a reason the Japanese only had 2,500 men available to invade Midway; the IJA was armpit deep in China with no...
  3. Japan Wins Battle of Midway, Now What?

    Three hours of shelling, especially by 8" gun cruisers, would have about the same effect as the pre-invasion bombardment had at Tarawa, none at all. Unlike the USN at Tarawa, the cruisers had no way to communicate with the landing force, and not even exercised with the landing force in advance...
  4. Japan Wins Battle of Midway, Now What?

    Worked really well didn't it? That was the Battle of Philippine Sea (aka The Marianas Turkey Shoot) that occurred when the U.S. attacked the Manadates, Saipan to be specific. Cost the U.S. 123 aircraft, most of which ran out of fuel, and 63 aircrews. Japanese lost three decks (Hiyo, Shokaku...
  5. Japan invades Australia after Coral Sea

    It makes Sealion look brilliant. Invade a CONTINENTIAL LAND MASS (7,686,850 SQ KM) while you are chest deep in an unwinnable war in China, have strapped on the most potent economic power the world has ever seen, and only have enough shipping to handle 40% of your PRE-WAR transportation needs...
  6. MacArthur hit’s a mine

    I feel bad about his wife and family. That will keep me from doing the HAPPY DANCE! You just saved thousands of American and Australian lives. Unfortunate, however, about the post-War Occupation of Japan & Inchon. That a a very nice bit of work.
  7. HITLER'S STEALTH FIGHTER on Nat-Geo

    Oh Jesus, NOT AGAIN! It is the bad penny of NatGeo. It always turns back up. It's like burying a tire, no matter how deep the hole it burbles back to the surface! The freakin' thing didn't work. It couldn't work over any reasonable period of time or in any sort of weather without...
  8. Japan Wins Battle of Midway, Now What?

    Wow. So much for my reference source!:o Now, if they had just been able to replace the Buffaloes with something useful like, oh... The P-26. :p
  9. Japan Wins Battle of Midway, Now What?

    Trying to starve the garrison out is in many ways worse than taking the Island and trying to hold it. Now you have tied down ALL the Japanese carriers for an indefinite period of time (the U.S. already has two decks in the Pacific and can add Ranger if need be, so you can't leave one or two...
  10. Could D-Day work better in Belgium?

    The map makes it APPEAR to be more weakly defended. As was pointed out, an invasion into Belgium is close enough to the Pas de Calis that Hitler is likely to react as forcefully as possible and move his mobile reserve at once. The map isn't good enough to be sure, but is there sufficient...
  11. Pearl Harbor - even more effective?

    No it can't get at the carriers, not both of them Enterprise was in the greatest danger, had the weather been better she would have reached Pearl on December 6th. As was, when the strikes occurred she was roughly 200 miles West of Pearl, while the Japanese fleet was roughly 200 miles Northeast...
  12. Japan Wins Battle of Midway, Now What?

    Somewhere on the board I have a really lengthy account of the forces dedicated to the invasion of the Island as well as the OOB of the Marine defenders. (aha! found it!) https://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=88120&highlight=Midway So you would have an attacking...
  13. Japan Wins Battle of Midway, Now What?

    One thing that is being overlooked in some of the more specific bits of the strategy of the IJN air attack on the U.S. Fleet is that Nagumo had absolutely no clue that he was facing three American carriers. His entire strike package would have gone after Yorktown and her consorts, not after the...
  14. Japan Wins Battle of Midway, Now What?

    This is pretty much what the Japanese did IOTL. They bled the U.S. for every island and bled far more in return. At some point in 1944 the IJN has to fight, even in this scenario, when it does it gets obliterated a la Leyte, which was when the IJN finally did come out to fight IOTL, before...
  15. Japan Wins Battle of Midway, Now What?

    The Aleutians were a dead end. There was no strategic use for them to the Japanese, any effort there would divert men, ships, and most critically, fuel from the part of the war that was marginally more useful. Japan was dead, no matter what. But the Aleutians were dead AND cold.
  16. Outlander

    It was in the theaters for about three days. I managed to catch it while it was showing. Not spectacularly good but not bad at all.
  17. The Sword of the Lady

    Spoiler Space . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . The ending is fascinating. I was actually more taken by the interaction of Ignatius with the Abbot in what looked to be a lot like Heaven. The ending seems to indicate that the ISOT & The Change are part of: 1. An effort to prevent the...
  18. Japan Wins Battle of Midway, Now What?

    Short version: Pray Smart version: Defect and Surrender Probable version: Get into a war of attrition that you are bound to lose trying to hold Midway. Midway was a trap for Yamamoto, regardless of what happened. One of Yamamoto's weaknesses was that he didn't plan in depth. Okay...
  19. Great Power Death Match

    Didn't Japan try that? IIRC it went badly.
  20. Type XXI U-boats in early 1943

    And doomed Berlin, Frankfurt, Hamburg...
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