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  1. Germany uses the He 277 agianst Rusia as strategic bomber

    I would imagine that the 8th Air Force would have send Christmas cards to Heinkel if they had pushed for construction and actually gotten a number built. Every bomber would be at least 10 fighters that aren't in the sky against the bomber boxes, meaning that the if the Germans only build a small...
  2. Pacific War Redux

    Singapore/Malaya had a huge garrison (totally over 85,000 men once the local reserve formations were included) and was well equipped to handle the sort of attack London believed was necessary to take the Island. There was a general lack of heavy ground equipment, especially SP guns and tanks...
  3. WI Stalin invaded... SWITZERLAND

    Not really. I would again point to the Ukraine as a textbook example of Soviet pacification methods. Take an area of any desired size, remove ALL THE FOOD, set up a perimeter, kill anyone who tried to enter or exit, wait for everyone to starve to death. Repeat as necessary until the desired...
  4. WI Stalin invaded... SWITZERLAND

    The Swiss are a hedgehog. The Red Army was an avalanche. Game over. The Swiss defensive structure, combined with their overall neutral stance, is designed to make it less attractive to attack them than to do business with them. It is a very good system that has worked for years, but it isn't...
  5. Hitler evacuates his men in Tunisia

    They WERE that stupid (they being Hitler. et al) because they sent them to Africa in the first damned place, left them there after the battle in the Western Desert had been lost, and then sent REINFORCEMENTS after the Allies completed Operation Torch. Stupid doesn't even BEGIN to cover it. As...
  6. Air Force One hit by missile November 2003

    Air Force One has the best countermeasures available. The likelihood of a MANPADS getting a hit is very low, both due to countermeasures and the security cordon around any air field the aircraft is scheduled to use which tends to push potential shooters out beyond effective engagement range...
  7. Weapons of Despire on the Oder

    The Soviets, just like the Western Allies, had literally TONS of chemical weapons. All a first use by the Germans would achieve is even more dead and crippled German civilians, especially since the Red Army would see it to be an engraved invitation to use it against civilian concentrations in...
  8. Alternate Battle of Phillipine Sea...

    Well there are more than a couple of problems with this plan. 1. The USN carriers were faster than the Japanese BBs Fuso & Yamashiro were rated at 25 knots, while Yamato & Musashi were both rated at 27. The SLOWEST combat ship with the Halsey's Fleet Carriers were the Alabama, Massachusetts...
  9. Hitler evacuates his men in Tunisia

    It does get interesting sometimes doesn't it?:D One point that it appears to be underestimated here is Ultra. It is impossible to set up this sort of action without tons of prep and radio traffic. U-boat movement was especially vulnerable to this sort of eavedropping, as was the discussion of...
  10. Hitler evacuates his men in Tunisia

    The key is the "obviously lost" part of the scenario. By the time obvious loss is on the table the Allies own the area, air and sea, completely. Now if it's a case of "the bastards are chasing us from the Western Desert into this new bunch in Morocco, time to cut our losses" the answer is...
  11. Butterfly Effect / Chaos Theory: Your Views

    The effect of a POD on down stream history is, by definition, unpredictable. It is possible that a seemingly huge change, say a decision by Gerneral Short to have a full scale air raid drill at Pearl Harbor at 07:00 on 12/7/41, may, in the long run have less of a long term impact than what looks...
  12. Carriers at Pearl

    Hey, Roughly 1 in 6 worked!;)
  13. Carriers at Pearl

    Turtledove has become a joke, sadly, because his early work was oft-times brilliant or at worst believable. Japan could not, on the best day it ever had, have INVADED Hawaii. Raided by air, sure, pulled some sort of Dieppe Raid, maybe. INVADED? Not a chance on Earth. Might as well project them...
  14. Hitler evacuates his men in Tunisia

    The idea is great, application is a bit less so. The allies held air superiority (not supremacy, but superiority), naval superiority, AND had Ultra to inform them of the German plans. 180,000 more troops in Italy would have been handy. 180,000 on the floor of the Med wouldn't be, and that is...
  15. Carriers at Pearl

    There WAS no third wave. Not in the planning, not in the discussions about the planning. The mission was to disable the Pacific Fleet. Full Stop. In the scenario as outlined, the strike has succeeded beyond the wildest dreams of the IJN. There is even less reason to linger and endanger the fleet...
  16. Unmentionable Sea Mammal in 1941

    And they figured the .50's were for what, Balance?:confused:
  17. Unmentionable Sea Mammal in 1941

    1. No. The British never lost control of the air and the longer the war went on the German's hope of gaining such superiority lessened, not increased. Even IF you butterfly away the actual entry of the U.S. into the war, the supply of aircraft to the British from American factories does not...
  18. What nations would've survived an 80's WW3?

    Where to begin... Argubaly the WORST place in the United States in the case of a full nuclear exchange is the Midwest. Due to the presence ofCommand & Control (Colorado) ICBM (Nebraska,North Dakota, South Dakota *deactivated 1994*, Utah, Wyoming ) and stategic bomber bases with nuclear weapons...
  19. Largest Amphibious Landing in Alt-History

    In the 1st week of Overlord the Allies put better than 350,000 troops (roughly 36 DIVISIONS) across the beaches. In under a month that rose to a shade over 1.2 million or roughly 100 divisions and 225,000 vehicles. At it's peak, the USMC had just under 485,000 men, including airwings, making...
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