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  1. Largest Amphibious Landing in Alt-History

    This isn't even as large as Normady. Dwarfed by the Normandy-Saipan combination that covered two massive landing force on opposite SIDES of the Planet landing within a few days of each other. Normandy alone involved 5,000 vessels, while Saipan put two full Marine divisions onto the beaches. I...
  2. What nations would've survived an 80's WW3?

    The USSR had, during the time period specified, 30,000+ nuclear weapons, the U.S. roughly 18,000. Somewhere around 35,000 of these were either missile warheads or gravity bombs. Every city of 1,000,000 or more population on Earth is a target in this sort of scenario. Every nuclear power, or...
  3. What nations would've survived an 80's WW3?

    Absolutely correct. Although with the START rollback there are fewer warheads to spread around today, so the raw number of detonations will be lower. The concept that the Southern Hemisphere would somehow emerge in functional condition post Full Nuclear Exchange is laughable. In the case of a...
  4. Japan Invades the Soviet Union in April 1945

    Taking national seppaku to the next level? The Japanese High Command had demonstrated a willingness to slaughter its military for no reason at all, so it possible, I guess. Be a bitch to do it on foot, with no aircover (Fuel and aircraft having been almost totally shifted to Kyushu and the...
  5. The History of the Malaya Campaign

    Damn, I missed the Kobayshi Maru reference completely.:mad: Knew I should never have moved out of my folks basement! :p
  6. For Want of a Bigger Gun: The Naval Arms race

    Easy. German fleet dies, nearly all of it. British lose about 12 pre-dreads and maybe one dread out of the 11 engaged (probably a BC). The RN has, in Home Waters, a better than 2-1 advantage in platforms and closer to a 3-1 advantage in throw weight. The Germans are cut off from retreat, which...
  7. WI: No Nuclear Weapons?

    Firebombed? No. Starved to death? Yes. Burned and starved combined to the point that they ARE in hell? Without a doubt.
  8. For Want of a Bigger Gun: The Naval Arms race

    France is quite weak in 1910. No dreadnaughts (first was commissioned in 1913), 25 pre-dreads (10 or so are barely combat capable), with only five that have any business in the same ocean with a Dreadnaught. Austria is even weaker no dreads, 15 pre-dreads with six being of post 1900 vintage...
  9. WI: No Nuclear Weapons?

    Maybe. The NCA was getting a rather nasty case of the gulps over the casuality projections, especially of the Kyushu invasion. There is a reasonable chance that the Allies setting for starving & burning the Japanese out or they go straight for Honshu and strand the masses of troops on Kyushu in...
  10. For Want of a Bigger Gun: The Naval Arms race

    I just took anything in Commision by the end of January 1911 (on the assumption that it could have been ready in a crisis a few weeks earlier). The longer it goes, the worse it gets for the rest of the world. The British yards were so much more efficient than their counterparts in Germany or...
  11. The History of the Malaya Campaign

    Anything is possible I guess. As long as Dougout Doug gets the shaft, I'm good.:D
  12. For Want of a Bigger Gun: The Naval Arms race

    Okay, reality check time. High Seas Fleet - 4 Dreadnaught types, 19 pre-dreadnaughts Imperial Japanese Navy ZERO Dreadnaught types, 19 pre-dreadnaughts, including 8 captured Russian ship. USN - 4 Dreadnaught types, 21 pre-dreadnaughts Three LARGEST potential RN opponents combined - 8...
  13. The History of the Malaya Campaign

    Pirates perhaps?:D
  14. WI: USA's name not accepted

    After they get independence from Spain? Do the letter FO suggest anything?. Mexico already had discovered that war with the United States was not a good idea and everyone else was too far away. Canada wasn't completely independent until well into the 20th century (wasn't the last link of...
  15. WI: D-Day Security Totally Blown

    The problem is Ultra. The Allies generally knew what the Germans were doing as fast as they did. All that happens in this case, assuming The Allies are smart, is they just delay, the weather was marginal anyway. Then, as the German reinforcements begin to move into the area the Jabos feast on...
  16. Amerika Rodina

    The problem here is that the basic founding premise is fatally flawed. The United States wasn't going to tuck it's tail between its legs and go yipping home if Overlord failed totally. Ike would have been axed (probably without good reason) but the United States wasn't going anywhere. The...
  17. WI: Let Sleeping Giants Lie

    It is actually even worse than TheMann notes. Japan and the United States had been pawing the ground and staring each other down since at least 1900, perhaps earlier. It was literally a case of the Pacific Ocean not being big enough for both of them. Japan had, it believed, legitimate...
  18. Could Japan do well in WW2

    The actual number of ground troops initially deployed to the Solomons was fairly low, diverting them from the region would not have provided sufficient additional manpower to strategically change the force balance in Burma. Without that situation being dramatically altered the rest of the early...
  19. The History of the Malaya Campaign

    An interesting take on the campaign. Effectively all the good luck the Japanese had IOTL returns to the "random chance" that was far more likely than the actual results. The British also get some GOOD luck, quite the change from what actually happened. A few quibbles: The British 2pdr gun...
  20. Could Japan do well in WW2

    I didn't question it. Another poster did. I would, however, point out that a 1.5-1 kill ratio is nothing to write home about, not when you opponent has more planes & the USSR had a LOT more than a 1.5 to 1 advantage in platforms. Here is an analysis of the campaign published by the CGSC. The...
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