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  1. WI: Flight 93 makes it to Washington, D.C.

    Apartments are never really empty, lots of toddlers, babysitters, stay at home moms, retirees, even people with weekdays off, are always around. Offices would seem to be a better target, and symbolically they are, but you would be much more likely to experience massive casualties from a major...
  2. WI; Germany postpones Operation Barbarossa

    But.. But... They were BIG!:p
  3. WI: Flight 93 makes it to Washington, D.C.

    It gets potted either by a Air Force fighter out of Andrews or a Navy fighter out of Pax River. Andrews was unusual since it actually had something approaching a Hot Pad Alert and Pax River almost always has something in the air with white ordnance on board. It has always been a bit of surprise...
  4. WI: Mexico accepts the terms of the Zimmermann Telegram in WWI.

    Mexico gets dismembered. American college students in 2008 don't need passorts to go on Spring Break to Cabo & the U.S. has more oil fields. Meanwhile, the other 80% of the AEF still goes to Europe and swings the balance arm against the Central Powers as IOTL. As far as the Japanese going at...
  5. WI; Germany postpones Operation Barbarossa

    A. The better to be captured after Operation Torch? The problem in Africa was lack of heavy lift. This limited the amount of armor that the Germans could send to the Afrika Corps as well as the amount of fuel. More men just puts those troops in a much more pleasant PoW camp that the ones run by...
  6. The Last Centurion

    I would urge you not to share this particular belief with women, not if you expect to have intercourse again in this life.
  7. Yellow Eyes (Ringo & Kratman)

    I thought both of yours were closer in tone to the original books. This might be, in part, because you were working inside some fairly tight borders (IIRC) or because your work was more an expansion of the Posleenverse and not an extension to a different period. I rather enjoyed Yeoman in...
  8. Yellow Eyes (Ringo & Kratman)

    Pretty much both. The whole tone was "off".
  9. Yellow Eyes (Ringo & Kratman)

    Very, VERY disappointing. It might be that Ringo ceeded too much story plotting or he might just be tired of the series and is letting it die slowly, but it really damaged the Posleenverse "myth". Too bad. WotR was okay.
  10. Scales of Desire- A Long Time in the Gulf

    The U.S. has, as an article of faith, made clear for decades that it saw no difference between chemical, bilogical, and nuclear weapons. If the American government let an attack go without retaliation, it would have been an engraved invitation for every potential enemy to use them without fear...
  11. Scales of Desire- A Long Time in the Gulf

    It appears that you have grossly underestimated the reaction of both Israel and, particularly, the United States to WMD use against them. Israel MIGHT have been kept from going whole hog (BTW: the Israeli's don't use SCUDs), but that is marginal, extremely marginal if the IDF can get good...
  12. better happy time for the german navy

    The Bismarck did indeed sink the Hood and handle the PoW. Hood was a major morale killer for the RN, but she was, in actuality still a BC, one of the less well thought out naval designs since the advent of steam, while the PoW was not even shaken down yet, still had contractors aboard during the...
  13. Operation Downfall - The Invasion of Japan

    With the American usage of radar directed guns, all the way down to the 40mm quads IIRC, a night attack by pilots who could barely fly when they could see would have quite the bloodletting. As far as the minis and the Kaitens, they were, in their own very special way, worse than the regular...
  14. The sweeping saga of the Brewster Buffalo

    I can get behind the small change big effect part.:D Quality control will be the biggest issue. It won't be the only one, as we've discussed, but the QC is a total killer unless you get it solved. Good luck with this. I will be interested in seeing hwo you square it off.
  15. Importance of Operation Chariot?

    Really wouldn't have mattered. The RN could out build the Germans at about a 4-1 ratio, given ship yard capacity, as could the U.S. This is the actual German Plan Z construction schedule. I have included the U.S. counterpart, as well as a sketchy version of the RN plan (with which I am...
  16. The sweeping saga of the Brewster Buffalo

    You really DO have a soft spot the Buffalo. To each their own I guess. :D
  17. High Seas Fleet used for attacking convoys

    The Royal Navy would probably have sent them maps. Every raider, every small group of raiders, was an immediate low hanging fruit. If the whole High Seas Fleet goes out it would cause for celebration unseen in the Admiralty since Trafalger. Once the HSF exits the North Sea it is very screwed...
  18. better happy time for the german navy

    A few problems with this scenario 1. The British were never that close to total collapse. By the time Tirpitz is ready for operations it's April 1941 and the Brits are well on their way to recovery. 2. By April of 1941 the USN was escorting convoys half way across the Atlantic, and there...
  19. better happy time for the german navy

    I wrote a really long detailed response to this exact question a week ago. I will summirize: Battleship Tirpitz sunk by (your choice) Royal Navy surface action group November 1941 U.S. Navy surface action group late December 1941 Combined RN/USN surface action group late December...
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