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  1. WI The Forces used in the Battle of the Bulge had been at Battle of Berlin

    Well, that and a signed treaty AND the need to get Ivan to throw in against Japan.
  2. WI The Forces used in the Battle of the Bulge had been at Battle of Berlin

    The post war occupation zones were already set. That was one of the reasons that the Allies stopped where they did in Germany.
  3. Pacific War Redux

    No. They are going to get some salvage from it as well.
  4. WI The Forces used in the Battle of the Bulge had been at Battle of Berlin

    As were the Germans, with "divisions" that had a bayonet strength of under 3,000 a common find on all fronts. Which the Red Army accepted without a blink. Not in an effective sense. By December of 1944 somewhere around 90% of the Luftwaffe fighters, both single and multi engined, were in...
  5. CVA 01 vs Soviet carriers.

    Can they grow bananas in Argentina? I think it has a climate more like the American Pacific coast.
  6. Pacific War Redux

    The foul up at Singapore has always been one of the less understandable collapses in the whole chain of events that happened in that first winter of the Pacific War. Unlike the U.S. the British had been at war for better than two years and could have been expected to have thrown away the...
  7. Pacific War Redux

    Things went better, but the U.S. wouldn't have the utter disaster of our version of December 7th for a comparison. The U.S. lost three BB, had another severlely damaged, lost a cruiser and had two more left in sinking condition, three destroyers, and a repair ship to the Japanese. Worse, much...
  8. WI The Forces used in the Battle of the Bulge had been at Battle of Berlin

    And the Archangel Gabriell would need to be having a good day.
  9. Indo-Chinese war?

    Let the 1962 War escalate. At the time NOBODY liked the PRC, especially the U.S. & USSR (although the U.S. didn't know it). China andvanes well into Indian Territory before one of the Big Boys lays down the law, which, of course, Mao ignores. Intervention by ground and air doesn't stop the PLAn...
  10. Challange Japan vs china

    But even then, is that enough to cause the Chinese to surrender? If anything that gets the PLA up on its feet earlier, probaly with Mao eating a bullet. The problem is that China has to surrender. That was NOT going to happen.
  11. Battle of the Bulge

    Assuming, though some bizarre miracle that they magically got the fuel, men and general supplies thay needed (which is about five times what they actually had available)? The Germans wind up stretched out across a long narrow band stretching toward Antwerp exposed to mind-numbing amounts of...
  12. Challange Japan vs china

    No. Not a chance. Too much China, too few Japanese. Even if the Japanese toss their navy out the window on 1/1/36 they lack the time and manufacturing capacity to create the military needed to fix and defeat China to the point of surrender by 12/31/38. Might as well try to hold back the...
  13. Map Challenge: Mexican Victory in Mexican American War

    This also ignores the inevitible result of any Mexican victory, namely a second war somewhere around 1870-75 when the Americans now hit Mexico like the Wrath of God itself. Might even butterfly away the Civil War. Nothing better than an external enemy to get domestic opponets to bury the...
  14. No Doctrine of Unconditional Surrender in WWII

    Gee, I guess I missed that part of U.S. policy. Exactly which part of the U.S. command was responsible for setting up building full of kidnapped women to be raped repeatedly? Or, just maybe, are you equating the use of prostitution with the organized rape and murder of tens of thousands of...
  15. No Doctrine of Unconditional Surrender in WWII

    Hmmm... Italy surrendered unconditionally in a most reasonable way. Unfortunately they were also occuppied by a bunch of most unreasonable Germans Germany was ACTIVELY obliterating an entire racial group using industrial methods (and NEVER ran short of troops willing to do the work), with...
  16. Pacific War Redux

    If the Allies were going to try either one of the part of Blazer, the USN portion would have been the better one, at least by comparison. Neither plan made any sense and the professional offiersers from both countries understood that. That was why the almost had fits when they were presented...
  17. Pacific War Redux

    The two forces did not sail together because they had entirely different missions. The American force was not dedicated to the relief of Singapore. As the mission orders outline, the USN was looking to pick a fight, with a relief mission to Luzon as part of the overall concept. The USN sent...
  18. Pacific War Redux

    By popular demand Operation Blazer: Planned Date: March 4, 1942 Operational Concept: Provide resupply to defenders of Singapore and Luzon as part of campaign to drive enemy air and naval units from South China Sea and Luzon Strait. Forces to be assigned: Royal Navy: 3 CV, 2 BB, 4 CA...
  19. Pacific War Redux

    As near as I have been able to determine, in March of 1942 the closest Matilda II or Valentine to Singapore was in the Western Desert. Indian divisions were equipped with various forms of the Vickers light tank Mk I - IV. These were all built to an "Indian Pattern" which mostly meant that they...
  20. Pacific War Redux

    The failure to combat load is not something that the British (or Americans for that matter) would get past until well into the war. They displayed this logistical failing all the way through the Anzio campaign. It is worth remembering that the ships were not sent from the UK or even from...
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