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  1. Pacific War Redux

    Actually, I modeled the action in the Marianas on a slightly less successful Midway/Coral Sea, with the addition of land based airpower for the U.S. that meets the same POD as has been in use since the start of the TL. As I mentioned earlier, the Japanese had a fairly consistant habit of...
  2. Pacific War Redux

    The Ameri-wank aspect was the main reason that I hesitated so long to do this TL. The ACTUAL Pacific War was pretty much an Ameri-wank starting in June of 1942. All that has been done here was the introductrion of some fighters and bombers that could easily been available had the U.S. gotten off...
  3. Pacific War Redux

    With Nagumo? None. There are about twenty in Japan with the other two carriers (Soryu & Hiryu). The JAAF is suffering serious losses, similar to those that happened IOTL, but later in the war, during the Solomons campaigns. Thanks for the feedback.
  4. Pacific War Redux

    Thge loss of the Tone was a major blow to Nagumo. The Chikuma has four of the E13A1 Jake (AKA Type 0) while both Mogami & Suzuya have two apiece. That gives him eight Jakes, but they are dead meat against the Guam based fighters. The Jakes have had a tough war. They were used in an effort to...
  5. Pacific War Redux

    Here is January 29 & 30, 1942 Comments encouraged Enjoy January 29, 1942 (Marianas) Battle of the Marianas Islands (0400 Local time) Admiral Nagumo, his force 250 miles Northeast of Tinian, sends out search planes to locate U.S. fleet near Tinian. Following doctrine, search aircraft...
  6. Conditional Japanese Surrender

    Zero likelihood event. Japan was going to be defeated in detail. The Emperor has MacArthur to thank for his survival, it was Mac who pushed to leave him in place, figuring (correctly as it turned out) that as long as the Emperor was left alone the Japanese would accept occupation and the...
  7. Full-Scale Conventional WWIII

    That was always Ivan whistling in the dark. By 1984 NATO airpower was extending its advantage over the Soviet AF, in ground attack the A-10 and AH-64 were both in service in large enough numbers that be lethal to any advancing Red Army columns. There was a lot of overestimating of the Soviets...
  8. WI: WWII lasts till 1946 in Europe

    Very unlikely. If Germany was still in the game, the Bomb would have been used there. If the Germans were still in the war in 1946, which is vanishingly unlikely, the U.S. would have FOURTEEN weapons available, with an additional TWENTY-TWO ready in the coming year. In the case of a German...
  9. WI: WWII lasts till 1946 in Europe

    The point is, no one cared if the Germans had all the chemical weapons they could build stored (biologicals were a fairly new game & the UK had the best bio-weapon of the era) and ready for use. The Allies did as well, and unlike the Germans, the Allies had the ability to actually deliver...
  10. WI: WWII lasts till 1946 in Europe

    Hard, yes. Undoable, no. There are any number of tactics that could allow a single bombers to make a successful attack. frex:from using allied night fighters (like the exceptional P-61 or the equally excellent Beaufighter) to defeat the German night fighter network with massive dispersal of...
  11. Challange: Make Absolut Vodka ad a reality

    Oh Oh! Last time this thing showed up it wasn't pretty. Wait until I finish popping the corn. This could be interesting.
  12. WI: WWII lasts till 1946 in Europe

    Of course the nukes would be used against Germany. Everyone understood that the Germans were the REAL menace. The Germans get zapped while the Japanese just get starved by the blockade and burned to a crisp by the B-29 raids. Five or six times as many Japanese civilians die as IOTL and a half...
  13. WI: WWII lasts till 1946 in Europe

    The problem is that, without at least some sort of POD that makes sense, this sort of shake-up is nothing but an exercise on Reich-wank. The Germans do immeasurably better in both the East AND West for no particular reason. with "loyal" Germans wiping out the Nazis in a military coup, despite...
  14. WI: WWII lasts till 1946 in Europe

    I didn't ignore the increased caualities, I just discounted them as unimportant. Stalin didn't give a damn about losses, and no one else's opinion mattered. The Soviets never even came close it hitting their manpower limit. I would point out that this "exausted' army was, in less than three...
  15. Pacific War Redux

    Here is January 27 & 28, 1942 As always, comments are encouraged. Enjoy! January 27, 1942 (PI) War Department informs General Wainwright that WPO-3 is still strategic plan. American troops are expected to withdraw to the fortified Bataan Peninsula and deny enemy forces the use of Manila...
  16. WI: WWII lasts till 1946 in Europe

    As I pointed out above, how about large oval shaped dead zones scattered around the country & centered on every significant population center? How about an eventual occupation that will make OTL look like a church social? Terrorism, as you define it, in total warfare is inevitible, even...
  17. WI: WWII lasts till 1946 in Europe

    How? Sure not going to get through the air defenses with a manned attack. There was never any sort of chemical warhead developed for the V-1 or V-2. Of course the V-1, by this point in the war, was no longer an issue since allied forces had overrun the launch sites (even with a much less...
  18. Timeline 1865x: The Mosby option

    Where to begin... The Commanders of the Confederate Army (Lee, Longstreet, et al) learned their trade in the MEXICAN War of 1846. California became a STATE in 1850. No U.S. state resulted from the Spanish American War (1898) just Territories in the Carribean and Pacific (with Puerto Rico and...
  19. What are the effects of a limited nuclear war?

    The latitude limited effect for a full exchange is a fallacy. It pre-supposes that the weapon usage will be limited to Eurasia and North America, something that is simply not true. There are literally hundreds of targets below the Tropic of Cancer (starting with the Persian Gulf and proceeding...
  20. What are the effects of a limited nuclear war?

    Some break down very quickly, other isotopes are much longer lasting. Overall the REALLY lethal amount breaks down within a month, unfortunately, you can easily get a fatal gamma dose in a few hours from seriously "Hot" fallout (the fallout can circle the globe in a couple of weeks, fortunately...
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