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  1. Japan falls late 1943 -- effect on ETO

    Amen brother. The Balkans are a nightmare. Besides the Germans, you also have a very nasty multi-sided civil war to contend with. "Tough Old Gut."
  2. Germany Navy makes a difference: 1918 offensive

    Utter impossibility. The High Seas Fleet was at a such a numerical disadvantage that the British could have split off the entire Battle Cruiser force and still have outgunned the High Seas Fleet nearly 2-1. This doesn't even consider that availability of 14 USN battleships, most of which were...
  3. WI TBD-2.

    The MK 13 was an interesting design. It was overly fragile, something that was corrected (to the point that there wasn't a carrier launched aircraft that was capable of getting outside of it's drop envelope that could carry a torpedo until 1956, and even that is somewhat questionable) by late...
  4. Pacific War Redux

    Well I read that one wrong. :o
  5. Pacific War Redux

    If MacArthur did it in the Philippines, it was a mistake. (I may make that my motto:D) The Japanese were god awful against good defensive positions, but to be fair, the units that finished off the Battan Peninsula were not the same troops that had pushed the U.S. onto the Peninsula. Homma &...
  6. Pacific War Redux

    The Swedish export version (EP-106) had 4 .50 cals, as well as a somewhat more powerful engine. The U.S. impounded 50 of these in October of 1940 and sent them to the Islands in 1941. http://home.att.net/~jbaugher1/p35_2.html The P-35's problems were the same as many of the 1938-39...
  7. Pacific War Redux

    I agree that the IJA is not exactly the Heer. I would also have to say that the Japanese now outnumber the U.S. and "quality" Philippine forces on Luzon. The U.S. forces also are still operating on the pre-war "Rainbow" plans, something that has been ingrained into the U.S. commanders. I'm...
  8. Pacific War Redux

    True enough, but again, we are seeing it through a different mirror than the one that Washington or London can see. To Washington, the Philippines are looking pretty grim right now. The U.S wiped out one of the landings and contained a second with plans to reduce it, but now there is a third...
  9. Pacific War Redux

    The difference is that the U.S. has total control of the airspace around Guam so they can put cargo planes into the region pretty much at will. Getting to the Philippines from Guam means heading through the airspace controlled out of the Paulas, which the U.S. believes is much stronger than it...
  10. Pacific War Redux

    It is going to get worse before it gets better. A few extra planes and accelerated ship building can only do so much. Thanks for the comment.
  11. Pacific War Redux

    As it stand right now, it is just Saipan and Tinian that are cut off. The rest of the Mandates are still open to reinforcement and resupply The forces on Guam are far too weak and undersupplied to do long range offensive patrols. While Wake is being used as a relay point for B-17 raids, these...
  12. Pacific War Redux

    Here is January 7th & 8th. Comments are very welcome (hello, anybody there?) Enjoy January 7, 1942 (PI) Battle of Lingayen Bay – Task Force centered on USS Houston attacks Lingayen Bay anchorage at 01:40 hours. Arriving an hour after Moonset, with some fog as cover, the U.S. vessels...
  13. A slightly more perfect Constitution

    No. It would just make him a Lame Duck as soon as the next congress was elected.
  14. What IF the Combined Fleet Went to Oahu ?

    I understand, in fact I agree. All I was pointing out is that a change 70 or 80 years in the past send out huge ripples. One thing that some folks forget when putting together an ALT is how nothing from the point of divergence is likely to be exactly the same (a classic example being a world...
  15. What IF the Combined Fleet Went to Oahu ?

    With that sort of time, you actually can come up with anything. If you get a very different Japan, you get a very different Pacific Fleet, thereby throwing everything into flux. This isn't a bad thing from an AH perspective, it does mean that Pearl Harbor is almost certainly butterflied away.
  16. El Alamein

    Got the ASB covered.
  17. El Alamein

    In that case, the U.S. lands five divisions, totaling 100,00 men, with 500 Shermans, 800 155mm guns, 2900 tons of supplies, led by Patton at Suez, along with two Australian and a Canadian division, on July 4. These forces are backed up by 350 P-40E fighters, 125 P-38 fighters and 200 B-25 Medium...
  18. El Alamein

    The POD is everything here. How they managed to do something that they had never been able to remotely achieve is crucial. Did they somehow get 500 more Panzers from the Tank Fairy? The Italian forces suddenly become Waffen SS? The UK run out of Fuel or ammo? For that matter, what is the Afrika...
  19. AH Challenge: Suez Crisis-ish in Panama

    So we end the world over the Panama Canal? I was hoping for something a little more dramatic. :D
  20. AH Challenge: Suez Crisis-ish in Panama

    No. No I don't.
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