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  1. Ameriwank: Continental Navy

    There are a number of sites related to many of the issues brought up here. As examples (out of many): 1st Rate ship definitions http://www.greatgridlock.net/Sqrigg/fullrig.html http://www.royal-navy.org/warships/type-7.php Ticonderoga & cannon captured there...
  2. Ameriwank: Continental Navy

    The gold out the air trick is actually somewhat easier.
  3. Ameriwank: Continental Navy

    I do, although why I am bothering is beyond me. The Colonies, in 1775 had exactly ZERO founderies capable of producing large cannon. The colonies, in 1775, were dirt poor. At minimum this fleet would cost several BILLION dollars (in 2008 numbers). This does not include the pay for the sailors...
  4. Ameriwank: Continental Navy

    And turned into firewood. BS can't save this scenario. Real life is, for lack of a better phrase, real life. The American colonies had very little manufacturing capacity. This was quite intentional on the part of the Mother Country which had no interest in creating competitors for...
  5. Ameriwank: Continental Navy

    The gun numbers you provide are low, given the force size. There is also the quality issue. The RN regularly kicked the snot out stronger opponents thanks to better ships, better seamanship, and better drilled guncrews. All of these take time. This silly scenario taken none of that into account...
  6. Ameriwank: Continental Navy

    If that's the case, move it to ASB. This is for semi-serious discussion of thisng that COULD have happened, which this is NOT. The ARW era colonies didn't even have sufficient cannon, or the means to make them, to float a fleet of this sort. The Continental Army captured almost all of cannon...
  7. Isolated war between British Empire and Japan in the 1940s

    You don't need those locations to take the East Indies. You do, however, have to be utterly sure that the contries that DO control them will never wish you ill if you intend to hold them. In this scenario, the Japanese are at a serious strategic disadvantage. Without the bases available in...
  8. TL with no Battle of Britain

    Churchill has God alone knows how manyBritish POWs in NAZI hands. He will not roll over in that case. You are talking the British EMPIRE here, the whole "sun never sets" deal. If you want to get the War in the West settles you would be better served to let the BEF get evacuated, hell, give...
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