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  1. Batavia (Alternate WWII)

    Well, that is refreshingly honest.:) Still, it this should properly be in ASB. The number of off the wall events, without even having reached North America, makes any serious consideration of the TL impossible. Nevertheless, have fun with it.
  2. Japanese Victory (?)

    BTW: This last scenario is extremely close to the middle case Allied loss estimates. Is the idea to create the conditions that Toyko imagined possible, a negiotated peace based on infliction of maximum casualities? If so, that approach is rife with dangers that the Japanese never seriously...
  3. Japanese Victory (?)

    You are correct. I should have reviewed my sources prior to making that remark:o. I would note, having now spent a few minutes fact checking, that the USN had, by August 1945, revised its estimate of kamakazi resources ro nearly 11,000 aircraft. This was one of the factors that had the U.S...
  4. Japan First!

    The Allies did have a campaign through Burma. It was bloody, brutal, and generally ignored at the time & even today. It was the primary Theater where the UK confronted the Japanese, basing, as suggested, out of India. Link regarding the China-Burma-India Theater...
  5. John Adams reelected in 1800

    Why in God's name would the USN, even IF it possessed 8-12 Ships of the Line & 13 frigates (which would have bankrupted the U.S. government, the fleet as it was consumed an average of 20% of the U.S. TOTAL budget from 1800 - 1810, even with the 1802 anomaly), want to throw down the gauntlet...
  6. Japan First!

    Not much difference actually. One of the fictions of WW II is that the U.S. shortchanged the Pacific Theater; any examination of the facts makes it clear that this wasn't the case. The Pacific War was, in the main, paced by naval construction. You could have had an extra division of Army troop...
  7. Challenge: Victor = B-52

    There is also the very low fleet size (under 100, including the dedicated tankers) to go with short legs, low bombload, and general lack of need. The B-52 became what it is, in many ways, simply because there were so damned many of them (750+) and the U.S. was in enough wars that they weren't...
  8. Taiwan still part of Japan

    The best chance for this is probably a Japanese surrender in early 1943 (which is damned close to ASB), perhaps after a much worse result in the Solomons. Maybe no American carrier losses while the IJN loses several decks, maybe Skokaku, Zuikaku at East Solomons & Hiyo, Zuiho or Junyo at Santa...
  9. Japanese Victory (?)

    Well, besides the almost unimanginable success rate for the kamakazi, which had an appalling success rate IOTL? This failure rate BTW was as much due toinexperience of the pilots & effective AAA as fighter cover. The U.S. would have never have left the fleet carriers out of the invasion...
  10. Machine Gun were Never Invented

    The great killer in WW I was artillery. With the introduction of the high explosive filled shell, shrapnel went from 3 - 4 fairly large, slow moving pieces per shell to hundreds of splinters traveling at higher speed and lethal over a greater radius. Improved fusing also allowed for consistant...
  11. AH Challenge: IJN instead of IJA

    Absolutely. Japan had two yards that could build the Yamatos, and that was after a huge amount was spent to increase their size.They would have needed to push out a ship every 18 months or so. That was beyond their industrial capacity. Both Yamatos took four+ years to build. As a comparative...
  12. AH Challenge: IJN instead of IJA

    The IJN didn't get everything it wanted, but that was more a function of the industrial capacity of Japan than the willingness of the Diet to spend money. In 1936/7 (might be '37/38, I don't have the reference at hand) the Diet approved just under a Billion yen for Naval construction, including...
  13. AH Challenge: IJN instead of IJA

    Well, the IJA wanted to use the Northern Strategy in 1940/41 (e.g. attack North into the Soviet Union) while the IJN advocated for the Southern Strategy (Thrust to the South, take Malaya, the East Indies, Philippines, after a disabling blow against the U.S. fleet). Which strategy prevailed...
  14. Japanese Victory (?)

    Almost easier to defeat the U.S. Almost. :eek: By 1939, there were a substantial number of officers in the Japanese military (especially in the Navy, but including IJA officers not assigned to the Kwantung Army) who realized that China could not be brought to military defeat no matter how much...
  15. Machine Gun were Never Invented

    Rather hard to imagine how the weapon wouldn't be invented. All it really needed was sufficiently strong metals to withstand the pounding. In any case, if the Gatling was all that was out there, you would see it in substantial numbers. With smokeless powder eliminating the fouling problems of...
  16. Mao doesn't commit troops to Korean War

    The PRC, in 1964 (actually October 1964), was a nuclear power like North Korea is a nuclear power today, albeit with a better design, it was 1967 before the PRC had any reasonable deliverable weapons. They had detonated a test device, but did not have a deliverable weapon. As late as the 1970's...
  17. DBWI: no graf zepplien aircraft carrier

    OOC: There is a certain convention that is accepted in the "DBWI" threads; specifically that one builds on the posting(s) preceeding your own, keeping the same Alternate TL going, not going in the opposite direction. This post, while bringing up interesting possibilities, deals with OTL's...
  18. Mao doesn't commit troops to Korean War

    The North had already lost the war when the PRC came into the conflict. It has always struck me that Mao ready McArthur exactly right; 'Ol Dougout Doug was going to go straight over the Yalu and make a beeline of the CCP headquarter in what we now call Beijing & "unlose" China. If the PLAN...
  19. DBWI: no graf zepplien aircraft carrier

    Hitler was bound to get wacked. He had too many snakes working with him. The only question was if it would be Speer who wound up on top, like he did IOTL. Can you imagine if that crazy SOB Himmler or Goring wound up in power? Without Speer, there would never have been the Easter '41 Cease...
  20. British victory at Suez?

    Welcome! Interesting first post.:) You need to define win. As others have noted there are a very wide range of possible "victory" conditions. Depending on the definition you have anything from a slightly altered early 1960's in the Middle East up to a world that is nearly unrecognizable.
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