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  1. a very different WW2.

    But is it crazier than the rest of the sentence?:D
  2. AH Challenge: TV networks

    This is the answer! VHF doesn't really have enough channels to make this work without channels ghosting onto each other (aka split screen gone mad). UHF is so weak you couldn't get a picture from a transmitter 20 miles away. Barring better reception you need some sort of cable system...
  3. WI More Effective Axis Puppet States

    It could, except then you would be dealing with completely different Axis states and the War would likely never happen. I guess that IS a rather major change in the outcome, now that I think of it.:D
  4. Washington Treaties and 10-Year Rule: A bad rap?

    Okay. Guess I managed to miss them (probably for the best).:)
  5. east cuba, west cuba.

    And WHAT? Please at least come up with a reasonable starting idea.
  6. Maginot Line

    Well, based on the poster's comment I was responding to, it seemed that he did. I agree with your analysis.
  7. WI Kurita had destroyed Task Force 77.4 at Leyte Gulf?

    Several thousand American Sailors & Soldiers get killed who didn't get killed before. The attacking force is wiped out by TF 38 (assuming that TF 77 hasn't already finished it off), The Phillipines fall a few weeks later than IOTL, resulting in more POW's getting killed by their jailers, and...
  8. Maginot Line

    I guess you avoid Metz, Lauter, & Alsace and go to any number of other, less well defended, locations. Easy to punch through? No. Able to be punched through? Sure. Defenses work when the goal is to slow your opponent down, channel them into a killing ground, or push them to a less...
  9. Mushroom over Berlin

    Bock's Car's primary target was Kokura but it had 9/10 cloud cover. Nagasaki died because of a cloudy day somewhere else (even Nagasaki almost escaped but the clouds (un)luckily parted just in time). Toyko was considered to have too much damage to be a suitable testing ground of the weapon, same...
  10. Mushroom over Berlin

    The Germans will need to do a lot more than succeed beyond their wildest dreams in the Ardennes to extend the war by more than a few weeks. Once the Sun comes out the Wermacht columns are going to be savaged. The further the Germans push into the open, the more equipment they lose. The...
  11. Maginot Line

    Any defense can be overcome. It is easier to go around, rather than through, but any defense can be overcome. France didn't lose because the Maginot Line failed (as noted earlier, it didn't fail). France fell mostly because it had planned to fight the last war again, and had developed a...
  12. What if the USA had invaded Saudi Arabia?

    Uh.... Why? The U.S. already had thousands of troops in the Kingdom. The House of Saud continued to send all the oil we wanted, and did whatever they could to keep the prices stable. The most recent price spikes seem to be the work of market speculation, not Saudi (or any other supplier's)...
  13. Washington Treaties and 10-Year Rule: A bad rap?

    The Washington Naval Treaty of 1922 seems to have been one of the great successes for diplomacy in the interwar period. The London Treaties which followed were somewhat less sucessful, but the treaties as a whole did their role admirably. The overall technological state & size of the Major...
  14. wiredest plusable timeline?

    Wierdest plusable? Any negative TL?
  15. cold war: communist cuba, communist mexico, communist canada.

    Cuba is one thing, irritant for the most part. Canada and/or Mexico is something else entirely.:eek: I can't see the American government allowing to to happen, even if it had to do an open invasion.
  16. Gay nazis

    Not to likely as Hitler apparently freaked out when he caught the head of the SA in bed with another man. The Nazi's IOTL made a point of sending Gays to the camps (hence the wearing of the Pink Triangle) along with the Jews. If it did occur? Being associated with the Nazi's certainly...
  17. Courageous not sunk 1939 and Glorious not sunk 1940

    Thanks for the correction.:D I should have been more exact in my statements.
  18. A late 20th century 'year of no sun'

    The effects, as has been mentioned, would vary greatly. In the major food producing countries (Canada, U.S., Argentinia, etc) the impact would be mostly economic, farmers facing foreclosure, some small banks requiring bailouts, drop in export imcome (perhaps balanced out by higher prices for...
  19. Courageous not sunk 1939 and Glorious not sunk 1940

    A difficulty with the RN carriers was their limited aircraft loadout. I believe the average was under 40 planes of all types, or less than half the loadout of American or Japanese fleet carriers (in fact this loadout is similar to the U.S. CVE "baby" carriers). This limited the strike capacity...
  20. The RN beat the French at Chesapeake Bay

    The Revolution drags on for several more years, maybe a decade. Eventually the British likely decide the effort is not worth the return for purely economic reasons. The United Staes as it currently exists may never form, it may become an eternal bitter enemy of the British Empire, with all the...
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