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  1. Japan surrenders after Battle of the Philippine Sea

    The Emperor is able to "slip below the radar". He keeps it secret and he tells no one outside maybe a small circle about what is going to do before he does it. Once its announced it is too late. Too many generals and admirals know his voice and would obey his orders without question. After that...
  2. CosmicAsh

    These Fair Shores: The Commonwealth of New England

    Hamilton himself is graded fairly well among British historians. Much of the problems the United States had came from well after his term in office, and the overall consensus at the moment appears to be that the unamended Constitution could have worked, but the current one... absolutely not...
  3. Boldly Going: A History of an American Space Station

    This architecture really does look very clever, I wish one of the current Artemis proposals had such modular potential but is this based off a particular study, sorry if it is and I've missed it.
  4. Boldly Going: A History of an American Space Station

    It really is an ugly launcher. I understand the logic of trying to use the same MLP but those connectors just make the entire thing look really weird. Also how confident were they they that they actually would work and the entire thing wouldn't just fly apart.
  5. Russian Victory in the Russo-Japanese War?

    To everyone, I would recommend "The Consequences of an Errant Shell" by John Hardinge, also a thread here. POD is a Russian naval victory at the Battle of the Yellow Sea, which was possible if not probable. If Japan loses control of the seas, they cannot supply / reinforce their armies.
  6. WI/AHC: US aligned Asia, USSR aligned Europe.

    I think Greece and Turkey may be a bit badly placed for Vietnam-expies if most of Europe is already communist, and from what little I know about the Greek resistance during WW2 the impression is that the communists were a major part of it and the main reason they didn't take over was that the...
  7. Japan surrenders after Battle of the Philippine Sea

    I think there would be some elements in the army who launch a coup and have the emperor removed and replaced by his son.
  8. WI: Ford had built the Mustang as a wagon?

    I think that was a prototype only...
  9. How much would it cost the modern UK to rebuild the Royal Navy to 1960s/70s levels of fleet strength?

    The carrier fleet of 1965 carried 47 Blackburn Buccaneer aircraft as its primary strike component. Unfortunately, it's hard to decipher how many Buccaneers would be dedicated to a specific aim point, and I feel it's against the spirit of the question to use later Buccaneers equipped with Pave...
  10. Alternate Football Scores

    Another from What if Football... Bradford City 2-3 Liverpool A see-saw relegation battle that would not be surpassed until the final day of 2005 saw Bradford lose out to Wimbledon by just three goals, with Liverpool qualifying for the Champions League at Leeds' expense. Thanks to the fair play...
  11. Resurgam

    Japan surrenders after Battle of the Philippine Sea

    There was a coup attempt against the Emperor for surrendering OTL. Little known or remembered today, but there was one. How does that not happen when Japan is more intact and stronger at this point?
  12. Japan surrenders after Battle of the Philippine Sea

    Among other things I think the Nationalists would have won the Chinese Civil War, men and material would have been shifted to Europe, WW2 would have ended maybe a couple a months earlier (by the time the men and material would have arrived winter would have slowed things down anyway), the USN...
  13. WI/AHC: US aligned Asia, USSR aligned Europe.

    How the borders were achieved could affect the post war situation. A failed D-Day could be very different from a successful Soviet defense of Ukraine or Italy and France going communist via election. I want to focus on the WI, but how we get there is also somewhat important, if only to ensure...
  14. Aghasverov

    WI: Ford had built the Mustang as a wagon?

    Some guy on the West Coast probably still has your dad's old Rambler Rogue as a tricked-out rat rod, collecting trophies at car shows in Victorville or somewhere :p
  15. Alternate warships of nations

    No need for new turrets - Marshal Ney's turret is still sitting in storage and Marshal Soult is a training ship. Grab those turrets and presto, you've got the spare two mounts you need. The Brits would be down two 15" monitors but all things considered that's not a big deal.
  16. WI/AHC: US aligned Asia, USSR aligned Europe.

    Interesting, I didn't know that the PRC did so well early on. I also thought that the Sino-Soviet split was more strategic than it was ideological, and I also had no idea it was that vicious. Without the Maoist reforms and purges, would it be possible for the warlords and other prewar internal...
  17. What if there was no plague in europe?

    Look forward to reading your story.
  18. Count of Crisco

    Alternate warships of nations

    Just two twin turrets would have major issues with rate of fire, limited ability to damage your opponents with so few guns, and it could also be difficult to narrow down the range with just four guns. And perhaps most importantly while in hindsight having that much DAKKA may be a good idea it...
  19. marathag

    An 1-engine fast bomber for 1935-45?

    Upsize the Douglas Mixmaster A lot, so you get prop clearance. Has 75mm cannon, along with four 37mm in nose, 10,000 pound bombload, cell the size of a single B-29, so could carry Little Boy or Fatman. OTL unit had 2650hp for 410mph with 8000 pound bombload
  20. Mad Bad Rabbit

    Rock albums from alternate timelines

    Is he going to pull a Cat Stevens and convert to Islam? (or Baha'i like Seals & Crofts)
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