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  1. TL-191: After the End

    I asked that very question here, in another thread back in 2015. I like David's response better.

  2. Photos from Featherston's Confederacy/ TL-191

    He's mentioned in passing in a scene with Sam Carsten gunrunning weapons and ammo to the Cuban rebels. It's in The Grapple if memory serves correctly. There is mention of a Cuban teenager named "Fidel" who was there to offload the guns and other weapons the Americans were giving the rebels and...

  3. WI: Hitler launches Operation Sea Lion without air superiority?

    It would have been an absolute, utter, unmitigated, complete, and total disaster for the Germans. The only German soldiers who would have actually gotten to Britain would have been those who dragged themselves ashore after their barges and tugs were sunk or otherwise destroyed by the RAF...

  4. TL-191: After the End

    I posted some ruminations in the "Filling in the Gaps" thread in this folder about a few thoughts regarding the aftermath of the Confederate surrender. To wit, what happens to the various Confederate embassies around the world, the ambassadors residing therein, and their staff, support...

  5. TL-191: Filling the Gaps

    I had another thought the other day following the aftermath of the Confederate surrender. That is, what would happen to all the Confederate embassies and consulates around the world after the Confederate government surrendered? More importantly, what would become of the ambassadors and their...

  6. What alternate history ideas you wish they were used more often?

    I for one would like to see more TLs based on an alternative Battle of Hastings and/or 1066 in England. There are entire bookshelves of AH books on the US Civil War or alternative WWII scenarios but virtually nothing on what was probably the seminal event in western Europe in the past thousand...

  7. E Boats for Sealion

    Take a gander at this Quora post if you have any question about whether Sealion was even remotely possible given the conditions in 1940-1941. Read the comments. The short answer is "No." The Germans could not have pulled it off, even with a whole passel of e-boats. The longer answer is the...

  8. Photos from Featherston's Confederacy/ TL-191

    Yup, Your recollection is correct. It is in the scene at IatD when Lt. Pound is in the hospital in New York State and there is a radio playing in the recovery room where he is recuperating from his injuries, along with several soldiers. There is a news flash on the radio that the...

  9. Best Civil War Alternate History?

    Interesting thread. I am curious if anyone has a favorite ACW novel in which the North wins a much bigger, more decisive victory earlier on than in OTL. Offhand, the only one I can think of in that vein is Gettysburg: An Alternate History which is mentioned upthread. It is very heavily...

  10. Operation Sea Lion (1974 Sandhurst Wargame)

    re: the Isle of Wight. I refer anyone who seriously considers the IoW as a possible precursor to the main invasion of Britain to this post from a Sealion thread from last year, which very succinctly and clearly lays out the reasons why such an idea would be the height of folly, to say the...

  11. Operation Sea Lion (1974 Sandhurst Wargame)

    Now that I think about it, instead of a movie, we need ... Operation Sea Lion: The Musical (to the tune of the Monkees theme song) Here we come Chugging’ across the Strait Trying to get to the beach head Before it’s way too late! Hey, hey, we're the Wehrmacht And people think we are...

  12. Operation Sea Lion (1974 Sandhurst Wargame)

    I'm just waiting for Hollywood to come out with ... Sea Lion: The Movie! Just when you thought it was safe to dip your toes back in the AH.com forums, the Unmentionable Sea Mammal rears its ugly head again as it rises from the depths of Necro-Land to infest the forum once again. You'll never...

  13. Operation Sea Lion (1974 Sandhurst Wargame)

    Of course, silly me! I was forgetting about those jolly good mates in the RAF, sitting around the airbase, sipping their Earl Grey because they would never even dream of attacking the invasion fleet. Why, that would not be sporting, now would it? (slaps forehead) It's almost as though...

  14. Operation Sea Lion (1974 Sandhurst Wargame)

    Oh yes, I am quite certain the Royal Navy will refrain from, you know, actually attacking and sinking any of those vessels out of some perceived sense of fairness or playing on an even field. Why, those gracious Brits would of course leave those vessels alone. I mean, it's only the invasion of...

  15. Operation Sea Lion (1974 Sandhurst Wargame)

    And this is something that I don't think has really been discussed all that much amongst the alt-history community. The consequences of a failed Sealion are potentially much, much worse for the Germans than losing a whole bunch of barges, tugboats, much of (if not essentially all) of the...

  16. Operation Sea Lion (1974 Sandhurst Wargame)

    Anyone who thinks Operation Sealion had even the faintest ghost of a chance of success should read the first response to this question, posted on Quora.com, and the other replies to the question: Since the English Channel is such a narrow ditch ... Operation Sealion Could. Not. Work. in the...

  17. Operation Sea Lion (1974 Sandhurst Wargame)

    And this is exactly why the Unmentionable Sea Mammal would have been a disaster for the Germans. In the Sandhurst wargame of the proposed invasion, the umpires practically bent over backwards to help the Germans out in pretty much every way they could and it still ended up being a German loss...

  18. TL-191: Filling the Gaps

    Morrell evens says that the Confederates are in for some "tough sledding" at one point as Operation Rosebud is about to commence.

  19. Photos from Featherston's Confederacy/ TL-191

    IIRC, the Tsar was not in Petrograd when the Germans dropped their superbomb on that city. He survived the Second Great War, if memory serves correctly

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    My username is an old nickname from my college days, PM me if you want the backstory
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