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  1. Napoleon wins the Battle of Znaim 11 - 12 July 1809

    On 12 July 1809 Napoleon smashed the main Austrian field army commanded by Archduke Charles at the Battle of Znaim. Having refused to even grant an audiance to Austrian negotiators concentrating Marmont's, Massena's, Davout's, Oudinot's Corps plus the Reserve heavy cavalry and the Imperial Gaurd...

  2. Operation Panther/Habicht and the Manstein "Backhand Blow"

    In the spring of 1943 the Wehrmacht considered a number of other possible offensive plans for the Russian Front. Two of these were Operations Habicht and Panther which were intended to clear the Izyum Salient . Habicht was a less ambitious plan that would only clear part of the salient but would...

  3. No Operation Blau May/June 1942

    Following the victory at 2nd Kharkov Hitler/Halder decide to cancel Operation Blau (no advance into the Caucasus or to Stalingrad even though that means no oil from the Caucasus. The Wehrmacht could still undertake local offensives such as the Blau I/Blau II plans but will otherwise husband...

  4. Yom Kippur War - Suez Canal Crossing Fails

    October 18 1973 Headquarters IDF Southern Command On October 115 1973 the IDF mounted Operation Stouthearts, the crossing of the Suez Canal By October 18, after more than sixty hours fighting of the bloodiest fighting of the Yom Kippur War. it was clear that the operation was a disaster. Magor...

  5. 1067 Norman Conquest Fire and Sword

    I am going to do something a little different here. This thread will be a decision game in which you will make up to three arguments explaining why you think your proposed action will succeed. I will decide whether it does succeed based on a dice roll and your argument and will write up an...

  6. General Gott not shot down and killed in August 1942

    Supposing Gott did not get on that plane. perhaps because something came up at the last minute. It does not matter why he does not take that plane, only that he does not take the flight and therefore lives to command 8th Army in combat 1 Does he still defeat Rommel at Alam Halfa and Alamein...

  7. No Kiev 1941 - Early Operation Typhoon

    In August 1941 Hitler decided to take von Bocks two Panzer groups (Hoth and Guderian) away. Hoth was used to reinforce the assault on Leningrad. Guderian was used. following refitting and reinforcement to become the northern pincer of the Kiev encirclement. Supposing instead that Hitler...

  8. Shattered Citadel: A worse Greman Defeat at Kursk

    Gela 11 July 1943 The Hermann Goering Division, weathering a storm of Allied naval gunfire and bitter resistence by US 1st Division smashed its way through the American bridgehead on Sicily leaving Montgomery's 8h Army in its' Eastern Sicillian bridgehead as the olly viable Allied lodgement on...

  9. Napoleon wins Waterloo

    18 June 1PM Waterloo At 1PM the French Grand Battery redoubled its' fire as Compte d'Erlon's 1st Corps began to advance well supported by Milhaud's 4th Cavalry Corps. Meanwhile Lobau's corps redeployed right to intercept the Prussians around the Bois de Paris. Reille's 2nd corps redobled the...

  10. If Napoleon had won at Wagram 1809

    Wagram, the last Battle of the Napoleonic Wars and the scene of the final French defeat and Napoleon's death from drowning in the Danube is well known. John Gill describes the final battle in great detail in Volume 3 of his history of the campaign, Thunder on the Danube:Wagraam The collapse of...
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