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  1. WI: McClellan given another month?

    In OTL, McClellan was relieved of command of the Army of the Potomac on the seventh of November, 1862. This was a poor decision, in my view, because at that time McClellan had just achieved an important strategic coup and was poised to take advantage of it - while the switch from McClellan to...

  2. WI: Jackson Era without Jackson?

    Inspired by this blog post: http://www.patheos.com/blogs/slacktivist/2017/05/03/spell-c-l-h-o-u-n-across-steel-grey-sky/ So - does this inspire anyone to imagine the America of such a timeline?

  3. Alt Midway - Japanese victory

    I've been reading Shattered Sword, and I think I've put together a fairly simple TL which shows a possible Japanese victory at Midway. It's very barebones, but I thought it would make sense to put it on here simply as a useful future resource. 0430: attack launched on Midway 0618...

  4. WI: Danish army fights delaying action in WW2

    This came about from reading Blunted Sickle, where it's pointed out that the German plans for op. Weserubung involved taking the airfields in north Jutland and then putting them into action the same day to fly troops into Norway. So, as the title says - what if the two-division Danish army...

  5. 1860s Army Comparison

    This thread is partly because I've been guilty of pulling ACW threads off course into discussion on the relative effectiveness of other armies. So - I'll do my utmost to use this thread instead. As a bit of a starter, I'll note the following. As of the ACW era, each army is as such: The...

  6. WI: HMS Cumberland at the River Plate

    HMS Cumberland, the strongest of the four ships assigned to Force G (the force which OTL engaged the Graf Spee with only three of the four present) was refitting in the Falklands when the battle took place. Cumberland was a County-class, with eight 8" guns, and thicker armour than the Exeter -...

  7. If they will not meet us on the open sea (a Trent TL)
    Threadmarks: Preface

    Well, I say, if they will not meet us on the open sea, we must visit them in their own homes, and teach them that a war with England is not to be engaged in with impunity. (Sir James Graham, First Lord of the Admiralty 1852-1855, HC Deb 29 June 1854 vol 134 cc920-21) A Trent TL. Preface...

  8. US Navy positions in a Trent war

    I'm trying to make sure I have all the US ships (sloop and up) localized in the event of a Trent War. I'm also curious what the blockading stations (Gulf, Port Royal) and other stations (Pacific) would do in the event of war - e.g. would the Hampton Roads blockading force retreat up into the...

  9. Black powder weapons - simulations

    I was thinking about how best to simulate black powder weapons in a RTS. Here I'm thinking Napoleonic era onwards, but hopefully the logic I'm using makes sense. Firstly, consider small arms and bayonet fighting. Let's say you have a unit (unit X) and it's armed with muskets, and trying to...

  10. By Jingo If We Do

    Here's something which I think might be interesting - a British-Russian war in the 1870s after the Russians decide to take Constantinople. The primary question here is what the rough balance of forces would be - could the British deploy sufficient force to make a difference? This would be a...

  11. Move Fast, Move On - Crimean War WI

    What If... ...Raglan had managed to get his way after the Alma, and move on (and storm) Sevastopol immediately? Instead of waiting for long enough for a defence to be put together. From most accounts I've read, that would have precluded any particularly well organized resistance and...

  12. Elsab but not Lorraine: What If the Germans only take Alsace in 1871?

    Occurred to me when I ran into a description of Alsasce-Lorraine which was that it consisted of "A German speaking Protestant province and a French speaking Catholic province, and I'll let you guess which each thinks of when they talk about the region". So... what if the Germans took Alsasce...

  13. WI: Cardwell Reforms different

    The Cardwell reforms in the mid-late 19th century were something of a mixed bag at best for the British Empire. Cardwell went into them with a remit to cut expenditure and abolish purchase of commissions, which meant that - while some genuinely good things were done - the British Army was also...

  14. Ship comparisons

    I've been reading Warrior to Dreadnought recently, and at one point in the footnotes D.K.Brown mentions a formula to compare the impact of guns of different types. That is, that the impact and damage of a shell is theoretically the cube of the shell weight but in practice more like the square of...

  15. DBWI: HMS Captain Capsizes

    To refresh people's memory on the Captain, she was the world's first ocean-going turret ship. She was armed with 4 12" and 2 7" rifles in turrets, and armoured with both belt and turret barbette. However, what relatively few know about was the near-disaster that took place on the early morning...

  16. The Guns of the West: WI breech-loading artillery in the ACW

    Of course, OTL in the American Civil War most of the artillery consisted of either muzzle loading rifles (such as the Ordnance 3") or smoothbores (such as the 12lb Napoleon). But in the time of the ACW, there were rather more modern guns elsewhere in the world - in particular, at this time the...

  17. Trent War Books - critique thread

    My aim in starting this thread is to attempt to draw together criticism - well-sourced, preferably - of the books which cover the Trent War and other similar PoDs. Specifically, war between the US and Britain during the period of the Civil War - whether due to British intervention, a separate...

  18. WI: Union/Confederacy adopts shock/skirmish hybrid tactics?

    Based on discussions about 1850s and 1860s infantry tactics. The conceit is: 1) The Union and the Confederacy are building up armies from very little, and are both scrambling to get modern weapons for the first year or two. 2) OTL most of both sides did not practice shooting much if at all...

  19. WI: Portalés knew Austro-Hungarians did not intend to annex Serbia

    I've been watching Extra History, and they said that had Portalés known the Austro-Hungarians did not want to annex Serbia then there would potentially have been no war - as he could have told the Russians. Is this right?

  20. WI: Pollen system adopted for director firing in the RN?

    The fire control system adopted by the Royal Navy in the late 1900s and early 1910s, the Dreyer system, allowed for firing by ships steaming in a straight line against an enemy ship at short to medium ranges. But the alternative system offered by Pollen would have allowed longer ranged accurate...
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