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  1. Sir John Valentine Carden Survives. Part 2.

    Nonsense, flying off Ark Royal will be the winged version of the Victor the mk. V. It is of course incredibly slow but there's nothing a Zero carries that can penetrate it beyond point blank range and from below. 😋
  2. WI: Second American Civil War of 1876

    But "That's totally different" probably sums up American Exceptionalism. 😋
  3. Sir John Valentine Carden Survives. Part 2.

    This may have been due to the way the Churchill's tracks extended in front of the hull meaning the tank may have already been climbing an obstacle before the blade reaches it.
  4. Most relevant problems in an Ottoman Empire that continues to exist in 1936 with all its territories at their peak

    Does that include Egypt, North Africa, much of Austria & the Balkans, etc. Or is limited to territories after a certain date?
  5. Sir John Valentine Carden Survives. Part 2.

    It will be particularly interesting to see how the Churchills with the 3" howitzer in the turret compare to the Grant's sponsor mounted (but better) weapon.
  6. Carrier based kriegsmarine

    Looks like Vladivostok had a number of, at least ship repair yards, since the late 1800s. Which is as you might expect for the Russian & later Soviet naval base in the Far East. Just glancing at the Wikipedia articles it does look like the IJA carried off what they could after occupying it...
  7. Carrier based kriegsmarine

    Perhaps a different PoD would be during the German-Soviet cooperation of the late 1920s that rather than offering submarine cooperation in the Black Sea they cooperate to design & build a carrier in the Soviet Far East. I would not expect anything earth-shaking from this design probably just a...
  8. WI Ireland took advantage of the Falklands War to launch a sneak attack on Britain and liberate Ulster?

    If this, remarkably unlikely, scenario comes to pass Irish-Americans are likely to turn themselves inside out arguing for support of a communist regime in the Republic while simultaneously condemning the one in Cuba 🤔
  9. WI Ireland took advantage of the Falklands War to launch a sneak attack on Britain and liberate Ulster?

    As the Falklands war only lasted 74 days unless the Irish have an operation planned and prepared to go at a time of British "distraction" then by the time they are ready the war is probably over. In the latter case the sane members of the Irish establishment are probably doing anything they can...
  10. WI Ireland took advantage of the Falklands War to launch a sneak attack on Britain and liberate Ulster?

    The main result of this would probably be to vastly reduce the catholic population of NI as various pogroms/ethnic cleansing drive them out.
  11. Sir John Valentine Carden Survives. Part 2.

    Now how do the Australians fit it into a tank. 😁
  12. Sir John Valentine Carden Survives. Part 2.

    Just need to make it mobile and show the world wat a REAL super-carrier can do 😁
  13. WI: Northern Sea Route for 2nd Pacific Squadron?

    As the British would know that only idiots would be heading that way to attack Japan it must be a cunning Russian plot of some kind and that they need to take action 🤪
  14. How would the british fair in ww2 if their generals was as backwards as the french's in ww2.

    That's probably an insult to the generals of the 1800s who could usually see what their armies were doing and were close enough to command by shouting.
  15. What if the Kamikaze or "divine wind" never came to be?

    I was just thinking the same with a successful Mongol invasion of Japan.
  16. What Would Have Been the Reaction if Britain Had Executed the American Revolutionaries?

    Unfortunately the dates don't like up to allow a bunch of slave-owning American rebels to be exiled to South Africa. Where they would undoubtedly evolve into a version of proto-Draka. 😋
  17. 1920s Germany if they win ww1 what do you think would have been done with the imperial navy if they didn't scuttle their ships.

    If Germany wins WW1 on land but the navy still mutinied when ordered out to face the British then I could see a post-war German government deciding the navy was a useless appendage and agreeing to scrap it to get a better peace treaty with Britain.
  18. Germany does colonialism lite

    You could say the same about the Belgians who also occupied bits of Germany post-war.
  19. Could an expansion-minded post-Civil War United States have been able to challenge the hegemony of the British Empire by 1900?

    From the original OP I don't know where the idea that the US wasn't an expansionist power comes from it was just expanding against the natives of the interior which could basically be done on the cheap.
  20. BISMARCK & TIRPITZ cause Germany to lose the Battle of the Atlantic

    If Germany is building a lot more U-boats pre-war the British may spend additional time & money on exercises to test the limits of ASDIC in case the Germans know something they don't. Which could end up with things like faster sinking depth charges, squid & hedgehog being developed and deployed...
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