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  1. A better High Seas Fleet for WW1

    Arguably at the historical Jutland. It took me a long time to grasp how well Jellicoe handled the hand that was dealt to him. Jellicoe crossed Scheer's T twice and ultimately interposed his forces between the High Seas Fleet and its bases. Every option he left Scheer with at nightfall May 31st...

  2. A better High Seas Fleet for WW1

    I thought there was some evidence that the damage the 18" did to Furious was embellished. And I'm still not sure what problems occurred on Yamato/Musashi. What do you mean by that? How is Scheer supposed to get battleships on the flanks of Beatty without knowing exactly where Beatty was? Scheer...

  3. A better High Seas Fleet for WW1

    I thought HMS Furious shot its 18 inch cannon without undue issues. What issues did Yamato and Musashi have when they fired?

  4. Kaiser's fast battleships

    I think they just need literally anybody to work on any kind of proactive naval strategy going into the war. The Derfflinger class and Mackensens (if they were ever completed) basically were WW1 fast battleships. They could do all the things you’d hope a German fast battleship would.

  5. Kaiser's fast battleships

    The Royal Navy was bigger, but their margin of superiority in ships that were both faster and more powerful than the fastest and most powerful German capital ships was pretty small. On some days it might have been non-existent since the Royal Navy ships sometimes had to rotate out on refits, and...

  6. Kaiser's fast battleships

    Arguably the later German battlecruisers were fast battleships. The Germans could have completed more such ships than they did. Even historically in the later part of the war, the commander of the Grand Fleet (Beatty) restricted the movements of the Battlecruiser Force because intelligence...

  7. Could the Entente + USA have beaten the Three Emperors' League?

    I think it was just the Retvizan, right?

  8. Would Japan Have Returned German Asia/Pacific Colonies Given A CP WW1 Victory?

    The Spring Offensive? You mean a 1918 POD? I think that's too late. Maybe something could have been arranged in a 1915 white peace scenario. It would be an interesting wargame scenario if the European combatants sue for peace and agree to all pre-war borders, but Japan doesn't sign on to the...

  9. The Danish Campaign: an alternate timeline

    I’ve often thought about restarting it, but writing a timeline is a lot of work and I don’t have much experience. If you have any thoughts I’d be glad to hear them.

  10. WI: A world without HIV?

    Didn’t the raise if HIV slow rates of other STDs, similar to how COVID resulted in less influenza? Maybe without HIV there would be more multidrug resistant gonorrhea.

  11. WI: German Kaiserliche Marine Focus on Forcing a Battle of Dover Strait

    Another piece of this plan that is playing to British strengths is pre-war British resources and war planning. Although Britain entered WW1 allied to France, they had only signed a treaty together a decade before, and even afterwards institutions were slow to completely discard the idea of war...

  12. WI: German Kaiserliche Marine Focus on Forcing a Battle of Dover Strait

    But armor penetration is related to range, and point blank range is not realistic. The rest is just hand waving the Germans to victory.

  13. AHC: 'Another Israel' (homeland for a different diaspora)

    There's Liberia right? But that was well on its OTL path by 1900.

  14. Brazil receives a Littorio battleship as reparation

    I dunno, after World War 2 ended the United States Navy and the Royal Navy had numerous surplus warships, including battleships of similar vintage to the Littorio class. Despite the abundance and availability of surplus battleships and despite purchasing other large warships like cruisers and an...

  15. AHC - Allies invade Spain during WW2

    Britain declared war on Finland and engaged in token hostilities with them in the more desperate times of 1941 despite nearly going to war to defend them the previous calendar year. What are the actual costs of taking down Franco in 1945 anyway? Would Franco's government even survive an...

  16. AHC - Allies invade Spain during WW2

    Spain sends a token expeditionary force to the Eastern Front much as historical, but as a POD the USSR formally declares war. Spain remains technically neutral to Britain and the USA for most of the war, but it becomes a bone of contention and the Soviets only agree to go to war with Japan on...

  17. WI: The RAF launch 1,000 bomber saturation raid on Tirpitz?

    What do you mean it worked when carpet bombing cities? Strategic bombing in World War 2 (and beyond) was mostly a failure. It was supposed to suppress the enemy’s industrial ability to wage war and did this poorly and at great material expense, and it was supposed to strike fear into the enemy...

  18. WI: The RAF launch 1,000 bomber saturation raid on Tirpitz?

    Wikipedia says 20% of bombs landed within 300m of the target. Idealizing Tirpitz as a 9000 square meter target within that 282k square meter area gets you something like 2 hits. Not 2%, 2 hits out of all 3200 bombs. I think this is a slightly pessimistic estimation because the bombs are supposed...

  19. AH Challenge. Make the Battle of Verdun last for ten years.

    I’m confused by what point you’re trying to make. You seem to be saying because Iran and Iraq received foreign support, the war lasted a long time. But France and Germany both did have foreign support: they had actual allied combatants with millions of lives lost in the war.

  20. AH Challenge. Make the Battle of Verdun last for ten years.

    The Iran-Iraq was fought for 8 years. The tactics had some resemblance to WW1. The populations of 1980s Iran/Iraq are not far off from WW1 France and Germany. I dunno about the battle of Verdun specifically, but I think it’s possible a 20th century war between France and Germany could drag out a...
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