AH Challenge: Have a Battle of American Soil against a Foreign Power

I saw that game like a year ago. And it looks cool. just looking for other ones.

It would pretty much be impossible for you to have seen that game a year ago, since it was only released in North America last week. :rolleyes:

Torqumada
 

Oweno

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It would pretty much be impossible for you to have seen that game a year ago, since it was only released in North America last week. :rolleyes:

Torqumada

What i meant is that i went looking for Alternate History Video Game back in like September and found out about Turning Point Fall of Liberty. I also found out about The Crossing.
 
Hitler holds of on Barbarossa, beats Britain, THEN beats Russia, then turns it view to America, still hammering it's ally, Japan.
 
Killer squids

How about the Russians simultanously landing amphibious operations backed by giant killer squids on both east and west coast, whilst driving tanks up into Texas through Mexico?

hmmm Except for the killer squids we have the movie Red Dawn

All together now,


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Mexico goes pseudo-socialist, pseudo-Marxist in the Mexican Revolution. The United States, for various reasons, is weaker in this timeline than in ours: perhaps they have very trading partners, due to unfriendliness in Europe and in Latin America, a stagnating economy internally, and major race conflicts - civil rights, perhaps, never takes off; without the Holocaust, antiracism might have never become quite so important.

At some point, Mexico and the United States tussle over something. Mexico is initially in the offensive; whether or not they win, there are still two or three battles on American soil.
 
For a little while I have been working on a "90 years War TL". Basically its is based on a dream I had once. Essentially, Mexico agrees to the terms of the Zimmerman Telegram. So the US is locked in trench warfare battles from Tijuana to Brownsville. Perhaps some Canadian regiments come along too. Japan plays equal opportunity aggressor in the Pacific. Perhaps they gobble up Hawaii or more likely insight revolt in the Philippines and so on and so forth from there until we have a right old mess.

I know it is borderline ASB at best. But its fun.
 
I can certainly see small scale infantry battles happening on American soil right now with minimal tweaking of reality.

For example its certainly possible that one of the middle-eastern countries being shock & awed could decide to send a uniformed unit into America through Mexico to attack some infrastructure or a political target.

The back of big truck can carry a platoon of troops with equipment, and if they are wearing a uniform of a country being hit with American cruise missiles then they can't exact be terrorists or unauthorised enemy combatants.

The political & media impact of something like this could far out-weigh any 'terrorist' attack and could draw a huge number of troops back to 'secure' the border.
 

Oweno

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For a little while I have been working on a "90 years War TL". Basically its is based on a dream I had once. Essentially, Mexico agrees to the terms of the Zimmerman Telegram. So the US is locked in trench warfare battles from Tijuana to Brownsville. Perhaps some Canadian regiments come along too. Japan plays equal opportunity aggressor in the Pacific. Perhaps they gobble up Hawaii or more likely insight revolt in the Philippines and so on and so forth from there until we have a right old mess.

I know it is borderline ASB at best. But its fun.

While its a cool idea American Military wouldnt have much trouble with Mexico would they?
 
Sorry mate the Cuban confrontation, arising from a different Cuban Misile Crisis, only happened in my mind. I just took a bit of a leaf out of Indonesia's book when they landed a few troops in Malaya and conducted cross border incursions in Borneo. Of course 2 or 3 companies landing in/dropping on Florida would be considered a major event if it had happened.

no doubt that it would have! Castro might have been a loudmouth, but he wasn't a compulsive gambler: the reason he held on in power for so long was that he played very conservatively: invading Florida would have given the US an excuse to invade Cuba and destroy him, and he knew that no matter how many times he defeated Washington politically, he would never defeat it militarily.
 
While its a cool idea American Military wouldnt have much trouble with Mexico would they?
No, but to make it even more ASB I through in a new CSA in the twenties and a new Republic of Texas a little later.
 
US bombers drops stones, ie US soil on Japan and Germany during WWI. :D

Or not. Castro goes nut and invading Florida with iprovised boats. It makes Sealion look sane but he is counting on the suprise.
 
Well, strictly speaking, all the major battles of the war of 1812 fought in the States took place after1812... :rolleyes:

Taking the spirit rather than the letter of the thing, if you just have the British do significantly better in 1812, you can probably manage. Say, Brock doesn't get himself shot, and Britain/the Natives get a big chunk of the interior. that cranks up anti-British sentiment in the South, get into another war, have 1812 II.

A weirder one (would be for the Americans to do vastly better in 1812 and, say, take Upper Canada and the south bank of the St Laurence. Then you could have 1812 II with the British, Loyalists, Canadiens, and Natives all trying o get back their land. The downside is that most of the pitched fighting would probably end up taking place in the (American-owned) Eastern Townships and NB, and I'm not sure if that counts as "Part of the US".
 
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