AH Osprey books...

Someone asked for a breakdown as to how Ospreys work, well here tis my attempt,
Men at Arms, started in early 70s and originally focused on a particular regiment or group of regiments or on a campaign. Notable titles included the Gurkhas, the Argyll and Sutherlands, the SAS, etc and others such as The Army of the Potomac. Today they tend to be fairly subject narrow and are the cheapest in the whole range. The range has diversified recently with a whole series on strategy and tactics.

Vanguard series worked alongside the MAA series but focus on vehicles eg the one on the Churchill tank. These meta morphed into the New Vanguard series with the same function and number of colour plates (8). There are also air vanguards too.

The first new series were the Elite series this was in the mid 80s with some of the first covering NATO forces, Warsaw Pact and the Armada as a special in 1988.

This series were followed a few years later by the following,
Order of Battle, these are fairly dry unless you like statistics or do wargames. In fact if you are a gamer you should be using the Nafziger collection instead...
Campaign series (from the early 1990s)
Essential Histories these are thicker tomes but priced rather steeply.
Raids (fairly new series)
Dual (eg Firefly v Tiger)
Aces
Fortifications (I have one on Norman castles and due to nature of the subject its a short synopsis but adequate enough)
Weapons (I have the one on Medieval handguns)

If you want to buy some then go to a wargames show as they tend to be a damn sight cheaper then! The Cold War Central Front Tank Battle Elite book originally about £9.99 is now OOP and usually fetches £35 so if you find it for less, grab it!
 
Will there be a timeline to go with it?

How about "The Original Flying Tigers"

The Flying Tigers is and will always be the AVG, represented by the Disney tiger. However, Ganesh, the flying war elephant, was never officially adopted, and is up for grabs, AFAIK.

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Oueen Elizabeth Carriers: Operations A look at the operational history of the five QE Carriers or CVA-01 of the RN, HMS Queen Elizabeth, HMS Duke of York, HMS Eagle, HMS Ark Royal, HMS Portsmouth.

Whilst we're on the subject how about some AH Osprey modeling books?

Modeling the BAC Eagle (TSR-2)

Modeling the F108 Rapier

Springbook Petrel (South African built Supermarine Spitfire)
 
Thanks, I'm trying to give a workable title, with a scenairo, that could have happened - there may be more to follow.

Off the top of my head and without getting into it too much how about basing it's history on similar lines to the Royal Auxiliary Air Force. Have Indian units start up as RAF auxiliaries with mainly Brit officers. A gradual move in the late 1930s from army cooperation duties to fighter squadrons. Just a (rough) idea. I won't say anything else since it's your baby and I'll look forward to reading it.
 
I have quite a few ideas from my timeline. However I am not skilled enought to retouch the original title pages, so I'll just try to come up with the titles:

Charge Of The Light Armor: Vehicles and Men British 7th Armoured Brigade In The 1940 Crimean Campaign

Destination: Kishinev

Black War: Operations Of The German Volunteers Brigade In Romanian Campaign

Richard O'Connor: Hero Of Crimea

Battleground: Bessarabia

I have a few more, but they might be spoilers...
 
Men at Arms series: U.S. 2nd Cavalry Division in Mexico: The Anglo-German intervention, 1939-1942.

Air Vanguard: Turkish J7W Shindens in action, 1945-1960.
 
From an upcoming timeline of mine:
The First Global War [1] (1853-1872)
The British Intervention in Persia (1853-1867)

The First Global War [2] (1853-1872)
The Russian War of Aggression in the Ottoman Empire (1853-1866)

The First Global War [3] (1853-1872)
The Irish Rebellion of 1863-1872

The First Global War [4] (1853-1872)
The War of Italian Independence (1858-1870)

The First Global War [5] (1853-1872)
The Austrian-Hungarian War (1853-1868)
 
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Thanks for the comments, but - 'there may be more to follow' meant more like:

Italian Fleet Disaster at Taranto

In a follow up to the ealier one, HMS Glorious after a brief refit caused by a Stringbag crashing over the front of the flight-deck. The Aircraft carrier re-joined the Mes. Fleet in Nov '40 just in time to be included in the Tarranto attack.
THe Swordfish from the Glorious doubled the attacking aircraft -
with Littoria, Duilo, Cavour, cruiser Trento and destroyers Libeccoi, Pessagno and Fulmine sunk, together wih damage to other warships and the floating dock.

and

Luftwaffe Bombers v Boulton-Paul Dante - become an inferno

In a atl where the B-P B.88a flies, is ordered and there's time to sort out the problems with the 4 x 20mm cannon armament.
 

Coulsdon Eagle

Monthly Donor
As a self-confessed dreadnought junkie I would like to submit the following: -

Duel: Marine Nationale vs Regia Marina 1914-1916 - Italy fulfills its commitment to the Triple Alliance and her fleet faces off against French Courbet-class dreadnoughts.

Campaign: The Mediterranean Sea 1914-1916 including a the original Royal navy plans for a dreadnought squadron (the early ones) in the Med against the forces of Italy, Austria-Hungary & Turkey.

Campaign: The North Sea 1914-1917 covering Beatty's crushing defeat by Hipper at the Skaggerak in 1916, and Jellicoe's revenge off Norway in spring 1917.

New Vanguard: British battleships of the 1920s - The Admiral (Hood & sisters), Saints (the N3 design) and I-classes (G3 design).

Campaign: The Philippines 1928 - War Plan Orange with the USN facing the IJN. Or, as an alternative, how about South China Seas with the IJN against the RN?

Campaign: Nova Scotia and the Bermudas: War Plan Red (USN vs RN) in the 1920s.

New Vanguard: Germany's Fleet 1942-1948 - the Z-Plan. And its sister - Lion class battleships of the Royal Navy 1942-1948.

Finally, to make most of the above possible, how about Aircraft Carriers: What Could Have Been as these ridiculous flimsy aircraft prove incapable of threatening our beloved armoured behemoths!

Or we could raise several new titles based upon Astrodragon's The Whale Has Wings with the FAA designs and the RN's carriers.
 
Short Swansea - giant U-boat killer

The flying boat with a range of just over 3,000 miles, with a wing span of 134 ft., did much to bridge the so called Atlantic gap, thereby denying any 'safe' area to German U-boats.
Just as the Sunderland was based on the Short 'C' Class Imperial Airways flying boat, so the Swansea was based on the 'G' class intended for non-stop mail service across the Atlantic.
After Short's attempt at designing a bomber was rebuffed - with the comment to concentrate on flying boats - so that's what they decided to do.
Hence, the Swansea entered service in mid-1941, allowing some Sunderlands to go the Far-East, where range was important but 'stops' were available.
 
ELITE Marines of the Irish Republic in the defense of Northern Norway 1940-1943

Collins is not killed, takes Ireland in a whole new direction in the 30's
 
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