Well, half of them are on the bottom of the ocean already...
That'll depend on if the Soviets continue holding up their end of the deal.
I'll look into it.
Japan took ASW very seriously -so late into the war that it didn't matter. At this point they aren't anywhere near the meassures they were taking by late war iOTL, but they're definitely doing a lot more than they were doing early war iOTL.
In addition to that of the other 6 Battleships
I agree, the POD is interesting, always assumed a war between the United Kingdom and Japan would be due the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tientsin_incident.
Thank you very much, I'm hoping the next part will be quicker the write.
I didn't even know about that event! In any case I like that my PoD is early enough to allow me to play around with a few more things.
Thank you for bringing this to my attention, such criticism is kindly appreciated. I'll see about cleaning it up. Do you think there's a way to get something broadly similar to happen or would I be best off axing that portion entirely?
I can easily seen him being remembered far less fondly than in OTL due to his brutal methods and collaborating with the British.
It's remarkable how many timelines I've seen that have a reader objections/corrections ratio directly proportional to the displacement of naval vessels being discussed.
I swear, trains and capital ships bring out the pedants like nothing else.
It depends on what you want. For example the death of the Odia person could start large riots that spiral out of control and may possibly take a religious angle. If it does take a religious angle then the Haq government collapses. The Bengal Legislative Assembly of the time was full of a large number of parties, independents and a very large group of Europeans and the Haq government was held on by the Congress, the Europeans and some other groups and anyone pulling support would collapse the government and similarly he starts repression on a large scale or uses the police in a communal manner then the Governor-General of the Governor of Bengal would dissolve the government. The British were disliked in varying degrees by the different sections of Indian society but were seldom hated and such acts brew hatred towards the British which they tried to avoid whenever possible by using all sorts of subtle means. If you want riots and chaos this is how it would generally go. The Government of India Act was really "a machine with strong brakes but no engine" as said by Jawaharlal Nehru
Tanks and planes seem to run neck and neck with them but nothing, absolutely nothing, brings out the nitpickers and pedants like firearms.
Problem with that line of thinking is that the UK is on a war footing a year earlier with any international treaties effectively ripped up and the purse strings totally undone, production ramping up and so the 'window of opportunity' that Germany had OTL is now much much smaller.
It's the RN's perception, regardless of reality. The reason why the Japanese kept most of their battleships at dock IOTL was to wait for the "decisive battle". I have no doubt that the RN was the more adaptable and professional branch, but the thought of another war might've caused the RN to hold back both out of fear and budgetary concerns (the Brits did run out of financial assets IOTL and they didn't know if anything like Lend lease was going to happen.
