poll: pick the circumstances for my stalingrad tl

choose the circumstances of the stalingrad tl

  • brushing aside the ladies

    Votes: 13 25.5%
  • the overdue housecleaning

    Votes: 10 19.6%
  • meet me for christmas

    Votes: 9 17.6%
  • you have too many open tl's bw update some of your other work

    Votes: 19 37.3%

  • Total voters
    51
  • Poll closed .
poll to come

1. brushing aside the ladies - hans valentine hube reaches the volga at rynok in september 1942 and launches and immediate crossing, rolling up Russian artillery positions on the far bank, compelling the soviets to conduct a general withdrawal and not defend the city

2. the overdue housecleaning - Hitler, furious with his top commanders and the lack of progress at stalingrad sacks several key figures (he pondered doing this in otl) Jodl gets replaced by Paulus, Goering is replaced by Milch and Seydlitz (a Hitler favorite at the time) takes over the 6th army and orders a breakout in response to operation uranus

3. meet me for christmas - operation torch is delayed by 6 weeks allowing german reserves that historically went to tunisia to instead go to army group don, manstein then drives with a much larger army towards the stalingrad pocket
 
Honestly, I think it would be the better course if you finished one or more of your current TLs. Especially the Manstein and the Gott epics. Too many different projects can be a bit...distracting.
 

The Dude

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Honestly, I think it would be the better course if you finished one or more of your current TLs. Especially the Manstein and the Gott epics. Too many different projects can be a bit...distracting.
Precisely, especially with that broken wrist of his.
 
that has put all updates off for three weeks :(...my hand gets cramped after 3 or 4 paragraphs in the cast and i have to stop

on nov 15th if all heals according to plan, ill get a lighter cast which will free my thumb from its plaster tomb
Oh ouch, that sucks. You have my sympathy. :(

In anycase i vote for option 1, its pretty unique and different.

Or of course you decide to work on your current projects instead. ;)
 
BlairWitch... While I anxiously await updates on your current TLs and sympathize greatly with your current condition, I'd love to see the possibilities if 6th Army wasn't tied up IN Stalingrad.

Your past TLs do a great job of following the butterflies in less obvious directions.

Keep up the great work and heal quick!
 
You do know that you'll have a bitch of a time writing up those TLs when BW junior comes out, do you?

Anyway, Imma having my hands tied up real bad with school work and "The Fox of the Outer Rim". I doubt my ability to come up with a Gott update in another week or so, although it's halfway done. This should give you time to update the other TLs or start work on a new one.

In the event that you wish to start with the Stalingrad one, I suggest that you go for the first option. The only problem is that the fall of Stalingrad could work both ways, either as a morale booster or a crushing blow to the collective Soviet will to fight. It may see the Soviets counterattacking to retake Stalingrad with a vengeance. That's assuming that Stalin gets real pissed after Stalingrad falls and orders the Red Army to retake it.
 
How about one where little saturn succeeds and manstein get's handed his pointy head. Oh wait, Blairwitch. never mind
 
I'd say you get some updates on "Der Wustengott" and "Badass Clark" first. But if you really, really want to do this, you should go with #2, since #1 sounded a lot like what CalBear did with "The Anglo/American-Nazi War", and #3 sounded like "Der Wustengott".

But of course, your wrist needs time to heal, or else we won't be getting updates in a long time... so I'll wish you a speedy recovery instead ;)

Marc A

P.S. When's BW Junior due? And do you have a name for him/her yet?
 
I'd say you get some updates on "Der Wustengott" and "Badass Clark" first. But if you really, really want to do this, you should go with #2, since #1 sounded a lot like what CalBear did with "The Anglo/American-Nazi War", and #3 sounded like "Der Wustengott".

But of course, your wrist needs time to heal, or else we won't be getting updates in a long time... so I'll wish you a speedy recovery instead ;)

Marc A

P.S. When's BW Junior due? And do you have a name for him/her yet?

Little BW is due Jan 10th (although for tax purposes it would be wonderful if he or she (mrs bw won't allow the sono tech to detect the gender) was born before the new year)

For a boy we have it down to Erik, Ethanial, Jacob and Conner (we will probably go with one of the E names, since all of my nephews have names that start with E)

For a girl its Tori we are in agreement there
 
you just described my joint tl with OKH... only his nose was pointy, i found his head to be rather egg shaped

I will have to look at that. Then i vote for #2, it seems the most plausible and least handwavium
 
there aren't any stalingrad tl's on this board :p

There was this one, but it went dead after awhile. Does it still count?

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But if you really, really want to do this, you should go with #2, since #1 sounded a lot like what CalBear did with "The Anglo/American-Nazi War", and #3 sounded like "Der Wustengott".

That's what happens when you have too many WWII TLs on the board.
 
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There was this one, but it went dead after awhile. Does it still count?

Rubicon didn't reveal what he wanted to do... me thinks he wrote himself into a corner by choosing the late pod... although I would bet 5 bucks he was comming up with something akin to "the overdue housecleaning"
 
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