WI Japan attacks the Soviet Union in Dec 41 and not the western allies and US

Maur

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No, it involves, among other things, digging Koenigsberg-Constanca 2km wide canal, and using the available dirt to fill up that bloody annoying moat in the west. Two birds with one stone! :cool:

Damn, it wouldn't be Sealion, technically... :(
 
No, it involves, among other things, digging Koenigsberg-Constanca 2km wide canal, and using the available dirt to fill up that bloody annoying moat in the west. Two birds with one stone! :cool:

Damn, it wouldn't be Sealion, technically... :(

No, no, Herr General, you misread the plan. You see, the dirt will be used to form TWO barricades, one on each END of the channel. This will keep the Royal Navy at bay and keep our barges from being swamped by the waves...
 
The main obstacle would be the genetically modified English mastiffs.

Watching one of them use a Tiger tank as a chew toy is...impressive to say the least.
 
Not if they only use the troops they historically had available for operations outside China. Finding a convincing reason for the Japanese to abandon the Chinese campaign is going to be even harder than finding a reason for them to attack North. At least the Japanese had actually considered the latter.


go north can't exist with the same strategy they used in their southern expeditions... there was only so much square footage they could fight over with the west, many of the islands couldn't support large numbers of troops, even the japanese; as crazy as their strategies where in that period wouldn't open up hostilities with Russia without employing the overwhelming majority of their field forces (which in 1941 theoretically meant 2 million men) for the main battle. With defensive line shortening they could probably leave 10 divisions in China, plus assemble newly mobilizing divisions there, and put 50 divisions on the front with Russia

now of course strategically this makes no sense for them, but hell a lot of what Japan did in this time period made no sense
 
xchen08, to which it should be added that by 1941 Japan had hit a stalemate in China so if they pull most of their forces out to invade the USSR then Japan is asking for a disaster on two fronts.

Not to mention that little issue in late 1942 when they suddenly notice the Japanese economy has crashed and the IJN is out of fuel so now the only bargaining position they have left with the US is negotiating a surrender.
 
No, the coolest scenario would be if Germany built a fleet of paratrooper-carrying airships which drop entire corps in Britain.
 
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