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Arguably at the historical Jutland. It took me a long time to grasp how well Jellicoe handled the hand that was dealt to him. Jellicoe crossed Scheer's T twice and ultimately interposed his forces between the High Seas Fleet and its bases. Every option he left Scheer with at nightfall May 31st...

I thought there was some evidence that the damage the 18" did to Furious was embellished. And I'm still not sure what problems occurred on Yamato/Musashi. What do you mean by that? How is Scheer supposed to get battleships on the flanks of Beatty without knowing exactly where Beatty was? Scheer...

I thought HMS Furious shot its 18 inch cannon without undue issues. What issues did Yamato and Musashi have when they fired?

I think they just need literally anybody to work on any kind of proactive naval strategy going into the war. The Derfflinger class and Mackensens (if they were ever completed) basically were WW1 fast battleships. They could do all the things you’d hope a German fast battleship would.

The Royal Navy was bigger, but their margin of superiority in ships that were both faster and more powerful than the fastest and most powerful German capital ships was pretty small. On some days it might have been non-existent since the Royal Navy ships sometimes had to rotate out on refits, and...

Arguably the later German battlecruisers were fast battleships. The Germans could have completed more such ships than they did. Even historically in the later part of the war, the commander of the Grand Fleet (Beatty) restricted the movements of the Battlecruiser Force because intelligence...

I think it was just the Retvizan, right?

The Spring Offensive? You mean a 1918 POD? I think that's too late. Maybe something could have been arranged in a 1915 white peace scenario. It would be an interesting wargame scenario if the European combatants sue for peace and agree to all pre-war borders, but Japan doesn't sign on to the...

I’ve often thought about restarting it, but writing a timeline is a lot of work and I don’t have much experience. If you have any thoughts I’d be glad to hear them.

Didn’t the raise if HIV slow rates of other STDs, similar to how COVID resulted in less influenza? Maybe without HIV there would be more multidrug resistant gonorrhea.

Another piece of this plan that is playing to British strengths is pre-war British resources and war planning. Although Britain entered WW1 allied to France, they had only signed a treaty together a decade before, and even afterwards institutions were slow to completely discard the idea of war...

But armor penetration is related to range, and point blank range is not realistic. The rest is just hand waving the Germans to victory.

There's Liberia right? But that was well on its OTL path by 1900.

I dunno, after World War 2 ended the United States Navy and the Royal Navy had numerous surplus warships, including battleships of similar vintage to the Littorio class. Despite the abundance and availability of surplus battleships and despite purchasing other large warships like cruisers and an...

Britain declared war on Finland and engaged in token hostilities with them in the more desperate times of 1941 despite nearly going to war to defend them the previous calendar year. What are the actual costs of taking down Franco in 1945 anyway? Would Franco's government even survive an...