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  1. WWII AT rifle grenades

    Working on an ATL I studied various WWII rifle grenades for AT use. In this search I found the training manual of the post WWII (Korean war) Energa AT rifle grenade and here it is emphasised, that the grenade is under no circumstances to be fired with any part of the rifle's butt plate in...

  2. Grumman Widgeon as catapult plane

    Until mid WWII it was common for battleships and cruisers to have one or more catapult planes onboard. Originally mainly for gunnery spotting but as radar became better this role vanished and as carriers also were along the general reconnosaince and liason role was taken over by carrier planes...

  3. Only blue sky - a no BoB PoD

    Inspired by a recent film I couldn't resist thinking about this PoD: France has fallen, exactly as in OTL and across the Channel the British in a mix of panic and strategic stubbornness prepare for the coming onslaught. But nothing happens - only blue sky! In Berlin sketches for a cross...

  4. Royal Navy as predicted in March 1939...

    Found this article from the New York Times in March 1939 about the OTL expansion programme of the Royal Navy. It is clearly propaganda and has some "pumped" details like 70 planes on an Illustrious class carrier, but AFAIK the general claims about budget, number of ships etc. are actually what...

  5. 25 mm ATG on MC sidecar?

    I'm not sure this is the right forum, but now I'll try. I'm working (long term) on an ATL in the early 1940s and inspired by OTL Danish Army 20mm Madsen Autocannons mounted on MC sidecars I wan't to take the concept a step further - mounting a weapon similar to the OTL French 25mm ATG on the...

  6. Iron Duke - one turret less

    In the thread about the Invincible class Hood 1944 mentioned the idea of removing the centre/Q turret on the Iron Duke class and utilise the extra space and displacement for speed and protection. From measuring on my old Airfix 1/600 models of Warspite and ID respectively (this is really big...

  7. Motorised army - the cheapest way

    Few armies in WWII became fully motorised, and the cost involved in providing the 1000+ (2000) motor vehicles for fully motorising an Infantry Division would be overwhelming. Next the attrition when the unit start to move and in combat would be tremendous. In that context advanced and...

  8. Kingdom of the North - or how a clumsy maid and a thirsty dog created a mighty empire

    Deer fellow "Alternates" I've been working on a timeline for some time now, based on Canute the Great's son Hardeknud surviving the wedding party he died at in 1042. So far I have details until 1415 and the general outline until 1950, but I think this is the time to have some comments...

  9. Question about English Archbishops

    I'm working on an ATL starting in 1042 with canute's son Hardeknud surviving (by odd miracle) and of course this will have to involve the then very important question of which Archbishops ruling what. In the current Chuch of England the Archbishop of Canterbury, as I understand it, have a...

  10. Mild Versailles - WWII anyway?

    Inspired from another thread I wonder about the consequences of a "mild Versailles". We usually asume that the OTL Versailles treaty was a major cause for Nazism and WWII, but the Nazi party actually had a very marginal and dwindling support in the mid and late 20s - until the depression in...

  11. Denmark-Norway anticipates a British attack in 1807

    In 1807 Denmark-Norway had deployed her main army in Slesvig-Holsten and most of the navy lay inactive without masts or rigging in Copenhagen harbour (18 ships of the line in Copenhagen but AFAIK at least three were at sea). No matter what the intentions might have been it was a deployment which...

  12. Napoleon attack Denmark-Norway in 1807

    OTL After the peace of Tilsit between France and Russia rumours circulated in London, that a secret part of the treaty recognised the French "right" to (commandeer?) the Royal Danish Navy, then a significant force of some 20 ships of the line. Apparently something similar was feared in...

  13. Czech-Polish Entente?

    Inspired from another thread I would like some opinions on what kind of PoDs are needed to have the Czechs and Poles enter into a military and economical alliance after WWI. The combination would be strong: Czech industry and Polish manpower, language and culture not that far apart and a lot of...

  14. ATL tank 1940

    I was tied to the house for the weekend and utilised it by playing with MS Paint. I'm told that it is a very simple drawing programe, but it is also very easy to learn to use - and it ended up with an ATL tank which I hereby present: the K40 The tank is composed of technology and ideas that...

  15. Indian Ocean 1942 - Somerville's trap works

    On 26th of March 1942 a powerful force of six carriers and escorts under Admiral Nagumo left Celebes for the Indian Ocean to raid Colombo on Ceylon. The British Admiral Somerville commanding the British Eastern Fleet intercepted the expected Japanese arrival (1st or 2nd of April) at Colombo...

  16. ATL Molotov-Ribbentrop agreement

    In the OTL agreement Germany got most of Poland and the Soviets the Baltic States and the eastern strip of Poland. But would it have been possible to agree instead on: Soviets getting all of Poland exept Danzig and a western strip. Germany gets Danzig and w. strip and the Baltic states...

  17. Weather TL - a dry summer in Saxony 1813

    At OTL battle of Dresden the Austrian left wing was cut off from the main army by very swollen rivers and muddy ground - even the flintlocks were silenced due to the rain - and Austrian squarres were defenceless against French cavalry and artillery. But what if - it is a dry summer that year...

  18. Weather TL - stormy June 1944

    PoD: The allied invasion force for D-day is hit by a ferocious storm just after the first wave has landed - a storm of the type that wrecked one of the Mulberries in OTL Late June 1944. Regards Steffen Redbeard

  19. Weather ATL - Sunny October 1941 at Moscow

    A lot of historical events have been excused/explained by the weather at the time they are happening - following this a PoD only involving a plausible change in wether at a given time and place must have significance. I will try to make a number of ATL where the PoD only involves weather...

  20. No Denmark - at all

    Inspired by the thread about "No Lichtenstein" (and big scale world maps) I'd like to go one degree up in nation size and take it a step further - so, the PoD is that where you in OTL find present day Denmark there is simply nothing but open sea - and as long as there has been humans there has...
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