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  1. United States Military uses the M1903 as it's standard rifle in WW2?

    What if instead of adopting the self loading M1 Garrand as it's standard infantry rifle in the 1930's the United States military keeps using the bolt action M1903 Springfield? The reasons for the change aren't important, maybe they just couldn't afford it because of the Depression, but what are...

  2. Small Firearms WI Challenge: Have the British Army adopt the Vis pistol

    Not a particularly earth shaking event but how could the British Army adopt the Polish Radom Vis semi-automatic pistol as standard issue sidearm in the 1930's? In 1932 Britain adopted the Enfield No.2 revolver in .38/200 as the replacement for the famous Webley .455 revolver. During the war...

  3. AHC: Make Belgium a naval power

    Though not necessarily a big one. The Belgian Navy is, always has been, pretty small and at some points in the country's history totally non-existent. While the Belgian army and air force during the Cold War were quite respectable in terms of quantity and quality of equipment the navy never...

  4. Anglo-French Alliance Post World War 2

    Or Franco-British Alliance if you prefer. What if in the post war years the governments of Britain and France decided to cooperate more closely in an effort to create a viable third power between the USA and the USSR? I don't mean a full on unification of the two countries or them becoming a...

  5. Could the British have made a T-34 or Sherman equivalent?

    In a similar vein to this thread could Britain design and produce a tank as reliable and flexible as the Russian and American machines during WW2? Now Britain did build a lot of tanks during the war but the result were mixed to say the least, with the cruiser tanks being fast but suffering...

  6. A Regia Marina Question

    Between the World Wars could the Italian Navy afford to scrap the Conte di Cavour and Andrea Doria class battleships and replace them with new capital ships or was modernising the four vessels all they could manage?

  7. The Philippines Without MacArthur

    A thread to gladden many hearts around here presumably. Reading the thread in Chat about just why Douglas MacArthur is so loathed in these parts I got to thinking about how the Philippines campaign would have unfolded if he had not been in command in 1941. For the sake of argument...

  8. Annie Oakley's Spanish-American War

    Taken from Wikipedia. Obviously McKinley turned her down but what if he didn't? Suppose Annie Oakley's offer was taken up for some reason, say McKinley was drunk or an albatross dropped on his head, and she and her fifty lady sharpshooters go to Cuba and charge up San Juan Hill with Teddy...

  9. AHC: Saab Viggen: NATO's Thunderbolt

    After reading the F-104 thread I got to wondering about this. How can the Saab Viggen become the backbone of the NATO air forces from the 70's onward?

  10. Non-Marvel/DC Cinematic Superhero Universes

    There's plenty of discussion about variations on the Marvel CU or on DC creating a successful counterpart for it's properties but what if another studio decided it wanted to get in on the act and create a multi-film superhero media franchise with a clear plan spread over several years? However...

  11. AHC: Make these political parties the two dominant ones in the UK

    The challenge is to make the Co-Operative Party and the National Liberal Party the two major political parties in the United Kingdom with others like the Conservatives and Labour relegated to the position of the Liberal Democrats or their like. The only rule is that they must be true to their...

  12. Sten or Owen?

    There are a few threads around here about the British Army replacing the Sten gun with the Australian Owen gun. Usually it's pointed out that the Owen is more reliable and robust than the Sten while the Sten is cheaper and easier to make than the Owen. A while ago though I read a post that...

  13. Doctor Who: The Animated Series

    In this thread the proposed Nelvana Dr Who cartoon of the 1980's is discussed, but apparently the BBC considered creating their own Dr Who animated series just a few years ago. The concept art for it can be seen here. The BBC had already trialled various animated Dr Who specials such...

  14. The Kingdom of Poland and the Fall of Communism in Eastern Europe

    In another thread I caught a reference to one of the causes of WW2 being the refusal of the King of Poland to negotiate over Danzig. Now of course we know that that's wrong as Poland has been a republic since 1918, but the idea does make me wonder just what would have happened if Poland had...

  15. Thought Experiment: President Kirkpatrick

    This is a strictly theoretical question as there's no chance in Hell of her being elected without a massive divergence but after reading The Fireflies of Port Stanley and being reminded of just how wacky her views were what if Jeanne Kirkpatrick became President of the USA in 1981? Just how...

  16. Cruiser armament without the Washington Treaty

    Pretty much what it says in the title. without the WT to impose a size of 6 and 8 inches on the main calibre guns of cruisers what size guns would have been naturally settled upon?

  17. Maximum Monarchies Challenge

    Your challenge, should you decide to accept it, is to have every country in Europe outside of the former USSR be a monarchy. The Rules: POD must be after 01.01.1900 Grand Duchies and Principalities and such like are counted as monarchies. Switzerland and San Marino are excluded on...

  18. Earliest possible acceptence of woman fighter pilots post 1900

    I am aware that women, like Sabiha Gokcen and the Night Witches, did play a major role in air warfare but what is the earliest we could see women being deployed in air combat on a regular basis, not just as specific individuals or in times of national desperation?

  19. AHC: Female combat pilots in the Battle of Britain

    Because we haven't had a go at this one in a while. The challenge is to have a significant number of woman fly combat missions during the Battle of Britain.

  20. Night of the Doctor: 1996

    What if, instead of doing a co-produced TV movie with Fox, the BBC just decided to make a new series of Doctor Who in 1996? They still go with the handover from Sylvester McCoy to Paul McGann but it's in the first episode of a thirteen week series with each episode lasting 45 minutes as in...
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