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  1. WW1 TL Help: What to do if you can't get nitrates

    Douglas, We seem to be missing each others' points. You said: "if you aren't on Great Britain's side, or not Germany post-1914, you will lose because you can't import nitrates from Chile." I then assumed, a shocking habit, that you were talking about Germany and the Central Powers...

  2. WW1 TL Help: What to do if you can't get nitrates

    Thande, Not in the slightest. Let me quote a sentence from my own post, and a sentence you yourself quoted, with an added emphasis: As we both note, "nitrates are obviously also used in peacetime as fertiliser" and we both note, "importing them from Chile is enormously cheaper than...

  3. WW1 TL Help: What to do if you can't get nitrates

    Douglas, That could very well be true, but the process you originally wrote about is known by other names. Behold the Power of the Search Function: https://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showpost.php?p=2990851&postcount=21 You'll be interested to notice that the process you've been...

  4. Challenge: A Successful Philippine Republic

    Flocc, Thank you for that. Your post should be saved and immediately re-posted in threads of this type. Bill

  5. WW1 TL Help: What to do if you can't get nitrates

    Altamiro, Yes, there was a race, just as there was a race for gold reserves and other materials. There wasn't a race however because Germany suddenly realized the war would last over 4 years and the British blockade would eventually prevent nitrate imports. It would have been a trivial...

  6. WW1 TL Help: What to do if you can't get nitrates

    Douglas, Where to begin... sigh... This "third" process you "discovered" is occasionally mentioned in the threads you referred to. Someone brings up the nitrates issue, someone brings up the technological demands of the Haber Process, someone casts about for alternatives, someone...

  7. Challenge: United States Battleship Division 9 interned at Scapa Flow with HSF

    CalBear, It is a great line, but it's not mine. Some actual creative member, whose name currently escapes me, came up with it. I borrowed it from another thread, one discussing Imperial Japan and involving Our Dear Friend IIRC. Bill

  8. Challenge: United States Battleship Division 9 interned at Scapa Flow with HSF

    CalBear, I don't think so. As execrable as the Destroyermen series is, and it is so bad it makes mass produced romance novels look good, typing the series, maintaining some shred of coherence in the narrative, and then dealing with what passes for editing these days is surely beyond the...

  9. Challenge: United States Battleship Division 9 interned at Scapa Flow with HSF

    Yes I did and it's even more of a steaming pile of gibberish than your usual efforts. As I previously explained in an earlier thread about Hitler's chances of building an atomic bomb, you know a few words and phrases but are wholly ignorant of the topic at hand. And so in response to this...

  10. Challenge: United States Battleship Division 9 interned at Scapa Flow with HSF

    It's the Spanish Flu, not anthrax. :rolleyes: In the OTL, the USN had ships at foreign stations which lost enough of the crew to the Flu that they required additional crews be dispatched to steam the vessels home. Take your own advice. Why would a flu outbreak require Britain to seize...

  11. WW1 Naval What If question

    Tom, That's sounds similar in form, if not degree, to many of the claims made here about the same POD. In earlier threads and in addition to other wild-eyed postulates, posters suggested Britain would require a million more troops thanks to the longer supply lines or that Germany would be...

  12. Hitler Goes For Moscow-Spring 1942

    Dale, I understand that and reading this exercise in "time line archeology" has been fun. What I was attempting to do was reinforce your musings on plausibility vs. implausibility by pointing out the implausible results of the time line's Torch, the reasons why they were such, and how that...

  13. Hitler Goes For Moscow-Spring 1942

    Dale, Not less plausible, more like less recognizable. As long as the initial changes are plausible, the following events are plausible, and the decisions made by the various parties are plausible for their time and place, there can be no real complaints over the path a time line takes...

  14. The Manhattan Project: Or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the ICBM

    Alratan, Leaving aside the extreme technical difficulties in developing a warhead which can safely disperse anthrax spores from a missile traveling at thousands of miles an hour, what of the Allies "No First Use" policy? The initial post also specifically mentions "throwing rocks". I...

  15. The Manhattan Project: Or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the ICBM

    Aracnid, True, and a one-use "Howitzer" still isn't a better choice than a multi-use B-29. Even given the terminal guidance solution, the missile still has a far worse "CEP" than the B-29 and carries a smaller bomb load too. When you remember that B-29s during this period are not...

  16. Challenge: United States Battleship Division 9 interned at Scapa Flow with HSF

    Good god... The Taylor Anderson who typed the Destroyermen series? That shameless idiotic hack suggested this "idea"? Relying on bubble gum cards and decades old magazines is bad enough, but consulting with another world-class loony on this "idea" means you're plumbing the depths of a far...

  17. Iceland as an 'integrated' part of GB/UK

    War or marriage. Iceland could have been part of a Norwegian or Danish princess' dowry. It's pretty clear that neither Norway or Denmark thought much of the place, so it's plausible that the island and it's inhabitants could have been bundled into a marriage contract. The groom's nation...

  18. Dien Bien Phu situated on the high ground

    Flocc, From what I've read, and that could very well be wrong, the French wanted Dien Bien Phu to become a strategic "tar baby" for the Viet Minh. France would occupy a region that the Viet Minh simply had to attack and then, because they would be forced to close with French forces, the...

  19. The Manhattan Project: Or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the ICBM

    Maverick, Exactly. They'll be used if only to justify the expense, but there will be no real use of the "Howitzers". That is, there will be no use in a militarily significant manner. Bill

  20. WI the U.S. Navy had relieved Wake Island?

    phx, It didn't suggest the same thing to the USN commanders at the time and they knew far more about Ranger's capabilities than you or I ever will. Wasp twice flew off fighters to Malta as part of a military force which was fully expected to "fight" it's way to the launch point. Wasp was...
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