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  1. What if Japan attacked the Dutch East Indies in 1936?

    The IJN can open fire at 38,000 yards and waste all the shells they want, they arent going to hit anything. Even an exceptional gunnery ship like Warspite only got a hit at 25,000yards

  2. Marineflieger Kommando: MFK - Hitlers Fleet Air Arm

    It's well known that Unicorns are expert shipbuilders... :P

  3. Marineflieger Kommando: MFK - Hitlers Fleet Air Arm

    so what AREN'T the Germans building instead of this?

  4. An AH Battle: 1st Battle of Midway, 17 - 21 June 1942

    Please don't blame the WHW for this story, there is no connection to that timelines long technical development

  5. An AH Battle: 1st Battle of Midway, 17 - 21 June 1942

    Giving Halsey authority over Lyster simply makes no sense. Halsey is a TF commander with dubious intel. As free as possible means exactly that, not 'throw away your airgroups because a TF commander wants you to'. Lysters orders would be to destroy the IJN carriers, not throw a figleaf to the...

  6. An AH Battle: 1st Battle of Midway, 17 - 21 June 1942

    Trying to work out why Lyster sacrificed his air groups, rather than wait a few hours and brutalise any located Japanese carriers safely. Just to make Halsey happy. Halsey isnt his boss. Oh, right, reasons :P

  7. An AH Battle: 1st Battle of Midway, 17 - 21 June 1942

    The attacks from Midway were anything but ineffectual as they keep disrupting the japanese. See Shattered Sword. Knowing who is where, and with what, is rather fundamental. 2-carrier groups are what can be handled at this point in the war. KB was working as two pairs.

  8. An AH Battle: 1st Battle of Midway, 17 - 21 June 1942

    Wit no details on the carrier loads or tf locations, it is pretty impossible to work out wat is hapenning and why. In OTL a second strike on Midway was needed, why is only one needed here? The tf allocation is odd, the fleet should have broken down to pairs of carriers, not triples. Why is...

  9. An AH Battle: 1st Battle of Midway, 17 - 21 June 1942

    Winkle Brown said it would be a poor carrier fighter. I tend to take his word

  10. An AH Battle: 1st Battle of Midway, 17 - 21 June 1942

    Why on earth will Lyster fight a day battle rather than a night one? Especially beforehand

  11. An AH Battle: 1st Battle of Midway, 17 - 21 June 1942

    given the ability of the FAA to do evil things to you at night, Japanese losses seem light. I agree that it would be sensible to define aircraft types and numbers (be careful here, there is a lot of divergence between carried and operational aircraft)

  12. Sir John Valentine Carden Survives. Part 2.

    So we send our supply shipping into a bottlneck covered by salivating RN sub commanders. Thats going to end well...

  13. Underground Invasion

    SeaMole?? I'll go get my coat now...

  14. Sir John Valentine Carden Survives. Part 2.

    Unlike RL, Alternative History stories have to make sense :P

  15. Sir John Valentine Carden Survives. Part 2.

    any torpedo bomber is a sitting duck in daylight

  16. Sir John Valentine Carden Survives. Part 2.

    Regarding the analysis of a carrier battle, there are a few points. The RN are not getting into a daytime fight unless cornered - why on earth would they?? The British have no real intrest in a Pacific battle, so its likely it would take place in the Singapore area. So lurk under land based...

  17. The War That Came Even Earlier: WWII in 1936/37?!

    food. fuel. armaments.

  18. The War That Came Even Earlier: WWII in 1936/37?!

    why not? Portugal is allied to Britain, and they dont exactly love the Spanish. Not joining the embargo might get you added to it

  19. What if these 2 aircraft meet in combat ….

    sadly unreadable without a subscription

  20. The War That Came Even Earlier: WWII in 1936/37?!

    One possibility is that Hitler fails in Austria (maybe going earlier) and, enraged, goes into Czechoslovakia
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