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  1. Which British battlecruisers for industrializing nation?

    A friend asked me to post this for them. Supposing a newly industrializing nation was receiving four new battlecruisers from the UK as payment for war loans after WWI, what kind of class do you think is best: modified Tigers, Renowns, or even something completely new? Supposing that modified...

  2. What if Japan's oil industry is more developed before WWII?

    Was asked to post this for a friend who doesn't have an account here, so before anyone asks, I know next to nothing on the subject matter. :p Basically, it's a matter of if Japan would bother looking for the oil, rather than whether there was the technology for it. In a world where Japan...

  3. AHC: Industrialize Finland

    Can it be done? What POD might there be to ensure that Finland has its own manufacturing capacity by 1939?

  4. Time to Burn: A Tale of Two Singers

    Time to Burn: A Tale of Two Singers. Magic has a way of happening when people least expect it, and to say anybody expected the musical union that would take place back in late 1984 would be an understatement. It had started at the Monsters of Rock festival in Germany in...

  5. WWII scenario: USSR attacks Poland first

    Suppose that the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact goes roughly similar to OTL. The only difference being, that the Soviet Union decides to beat the Germans at their own game and invade Poland a week before the German's planned invasion. This leaves Hitler furious, who then orders the Wehrmacht to seize...

  6. Longer Fall Gelb = better prepared for Barbarossa?

    Question for you all: If Fall Gelb were to take longer, say 3 or 4 months instead of the month or so it took in OTL, and were it to be more decisive (no Allied evacuation for example), would this translate to the Germans being better prepared for Barbarossa? Would having the Wehrmacht's flaws...

  7. AHC: Luftwaffe planes into the '50s?

    Suppose there's a fledgling country just starting out in 1945. While initially aided by the Western Allies and technically allied with them, this country is far from trusted. Because of this, they're only given ex-Luftwaffe planes and other Wehrmacht castoffs rather than state-of-the-art...

  8. WI: Albert R. Broccoli on BOAC Flight 911?

    Suppose he doesn't cancel his ticket and decides to get on the plane anyway. What impact does this have on cinema and James Bond in particular?

  9. AHC: Have WWIII break out in Japan

    We've all seen books and stories where WWIII breaks out between the Soviet Union and the US/UK in Germany, but how about in Japan? suppose the atomic bomb fails or is delayed, making an invasion necessary. Could WWIII break out over the Home Islands?

  10. The world of Final Blackout...

    ...L. Ron Hubbards' book, Final Blackout, has anyone read it? I'm curious as to how people think the world turns out after the book ends. For that matter, how is the world created? Thanks in advance, Life In Black

  11. A thought I had today...

    Suppose the Germans make the decision to use gas or a coal dust based weapons against the Soviets in early '43. Do the Soviets have the ability to counterattack? Will their use allow the Germans to hold off, or even push back the Soviet steamroller? And what of the Western Allies? Would they...

  12. Alternate/additional SS divisions...

    Suppose WWII stretched on a bit longer than it did in OTL. What additional or alternate SS divisions would have been created? Would the many foreign units attached to the SS be granted divisional status? What would their cuff titles and divisional symbols be? Also, would the SS eventually...

  13. AHC: StuG Sherman

    Your challenge is to come up with a plausible POD to turn a Sherman tank into a Sturmgeschütz type vehicle. Perhaps WWII has dragged on longer or Israel never aquired Centurions (Sorry MacCaulay) and is forced to improvise. Is such a thing plausible? Discuss. Note: I personally am picturing a...

  14. Vietnam causing a renewed Korean War?

    Inspired by the other Vietnam thread. During the Vietnam War, South Korea sent forces over to back up the US. Is it plausible for North Korea to attempt another invasion of the South over this? What would China do, and how would the US react?

  15. AHC: Ideal Armoured Division

    After seeing some of the doctrinal differences between the German and US forces in an earlier thread of mine, https://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=185495 and while reading the book Steel Inferno, I began to wonder what an ideal armoured division's TOE should be. Going by...

  16. AHC: US adopts the MG-42...

    In light of the recent small arms threads and what ifs, I decided to try my hand at it. During World War II, the US tried creating a copy of the MG-42, the T24 machine gun. Chambered for .30-06 instead of the original 7.92x57mm, it was considered as a replacement for both the BAR, and the M1919...

  17. AHC: Attacking the Kremlin

    I've been thinking about how one would attack/raid the Kremlin, so I figured I would ask the board. What kind of attack, and how, I'm leaving to you, however there are some criteria: 1. Russia is currently on a military footing, and is currently fighting a conventional land war in Europe, so...

  18. Eastern European governments political leanings

    I'm working on a timeline, and am curious if any Eastern European governments lean towards communism OR towards Russia?
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