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  1. Question: alternate start of Winter War

    How plausible would it be for the Winter War to start either much earlier (within days or at most a few weeks of the invasion of Poland) or much later (Spring/Summer 1940)? Is there really any major factor driving the date other than Stalin's whim (within that range)? What are the (reasonably...

  2. WI: Queen Wilhelmina does not escape the Netherlands in 1940?

    Just what it says on the label: what changes can we expect if Queen Wilhelmina does not reach Britain alive? Three sub-scenarios: 1. She is killed. 2. She is captured by the Nazis. 3. She remains in the Netherlands (as planned) to help with the resistance. If she is captured, might the...

  3. I'm back - which TL should I work on?

    OK, after over a month of pain and suffering, I finally have some free time and energy to write with once more. In an effort to make forward progress easier, I am going to resume work on ONE of the irons I had in the fire. If you have interest in one of them, please vote for it. Comments and/or...

  4. AHC: Different name for anti-aircraft ships

    IOTL, specialized anti-aircraft ships often carry names and classifications similar to those of other ships their size. Your challenge is to come up with a term or set of terms, preferably along with a two-digit hull code for the USN not already used by 1941 (see the "designation" column here...

  5. AHC: Greater Central/South American involvement in WWII

    IOTL several Central and South American countries contributed units to fight in WWII. Your challenge is to greatly increase this active participation (more countries involved and / or more troops committed from each). PoD no earlier than 1939.

  6. 1939: The Anglo-Japanese War

    IOTL, it took a heroic diplomatic performance by the British Ambassador to Japan (Sir Rorbert Craigie) defuse a potentially explosive incident. http://pwencycl.kgbudge.com/T/i/Tientsin.htm Let's say that on the 15th fire is exchanged between the blockaders and the blockaded. The spilling of...

  7. TL: President Vandenberg

    TL: President Vandenberg 1940 PoD: early May/June 1940, FDR dies. John Garner becomes the new POTUS, but he and Henry Wallace split the Democratic party vote, while after a free-wheeling convention Arthur Vandenberg (one of the front runners IOTL) takes the Republican nomination and wins the...

  8. AHC: Optimize US WWII Small Arms

    The challenge: optimize US WWII small arms. But it wouldn't be any fun without some limits, would it? Earliest PoD: 1930. No more than two completely new weapons (OTL: M1 Garand, M1 Carbine) Any number of minor modifications to existing weapons (no change in caliber, feed, or action) (OTL...

  9. WI: Nazis discover Enigma broken in 1939?

    An idea I'm kicking around: what if during the invasion of Poland the Germans had discovered the full extent of the Polish analysis of the Enigma machines? IOTL the Germans believed that breaking Enigma would be impractical, and were fairly careless about procedures. Discovering that the Poles...

  10. WI: No "Destroyers for Bases" Agreement

    So while researching another topic I ran across a reference to early opposition by FDR to handing over even mothballed reserve destroyers to the UK in 1940 - which he eventually dropped. Let's say that the PoD is FDR deciding he can't afford the political capital to transfer US warships to the...

  11. December 28th, 1941: The Day of Infamy

    Index: Post #1: Prologue Post #7: Pearl Harbor Post #41: Wake Post #86: The Philippines Post #90: Malaya Post #108: Dutch East Indies Post #115: Doolittle Post #125: Coral Sea, Part I Post #134: Coral Sea, Part II Post #140: Coral Sea, Part III Post #148: Diversions and Raids...

  12. Disaster at Pearl

    Right from the first: this is NOT a "Japan wins WWII!" thread. This will probably become a longer Pacific war, and more costly for the US, but my considered opinion is that no realistic event or set of events could have allowed Japan to win something recognizable to us as the Pacific War. That...

  13. Alternate TO&E

    So, as a sideline to my gaming hobby, I spend time collecting and analyzing military Tables of Organization and Equipment, particularly for the US in WWII. As a spin off from that, I've created some alternate TO&E that fix some of the problems I perceive in the historical TO&E. Would people...

  14. Reality Check: Longer Spanish Civil War

    I'd like to invite people to discuss the probability of the Spanish Civil War lasting into 1940 with both major factions still in control of a large part of Spain, and the impact this would have on WWII. POD no earlier than the start of the war itself (July 1936). The POD must directly concern...

  15. The Decisive Battle of Pearl Harbor

    Prior to WWII, the Imperial Japanese Navy had a strong group of senior officers who believed in a doctrine of a decisive battle, to be fought between the battle-lines (battleships and battlecruisers) of the USN and IJN. This idea lasted well into WWII. A thought entered my head earlier today...

  16. WI: Leo Szilard KIA in WWI

    IOTL Leo Szilard served in the Austro-Hungarian Army in WWI. What if he'd been killed in action? Who else is likely to come up with nuclear chain-reaction theory? Someone surely will within a few years of OTL. Who are good candidates, and when do they come up with it? There probably won't be...

  17. AHC: "Mr. President, we cannot allow an AH gap!"

    Inspired by the famous, "Mr. President, we cannot allow a mine-shaft gap!" from Dr. Strangelove, or how I stopped worrying and learned to love the Bomb. Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to create an AH scenario where the statement "Mr. President, we cannot allow a <thingy> gap!"...

  18. WI: Yamato class never built?

    The Yamato and Musashi were designed in the mid-30's to make up for the IJN's expected quantitative disadvantage with units that were individually more capable. As it turned out, the Yamato-class were at best barely superior to the Iowa-class. The US also managed to commission 10 battleships to...

  19. WI: Allies Declare War on USSR in '39?

    In OTL, the straw the broke the camel's back for the UK and France to declare war on Germany was the invasion of Poland. What, then, if the allies also declared war on the USSR when they moved into 'their' side of Poland later that month, or perhaps after the Soviets occupied the Baltic states...

  20. Nazi Carriers

    baldy46 posted this on another thread: This got me thinking about the rise of the High Seas Fleet early in the 20th century. Germany was starting from scratch, but managed to field a fleet that was certainly a worthy opponent in WWI. This was only possible because a naval revolution made most...
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