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  1. Effects on Cryptocurrency with no credit crunch and reasonable US debt to GDP rate.

    So from what I've read there were digital currencies as early as the 1990s but nothing really sustained happened until 2009 with the release of Bitcoin.
  2. Plausibility of US recapture of Wake Island in 1943

    So why did the US focus on reducing the Japanese in the Marshalls and Gilberts instead of retaking Wake Island? Would it have been in hindsight easier to retake Wake than slugging it out on Tarawa?
  3. PC: Earlier Rifle Grenade

    Would it have been possible for someone to have developed a rifle or musket grenade. Link
  4. Armored Vehicles That Should Have Seen Service

    My nomination is the M60-2000/120S as an infantry support tank alongside the Abrams. And a notable mention in the M8 Buford.
  5. German Strategy Minus US Intervention

    So WI the Germans decide against unrestricted submarine warfare and the Zimmerman Telegram is never sent/fabricated and consequently the US doesn't enter the war. What is the German strategy? Do they wait to see if the Allies can continue to finance the war? Do they attempt to build in their...
  6. European Colonies Without The Cold War

    So lets suppose the US is entirely successful in keeping the atomic bomb program under wraps until the destruction of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The Soviet program is none existant until 1945, and slow progress through the late 1940's and the rise of Trofim Lysenko and Lysenkoism leads to the...
  7. WI: Earlier Bulletproof Vest

    Apparently the Koreans developed a successful ballistic vest in the 1860's. So WI this technology were developed by a westerner in the early 1800's instead? Would we see the return of armor to line infantry and thus the rebirth of heavy infantry? This technology could even be improved upon with...
  8. WI: Frederick the Great recognizes the US

    So lets suppose the events leading up to the War of Bavarian Succession don't take place and Frederick II recognizes the Independence of the United States shortly after France does. How does Britain respond?
  9. Chechen's not allowed too return

    So WI after Stalin dies Soviet leaders decide not to let the Chechens return to their homeland?
  10. Plausibility Check: US purchase British West Indies

    Ok so is there any way Britain could be persuaded to sell her West Indian colonies to the US before emancipation?
  11. Flak 88's to the Eastern Front

    Reading the Wiki Article it states that So WI by Operation Bagration the Germans have an additional 10,000 88's on the eastern front?
  12. US Army Terminolgy Wank Challenge

    Challenge complete the following 1-Survival of the First American Regiment(first or second establishment) 2-The survival of The Legion of the United States sublegions included. 3-State Regiments such as the 1st Maryland Regiment these regiments may trace their lineage to the Continental...
  13. WI Earlier Fast Battleship

    So I've read that the British Admiralty were given three options at the start of the Dreadnought race which were OTL's Dreadnought battleship and Invincible battlecruiser but also a third option of an enlarged Dreadnought with the speed of Invincible with no reduction in armor or firepower. We...
  14. Awesone WWII W Allied Wank Scenario

    Please critique. Operation Torch: POD no landings in Morroco instead Allied landings at Algier, Oran and Tunis. Result: North African theater sown up in Dec 1942. Landings in Sicily in Feb 1943. Allied Landings in Italy: POD April 1943 Italians sabotage northern rail lines preventing...
  15. Barbarossa Six Weeks Earlier

    So lets say the Italians decide to concentrate on defeating the Brits in North Africa rather than make trouble in Greece. Consequently Barbarossa is launched as planned in May 1941. Supposing everything pretty much goes OTL(I would appreciate any contrary arguements)we see the Germans launch...
  16. No American Civil War, effects on Canada

    During the American Civil War the militarization of American society alarmed the British to the extent of encouraging her colonies to work together for the common defense. Charlottetown Conference was conceived as a union between the Maritime colonies but was joined by the Province of Canada...
  17. US gets Nova Scotia, later effects on Canadian development.

    So during the Paris Peace Conference a deal took shape that would trade Nova Scotia to the Americans in exchange for Tobago being returned to the British. The reasoning behind this was Halifax was in prime position to ravage France's West Indian trade. So WI this deal went through? I know that...
  18. WI the American Dollar keeps its value

    What if the US Dollar roughly maintains its 1774, 1850 and 1900 buying power? What changes to the American economy can bring this forth? Link
  19. Italy joins Central Powers but...

    the CP's are still defeated. A POD could be a relief of the siege of Przemyl or an Austrian Tannenburg. Italy joins the war at roughly the same time as OTL. France redeploys troops to Alpine positions and successfully throws back multiple Italian offensives with ease. All French offensives from...
  20. Earlier Coffee in Americas

    In OTL the French introduced coffee to the Americas on the island of Martinique in 1720 but coffee houses had already spring up in Britain as early as the 1650's right about the time of the English conquest of Jamaica. So WI Henry Morgan(just for fun)or his predecessor introduces coffee to...
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