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  1. Kalga

    Make the Graf Zeppelin an Essex equivalent

    Where would the German naval engineers get the knowledge & [more relevantly] foresight for such a thing? Keep in mind that hybrid carriers were seen as normal back in the late 20s to mid 30s (the US converted carriers of the lexington class and the Japanese carrier Kaga (before her refit) all...
  2. Kalga

    Effect on rest of WW2 of a failed Sealion

    A failed sealion might be just the kick in the pants needed for the reich to go into full wartime economy earlier than OTL, which will definitely make them more dangerous down the road. The UK (and various resistance groups) would still lack the capability to do anything in the short term (which...
  3. Kalga

    Optimize German Army for WW1

    A major bottleneck for the expansion of the Imperial German army pre-wwi was the aristocratic nature of the officer corps and their unwillingness to expand/loosen that, with another major issue being the component parts (and the perception/reality that it's heavily Prussian dominated) (which led...
  4. Kalga

    Ghastly Victories: The United States in the World Wars

    Which might have already happened, as it's implied in some of the earlier entries that the USSR had a more extended power struggle between Stalin & Trotsky and is generally significantly behind in industrial capacity [compared to OTL]. That along with the greater purges and the more intense...
  5. Kalga

    Ghastly Victories: The United States in the World Wars

    The meta issue with Germany doing better (but still not outright winning) is that there won't be anyone strong/relevant enough to stir shit up on a large scale by the 1960s (unless the plot twist is that it isn't going to be a WWIII but something else entirely).
  6. Kalga

    Ghastly Victories: The United States in the World Wars

    Wehraboos rarely give a shit about anything not catering specifically to the tip of the spear, especially not nerd shit that doesn't directly go pew pew.
  7. Kalga

    AHC: Make WW1 a stalemate

    Have Baron von Ungern beat the bolsheviks and form an Euasian empire while the western countries float their armies on the stock exchange.
  8. Kalga

    Germany starts WW3 scenario

    Wasn't that just the backstory of Twilight: 2000?
  9. Kalga

    What is the earliest point in history for a viable space program?

    ...slice of a much smaller pie. The wars consumed and destroyed vast quantities of resources, labor, and talent. Most of those creating off the shelf* hardware and the stuff of yesterday*. A world of a longer Belle Époque isn't going to stay stuck with their tech level (nor fashion, but...
  10. Kalga

    The Death of Russia - TL

    HARD times calls for HARD MEN to make HARD CHOICES while HARD. The average AH member is not hard enough to make those hard choices while hard, nor comprehend the circumstances under which those hard choices must be made. "Did you really have to go 500km out of your way to burn down that...
  11. Kalga

    A better High Seas Fleet for WW1

    Unlikely to work as predreadnoughts are stuffed to the gills with small to medium rapid fire guns precisely to deal with a bum rush of smaller units (at the time torpedo boats). Chances are any light cruiser bum rush will get lit up first before they could deal enough damage.
  12. Kalga

    A better High Seas Fleet for WW1

    The main bottleneck for german warship production (outside of budget considerations) is manufacturing of large guns, while the method the germans produce their guns is superior to the british when it comes to quality (according to Conway's all the World's Fighting Ships 1906-1921 anyways) it...
  13. Kalga

    Global economic effects of a non-Dengist China

    Misery builds character and that world is building the best characters. A DPRK sized PRC would be an order of magnitude poorer than the PRC of OTL, but it would be militarized out of the wazoo and ironically more "respected"/feared on the international stage (alt-PRC wouldn't even blink about...
  14. Kalga

    What is a common thing or trope that always seem to happen?

    Not necessarily. As a lack of wars occurring doesn't remove the potential of wars (especially as those ITTL would not have meta knowledge like the writers/authors), and rocketry would have to happen as traditional artillery reached a point beyond the practical (probably bigger than 800mm of OTL...
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    What is a common thing or trope that always seem to happen?

    The destruction of large amounts of resources and people (including many scientific minds, as in actual, not just potential) tend to stunt scientific advancements, yes. Without the world wars (OTL, alt equivalent, etc.) the private sector and civilian consumer tech will certainly advance faster...
  16. Kalga

    The Iron Eagle II - Days of Strife

    Doubt it, it's highly implied that most of the Russian gear ITTL is based/influenced on/by Anglo-American designs (and copious amounts of actual Anglo-American equipment).
  17. Kalga

    A better High Seas Fleet for WW1

    If the Dreadnought revolution was as gamechanging as the orthodox view* goes, then the HSF should have pruned their predreadnoughts even more aggressively than OTL in the lead up to WWI. Selling 2 of the Brandenburg class to the Ottomans was a good start. The Kaiser & the Wittelsbach class...
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    The Iron Eagle II - Days of Strife

    Why not? China's precedence of unification was written in blood and atrocities (the Qin dynasty, one of the few that lasted under a century), not to mention the 3rd reich could draw on a millennia worth of tradition from Rome to the 1st Reich to them.
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    The Iron Eagle II - Days of Strife

    Watch it be called the Steppe war because of the massive movements regardless of how little of it occurred in the actual steppes.
  20. Kalga

    The Death of Russia - TL

    Brink of or even actual nuclear annihilation isn't necessarily going to invalidate [insert heinous ideology here], if anything, those would only reinforce the moral virtues of [said heinous ideology] as the enemies are swept away.
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