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  1. Coral Sea: Full Kido Butai vs Four US Carriers

    Yes, but that's a big assumption given the state of aerial reconnaissance this early in the war. Yes, but I was operating under the assumption that two air groups will be busy annihilating Shouhou.

  2. Coral Sea: Full Kido Butai vs Four US Carriers

    I mean, it is a scenario that can't happen. The USN can't get four carriers south, because Saratoga is laid up in drydock, Enterprise and Hornet spent all April on the Doolittle Raid, and there weren't enough oilers on hand to support four carriers that far away from Pearl Harbor anyway. On the...

  3. How powerful could Italy have become by 1940 if it wasn't run by a strutting buffoon?

    Economically, the following missteps can be listed: - In 1926 Mussolini and company deliberately underwent deflation in response to inflationary pressures and weakening of the Lira on currency markets. This was a mistake, resulting in an immediate recession and motivated by the Lira’s decline...

  4. AHC: A country enacts female-biased immigration.

    The best way to do this is to have the population pyramid skew male. The problem is you generally don't get a population pyramid that skewed towards men unless a. conditions are just that bad for women or b. You're importing male migrant workers wholesale like most of the Arabian peninsula...

  5. The Germans build carriers, instead of battleships, prior to WW2

    Probably, but I haven't the foggiest idea where to look for it.

  6. The Germans build carriers, instead of battleships, prior to WW2

    Note the conclusion at the end; the arrester gear on the carriers was a problem as well.

  7. The Germans build carriers, instead of battleships, prior to WW2

    Counterpoint: Apologies for the alignment of the pic, but a relevant passage for easier reading: Tl;dr the Italians needed to copy an American arrester hook, because the German one didn't work, and even then both the Italians and Americans agreed that the arrester system itself on the...

  8. The Germans build carriers, instead of battleships, prior to WW2

    And bluntly, they had no idea what they were doing. The arrestor system they put on Graf Zeppelin straight-up didn’t work.

  9. Apoliticist “Self-Righting” State

    All other problems aside, this seems like one of those setups where the minute someone defects it all collapses around everyone’s ears.

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

    The British preferred close range as their decisive range band, with a desire to close to 15,000-16,000 yards. The Brits themselves estimated they would lose a battleship per four enemy battleships firing during the run-in from 34,000 to 20,000 yards. Ultimately, until after 1937 the Brits...

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

    I will admit that 3 hits out of 117 shells fired is pretty sad, yes. Nonetheless, a greater hit rate can be expected in daylight and open waters.

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

    By Leyte, Japanese gunnery skills had degraded for lack of practice, and more importantly, British battleships are larger and less nimble targets than the DDs, DEs, and even CVEs of Taffy 3.

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

    As far as an Anglo-Japanese war… Japan has only three battleships worked up and active in 1936: Haruna, Fuso, and Yamashiro. Kongo, Kirishima, Nagato, Mutsu, Ise, and Hyuga are all in various stages of working up. Hiei is still demilitarized and OTL would be modernized the next year. On the...

  14. AHC: Make Rock Music "Black" Again

    Congrats, you've just reinvented Nu Metal. Seriously, a lot of Nu Metal acts were set up exactly like you described: rap MC, lead guitarist, DJ using turntables for rhythm. I'm thinking of Crazy Town in particular, who as I understand it were not unusual in their setup for the genre. Now, Nu...

  15. The most competent IJA and IJN officers

    I disagree on Halsey. One carrier against three would've been odds too long for him. It's longer odds than Santa Cruz, and I think Halsey initiating battle then was damn close to recklessness.

  16. The most competent IJA and IJN officers

    I’d agree with Raizo Tanaka being one of the IJN’s best, but I wouldn’t put him anywhere near Japanese high command. The guy was an excellent squadron level tactician and ops man, but I feel he would fall into the Peter Principle if put any higher. I’d disagree with Yamaguchi. While I’ll...

  17. WI: The US Navy Goes For Nuclear Seaplane Bombers Instead Of Nuclear Submarines?

    Both is out of the question. The Polaris subs shanked the USN’s budget in the kidneys, they’re not giving up surface ships or carriers to buy seaplanes.

  18. A US 'Ju-88'

    Yeah, but not for any doctrinal reasons. They only had one inline and all the available V-1710s were needed for existing fighter projects. Plus, the V-1710 wasn't as powerful as the R-2600 and R-2800 radials that powered American twin-engine bombers.

  19. pivoting-wing Supersonic — first test flights of 1979 come ten years earlier?

    Which military aircraft? The US military's appetite for risk was pretty low post-Vietnam when the Teen Series was being developed. I don't think it'd go on any of those.

  20. What if Japan adopts Kamikaze tactics in 1942?

    Their remaining carriers were used to ferry supplies to Luzon a few times, but otherwise, yeah, by the time the kamikazes were employed their carrier fleet was defunct.
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