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  1. Three Men, One Island - A Cuban Missile Crisis timeline

    Jesus christ. That's low enough numbers to make society itself difficult to run - the cities are gone, and it sounds like anything larger than 1000 people calling itself a town would have been hit as well. How can a society survive on populations that small, spread over a space as wide as Russia?

  2. Three Men, One Island - A Cuban Missile Crisis timeline

    Well, Europe was nice while it lasted. Are we looking at Threads or a mere The Day After type scenario?

  3. Three Men, One Island - A Cuban Missile Crisis timeline

    I thought it was familiar - I suppose when you hand nuclear arms to people while they're being shot at, every problem will look like an atomic target! I wonder how far both Kruschev and Kennedy will go on inertia - will they be able to swallow pride and retreat when the moment of decision...

  4. Three Men, One Island - A Cuban Missile Crisis timeline

    One typo - The United States was founded after 1945 - unless that's a sign of Kennedy making a slip on TV under the pressure? Smoke 'em if you've got 'em, it's nearly showtime...

  5. REDUX: Place In The Sun: What If Italy Joined The Central Powers?

    I can't find it now, but there's a clip from The Great War where Steven Westermann (SP?) describes the french in 'beautiful sky-blue coats' in the 1914 battles. Apparently they made wonderful targets. It's split with a french soldier describing germans advancing in squares and getting cut down...

  6. REDUX: Place In The Sun: What If Italy Joined The Central Powers?

    Interesting thought - if the blockade and, presumably, the need for coal are not as bad as OTL, will German industry still invent DST?

  7. REDUX: Place In The Sun: What If Italy Joined The Central Powers?

    Have we had any chapters on domestic production? By this point in our war, food was a serious problem within Germany and provincial Austria-Hungary, and I imagine the same would be true of Italy, cut off from imports of fertiliser and presumably unable to fish in serious numbers.

  8. The Axis has plenty of oil (and other resources)

    Completely impractical. Even the Germans had infinite oil, they had so many trains and so many trucks and so many horse-drawn carts, and they already struggled to supply food, ammunition, paperclips and everything else an army needs without choking all those supplies down a single direction. A...

  9. The Axis has plenty of oil (and other resources)

    The issue is not just the volume of oil, but getting it to the front. You could give the Wehrmacht an ocean of oil in 1941 and it wouldn't change the military picture because they were a barely mechanised army without mechanised logistics. There simply aren't enough trucks, planes, trains and...

  10. REDUX: Place In The Sun: What If Italy Joined The Central Powers?

    How will the Somme work? In OTL Haig had to launch his battle early due to the situation at Verdun, and even when he launched the attack he was not happy with the state of his new army. If the battle is launched in the first months of summer will there be sufficient shells and manpower for the...

  11. Bush vs. The Axis of Evil - TL

    I wonder what Blair is up to - by this point the UK is probably committed to wars on two continents if he's still joined to Bush at the hip. The Army probably doesn't have the resources to join in Korea but the Navy is ideally suited for supporting operations up and down the coast.

  12. Frederick Barbarossa has a Successful Fourth Italian Expedition and 3rd Crusade

    Can the Crusaders support another 30,000 men in the form of Frederick's army? Logistics was always a problem in premodern warfare, and does the presence of Barbarossa actually help the problems the armies had with the personality clashes of their leaders?

  13. The Kaiser's Victory: What If The German Spring Offensive Succeeded?

    Now there's a TL idea for the future... Let's give our author a chance to show his working, though - I look forward to seeing how this works!

  14. Seven Days to the River Rhine: the Third World War - a TL

    Knowledge without engineering is useless, and most of the northern hemisphere's engineering capacity, machinery, and extraction capacity is gone. Finito. The southern hemisphere might one day ride to the rescue, but north of the equator I can't see industrial society ever recovering. Those who...

  15. Seven Days to the River Rhine: the Third World War - a TL

    I find it hard to envisage a recovery; even without a nuclear winter, the global population is less than a billion in short order, and all of the easily-accessible resources have been used. A permanent regression to a medieval lifestyle, perhaps with the addition of small amounts of electricity...

  16. Seven Days to the River Rhine: the Third World War - a TL

    I'd like to see how a ceasefire can be achieved - most communications, including cables, will be destroyed, and any surviving second-strike forces are probably under orders not to accept attempts to stop them without authority from people who are probably now dead or unreachable. Most of those...

  17. Seven Days to the River Rhine: the Third World War - a TL

    This does imply a post-war Belgium and Netherlands, which is more than I would have predicted. The choices realistically are nuclear annihilation or Soviet domination, and it's a hard choice which I'd go for if I was in the seat.

  18. Seven Days to the River Rhine: the Third World War - a TL

    At this point, how good are international communications? Was satellite communication a common practise at this time or are the allies still working through undersea cables? It can't be long before international coordination becomes very difficult indeed. What rescue efforts, if any, are being...

  19. How does Yugoslavia in the Pact of Steel change WW2?

    I agree that in Barbarossa, the issue of logistics meant that putting more men in the main drive east wouldn't have helped much, but as the casualty rates increased towards the start of '42, does access to Yugoslavian Army personnel make any real difference? I assume, similar to Romania and...

  20. How does Yugoslavia in the Pact of Steel change WW2?

    Our PoD is that the anti-government movement makes their move immediately following the occupation of Albania, and fail to capture the Axis-sympathetic members of the government in Belgrade, who request Axis troops move in to help secure the situation in exchange for their support in the war...
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