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  1. Worst movies/TV shows that never existed

    I also think he would have been good, if given decent scripts to work from but this being the early 70s I suspect he would be reduced to a series of cliches and stereotypes.

  2. Worst movies/TV shows that never existed

    Doctor Who USA 1974-75 1970s US television had no shortage of short lived, poorly made, poorly written, science fiction, but the US adaptation of beloved British series Doctor Who had to be one of the worst. Much of the problem seemed to stem from a clash between enthusiastic but inexperienced...

  3. AHC: Make the Entente performance better from 1916 onwards

    'Easterners' is a reference to those politicians, including Lloyd George, who believed as @Peg Leg Pom explained that the war could be won by attacking the flanks of the Central Powers, the WWI equivalent of Churchill's 'soft underbelly' in WW2. This thinking was responsible for the Gallipoli...

  4. AHC: Make the Entente performance better from 1916 onwards

    I would also suggest persuading the Entente leadership that the war has to be won on the Western Front, avoiding the waste of men and resources of the constant schemes of the 'Easterners'.

  5. AHC: Make the Entente performance better from 1916 onwards

    For the French have Nivelle fall under the eponymous bus.

  6. AHC: Make the Entente performance better from 1916 onwards

    Well yes? I'm sure there are others far more familiar with those other Entente members and some of them have already put forwards ideas.

  7. AHC: Make the Entente performance better from 1916 onwards

    To improve British performance in 1916 you would have to go back to well before the war and address the lack of preparation for even the possibility of having to field a large army on the continent. Overall the massive expansion of the British Army means its going to face a steep and costly...

  8. Manstein leads Operation Barbarossa

    That was Stalin's primary reason for signing up to the M-R Pact, though he envisioned something more like the Western Front of WWI.

  9. Manstein leads Operation Barbarossa

    Firstly the Wehrmacht is not going to be launching Barbarossa in 1940, they simply do not have the manpower, munitions, and equipment to do so. Secondly it doesn't matter who is command of Barbarossa because unlike the French the Soviets have space to trade for time and the Wehrmacht logistics...

  10. Effect on rest of WW2 of a failed Sealion

    Think I would have to go with the estimates above. Major variable is how quickly the RN arrives to intervene. The Fallschirmjägers have another issue not faced by the Allied paratroopers on D-Day. Most of their equipment and weapons were dropped in separate canisters. Cue scattered German...

  11. Make the Graf Zeppelin an Essex equivalent

    The US navy gives the German navy a surplus Essex Class sometime in the 50s or 60s that they rename Graf Zeppelin? Only way I can see it happening.

  12. Effect on rest of WW2 of a failed Sealion

    The plan evolved across the summer as they replaced the Chief of the Imperial General Staff a couple of times, it did not Help General ironside's position that his name kept coming up in connection with plots to overthrow the government and install a pro-Nazi regime. Broadly speaking by the...

  13. Would the allies appease to a communist Germany?

    Well since in that case the Germans would be invading a nominally independent Rhine state and the rabid anti-Communism of much of the British establishment I imagine the British would happily support direct French intervention.

  14. Effect on rest of WW2 of a failed Sealion

    Well I am assuming that the bulk of landing troops aren't likely to get off the beaches and most of the losses are POWs. The Fallschirmjägers on the other hand are likely to take massive casualties on a par with the Hague. I am also assuming that with the most rashly optimistic assessment of...

  15. Effect on rest of WW2 of a failed Sealion

    I am assuming that the follow up waves wouldn't just be thrown into the meatgrinder on the beaches, less because of any concern about the losses than because much of the transportation needed to move them will have been lost in the initial assault. I believe that's about right. losses will also...

  16. Effect on rest of WW2 of a failed Sealion

    I think Barbarossa would go ahead, even in the worst case scenario the Nazis have lost 100,000 men in Sealion while Barbarossa involved some 3,000,000. The biggest impact is that the ability of the Nazis to bail out the Italians is going to be limited. If it does come down to a choice I suspect...

  17. WHAT IF : US-USSR Joint Invasion of the Empire of Japan Between 1941-1944 ? (Maybe with the help of KMT in China?)

    Not very, the Aleutians were a miserable place to use as staging grounds for further advances, the extreme cold is just too much of a challenge for an operational base.

  18. WHAT IF : US-USSR Joint Invasion of the Empire of Japan Between 1941-1944 ? (Maybe with the help of KMT in China?)

    Yes the problems were Stalin's refusal to believe an attack was imminent and his panicked reaction when it began.

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

    But carriers make terrible raiders. You seem determined to not only have the Kriegsmarine build a carrier, not implausible, but fleet of them with work beginning in the mid 1930s when the Kriegsmarine barely existed and then having them operating as successful unescorted raiders in the Atlantic...

  20. WHAT IF : US-USSR Joint Invasion of the Empire of Japan Between 1941-1944 ? (Maybe with the help of KMT in China?)

    The American forces don't have any bases remotely close enough to mount an invasion during this time.
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