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  1. Malaya What If

    Ultimately, this is all up to our esteemed author. But it you take the position that Java is doomed to fall by April, then Singapore, like Corregidor, is doomed to surrender in May, with the loss of the entire garrison, and all Lord Gort or anyone else can achieve is a slightly less humiliating...

  2. Malaya What If

    OTL the question never came up, because the Allied position in the DEL had collapsed before significant American forces arrived. TTL, if Malaya and Java are still holding when the US arrive in May, then there are presumably still functioning airbases in Java and Singapore and it's possible to...

  3. Malaya What If

    Someone on Tatsumiya Maru messed up, and had better hope no-one senior ever finds out. Those mines should have been under cover until she started laying and especially after being spotted and receiving a recall order. The presence of a minelayer in Malayan waters is a dead give-away - mines...

  4. Return of Horrible Educational Maps

    You forgot Ukraine and Columbia. And Africa has apparently been entirely recolonised by a very motley crew including BELARUS, TurKey, the Philippines (twice) , Pakistan (twice), New Guinea, Myanmar and Finland. Bad China! Go to Siberia - oh, I see you already have.

  5. Malaya What If

    Just getting my oar in before the balloon goes up. Re: Troop quality/experience - I'm not sure it helps a lot to discuss British/Indian/Australian performance in North Africa. The Japanese are neither the Afrika Korps nor the Italians, and the Western Desert has precious little in common with...

  6. Effects on WW1 on Cilicia instead of Gallipoli

    That said, even limited success in Cilicia is likely to turn out better for the Entente than OTL's failure at Gallipoli. But it may not be that much better. Instead of throwing themselves at the Gallipoli ridges, the ANZACs find themselves stuck in a static attritional battle in the Taurus. The...

  7. Effects on WW1 on Cilicia instead of Gallipoli

    This has been discussed previously on the forum a few times. The big downside of the Cilicia/Alexandretta plan, as @Disraeli's Ghost pointed out upthread, is that it's not a knockout blow. Suppose everything works as well as possible - the landing is a success, the Entente forces rapidly secure...

  8. Malaya What If

    One thing I've never been able to find out - were the Antares/Ward reports something new, or had the guardships been attacking suspicious whales, oil slicks and floating logs every other day for the last month? There's nothing like repeated false alarms to dull the response to a real one...

  9. Sir John Valentine Carden Survives. Part 2.

    OTL, this convoy was the (in)famous PQ17, where the mere report that the Tirpitz had sortied panicked the Admiralty into ordering the convoy to scatter, with bloody results. As it turned out, there was no surface attack made on the convoy, Tirpitz was just repositioning. TTL with a beefed-up...

  10. Malaya What If

    And this is the best-case scenario, the one where the equipment is all working, the message is recognised as important, people are available to deal with it, no-one decides to send back to Singapore for confirmation.... Given the way the Ward sighting, not to mention the final warning from...

  11. Sir John Valentine Carden Survives. Part 2.

    WWII-era practice was to refine the oil close to the well and then transport the refined products. So the Soviet oil refineries were in the Caucasus, mostly at Baku. Of course, whether they would be still usable after capture is another question.

  12. Return of Horrible Educational Maps

    Marking Iraq - which had a pro-Axis revolt that was put down by the British - as "Allied" is stretching it. I don't think who ever drew up that list had much of a concept of "colonies", let alone the sorta-semi-colonies that were the Middle Eastern Mandates. Note that Syria is on the list, but...

  13. Sir John Valentine Carden Survives. Part 2.

    I'll second this. If the (Vichy) French authorities in Tunisia are allowing Allied aircraft to base out of Tunis and warships out of Sfax, then they've de-facto joined the Allies, even if no French forces took part in the operation against the Italian islands. Which has a whole lot of...

  14. Return of Horrible Educational Maps

    Given the location at the bottom, may it should be "California is building solar in Illinois and Missouri is going to pay for it"? Including New Zealand (and Tasmania) while leaving out Australia is stylish and unusual, but the Kirkines-Iskanderun Canal is something genuinely novel. I can't...

  15. Return of Horrible Educational Maps

    If they did, they either: - Didn't speak English ("countrise" and "Not work in UK" suggests bad machine translation) - Didn't know any European geography - Didn't care - All of the above

  16. Malaya What If

    Another very good update. Nice background on the Shinshu Maru (which I'd never heard of, but it appears that the SNLF were doing a lot of pioneering work on amphibious landing in the 1930s). One question - would a Japanese officer in December 1941 think of the opposition as "the Allies", given...

  17. Return of Horrible Educational Maps

    You do wonder what the characters have been getting up to that led to the creation of the Gulf of Tibet...

  18. Sir John Valentine Carden Survives. Part 2.

    Unless there are major strategy changes at high level - yes. OTL British tank production peaked in 1942 and then declined as industrial exhaustion, resource shortages and competing priorities took their toll. I believe exactly one British armoured division in Normandy fielded British designs...

  19. Malaya What If

    This, very much this. The US pre-war planning for the Philippines was always hopelessly incoherent. The Philippines could not be abandoned - politically unthinkable! - but the US Navy resisted sending ships to what they viewed as an indefensible outpost, the US Army had no units to send...

  20. Alternative History Armoured Fighting Vehicles Part 4

    The US Army - or at least the National Guard - was still finishing the process of motorising its artillery in 1941. Wikipedia claims that the last horse tows were replaced in December, but doesn't say if that was before or after Pearl Harbor. That manual also covers mule transport. Pack mules...
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