Les_the_Sarge_9_1
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Actually Cpt Canuck you missed the same point I missed originally.
He was only interested in postulating a carefully contrived fairy tale devoid of any real world realities, simply so he could endeavour to create the conditions necessary to have a world where the Germans didn't screw everything up like they did thanks to the equally babbling corporal. He thought it would be fun to see the Germans lock horns with the Japanese (even though that would never have happened even in the wierdest of fantasies).
Every good student of military history already knows the whole notion was a splendid poppycock farce from the get go, but hey some people just don't want to game out history (even though they are willing to stick their efforts into a historically limiting environment such as Earth of the 1940's).
I have found persons that actually like to take a wargame and just use all the pieces regardless if they don't belong in the starting force pool (although those persons are usually to young to read the rules).
So that is why this thread has been such a comical journey up to this point (although comic books are usually better written).
In regards to the book yes it was specifically during the FLQ crisis, and was a look at what might have happened if it had gone ugly. Very interesting read. Who knows it might even be hiding around here somewhere (but I don't know for sure).
As for the Lanc hmmm it had a massive payload capacity, but the B29 was specifically engineered for distance. It was pressurised which I think was uncommon then, and had almost no defensive guns in comparison to the B17 B24 and Lanc. Not sure the Lanc had the duration built into the design.
Particularly uncertain about eventual tank design evolution. The Germans might have eventually been out done by Centurion and IS types though. Those tanks were in the production/design spiral, but the Germans had not done much to go past the Royal Tiger, which while nasty, was not much for mobile warfare at all.
Of course the problem with all that, is it ruins the carefully crafted fantasy, where Britain just rolls over, the US runs and hides, Canada suddenly stops being the nation that it is (we have a noble history of helping trash nasty nations), and somehow the Russians inexplicably are less than able to beat the tar out of almost the entire German war machine single handed for 2 years.
A more interesting what if would be Japan realises it's idiotic to push the red button, never gets into an embargo and as a result is never trashed by the mainly US forces such that the US never gets put in a position to rebuild their nation and is therefore likely no further ahead 30 years later technologically. The world never finds out the names Sony, Tamiya, Honda and Pokemon.
Germany finds out that their erstwhile Russian allies are even more evil than they are during their glorious attack in France, when Stalin attacks at the moment they are least prepared. Stalin has not purged his finest military minds, and as a result his army is not led by inexperienced men but rather men hardened from the revolution. Stalin being a cool cucumber has decided to kill those men off after his world revolution is more concrete with the fall of Western Europe which the sucker Hitler made pathetically easy for him by wiping out the French and BEF.
The US enters in the nick of time to save Britain from a horde of out of control communism, but mainland Europe becomes a mystery behind an Iron Curtain Hitler would not have even dreamed possible. Jews intellectuals, people with to much wealth anyone born into nobility are all mysteriously vanishing unseen into the darker regions of the Russian Backyard.
of course, you can always pick the first fairy tale:D But mine doesn't have a happy ending. Humanity is extenguished in a nuclear holocaust (just like in all the crummy movies of the 70/80s) some time after 1960 when the Russians decide to push once to often.
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