I am not following football, and I mean literally. Don't know who won the last major leagues and other competitions and I'm dead serious XD Hope you enjoy it though. No prediction at all then.

They totally miscalculated. They knew they had advantage of surprise and better planning...plus very unprepared enemy. Yamamoto himself said that he could give them 6 months of victories, but being one that studied in USA and had first-hand knowledge about USA, he didn't give any guarantees. Japane...

edited Grant Piper, a freelance writer, researcher, and content creator is certainly not what I am looking for ;) Since YOU don't grasp that very small possibility does mean that it is possible but highly improbable, why should we try to educate you? If one is too lazy to do his/her own research, h...

Good stuff, Ranger Joe. A bunch of incompetents then. El Cid (RHS) told us zillion of times to use the ships rationally! I'm trying to find the mathematical proof somewhere but to no avail. It should be something like this: what was the last outpost the Japanese could afford to invade? When did they...

And if other people have difficulties to understand military logistics, I don't. Those had to be studied if you were member of professional military in any planning capacity. Your IJN planner affirms the invasion is impossible, yet the shattered sword guys say it's possible, what has " if othe...

They just didn't have the shipping to sustain and supply units there . Said 1 million times. I'd like a proof. Really, bring me an economic historian ... and I mean it ;) If your source is the IJN planner you mentioned, my question is who is out of his depth? The said planner or the shattered sword...

http://www.combinedfleet.com/pearlops.htm " Taken as a whole, it can be seen that a Hawaiian invasion was hardly likely, regardless of the stage of the war. While an attack at the outset of hostilities might have succeeded in capturing the islands , it was strategically unsound, suffered from b...

Although, towards the end of his presidency I think he was to tired to bear the weight of his office as good as he had previously been doing. His illness was serious and I guess those very long trips did not help. Uncle Joe reminds me of one of my friends when I was a teen. I was the one taking the...

The positive thing for Japan if they don't attack the US but Roosevelt declares war the same, what about the historical resolve to crush the enemy?

You have to give Roosevelt credit in some respects. +1 Hard or futile to define the best president in charge but his patrician intelligence is what the US needed in the 30s and 40s. The country in shambles (1933), he immediately understood he needed to fix the *really* important front: the domestic...

Sardaukar wrote: ↑Fri Nov 18, 2022 5:24 pm Thus, if USN had tried to reinforce Philippines as in Warplan Orange, those old BBs would have sat quickly in bottom in lot deeper sea...

Had it happened, the odyssey of the Prince of Wales and Repulse or something similar would have been food for thought... I get your cunning plan though.

Pacific War (Grigsby) allows battle damage to be repaired in any port with or without a shipyard, or even at sea. Whether it’s in port and/or with a shipyard impacts the rate at which repairs happen. But shipyards are not required. Pacific War does not seem to have ship-class upgrades. But, repairi...

They were surprised historically, so therefore they can not be anything other than surprised no matter what the Japanese do. Suggesting anything else makes you to a ridiculous chauvinistic USA USA USA . :roll: Except I never said this Hawaii stuff would 100% work. In fact I said that personally I t...

Enter Herr Paulus and his huge surrounded horde at Stalingrad: let's round out, 300.000 men. Paulus affirms he needs minimum 500 tons every day. With this his men can more or less fight = this huge horde needs 15.000 tons per month then. 750 tons per day would be even better? Ok, 22.500 tons per mon...

They would't be able to supply the large garrison either. The poblem with how the Japanese dealt with logistics was "It will work out somehow." Can't you see the unavoidable problem with this? These "planners" are saying the Japanese co-prosperity stuff is *impossible*. They are...

Given the Japanese position regarding their supply situation, it does not need much - a division more troops, a few more aircraft, and better preparation - to see a different outcome (and certainly a very delayed outcome). How many ways can it be said? The Japanese simply can't afford delay in secu...

Platoonist wrote: ↑Wed Nov 16, 2022 1:34 pm In terms of reinforcements, the Commonwealth may have had the Australian 6th and 7th divisions available, as well as some units that were slated for Burma.

John Curtin says hello...

NO, the British did what they did in December 1941. But this scenario envisaged here is not December 1941. What was proposed was that the Dutch and British (and possibly the PI) would be left while the Japanese make an all out effort for the HI. The British are still waging a mortal war against the...

Orm wrote: ↑Wed Nov 16, 2022 12:32 pm Right, hard to take you seriously when you argue like this.

I'm not arguing, I affirm the Dutch were an irrelevant dwarf, militarily speaking. I too affirm the British did all they could have done. Sooo...

Orm, did you forget the Dutch were occupied by the Germans?? What would this literal DWARF do exactly? Raise a giant "Indonesian" army, let's say 80 divisions, embark them and send them to Tokyo Bay...? The British already scrapped the bottom of the barrel when they sent this 18th division...