Tanks, much better airplanes, superior artillery, a bigger manufacturing base, access to credit, and overseas resources, more untapped manpower, stronger will. That's the Allies.
The Germans were finished. March 1919 by the numbers.
I can only say what the actual numbers show. Germany was done for in 1919, whether the Americans entered the war or not. Her, Germany's, manpower was exhausted, her economy' especially the agricultural sector was in a state of total collapse. No more cohorts to levee existed. The people were starvin...
http://i60.tinypic.com/2wghrmp.png 1. Well, the first you will notice is that the credit line is my own. I decided to make my own parts list and build the image from that. 2. Here's what I did; I know that the American shipwrights of the period were in love with fish shapes (especially the tuna) so...
Thank you for the feedback. I will change the credits line and attend to the suggested changes about the armor belt. I am not sure there would be room in the superstructure as drawn for casement guns; but I will look at that as well. About the freeboard, that was a glaring concern with most US warsh...
Quite good. In addition to the mechanical, manufacturing and environmental factors, you should look at your HUMAN factors. For one thing, your choice of the tank main armament determines turret layout and how you service the gun. Will the gun loader be the vehicle commander/radioman (France) and wil...
In 1872-1873, in the United States and in British, certain brigands and adventurers tried to pull off a Cuba Filibuster. This led to a Bay of Pigs type disaster called the Virginius Incident . This incident underlined a dangerous American weakness^1 as at the time the seventy or so British, Cuban an...
Much better. You need a slightly larger rudder area for tail control in yaw. I'd also be happier if you ballasted for the heavier engines (a ten pixel extension of the barrel past the rondel. It is a single point bridge load on the main wing (nose heavy--> Check the Zero-sen for what I mean.) and yo...
Well they are interesting and teach some of us (me) about new (old) systems :) . My thoughts about a what if missile ship, would be a what about rebuilding a light fleet (Colossus or Majestic) as a sea slug ship ? (or early commonality and go with Bloodhound/Thunderbird ? ) \ Since the Sea Slug mis...
I feel moved to offer a response to Tobious' points, I don't want to derail this thread so I'll try and be brief. The FAA did order some good aircraft, Hawker Osprey, Fairey IIIF etc. and some bad during the 1920s, so did the RAF. Notably not much new equipment was forthcoming during the early 30s ...
Tobias, many of your points are things that didn't crop up until the war was well underway. For example, the British insistence on armored flight decks made sense for their operational doctrine. It wasn't until actual war damage was taken that the downside to their design became know. And it appear...
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