Remember guys, the victors write the histories of most conflicts and they do tend to leave out how close things really where.
Nothing takes place in vaccumn, on even on the scale of a World War!
Imagine it's late 1941 and the Japanese hit us as planned at Pearl Harbor.
We declare war the Japanese and the Germans don't declare war on us .
So we pore everything we can into the war against Japan.
But it takes time to build the ships, planes, tanks, materials, & man power to confront them
We are already sending lend-lease to British, knowing full well that the Germans are sharing ideas and tactics with the Japanese.
We even help the Russians with lend-lease, knowing full well that such aid will keep the Germans busy while we deal with the Japanese.
From the British and Russian experiences with our equipment, we learn what does and does not work, and make the corrections and/or modifications needed.
Think of the Alternative WWII as a kind of Cold War and you get the picture.
We let others fight some of the battles, while we fight what we fell is the main event to us at the time.
Yes, Coral Sea and Midway happen and go as in real world, we still need time to buildup and take things to the Japanese.
And the A-Bomb does get built, knowing how the Germans are working on it and how quickly we are finding out how the Japanese will die to the last man to stop us.
Think Cold War again here too as reference.
But, here's the kicker, we are poring all our resources in to beating the Japanese, but not paying attention to what they are doing in Korea.
We all know the Japanes army A-bomb project failed, but not the one the Japanese Navy was building!
They tested the device and it worked, but building and testing device and making a deliverable weapon are sometimes worlds apart.
But in this case no, even with a cruder, bigger bomb, they could have put it on one on thier big subs and sail close to San Francisco and denotated it.
Now we couild not have responded to this attack for several months after the August 6 and 9 bombings by us on them, since by then we had used up most of bomb making supplies in three bombs (the New Mexico test and the war drops).
The Invasion of Japan proper would have taken place, without worring about the Russians coming in since they are still tied up with the Germans!
Now the Germans see and observe of all of this and redouble thier effects to build the bomb, but it takes time to do.
All the while the War goes on.
The newer, better German tanks and Jet aircraft get built, the latter to shot down our B29s when the need finally arises.
We, on the other hand, built the late war Shermans, Pershings, etc., as do the British with their late war tanks.
The Russians, too, build their late war tanks, from that same battlefiled experience against the Germans on the East Front, where it will take tham a lot longer to get to Berlin now, if ever.
So when the Japanese are finally beaten, in what was a very bloody affair from the real world experience, we're at 1947.
Where the Germans have finally gotten tried of our support of the British and Russians though lend-lease and declared war on us!
You have stalemate on the A-bomb, we have it but can't get to them, the Germans are't quite there yet, but have the means fo deliver it vis-a-vi the follow-ons to the V2 Rockets.
Which they can easlly fill with bio and chemical weapons, thanks to the help they received from the Japanese.
Which we shoot down with our advanced radar and air defence systems.
So, again, we are faced with invasion of main land Europe, but late into 1946 or early 1947.
My point here is that things will tend to develope as planned, just not in the same manner and/or time as in the real world due to the altered circumstances.
But,most of all, remember it's only a game.
What's the fun of replaying the same battle over and over again, if once in a while, you can't take a side trip into what might have been and say to your self, what a dark, dark world we could have had to deal with!
It's my humble opinion, so do ith what you may!
