What Ifs? in wargaming

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Pinetree

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May 25, 2016, 07:27:55 AM
The Gallipoli Campaign was successful and knocked Turkey out of WW1 and allowed the Entente to directly help Russia..
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May 25, 2016, 08:22:38 AM
What if I hadn't rolled a '1' with Sheridan's division at Stone's River
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May 25, 2016, 09:41:04 PM
You might still be riding?
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May 26, 2016, 01:55:34 AM
I like this place when I'm needing inspiration:

http://althistory.wikia.com/wiki/Alternative_History:List_of_Althists
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nht

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May 26, 2016, 10:12:59 PM
Quote from: Jamm on May 24, 2016, 06:31:11 PM
Hey Grogs,

What Ifs and alternate histories have always piqued my interest in wargaming.
I have a few in mind I'd like to embellish with OST, but what are some ideas that interest you guys?

Any scale, any battle and any eras, any thoughts?

I've always been interested in some of the "what-ifs" regarding the potential for conflict between the Western Allies and the Soviets in Central and Eastern Europe in the immediate post-war years. I think Panzer Grenadier has a few modules covering this, but it seems like a scenario in which you might find some fascinating combinations of national forces on the battlefield.

besilarius

#20
May 26, 2016, 10:39:45 PM
If the Armee du Norde of Waterloo had the wings reversed.
So that D'Erlon and Reille fought Blucher at Ligny, and Vandamme and Gerard fought Wellington at Quatre Bras and Waterloo.

And of course, every francophile's wet dream, if Davout had not been left in Paris.
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May 27, 2016, 05:55:09 AM
Quote from: nht on May 26, 2016, 10:12:59 PMI've always been interested in some of the "what-ifs" regarding the potential for conflict between the Western Allies and the Soviets in Central and Eastern Europe in the immediate post-war years. I think Panzer Grenadier has a few modules covering this, but it seems like a scenario in which you might find some fascinating combinations of national forces on the battlefield.

There was a scenario for Lock 'n Load: Band of Heroes called "Ein Freund in Not" that had US & Germans fighting the Russians post-WWII, but it was just a single scenario
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nht

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June 10, 2016, 10:22:58 PM
Quote from: bayonetbrant on May 27, 2016, 05:55:09 AM
Quote from: nht on May 26, 2016, 10:12:59 PMI've always been interested in some of the "what-ifs" regarding the potential for conflict between the Western Allies and the Soviets in Central and Eastern Europe in the immediate post-war years. I think Panzer Grenadier has a few modules covering this, but it seems like a scenario in which you might find some fascinating combinations of national forces on the battlefield.

There was a scenario for Lock 'n Load: Band of Heroes called "Ein Freund in Not" that had US & Germans fighting the Russians post-WWII, but it was just a single scenario

Yeah, Panzer Grenadier seems to be the best bet for that kind of thing... but I'm not certain I want to go down that rabbit hole of expensive, OOP module dependencies, etc.

In fact, I'm certain that I don't want to do that. Though I'm leaning more and more towards picking up one of the new 4th edition boxes. Broken Axis looks intriguing.

MengJiao

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June 13, 2016, 02:00:24 PM
Quote from: bayonetbrant on May 24, 2016, 07:07:32 PM
Quote from: Uberhaus on May 24, 2016, 07:03:43 PM
Trotsky wins the power struggle with Stalin and becomes leader of the Soviet Union.  No officer purges in the 30's with Barbarossa occurring as normal.


ooooh, that's good

  The Taiping Rebellion succeeded and:
a) Chinese Gordon died in China (sparing the Muahdi some hearbreak)
b) A progressive, democratic, Guadongish China emerged and Crushed Japan in 1898 -- Remember the TiChiang!  and to Hell with Japan!
c) Tsarist Russia is spared defeat by Japan and becomes a vast, Liberal Empire
d) as do the Rump of China, the Mess of Japan and the Cosmic Greatness of India (with Pakistan still attached!)
e) Roosevelt doesn't get Polio because he is visiting Shanghai and Bankok in the late 1920s
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