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Post by gillan1220 on Oct 23, 2021 13:36:24 GMT
Simple. They wouldn't stand a chance.
If it was the 10 best RN dreadnoughts from WWII then it would probably still be a massacre, unless they could isolated the Iowa in closed waters so they could close to their own range and actually fire back. Even so unless the Iowa runs out of 16" shell's its still likely to wipe them out before they cripple it. Simply too many developments in the ~30 years between the two.
One user suggested the way the RN could beat the USS Iowa is to board the ship and overwhelm the 20th century American sailors, who aren't trained with 18th century sword fights. I'm sure the USN sailors would take out their small arms and massacre any RN sailors before they could take out their swords. How likely are cannons from the British warships going to affect a the armor of an Iowa-class?
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Post by Zyobot on Oct 23, 2021 19:14:57 GMT
'Wernher Von Braun Resurrected On June 16th, 2077'.
Exactly a hundred years after he died, to be precise.
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Post by stevep on Oct 24, 2021 15:25:01 GMT
Simple. They wouldn't stand a chance.
If it was the 10 best RN dreadnoughts from WWII then it would probably still be a massacre, unless they could isolated the Iowa in closed waters so they could close to their own range and actually fire back. Even so unless the Iowa runs out of 16" shell's its still likely to wipe them out before they cripple it. Simply too many developments in the ~30 years between the two.
One user suggested the way the RN could beat the USS Iowa is to board the ship and overwhelm the 20th century American sailors, who aren't trained with 18th century sword fights. I'm sure the USN sailors would take out their small arms and massacre any RN sailors before they could take out their swords. How likely are cannons from the British warships going to affect a the armor of an Iowa-class?
Not at all in the last case. Ditto with the RN sailors being able to board the Iowa. How the hell are they going to get up to its deck even before they get mowed down by gunfire, even apart from them getting close enough. Frankly a WWII destroyer, provided it didn't run out of ammo 1st would slaughter such a force. 4", 4.7" or 5" fire would tear them apart long before they got within range.
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Post by Zyobot on Oct 24, 2021 18:18:13 GMT
'Augustus Caesar And Joseph Stalin Become Drinking Buddies'.
In which case, looks like Octavian met his equally ruthless and tyrannical match. Or, perhaps even superior, depending on how he reacts to Stalin having master-minded the Great Terror and Holodomor.
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Post by Zyobot on Oct 25, 2021 22:08:51 GMT
'Joseph Stalin SI To Lazar Kaganovich On March 5th, 1953'.
Meaning that, immediately after he dies, Stalin's mind is sent into Kaganovich's body. Which gives him a few more decades of life, though how much change he can enact under the guise of one of his most loyal (and bloodthirsty) disciples is suspect, at best.
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Post by Zyobot on Oct 26, 2021 23:42:44 GMT
'Benito Mussolini (1945) And Julius Caesar (27 BCE) Become Roommates'.
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Post by stevep on Oct 27, 2021 11:10:32 GMT
'Benito Mussolini (1945) And Julius Caesar (27 BCE) Become Roommates'.
If Julius learns about Benito's 'achievements' I can see him killing him in disgust.
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Post by Zyobot on Oct 27, 2021 14:32:11 GMT
'Benito Mussolini (1945) And Julius Caesar (27 BCE) Become Roommates'.
If Julius learns about Benito's 'achievements' I can see him killing him in disgust.
Yeah, being a self-aggrandizing failure who dared compare himself to the Roman Emperors of ages past would do that. Unless, of course, Mussolini carries a handgun on him at all times, to dissuade the angry Caesar from ever “trying anything.” Honestly, I feel like Caesar would be more at home with the Allied leadership. Namely Churchill or Chiang, and though he’d be surprised at Roosevelt having made it as far as he did, at least America emerged the most powerful nation ever for it. He’d probably find Stalin too terse and brutal even by Roman standards, not to mention a control freak who—despite neglecting advance preparations for Hitler’s invasion, forbidding strategic retreats, and decapitating the Soviet military out of sheer paranoia—turned things around through sheer luck.
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Post by Zyobot on Oct 28, 2021 15:39:55 GMT
‘Marie Antoinette and Tsar Nicholas II Have Tea Together’.
Which would, presumably, take place in the afterlife. And even if it’s taboo to bring it up, odds are they’d both understand the similarities in their fates and strongly despise far-left agitation.
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Post by gillan1220 on Oct 29, 2021 10:45:43 GMT
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Post by Zyobot on Oct 29, 2021 14:54:46 GMT
‘Dwight Eisenhower (1961) And Julius Caesar (27 BCE) Become Roommates’.
Now there’s someone Caesar would have far more respect for than (most of) the company above.
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Post by Zyobot on Oct 30, 2021 16:09:58 GMT
'Paris Hilton SI To Queen Victoria (1837)'.
...Ah, frick.
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Post by Zyobot on Oct 31, 2021 18:42:15 GMT
'All Students On This Forum Enroll At Counterfactual University'.
In which case, I'd best be ready to transfer next year. (Counterfactual University is my own fictional creation, by the way, not one borrowed from already-existing work. And it's definitely not real, either!)
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Post by Zyobot on Nov 2, 2021 1:22:43 GMT
'Chiang Kai-Shek and Deng Xiaoping Become Roommates'.
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Post by stevep on Nov 2, 2021 11:27:12 GMT
'Chiang Kai-Shek and Deng Xiaoping Become Roommates'.
Well its probably a less lethal combination that either and Mao.
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