TBF Avenger and other planes

[Pursuivant]

Originally Posted by majorfailure

Real good starting point could have been Stauffenbergs assasination attempt. Let it succeed. Germany still strong enough to be a pain, maybe even a threat. War in the Pacific going better, but no end at the horizon.

Just about any alternate war scenario has to include Hitler dying before 1945. But, the good news (bad news for history) is that he survived literally dozens of assassination attempts!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assassi...n_Adolf_Hitler

So, choose the year that Der Fuhrer takes the dirt nap and set your alternate history accordingly.

Something that hasn't yet been mentioned for Alternate History is a civil war between the SS and the Nazi party vs. "German Nationalist" (perhaps even democratic) forces led by the Heer and remaining non-Nazi politicians. Basically, the German equivalent of what happened in Italy in 1943.

But, there weren't that many Nazis in the Luftwaffe, and in a civil war it's quite likely that the Luftwaffe would have sided with the anti-Nazi forces. So, you'd have to invent some reason why the SS-Luftwaffe had the same quality and quantity of pilots and planes as the "Nationalist Luftwaffe".

Even so, plenty of opportunity to fly cool German planes against each other.

Another option for Alternate History is a second Russian Civil War, where Stalin is assassinated, killed or deposed after 1941, resulting in a conflict between the "Whites" and the "Reds," with the Western Allies and/or Germany backing alternate factions. The campaign would use the stock maps of the Eastern Front, but the plane set and allegiances would be different.