FREEDOM! (Turtledove's Alt WW2)

[MarkSheppard]

But you are right - he seems to use OTL kit, very thinly disguised, which probably saves him re-inventing the wheel.

Using OTL kit isn't that bad; because if you design an aircraft, weapon, or whatever to meet a specific set of requirements, you will end up with something very similar to OTL.

What I don't like is how he took the lazy route out and simply re-used the Stuka from OTL, right down to the fixed landing gear, and the cranked gull wings for the CSA "Asskicker".

The CSA wouldn't want such a short ranged aircraft for their dive bomber....this is North America, where range is far more important than in Europe...so it would look more like a SBD Dauntless Analogue, or a SB2C Helldiver analogue....since they'd need the extra range to drive deep into the USA, rather than just the border states....

[RecruitMonty]

"OTL"? Whats that?

[MarkSheppard]

OTL = Our TimeLine

[RecruitMonty]

Oh, thanks for the explanation

[Listy]

As I remember it the CSA infantry where all armed with SLR's or SMG's.

And the reason why he's nicking all the German stuff is because he's basicly lifted German history, between the wars fugged a few details then dropped into America.