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Originally Posted by Mahatatain
One thing though – several people have mentioned Webstral’s timeline of events. Does anyone have a link to this because I would like to have a read and quite possibly just use it!  |
http://www.ludd.ltu.se/~antenna/webstral/index2.htm
A truly excellent read. The only grating thing about it, is that there has not been a sequel!
It gives solutions to several Gulf War headaches and in fact gives opportunities for later problems. Namely:
1) The Gulf War is allowed to go on because Hussain starts it without Soviet permission.
2) The Soviets then use it as political currency to curry favour with the west.
3) It gives the Soviets a chance to see the armoured UK/US war machine in action with no cost to themselves.
With regards to the British, either downgrading the force to a Brigade level formation or going one Brigade with Challenger 1 and Warrior and one with Chieftain and FV432. There were 180 challengers that went to the gulf, which then left around 850 Chieftains in the UK/Germany.
Part of me thinks that all the shiny toys went to the gulf in our timeline, so that BAE/Vickers et all would have decent footage for the foreign sales market.
