My, my! What a firestorm we have ignited...
trekaddict (1) - Thanks!
Kurt_Steiner - They do too!
El Pip (1) - Again you confuse the mention of something with it's being pulled off flawlessly. Although admittedly this isn't far from the truth when rolling over the Low Countries, surely you credit hardy Britons with putting up more of a fight than Belgians taken by surprise in the wee hours of the morning! But if reading the word Ireland was the last straw, I hope we can part as friends. Maybe I'll PM you when things go wrong for Germany .
Enewald - o. Just wait 'till I get my hands on Bei Mir Bist Du Schoen...
Kidding :rofl:.
trekaddict (2) - You're writing about the British, though, so you're not fighting an uphill battle with him .
El Pip (2) - All five points are quite true. HKK and OKM made the decision in early summer not to even try to complete a program of infantry landing craft for the very reasons you mention. They're pretty much going in with designs they already have -- which although present by now in sufficient quantities, are quite vulnerable as you mention. The air over the channel is now effectively clear, so we will see the fortunes of any invasion hinging on how long and to what degree the RN can be kept away from invasion areas. I would remind you, though, that a number of the factors which weighed heavily against the success of a 1940 invasion are not in play here at all. A very risky gamble? Absolutely. But I don't think any more than a July 1940 invasion OTL.
Slaughts - Thanks for not assuming that anything mentioned automatically succeeds at 100% .
dublish - Mad? Oh, blarney . The British captured the SS Bremen at the very start of the war.
trekaddict (1) - Thanks!
Kurt_Steiner - They do too!
El Pip (1) - Again you confuse the mention of something with it's being pulled off flawlessly. Although admittedly this isn't far from the truth when rolling over the Low Countries, surely you credit hardy Britons with putting up more of a fight than Belgians taken by surprise in the wee hours of the morning! But if reading the word Ireland was the last straw, I hope we can part as friends. Maybe I'll PM you when things go wrong for Germany .
Enewald - o. Just wait 'till I get my hands on Bei Mir Bist Du Schoen...
Kidding :rofl:.
trekaddict (2) - You're writing about the British, though, so you're not fighting an uphill battle with him .
El Pip (2) - All five points are quite true. HKK and OKM made the decision in early summer not to even try to complete a program of infantry landing craft for the very reasons you mention. They're pretty much going in with designs they already have -- which although present by now in sufficient quantities, are quite vulnerable as you mention. The air over the channel is now effectively clear, so we will see the fortunes of any invasion hinging on how long and to what degree the RN can be kept away from invasion areas. I would remind you, though, that a number of the factors which weighed heavily against the success of a 1940 invasion are not in play here at all. A very risky gamble? Absolutely. But I don't think any more than a July 1940 invasion OTL.
Slaughts - Thanks for not assuming that anything mentioned automatically succeeds at 100% .
dublish - Mad? Oh, blarney . The British captured the SS Bremen at the very start of the war.