Chapter 11: Sealion Take 1
Goering's bunker in Paris Mid February 1941
Goering: How is every one?
Hess: Everyone seems fine except Raeder who has been crying for hours.
Goering: Oh that's not good we'll sort that out at the end.
Goebbels: We would be better except it seems your tastes for extravagant things are hurting the economy and the war effort.
Goering: Oh dear I'll try to cut back.
Ribbentrop: well the Bulgarians have joined with us.
Goering: Oh yeh more friends.
Ribbentrop: I doubt their real military capacity but I hope they'll be some use.
Ribbentrop: Also the Americans decided to give aid to the allies 90% of it and all the useful stuff was given to the Chinese the rest was mostly junk and ammunition for 19th century weapons. As you would expect of our friends they did this on purpose.
Ribbentrop: Also we signed a new deal with the soviets so that they give us more resources and we give them supplies. it's a good deal I feel and we may continue this for some time. We also solved a few minor border disputes in the process.
Ribbentrop: Also to try and help out the Italians in Greece who are failing we got the Bulgarians to attack them and we may need to do something about north africa as the British are starting to gain the Upper hand.
Beck: We began Sealion after we were forced to ground most planes for repairs and landed at Lowestoft and rapidly tried to get reinforcements to the paratroopers who had landed there.
Beck: With the Marines having landed we began pushing outwards to take control of the region and prepare for the inevitable counter attack. This lead to a victory at Ipswich where we defeated local home guard forces.
Beck: As part of this drive to take control of more land we fought a battle at Thetford and once again defeated the British.
Beck: Seeking to expand towards London we then took Southend after a bloody battle.
Beck: As all of our troops needed more supply than Lowestoft could provide we moved North to take Grimsby and won a battle at Lincoln before marching unopposed into Grimsby.
Beck: However we were forced to pull back from Grimsby with help from the navy and then tried to push for London but again failed to make enough headway and had to pull back once more. We then tried a second landing in Wales at Pembroke and pushed forward towards Cardiff hoping the Port could help supply our troops and won At Cardigan.
Beck: However we were stopped and forced to pull back and evacuate Britain and we were relatively successful getting all except one paratrooper division out of east Anglia but lost 3 infantry divisions in Wales.
Goering: Harsh Loses new troops will replace them But why is Raeder so unhappy.
Beck: He hasn't said but the report states that their is new escort technology in Britain but no U-boats have been lost so I'm not sure.
Goering: Raeder what is wrong?
Raeder: The fleet is gone.
Goering: You've lost your fleet.
Raeder: Well not all of it but all of the transports and screens. Only the 5 capital ships remain. During the Pull out of Grimsby we engaged the British and took out some destroyers.
Raeder: Then during the Wales operation we fought again and took out a heavy cruiser.
Raeder: Then as we were moving to begin evacuation we lost the first few destroyers and we also at some point lost more to air attacks but we did take out two heavy cruisers and a light cruiser.
Raeder: Then while we were trying to get more men out of Wales we lost more ships including two light cruisers and a few destroyers for the cost of 3 groups of american Destroyers.
Raeder: By the time we got back with the last of our men we could get out of their only the capital ships remained.
Frick: Well our spies have managed to find out plenty of intel on those american destroyers. They were right when they said they were obsolete 1000 years ago.
Raeder: What do you mean?
Frick: From detailed analysis of survivors descriptions of the Ships we now have a good Idea what they look like and here is what they have come up with.
Raeder: You mean we were fighting ships used by the Romans and Greeks.
Frick: Well copies with a little more armour and rock lobbing catapults using slightly more modern technology.
Goering: Well as well as the 10 mountain divisions we have built we have also formed 15 squadrons of naval aircraft which will find vengeance for your lost fleet.
Goebbels: Technological improvements we have made are Strategic air command, fighter ground control, strategic bombing tactics, sonar decoys, tactical air command, operation Tannenbaum, under way refuelling sub, tactical command structure, ground attack tactics, CAS Pilot training, CAS ground crew training, Carrier AA armament, Carrier Engine, NAV Air targeting, Air launched torpedo, Naval Strike tactics, port strike tactics, Strategic bomber armament, combined arms warfare, NAV tactics, single engine aircraft armament, Large bomb and NAV ground crew training.
Goering: Wonderful what is our next move
Beck: Well their is the Swiss as well as trouble with Yugoslavia.
Raeder: What about my fleet.
Goering: Raeder when we have modern tech I will build you a carrier strike force to rule the seas with.
Goebbels: Where will we get the resources.
Goering: You remember Todt.
Goebbels: Yes vaguely
Goering: Well he's just the Man we need call him to see if he wants to be armaments minister instead of me.
Goebbels: Ok
Goering: Well everyone get moving we have work to do.