SailAAR, FlyAAR and PanzAAR- A German DiDay RP Campagne.

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SailAAR, FlyAAR and PanzAAR
Spring time for X-AAR

Sailor, end of the first happy times


Admiral Karl Dönitz

Audience at Carinhall

Carinhall

Göring: Welcome Admiral, hope you had a good travel.
Dönitz: Die Engländer were nice enough not to bomb my train today.
Göring: Persistent buggers, we shoot down 20% of them and they are back next week, gives my pilots lots of target practice.
Dönitz: I was wondering why they didn't come every day!
Göring: Yes, if they don't stop I have to invent a new class of Iron Cross for them and Aßmann, LOL
Dönitz: Them?
Göring: Yes, 2 of my pilots Mölders and Galland compete on who gets to 75 shot down first.
Dönitz: Be glad as long as they last, one of my Aces got sunk not so long ago.
Göring: Von Nordeck, I belive?
Dönitz: Yes, and an up and comming ace was sunk some weaks earlier Claasen.
Göring: Sad, but so is the fate of these times new Knights, whether Sailing, Flying or driving Panzers.
Dönitz: I belive Raeder already gave a briefing?
Göring: Yes, but I wanted to hear directly from the U-Boot commander himself.
Dönitz: The English had much success until lately when we changed our codes.,
Göring: What consequences would you expect from that?
Dönitz: This leads me to think that the other parts of the Wehrmacht's codes might be broken too.
Göring: The design of the Enigma looks too complicated to decode easily.
Dönitz: Yes, but its theoretically possible.
Göring: Hmm, thank you I'll order all codes to be changed, as that would be a partial explanation for all the intercepts against our planes.
Dönitz: Still the French were rather surprised of our attack on the Maginot line.
Göring: Coincident, the English not sharing or partial radio silence from us.
Dönitz: Sounds like 3 good explanations.
Göring: I hear you and Raeder want to place a new U-Boot HQ at L'Oriont
Dönitz: Yes, it places our subs nearly a 1000 km closer to the interesting hunting areas.
Göring: I thought the subs were ideally placed where they are now.
Dönitz: Its too predictable where they are, we much move them around fairly often or the Engländer will start to patrol heavily there.
Göring: So your stretching their patrol area, very good.
Dönitz: And it opens 3 more rich raiding zones.
Göring: Where?
Dönitz: Off Gibraltar, off the coast of west Africa and the mid-Atlantic.
Göring: Too far out for any plane to help, but I'll consider moving our See-Flieger there too, they might have more success than in the Ostsee.
Dönitz: Thank you.
Göring: Not a problem, I've ordered a nice Château to be put at your disposal.
Dönitz: That is very nice for my staff.
Göring: So anything else I can do for your?
Dönitz: I would like some more U-Boots.
Göring: What have you in mind?

A few more

Göring: That is quite a lot.
Dönitz: I could use more but that will do for starters.
Göring: I'm afraid that will not be possible, I'll ask Ley what we can do for you. Anything else?
Dönitz: Bases further away, I am thinking Spain, Italy will not make any difference I think.
Göring: No, Il Duce tells me he has a larger fleet than us.
Dönitz: Even as its bigger than ours, its still much smaller than the British fleet. And there is not much I can do there except keep their fleet busy patrolling.
Göring: We must try to defeat some of the British fleet, I'm in contact with Raeder on what to do.
Dönitz: I think it must be more planes than Ships as we have so few.
Göring: My thoughts exactly, now my Butler will take you to your train to France, for new victories!
Dönitz: Jawohl!




So the losses of the Kriegsmarine to date is 3 MTB and 3 U-Boot flotilla's and the pride of the German navy converted to a CV, Tirpitz never build.

 

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SailAAR, FlyAAR and PanzAAR
Spring time for X-AAR

Panzer, rethreaded

Tractor no more

Schmidt(R)'s Leicht tractoren were temporarily exchanged by the captured Czech Panzer 38 (t) Ausf G from Slovakia. We are now upgrading their guns.
The men tells us that the brittle steel of the tanks acts like shrapnel when hit, even if not penetrated, its a danger to our men, not German quality. We should give them back to the Slovaks as soon as we can produce some new.

Evaluation of the Generals after the French campaign

OKW under Keitel has started evaluating the Generals, some of them have hidden talents*.

Ehrenhof

Meeting in the Ehrenhof of the Reichkanselei, representatives of the army.

Göring: Meine Herren, lets keep this short, we are to meet with the other branches of the Wehrmacht shortly in the meeting hall.
Von Brauchitsch: I've got the estimates of losses you asked for.
Göring: Wunderbar, please give me the short version.
Brauchitsch: We estimate around 90000 casualties of which a few 1000s will return to service.
Göring: Much better than 3 days at Somme.
Brauchitsch: Considering the army hadn't upgraded all equipment yet as we started this is very good news.
Keitel: Who could have known that the Maginot line was so easy to breach right there.
Von Rundstedt: Its like a repeat of 1870.
All other look at him.
Von Rundstedt: No, I'm not that old.
Von Böhm-Ermolli: Hehe, Even I was only a child then.
Brauchitsch: The Breakthrough at exactly the same place and en encirclement of Metz, Von Moltke the elder would have been proud of us.
Rundstedt: The severely overcommitment at several key battles caused much delay at times.
Brauchitsch: There was no real Schwerpunkt after the initial battle, that could have been much better.
Keitel: Its doubtful if we could have gotten more troops supplied on the other side of the breakthrough, all roads and rail lines were severely damaged.
Brauchitsch: A month long bombardment will do that to you.
Göring: We will discus that with Koller soon.
Keitel: No bombardment, no breakthrough, the attack on Cattanom showed that clearly to me.
Böhm-Ermolli: Or we had needed some serious siege artillery, but then they would have had more time to prepare. This is a cheap victory, thanks to the storm troopers who took the Maginot line.
Keitel: The French has suffered an unforeseen large relative loss, even before the battles ended, they must have lost something like 600000 men. That is nearly the double of what they lost at Verdun in a year!
Göring: It has not been without costs, 100000 brave soldiers, marines and pilots.
Ley: The Airforce costs us 240M RM, Army around 40M RM and the marine 100M RM and lost production maybe 20M RM more for a grand total of 200M RM** not counting upgrades. The yearly budget has inflated to over 3G RM an incredible amount, even then the demands are still higher!

What is that sound?

700000 less capitalists and fascists to fight.


* Rommel, Hausser and Manstein have panzer trait also.
** 20000 IC-days or 400M RM, production is only half the budget, you do remember what M and G stands for!

 

[Enewald]

M and G?

Machine Gun?
Migojan-i-Guriev, aka MiG?

 

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SailAAR, FlyAAR and PanzAAR
Spring time for X-AAR

My Kingdom for a Plan


Meeting of the Nazi Grand Council: The Marble Galleries

Hess: Gentlemen please be seated. Keitel please brief.
Keitel: Our armies are undiminished, our Luftwaffe victorious, our navy having begun the foundations of Atlantis off the shores of north west Spain. We now stand before a big challenge, what to do?
Rippentrop: With our ally Italy we now rival the Commonwealth in power, if not yet in land mass, our potential allies outnumber everyone else but the Ammies even now they tremble in Moscow.
Kossel: There is only one active front for us now, the British Isles.
Raeder: The Kriegsmarine can not take it up with the Royle Navy yet, we are years from that goal, our transports would never be able to reach the British coast.
Hess: how about the war in Africa, can we help there?
Rippentrop: The Italians jealously guards their sovereignty, we must be careful not to insult them, again ...
Göring: Offer them a Luftflotte they can use where they want, even if we wanted it somewhere special.
Rippentrop: No one of our current potential allies are interested in joining our cause just now, China who has just introduced the Stechmarsch, so much are they conforming to our norms but they wont join just yet.
Hess: Our party has the power in the Netherland how about them?
Rippentrop: They need to pacify some internal unrest and change a lot of laws before they can truly join us. Same with Sweden.
Göring: Maybe Spain will help us?
Rippentrop: If we had Gibraltar they would join us immediately, now we need at least some further work on them.
Brauchitsch: And Hungary is still pissed off because Slovakia kept some provinces they considered theirs my sources tell me.
Keitel: So we are at an impasse, unless our U-Boots can force a surrender or Luftwaffe can do something.
Koller: We can see if engaging the enemy ships in the Channel can force them to commit their air force.
Göring: What would be need to invade the British Isles?
(Long silence)
Raeder: As we can't defeat them nor protect the transports from the Royal navy, we must have a clear run to invasion targets.
Brauchitsch: We don't know how many troops they managed to evacuate after the French defeat, we would need at least 18 divisions or around 2 armies at first.
Keitel: And then as many as the ports we take can supply.
Raeder: Then we need more transports, meaning the 3 last liners we have must be converted to troop transports too, that will take at least 2 months.
Koller: Experience with the Brandenburgers show that a air landed force can keep the enemy engage a good time, we could train some troopers to that purpose.
Göring: Gut! start all that, we will see how far Luftwaffe has come when the invasion boats are finished.

To be or not to Be

Raeder: What do we do with Denmark?
Halder: They are not a danger.
Keitel: What about if they join the allies and invite the British in?
Brauchitsch: The front is so narrow a Putzfrau could hold it with one hand tied behind her bag.
Raeder: I was referring to the continued allied raids into the Baltics.
Rippentrop: They agreed to mine their straits half a year ago!
Raeder: They haven't or they've done it badly.
Canaris: Abwehr thinks they were threatened by the British to not do it, maybe they didn't understand you Rippentrop.
Göring: Talk to them again Rippentrop and if we see another British fleet in the Baltics, we invade them, for their own protection.
Keitel: Protect them from their own stupidity.

The Bear menace

Keitel: Can we expect the Bear to be sleeping on?
Rippentrop: For now they are happy selling us their resources for our goods.
Keitel: It would be wise to somehow preventing them from making a surprise attacks on us.
Göring: We must send a few more troops that way, and Halder, try to find out if there are any good places for forts.

I want those marbles for a monument

Reading the NKVD's briefing of the meeting with included pictures.
The fascists and imperialists will tear each other to pieces, the revolution will be victorious.

Stalin's Envisioned monument

Will the ships float, the planes fly, the Panzers roll, we will know next time unless the red bear comes for us first.

 

[Enewald]

Panzers shall roll over bears.

 

[Surt]

Panzers shall roll over bears.

Now that would be nice, I'm not sure the Soviets are impressed by my T38G's.

 

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SailAAR, FlyAAR and PanzAAR
Spring time for X-AAR

Interlude

Good target practice

Rippentrop: The US is nearing active belligerence with this act.
Raeder: These obsolete destroyers will make nearly no difference to the UK's ability to protect their convoys.

Japan outflanks China

Rippentrop: This will make it possible for Japan to attack China from the rear.
Brauchitsch: Until now the armies of the GuangXi has not been actively engaging the Japanese, we believe they got 2-3 armies they can actively defend them and the RoC with.

Siam overture

Rippentrop: Japan has blackmailed Siam into allying with them.

British Perfidious Backstab

Raeder: UK takes out our potential allies fleet, not good news.
Rippentrop: It gets worse, Siam declares war on all of Japan's enemies.
Brauchitsch: I doubt that the elephant cavalry can stop the Guangxi.

Tim says, let there be forts

The Soviet high command orders an fortification line build well behind the border.

A new Maginot line?

Or its poor cousin.

A Chinaman's chance

Rippentrop: Reports from China does not bode well for our friends, Japanese troops are nearing the great cities of Nanjing and Shanghai.
Canaris: Our agents in Russia tells us that the Commies are under attack too.
Brauchitsch: Only god news is that China still has lots of troops, but still many are beaten. And they will be in continuous pull back until the armies of the GuangXi joins on the north front.
Canaris: Soon the Commies will be totally surrounded and their death throws will begin.
Keitel: I don't have much sympathy for them, but the longer they hold the greater chance that China survives.


Is this the end of Free Fascist China and Stalinist Communist China?

 

[Enewald]

Stalin line is the most useless fortification line in the entire game.

 

[loki100]

Stalin line is the most useless fortification line in the entire game.

Its also a little bit dubious as to its validity. The Soviets had well developed defensive plans and pre-set ammunition stocks etc for deployment to the pre-1939 Soviet-Polish border, but I've never seen any decent source that indicates the existance of proper formal fortifications.

Anyway, back to game, is there any reason you want Nat China to survive rather than a strong Japan that might be willing to hit the Soviet Far East?

 

[Surt]

Its also a little bit dubious as to its validity. The Soviets had well developed defensive plans and pre-set ammunition stocks etc for deployment to the pre-1939 Soviet-Polish border, but I've never seen any decent source that indicates the existance of proper formal fortifications.

I doubt there was any connections between the isolated strong points, but there were some fortified strongholds but like the Siegfriend it was I guess mostly smoke and mirrors.

Anyway, back to game, is there any reason you want Nat China to survive rather than a strong Japan that might be willing to hit the Soviet Far East?

I wanted a game where I exchanged Japan for China, due to Adolf's demise, the new regime didn't drop the Chinese who Germany had a long cooperation with. I will first try to see if I can hack the Yellow River flooding to slow the Japanese, else I will have to give some of the around 20 divisions I earlier removed back to the Chinese. I will soon also have to find out why they didn't want to join the Axis even if they were perfectly aligned and if there is an event that make Japan join even if they aren't that close to aligning, then I simply exchange JAP with CHI and have it done. Not getting the Chinese into the axis already cost Neurath his minister post!

 

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SailAAR, FlyAAR and PanzAAR
Spring time for X-AAR

Sailor: Breakout into the Atlantic


Trades

A new trade offensive is launched to try stopping the stores from overflowing, more trades are made when possible after this. Reichminister Ley proclaims smoking restrictions near the energy storage in southern Berlin for fear of explosions.

U-Boot rebase to L'Orient

U-Boots are ordered to base at L'Orient, unfortunately they all misunderstand the orders and start sailing to L'Orient instead of just sailing there when their patrol is over. Von Stosch encounters a small British patrol which does some damage before he can disengage.

Cleanup the Soviet way

The Soviets takes their part of the Molotov-Rippentrop deal, did he really have to give up so much?

Finland Worried

No need to, they already have given back what the Soviets wanted, or has Stalin new plans?

Those are ours

We declare Alsace-Lorraine for part of the Reich again.
The British ends the face of Egyptian independence.
The Soviets are digging in on the Molotov line, our spies tells us that the fortifications are 2-3 lines thick, comparable with our Siegfried line.

Soviet Mobilization

Oh my, how many divisions do we have in the East!?! Not one for each province, maybe one brigade for each province!

Someone is having a good time

After swallowing her small neighbours, defeating the Finns, mobilizing and fortifying their borders what can the perfidious Soviets come up with next? This sounds like what we did earlier, maybe their target is to the east or south?

Plane need

We need more planes and Lufthansa is not able to fly anywhere interesting so we take those.

Americans joins the Axis

As a clear sign of the American feelings that the first volunteers arrive.

French compensations

As part of our indemnities we get some used French second hand armour.
We are also rebuilding some light armour this should be enough for 1-2 Panzer corps more, we just need more motorized infantry to go with it.

Flooten flooten

The Chinese blows up some dams on the Yellow River in an attempt to stop the Japanese advance.
Also we hear of a surge of volunteers for the Nationalists and the Commies.*
The Norwegian oil fuel fields are empty, we will have to wait 30 years for more.

88 is good

It is said that God fights on the side with the biggest guns, this proves it, Halder also approves.

Scheer unluck

Our heavy cruiser is engage by 2 battleships, the outcome is predictable, Albrecht will be mourned at home, briefly.

Kriegsmarine

The Kriegsmarine, Graf Zeppelin, Scharnhorst and Gneisenau(pic. rigth) with escorts sails out on a lovely morning to scout for rumoured enemy activities, planned course is north through the Great Belt, Skagerrack, Norwegian coast up to Bergen.

Battle of Skagerrack

Soon they run into a British sub patrol.

The engagement continues

Furious and Repulse fights on, they even got the MTB with them, those are longer range than ours.

Another victory like this

The first 4 subs are the same as previous reported!!!
We got a carrier, estimated only 6 to go and a Battlecruiser, only 14 BC/BB to go!
The 2nd Führer sends his congratulations.

The CAG's do them in finally

Repulse sunk again, maybe they will learn it now!!!*
The 2nd Führer is pleased his CAG's did so well.
Graf Zeppelins CAG got the Repulse and 5 subs and the Gneisenau got the Furious and Exeter, Scharnhorst hit none as it was damaged early in the battle and need at least half a month at a wharf.

Oh Really

We get more oil, the British are sucking the colonies dry of troops and Italy found out that we had Paris! that is 2 month old news!!!

On the road to Arabia lies

Bessarabia and the Soviets wants it back, having really no choice against the recently mobilized Soviet army they roll over and accepts.

Where Eagles soar

This day will be known as Adler tag, the culmination of a long campaign of attrition, both the Royal Air Force and the Luftwaffe are somewhat depleted.
The campaign started over the channel to prevent the RAF from having the benefit of the home bases.
At first the Luftwaffe hurt as the wings still suffered from losses in the French campaign, then Koller decided that interceptors from the interior of the Reich should move up to the front and defeat the 3 southern RAF bases one after another.
First the Plymouth base was attacked, the base was bombed mercilessly and the defending wings where driven off, the Portsmouth and finally Dover. The battle over Dover included a lot of Carrier planes and lasted beyond this report.

Bad losses

Waber will have to find a new job, FIRED!!!!!

We can't walk

Maybe we can swim to England?!?

The Middle Task Force

Enters the Channel and finds a large British fleet, how can that be, Luftwaffe should have cleared the channel before this???
Saalwächter is ordered to disengage immediately.

Disengage fails

And the battle continues, most of the light units have already sunk, including 2 troop transports and the 3rd is rapidly going down too.
Finally Saalwächter manage to disengage.

Expensive phail!

All 3 transports and their loaded infantry corps gone down, the sea is swimming with corpses, what a disaster!!!
At least the heavy units managed to disengage!

There are more where they came from

And ran directly into another fleet, a heavy cruiser torpedoes the burning wreak that was Scharnhorst taking the admiral with it into the depth!

So to the waves go

Generaladmiral Alfred Saalwächter, the man who planned the Channels manoeuvre, had he survived he would have some serious explaining to do.

The Worst plans

Gone bad, having survived the tour around the British Isles up past Norway, west to Island, down to Spain and into Bordeaux, being bombed there until Luftwaffe got fighter cover there and now this!

Last Pocket battleship goes down

Hood scores the decisive hit, then withdraws, Graf Zeppelins CAG's reports the sinking of the 22nd in a separate report.
Now the heaviest units except for Graf Zeppelin are the 2 WWI BC in the Ostsee, the next BC to finish is still months away.
2 BC for a CV and a BC is really bad for the Kriegsmarine as the Royal navy got loads more.


As a result of this another CVwith CAGs and a BC are ordered, now 3 CV and 2 BC are in production, this is still far from enough to really challenge the Royal Navy
This was a very expensive range of encounters, will the Kriegsmarine lose its ability to fight.
Much greater cause for concern is the Soviet fortifications, Those at the border are critical, I will have to find out what to do about it.

* Flooding event and a surge event I made myself trying to stabilize the Chinese Front, the Chinese had run out of manpower!!! So I gave them some back, hopefully didn't overdo it.
** 3 sinking reports from the same battle, must be that different units join or leave and when leaving they make a report of what has happened while they were there.

 

[loki100]

ummh, not the best set of naval actions ... ah well presume that removes any lingering Britain-first strategy and its time to go and upset Uncle Joe

given the Soviet digging campaign, you may appreciate this:



(translate it as - A shovel is a soldier's friend).

 

[Enewald]

The Soviet Union will attack you somewhere spring 1942.
Or earlier if you suck in the west.

Just check the LUA files for SU.

 

[Surt]

SailAAR, FlyAAR and PanzAAR
Spring time for X-AAR

Seelöwe ???

The original plan



The plan before the middle fleet was sunk.
A much smaller scale invasion with landings only in Dover and Brighton was rejected as invasions against the much fortified Dover would demand that the fleet would have to be exposed for a long time.
A landing only on the east side of England is also rejected as the transport time would be days instead of hours.

The Timing of the plan:
The efforts of the Luftwaffe to substantially damage the Royal Navy by flying raids against the channel shipping and the western approaches had been a no-event, there were no substantial British fleets to find, only a CV ghost fleet that managed to fly many raids against our ports but was never engage. To find the fleet the bombers would need an airborne surface detection radar, which would first be finished next year.*
Attempts to bomb the fleet in harbour has only mildly been successful as only minor fleets have been in ports we could successfully reach, attacking targets far from our interceptor cover has proven very expensive, especially against larger fleets, so as long as the British fleets hide up north or at See we wont be successful.


Royal navy position

No effective knowledge of the position of the Royal navy.


Building for invasion

No substantial new forces will be available before 3 month and next next batch in 7 months, the only surface combat ship would join the fleet is CV Bismarck, in January.


Dunkirk disaster

We believe that no British division managed to escape the disaster.
Therefore their military strength will only grow from now on.
We estimate they got 32 divisions, many of these are engage in Egypt and Ethiopia, Italian sources counts 10 British division among their opponents.
And if they only have 10 divisions in their colonies, even if that sounds very low, it only leaves them with 12 divisions in Britain.


Royal Air Force

The RAF has been severely damaged, its bases have not been totally destroyed but no activity is reported from Plymouth and Portsmouth and a weakening of efforts from Dover, even the pesky CAGs are taking a little damage.


Burning

Industrial areas of London has been nearly totally destroyed, this will substantially weaken their ability to resist, the other bomber group bombs the south western parts of England.


Fighting will

We believe the British will to fight is unbroken ... and so is the Royal Navy, the RAF is not defeated but beaten, the Home Army is close to none existent.


Seelöwe?

​

Von Brauchitsch: We believe that if we can get the troops over the channel and can supply them we will win, the 6 corps with around 20 divisions should be more than enough to defeat the British Home Army. Making an army of paratroopers is unrealistic and supplying the troops from the air is more problematic with the current loading capabilities. The army is ready!
Raeder: Die Kriegsmarine cannot defeat anything but the smallest fleets, so until the fleet is much expanded which will take 4 years at least, or the RN cease to exist it is not feasible. Should we control the 3 southern naval bases it becomes much easier but still dangerous. The fleet is as ready as we will be in 4 years.
Koller: Luftwaffe has local air superiority over the planned invasion spots, we can also destroy the airports totally if we wanted, we haven't yet as we might want them for an invasion. Further we haven't been able to sink any substantial part of the British home fleet, to have any success we would have to bomb every harbour, and before that every air field and do it without our interceptors, it would take another 6 months at least. To be able to find the enemy fleets we would have to wait for the air surface radar to finish developing which takes another 9 months. Apart from the RN problem Luftwaffe is ready!



I really ticks me off that my planes can't find anything, that there are no usable reports unless they sink something, results from port attacks are not correct (or all ships sail when on 1%).

* Someone regrets now that he didn't start the Radar II project as soon the first finished or even started the radar I earlier!!!

 

[Surt]

ummh, not the best set of naval actions ... ah well presume that removes any lingering Britain-first strategy and its time to go and upset Uncle Joe

given the Soviet digging campaign, you may appreciate this:



(translate it as - A shovel is a soldier's friend).

I'm a bit intimidated by the Molotov line, the Stalin line was not so bad, and building the Fascist defence wall is not my kind of play in HoI, even if I must admit I like it in other build games.

The Soviet Union will attack you somewhere spring 1942.
Or earlier if you suck in the west.

Just check the LUA files for SU.

I already am transferring a 3rd army to the east and building 2-3 small forts, will it be enough

ps. I don't suck in the west, just ask the French!!!

 

[Enewald]

Ja man!

If enough strong forts, the AI will not attack those provinces.

I suggest checking Soviet lua to see the conditions for the triggering of an dow upon Germany.

 

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SailAAR, FlyAAR and PanzAAR
Spring time for X-AAR

PanzAAR: London Blitz

The 2nd Führer

Göring: (Daydreaming) Thank you General von Enewald, that's the spirit (ignores all who disagrees!!!)
Keitel: Well said my Führer.
Göring: We will zufort start the invasion, those 50000 dead will be avenged now!!!
Brauchitsch: The 2 other fleets will have to take the slack in transport, the eastern invasion will have to take the offensive as soon as they land, if any of the landings are opposed the Luftwaffe must drop what its doing and go to its aid.
Koller: A 1000 bombers are ready to support each landing, until they are needed they will bomb other targets and search for the ghost fleets of the British.
Halder: Blaskowitz's army will have to be moved to England in its entirety and Portsmouth will have to be 2nd target after Plymouth instead of Dover.
Raeder: As soon as Portsmouth is taken we will be more secure against British fleet attacks.
Koller: We got air superiority in the Channel now, only over Dover the coast is contested and our strategic bombers in the west are unopposed strangely. Also no substantial troops are reported west of Portsmouth all the way to Lands End.
Brauchitsch: We will air land the Brandenburgers in Bournemouth, Taunton and Weymouth to protect the western landing, the troop concentration is too large in the east.*

First landing

On board the KMS Robert Ley, Von Manstein and Captain Lange are watching the Hood blow up Gneisenau just as the fleet reaches the coast.
Manstein: If we get hit another time beach the ship on the coast, we can't lose another 15000 men drowning when we are invading here.
Kapitän Lange: Unless those planes get her soon we wont have much choice!!!
Lieutenant Krutz: There goes the enemy heavy cruiser down and the CAGs still swarm like angry bees around the Hood!
Manstein: We begin the landing now so you can get away!
Lange: Hals und Beinbruch!!! see you in Plymouth soon!
Manstein: Thanks.

Phase 2 Breakout of Cornwall

While the troops stream ashore the battle rages on but at last the planes of the Graf Zeppelin drives off the Hood after it got Blücher also.
Soon the troops have landed and are ready for phase 2.**
With a little luck we will encounter no opposition, the Brandenburgers will cover the access to Cornwall and scout out any enemies.
If we had known that Plymouth was free we should have had landed one of the Brandenburgers there and sailed in, saving our capital ship.*

Landing in Brighton

Von Obstfelder's landing is also unopposed by he will need to fight on all both flanks to keep from being pushed into the sea before reinforcements arrive.

First land loss

One of the Brandenburges break, the attack in the rear of Cunninghams division by one of Obstfelders wasn't enough to save it, luckily the 2nd Brandenburger had capture the land just west and the remnants could be evacuated.
Soon the 2nd wave will land, a infantry corps in Brighton and von Armins armoured division in Plymouth.

Oh noes!

No amount of planes piled on the stack looked as if it would help.

At least some disengaged successfully

Now they just have to reach Dunkirk harbour.

Bad decision

We run into a battleship fleet, is that a Polish Admiral leading that?!?
The battles on the flanks of Brighton are not impressive, Dover has some hope of success as its only a HQ and a LOT of planes.
Portsmouth is more doubtful and a mountain division is coming them to aid.

Predictable results

Oh my, the admiral survived, we better fire him pending an inquiry into the affair.
Now only one transport fleet is left, is it enough? the other fleet manage to transport an armoured division on their damaged transports in Plymouth, so now 9 divisions and 3 HQ are ready to take the fight to the British.

Hero of Warsaw resigns

Officially due to bad health, his health would get very bad very soon Gestapo-Müller assures.
But in reality due to Political differences, Gestapo will keep an eye on him.***


ps. This could have been a lot better executed, but I got impatient and lost 2 of my 3 fleets and most of the heavy units, not to forget the 6 division and 2 HQ that sank with them!!!
Apparently I would have needed a lot longer time to wear down the Royal Navy, as my planes apparently found nothing, and if found then hit nothing. Too bad sinking by planes are not registered in sinking statistic, with exception of CAGs.

* Fail. should have landed on on Plymouth and sail Manstein in!!! saving at least a day at sea Bournemouth landing a mistake I think and landing on on Dover might have won there sooner.
** Ready and ready, the irritating bug with OOS every other day after invasion sux.
*** Only retired, not really dead. Historical in early 1939 my bad didn't make the event until after he took Warsaw.

 

[loki100]

brave move, I really thought you'd give up on naval projects ...

 

[Surt]

brave move, I really thought you'd give up on naval projects ...

Maybe I should have considering the losses until now!

No sane man would have taken the risks!!!

 

[shepherd352]

Victory is still possible. You just need to make sure you don't lose your last transports. Once you capture Plymouth, you can ferry additional troops (presuming that you can encourage them on to ships) and make the very brief trip. Try to watch for British fleet movements and don't sail if there is a risk of interception.

After this, you will not need a Navy for a few years. The small fleet that remains will use less supply and a new fleet can be built to invade the US! In the mean-time, it is the Army and Air-Force that will bring victory.