Was Sea Lion possible?

[Big Nev]

I am as of right now the only man on earth who knows how it was possible to do a successful sealion in 1940. But have no fear for I am going to share this knowledge and heavy burden with you fellow warmongers.

We are in late June 1940, Hitler has just cut the baguette in half. The Allies are staggered and doubtful, for their inaction during the course of this year and an half led to a crushing victory of the Reich in Europe.
But the man with the small toothbrush mustache is no fool and he knows he lacks the means to cross 33km of water so he calls his small eyed rice lover friend Yonai. Together they make a glorious plan!


It starts a bit before Christmas eve with a total ceasefire in the theatres where Japan is involved, even though the nipponeys share no love for the man we hanged to a cross, but the other rice loving folk fall for it. The truce is to last till new year.
They grab their boats and in a struck of genius they avoid going through the Indian ocean and around Africa and decide to go through the north pole with this bad boy here shelling ice in front of the fleet.

(Ahhh the Yamato.... yes it flies, can go into space and shoots lasers!) SUGOI

They say to the random soviet living in Siberia that they just want to help Santa and all is good.

Going on, this kickass fleet arrives from the North and park the boats in Narvik and after syncing with the toothbrush man they go on a cruise sending all the helpless RN to the bottom of the seas and with lasers, thunder and lightning shore bombardments they enable the würstchens to successfully check out in London.

Of course the United States demanded justification for the outrageous actions that just happened, but the Japs justified saying that Santa's real name was Klaus and well he only had gifts for the Axis.

Merry Christmas

Brilliant! Well done. Use the Yamato's main armament to cut a channel through the arctic ice.

Not wanting to be a killjoy or anything, but didn't you say

do a successful sealion in 1940

?

Yamato (the real one) wasn't commissioned (that means finished & working) until 16th December 1941.

Sorry. Basically a year too late.

 

[Paladino]

Brilliant! Well done. Use the Yamato's main armament to cut a channel through the arctic ice.

Not wanting to be a killjoy or anything, but didn't you say ?

Yamato (the real one) wasn't commissioned (that means finished & working) until 16th December 1941.

Sorry. Basically a year too late.

Damnit, can't believe I was careful enough to look at the Japanese elections for prime minister and forgot to check the Yamato's comission date :|

 

[Cpt Crash]

B
Yamato (the real one) wasn't commissioned (that means finished & working) until 16th December 1941.

Sorry. Basically a year too late.

Killjoy.

 

[Zinegata]

We don´t have to think it would be a deadly threat if they were added to the german and italian fleet - Winston thought it and therefore ordered Operation Catapult attacking french forces who didn´t expect to be attacked by their former ally.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attack_on_Mers-el-Kébir



If you would be right and the french fleet (in addition to the german and italian) would have been no threat to the UK then Operation Catapult would have been the unnecessary backstabbing of a former ally and depict Churchill after the Gallipolli disaster as an utter moron. However IMO Churchills estimate was correct and the french navy (in addition to the german and italian and the japanese in the Pacific) would have been a severe threat to the UK
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_Navy#Second_World_War

The British weren't wrong to think that the French fleet falling into the hands of the Germans would be very bad for them. The issue at this point is the desperate shortage in British capital ships.

At the time of Operation Catapult, the British had exactly one modern battleship on its entire roster - HMS Rodney. Her sister Nelson had been damaged by mines a few months earlier and was still in the docks, while the brand-new King George V was still a few months away from completion. Every other battleship was essentially World War 1 vintage.

Adding two French modern Dunkerque-class battleships to the Axis roster would have posed additional problems for protecting merchant shipping, especially since both ships were faster then Rodney.

That said, that's still not enough to pull off Sea Lion. The Brits simply have too many light surface forces that adding two big French battleships in the English Channel will just be adding more targets for RN.