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Looking through my copy of 'Order of Battle: German Luftwaffe in WWII' it gives figures of 720 serviceable 109s and 164 not serviceable for September 1940 excluding those in Luftflotte 5.

Well you must have read it wrong or misunderstood then...

I know this reply is late but it’s the first chance I’ve had to properly sit down with my books and go through the figures and refresh my memory, yes the figures I posted above were from memory and so could be a little off which is why I use terms such as roughly and about. In addition this was...

And if the second wave and resupply convoys travel during the day as planned the RN might not find too many targets?

The airborne mines were typically delivered by aircraft from Norway, most often the He115 at night. They were deployed in estuaries and other pinch points more to delay than destroy the ships. At times it could take 24 hours to declare the all clear and allow ship movements again. Not saying...

Personally I believe the game write up in the Telegraph, linked many, many pages ago, would give you those answers. It's when they realise they can't get past the RN (day 3 in the game?) And losses are then dependent on how many troops they can rescue, everyone else is either dead or in captivity.

Agreed but in my opinion and from what I've read they would wait for optimal conditions, ie low cloud, rain or such so they minimises the risk of air attack before committing in force. After all this is late September so they won't have to wait long.

The problem as I see it is that there is far more unsupported rot spouted by the so called sensible side that it gets really frustrating for those that would prefer realistic, fact based arguments to prove a successful invasion was impossible. Even more frustrating is when those facts are...

I've a feeling accurate implies a little too close for comfort and requiring the British to withdraw and take evasive action during the withdrawal... possible shells falling in the sea around and between the British ships.

I don't disagree with you at all, by my count the RN had roughly 50 dedicated minesweepers and a whole heap of minesweeping trawlers. My reply was in response to the claim that the KM had only two minelayers with a capacity of 800-900 mines when in fact throughout the fleet the capacity was...

Not strictly true, there were two minelayers and six mine ships capable between them of carrying something in the region of 3000 mines. All destroyers were equiped to carry 60 odd mines and the torpedo boats 30 odd mines each. The minesweepers had room for 30 mines apiece and subs had mine...

What numbers have been massaged?

Everybody is always arguing about German difficulties and shortcomings without really looking at the bigger picture and the British constraints. So, as far as the air situation is concerned, the RAF would not have things all their own way. During September 1940 10, 11 and 12 group had roughly...

The Ju87 R had a greatly extended range and made up about 1/3 of the Stukas at the time.

I'm very confused as to why people believe that Ju87 loss rates would be so high in a battle over the Channel. During Kanalkampf they lost just a handful. In the skies above Dunkirk they only lost 10. The heavy losses only occured once the Ju87 was encroaching on English Territory.

No implication from me... any losses they take will not be replaced in full and in time to assist in the continuation of the Channel Battle, a battle that I doubt will carry on for anything beyond a week to ten days before Germany gives up on the endeavour.

Very much so but that doesn't stop them from being able to replace the previous losses. And from memory they were withdrawn on 19th August not 30th.

Not really, they switched because they foolishly believed they had beaten the RAF and were ready to move on to the next phase of the battle... hitting supply hubs and ports.

At the start of the BoB serviceability rates for the Ju87 were running at 78%. During the BoB the production rate of the Ju87 was actually running higher than the loss rate. The Stuka units were moved and concentrated in the Pas de Calais after 18th August in preparation for support of...