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  1. ATL - Successful OP Sealion campaign

    DMA Are you talking about a 'Sealion' without a previous attempt by the Luftwaffe to gain control of the air over southern Britain (ie. no BoB)? If 'no', then the BoB has taken place and the Luftwaffe must provide cover and support (as was mentioned somewhere above) with the losses to...

  2. ATL - Successful OP Sealion campaign

    Yep. Just found it. "Meanwhile, RAF's bomber command has just been presented with a massive, unmissable target in the form of the barge fleet. If the Germans are flying fighter cover over the barges, then these fighters are not flying as escort for the German bombers. If they are not...

  3. ATL - Successful OP Sealion campaign

    And what is RAF Bomber Command doing whilst the mighty Kriegsmarine swarms over the channel? Dropping leaflets?

  4. ATL - Successful OP Sealion campaign

  5. ATL - Successful OP Sealion campaign

    But whatever the naval assets, Germany still needs to win the Battle of Britain for Sealion to even be considered a 'go'... "The strength of the Luftwaffe at the point of Sealion was about 750 bombers and 600 Me109 fighters. The Germans estimated the strength of Fighter Command at 300...

  6. What if in1933 The 5 BB and BC were still around

    They would certainly need protection though.... I can't see the RN letting three chunky air-craft carriers off the hook! The German air-force would certainly have trained up torpedo bombers, this in turn creating a whole new air-arm.... Maybe 'Operation Sealion' would have had a chance to...

  7. ATL - Successful OP Sealion campaign

    Yeah. 'Sealion' would only have had a chance to succede if the Germans had dropped all their OTL plans......They would need to. I'm sure it wasn't Mr.Montgomerie's piece, but I do remember reading somewhere that Sandhurst has, on various occasions tried to get the invasion to work by first...

  8. Why were lighter, faster tanks favored?

    Two words; 'Lightning War'. Hitler wanted new, faster, offensive tactics. Whilst everybody else was thinking in terms of heavy, plodding WorldWarOne style attacks he decided not only to attack his enemies physicaly using BlitzKrieg, but mentally aswell. Fast, light tanks zipping around...

  9. France Attacks...Sept 1939

    Britain would have undoubtedly joined in, adding its air power and armoured divisions to the French forces... I'm just wondering whether, upon the defeat of Germany in 1939 and the inevitable collapse of National Socialism, Stalin might still think about going for it, if not immediately in...

  10. "Fourteen Small Wars" Get Worse

    ...So, Poland loses some land in the East to the USSR. This makes Lenin happy... Does he then still try and take Warsaw? In the West, Poland fights off German militia, but only just. Sandwhiched between two aggressors, Poland calls upon its allies to assist, perhaps to oust the USSR, but also...

  11. Airships

    With more emphasis on airships, what would happen to the evolution of the areoplane? (if we're talking 1919 onwards perhaps... or even if we're talking pre-Great War...)

  12. Roman-era Steam Tech Question

    The next question being, of course, how might this have helped the Roman Empire, and what sort of world would we live in today, both socially and technologically?

  13. WI: Star Wars prequel in the late 1980's

    "I think that he aimed the movies at a younger audience." Absolutely.... "Unless he tried to do a total epic all out and out job, I think that it would be destined to never be as good as the original." True, and he should have realised this... People would have gone to see Eps1, old...

  14. WI: Star Wars prequel in the late 1980's

    I personaly think the effects were TOO superb... They certainly took the attention away from any serious plot lines... Ever since ROtJ, with the huge battle around the second Death Star, the Fighter scenes have been too quick and zappy.... what made the first film (ie SW) for me was the almost...

  15. WI: Star Wars just an obscure 1977 film

    We've...GOT....to get wings...

  16. THE EAGLE HAS LANDED

    Yeah, and in the book Kurt Steiner(?) gets shot before he can pull the trigger.... I prefer the film version...

  17. Giving the Nazis F117s

    -The RAF has a place to defend. The F117s have to come to that place to be any good. That minimises the speed advantage A Hurricane or a Spitfire simply wouldn't have been able to catch the F117. If by chance they could have, the chances of shooting the F117 down with their .30s is minimal...

  18. WI: Star Wars just an obscure 1977 film

    How did u guys rate that first ST film? I think i fell asleep in the cinema....

  19. AH names

    Hey! Thanks for the advice! My girlfriend's Polish! (Indeed, I've just spent 5 years living in your wonderful land! I'm now living in Spain!)

  20. THE EAGLE HAS LANDED

    Wasn't it Churchill they were trying to kill? Anyway, yeah, it's close, but obviously not a full AH story....
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