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  1. Mackensen class battlecruisers in WW1

    Not to mention that, even under those irrealistic conditions (no german BC was able to get close to top speed during the run to the north due to previous damage), and assuming an equaly unrealistic zero percent hit rate by 5BS, there is no possibility to get to such a position before...

  2. Dunkirk Disaster causes Spain and Soviet Union to join Axis.

    That was not my point. My point was that, whatever the relative performance of Me-262/Meteor/P-80, the '262s would have been heavily outnumbered. And please, you've fast-forwarded to '45, but up to now failed to provide a logical flow of consequences from the 1940 POD to 1945. Could you please...

  3. Dunkirk Disaster causes Spain and Soviet Union to join Axis.

    1) Which relation exactly have 1945 Me-262 with air supremacy as a consequence (as in a logical flow of events) of your weird Dunkirk fetish ? 2) Me-262 is *not* any kind of magic bullet. US and UK also had their programs. They may have been deployed a bit later, but for every Me-262 they could...

  4. Dunkirk Disaster causes Spain and Soviet Union to join Axis.

    And whatever happens at Dunkirk, the Germans were nowhere close to air supremacy over Britain ....

  5. Dunkirk Disaster and colonies exchanged for withdrawal from France and Netherlands

    That's forgetting that OTL, when the panzerdivisionen had overrun Paris, Lyon, Bordeaux etc..., during the armistice negotiations the French still refused to give up their fleet.

  6. Keynes' Cruisers Volume 2

    There are no significant tides in the Med (on the French southern coast the max tide is ~20 cm and often less than that), thus it's the northern tides which will govern the timings both in the Channel and in the Med. And since I think I never posted a comment, even though I've been reading your...

  7. Beachable fortress for cross-channel invasion

    Well, it'll rapidly be obvious that it's a 4-guns ship. First British reaction might be "well, those Germans have found Jackie's gin stash and they're building a 40+ knots battleship" But they'll quickly see that the ship is less than 500 feet long and has a length to beam ratio of a bathtub...

  8. Beachable fortress for cross-channel invasion

    My apologies, I must have read the thread too quickly .... :confused: I guess the solution to our solution would be to fit giant fans to the monstrosities.

  9. Beachable fortress for cross-channel invasion

    Here is a cheap way I did not see in the thread : The "fortress" is grounded and thus immobile by assumption The weather is dead calm (else those barges are swamped and SeaLöwe is No-Go) There is no workable gunnery control radar in '40 Thus .... allocate one or two artillery battery to swamp...

  10. Tirpitz versus the Archangelsk ( HMS Royal Sovereign)

    Yes, completely agree - the most important thing from the RN PoV was to deliver the ship intact to Murmansk. Thus : inside the convoy, sheltered from Uboats; 2 CVE to provide point air defense, and the whole Home Fleet in cover. And even if I'm not sure what the exact state of Tirpitz was, I...

  11. Tirpitz versus the Archangelsk ( HMS Royal Sovereign)

    You may well be right, I didn't see the footnote - I just noticed that the ship was listed within the convoy whereas when I was previously browsing through the pages regarding the HX convoys on this site, when there was a battleship escort she was not in the organization diagram of the...

  12. Tirpitz versus the Archangelsk ( HMS Royal Sovereign)

    Actually, it seems from the organization of JW59 that the Royal Navy did not consider Archangelsk to be a combat ship : she sailed within the convoy (n°2 of the fifth column out of 10), which means that she had no clear firing arcs. See : http://www.warsailors.com/convoys/jw59.html

  13. Tirpitz versus the Archangelsk ( HMS Royal Sovereign)

    Tirpitz's problem is not JW59 escorts. It's the Home Fleet, which covered JW59 & RA59. OTL they did strike at Tirpitz at her anchorage (Operation Goodwood). It was not very successful because of the strong (land-based) AA defenses at Alta. Now if they catch her at sea .... There were 3 fleet &...

  14. WI Battle of Leyte Gulf japan wins

    Not to mention Oldendorf's 6 battleships, Taffy 1 & taffy 2, and McCain's TG 38.1 with its 3 fleet and 2 light carriers coming into range ... Not exactly a free win once past Taffy 3 ....

  15. German (seaplane) carriers WWII

    And there is another problem. If I'm not mistaken Tone carried the majority if not all of its aircraft in the open. For a German raider who has to break through in the Atlantic in bad weather, having its aircraft in the open thus means a very real risk of loosing some due to storm damage at the...

  16. germany fails to conquer norway

    It was the Hipper group which was marking time before attacking Trondheim IIRC

  17. German Slipways

    I did a few charts on this topic a few years ago. No guarantee it's complete or definitive, but it may help : http://forum.axishistory.com/viewtopic.php?f=66&t=104543&start=15#p1343239

  18. Alternate warships of nations

    That's normal. Springsharp was initially designed to model dreadnought-era battleships, and it has trouble to cope with fast light ships. It's acceptable to relax some constraints (typically, the overall hull strength coefficient lower than 1 is OK for DDs). I think it's been discussed on the...

  19. What Would be the Effect of More German Auxiliary Cruisers?

    Well, but those forces are also a danger for a auxiliary raider ? Not so much for the RN : here are the numbers I have wrt the RN presence in the Med between sept 1939 and June 1940 :

  20. What Would be the Effect of More German Auxiliary Cruisers?

    That neglects the fact that at the start of the war, the French Navy was still in the game on the Allied side and Italy not yet on the Axis side. It could provide cruisers to patrol and more importantly bases in both the Atlantic & Indian Ocean. I'm not sure it would render the strategy moot...
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