AHC: Make D-Day and Operation Barbarossa not the largest anymore

So, the challenge is: make a scenario, with post-1945 PODs, where D-Day and Operation Barbarossa weren't the largest amphibious and land military invasions in history anymore, respectively. That means you have to make two invasions which can beat:

D-Day:
175,000 troops
~5,000 ships and landing crafts
11,000 aircraft


Operation Barbarossa:
~3.9 million troops (including reserve)
3,600 tanks
4,389 aircraft
46,000 artillery pieces


Multiple bonus points if both of your hypothetical invasions are happened on a same timeline.
 
The first part is easy; don't drop the bombs on Japan and go through with Olympic/Coronet. The force envisioned (some 38 divisions, all told) would have dwarfed D-Day.

The second is a little more problematical, but a Soviet invasion of Western Europe might fill the bill, as might a Red Chinese invasion of the Soviet Union.
 
The first part is easy; don't drop the bombs on Japan and go through with Olympic/Coronet. The force envisioned (some 38 divisions, all told) would have dwarfed D-Day.

He said post 1945.

But yeah Soviet Invasion of Europe and maybe later invasion of USA would totally outnumber Barbarossa and D-Day.
 

nbcman

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He said post 1945.

Operation Coronet was planned for March '46.

A WWIII scenario with the Soviets pushing into France with NATO (or US/UK) amphibious invasion behind their lines could do it.

Another combined timeline could be the Chinese invading the Soviets with the US/ROC intervening in that war with an amphibious invasion of the PRC coastline.
 
A WWIII scenario with the Soviets pushing into France with NATO (or US/UK) amphibious invasion behind their lines could do it.

Another combined timeline could be the Chinese invading the Soviets with the US/ROC intervening in that war with an amphibious invasion of the PRC coastline.

Interesting...
It will be much more epic if we just combine ALL of them: the Soviets invade Western Europe, the Chinese backstab them by invading Soviet Union, and NATO retalliates by invading them both.

Now which one is larger as a land invasion: Soviet invasion of Western Europe or Chinese invasion of Soviet Union?
Likewise, which amphibious invasion is larger: NATO invasion of Soviet Europe or NATO invasion of PRC?
 
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