DBWI: Why did sealion succeed?

All the odds were stacked against the Germans. They lacked naval or air superiority and only had barges to transport their troops across the channel. So what on earth happened?
 
This is not ASB at - consider if you will...

The summoning of the deity Cthulhu that caused such heavily losses among the Royal Navy and the evil and forbidden knowledge discovered by Hitler's shadowy and evil Geheimnisvoll Nacht Führer - who raised dead soldiers and civilians of both side to continue the battle.

The discovery of a working Martian attack saucer in the Arctic was of course the final element that defeated the British - that plucky team of commandos who destroyed it (on its way to add New York to a list of cities that included Warsaw, Copenhagen, Amsterdam, Brussels, London and Glasgow all immolated by its deadly green beams - probably saved the rest of humanity from the bootheel of Nazism but what secrets now lie in the depths of the atlantic.

Such a waste.
 

Yuelang

Banned
Blame those idiot communists and union workers who choose to get a well organized, surprise communist revolt, yet not having majority of populances behind them...

Damn it, Germans end up hailed as Liberators, and they end up content to let Prime Minister Edward to sort things out... yeah, I knew Edward refuse the offer to reinstall him on the throne in favor of taking direct charge as Prime Minister...
 

Saphroneth

Banned
I thought Sealion succeeded because the Danes were all but unable to defend Bornholm island.

Or do you mean operation Hippocampus, the invasion of England?
 
If only we understood the POWER of the Dark Side!

Emperor Palpatine, being from a long long time ago in a galaxy far far away (the planet Coruscant, to be specific), doesn't know his Earth History. He thinks "sealion" refers to the early Norman-English ruler known as Richard the Sealion-Hearted. The title for which he won by defeating the Roman-British tribal leader Arthur the Red Dragon.

What's your opinion EP?:confused:;)

Shouldn't this be in the ASB section of the pre-1900 Forum?
 
It being an Exerice of NATO to defend Britain if a force land on it

Careful. You'd be surprised how many of our youngest members think NATO existed back then. Or some form of it. They tend to hold grudges over FDR not honoring our NATO treaty commitments.:( Since a number of British and particularly French contemporaries in 1940 fully expected the US to jump into their Star Trek teleporters and come save them from themselves twice in one generation.

At Versailles and Munich it all wounded up being left to the European Experts. [size=-4]yay[/size]:(
 
It was the devilishly clever Kommado raid on Britains Gin distilleries that added Castor Oil to all the Royal Navy's supplies of Gin which won it for the Germans. Ships cant sail whilst all the officers are queing up for the Head.
 
the german fanboys were used to form a living (well previously living) bridge of bodies which the germans marched across into england on
 
Emperor Palpatine, being from a long long time ago in a galaxy far far away (the planet Coruscant, to be specific), doesn't know his Earth History. He thinks "sealion" refers to the early Norman-English ruler known as Richard the Sealion-Hearted. The title for which he won by defeating the Roman-British tribal leader Arthur the Red Dragon.

What's your opinion EP?:confused:;)

Shouldn't this be in the ASB section of the pre-1900 Forum?

I thought Palpatine was from Naboo...
 
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