Germany's options after Fall of France

katchen

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How many years would it take the Germans to construct a Chunnel or series of chunnels for military use?
 
Just as the Sea Lion thread, there is so much new material and conclusions here, it is worth a book

In the Sea Lion thread we have the conclusion that it should have been attempted, as it would have worn Britain down, never mind the losses to Germany.

This thread basically says that if Sea Lion is not even attempted, there are plenty of other options for knocking Britain out in 1940.

I wonder if it is possible to write a book among all of us? We surely have lots of knowledge combined to fill in all the facts. If we part out certain aspects or chapters, we could rewrite WWII in a very different way, I think.

As I mentioned on the other thread, I am the owner of a publishing house but we do magazines, not books. Books are difficult to publish and manage.

Just a very wild idea, really.

Ivan
 

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Just as the Sea Lion thread, there is so much new material and conclusions here, it is worth a book

In the Sea Lion thread we have the conclusion that it should have been attempted, as it would have worn Britain down, never mind the losses to Germany.

This thread basically says that if Sea Lion is not even attempted, there are plenty of other options for knocking Britain out in 1940.

I wonder if it is possible to write a book among all of us? We surely have lots of knowledge combined to fill in all the facts. If we part out certain aspects or chapters, we could rewrite WWII in a very different way, I think.

As I mentioned on the other thread, I am the owner of a publishing house but we do magazines, not books. Books are difficult to publish and manage.

Just a very wild idea, really.

Ivan

Well, if you can find out the sales of the Michael Spick book "Luftwaffe Victorious", I suppose you can figure out what the market for an Alternate History book would be. I'd be happy to contribute.
 
Just as the Sea Lion thread, there is so much new material and conclusions here, it is worth a book

In the Sea Lion thread we have the conclusion that it should have been attempted, as it would have worn Britain down, never mind the losses to Germany.

This thread basically says that if Sea Lion is not even attempted, there are plenty of other options for knocking Britain out in 1940.

I wonder if it is possible to write a book among all of us? We surely have lots of knowledge combined to fill in all the facts. If we part out certain aspects or chapters, we could rewrite WWII in a very different way, I think.

As I mentioned on the other thread, I am the owner of a publishing house but we do magazines, not books. Books are difficult to publish and manage.

Just a very wild idea, really.

Ivan


I'm interested in gaming it, actually. We're getting ready to do an on-thread carrier battle at Hawaii. If that experiment succeeds, then why not Sealion?
 

elkarlo

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I'm interested in gaming it, actually. We're getting ready to do an on-thread carrier battle at Hawaii. If that experiment succeeds, then why not Sealion?

I was thinking this as well. This scenario needs to be gamed.
Amazing how much is coming out of this website.
 
Really interesting discussion here. I think the war-winning ability of German airpower is being overrated here, but the level of insight being brought to the discussion is refreshing.
 
Fully agree. The amount of new information is rather great.

On top of, we have not seen too much preconceived ideas being aired.

Approaching this with blinkers off and an open mind has been the most important thing, I believe.

Yes, It should really be gamed and/or trying to put it into book form.

I do know how book publishig works in theory, but I have no clue how to price this and what the parameters should be.

However, let me trawl around a bit on that.

Should I try to set up a proposed index?

Ivan
 
Really interesting discussion here. I think the war-winning ability of German airpower is being overrated here, but the level of insight being brought to the discussion is refreshing.

Gaming requires detailed models that answer this type of question before the game even begins. The devil in Sealion is in the details - for instance, expressing accurately what the average amount of damage a Luftwaffe raid on warships at sea will accomplish, or a DD attack on barges. How many 5" HE hits, exactly can a 400 ton barge take and still be expected to float? How many rounds are fired per hit under daylight conditions at 2,000 yards? Under night conditions at 6,000 yards? Etc.

This topic is emotionally charged, so any game has to have a sense of community too, or else it could break down.
 
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