Operation Sealion ? Possible ?

Was It Possible For Invasion of Britain to succeed if Battle of France was won ? What would be resources needed for that ?
 
Wrong forum AND Sealion? The fireworks here are going to be epic

To at least start on your answer though, you'll need to sink the RN and weaken the RAF to the point of being too weak to oppose you
 
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Not only is the Kriegsmarine too small and way too inefficient, the Germans had barely developed any landing craft minus a few hastily converted civilian vessels.
 
What is needed? Alien Space Bats tearing Spitfires out of the sky and carrying the Wehrmacht into the Home Counties, then laying Alien Space Eggs to alleviate the logistic difficulties and hypnotizing the King, government, and Commons. Cursed be the seamammal.
 
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Not only is the Kriegsmarine too small and way too inefficient, the Germans had barely developed any landing craft minus a few hastily converted civilian vessels.

And too many people just considered crossing the English Channel as nothing more than a longer river crossing, which is most certainly is NOT.
 
Scheise how do i contact mod ? I throught WWII and Napoleonic wars are Two most propable possibilities and i mistakenly put these two into wrong forums.
 
You'd need earlier German rearmament and a stronger German navy, which would support the aristocratic rightwingers in the military and the DNVP at the expense of the working-class NSDAP supporters. The most I could see the aristos pushing for would be West Prussia and Alsace-Lorraine/Elsaß-Lothringen. Not France and certainly not England, so likely an Anglo-French/Germano-Italian Cold War with the Americans neutral, the Russians under Trotsky (butterflies from the German aristos ruling) sabre-rattling with the Poles and Germans, and the Poles hiding under the bed waiting for it all to stop. Fascism is likely never binned and "Hurrah for the Blackshirts"-style sentiment becomes more common, likely promoted with the aid of the Fascists in Berlin and Rome. Kaiser Bill pops back on the throne.

Anyway, I digress. The changes needed for Sealion to occur would nullify the Nazis' rise to power.
 
Not another Sea Lion Thread?

(^^^) as above (Everybody).

And as I pointed out elsewhere, it just might be possible in 1955 with no nukes, alien space bats and the Russians doing the напугать Англии с ракетами (Scare England with Rockets) dance provided they reach the Channel in 1945. Germany has no chance at all. Zero, ZILCH, Nada. Weather, logistics, material and military competencies for a Sea Lion just do not exist.
 
Where is Chris Nutall when you need him? (Right, banned).
He would argue about the Sealion...

As everyone said, you can only push counter-factual history up to a point. Even if Hitler intended to invade England, he was a landlubber in thinking, he had no idea about the ships and naval doctrine. His decisions in regard to navy a conclusive in that regard. You need more than planes to support a naval invasion and the german logistics when it came to naval transports was terrible. Even the invasion of Norway used civilian yachts to transport soldiers across the Denmark Strait.

And carriers? Graf Zeppelin was built in 1935 and it stayed unused because Goring argued that anything that flies belongs to Luftwaffe, so he would not lend any planes to Raeder to be used on the carrier.
 
Where is Chris Nutall when you need him? (Right, banned).
He would argue about the Sealion...

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As everyone said, you can only push counter-factual history up to a point. Even if Hitler intended to invade England, he was a landlubber in thinking, he had no idea about the ships and naval doctrine. His decisions in regard to navy a conclusive in that regard. You need more than planes to support a naval invasion and the german logistics when it came to naval transports was terrible. Even the invasion of Norway used civilian yachts to transport soldiers across the Denmark Strait.
True. Very Spanish American War, but then British carrier operations in the Operation Weserübung period were "strange".

Speaking of which...

And carriers? Graf Zeppelin was built in 1935 and it stayed unused because Goring argued that anything that flies belongs to Luftwaffe, so he would not lend any planes to Raeder to be used on the carrier.

Keel laid in 1936 and keel wet though incomplete 1938. The Germans argued among themselves about mission and outfit. Plus they had trouble with catapults and figuring out how to build naval aircraft suitable for a flattop. Based on what I know, this actually impeded the Germans more than the politics because going into aircraft carriers cold turkey with an ambitious fleet air defense ship like the GvZ is not exactly the right way to figure it out. The Italians came closer with Aquila, but even they screwed up some fundamentals.
 
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