Probably ASB Challenge: Wilhelm's favorite animal

With a POD no earlier than the start of the First World War, have Imperial Germany successfully pull off a naval invasion of Great Britain by the end of the decade.:D
 
The Another sea Mamal

you mean... Operation Walrus right?(Yes that was the proposal name... or that the legend said)

for that... we need either France Collapse in 1914 or in 1917(i can use here Eurofed POD than Italy will stick in the Triple Alliance... how... i don't know... with the hate of the Italians of the Austrians is Hard) and after than the British going in a 'neva-surrender mode' and after or during Russia Collapse... the rest of assest were using in the operation(the Kaiserleich Marine is roughtly the Half of the Royal Navy).

In fact that happen in a HOI AAR with a similar scenario(Schilfred plans was a sucess but italy join the Entente)
 

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Ehh, wasn't the German navy pretty much useless after the North Sea blockade. I don't see how Germany is going to even dream of getting to Britain.
 
VERY tough

This requires that the Royal Navy be almost crushed. There was a time when a good chunk of the Grand Fleet could have been brought to battle by the entire High Seas Fleet; that would be a start--but only a start.

In war, sometimes flukes happen--perhaps, somehow, a few months after Ingenhol smashes a part of the Grand Fleet, the Grand Fleet is in cruising formation, and a U-boat reports its position. An hour later, Scheer swoops down on the Royal Navy, in poor visibility--his ships in line, at GQ, against a fleet steaming normally, in cruising formation.

Now, the Germans have temporary naval superiority, even if slight.

Now the time is as good as it will get. One fine morning, the Germans put some troops ashore, perhaps in several places. They dynamite infrastructure, make a lot of noise, and generally cause panic. If they get pulled out ornot, they've sewn panic, and perhaps pushed the people, already frightened by the sever damage the fleet's taken, into making peace. After all, Success" doesn't have to mean conquer a lot of land, it simply means that the objective has been acompished.
 
With a POD no earlier than the start of the First World War, have Imperial Germany successfully pull off a naval invasion of Great Britain by the end of the decade.:D
Define successful and invasion in this context. Does a couple of battalions seizing and holding an offshore island count or do you want a full army sized landing to put the poms out of the war?
 
The second one.


I'll be lenient. I don't mean the Germans marching into Glasgow and Belfast and establishing a puppet government so much as the Germans landing, attacking, and doing enough damage for the Brits to give up.
 
Germany wins the Race to the Sea, putting pressure on Britains seaborne trade. To regain the initiaitve Britain launches the Baltic Project, which turns into a giant pile of shit. The Grand Fleet forces the Skagarrak to rescue the expeditionary force but is trapped in the Baltic by German mines and the HSF, removing it from the wider war. With the GF trapped the OHL organises a landing over a period of 2 years and launches it when the French army mutinies in 1917. The British withdraw from France and the war in exchange for Germany withdrawing from Britian.
 
5 August 1914:
The German Zeppelin Squadron X, comprising 101 dirigibles and hitherto a closely guarded secret, 'land' a force of abseiling commandos on England's east coast. At the height of Britain's holiday season, the invaders take and hold the seaside resort of Skegness for 5 days. Before withdrawing by sea, the Germans lay waste to the town. They take with them Britain's main store of candy floss, what-the-butler-saw machines, knotted handkerchiefs and kiss-me-quick hats, thus causing a serious blow to British morale.

The British Government bows to the public mood that "we should let those bloody foreigners get on with their larks" and withdraws its declaration of war. The German Kaiser thanks the British and promises to send them a bountiful supply of "küssen Sie mich schnell" hats at the earliest opportunity.

(and that is as likely a scenario as any other!)
 
5 August 1914:
The German Zeppelin Squadron X, comprising 101 dirigibles and hitherto a closely guarded secret, 'land' a force of abseiling commandos on England's east coast. At the height of Britain's holiday season, the invaders take and hold the seaside resort of Skegness for 5 days. Before withdrawing by sea, the Germans lay waste to the town. They take with them Britain's main store of candy floss, what-the-butler-saw machines, knotted handkerchiefs and kiss-me-quick hats, thus causing a serious blow to British morale.

The British Government bows to the public mood that "we should let those bloody foreigners get on with their larks" and withdraws its declaration of war. The German Kaiser thanks the British and promises to send them a bountiful supply of "küssen Sie mich schnell" hats at the earliest opportunity.
That made my day!

(and that is as likely a scenario as any other!)
And that is absolutely true.
 
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