Seelöwe

Seelöwe


“…we shall defend our island, whatever the cost may be. We shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender.” -Churchill



Pas-de-Calais

Occupied France, June 1940



A special observation platform had been setup right against the beach seawalls that over looked the Straits of Dover. Just over 20 miles away the white cliffs of dover could be seen through powerful telescopes. Even without the telescopes the gleam of the cliffs from the morning sun could be picked out across the water.

The German Admirals and Generals then stood aside as two men that could not be less alike came forward. One wore a simple feldgrau great coat unmarked except for an Iron Cross First Class from the Great War and a Wound Badge from that same conflict that ended 21 years previously. The other wore a dark blue great coat with the shoulder boards of a Grand Admiral and left breast was a wall of medals.

The first man held his arm out towards the ocean, “There it lies, our objective Your Majesty. The war agitators in England and its satellite states shall shortly realize what it means to have attacked Europe’s greatest Volk state without proper cause.”

The Kaiser found himself nodding, many times over the years the Imperial Chancellor and the Kaiser had been on opposite sides but today was not one those days. “Our armies have chased the English out of the Continent and now we follow them into their lair.” Then dropping into his classical education, the Kaiser gave a Latin quote, altered for the occasion, “Britannia delenda est.”


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@miketr would it be really anti-climactic if the entire scene is suddenly destroyed by the massed coastal artillery at St. Margaret at Cliffe, wiping out the Kaiser and his officers.
 
Oh... already looking promising.

Hmm... time to pointlessly speculate on what battleships the HSF would have by this point. So we know the war ended in 1919 (whether or not an actual armistice occurred earlier is unknown so far). It would be reasonable to assume that Germany would have been pretty exhausted. The POD is probably either UK didn't join or tapped out in the form of status quo (for all we know Germany might not even have won, but we could probably assume that at least it didn't lose). Regardless it would mean that while all 4 ships of the Bayern class would be completed and possibly the Mackensen class, classes such as the L20a, Ersatz Yorck class would probably not be built (although similar ships might be built sometime during the 1920s). Even in the absence of a WNT type treaty there would be a massive slowdown of construction regardless (after all, it appeared that WWI was decided on land in the end, at least in pop culture). By 1940 the Bayern & Mackensen class would probably be among the oldest capital ships in the HSF.
 
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