RodentRevolution
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Okay thank you everyone. I learned something today. The German Air Force was no match for the RAF at all. It wasnt their tactics that was flawed and failed. It was everything and they were no match. They couild never have defeated the British
The problem is the margin of victory required. As others have alluded above the Luftwaffe needs not merely to beat Fighter Command but ensure it stays beaten while it then turns its attention to Bomber and Coastal Command, the British Army and the infrastructure supporting the defence of Great Britain. Then once that was done that it needed to ensure it had enough strength to beat the Royal Navy quickly enough the RN was not able to take a significant number of invasion transports with it. While still ensuring the RAF did not come back into the fight.
Fighter Command did give serious thought to what might happen if it started to be seriously attrited in the South East. The solution it came up with was to withdraw its 11 Group allocated fighters to the north. At which point Göring would have turned his bombers against the above mentioned targets which would have been a problem for the Luftwaffe when they tried to go after the more northerly based reserves and factories as they would have found fighters waiting for them where they likely lacked much in the way of single engine escorts.
Now Göring might decide not to go after targets outside BF109 range and declare air victory. At which point the invasion goes ahead at which point the RAF returns in force to its Kent and Sussex airfields and the RN launches its counter invasion forces into action. Leaving the Luftwaffe both to stop the RN and RAF at the same time. Now if it does a reasonable job in the Air Battle of Britain you can see the Luftwaffe gets to join the Air-Naval Battle of Britain and if it does reasonably well in the Air-Naval Battle of Britain it gets to join in the Air-Land Battle of Britain.
So if the Luftwaffe has been a lot more effective than OTL it then has to be even more effective to stop the RN crushing the invasion to the point the coastal crust mops up the handful of Landsers that stagger ashore and then gets the fun of making up for the KM's inability to land artillery with the assaulting infantry while continuing to cover for the KM's inability to be a Navy that can stop the Royal Navy in the English Channel all the while still doing its job as an air force and countering the remnant RAF. The British on the other hand only have to do well just in one of those and the fight is over.