What would it have taken to have a successful Sealion?

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A little while ago there was a thread that went about how a Sealion operation would never worked. What would be needed to have that happen? How long and what resources would the Nazis need to do that?
 
Look at what the Allies needed for a successful Operation Overlord to land in one day 3 Airborne and the balance of 5+ Assault Divisions and this vs an enemy that had hardly any aircraft and virtually no navy with near total operational surprise

So 1200+ transport aircraft for the Paras and the following naval Assets "The invasion fleet was drawn from eight different navies, comprising 6,939 vessels: 1,213 warships, 4,126 landing craft of various types, 736 ancillary craft, and 864 merchant vessels"

In addition to this the Allies were arriving as liberators not invaders and could rely upon the French for intelligence, resistance movement and local guides etc...A German Army invading England had the exact opposite Zero Intel, a hostile and largely armed populace and all of the road signs and train station signs removed as well as Bridges and airfields wired for demolition.
 

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Well, it's quite simple really...

All you need to do is convince God to part the English channel.

Barring that, you could have Him drop Tunguska-size rocks on London and Scapa Flow.
 
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