August 1940

German Navy sends heavy elements through the Iceland-UK gap and floods Irish Sea with U-Boats.  Captured French ships manned by German crews attack Gibraltar and Mediterainean fleet.

British Home fleet scrambled from Scapa Flow to meet German threat in North Atlantic.  Light Units of Channel Fleet sent to Irish Sea to deal with U-Boats.

Airfields in Kent targeted for heavy bombing, attacks on German cities ignored.  Airlanding troops sent to capture Airfields in Kent under cover from aircraft flown from France.  When fields nominally secure transports filled to the gullet sent in to land at Kentish air fields.  Ships sent to land troops and tanks to link up with occupied air fields.

Navy decoyed North, RAF pounded, troops landed.  All over bar the singing.

Diplomatic mission sent.  Surrender sought.

German war machine looks east to the plains of Mother Russia........

sorry for double post,but i've refine will's plan.

german naval forces lock the street of gibraltar and attack every english ship that wants to break through.

another fleet locks the channel between land's end. big fleet number three secures the north sea,covered by "condors" (Fw 200) operating from the netherlands,denmark and norway.

fleet number four sneaks to iceland and invades it. after the island is secured ,a luftwaffe fleet is sent there to attack british air fields in scotland and english convoys in the atlantic sea.

some ships are sent to the irish sea for preventing a possible retreat of english troops to ireland.

air combat action number one: luftwaffe attacks on every air field in southern england.

ground forces action number one: paratroopers are taking english airfields in south west england. reinforcements are sent in immediately ,along with personnel for the establishment of an airbase. other squadrons of the luftwaffe are continuously holding back the RAF and the army.
troop and tank transports cross the channel and reinforce the german "bridgehead".  stukas are now operating from the captured air fields and provide air support for the ground troops.

ground forces action number two:
as soon as the british south east of england is weakened by continuous attacks of the luftwaffe, the wehrmacht invades this part of britain.

"operation barbarossa" is delayed until britain is conquered.

after the new bridge head is secured and enough reinforcemants have arrived, both armies are conquering the whole of england.
some parts of the luftwaffe are transferred to the airbases in south england.

the RAF has been driven back to scotland and ireland,german naval forces are attacking every convoy that tries to cross the irish sea.
supply from america are arriving sparsely ,because german u-boats and ships almost locked every access to england.


the new target for the ground forces: london.
by now,there's a great lack of resources in britain,the RAF is almost gone and german forces are slowly putting a circle around london,while other divisions head for the industrial centres manchester, liverpool and leeds.
a few days after german forces closed the circle around london and slowly pull towards the centre ,the government surrenders and signs an armistice with hitler.

most of the german ground forces are pulled out of britain and head for russia....

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let's say 50 per cent of the german paratrooping missions went wrong,the biggest successes were crete and some action against a war castle in holland in 1940,the rest of the missions were just badly planned and went wrong.
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aye. didn't germany and england have some contracts or agreements before the BoB?
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i know a man living in my town,who was one of those paratroopers. he was a machinegunner (MG42) and was slighly wounded during the landing operations. he said it was a big mistake to send the paratroopers in in the morning(!) and during daytime, i think this is the main cause for the high german losses. if they had landed at night or during the late evening,they would have had it much easier.

OK, Exploder.  Since you want to invade Britain so badly...

My Complete Plan

November 1940: RAF activity ceases in the Southern regions.
• December 1940: The Bismarck is hastily put through trials, and plans for the Atlantic are temporarily scrapped.
• January 1941:
  • Luftwaffe ceases to patrol RAF airfields.
  • The overwhelming bulk of the Kriegsmarine gathers in the English channel, repulsing all Royal ships with U-boats and heavy warships.
  • The Fallschirmjaeger are dropped in Britain, to clear a landing zone.
  • Me 321s deliver the first tanks, while Ju 52s drop the rest of the first wave of infantry.
  • Successive waves follow.
  • Ground war ensues.
  • With no air opposition, Stukas and Zerstörers strike Royal ships with particular success.  Level bomber strike few successes.
• February 1941: Fierce resistance lessens as German forces advance North.
• March-April 1941: British forces surrender, Germany acquires much of the British empire.
• April 1941: SS swiftly eliminate major intellectuals, communists etc.

The rest of the war

• June 1941: Japan desperately approaches Germany to buy raw materials from land acquired from Britain in the Pacific, Germany accepts on condition that it must assist in invading Russia.
• December 7, 1941: Pearl Harbor: One Brewster Buffalo written off in landing accident, pilot received minor cuts and bruises.
• War is over at least by 1944.

Game elements

• Many Middle Eastern states ally with Germany out of fear.
• Germany expands into Africa facing little opposition, few states ally.

Although, I’m seriously considering Hagar’s theory right now.

Exactly, the option of avoiding war completely never hit me, so now I'm seeing how I could work it into the plot.  The only problem with that is then Japan still attacks America, and we all know how well Japan's chances were.

Right, there was much more about the SS, but I opted to pipe up instead.

In my version, I'd rather keep as much people alive in a puppet government instead.  Realistically (again, hypothetically) speaking, what would've happened to the Royals, Churchill etc?  The topic was glanced before, although not in much detail.

Sorry chaps, been absent for a day or so.

Some interesting comments, and as usual, some education and clarification from Hagar.

For my 2 cents worth, I'll add:

As far as the tragectory of a bullet over the short distances they are fired from in air battle: I've spent the last couple of months, on and off, studying the armaments and effectiveness of all the fighters used in WWII (almost all, anyway). Simply, by the time a bullet begins to 'drop' due to gravity's effect, it will have lost most of it's kinetic energy which will render it relatively harmless to an aircraft, especially an AP round. So the point is moot.

As for how well the opposibg fighters during the BoB armed:
A reasonably simple calculation, involving the weight and muzzle velocity of a round and then factoring in the number of rounds per second, gives a pretty effective 'rating' for the power and effectiveness of the armament on a fighter. In short the British planes come out well short of the German planes of the same era.

My 'Fighter Gun Table' gives me the following figures:

Spitfire Mk1 and Hurricane ( 8 x .30's) = 1.72 (rating)
Bf109E-4 (May '40) (2 x 20mm 2 x 7.92 = 2.37 (rating)

Even the Mark Vb Spit has a slightly lower rating (than the Bf109) of 2.24, even with the 2 extra Mg's.

As for the Paratroops, I saw another of my famous Histiry channel Doco's on the Crete invasion. As Hagar says, this is a perfect example of the side which makes the most mistakes loses.
The Germans, in fact, came very close to losing. it was all down to the holding (or taking, depending on which side), of 1 particular airfield. The germans prevailed, only just, and were able to bring in fresh reinforcements. Without them, they would have been defeated.
The British made several mistakes (there were in fact many Australians and NZ's in Crete). I personally, think the largest was underestimating the ability of the Germans to mount such an attack, and not supplying the few heavy guns and extra fighters which would have tipped the balance.
Even after the German success, Hitler (who could usually see nothing that made sense) even had the sense to realise that airborne assaults, especially in daylight proved to costly. I believe he banned any further such attacks. The specially trained and highly motivated and valuable Paratroops were then relegated to ordinary Infantry units. Very sad actually.

Just to "conlude" the two theories, cause and effect needs to be clarified a bit(at least for me).

Invasion

• Civilian elements are never targeted (September 7), pressure on the RAF is kept up.

Peace

• Umm, I don't really know.  From Hagars post I take it Edward VIII staying in power would have been the deciding factor.

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