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[PrydainII]

The Roman Army (the true Italian soldiers) was actually very small (maybe around 100,000 men at peak), there were more auxiliaries than legionaries.

Exactly what I meant by "unlike the other Roman territorys which provided native garrisons". My local Roman fort 'Lunt Fort' was made and garrisoned by Romans, not even foreign auxillarys manned it.

[PanzerGeneralRommel]

bwhahaha raf was close to be taken out but even if

so was sealion unrealistic
germany lacked proper transports and / also dident have enough of em.

and the german navy couldent possibly defend all these transports.

[|-|Cozmo|-|]

i have a feeling no one will take that seriously... mainly due to the lack of grammar and proper English.

[acker]

Despite his poor grammar, it's true. At least, the transport part is true.

The Germans had just enough river barges to transport the required number of troops in a succession of waves, per the original Sealion plan. Unfortunately, Allied attempts at landing troops, using specialized, state-of-the-art landing craft generally resulted in over half of the landing crafts beaching themselves on the first wave. I don't even want to think what would have happened to those barges.

[|-|Cozmo|-|]

hehe, the German navy: the grens in CoH sum it up "If I knew how much walking we'd do, I would have joined the navy".

[M4 Sherman]

hehe, the German navy: the grens in CoH sum it up "if i wanted to walk so much, i would have joined the navy".

Sorry but its Volksgrenadiers.

[Aggamemnon]

The Brits Complain about getting so wet, they should of just joined the navy.

[|-|Cozmo|-|]

hehe, the German navy: the grens in CoH sum it up "if i wanted to walk so much, i would have joined the navy".

Sorry but its Volksgrenadiers.

Nope grens say it too. look through the sound files.

[Mysthalin]

hehe, the German navy: the grens in CoH sum it up "if i wanted to walk so much, i would have joined the navy".

it's actually "If I knew how much walking we'd do, I would have joined the navy", not what you quoted.

[|-|Cozmo|-|]

I was doing it off the top of my head... il change it if you so wish... picky bastards...

[Mysthalin]

I was doing it off the top of my head... il change it if you so wish... picky bastards...

heh mate, no need to get offended. Just the joke fails a bit when quotes are posted wrong .

[userstupidname]

Sounded like range, and what did they have at this stage of the war to reach the US? Not something that came at the end of the war or that was merely a concept.

It wouldn't need to be at this stage, and yes some german strategic bombers could reach the US. Remember this is a hypothetical, obviously with the war in Africa and in Russia going the way they went Sealion didn't have the resources.

Now if they invasion of Russia had taken place in 1940 in the Spring, they could have captured Moscow and turned north and south to capture the oilfields and prevent encircled Russian forces from escaping. Instead of splitting the army groups and focusing on worthless cities (Stalingrad) they should have pushed past.

With Russia out of the picture as a military power in '41, the focus on the North African campaign would have ruined any British hope of winning a land battle. Remember, the entire British focus was in that theatre, and very little German focus was there. So with most or even 50% of the German warmachine active in the area there would be nothing the British could do. With no Britain in North Africa in '42, there is no US invasion of Africa or Allied invasion of Sicily in '43.

Full focus moves to destroying the British islands, completely. Instead of investing resources on the Luftwaffe in the east they could shift back to the west, and once again, more than sufficient force to destroy the RAF.

Sealion in '44 would not be that hard to undertake if they would have understood that total annihilation of the british people was the key.

The key to German failure was the undertaking of the wrong tasks at the wrong time, mostly due to Hitler being insane.

that is totall bulllcrap the germans dident have any long range bomber that could reach us and get back even if azores was taken that is a huge load of crap whit bitches on ma table server beside it

[|-|Cozmo|-|]

I pretty sure no one said there a was bomber that could reach the US and get back... Much less one that could carry Bombs too.