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by Memeosan » Thu Feb 28, 2019 6:42 pm
by Andsed » Thu Feb 28, 2019 6:46 pm
Memeosan wrote:Firstly, not bombing London and prevent the bombing of it. When the Germans invaded Britain by air, they avoided cities. The first German attack on London actually occurred by accident when a German He-111 dropped a bomb in a building which resulted in the killings of many civilians and caused public outrage in Britain; increasing the morale of civilians.
Secondly, not declaring war against the Americans. When Pearl harbour occurred, Germany declared war as an act of friendship - The Americans only attended to fight against the Japanese.
Thirdly, fall-back/dig in when Russian winter was coming. When the German general staff knew that winter was imminent, they ask Hitler that if they could dig in for the Winter, but Hitler disagreed with this and kept on moving.
Lastly, during Blitzkrieg, the Germans add the opportunity to destroy the whole entirety of the British army in Dunkirk. There were approximately 400,000 British (some French) thousand troops that lacked in supplies an couldn't be reinforced because it was encircled. While the Germans had 800,000 thousand men ready to attack, being supported with tanks and CAS.
by Conserative Morality » Thu Feb 28, 2019 6:53 pm
An Old Post Of Mine wrote:As Hitler, I'd shave off that goddamn mustache first and put my plans for Jew persecution on hold until a more practical time. Instead of warring on Poland after taking Czechoslovakia, ally with them against the USSR - the Bolshevik menace is greater than a little Slavic dictatorship on our borders. Make this offer as us and the USSR are gearing up for the invasion of Poland, letting them know that the SovUnion will hit them from the east and they can either fight a losing battle or give up Danzig/the corridor and help us fight the Bolsheviks. Hopefully, that avoids war with the UK and France at first - letting me focus my attention on building a coalition of Eastern European states and subject nations whom I can later crush or Aryanize. After a few years of fighting, the USSR would be crushed without the assistance of the UK, France, or the material support of the US, which still views us ambivalently because we haven't moved on any Western democracies.
After that, reinforce the Italians in North Africa and start to stir up trouble in Egypt, using local nationalists as a cat's paw against British rule with the ultimate goal of an independent, aligned Arab Republic or at least Egypt with German access to the Suez. This would likely start up the shitstorm with the UK and France, but with the war against the USSR winding down and some measure of lebensraum gained, our forces can focus on storming France through the Ardennes and push through from Italy because God knows the Italians can't do jack shit on their own. I imagine this is around '43/'44, so the Japanese and the Americans are likely at war, but we've not backed the empire up, so the Americans are at peace with us, but are on war footing and are starting to eye us warily as we war on their two closest allies. Japan isn't too happy with us, but they wouldn't've been much help anyway - the SovUnion couldn't project enough force to be distracted in Manchuria and the Japanese couldn't project enough force inland to be worth being distracted for. Forget the Battle of Britain - strategic bombing is not what's going to win the war. Focus on CAS and local air superiority. Grind France into dust, and then offer the allies a peace on relatively favorable terms: the formal rescinding of the Treaty of Versailles, relinquishing Alsace-Lorraine and the Maginot Line to Germany, an 'independent' Arab Republic/Egypt, and special political and economic concessions from Belgium and the Netherlands while leaving the UK and France otherwise mostly untouched. Hopefully, this whole time the US will have stayed out of the war, and our war with France and Britain will be too short to merit their involvement. Oh, and I guess I take Denmark too, because it makes Germany look bad (aesthetically/geopolitically) with a little corner of independent Nordics. Make the map nice and Nazi, s'il vous plait.
Then I gas the Jews, slaughter the Slavs, and drink German beer for the rest of my life.
by Memeosan » Thu Feb 28, 2019 7:23 pm
Andsed wrote:Memeosan wrote:Firstly, not bombing London and prevent the bombing of it. When the Germans invaded Britain by air, they avoided cities. The first German attack on London actually occurred by accident when a German He-111 dropped a bomb in a building which resulted in the killings of many civilians and caused public outrage in Britain; increasing the morale of civilians.
Secondly, not declaring war against the Americans. When Pearl harbour occurred, Germany declared war as an act of friendship - The Americans only attended to fight against the Japanese.
Thirdly, fall-back/dig in when Russian winter was coming. When the German general staff knew that winter was imminent, they ask Hitler that if they could dig in for the Winter, but Hitler disagreed with this and kept on moving.
Lastly, during Blitzkrieg, the Germans add the opportunity to destroy the whole entirety of the British army in Dunkirk. There were approximately 400,000 British (some French) thousand troops that lacked in supplies an couldn't be reinforced because it was encircled. While the Germans had 800,000 thousand men ready to attack, being supported with tanks and CAS.
Uh for the last part about Dunkirk the Germans did try. The reason they stopped was because many of their tanks were running low on fuel and if they kept going it might of exposed their flank so Hitler gave the halt order to secure the flank. He figured the German air force
the luftwaffe could destroy the british and the luftwaffe did try sinking around a good amount of ships and killing thousands. And the German land force did attack but were stopped by the French and Belgian rear guard.
by DeltaSource » Thu Feb 28, 2019 7:25 pm
by The Empire of Pretantia » Thu Feb 28, 2019 7:59 pm
The whole point of Russia being so large is so it can simply keep moving back inside itself and drawing the enemy further and further inside. This puts immense pressure on the logistics of the invader and opens them up to counter offensives. Russia is well aware that its western borders are the most vulnerable part of Russia, so what better way to negate that is to have an unimaginably vast country from which your government and your industry can retreat into and continue fighting. Compare this with western European countries where if you conquer their capital, more often than not said country capitulates. So what if they capture land? So what if they capture Moscow? The military command is still intact, the army itself is still intact, the government is still intact, and your industries are still producing materiel and supplies to continue the fight. When you have built up enough strength, you can go on the offensive. The Russian's withdrawl into itself worked when the Swedes invaded, when the French invaded, and both times Germany invaded. Granted WW1 resulted in a peace treaty bought about by political instability rather than a military defeat, but the Swedish, French, and Nazi German invasions were all defeated because they could not continue fighting.
Not only that, many have underestimated the Russian's willingness and capacity to fight.
One month.Napoleon in 1812 spent four months waiting in a largely burnt out Moscow waiting for a peace offer from the Russians that never came.
Eventually he would leave Russia with only 27,000 men, having lost 640,000 of the 680,000 he started out with. When Operation Barbarossa began, the German high command figured that it would take a couple of months before the Russians would capitulate. Taking Moscow, according to them, "would bring the whole rotten structure crashing to the ground". And while it very nearly happened, the fact was that not only was Russia willing to sacrifice the millions of men it took to overcome the Germans, it wasn't going to capitulate.
by Novus America » Thu Feb 28, 2019 8:04 pm
Memeosan wrote:Firstly, not bombing London and prevent the bombing of it. When the Germans invaded Britain by air, they avoided cities. The first German attack on London actually occurred by accident when a German He-111 dropped a bomb in a building which resulted in the killings of many civilians and caused public outrage in Britain; increasing the morale of civilians.
Secondly, not declaring war against the Americans. When Pearl harbour occurred, Germany declared war as an act of friendship - The Americans only attended to fight against the Japanese.
Thirdly, fall-back/dig in when Russian winter was coming. When the German general staff knew that winter was imminent, they ask Hitler that if they could dig in for the winter, but Hitler disagreed with this and kept on moving.
Lastly, during Blitzkrieg, the Germans add the opportunity to destroy the whole entirety of the British army in Dunkirk. There were approximately 400,000 British (some French) thousand troops that lacked in supplies an couldn't be reinforced because it was encircled. While the Germans had 800,000 thousand men ready to attack, being supported with tanks and CAS.
(Edit: Grammatical mistakes fixed.)
by Neanderthaland » Thu Feb 28, 2019 8:39 pm
Costa Fierro wrote:Dogmeat wrote:[It's difficult to take you seriously when you do things like this. Go back and read my post. Did I reference that exact thing you just referenced? Yes I did. I said it was the origin of Russia's current reputation. You're bringing it up like I'm not aware of it indicates that you're not reading or understanding my posts.
Or when I say "European nations tend not to be outright conquered, but have puppet regimes put in place," and then you come back to me with a list of nations that were "conquered" by having puppet regimes put in place.
So you're admitting that you're wrong because instead of attacking the argument, you're attacking me.
by Memeosan » Thu Feb 28, 2019 8:54 pm
Novus America wrote:Memeosan wrote:Firstly, not bombing London and prevent the bombing of it. When the Germans invaded Britain by air, they avoided cities. The first German attack on London actually occurred by accident when a German He-111 dropped a bomb in a building which resulted in the killings of many civilians and caused public outrage in Britain; increasing the morale of civilians.
Secondly, not declaring war against the Americans. When Pearl harbour occurred, Germany declared war as an act of friendship - The Americans only attended to fight against the Japanese.
Thirdly, fall-back/dig in when Russian winter was coming. When the German general staff knew that winter was imminent, they ask Hitler that if they could dig in for the winter, but Hitler disagreed with this and kept on moving.
Lastly, during Blitzkrieg, the Germans add the opportunity to destroy the whole entirety of the British army in Dunkirk. There were approximately 400,000 British (some French) thousand troops that lacked in supplies an couldn't be reinforced because it was encircled. While the Germans had 800,000 thousand men ready to attack, being supported with tanks and CAS.
(Edit: Grammatical mistakes fixed.)
Why bomb the UK at all? It was just a waste of planes and pilots.
by Costa Fierro » Thu Feb 28, 2019 9:06 pm
The Empire of Pretantia wrote:I still fail to see why Russia's expansion East of the Urals was key to its defense.
Yes, I am aware of the stock Russian defense strategy. However, all three cases were more complex than,"Burn everything and wait out the enemy."
by Costa Fierro » Thu Feb 28, 2019 9:10 pm
Novus America wrote:Why bomb the UK at all? It was just a waste of planes and pilots.
by The Empire of Pretantia » Thu Feb 28, 2019 9:18 pm
Yes, I am aware of the stock Russian defense strategy. However, all three cases were more complex than,"Burn everything and wait out the enemy."
No you're not.
If you can't figure out why Russia's vast size is a key aspect to its defence then you can't be aware of Russian defence strategy.
by United Muscovite Nations » Thu Feb 28, 2019 9:21 pm
The Empire of Pretantia wrote:Costa Fierro wrote:
It gives Russians space.
Space that it never uses to its defense? Do you know where the Urals are? Do you know how many times the Russians have had to hide behind it? Never.
No you're not.
Yeah I am.If you can't figure out why Russia's vast size is a key aspect to its defence then you can't be aware of Russian defence strategy.
Okay but 90% of Russia's vast size isn't a key aspect.
by Memeosan » Thu Feb 28, 2019 9:33 pm
The Empire of Pretantia wrote:Costa Fierro wrote:
It gives Russians space.
Space that it never uses to its defense? Do you know where the Urals are? Do you know how many times the Russians have had to hide behind it? Never.
No you're not.
Yeah I am.If you can't figure out why Russia's vast size is a key aspect to its defence then you can't be aware of Russian defence strategy.
Okay but 90% of Russia's vast size isn't a key aspect.
by Neanderthaland » Fri Mar 01, 2019 1:25 am
by Confederate States of German America » Fri Mar 01, 2019 1:48 am
Novus America wrote:Except Japan could never occupy more than a small amount of China.
by Confederate States of German America » Fri Mar 01, 2019 1:49 am
United Muscovite Nations wrote:Russian industry being behind the urals was key to Russian strategy in WWII, because it was out of range of German bombings.
by Costa Fierro » Fri Mar 01, 2019 2:01 am
The Empire of Pretantia wrote:Space that it never uses to its defense? Do you know where the Urals are? Do you know how many times the Russians have had to hide behind it? Never.
Okay but 90% of Russia's vast size isn't a key aspect.
by Confederate States of German America » Fri Mar 01, 2019 2:03 am
by Costa Fierro » Fri Mar 01, 2019 2:06 am
Confederate States of German America wrote:Some things to be pointed out because the Soviet meme is hard in this thread. All figures in thousands of tons:
Steel
USSR: 8,070
Germany: 32,100
Aluminium
USSR: 52,000
Germany: 263,900
Coal
USSR: 48,951
Germany: 338,200
Machine tools
USSR: 160,104*
Germany: 813,880
*Includes Lend Lease imports of ~44,000 units
by Aellex » Fri Mar 01, 2019 2:18 am
Costa Fierro wrote:Confederate States of German America wrote:Some things to be pointed out because the Soviet meme is hard in this thread. All figures in thousands of tons:
Steel
USSR: 8,070
Germany: 32,100
Aluminium
USSR: 52,000
Germany: 263,900
Coal
USSR: 48,951
Germany: 338,200
Machine tools
USSR: 160,104*
Germany: 813,880
*Includes Lend Lease imports of ~44,000 units
And that is supposed to demonstrate what?
by Confederate States of German America » Fri Mar 01, 2019 2:27 am
Costa Fierro wrote:Confederate States of German America wrote:Some things to be pointed out because the Soviet meme is hard in this thread. All figures in thousands of tons:
Steel
USSR: 8,070
Germany: 32,100
Aluminium
USSR: 52,000
Germany: 263,900
Coal
USSR: 48,951
Germany: 338,200
Machine tools
USSR: 160,104*
Germany: 813,880
*Includes Lend Lease imports of ~44,000 units
And that is supposed to demonstrate what?
by Confederate States of German America » Fri Mar 01, 2019 2:28 am
by Confederate States of German America » Fri Mar 01, 2019 2:31 am
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