Germany Fall 1940
Sealion!!!
With Yugoslavia refusing to boot out King Peter (or is it boot in King Peter, I can never remember) the Germans are in a bind. If we go for Barbarossa without our E.European allies the attack will be geographically challenged. But if we wait for them to flip once Yugoslavia is automatically shifted into the Allied camp our attack will be delayed.
It's a good thing that all along I've been trying to set up an invasion of England.
London was defended by 4 FTR, 1 AA, 1 ART, 1 INF, and 1 Mil. Germany had five transports plus veteran paras on hand. A massive air assault took out two British fighters and laid suppression on a third. A second wave put 10 suppression on the sole UK ART unit. But the cost was high: 2 Tac and 2 Hvy damaged.
Now the bad news. After the paras went in and the first Inf landed unmolested the British roll off three straight auto hits on op fire against the landing units. Two infantry are damaged. An ART unit makes it ashore because it's elite. In the ensuing battle we wrest London from the brits but the elite ART is destroyed. Talk about bad die rolling. Mind you, since we now hold a key allied capital perhaps we shouldn't complain too loudly.
I find that in general the Battle of Britain can be waged effectively without fighter cover. If the German aircraft are at EV 6, which half of ours were (note to self, manage tech better next time) you stand a good chance of giving as good as you get in airfield attacks.
One reason England was vulnerable was that Rafael had send huge forces to Jordan. Instead of attacking them head on we land in the Sudan, threatening Ethiopia.
