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That is too simplistic an answer. According to O'Hara, 90% of supplies and
98% of troops reached North Africa. The "good times" for the RN were limited as Malta was largely untenable as a naval base - certainly for surface ships. The idea that intelligence told the British exactly where and when they could intercept a convoy is nonsense. Even if intelligence could pinpoint the position of a convoy, the RN ships would still need to get from Malta or Alexandria or Gibraltar - how long does that take?

There was a brief spell where the Malta Striking Force achieved considerable success, but this was for a limited time only. The attention of the Regia Aeronautica and, more importantly, Fliegerkorps X soon put a stop to that. The idea that Rommel lost the war in the desert because the majority of his supplies were sunk is fanciful.

You point about limited ports is correct - as I said previously.

As far as Sealion being postponed and that allowing the British to send supplies to North Africa at a critical time is also wrong. The RAF beat the Luftwaffe btw.

Sealion was postponed in late autumn of 1940. The convoy sent to Egypt that brought the 7th Armoured Division up to strength arrived in Egypt 2 days before Graziani even attacked at the start of September. He crossed just inside the border and then started building fortified camps.

There were just iirc 30,000 British, Indian and Aussie troops available to take on the Italian 10th army. Wavell's 30,000 took 130,000 prisoners in the months that followed - a stunning success in modern warfare.

Genghis Khans " backward" tribes ... not too sure where to go with that one but i'll stick to the topic.
In game terms the comparison is incredibly apt. Khans units were professional, veteran soldiers, utilizing state of the art tactics to employ obsolete weapons systems against powerful enemies. The comparison ends there as Genghis's troops had an overwhelming advantage vis a vis the Europeans. The comparison between the german 1944 army in the east and the russians paints a much clearer picture. The Feudal armies were mobs of irregulars centered around heavy cavalry. The hordes were horse archers. The hordes merely taunted the Europeans till they charged and ran away till the pursuers outran their support and the horses and men were exhausted by the weight of their armor. then they used sniping tactics to wipe them out. That offset the shock value of the Knights. the feudal levies were defenseless after the knights went down. Rommel in my opinion wasnt a very good general. Ive a few reasons that make sense to me.