ORIGINAL: RangerJoe
You keep referring to a game designed to make money as reality. So does the game of Life describe your life? Has the world developed like it has in Risk? Did you enjoy eating all of those colours and candy in Candyland?
Those are not historical simulations. Wargames are no different than any other secondary source - like a book.
The trucks that the Turkish people had could tow guns and haul supplies. The only things that they Germans could initially haul across the Sea of Marmora would be infantry and very light artillery. The Turks could crush that easily.
That depends upon the size and quantities of the barges. They would get full infantry divisions across. More than enough to handle whatever forces the Turks would have on the other side - not much, in other words. For whatever reason, SPI says the Turkish divisions were mostly static. I'll take SPI over the nice people on this board any day.
The Soviets had sold equipment to Turkey and they would not be blind to the risk of a Nazi German occupied Turkey. Although it would be very difficult for any German Armee to force its way through the mountains into the Soviet Union.
It would be all over before any help arrived. Once the straits are breached, there's little to stop the Germans - especially by static forces.
The British would not be stupid either, they would send equipment and probably military units as well. Why, even one of Kamal's daughters would probably fly to attack the Germans! Not to mention that the Turks would also help supply Greek partisans.
Again, the British had just been thrown out of Greece.
You have the Luftwaffe everywhere and doing everything. It could not and would not be able to do everything that you want it to do, all at the same time. Besides, they are marching while carrying signs in France to try and scare the British.
No. Only those air assets that had historically been allotted to Barbarossa will be available in Turkey.
The destroyed Soviet aircraft were obsolete types like the I-15 and the I-16. Much better types were being trained on. Soviet peace time production was rather high and undisturbed by any enemy activity, it would continue to produce lots of equipment. Any equipment sent to Turkey to kill Germans would weaken the Germans and thus make the Soviet position that much better.
They were still destroyed on the ground. Wouldn't have mattered what types of planes they were. Strategic surprise has that impact.
The Soviet T-34 and the KV-1 each had less than 200 produced in 1940. But the production rate was a lot higher the in the next two years. The T-34 had over 3,000 produced in 1941 and over 12,000 in 1942. While the KV-1 did not have that high of a production rate, still thousands were produced. Every one of those tanks could replace a lighter tank which could then have been transferred to the Turks.
That was wartime production. Peacetime production was not even a fraction of that.
The US would also have offered weapons under Lend-Lease.
That would have taken months. It will all be over before then.
; Julia Child
