Sea Lion Odities

[Jack59]

I am using version 1.25.00.02. and I am playing 1939 campaign Axis verses the computer. I have never attempted Sea Lion so I decided to see what could happen.
- France fell two turns late, but I trapped all but a BR HQ in France.
- In a couple turns I invaded southern England.
- In early May I took London after previously concurring Yugoslavia and then Greece.
- To my surprise the capital moved to Manchester. Reread manual and found Manchester needed to be taken too.
- Before I took Manchester the USA entered early and the Pacific fleet went to the Atlantic and I guess No Pearl Harbor.
- Once Manchester in was taken in late October of 1941 and I was expecting the capital to move to Toronto, since Rommel was encircling the British in Libya.
- Instead the capital moved to Glasgow. I guess there were too many units in Scotland to trigger a surrender? Don't under stand the surrender calculation.
- the next turn Liverpool fell and my submarines were without convoy routes to patrol.
- I was expecting convoys to move to Glasgow. They did not. No convoys supported Scotland.
- Where did the oil go? To India and the Pacific?
- While moving troops to the Polish-Russian in November 1941 Russia declares war.
- Convoys then went from the US to USSR and Glasgow to the USSR! Still nothing to Glasgow. Must have moved a lot of gold to Scotland.
- Soon the Siberian transfer was made but the trigger points were not meant, I was barely in Russia.
- Midway was a Success in the Pacific, even though the Yorktown was in the Atlantic.
- The Russians are getting close to a Fortified Berlin.
- USA and BR swooped down to Manchester and then London.
- Convoys now go to both Glasgow and Manchester.
- Rommel took all of Iraq and southern oilfields. Italy controls the Mediterranean for now and took Malta.

I know many of my mistakes, but I was not expecting convoy routes to behave the way they did. The British did not behave either. Were did all the troops and equipment come from without supply from the US?

One of my goals was to make a scenario based on Stalin's Operation Ice Breaker. He planed on attacking the Axis in 1941 while the Germans were quagmire in Britain. Stalin wanted to destroy the Rumanian oil fields with paratroopers and then on to Berlin. Looks like it would have worked and explains the Russians dismantlement of defensive positions on the border, before the war.