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Originally Posted by Iron Budokan
I must say I have absolutely no patience for the constant (and intellectually dishonest) rationale that the Battle of the Atlantic was over in '43.
How many tons of Allied shipping was sunk from '43 on? How many Allied sailors were drowned? How many U-boat crews were destroyed? I'm sure someone has these statistics at their fingertips.
Tell the dead men who died that this battle was "over" after '43.
Spin it how you like. This rationale simply doesn't hold water in the face of historical fact.
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What is also missing is the assumption this game could have made in respect to "if you do WELL and meet objectives, how could the battle have turned?"
A lot went into the fact that after May 1943 the War in the Atlantic was over.
One example is had German intel been CORRECT in identifying the FACT that Allied aircraft were in FACT using newer radar (Centametric?? radar) instead of thinking this kind of radar could never have been flown in planes as it was to large, then things may have indeed changed in favor of the Uboats. They would have had radar detection devices that would have detected this radar miles out.... Instead Uboat men were told that thier radar detection devices were giving away thier position.... This is just ONE example.
Add to that a diminishing supply of Iron (All the metal was going for the Luftwaffe, then tanks for the army, then artillery, THEN the Uboats got what was left) left Germnay without the capacity to build up the Uboat arm like Adm. Doenitz suggested (as well as Adm. Raeder) in 1935 and on..... Had Hitler let the KM build the number of uboats they wanted from the get go... the war would have ended long before 1943, and it would have ended with England in a stranglehold.