[GoldenRivet]

important to follow your escorts for as long as you can...

too bad hugging the coast wont work in GWX. i find myself hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of miles out to sea still getting raped by planes.

this level of air attacks makes the game virtually impossible to play after late 1943

Damned Goering. wasting away the entire luftwaffe on that ego driven crap shoot called "Battle of Britian" should have concentrated on holding the Luftwaffe in reserve to fend off air attacks against france that he should have known would eventually come.

not to hijack your thread but this makes me think...

Hitler should have done things differently...

Firstly Operation Barbarossa would have bever happened. i would have not only honored the initial peace with the russians but would have secretly promised them help in taking out the Japanese.

secondly put Goering's fat arse on a short leash - not a single Luftwaffe craft is to cross the channel unless it is for recon. Keep them in france to fend off pending allied air attacks. Air superiority over the Bay of Biscay and the whole of France must be maintained. The factories cant run without raw materials so whats the point in trying to bomb them - keep them in tact for later use when captured.

Third - dont be so quick to declare war on the U.S. on December 11th 1941. The Japanese ruffled those fethers - its their fight.... for now.

Fourth - ask Admiral Doenitz if he thought he could effectively blockade the entire British Isles by U-boats alone if given the full support required to do so... the answer would have been Yes. Immediately the Kriegsmarine would have been almost entirely based on U-Boats with all construction dedicated to the commissioning of U-boats in numbers far exceeding real WW2 levels eventually forcing the UK more or less out of the war.

Fifth - After months of German Air attacks and commando raids Operation Sea Lion, though a few years late would be kicked off perhaps in 1944 with the Luftwaffe in its full strength. Sea Lion would involve two fronts. One launched from Norway with Wermacht mountain regiments parachuting into and landing on the beaches in the northeast.... another launched from france moving across the channel. Fighting here would without a doubt be down to the last man. The forces in the northeast and the south would form a wedge to the western section of the Isles. leaving one way out of the country. U-boats would lie in waiting to spring the trap on any merchant ship or war ship evacuating from the western isles.

Then - a temporary peace forged with the United States through diplomacy - though they would have never gone with it or it would have been very short lived... perhaps until the mid early 1950s - in the mean time everyone continued work on the Atomic bomb development. Germany would have been at the forefront of weapons delivery though when they devised a method for submarine launched Atomic buzz bombs. Other nations still relied on Air dropped Atomic Bombs. When the first such attacks would be launched from sub pens in the British Isles against New York, and Norfolk forcing the United States to reconsider its position against Germany.

there is a mini movie about this.