Different tactics

[mapuc]

Originally Posted by rob89

What exactly do you mean by your questions?
How should they have won the war?
Or are you asking about specific U-Boat tactics?

About specific U-Boat tactics. How should they have done it instead, to win the war.

I know it's tricky question

But if you was "drawing" the tactics how would you have done it?

Markus

[Mush Martin]

Build three less capital ships before 1939 and make submarines
out of them.
create a naval air arm.
Rotate their codes.

that would be about all necessary to change everything

Don't fight on 3 fronts!!

[Mush Martin]

Originally Posted by privateer

Don't fight on 3 fronts!!

Fight in Cairo not Moscow

Africa was nearly worthless.
Dominate Europe.
Take out Great Britian.
You would own all else by default after that.

[Mush Martin]

Originally Posted by privateer

Africa was nearly worthless.
Dominate Europe.
Take out Great Britian.
You would own all else by default after that.

Own the suez and you have britains jugular in your hands
in 1940 if even a minor ten percent of the forces
dedicated to russia had been given to
afrika corp, italy would have eventually dominated
the med due to a lack of safe ports.

and all british supply lines from IO would come the long
way round. into the teeth of my extra uboats.

[baggygreen]

the others have posted it - less capital ships (tough though, they were the mark of a strong navy), taking cairo (not strictly naval obviously) and continuing the BoB (again not strictly naval).

by taking Cairo, you hold the canal, make ships go the long way round the Cape, by continuing the BoB you subdue Britain, almost completely, and THEN you attack russia with Africa and Britain contained.

[kenijaru]

Originally Posted by privateer

Africa was nearly worthless.
Dominate Europe.
Take out Great Britian.
You would own all else by default after that.

Germany wasn't ready for the atrition warfare that started when they tried to put england under the blitz. Also, they needed oil for their armies.
Germany should have remained allied to Russia, but that was out of question... an aliance with the untermensch? (is that how you spell it?)
The biggest tactical (and strategial) mistake that Germany commited was letting a certain individual become their Führer.

[mapuc]

create a naval air arm.
That have made me wonder, WHY didn't they create such an airsupport?

Rotate their codes.
Same here, even the japanese did the same mistake

Markus