Campaign End?

Gargamel · 01-03-11, 11:19 PM

Or what about taking out Chruchill on his voyages to the US? Or taking out the troop ships landing in Norway? Or even if the Indianapolis had been sunk before delivering her cargo? There are events, influenced by a single U-boat, that would change history. There are even more if you can consider including the successes of multiple boats, like preventing resupplies to Africa or Murmansk.

Would the axis ever have won? I doubt it. With one of the major players (US) not having an active front to wage land battles, just remote ones they had to send troops to, made them pretty much immune to strategic production denial (ie, strategic bombings), and they still would have been able to produce arms in the numbers they did.

But it would be nice to see a more dynamic campaign, where capital ship losses by the RN would allow the kreigsmarine surface fleet to become a bigger part in the war. Imagine where they wouldn't have to worry about the RN sortie'ing multiple TF's to hunt one Battleship, most of the remaining capital ships would be required to do escort duty, etc etc.

But being able to program this, and do it intelligently, would be almost impossible IMO. Taking out Churchill would be such a huge game changer, in ways we can't really even imagine, that it would be impossible to model.

01-03-11, 11:19 PM	#22
Gargamel Lucky Sailor Join Date: Oct 2010 Location: Rome Posts: 4,273 Downloads: 81 Uploads: 0	Or what about taking out Chruchill on his voyages to the US? Or taking out the troop ships landing in Norway? Or even if the Indianapolis had been sunk before delivering her cargo? There are events, influenced by a single U-boat, that would change history. There are even more if you can consider including the successes of multiple boats, like preventing resupplies to Africa or Murmansk. Would the axis ever have won? I doubt it. With one of the major players (US) not having an active front to wage land battles, just remote ones they had to send troops to, made them pretty much immune to strategic production denial (ie, strategic bombings), and they still would have been able to produce arms in the numbers they did. But it would be nice to see a more dynamic campaign, where capital ship losses by the RN would allow the kreigsmarine surface fleet to become a bigger part in the war. Imagine where they wouldn't have to worry about the RN sortie'ing multiple TF's to hunt one Battleship, most of the remaining capital ships would be required to do escort duty, etc etc. But being able to program this, and do it intelligently, would be almost impossible IMO. Taking out Churchill would be such a huge game changer, in ways we can't really even imagine, that it would be impossible to model. __________________ Luck is a residue of Design.