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Originally Posted by Doppleganger If I were Hitler I'd forget the Battle of Britain altogether. I should be aware that my Navy isn't up to the job in its current form as Grand Admiral Raedar has told me this on numerous occasions. So even if I can gain Air Superiority over the skies of Britain I really can't do all that much with it. I can't get my army and supplies across quickly enough and in sufficient numbers to make it practical.
I would concentrate on disrupting British supply lines instead as these are the things that can bring Britain, an island nation, to its knees. I'd use my fighters for defence of naval bombers, to provide air superiority for the Reich and to have bigger reserves available for more important things looming on the horizon. Like Napoleon before me I will discover that there's only one way to turn.
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Russia was never going to be a successful campaign until Britain was out of the war as Hitler was always going to station large numbers of his assets on the western front to prevent british intervention.
When it comes down to it the germans best chance was to have crossed the channel on the heals of the Dunkirk evacuation (if not during the evacuation) and perhaps sacrificed their navy to do so.
I believe given that Britain was still in the war and he still had to deal with the balkans and Greece the germans perhaps should have completed these campaigns and then waited until the following year to attack Russia (although this in itself would have been a problem) that way they could have replaced BoB and balkan losses and not lost the time invested, perhaps then they could have reached beyond Moscow before the first winter and if Stalin was as good as his word he would been lost in the battle of Moscow and I believe the Russians would have sort peace.
As I have said before I believe the failed Italian campaigns cost germany the war.