Board Thread:Fun and Games/@comment-32272607-20191218202400/@comment-35614398-20191224131234

Bosnia Mapper wrote: MrTangle101 wrote: Ok so I might as well state right now that since the UK lost the war they practically have no navy now, since the ships were probably destroyed in battles or scuttled or something, if not already captured by the Axis Well what about all of the ships that weren't used in the war, or the ones that were being built but not yet finished? All of them would have been completed by now. Also there are all of the boats of my dominions and the other countries assisting Ireland, and I wouldn't be covering every square inch of coastline. Each boat would be a few kilometers away from each other, and I would only really be covering where the Germans invaded and the eastern side of Ireland. There's also the fact that this scenario is already unrealistic enough as it is because Germany wouldn't have the resources to launch an invasion so soon after the war and there would be too many rebellions already and the Reich would have collapsed, and I really don't feel like launching into an argument that may last for a few days about the capabilities of the British navy. And also the Kriegsmarine kinda sucks

As much as I like someone defending Britain’s capabilities in WWII being a Briton myself, I have to disagree again. British contingencies for a defence of the Home Isles involved utilising fire ships, and blowing up boats to block important waterways. Obviously this would use up more than a few ships.

And the Kriegsmarine possessed some of the most powerful ships in the world, like the Bismsarck and the Graf Spee. The British and French were able to defeat them through a mixture of luck, miscommunication on the part of the Axis, and air superiority. In this scenario though, we assume Britain lost the Battle of Britain, to allow for the Germans to enact a successful Operation Sea Lion.

And this is ignoring that Operation Sea Lion was meant to include an invasion of Ireland, the so-called operation Green meant to deny Britain the ability to call in reinforcements from N. Ireland. So really Britain shouldn’t have Ireland at all in this scenario.