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Round 2:
Germany invades Morocco locking the UK fleet in the Med and putting it’s navy in sz91 (this assumes that they attacked the 2 cruisers in sz112 with their navy and reinforced with at least a carrier). Invades Greece and moves it’s airforce to Southern Italy.
How exactly does Germany manage that ? A surface warship has been left SZ 104 on UK1…So there is no way Germany can go to Morocco on their combat move. Also, but i could be wrong on that one : i thought that only the control of Gibraltar was important for the control of the strait.
By the way, thanks for taking the time to think about this strat and post it here, sarge.
That’s right, I forgot about you saying you would move a ship to sz104. In that case there’s not anything that Germany can do to stop it really.
The only thing they can do is use their subs to take out the destroyers in sz106/109 and the cruiser in sz91 to limit the number of ships available for blocking. But even if all of those attacks somehow succeed that still allows the UK to use it’s cruiser in sz110 as a block. Even with this diminished UK fleet in sz92, Italy still has no chance of taking it out. The UK fleet is then free to retreat to sz89.
The only downside I can see to this is that Italy will have the med fairly uncontested for the foreseeable future. The UK fleet won’t be able to wipe out a consolidated Italian fleet with backup, especially if it is in sz97. It seems to me to be preferable to take out one or both of the Italian fleet in order to better dominate Africa, but if you were worried about Sealion and still had the ships in sz110 then it might be safer to consolidate. It also gives a nice jump start to operations in the Atlantic.
In terms of clearing the entire UK fleet around England it is possible if you don’t send any planes down to Southern Italy to scramble with the Italians. Although with the threat of a strong Sealion the UK would probably be more cautious in the Med and may not go for an attack. I think defending sz112 shouldn’t be a problem if you put in a sub into the previous attack there. Worst case scenario you end up with 1 damaged bb, 1 ca, 3 ftr vs 3ftr.
One question for Thomas Jefferson. Do you put planes into the attack on sz109 or just rely on subs? I would think that the UK would be very tempted to scramble it’s four fighters to help defend the transport. It seems to me it would be better to just put in two subs. Or use those two subs to take out the transport and destroyer in sz106 which prevents UK from reinforcing against Sealion.