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Okay, you're trying to have it both ways here; if the RAF has abandoned Southern England due to unsustainable losses and retreated to the Midlands, they have stopped contesting the former. If they are still running operations, why would they do the move at all, given the purpose of the move...

It's not an either/or option; the pilots, planes and logistics were already in place it was a matter of said planning. See Directive 13: 3. Tasks Of The Air Force. (a) Apart from operations in France, the Air Force is authorised to attack the English homeland in the fullest manner, as soon as...

Forcing the RAF to abandon contesting the airspace over Southern England isn't a tactical victory, it's an unmitigated strategic success and puts the British in the exact same position Germany was in during 1943. The important centers of production, including London, can now be subjected to...

Definitely an interesting scenario! Personally, I do agree a successful Sealion is unlikely, based on existing German amphibious capacity and logistical issues. Whether it can be a success is, however, a different question from whether it can be attempted and the strategic impacts of even a...

Yes, as already indicated, it's a net strategic benefit. A) Is literally impossible, the Germans lacked sufficient lift capability to lose more than two divisions at maximum. In exchange, they would be forcing the Royal Navy, British Army and RAF to prioritize the Homeland to the extent it...

Case in point being the claim they start operations while France is still fighting; they don't. Can you outline what parameters you feel are lacking? Except, as already shown, this is false. Petain on June 16th has asked for an armistice, concurrent to the fire aerial operations starting...

Definitely, but the former makes the latter possible and even if we take the position that said landings are doomed to fail, the strategic benefits still go to the Germans. Losing, say, two Divisions at maximum to decimate the RAF and Royal Navy in the Channel is a net benefit. End effect of...

Say the odds of a British victory in the real-world Battle of Britain stood at 50-50 (there's no real way of knowing what the actual odds are, so we'll just have to select an arbitrary figure). If this were the case, changing the start date of the campaign and focusing only on airfields would...

Mathematical model shows how the Nazis could have won WWII's Battle of Britain Now, historians and mathematicians from York St. John University have collaborated to produce a statistical model (docx download) capable of calculating what the likely outcomes of the Battle of Britain would have...