Board Thread:Timeline Discussions/@comment-7559950-20130911012534/@comment-32656-20131001133839

Imp, the Brits had the Merchants and Navy to supply the world. Germans didn't even have it to supply more than a corps in Libya. Only reason why they could supply more than that in Tunisia was because of how close to Sicily it was, and even then it was really just two corps there. Even the Italian shipping was useless in this manner, having the same problems. Brits also controlled the sea lanes in every aspect, with no Axis forces able to respond. (kind of hard to respond when you have no place to do so from)

Most of the goods shipped from the Americas to the Brits was, in fact, not food.

Vastly overstating its abilities - and don't buy the operational ceiling of it for a second. And understating the Meteor, for that matter. Heck, the Meteor never actually got to fight German jets, so we don't know how it would have done, overall - though it has been theorized that it was definitely equal to the other German jets.

You forget, Imp, that the Brits aren't going to sit there like bumps on a log. They would make their own changes to either improve the bombing runs, or counter German changes. And, for that matter, the casualty rates are much better than most people think they were.

You've got a draw in most regards between the Germans and the Brits. Brits would probably get them out of North Africa eventually, though.

Even if they had had precise info of where the V-2s landed, would have done them no good. For that matter, they'd have actually had a pretty good idea of where. Problem is, there was no real way to precisely aim them. Point and fire, you know?

You give too much credit to German technological development. Both they and the Brits were at about the same level overall, with strengths in different areas.

Draw in every meaning of the word.

Aternix, even at a medium distance they were still taken down. Got to remember that they couldn't hit the broad side of a barn - more accurately, the township the barn was in, for that matter - at all, too.

Really, using those weapons wasn't going to destroy morale. Imo, it helped it.

Yeah, if it had been some form of Imperial Germany and not the Nazis, they'd have had British support, and possibly even French support.

Rdv, there was absolutely no truth whatsoever to that "article." Neo-Nazi bull is all that was.

As for Vlasov, an earlier start would probably have done him no good. Man really had little support, and the Germans did not trust him whatsoever. Would have run directly counter to every single Nazi goal in the USSR, too.

Yeah, that's not true at all, Aternix.