Board Thread:Questions and Answers/@comment-10975360-20131208111308/@comment-4206034-20131208191020

Russia would almost never lose. The losses Russia endured proved the point. Stalin had massive industry backing him - they had quantity over quality and this allowed for an advantage the Germans could never manage to reproduce until the last model of the Panther was made - which if it had been the first ever model, would have almost definately given the German side a huge boost.

A lot of the factors went wrong in the war. If K3 in Lorient was built instead of K1, they would have been able to safeguard their submarines better. If they had not built the massive dome structure for the V2s and had instead focused on the mobile type of V2 rocket launcher, more resources would have been saved. If the Tiger had used the base of the Panzer IV or an enlargened version of the Panzer IV base - or even the base of the last Panther variant and added the 88mm gun, production would have been absolutely rapid and although not being able to match the allies in production numbers, their tanks would have not broken down and losses would have been replaceable. Their numbers would have allowed the German quality to show through. Lets end the note with how the Panzer VIII Mause should have never been made at all and how the tank used up valuable resources, resources which could have allowed for more conventional tanks to be made.

Then coming onto the Atlantic war. The Germans lost the Atlantic war after 1943 due to the fact they could not keep up with the pace of British development in the field. IF they had focused on building submarines instead of battlecrusiers like the Bismark, things could have been a lot more different. It was pretty much Hitler's idea of "Bigger is Better!" which used up a huge amount of Nazi resources. If you had someone like Speer in charge of the nation, things would never had become like this.