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Originally Posted by JG3_Hartmann
Well I don't think the Royal Navy would have been a real thread for a German invasion fleet. There would have been no better present for Hitler and the Luftwaffe than having the Home Fleet doing a parade in the Channel. Every German plane which could carry even something similar like a weapon would have been used for the attack on the capital ships...and if they would have used only small vessels...well they wouldn't have been able to do much against an invasion.
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You are right as those thinking of the navy are forgetting the Battle of Taranto
where Swordfish biplanes sunk and destroyed several capital ships, the sinking of the HMS Prince of Wales and HMS Repulse, Pearl Harbour, which clearly showed capital ships had become antique.
Things could have gone both ways, luckely they did not.
But we are at a game site and politics should not really be a topic in my opinion.