Why did Britain win the BoB?

(John Freck) wrote:

The setting is July 1st, 1940.
What must the Axis do better?

Adopt a strategy capable of winning and then stick with it.
Whether attacking Radar stations, Sector Stations, Aircraft plants or
POL, the Luftwaffe never continued any single strategy long enough for
it to be crippling to the UKs overall effort.

Quit blaming the weather. Adopt the flexible strategy of
operations vs. weather used later in the battle.

Frei Jagd. Destroy the fighters and eventually the bombers
won't have fighters to worry about.

'Relay' style fighter escort of bombers.

Move Luftflotte 5 to France.

Develop intelligence - poor intel let to poorer targeting.


what must the Allies do better?

Adopt the US's .50cal machine gun.

Disperse engine manufacture, it's concentrated in only a few
plants. In wargaming, this is one facet that continually worked for me
when acting as the Axis - aero engine manufacture grounded the RAF
when I significantly damaged the factories.

Reduce labor time (especially the exquisite hand fittting) of
aero engine components.

Allow more foreign nationals to fly as pilots, if possible.
A covert agreement with the USAF/USN/USMC like Chennault made ?

I like the other poster's suggestion of rescue floats in the
Channel, and better camoflage of aircraft - let me expand the camo to
include decoys and ack-ack traps over the decoys.



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