Friday 2010-06-25 Dev. update and Discussion Thread

[Ernst]

Originally Posted by philip.ed

There was something a historian once said, and it is something that I agree with, and that is that RAF victory against the Luftwaffe was essential from a morale point of view, but realistically it was never 100% essential to stopping an invasion (unless of course Britain chose to throw in the towel before-hand)

I think it was a draw, not a victory. Germans simple decided to not go on. In a moment the RAF was almost depleted and ll not survive another day until Hitler 'geniality' decided to stop attack RAF facilities and start to attack citties and civilians. This give a breath to the almost dying RAF.

Another strategic failure was not capture Malta and deny allies of resconstitute their forces there. In the end I think that luftwaffes had not the effective to battle in so many fronts.

[C6_Krasno]

Almost dying RAF ? From what I understood, only a part of the RAF had her bases under attack, the part based south of London, near the coast. A good part of the RAF bases was out of the range of the 109s. And the RAF did not only included No.11 group, even if it had the majority of the fighters (as far as I know).

[TheGrunch]

The RAF was having a very hard time replacing pilots.