giddygoat said:
for those of you interested check out
http://www.achtungpanzer.com/gen3.htm
The Germans may be the "bad guys" then but they were a truly formidable force. Very professional and advanced. Cool equipments too

Hats off to the Allied troops who bravely fought against them. It's not easy hunting Tigers when you're driving a "Ronson Lighter". To actually succeed as they did was a truly remarkable achievement.
The Germans are considering the most formidable force in the world.
Germany almost won World War II, had not been the the strategic error done by Hilter.
1. At the begining, Battle of France, June 1940, had the German armour divisions smash all their way to capture Dunkirk, they would have capture another additional 300,000 combine British and French armed force.
This would leave England with totally no available combat experience force and equipment to fight Germany in 1940.
However, order of advance was halt under the direct command of Hilter, and the trapped armies evacuate from Dunkirk to England by sea.
2. Operation Sea Lion, the operation code name to invade England after the fall of France, was cancel by Hilter after the heavy losses suffer by the German AirForce, Luftwaffe during the air Battle of Britain.
Should Hilter continue to persist to fight the air battle, dispite the heavy losses, the Germans would have wipe out the RAF and control the sky.
By controlling the skies, they would control the English channel, send the German Army across the sea and meet with little or no resistance at the ground of England. Hence, England would then be conquer by Germany.
3. Should Hilter authorise the use of all the naval resources to built a huge fleet of superior numbers of U- boats instead of building the 2 Battleships, Bismark and Tirpritz, they would have the strength to control the Altantic Ocean.
By then, there would be no way for USA to launch D-day to recapture Europe
with Altantic Ocean under Germanr control.
4. Operation Barbarossa, invasion of Soviet Union in June 1941.
Hilter should take England first before challenging Russia, hence, creating an unneccessary 2nd front for Germany to fight.
5. Had the German invade Russia 2 months earlier in April 1941 and capture Moscow in Oct 1941, and capture the whole of Crimea (1/3 of Russia's oil rescources), including Staingrad by Dec 1941, the Battle of Russia would have won by the Germans.