Nicely put Shane but the offensive strikes by Fighter command maybe a bit to much, I think. Let me explain. Fighter Command would have had by July 10 1940, 640 fighters to cover the entire country if they are not used after Dunkirk compared to over 1400 fighters at the same time for the Luftwaffe. Instead, in FFO, we would have to see the RAF still trying to support the French as much as possible but from Britain after Dunkirk. This would result in a splitting of the 2 main German Luft's pursuing the French south. So if we say roughly 700 fighters stay to begin defensive and offensive operations against Britain it looks fairly even. Trouble is that we also have the lowlands and Norway Luft attacking the East coast and Northern parts of England. This means that the full fighter weight of the RAF will have to split plus the system used by the RAF will mean that a fraction of all the fighters the RAF has will be at the Channel. Furthermore, the RAF in the historical phase 1 battle over the channel lost more pilots than the Luftwaffe. If this battle is longer and more protracted, this could be very bad for the RAF. Even the Phase 2 battles were evenly matched, only the Phase 3 and 4 battles gave the advantage to the British. We've already agreed that we wont see a phase 3 or 4 battle so the advantage seems to be on the RLM's side. Only the Command and Control system the RAF has will allow the fewer fighters they have to look larger ( more with less ). When the Bombers and Stuka's move back from Southern France the RLM should have air superiority over the channel and have a better grasp of the air over Southern England. What does this mean? Well the Stuka's main weakness may take longer to surface for one, The RAF may begin to refuse battle, preferring to wait for the bombers as per otl but at the expense of more damage to there airfields. This could become a very bloody battle. One that the RAF may have to send BC to try to harrass the RLM's airfields and logistics systems to give them breathers. The FFO operations in the Med. maybe needed for no other reason then to relieve some pressure on England by diverting RLM assets to the Med.. As aircraft are not the problem, pilots are, a bigger push for pilots from the Commonwealth training program maybe required. To put this in persepective, until the Commonwealth training program came online, the RLM trained 3 times the amount of pilots than the RAF and those pilots had twice the flying time and training time than the RAF pilots had. This in a system that was still loosely based on a world war one training model in Germany. If Germany implemented the training program they planned to, this would double that output almost immediately and would be scalable to larger amounts if needs arised.

Well enough rambling..

Later

Russ / Roller007