Yes Russ, it ties back to my original outline of a mutual cross channel brawl. Both sides being too limited by the aircraft types available to them to gain any great advantage and the result being a bloody mess.

Both RAF and Lw are range limited by their primary fighters (Spit/Hurri/Me109).

Both are numbers limited, the RAF by the need to husband a significant fighter reserve for the future and the LW by being a secondary campaign to the Battle for France. This is compounded for the LW by a lack of bombers, I figure supporting the Army would take precedence and they are only supposed to conducting a holding operation against Britain.

The RAF have far more throw weight in bombers, but the BC effort in support of France takes the bulk of their total potential payload, leaving the tactical bombers with only a slightly greater footprint than the fighters.

So we end up with a rough parity, the Lw can bomb by daylight (Me110 - low weight/high accuracy), the RAF can bomb by night (Blenheim/Hampton - medium weight/low accuracy), while the fighter claw at each other.

I can't help thinking the Lw are going to get the worst of it, even if they do a lot of damage in the process, they are just out massed and under prioritised by their own command. To continue the campaign under those conditions make little military sense, but strategically and politically Britain can not be left alone, and the Lw is the only arm that can do the job in the short term. So Berlin has to keep feeding the mincer and not much can change until the BoF is concluded, and then we get Phase 2.

I'm sensing some level of agreement here - does anyone have a problem with any of this?

shane

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