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Old October 20th, 2012, 09:41 AM
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Default Re: A Pinniped Sea Mammal

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Originally Posted by Firestorm View Post
Are you implying that Sealion is an over-used AH plot?

Very well, what about Operation Tannenbaum instead? Instead of "the Germans swam across the channel and died" we can have "the Germans climbed up the mountain and died".
It's a somewhat overdone trope on alternatehistory.com - that's why there is a sticky on the subject, and why people starting yet another 'Nazis win the sea mammal' thread usually get rather short shrift over there.

I'm not going into the details of why the unmentionable dea mammal is impossible - just read through the arguments made in the existing threads over there if you're interested.

But that is why you are invading Walmington on Sea after all: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walmington-on-Sea. It's a fictional episode..

A skilled player may be able to get better than a draw here, if he keeps his troops from being sunk in the barges too much and does not kamikaze his armour. Plus being lucky with the bombers creating screening dust and debris on the beach. Its then a case of dealing with the beach obstacles and a thin crust of troops before fighting through the town to the green fields beyond.

(A non-ASB version would be with the barges reduced to perhaps 1 hex movement, and unarmoured. Plus the tanks reduced to 1 section of panzer 2 and 1 section of Tauchpanzer. In which case it will probably need quite a few turns more added to the scenario too, just to get ashore. )

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