That’s the point, man. By 1944 it didn’t matter what weapons they devised. Germany was regularly bombed while US factories chugged along with impunity.
You need to be able to sustain a logistics chain. If UK were to fall, or would be neutral, it could lead to a completely different outcome. UK allowed for a staging ground to land in Europe. Also for easier support of convoys and the “fleet in waiting” strategy. Take care of that, and suddenly you can focus on Africa more and probably save the Italians from themselves. Sooo if somehow the V series rockets were more accurate, and they had thousands of them. Or nukes. It is a fever dream, but so was going through the Ardennes.
Same for why the battleships that could interdict convoys going to the Soviet Union. All of it long shots, but losing Bismarck was an unlucky event. Miles from nazi air cover, it got hit by a single torpedo dropped from a hail mary attack with outdated airplanes which locked its rudder and made it turn in circles. The allies lost contact with Bismarck a couple of times too, but then followed an oil trail from a second lucky hit when it fought HMS Hood. Which was also sunk from a “lucky” hit - in reality a design flaw that made Hood susceptible to detonation on this specific hit / angle. The entire French campaign was lucky as hell combined with methed up soldiers (200 miles in a day in tanks going 30kmh max, off road?).
Further yet, imagine if they weren’t megalomaniacs and instead went for full on submarine production. They could’ve blockaded the UK easily.
The main thing that didn’t have a chance in hell of working were taking the UK over with taking on the RAF, and invading the Soviet Union thinking “if we take these three main objectives, they’ll surrender”.
So yeah, good thing for us that nazis were so stupid in some cases.
Same it always feels like the continuation of the idea of Wunderwaffen
That’s the point, man. By 1944 it didn’t matter what weapons they devised. Germany was regularly bombed while US factories chugged along with impunity.
You need to be able to sustain a logistics chain. If UK were to fall, or would be neutral, it could lead to a completely different outcome. UK allowed for a staging ground to land in Europe. Also for easier support of convoys and the “fleet in waiting” strategy. Take care of that, and suddenly you can focus on Africa more and probably save the Italians from themselves. Sooo if somehow the V series rockets were more accurate, and they had thousands of them. Or nukes. It is a fever dream, but so was going through the Ardennes.
Same for why the battleships that could interdict convoys going to the Soviet Union. All of it long shots, but losing Bismarck was an unlucky event. Miles from nazi air cover, it got hit by a single torpedo dropped from a hail mary attack with outdated airplanes which locked its rudder and made it turn in circles. The allies lost contact with Bismarck a couple of times too, but then followed an oil trail from a second lucky hit when it fought HMS Hood. Which was also sunk from a “lucky” hit - in reality a design flaw that made Hood susceptible to detonation on this specific hit / angle. The entire French campaign was lucky as hell combined with methed up soldiers (200 miles in a day in tanks going 30kmh max, off road?). Further yet, imagine if they weren’t megalomaniacs and instead went for full on submarine production. They could’ve blockaded the UK easily.
The main thing that didn’t have a chance in hell of working were taking the UK over with taking on the RAF, and invading the Soviet Union thinking “if we take these three main objectives, they’ll surrender”.
So yeah, good thing for us that nazis were so stupid in some cases.