Comments by "Nattygsbord" (@nattygsbord) on "Midway: Was a Japanese Invasion Possible?" video.

  1. They were obsolete even in World war 1 started. They never even became a thing in war before those damn uboats, planes and missiles destroyed everything good and fair about naval warfare :( Those ships were too expensive to lose, so the Germans never wanted to sail and make a big battle with the Royal navy - because the RN was about 50% stronger than the huge German navy. So the German ships was sitting anchored next to the coast for almost the entire war. And then came World War II, and we know what happened to the Royal Oak, Prince of Wales, Repulse, Bismarck, Tirpitz, Musashi, and all the battleships at Pearl Harbour.
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  2. First of all did the loss of the 6th Army and 4th panzer corps cause a huge gap in the southern part of the Russian front, and the Germans were lucky that they didn't lose the other half of the Army Group. But if that would have happened the South would have collapsed, and Germany would be forced to try to plug the hole with what they had - and they didn't have anything suffiecent to compensate such a huge loss. And moving troops from Army Group North and Middle, would just strech those army groups thin as well.... and then the Russians could just smash those army groups as well, and the entire Eastern front would be left unprotected for the steamrolling red army. And not trying to plug the southern hole was not an option either. Germany needed rare earth metals, it needed the Ukrainian coal mines, and losing the airbases on Crimea would threaten the Turkish shipments of chrome to Germany........And worst of all, having a million men on the southern flank of Army group mittel would be a disaster for the Germans. And of top of all those things - I guess a political crisis would be ensured. Stalingrad was bad enough, and many countries were starting to make diplomatical moves towards peace and leaving the Axis. And had the Southern front totally collapsed and Ukraine quickly fallen to the Russians, and Romania and Hungary had become next to fall.... then I guess that the Axis-alliance would fall to pieces pretty fast. And the only thing stopping the red army then, would be bad weather and logistical constraints rather than fierce enemy opposition.
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  3. U mean this dude? https://www.youtube.com/user/TheChieftainWoT
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