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This change the fact that the Force C didn't pursued the second landing force? 700 meters were in the first engagement (Force D - Lupo), as I stated and you obviously didn't understand. And so? Have I ever said that it wasn't in the firts engagement? Have I ever said that it wasn't accidental...

And what of them is normally a match for a force of destroyers and cruisers?

From your part surely is. Have I ever said it has to be? Then no one has ever moved up from a valley in history. That valley has nothing special. Is full of valleys in the world, and often battles were fought there. Every of them has hig ground around, and what you have shown is not...

As incredible it may seems, any kind of terrain has it's "problems".

Uh, another wiew of the cliffs! Wow! How white they are! So were are the difficulties this time? Not in the terrain you show for sure. Were are the difficulties in those shallow hills? Europe is full of this kind of terrain. Or are you saying that there could be some hidden difficulties that...

Standing to information above, at mid september the Germans had "over 3,000 miscellaneous craft". But didn't So 7000 yards were a long distance Bingo. "Light cruiser ORION sustained some damage to her bridge from pom pom fire from cruiser DIDO. Two men were killed and nine were wounded."...

As incredible as could seems, the countryside of the most part of Europe, including that in which the Germans were operating normally, it is not. Sorry if I can't think of the English climate as particularly harsh.

I see a similar, or rougher, terrain every day. Is called "the plain north of Rome". You can google from the city to Bracciano lake, or Civitavecchia.

Shortround6 wrote that the terrain back of dover is Difficult. It Isn't. Simply as it. Every statement that describes that terrain as difficult is an invention. From Dover to Canterbury there aren't the Alps or every terrain charateristic that can described as "difficult". The cliffs, from the...

No, let's remain with the omnipotent British sweepers. A fleet of which could be hidden under the bed obviously. In not conquering the world with fleets of minesweepers? Something more that is usually called "a plain"? Sorry, but that's the terrain back of Dover is. And hide during the...

Those were their plannings. The attempted landings were a side action. But someone said that the way the RN deal for two days, facing heavy losses, with a side action is the demostration of the impossibility of something.

Really? I think that you have to. Cause at Crete the British choose to fight worse than they could do? And this ability endured for two days. Or we have to think that the ship lost were only to make up a facade resistance having decided in advance that the isle couldn't be defended?

So we now are at 150 tons a day, in a single port, in the best conditions for the British (assuming to have succesfully demolished all dockside) and assuming regular RAF bombing raids (hardly in this scenario), for a week. That's a little more convincing. Then there was what the Germans could...

Every way you look at it the RN had to withdraw after two days of fight, and Crete was conquered by the Germans, in face of larger British forces, thanks to the air cover. Infact the end result was that the Germans took Crete. It seems that someone tends to forget it. It's interesting to...

That are 21.42 tons per day, the load of a single modern truck, or of a single 20 foot container, or of a small ship, or the load capacity of 430 men in a single time, or 43 men if they lift it 10 times in a day (hardly a hard day of work). I think they were a little optimist.