I just wanted to verify my understanding that the Germans had superior equipment and basically only lost a war of attrition (in spite of Hitlers crazy notions). This will be the theme in my scenario: quality verses quantity. This is quite a contreversial thing so I thought I'd make my research public before doing the scenario.
I suppose we could go into a long process of comparing stats of comparable equipment but I though that looking at the kills would have been much easier. Here are the top 10 Luftwaffe aces:
Erich Hartmann 352 kills
Gerhard Barkhorn 301 kills
Gunther Rall 275 kills
Otto Kittel 267 kills
Walter Nowothy 258 kills
Willhelm Batz 237 kills
Erich Rudorffer 222 kills
Heinz Bar 220 kills
Hermann Graf 212 kills
Heinrich Ehrler 209 kills
and many DOZENSs of aces with over 100 kills
in contrast, the top Allied aces
Russian Ivan N Kozahebub 62 kills
British James Johnson 38 kills
American Richard Bong 40 kills
Then I began to look at the tanks, without bothering to look for equivalent Allied kills.
Hans Ulrich Rudel, the top Ju-87 ace destroyed 519 tanks, 150 artillery pieces, 800 other vehicles, 70 landing craft and a battleship single handedly.
The German tank ace Michael Wittmann destroyed 144 tanks over the course of the war before being killed by accident (friendly fire).
In 1944, Panzer Regiment Bake destoyed 267 Russian tanks in the Balabononaka pocket for the loss of 5 in five days
In July 1944, Ernst Bortmann destroyed 16 Shermans with a single panther
Karl Korner destroyed over 100 russian tanks in April of 1945, mostly JS-2s, in his King Tiger during the defence of Berlin. (He basically ran out of ammo).
I suppose we could go into a long process of comparing stats of comparable equipment but I though that looking at the kills would have been much easier. Here are the top 10 Luftwaffe aces:
Erich Hartmann 352 kills
Gerhard Barkhorn 301 kills
Gunther Rall 275 kills
Otto Kittel 267 kills
Walter Nowothy 258 kills
Willhelm Batz 237 kills
Erich Rudorffer 222 kills
Heinz Bar 220 kills
Hermann Graf 212 kills
Heinrich Ehrler 209 kills
and many DOZENSs of aces with over 100 kills
in contrast, the top Allied aces
Russian Ivan N Kozahebub 62 kills
British James Johnson 38 kills
American Richard Bong 40 kills
Then I began to look at the tanks, without bothering to look for equivalent Allied kills.
Hans Ulrich Rudel, the top Ju-87 ace destroyed 519 tanks, 150 artillery pieces, 800 other vehicles, 70 landing craft and a battleship single handedly.
The German tank ace Michael Wittmann destroyed 144 tanks over the course of the war before being killed by accident (friendly fire).
In 1944, Panzer Regiment Bake destoyed 267 Russian tanks in the Balabononaka pocket for the loss of 5 in five days
In July 1944, Ernst Bortmann destroyed 16 Shermans with a single panther
Karl Korner destroyed over 100 russian tanks in April of 1945, mostly JS-2s, in his King Tiger during the defence of Berlin. (He basically ran out of ammo).