Question about sealion

[crenk]

I am about to start playing with germany for the first time and know of operation sealion. My question is this, is there one best sequence for a successfull operation sealion or can you vary it up in your experience. I would be interested in reading several buy options.

[JimmyHat]

The only thing I think you /must/ do is buy a CV on G1.  This will make sure your fleet survives and can be quite useful throughout the game.

[crenk]

This might be a dumb question but what is a cv?

[Spendo02]

They have some funny acronyms here, the CV is an Aircraft Carrier.

[otahere34]

Thats what the actual acronym is.

AC: Aircraft Carrier
BB: Battleship
DD: Destroyer
AP: Transport
CA: Cruiser (Heavy)
SS: Submarine
CL: Cruiser (Light)

I think these are it anyway

[Jercules]

Another option, besides the CV buy, is to invest in bombers.

Do a strat. bomb on London G1 (with 2 bombers), and do another one with 2 + 2 on G2 (with a G1 buy of 2 bombers and whatever else your heart desires for 6 IPCs).

In my opinion, it’s the better option because once you’re through taking London, extra bombers are far more useful against the USSR than a carrier.