About Operation Sea Lion
Operation Sea Lion 1940 is a turn based strategy game set on the southern part of the United Kingdom during the Second World War. From Joni Nuutinen: by a wargamer for the wargamers since 2011. You are in command of the...
Operation Sea Lion 1940 is a turn based strategy game set on the southern part of the United Kingdom during the Second World War. From Joni Nuutinen: by a wargamer for the wargamers since 2011.
You are in command of the German landing forces attempting to, against all odds, invade the United Kingdom by crossing the English Channel. The campaign is a logistical struggle to keep enough supplies flowing, in spite of the growing British naval supremacy, to give the German Army a fighting chance.
There is great flexibility as the scenario starts before any German landings have taken place, so you can direct the landing or multiple landings anywhere you wish. A fair warning that keeping multiple faraway landings supplied will be a huge challenge as opposed to one single landing over the shortest possible distance.
On August 13, 1940, Alfred Jodl, Chief of Operations in the OKW (Oberkommando der Wehrmacht), wrote: "The landing operation must under no circumstances fail. A failure could have political consequences that would go far beyond the military ones... I consider the landing to be an act of desperation, which would have to be risked in a desperate situation but which we have no reason whatsoever to undertake at this moment."
FEATURES:
+ Long-lasting: Thanks to in-built variation and the game's smart AI technology, each game provides a unique war gaming experience.
+ Good AI: Instead of just attacking on straight line towards the target, the AI opponent attempts to balance between strategic goals and smaller tactical tasks like encircling or attacking nearby weak-looking units.
+ Settings: Various options are available to alter the look of the gaming experience: Change difficulty level, hexagon size, Animation speed, choose icon set for units (NATO or REAL) and cities (Round, Shield, Square, block of houses), decide what is drawn on the map, and much more.
In order to be a victorious general, you must learn to coordinate your attacks in two ways. First, as adjacent units give support to an attacking unit, keep your units in groups in order to gain local superiority. Secondly, it is rarely the best idea to use brute force when it is possible to encircle the enemy and cut off its supply lines instead.
Join your fellow strategy gamers in changing the course of the Second World War!
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This great What-If of military history was actually wargamed by German and British commanders for 16 hours at Royal Military Academy Sandhurst in 1974. Its aim was to find out what might have happened had Germany launched Operation Sea Lion. The wargame was organized by the Department of War Studies at Sandhurst. The British umpires were Air Chief Marshal Christopher Foxley-Norris, Rear Admiral Teddy Gueritz and Major General Glyn Gilbert. The German umpires were General Adolf Galland (air), Admiral Friedrich Ruge (naval) and General Heinrich Trettner (land). The game was played using a scale model of southeast England, the English Channel, and northern France. Available troops and resources were based on known plans from both sides. After the game's conclusion, all the umpires unanimously concluded that the invasion was a devastating defeat for the German invasion force.
Previous Versions
Here you can find the changelog of Operation Sea Lion since it was posted on our website on 2016-12-23 08:24:30.
The latest version is 4.2.4.0 and it was updated on 2024-04-19 17:58:30. See below the changes in each version.
Operation Sea Lion version 4.2.4.0
Updated At: 2024-04-03
Changes: + Extra MPs in quiet rear area are easier to get (land units)
+ War Status: Includes the number of hexagons the players gained/lost in the last turn
+ Setting: Store a failsafe copy of the present game (disable for out of storage devices)
+ Fix: Arrows showing past movement had size issues under some setting combinations
+ Added few clarifying map labels for new players
+ HOF cleanup
Operation Sea Lion version 4.2.2.0
Updated At: 2023-10-26
Changes: v4.2.2
+ Each general alternates between offering Sabotage and Request Call-for-Support action
+ Setting: Rounded Display: If turned ON, the game tries to pad the status line text to prevent info being covered by the rounded corner
+ Reserving more memory for the resources
v4.2
+ Setting: Double the number of Home Guard units
+ Revamped movement arrow drawing mechanism
+ Setting: Alter how strongly hexagon grid is drawn on the map
+ Setting: Scattered Units marked with symbols
Operation Sea Lion version 4.2.0.0
Updated At: 2023-09-18
Changes: + Setting: Double the number of Home Guard units
+ Revamped movement arrow drawing mechanism
+ Setting: Alter how strongly hexagon grid is drawn on the map
+ Setting: Scattered Units marked with symbols
+ Setting: Make support units to be at higher or lower selection priority
+ Setting: MAP button can show full screen map with city icons or VP in a circle
+ Setting: Automove (moving several hexagons at once) can focus the map into direction of travel (less need to move map around)
Operation Sea Lion version 4.0.2.1
Updated At: 2023-07-11
Changes: + Added random British sea minefields (these hexagons are impassable by all units)
+ Setting: Turn AutoMove ON/OFF or alter its effective range (moving the selected unit multiple hexagons after one faraway tap) (UNIT SELECTION segment of Settings)
+ More efficient German bombardment
+ AI: Trying to reduce excessive tactical-task-switching
Operation Sea Lion version 4.0.0.0
Updated At: 2023-06-02
Changes: + It is possible to add British antitank gun units via settings (default: OFF)
+ British landing to a port town by special forces
+ Setting: HP loss on water
+ Replacements for Gebirgsjager/Fallschirmjager
+ Setting: General from ON/OFF to % chance of getting each one
+ If a unit covers a tactical route, green line drawn over the unit
+ Dugout can be placed on a border hexagon if enemy control
Operation Sea Lion version 3.5.0.0
Updated At: 2023-04-29
Changes: + General can request sabotage: a couple of nearby enemy controlled hexagon change sides
+ Dugout can be placed on a border hexagon of a province if enemy control at most around 5 percent of it
+ AI: More comprehensive situation assessment before attacking over rivers
+ Setting: Draw 1921–1933 war ensign flag over empty spots on map over player controlled area
+ Any unit can be disbanded by selecting it and pressing REL-button for 5 seconds
+ Resorted items on generals' action-menu
+ HOF cleanup
Operation Sea Lion version 3.4.9.0
Updated At: 2023-01-12
Changes: + Dugouts will from now on be available via Build Dugout action by a general (if units depots turned ON, the build-dugout menu action will alternate with reset-depot action)
+ Setting: Draw 1921–1933 war ensign flag over empty spots on map over player controlled area (if any)
+ HOF cleared from the oldest scores
Operation Sea Lion version 3.4.6.1
Updated At: 2022-03-21
Changes: + Minefields requested by Generals/Commanders now arrive with one turn delay
+ Assigning replacements (+1 HP) to a unit is a bit easier (3 adjacent enemy hexagons allowed, but the severity of enemy-blocks-replacements depends on the Difficulty Level
+ HOF relocated to web (see dev-log for details)
+ Setting: HOF: Send scores to online database (ON/OFF switch)
+ Setting: Turn major developer alerts ON/OFF
+ AI: Improvements in front line coherence
+ Fix: Supply merge towards Isle of Wight
Operation Sea Lion version 3.4.4.0
Updated At: 2021-10-22
Changes: + Fog-of-War: Sometimes enemy HP drawn as ?
+ Assigning +1 HP replacements: The unit can't be adjacent to more than one enemy hexagon or out of supply
+ New province borders (better visibility under other elements). Settings: Province Border brightness & line-width
+ New default background is solid yellow-green color (options: 22 image patterns, grey, green, yellow-green)
Operation Sea Lion version 3.4.2.0
Updated At: 2021-07-06
Changes: + A little bit quicker initial Troop Transport Ship movement
+ Province Control Percent: The percent of how much the player controls of the centermost province currently on the screen is drawn as a text on grey box on one of the hexagons of that province (ON/OFF option)
+ Victory Point Status: The number of VPs player currently controls and the amount of VPs required for victory drawn on yellow box
+ Icons: Brightened the darkest units
+ Fix: Less-Units feature not working on some devices
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