If anyone wanted to take a look at the rulebook, yo can go here to see the rules for World War II on the Western Front:
Why was France so bad?
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@jim010 I agree with most of what you said, the British could have helped with air support at least. They should have gotten across the Rhine river (may be spelling that wrong) and dug in. Then retreat when they are almost dead and blow the bridges or maybe stay behind it.
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@FranceNeedsMorePower For me, it is more about the decisions they made May 10th and on. They didn’t have to advance into Belgium, and they could have taken the reports from the Ardennes seriously. Had that have happened, would the Germans still have broken through?
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@jim010 The move into Belgium was actually a great move. Well for another ww1 it was a great move. If it was another ww1 they would be fighting on dutch land and get extra troops from the dutch.
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@FranceNeedsMorePower Exactly. Great move if it was WW1. Gamelin was far too inflexible that he was incapable of seeing any other way to respond to German moves. He was the final (and biggest) nail in the French army’s coffin.
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@jim010 Yep
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@FranceNeedsMorePower That and tanks without radios and made for infantry support, not armored breakthroughs.
I’ve seen many people say that the Char B1 tank was superior to anything the Germans had. Sure it was huge and packed a big punch, but it was slow. Was never meant for fast maneuvers the Germans were doing.
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@jim010 I have also heard that.
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@jim010 said in Why was France so bad?:
packed a big punch, but it was slow.
5 dogs take out a big old lion every time :)
Tramp in Armour is a historical fiction read that deals with the topic you guys might enjoy, if you haven’t already read it :)
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@barnee I will have to check it out! Thanks barnee!
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What are people’s thoughts on the Maginot? Did it perform as intended?
I think it did. It was meant to be such a scary defense line that the Germans would never dream of attacking it and force them to go through the low countries, where the main French army would meet them.
But, I do think that it was too high an investment in resources compared to the results, even though it did work. They could have achieved the same result with far less commitment of resources.
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