[WarInEur] France 1940 Allied OOB

[Kelvin Stevens]

That reminds me. In BWIE when England Surrendered only those
Commonwealth/British units actually in England Surrendered. Those outside
kept on fighting and those re-inforcements that appear in Egypt kept on
appearing due to them being Australian & Indian etc troops.
This didn't happen in CWIE.
Is it going to happen in the new version

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Sent: Tuesday, 13 November 2007 10:46 PM
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Subject: [WarInEur] France 1940 Allied OOB

There appears to be a minor error in the CW 1940 OOB as depicted in the set 
up instructions.

If we take the the 1939 OOB and add all the reinforcements we should get the

1940 OOB.  We do in most cases.  However, we don't in the case of the CW 
infantry units.

There is one more 8-10's in Britain that can be accounted for, the two 3-10 
brigades have disappeared and we have too many 2-10bg on the map. So what 
happened.

First let's look at Egypt/Pallestine.  We start off in 39 with two 2-10bg . 
In 1940, there are three 2-10bg.  There were two 8-10 received as 
reinforcements in Suez, but no combat so where did the extra 2-10bg come 
from and what happened to the 8-10.s.

The rules prohibit sending a bg from Britain so it didn't come from there. 
However, Malta starts off the war with a 2-10 bg in addition to the garrison

unit.  In 1940 it is no longer present so maybe it got transfered to Egypt, 
that would account for the number of bg's deployed in Egypt/Palestine for 
the 1940 campaign.  So let's presume that the the Malta 2-10bg has been 
transferred to Palestine and the two 8-10 have been sent on to Britain.

That brings us to Britain.  The 1939 scenario starts off with six 2-10bgs in

Britain and the CW receives 22 more 2-10bgs as reinforements between 3-9-39 
and 0-5-40.  They also receive one 8-10, two 3-10s, and 11 IRP.  None of the

IRP remain in 1940, so presumeably all were used to convert 2-10bgs into 
8-10s.  So what we should have available for Europe is: 15x8-10 (One direct 
reinforcement, eleven conversions from 2-10 bgs, and two Suez reinforcements

reshipped to Britain), 2x3-10 received as direct reinforcements, no 
remaining IRP and have 17x2-10s remaining in Europe.

However, the 1940 setup gives, 16x8-10 (ten BEF and six in Britain), 18x2-10

(sixteen in Britain and two in Norway) and zero 3-10 (the two 3-10s are 
missing).  This is a minimum of one more 8-10 than it was possible to build 
or a maximum of three to many 8-10s if the two 2-10bg in Norway started out 
as 8-10s and were subsequently attrited.  There are two 2-10 bg in Norway 
and sixteen in Britain for a total of 18x 2-10bgs which is one to many and 
as previously noted the 2x3-10's are missing.

So we have one extra 8-10, one extra 2-10bg and two missing 3-10's.  I 
believe the two 2-10bg in Norway are actually the missing 3-10s (the British

never sent two divisions to Norway ITRW) and the extra 8-10 in Britain 
should be a 2-10. These changes make all the numbers work out.

Alternatively, we would need to add three IRP either as reinforcements or as

a prewar pool so that the Allies could convert a total of 14x2-10bg into 
8-10s, assume that two of the 8-10 were intercepted by Axis Air/Sea 
interdiction and reduced to 2-10bg in Norway and that the missing 2x3-10 
were omitted and need to be added.

Swapping out the 2-10bgs in Norway for the missing 3-10s and reducing one of

the 8-10s in Britain to a 2-10bg requires the fewest changes from the 
published setup instructions.


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