[WarInEur] France 1940

[Carl Rupp]

Since it was my playtesting of CWIE2 with Steve that triggered, at least 
in part, his initial comment, I think I should add my two cents. Unless 
you are going enforce the forced Allied forward move into Belgium on the 
first turn of the invasion, leading to the pocket caused by the Manstein 
plan, there is no way the game will play out like history. Any 
intelligent Allied will fall back gradually, using the rivers to slow 
the advance by halving the attacker. The game will play out more like 
the original Schiefflen plan. It will take quite a while for Paris to 
fall, but the best German hope is getting next to Paris before the 
fortifications can be done, thus triggering the Italian entry and 
opening a second front. Then they can gradually grind down the French 
lines, at cost. The victory will take longer and be much more expensive 
than in history. But it is true that the interaction of attrition and 
the other factors still make a German advance possible.

Carl
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