[WarInEur] More on France 1940

[Hansen]

So with your route, if the Germans don't follow up the invasion of France
they lose the PP value of taking France. I understand the concept, but would
want to see it worked into a much larger political game re-work.

 

As the German, invading Britain is a costly and risky exercise. Even given
sea lion option, the chances of success are low. 

 

I think what this ends up with is an even greater reason for the UK to no
send the BEF to France. Any political point loss will be offset by an
essentially automatic winning of the battle of Britain.

 

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From: sgminfo [mailto:sgminfo at aol.com] 
Sent: Saturday, January 12, 2008 2:14 PM
To: Hansen
Cc: warineur at mailman.halisp.net
Subject: Re: [WarInEur] More on France 1940

 

Hansen wrote: 

I kind of like the air superiority/supremacy scheme better. Because it not
only deals with the political points, but also forces both sides to commit
to the air war (and thus not just store up scads of planes). I think it
would be easy enough to implement in both formats. For the board game, every
turn for the 10 weeks that one side has twice as many planes flying as the
other (or one side has some and the other has none), mark it as a point
towards "winning the battle of Britain". Maybe you make it that if the
Germans "win the battle of Britain" then some of the sea lion aspects kick
in, to give both sides a further incentive to participate.

 

The problem with taking away the political points is who cares. Unless
enough political points are on the table to activate Spain/turkey and as
long as you get to the magic number of 60, anything else is a don't care.

 

 

 The reason I go the other route is...

Nobody at the time...knew that the battle of Britain, was the Battle of
Britain....the key issue for all the watching neutrals was, will Germany
bounce the channel? Nothing else mattered. From the outside the end of the
Battle of Britain was shrouded in mystery, it merged into the blitz, and in
the popular mind the battle was still progressing without pause...

But the key moment for the commentators was, the arrival of autumn...and
departing at that moment the prospect of a German landing until the Spring.
It was now clear, that for whatever reason, Germany had stopped, or been
stopped....the invasion could not happen now before the spring, and Britain
had not fallen apart like France (the biggest surprise of all).


>From our point of view,
all that matters...

is that we stop the invasion,
the only and final, arbiter, of success or failure in the campaign in the
west.

No invasion before winter, and Britain has lived to fight another day, a day
which will find her a much tougher nut to crack...

In practical terms, whatever your offensive stance, you either carry
through, or you baulk, and it's that baulk on invasion that that marks the
defeat. 

-|steve|-

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