[WarInEur] Sealion, North Africa, all revolve around France taking so long to fall!

[Chuck Sutherland]

In the game no, historically their operational methods were still WWI style, mobile warfare was not a general concept even understood by those in control. Thus it is my conclusion that had they stayed put or been ready for the thrust that came that the Germans would have rebalanced their forces and struck another relative weak point and been the first with the most to the critical area of the battle field. They would still have had the air superiority over the key battlefield and once a breakthrough had happened the French would have been to slow to react to it and ended up in a pocket somewhere somehow. And they would have surrendered the troops in the pocket to save lives and the results while lasting maybe an additional 4 weeks would not be the 6 month slogging match that happens in War in Europe.

Now let the French have training from the 1930s on in mobile warfare and mass their tanks instead then things would have been interesting.

In my book the French simply do not have the ability or will to resist the onslaught of the Panzer corps because they lacked the command and control to operate in that environment. And unlike the Soviets, they did not have the men and space to trade while they grasp for answers to how to counter the German method. They might win a local battle but the big picture would see that local battle, still a loss because the victors would hold their ground or advance while their flanks caved because the Germans had switched focus to another location to achieve the penetration.

Chuck Sutherland


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From: warineur-bounces at mailman.halisp.net [mailto:warineur-bounces at mailman.halisp.net] On Behalf Of Carl Rupp
Sent: Thursday, June 05, 2008 8:00 PM
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Subject: Re: [WarInEur] Sealion, North Africa, all revolve around France taking so long to fall!

But can France fall in two months if the French don't advance forward
into the trap of Belgium and commit all their reserves there, as they
did historically?

Carl

Chuck Sutherland wrote:
> The standard Sealion rules are going to work and will scare the English if France actually falls near an historical time frame. Instead of 6 months say 2. This gives the Germans 4 extra months to attempt Sealion. This in turn will keep the English home with most of their troops instead of loading up NA to crush the Axis early on.
>
> Fix France, you will fix NA and Sealion!
>
> Chuck Sutherland
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