[WarInEur] Political Rules, 3R/Vichy and BEF

[Steve Patrick]

The CW have to keep them all alive, however a trench line across Brittany
could be intersting.


On Mon, Feb 2, 2009 at 9:21 AM, John Pace <john_pace_ca at yahoo.com> wrote:

> I am a bit 'cautious' about rules attempting to enforce historical
> situations.  Sometimes they can create more problems than they solve.
>
> With all this talk about the CW abandoning the French to their fate in
> 1940.  There is another gambit that I bet nobody has tried.  For each three
> CW divisons in France, the Vichy role is reduced by one.  With 18 CW
> divisons in France when Paris falls, then there is guaranteed no Vichy and
> all French units in North Africa remains in play.  What if the Allies
> evacuate all French units to North Africa, with just 18 CW division in
> France (plus 4 * 1-3 guarding the Italian border).  On one hand, the Allies
> risk BG reduction of the CW divisions, but on the other they have the entire
> 3rd Republic army survive for the rest of the war.
>
> John
>
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