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

[sgminfo]

It used to be a favoured tactic....

somewhat ahistorical (I was never that convinced in 1940 that the 
average British line division could hold it together enough to withstand 
a determined prepared assault by the Wehrmacht without ending up being 
'bounced' out of position and accidentally giving way....

Using the attrition option, that whole Brittany gambit position starts 
to look a whole lot more intriguing...

-|steve|-


Steve Patrick wrote:
> 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 
> <mailto: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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