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Day 5, 14 MAY 1940
Before the moves

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14 MAY,
End of the day

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14 MAY 1940
Forgot to do some screenshots of the rest of the front up! A good thing is that Dinant has fallen, the river crossed there in force. The french 1st army is in trouble.[:D]

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15 MAY 1940

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15 MAY, almost a week. Netherlands has surrender. I will use the rail to move part of the 18th army by Maastricht.

Before :

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15 MAY
By the end of the day

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15 MAY

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15 MAY, west of Dinant,

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15 MAY, end of the day, overall situation

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16 MAY 1940

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16 MAY, end of the day

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16 MAY, before the attack of Hoth panzers

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16 MAY end of the day
Heavy losses, specially for the french (not far from 30% of casualties). I won't be abble to reach the Channel in a few days but I may be abble to get 70 VPs...we will see [:)]

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16 MAY, near Gembloux
North of this screenshot, some corps have the goal to take Antwer and cross the defenses of Bruxelle. But I have moved south most of the Arty and the Luftwaffe don't help them very much. I may give them some support but only when I get a decisive victory against the French. Belgium's morale is around 50...and when they surrender, they will fight three more days if I remember the rules...Historicly, Belgium gave up the 24th ? something I have to check...

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17 MAY 1940, Guderian has chosen to avoid Meziers and not even give a try around Montherme. Instead, he has launch his panzers in the direction of Reims. There are rivers to cross and bridges will be destroyed. OKH is worried. [&:] Some help will be provided. The 22nd airborne will have the task to take the control of some strategic bridges, even take Reims and keep those positions until the panzers arrive.

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17 MAY, In the evening, the airdrop of the 22nd.

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17 MAY,
I had made a lot of recon and the 22nd have landed without trouble. One rgt moved during the night and will be the next day, in the morning a few miles from Reims which is an open city (The city is in the radius of the unit, the french won't be abble to rail directly in the city). Another one is around Suippes (bridge and rail to hold) and the third one is moving north to cut the supply of the XVIII french corps (I have put a text wich hides two of them [8|]

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17 MAY, Around Meziers. Three days and the city is not surrounded ! [:@]

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17 MAy, morning around Gembloux. the 18th will not launch the attack of the city...the french left during the night.

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17 MAY around Gembloux, after a day of fight