Attention now turns to the cockpit of Europe, the low countries. The Dutch will surely fall on turn 3. Then mud and then Germany will set up to knock out Belgium in one quick go sometime during the winter when they can hope and expect to get a single clear weather turn.
Then they are 6 hexes away from Paris with the whole summer of 1940 ahead of them.
I have A Plan. It may not be a good plan, but we will find that out. How to delay the German war machine with all this cheese?
I must come up with my own cheese. Armored cheese. The WDF is on its way from Egypt soon to be followed by Wavell's HQ. (Lord Gort is staying home in Britain. The poor old dear is not up for this task.)
The British are saving up ever penny they can and will put a mech corps into the queue on turn 3. This sucks for the British, because as I have already mentioned the British economy sucks and it takes no less than 3 turns for this to be possible and everything else is hanging fire until then. No escorts. (And the subs are already raiding, btw.) No replacements. No nothing. These are the marvels of Britain having a GDP 50% the size of Germany, contrary to all reason and historicity.
The French, for their part, are putting a 1940 heavy armored corps into their queue at the end of turn 3 as well. Paradoxically, this is much easier for the French to do. They already have a mostly mobilized army. So, by putting this on garrison mode I can quickly generate the necessary production. That is 396 production points for this luxury item. The French economy is about the same size as the British, much to the amazement of any economic historian. This was certainly not the case in real life.
At any rate, by May of 1940 I will have 3 mechanized corps in France to counterattack with. I don't need infantry in France. The poilus have that covered. What I need here to delay the German war machine is something to punch back with.
