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warspite1ORIGINAL: Courtenay
I would certainly reinforce the BEF. Where is Alexander? He could have been produced by now. The longer the French campaign goes, the better for the British.
There is no reason to retreat; the positions you would retreat to are no better defense than your current positions -- make the Germans take the ground, don't give it them.
The French need more units in front of the Germans, and the only place to get them is the Maginot line. I would
not empty any hexes, but I would certainly pull units out of the Maginot line.
I would not even think of attacking -- that is far more likely to produce a disaster than not. A S/O France is a great victory for the Allies; there is a good chance of holding even longer. If you can get to N/D, who knows what the weather will do? Just delay, delay, delay.
One thing is essential: Paris needs a unit in it, if not two. Otherwise there is the possibility of a blitz attack getting a unit into Paris, triggering Vichy. That would be embarrassing.
warspite1ORIGINAL: Klydon
Bit late now, but exactly what did you do with your offensive chit? I hope it was not a super combined in this case. The Germans need to use ground impulses and double a pile of units for combat to crack the lines and send the Western Allies packing. Using Runstedt, you had 8 units to double this combat.
Your attack against Gort was listed as a 3-1. Double the two German corps and it should have been 6-1. Bye Gort. 2 units doubled, you have 6 left.
Double the 6-4 and 7-3 not attacking across the river on the 55, 32 attack and that would have gone from a 2-1 to a 4-1. 2 units doubled, you have 4 left.
For the 53, 30 battle, double all 4 German corps involved in the fight. That fight becomes a 7-1. Kiss the stack goodbye Frenchie.
The turn should have been 5 dead French units (or 4 dead and 1 shattered) and a dead Gort. Unless the Brits built Alexander as soon as they could, that takes care of any BEF on the soil of France and the French losing 5 units and having their line pierced in two spots spells absolute major trouble for the French.
My two cents is in the first French campaign, you always shatter French units. Make him put them back on the board and the reason why is there are not that many French cities near the front, so the French player actually has some issues trying to funnel re-enforcements up to the north part of the line.
I have come to appreciate what a offensive chit can do to a defensive line when a good commander is used and that is generally turn it into Swiss cheese with a lot of dead defenders.
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You should have been able to double the attack strength of 8 German land units within range of Rundstedt by right-clicking on them during the land attack declaration step. This can also be done to double the units strength when they make overrunsORIGINAL: warspite1
warspite1ORIGINAL: Klydon
Bit late now, but exactly what did you do with your offensive chit? I hope it was not a super combined in this case. The Germans need to use ground impulses and double a pile of units for combat to crack the lines and send the Western Allies packing. Using Runstedt, you had 8 units to double this combat.
Your attack against Gort was listed as a 3-1. Double the two German corps and it should have been 6-1. Bye Gort. 2 units doubled, you have 6 left.
Double the 6-4 and 7-3 not attacking across the river on the 55, 32 attack and that would have gone from a 2-1 to a 4-1. 2 units doubled, you have 4 left.
For the 53, 30 battle, double all 4 German corps involved in the fight. That fight becomes a 7-1. Kiss the stack goodbye Frenchie.
The turn should have been 5 dead French units (or 4 dead and 1 shattered) and a dead Gort. Unless the Brits built Alexander as soon as they could, that takes care of any BEF on the soil of France and the French losing 5 units and having their line pierced in two spots spells absolute major trouble for the French.
My two cents is in the first French campaign, you always shatter French units. Make him put them back on the board and the reason why is there are not that many French cities near the front, so the French player actually has some issues trying to funnel re-enforcements up to the north part of the line.
I have come to appreciate what a offensive chit can do to a defensive line when a good commander is used and that is generally turn it into Swiss cheese with a lot of dead defenders.
Erm.... no idea really. I stated it was Rundstedt and I know at the end of the turn I got cheaper (half-price) re-org costs for him. I didn't get any chance to increase odds - maybe the HQ had to be in the attack to achieve that?
