France 1940 Mod B - No peeking Marshall Antoni :)

[cillmhor]

Turn 14 & 15:

And so we begin the end game, with the eastern edge of the Maginot Line crumbling and massive German reinforcements en route to seal the western edge to form the last big pocket of France, it should be a matter of mopping up for me now. The quality of the Allied forces is suffering from desertions and the replacements and reinforcements being thrown in front of the advance are being cut down pretty quickly.



The pocket at Cherbourg will soon fall and then it will be a matter of pushing west and then south to mop up the last Allied units. One strange thing happened, an Allied air unit appeared at Antwerp, which I thought I had converted, and my air units are showing the option to bomb the city as well as the airfield, which might indicate an Allied unit in the port. Odd, as I thought I had taken and converted Antwerp. And as Allied amphibious landings are prohibited in this scenario it cannot be a landing in my rear. I will send a unit back to investigate.

This has been a tough battle, make no mistake, but if you get the fortune of early surrenders, and if your opponent undertakes a static defence, then the German juggernaut can pick up quite a head of steam, especially if you can keep the shock triggers rolling. I stand at an overwhelming victory now and it will only get bigger as I squeeze the pockets and take the remaining V locations. I have enjoyed this one, but I can see how the Germans could find themselves in real problems if they did not make progress quickly enough, as some Allied units were quite tough to crack until flanked. That in the end was the key for me, seldom trying to take on the Allied head-on, always looking to fix them and then flank them. I have not used my Panzers and motorized units as well as I might have, but some of the infantry is pretty mobile too and can do the job of flanking.