Some great posts and information in this thread, just the kind of mature and detailed discussion we love a this forum, thank you to everyone who has thrown their ideas into the hat about how the German player
might handle his forces at the start of the CG.
However i think we have flogged this subject to the bone, it appears that Ed will need to break a couple of vital rail lines to prevent a "rail blitz" strategy and that was an important find, what we need to do now is play the CG in a PBEM game much further on to see what may or may not happen if a German player plays the historical attack on the BEF or a alternate swing to the west round the BEF flank, ONLY then will we have a better idea if one or both strategies will work or not and even then the multiple variations of luck and player skill still might not give us the definitive answer and that is what makes these games so enjoyable.