Any consensus on F 14?

[jonnymacbrown]

"Yes I agree as the French you can't start a general withdraw along the entire front immediately."

That's what I am wondering about. If you stand and fight for any length of time it becomes increasingly difficult to withdraw. An immediate pullout from the Ardennes is undoubtedly best as the roads facilitate it. The line from Givet/Dinant/Namur can also be immediately given up with the crossings held by redoubts.

"I find the best way to withdraw is to leapfrog backwards."

This is great in theory but does it work against a ruthless German attacker? It's actually about a 150 mile retreat to the final stand before Paris. How many wargamers have ever actually done anything like this, moving 700,000 men and 4000 guns to reassemble at some place far to the rear, that wasn't laid out for them, like the aforementioned retreat to Moscow?

[i]"The French have enough units to do this almost everywhere, the only problem is the left flank."

Yes well the left flank's the problem.

"They need to get something more there than the single division that can rail up at the start."[/i]

That's another problem we talked about here. Volcano Man made some changes to slow the German thrust through Tournai down a bit (blown bridges and the like) but there is nothing there except the next to useless 88th Territorials and the British 4th Division won't arrive there until the 25th. A movement in force in that direction might be unstoppable especially with the BEF fixed for 2 days. Jonny