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Some questions about France '40
12-30-2011, 02:27 PM,
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RE: Some questions about France '40
Nice to see that this campaign is still interesting some people.

My first idea when I started working on that game was to show that the French Army could have stopped the German invader in 1940. Not because I am French and I thought that history was wrong but because after reading The Blitzkrieg Legend by Karl-heinz Frieser I was convinced that bad luck and bad strategy was the main culprit for the French. That sentiment was reinforced after reading an other book The Breaking Point by Robert Doughty (who is by the way in my opinion the best American specialist of the French Army between 1914 and 1940).

France '40 was a very difficult campaign to recreate.

At the time I was working on the game, Blitzkrieg Legend wasn't translated in English but it had been translated in French. So the rest of the team was using more classic sources which was still showing the French as ineffective and outdated and no will to fight which wasn't true and only an echo of the Petain regime propaganda who was trying to blame everybody but the higher command, of course everybody else followed this for different reasons. The British historians liked it because it was glorifying their participation to the war... Dunkirk became the symbol of the will to continue to fight even after defeat... Forgetting that the retreat was only possible because the French Army was holding the line.

I am wondering now that the game has been patched to the latest improvements if I should work on making some changes on the oob.
If I do so I will not do it for the stock oob/scenarios but for this one:
https://www.theblitz.club/scenarios/HPS-...1&ladder=3
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Some questions about France '40 - by Archijerej - 12-22-2011, 09:56 PM
RE: Some questions about France '40 - by Narwan - 12-27-2011, 01:02 AM
RE: Some questions about France '40 - by Narwan - 12-27-2011, 08:33 AM
RE: Some questions about France '40 - by Narwan - 12-29-2011, 01:43 AM
RE: Some questions about France '40 - by Tortue Agile - 12-30-2011, 02:27 PM
RE: Some questions about France '40 - by FM WarB - 12-27-2011, 02:03 AM
RE: Some questions about France '40 - by smurf309 - 12-27-2011, 03:46 AM
RE: Some questions about France '40 - by smurf309 - 12-27-2011, 06:02 AM

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