FWWC France 14 Musing and Wonderings

[jim pfleck]

Once you have the German infantry disordered than attack lone German battalions with 2 French Battalions (my standard approach in longer scenarios. You will win most times. In the short scenarios as the French you have to do things that would be unthinkable in longer scenarios--3 Battalions vs 1 disordered German will pretty much always win but leave you very vulnerable to fire and high casualties.

one battalion vs one battalion melees often work but not often enough, in my experience. So disorder the Germans with artillery and MG's and then pile on.

In longer scenarios rotating your infantry and giving ground works. You want to make sure your front line battalions are not disordered and once they get above 100 fatigue rotate them. Also, if you have good fields of fire with artillery and mg's, it is often a good idea not to fire with lone French battalions in the front line, since they risk getting disordered.