French Nco & Maginot Line Garrison Personnel image - Totaler Krieg: 1939-45 mod for Battle of Empires : 1914-1918
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French Nco & Maginot Line Garrison Personnel
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French Nco & Maginot Line Garrison Personnel.
"POILU" ... Spelling mistake.
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Apologies beta testers, Ive decided to include the French in the closed Beta instead of the Americans, for variety sake.
Sturm.
FM24-29 Light Machine Gun has been completed & will feature as the standard Infantry platoon LMG as well as auxillary MG in French AVF's.
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Old W.I.P Image of French tunic for comparison.
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Sturm.
Wow I didn't know the French fought in the war I only thought there was just French resistance .
Well great work Sturm :)
Sturmfuhrer
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Did you honestly think they just let the Germans roll over them?
well it looked like, such big army defeated in 2 weeks
In addition the travel to Paris is included in these 2 weeks...
remember that tanks were almost inexistent after World War 1, and using the Tanks+Airplanes+Infantry+Artillery at the same time "blitzkrieg" aka lightning war; that tactic was what it was. And don't forget that the german technology and strategy differed from the Old french generals point of view and armament.
Just omg , a big army yes , defeat in 2 weeks ? Are you kiding me ?
A little bit of history :
- France had the greatest army of the world in 1940 .
- France fought up to the end of 1940 in France and up to Africa in 1945 !
But france had the worst commandement ever in 1940 ...
I'd say the Soviets were the number one army due to it having the largest amount of troops in the world, it had very good tank tech, largest amount of tanks, largest amount of planes, but it only faltered on organization, which you may say isn't that big, when it actually is the biggest facter in having an army. You're army will not win if it's troops are all over the place.
in fact the French are beaten very little, in fact when Germany invaded Poland, the France declared war on them, but there was no fighting immediately. when hitler has aunched the assault, the French held about 2 weeks, then Marshal Petain has decided to collaborate with Germany and de Gaulle organized the French resistance to continue the fight. So much for the little history lesson. Vive la resistance!
Yeah Blitzkrieg have completely destroyed our force's but damn our Tank have better quality than the German tank of 1939-40 (But German tank have generaly more crew). And german have he better organisation.
The french were brought to the lines in taxi cabs and rescued by the British in every boat they had
Row boats
subs
fishing boats
etc
Imp.
Taxi cabs ? Nah that whas during the battle of the Marne.
In fact few people know that in France.
I love it!
Thanks all,
I think for once the French need a proper representation in an RTS WW2 game. They had, after all, the largest army in the world, circa 1940. Although the French Army command gifted the German Armed Forces a swift victory, the French Army in exile still functioned as a dominant national Army, fighting in many theatres of war despite the loss of their capital to the Germans.
There was some very heavy fighting in May 1940, tactically & strategically speaking, a very futurisitc war to fight at the time, given that Armour, Aircraft & Infantry had never been fully utilised in combined operations on such a scale before.
Sturm
Hello Sturm,
Don't you think that the French legion could be also a nice addition for desert missions?
They heavely resist to Rommel at Bir Hakeim:
En.wikipedia.org
Cheers,
Bass
Sturm said there will be no missions in Africa.
Vichy French forces sounds nice, French soldiers blasting British and Americans apart.
You misspeled "Poilu".
Also thank for finally including us seriously in a mod :).
I know, I wrote that I had mis-spelt it on the other image. Im only happy to include the French - my only concern is players will be too powerful with them ;) As they will know not to disperse their armour support & concentrate their heavy tanks such as Char B1's which can easily knock out any German steel from that period.
Sturm.
It seems unbalanced to introduce the French, since they have overpowered units.
Maybe adding some Vichy units?
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The white flag is missing.
your humour too