Why Btonze Age?

[abaris]

So don't think that, even with all of its faults, the French army really was that hapless or hopeless as popular history paints it.   All of French army's problems were not enough to have cause it to lose the battle of France.  Only a last miute change of plans by the Germans, due to a major fuck up by the Germans, that cost the French the battle.

The best army isn't of much use if it lacks in leadership. And that ultimately cost them the battle. Honorable gentlemen who didn't really understand what had changed in the last 20 years. That's even more obvious when considering that they could have ended the war before it really began. All it took was a swift strike to the east and they would have captured Germany's industrial heart. Without much resistance, since, for one, the bulk of the German army was on the eastern border and secondly, they nearly ran out of ammunition during the Polish campaign. Which mainly came from the Ruhr area, only a short distance removed from the French border.

Also, that the Germans weren't as mobile as legend has it, doesn't change the fact that they had a new generation of generals, using the mobile units to their full advantage. In close cooperation between ground and air forces. The few instances where the French reacted in a similar way, such as De Gaulle or Weygand, setting up a new and flexible line of defence, showed that the Blitzkrieg wasn't a force of nature after all. But it was too little too late.