(July 4, 2016 at 7:37 am)Constable Dorfl Wrote:(July 3, 2016 at 4:03 pm)Anomalocaris Wrote: Also, the German style of armored warfare is not as invincible against the French style of warfare as one might
Think. The main thing that allowed the Germans to achieve the swift victory was still the fact that the Germans found a pass around the French army where the French were confident there was an impenetrable natural barrier. Had the Germans not found the pass, and then gambled everything, literally at the last moment, on using this pass, the attack against the Low Countries and France would likely ended up much like the operation citedel in Ukraine in 1943, with German panzers bashing their own heads in against strong layered defenses, failing to achieve any sort of break through on a scale that can overwhelm French reserves.
Interestingly enough, the French armed forces ran wargames in the Ardennes in 1938 which showed that a tank breakthrough through that area could be completed within three days, the actual German breakthrough took 57 hours.
Yeah. The forests were impenetrable. But they had these things called "roads". Not sure the French knew about these "roads", but the Germans did.
