Ah yes the Maginot line

100 IQ play

Stop

the MAS-36, though it wasn’t able to fully replace other rifles by time of the invasion, was still a very good rifle

“de zhermans vent Aron de maginot lin”

Stronger than Germany but no country was really prepared to mobilise and at that low rate of preparedness Defense holds the advantage

Late interwar period french tanks were also very good

Shame they counldn't use them

Specifically the S-35 and Char B1

@CronoSaturn Hitler wasn't as powerful at the time either. And USSR proposed an alliance with France to stop the expansion of Germany, but was inevitably rejected.

The main thing was that the French equipment, though very good, was quite expensive to make

There is a reason why French tanks have one gear ahead and three gears backwards.

the Char B1 was one of the better tanks any army could field in the early years of the war

Same with German stuff prewar

Keep in mind that the ussr wasn’t exactly a known factor either and that balance of power has always been the key in European politics

When did the USSR start expanding?

or unifying lol

In fact, the main tank used by the Germans in the early war was the Panzer I or Panzer II, mixed in with their newer and heavier tank

>unifying

And I’m not so much talking equipment quality as logistics, domestic support and deployability

Allies got outplayed and

they fucked up

How long did it take to defeat France again?

I disagree, as shown by the allies winning the war

The Germans held up against 4 world superpowers

I think losing France and the Low Countries for several years was being outplayed

@Deleted User Like I said, French tactics was a big thing that played out poorly for them

I wouldn’t call being being a divided country for decades after a stunning play

It was punishment

Don’t start fights you can’t win

the Germans during the Blitzkrieg mixed their armored divisions well, putting the lighter armored and armed Panzer I and Panzer II mixed in with their heavier tanks

They just ran out of fuel

@CronoSaturn Outstanding move

Lol

Point being though Anglo starting a resource war with no resources where pretty much the only country willing to trade with you is only doing so to give you enough rope?

Not a fantastic idea

Had it of just been Anschluss and Czechoslovakia we might have had a different conversation

But it wasn’t

And we arnt

Poland was a ally of Britain and France by the time Germany invaded