Allied units in F'40

[Dog Soldier]

For a great read, se K-H Frieser's The Blitzkrieg Legend[/u]

Actually this book is one of the primary sources used in the PzC France 40 design.

If you line up your tanks in a row and I will line up my tanks opposite in a ballistics test, yes the German tanks were much inferior. This is an operational game. The French had many deficits that are modeled in the tank warfare of the France 40 game.

• lack of radios
  
• Commanders in dual roles of gunner and commanding the tank or group of tanks
  
• penny packet distribution of French tanks
  
• speed - French tanks were geared low to not not outrun their infantry
  
• Close co-operation between panzer units and the Luftwaffe
  

I could go on, but this should illustrate the point. you do not control what is going on at the tactical level in the hexes where contact is made. Thus we have to assume the Germans armor leaders are using greater numbers, speed, flanking the French monsters etc.
The French had problems, like the Russians, of crews abandoning perfectly good vehicles because the crews thought they were in trouble, while other fought well to the death.

So it is doctrine that is being modeled at the tactical level and not the hardware versus hardware all other things being equal argument in the PzC game system. The German doctrine at the tactical level was far superior. The Blitzkrieg Legend book does not deny this.

Now put your French tanks in villages with TRENCH supported by infantry and covered by artillery. You will then see an marked improvement against German tank attacks sent in to disrupt you.
Fight in the open against swarms of the German tanks, and you will be defeated. The French armor is too slow to fight a tank duel in the open with the German armor of 1940.

Dog Soldier