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[USEC_OFFICER]

We should build a maginot line that actually covers the neutral states between us and germany, and avoid *"Oh look kilometers of concrete walls, let's just pass around it instead of charging suicidally for the fuhrer lolz!"
"damn mon general! They discovered how to walk around obstacles!"
"Mon dieu! They're evolving!"

Which is what Svarte Troner is doing. Of course in real life tons of French industry was concentrated along the Belgium border, so they couldn't just extend the Maginot Line north. Plus Belgium is a defender's wetdream, meaning that if the French generals were more competent and the Germans were less lucky, then the German blitzkreig would have been halted, at least for a little while. Of course then we wouldn't be able to make so many jokes about the French, so eh.

[mainiac]

Shouldn't you have three infantry divisions to hold of the Italians?  Better safe then sorry.

I think that you should prepare for a naval invasion of northern germany in the case of war breaking out.  With their surface fleet so weak it should not be a big challenge.  You can always pull back to the boats if the situation get's sticky.

[Sheb]

How is Belgium a defender's wet dream? It's flat, without many natural chokepoints.

I mean, here in Belgium we're use to just be walked over by the Germans whenever they want to invade France, and being totally overrun in a couple of day. It's kinda insulting to be told that we could have actually stopped them.

[MonkeyHead]

I've just realized how many garrison units we have in our colonies (mostly Africa), I'm thinking of using them to bolster the maginot line, cause who really cares about Africa anyway.

Do Germany have any vulnerable looking colonial holdings on Africa near ours that we could target?

[somebody]

Germany didn't have colonies at WW2.

[MonkeyHead]

*does quick wikisearch*...

Ah yea, that makes sence. They lost them all as part of the Treaty Of Versailles. Shame.

[Sheb]

We should leave the garrison units in Indochina to fight against the Japanese. Italian Libya may be a problem too, and it'd make sense to keep troops in Algeria.

We can, and should bring back troops from Western and Central Africa tough.

[shadenight123]

italians played well (that means by any damn player and not an Ai) usually manage to conquer libya without much of a problem. At least, i always manage said feat.
I don't know about Ai's though, usually do they manage or not the feat which made Mussolini resort to a literally curbstomp magnitude mens/units and the rest just to fight guys on camels and with sticks?

[Sheb]

Libya is already Italian, you're thinking about Ethiopia (Abyssinia) which isn't that much of a concern, because it's near the British colonies, not ours.

Is there a way to support the Abyssinian?

[Rakonas]

Technically, we could probably send them a couple divisions. They will, however, find it nearly if not entirely impossible to supply those divisions because ethiopia is terrible.

[Stworca]

As long as Suez, Gibraltar and Major Air Bases that are in tactical range of France are safe, the rest of Africa could go all Axis and it wouldn't have mattered at all.

[USEC_OFFICER]

How is Belgium a defender's wet dream? It's flat, without many natural chokepoints.

Maybe I'm thinking about the Netherlands then. Yeah, I was thinking about the Netherlands. I always get the two confused. Sorry about that.

[MonkeyHead]

Pretty sure that The Netherlands is hella flat as well, though with a few more waterways to mark useful stop lines.

[USEC_OFFICER]

Pretty sure that The Netherlands is hella flat as well, though with a few more waterways to mark useful stop lines.

And several portions of the country are below sea level, which can be flooded to annoy the hell out of any invading army.

[Sheb]

Yeah, because of course you're going to flood half of your country to slow down the enemy. I don't think they did it in WWII, did they?


((Note, we did something like that in WWI, but 90% of the country was already invaded: we basically flooded some shit up north and held to the last 10% for the rest of the war, so that we'd be considered part of the allies and get some leverage.))