Re: Death of groupe mobile 100 (scen#97)
Seems to me the French made the same mistakes they made in WWII. They dispersed their armour too thinly and (most likely) picked the wrong places for deployment. Back in WWII they had a load of tanks in 1940 but they concentrated more on using their armour in a supporting role.
In French Indo-China they made similar mistakes. Although the conditons on the ground were very different it would have made more sense if the Armour had been kept in reserve and used on the bigger operations en masse (if possible). The isolated outposts didn't need Chafees, they needed .30Cal./.50Cal. MGs and a load of light artillery (mortars and smaller howitzers etc). After all the smaller outposts were there to soak up local attacks, weren't they?
No the French needed a decent and heavy mobile reserve.
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