How do you deal with French tanks

[Griefbringer]

Originally Posted by Mobhack

If close assaulting with infantry - hose any unbuttoned tank down with rifle, LMG, MMG fires as preparation. The heavy infantry with 50mm direct fire mortars are useful for rattling their cages too

Don't forget anti-tank rifles, if you have some around - they seem to be excellent for making tanks button up. Just don't expect them to do lots of damage on French tanks (except the very lightest ones) though every now and then they can manage to immobilise the odd tank with a lucky shot.

Speaking of immobilisation, sufficient artillery pounding can also cause a tank here and there to get immobilised, meaning that you can leave dealing with it until later (unless the crew decides to bail out first). And the slow speed of many of the French tanks makes them relatively easy targets for artillery, once you get your forward observer on a good spot.

If you are playing with the German paras, then take advantage of their recoilless rifles. The 7.5 cm version (available from early 1940) might not be particularly impressive, but the 10.5 cm model (available from June 1940 onwards) has a very nasty HEAT round available - though the ammo supply itself is rather limited, so you probably want to have them engaging the enemy at range and then falling back to reload.