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By leazriz at 2012-01-12

Unfortunatly i can't build underground resistance in the south of france (Vichy regime). The net spreads quite quickly, it takes 3 month to automaticaly develop. Also with a zero supression level they are never detected.

September 1942:


May 1943:


As the net is quickly spreading i am now waiting for an allied invasion in france and i will try to support it with an uprising.

So by the end of september 1943 the net is almost complete. But French specialists think that we must wait for an allied landing if we want the operation to be effective. We have only one try because every liberated region will be sacked by germans if we loose it and the underground movement will be dismantle.

The free france command has asked an allied landing and becan to build a net in Netherland and Belgium.

So by June 1945, bored to wait for an Allied landing the Free French leaders decided to launch the uprising.



172*3000=500 000 mens a huge army !!!!



But a weak army:



So the strategy is to take harbor, major cities and encircle german troops:


The German Army was strong and well armed, trhe deafeat was unevitable as the allied send no reinforcement. Nevertheless The French command tryed to preserve the most unerground bases as possible.

Patriots trying to take Paris:


The slow defeat:




So by the end of August the battle was over, but the Russians had taken Romania and Germans have to move many troops to the east after the battle of france and as the net was recovering the French Command decided to do it again in 3 or 4 months. (i really saw the troops leaving France)

-Before the iuprising my officer ratio is stack to 140% (easy to reach with a 10 000k army).
-French African colonies had been sized by England, and Indochina by Guanxi.
-i really can't size any territory and if i loose one, for example Beirut, i can't retake it.
-i can develop resistance in Benelux even if there is a high supression level but vichy France surendered to USA and even if it was retaken by germany i just can't build underground resistance here.


-don't read this if you don't want to know what will happen next:the second urising will be succesfull and involve diversions in Benelux.

Four months later the France underground army has recovered:


And another net was developed in Netherland:


So in february 1945, fearing the Soviet Union and wanting to preserve France from the reds the Franch Command urged for a new action:
-2 weeks before D-Day, a diversion uprising in Netherland
-on D-Day an uprising involving 140 regiments (32 less than the first time)





The goal this time is to play cat and mouse: the germans have no more than 50 000 mens in France and French are ten time more. So the germans will not be able to destroy any division because as partisans can quickly take back any territory with theit huge number they will always be able to retreat.
I have 140 division so i can afford to send some to germany to distract ythem.



The war goes simple: the germans can't do anything because of supllies issues and partisans are too weak to attack them so they free all France expect a few aeras.

France was quickly liberated and the new French government settled in Paris. They ordered the rising of 10 militia divisions and leadership was used to form new officers.



The situation in western Europe:


Here an exemple of how the war is going: Bitburg
The city is protected by a strong garnison division, french partisans sized Lusembourg, attacked they must fall back but other partisans sized Bitburg, they are attacked....
Partisans are to weak and retreat easily and as long as germany doesn't have any fast moving unit they can't destroy them.

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