Winning as France with fewer or equal casualties to what it sustained historically

[MagnusStultus]

I know how to win/survive as France and get good war score but if I wanted to do it while suffering fewer casualties than what France did historically (so actually have a better result for France) where exactly do I start? The most obvious is forts but you can't take forts with you into Germany and they reduce the size of your army because each second you spend making a fort isn't spent making factories.

So if I want to have equal or lower casualties as France without having no participation where do I start?

 

[KDEstroy]

1. Air superiority
2. Lots of CAS
3. Strategic bomb the German factories until they can't afford guns for their soldiers
4. Build up industry for a few years, at least until 1942
5. Use 15/5 tank divisions with more than 90% hardness, with field hospitals.

 

[RAID186]

Honestly it's not too hard.

Forts are an auto-win because the Germans are almost completely coded to NEVER attack level 10 forts.

20W inf divisions with Support arty and support AA tend to be enough, and are cheap. Then focus entirely on your airforce. Completely outnumber them in fighters and CAS. If you can manage even a single radar will give you an edge.

Let the Germans throw themselves against you and they'll slowly lose the edge they start with, and start running out of factories. The UK will probably bomb them over time which will be easy since you've mostly beaten their airforce.

France is actually probably the easiest nation to play once you know the basics, because it's boringly straightforward.

 

[MagnusStultus]

Honestly it's not too hard.

Forts are an auto-win because the Germans are almost completely coded to NEVER attack level 10 forts.

20W inf divisions with Support arty and support AA tend to be enough, and are cheap. Then focus entirely on your airforce. Completely outnumber them in fighters and CAS. If you can manage even a single radar will give you an edge.

Let the Germans throw themselves against you and they'll slowly lose the edge they start with, and start running out of factories. The UK will probably bomb them over time which will be easy since you've mostly beaten their airforce.

France is actually probably the easiest nation to play once you know the basics, because it's boringly straightforward.

France is easy to win as but the challenge is doing it with under 210,000 dead.

 

[RAID186]

France is easy to win as but the challenge is doing it with under 210,000 dead.

Hence the air superiority, if your CAS completely obliterate them, and the Germans attack and Breakthrough is nerfed to crap(air superiority and forts), you take minimal casualties.

There's always the cheese of adding a Heavy TD to each division for piercing and armor too.