Does anyone else have a huge hard-on for last-stand defensive

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>>1756567

>>1756567
Yep.

Glad i'm not the only one.

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>>1756576
Tell us your defensive fetish anon

>>1756583
The defense of Berlin was also a big one for me. I also liked the Alamo and the siege of Masada.

While playing Total War i used to make custom siege battles where i played as the defender and had to defend against forces massively outnumbering me.

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>>1756567
>I have an unhealthy obsession with defensive warfare desu

Then you'll like this

>>1756631
What were the French thinking?

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>>1756640
They expected the Germans to be as dumb as Italians

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>>1756640
Also, why didn't they build fortifications further inland, like near Paris?
Having a big thick line of defenses right on the border means that if a single breakthrough occurs the entire line is fucked and along with that everything is susceptible to get absolutely cucked from enemy Aircraft.

Also, why didn't the French put up much of a fight for Paris?

>>1756640
The WW1 destroy our industrial and agrical heartland, let build a wall so the german will have to pass by belgium.
It work.

>>1756663
Most of the army circle, some guy decide that put a far wing government to remplace the left wing government was worth losing.

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>>1756667
Right...

>>1756688
It was the objectif, fight the german in belgium and not on french land, everyone know that german will go by belgium, the maginot permit the french to put far less manpower and send them to belgium.

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>>1756663
Funny thing was that they did have defense in depth for aircraft, just not on land.

The Armee de l'Air massively outnumbered the Luftwaffe, but they kept so many aircraft in reserve around Paris during Fall Gelb that there was relative parity along the front.

And they didn't really put up a fight for Paris because they were outnumbered by that point and heavily demoralized. You already had government officials burning documents before the encirclement at Dunkirk was completed, so by the time the Germans had turned their attention to Paris everyone already knew the war was lost.

They did establish a second line after that first breakthrough, but by that point they lacked the men and equipment to accomplish anything, even if their morale hadn't been shattered.

>>1756567
Play Men of War
They have plenty of defensive battles which are just made to make you lose your nerves

>>1756640
They wanted to build it till the channel but didn't for various reasons
>very expensive and costly
>Belgian king threw a fit about France abandoning him even though he declared himself neutral
>most of their battle plan was engaging Germans in Belgium to avoid war destruction on their own lands

>>1756640
To force germans to go through Belgium. It's pop history that the french were surprised by it. The problem was that the french tactics were outdated so the blitzkrieg took them by surprise