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One month to move two division and assorties units to the front lines and organise them according to FFO. Well historically the desert campaign was fought all around summer with the Italians starting their on september or the battle around tobruk being fought in june 41. I dont see it as such...

Actualy i'm not sure that it exist in english (french native speaker here) but i dont know of any similar term soooo (horse-drawn is not exactly a right fit). The same problem exist for the Italian autotrasportabile which would best translated as "truck-moveable".

Well they can go on the offensive before as they know that there is no real threat except for maybe Morocco, but there are enough units there to stop anything franco might try. There are also a lot of subdivisional units all around North Africa to provide light cover before evacuated units might...

The LW would be elsewhere. In France. Until at least mid August (optimistic for the germans), then add a month to redeploy un sufficient number to southern Italy or lybia (probably more for Lybia). So we are on mid september, two month after the start of the french offensive. At this point...

Actually i checked, i can't find any reference about 90/53 being already in Lybia in june 1940. So no Arras (not even counting that those would be very different battles, but hey, who cares). Nope. 2 units were sent to Metropolitan France, with others on the way, but no new divisions were...

DISCLAIMER : This scenario should be treated as the Sealions. It has been explored by people who are paid historians, who enlisted the help of paid logisticians and paid strategists (people who went to the French école de guerre, ie war school). Just how many of those were in northern africa...

Imo you are ignorant about the french army. The French army in North Africa was large and equiped. They had tanks, artillery and aircrafts, each in larager number than the italian had. Most of the French air Force that would have been evacuated to North Africa would have been american...

It's funny how you keep mentionning that the Franks were germanic (they orignaly were yes), but you use the French (Romance) name for their most illustirous member : Charlemagne, instead of the Germanic one : Karl der Grosse. In truth by this time, the Franks living in Gaul (France didn't exist...

You realize that the Black Hand wasn't the Serbian Government ?

Both the B1 during the campaign of France and the KV-1 before the tiger and long 75 in the Pz IV had similar if not higher "kill ratio" as well as the Mathilda (and Valentine to a lesser extent), it was kinda their job (not even the case for the B1bis as it wasn't supposed to fight other tanks...

Also the French B1 tank was 28 tons and was widely considered an heavy tank at the start of the war, even if it was lighter than a sherman.

Compared to the italian tanks, it was almost a super heavy tank. The italian medium tanks weighted 14 tons and were powerless against the Matilda 2. And it was their best tanks.

I would say that as long as medium tanks couldn't mount the better dual use (i say dual use because guns such as the 75mm kwk 42 L70 of the panther was shit against infantry compared to guns mounted on every other medium tank of the war) tank guns that could kill any tank at long range, heavy...

Louis XVI didn't revive the parliaments. He gave back a little bit of power to the Paris' one. The parliaments were never abolished until 1790. But you are pointing to the biggest problem of this idea : any absolutist country is a mildly bad king away from lots of trouble (possibly leading to...

Yeah sure ignore the opinion of someone who live there, speak the language and have studied it's history. People who wroked for the Prussian state ? The German administration had basically no Alsatian in it. They were based in Alsace Lorraine ? The german army was reliant up until after WWII...

I used 50 years because longsword14 used it. Poland was divided between 3 nations, 2 of which had basically zero interest in cultural assimilation (and the last one actually did manage to colonize large parts of Poland, see the mess after WWI), the ottomans never forced the Greeks to spoke...

Except that up to this point despite german colonisation (roughly 90% of state workers were not alsatians but germans coming from other parts of the Empire, no local military units unlike every other parts of the Empire, imposition of the german languages [before the conquest 80% of Alsatian...

Basically if you want to have better relations between Germany and France before WWI you have to avoid Germany trying to bully France during the morrocan crises. What ethnic germans ? Alsatians due to their history at this point had a culture apart from germany. And before the first morrocan...

At least 79 divisions the 31/12/1944 (for the front from the Channel to the swiss border, i don't know if there was any division sized unit in army groups' or OKW's reserves), against 79 Allied divisions if i'm not mistaken. In may 1940 Germany had 144 divisions against 130 divisions for the...

People like Legentilhomme would NEVER follow Pétain outside of a huge personnality change. The dude litteraly said fuck you to Pétain who was the legal ruler of France. Ernest Petit (2 years older than de Gaulle) ended up as a PCF associate post war. Catroux and Delestraint were in a similar...