AH Challenge: stagnant west in WWII?

Is there any way to keep the western front in WWII similar to that of WWI? Not necessarily trenches, but still not moving very much?
 
Is there any way to keep the western front in WWII similar to that of WWI? Not necessarily trenches, but still not moving very much?

In 1940 or 1944? If the former, make the French more competent in fighting the Germans off. Soon, the momentum of the German assault would wear off, but the French and British, lacking mobile warfare tactics the way the Germans understood them, would not go for the grand strokes of a blitzkrieg. The war would soon bog down.

If the latter, it's what Eisenhower expected would happen. If you deploy a few more trained Panzer divisions to France in 1944, even Patton would have trouble moving as fast as he did IOTL (you'd have to supply those Panzer divisions, though, and the Eastern Front was getting more dangerous then...)
 
In 1940 or 1944? If the former, make the French more competent in fighting the Germans off. Soon, the momentum of the German assault would wear off, but the French and British, lacking mobile warfare tactics the way the Germans understood them, would not go for the grand strokes of a blitzkrieg. The war would soon bog down.

If the latter, it's what Eisenhower expected would happen. If you deploy a few more trained Panzer divisions to France in 1944, even Patton would have trouble moving as fast as he did IOTL (you'd have to supply those Panzer divisions, though, and the Eastern Front was getting more dangerous then...)

I was aiming for 1940.
 
Query what about better anti tank stuff. I would partiuclarly like (if it is not asb) there to be some kind of wire guided anti tank missiles.
 
Not really possible IMO, tanks are too fast and aircraft too powerful to allow more than a few weeks of real stalemate.
 
Massed tanks can be met and stalemated with massed artillery, both regular and AT. Its not too far out to think that the French could have massed artillery in front of the Panzer spearheads a couple of times and slowed them to a crawl.

Id also like to see what France could have done if they had an air defence system like the British, perhaps not with all the radar, but with their own observer corps and plotting tables etc. This should slow down the Luftwaffe. The cumulative result would be less breakthroughs into the rear and a continuous front which would stalemate when both sides run short of ammo.
 
If you can stop the Panzers you can throw them back. The Germans wouldn't have much time to build up any sort of fixed defenses, so they'd be relying mostly on their tanks and bombers to hold the line, and that would last only until the allies got more aircraft. You might be able to main a fairly static front for a few months, but I really doubt it would stay static until Christmas of 1940.
 
Okay, another idea, could Paris be made a serious sink of German resources? Some sort of Stalingrad or Leningrad?
 
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