AHC: Hitler throws snake eyes

It's almost a cliché that the Heer threw a lot of sixes in the opening of WWII, so ... given moderate bad luck on their part, how soon after the invasion of Poland can you bring the whole sorry business to an end?
 
So are we only allowed to change Wehrmacht decisions, or are the French, say, allowed to launch an offensive into the Rhineland?
 
As I understand things one of the main reasons the Germans were able to do so well in the invasion of France was they had mass introduced radios whilst the French had not - relying on telephone, word of mouth, dispatches etc. - so they were able to effectively get inside their decision making cycle and run rings around them. The obvious solution is to have the French spend a bit more on radios so that they're more widespread and reliable, or perhaps have the British bring along some Medium II Box command tanks, a variant of the Vickers Medium Mark II tank, and ask to attach them to some of the various French units. Should make things somewhat harder for the Germans.
 

nbcman

Donor
AH doesn't listen to the Generals and orders the attack in the West in November. The Germans would be lucky to make it to the Somme before petering out as the German's war plan would have resulted in the exact invasion path as the British & French were expecting.
 

Flubber

Banned
AH doesn't listen to the Generals and orders the attack in the West in November. The Germans would be lucky to make it to the Somme before petering out as the German's war plan would have resulted in the exact invasion path as the British & French were expecting.


This.

Prevent Halder from trying to sideline Manstein by appointing him to a corps command in the east. That stops Manstein's staff from approaching Hitler, which stops Hitler from learning about how Manstein's ideas neatly mimicked his own, which stops Hitler from ordering the changes to Fall Gelb which resulted in the "sickle cut".
 

Well, losing Der Fuehrer would be a bit more than moderate bad luck, and it could well be argued that if whoever takes over (Heidrich?) has the same war aims, then the chance of France falling would have been even better. Many of the possible ways to cock it up seem to involve simply doing what AH wants. :D

I get the impression that the Saarland invasion was called of because of advance warning of Russian interest. Given that, Frances best strategy probably was, as in OTL, to wait for the Germans in Belgium.

So Hitler throws the dice as in OTL, gambling on the slim possibility of early victory rather than a holding position. He throws six after six, but the last vital throw fails. The "sickle cut" is late. It runs out of fuel and into trouble. The British counterattack from Dunkirk links up with the French and it is all over within days. :)

The Germans have surrendered, but most of Poland is still in Soviet hands, and the Finns have just shown that the Red Army is perhaps not as mighty as had been thought.

Hitler has just been spanked - hard. Now what about Stalin?
 
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