Schlieffen Plan wheel behind Verdun instead Paris in 1914

what if left wing of German army retied to behind German fortification on Rhine. right wing of German army emerging form Belgium aim at Verdun instead of Paris to cut line of retreat of french army behind French line of fortification .

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It would leave their flank open to French reserves, the 6th army at Paris, and the BEF.
 

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Schlieffen always saw this as an unsolvable problem- if the Germans wheeled to early, they would expose their flanks and they simply lacked the strength to wheel behind Paris. They couldn't increase their army enough either because of the lack of roads
 
On the game board this just results in the French center pulling back further, and maybe recovering the area in a counter attack as the Germans out run their ammunition supply.
 
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