MacCaulay
Banned
...then what? I've had this rattling around in my head for awhile and then it got brought up in another thread.
Apparently Hitler really wanted to drive on Antwerp and take it to basically try and knock the Allied supply situation for a loop. Good plan, but to me it seems sort of like my initial plan in 2002 to marry Leelee Sobieski: awesome in idea, not so doable in execution.
After reading more into the 1944-45 stages of the war, I realized that even had the Wehrmacht and SS broken through the American lines and turned towards Antwerp, they would've had to face First Canadian Army which was rebuilt after the Battle of the Scheldt and most likely the best force Canada would ever field (even more capable in comparison to it's enemies than the Canadian Corps of WWI).
So...suppose the Germans break through in the Ardennes, with...I don't know...Kampfgruppe Peiper and 12th SS Panzer Division. Just what can they do then? Sure, they've broken through the lines. For the sake of historical reasoning, let's say they manage to make a speed run through Elsenborn Ridge and troops are kept their to keep the road open.
With roughly two weak divisions on the road to Antwerp, it just doesn't seem to me like the Germans can accomplish much except line the Canadians up for one final rematch with the 12th SS and Peiper, which it seems they were fated to fight from Normandy almost until the end of the war.
Apparently Hitler really wanted to drive on Antwerp and take it to basically try and knock the Allied supply situation for a loop. Good plan, but to me it seems sort of like my initial plan in 2002 to marry Leelee Sobieski: awesome in idea, not so doable in execution.
After reading more into the 1944-45 stages of the war, I realized that even had the Wehrmacht and SS broken through the American lines and turned towards Antwerp, they would've had to face First Canadian Army which was rebuilt after the Battle of the Scheldt and most likely the best force Canada would ever field (even more capable in comparison to it's enemies than the Canadian Corps of WWI).
So...suppose the Germans break through in the Ardennes, with...I don't know...Kampfgruppe Peiper and 12th SS Panzer Division. Just what can they do then? Sure, they've broken through the lines. For the sake of historical reasoning, let's say they manage to make a speed run through Elsenborn Ridge and troops are kept their to keep the road open.
With roughly two weak divisions on the road to Antwerp, it just doesn't seem to me like the Germans can accomplish much except line the Canadians up for one final rematch with the 12th SS and Peiper, which it seems they were fated to fight from Normandy almost until the end of the war.