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Thanks for the discussion, you guys. You've hit on a lot of key points that will be discussed in future chapters.
Just to clarify, though, it will be vital for the Germans to screen Antwerp; while the British marines that went to Antwerp will also be added to the British troops there, more important is the fact that instead of four infantry divisions and a cavalry division, you're looking at six infantry divisions and a cavalry division crossing the channel, or about 4 corps. Roughly 140,000 British and 120,000 Belgian troops at Antwerp ready for action for the last week of August, in total.
A conservative estimate of the German forces likely in place by that point would be roughly, and again on the low side, 120,000 at a minimum. This does not include any Landwehr brigades, which would probably be added to the screening force, the marine division, which was formed on August 23rd and would take until September to get into place, or the reserve corps from the army of the north, which would probably be in place by the last week of August or at least in transit after a series of arguments at OHL. A German corps has about 48,000 men. The marine division was about 16,000. The Landwehr brigades are about 5-6,000 men. I will leave the exact details up to you, storyteller.