re: #119 Dark_Falcon

You are assuming Hitler could have taken those Czech factories intact, which was no sure thing. Moreover, cutting through the defenses erected on the Czech-German border would have inflicted a good deal of damage on the Wehrmacht. It would have been a good long while before they would have been in a position to mount a major offensive against France and when they did they’d still have been doing it with far fewer tanks than they otherwise had.

It wasn’t the number of tanks, D_F. It was the doctrine by which they were used.

Remember the Allies had more and often, in some ways better, tanks than the Germans. For example, the Souma S35 or the Char 2C.

But the Germans had a proper doctrine for armoured warfare and the Allies did not. In addition the Germans had generally better infantry and a much better airforce. To top it off, the Germans generally had much better morale, especially compared to the French.

At that stage of the war, I don’t think there was anything that could have stopped France from falling.