re: #232 Blind Frog Belly White

“Classic crust defense - punch through at any point and the whole thing fails.”

Ironically, the French Army’s defense in depth wasn’t actually that bad. The problem was that they committed their best units to a fight on the wrong front, and put their weakest units at the hinge. If the 1st French Army had been held on the border and been available to counterattack against the bridgeheads once the aerial assault had failed, it probably would have been game over for the Germans. But as mentioned upthread, the French believed the Ardennes were impassable, and ignored intelligence reports suggesting that the Germans were coming that way.