The Sharp End Gaming

German forces have driven deep into the Netherlands when a surprise Dutch counterattack is ordered by II Corps commander Jacob Harberts.  The objectives: a series of bridges and ferries along the Rhine at Arnhem. This is a fictional scenario .  I created this scenario after playing Decisive Campaigns:  Blitzkrieg from Warsaw to Paris.  In that game I ordered the same counterattack simulated in this scenario and managed to achieve my objectives.  I thought this would make a great Command Ops 2 scenario and so I put this together quickly.

There are three axes of attack by the Germans into the Netherlands plus the airborne component which landed behind Dutch lines.  To throw the Germans off-balance this turn, I  launched a counterattack along the Rhine towards Arnhem and it's 1 Victory Point. A zoomed out view of German forces surging westward. In the South Dutch forces are thin and defending against an unknown concentration of German units. More to follow...

A Belgian defensive line forms as reinforcing Belgian forces move eastwards.  Also visible, BEF air assets as I deploy them to the east to cover Belgian forces and screen the BEF advance.    I am playing as France, Britain, Netherlands and Belgium against the Germans.  I know very little about the Fall of France and find myself worrying about repeating the mistakes that were made.  I am struggling with a number of strategic decisions and trying to correct some things that I found at the start of the campaign.

I know very little about the Fall of France in 1940.  Until this morning I had never heard of the Dyle Plan, I didn't appreciate the difficulty one has managing the armies of four nations (UK, France, Netherlands and Belgium) and I didn't realize Belgium seems awfully big when you have to defend it against a German blitzkrieg. This is the "Oh #$%*" moment of the Belgium turn where my faint memory of these events meets the reality of these events. There are a lot of tanks in those woods...