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Ge. Empire is eight provinces & Fr. seven provinces, with Lorraine for France & Alsace for Germany being the main invasion routes for those nations. Also France has five(four actually connected to each other) & Germany four colonies in Africa, for a total of 24 IPCs for France & 35 for Germany.
This is going to be mostly a land war, with sea action & Africa a secondary sideshow. Can France hope to make it too expensive for Germany to get to the Med. Sea through Marseilles, or, give up a few African colonies to keep France intact(the numbers of land units are just too high to expect Germany to being over run by France).
Round One: Germany goes & buys a fighter, trooper, gun, transport, sub., and, cruiser. Moves all naval units to sea space 8, but, for 2 subs. to sea space 15 to engage French BB & transport(damaged BB but both subs.lost). Fighter flown from Berlin to Munich. Troops & guns move down to France, from Ge. Alsace 7 troopers & 3 guns contest Fr. Lorraine defended by 6 troopers & two guns(Ge. lose 5 troopers & French lose 5 troopers & 1 gun, the province is still contested).
France goes and buys 2 subs. & 4 troopers. Med. Sea transport picks up troops from Algeria & Tunisia, to attack German East Africa. Damaged BB stays in Brest, while Med. BB goes to join it, Brest transport goes to Africa to pick up colonial troops for attacks on German colonies.
Forces from Picardy & Burgundy go into Lorraine to help uncontest that province(11 troopers & 5 guns & 1 fighter versus German 2 troopers & 3 guns, the Fr. lose 4 troopers & the GE. are wiped out). Paris sends out a trooper to help garrison Picardy & Burgundy sectors & three for Lorraine via Burgundy.
Losses Axis 43 IPCs & Allies 19.
Round Two: GE. goes, builds 2 fighters, 1 transport, 1 sub., &, 1 BB. Second wave from Alsale contest & battle in Lorraine. Air battle occurs & both sides lose their fighter craft. The attacking Germans lose 10 of their 18 troopers, none of the 6 guns, &, the defending French lose 10 of their 11 troopers and 2 of their 5 guns.
Ge. fleet attacks Fr. fleet off Brest, mines destroy 2 GE. submarines, Fr. fleet of 2 subs. & BB is destroyed, all GE. has left is a damaged BB & 1 C(lost 2 C). Fighter from Berlin lands in Munich. From Berlin sub. & transport(with gun & trooper), goes and land in Picardy defended by 1 trooper(GE. lose a gun & Fr. lose a trooper). Picardy falls!
In Africa just for the point, German colonial trooper from Kameron takes undefended French Africa.
France goes and builds 1 sub. & 1 plane & 4 troopers, if she abandon Lorraine, Ge, will still be able to attack Paris via Picardy(not having to go through Burgundy with the retreated units from Lorraine). Fr. decides to reinforce Lorraine from units from Burgundy instead, the former has a total of 5 troopers & 3 guns(they will defend as it is too little to uncontest the Gr. force of 8 troopers & 6 guns, much less a third wave in turn three of an additional 16 troopers & 7 guns). Sends from Paris a trooper to Burgundy, &, also attacks Picardy, loses a trooper from each side, leaving a trooper in Picardy to garrison it.
French BB & transport attacks GE. BB & C off Brest, only damaged Fr. BB survives.
At sea troops from Morocco & French W. Africa land & take Ge. Kameron.
German political victory, to get them out of Lorraine, and, let them have back Kameron & keep French Africa.
Next France versus an empire that annoys them more than the Germans, the Austrian-Hungarian empire.
Lost IPCs Ge. 88 & Allies 74.
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AH & France do not connect on the board, also AH has a slightly higher IPCs than France(just two), but, in terms of land forces, it is not lopsided(like with Germany, AH have 18 more troopers & half more in cannons). AH does not have any colonies, but, France does, and, if AH gets naval dominance, those four colonies become a weak spot for France(especially sea zone 16 has Algeria, Tunisia, &, Marseilles France across from them).
Still any sea landings in France(four provinces), much less AH(only six provinces, one which actually touches the sea), would take a many rounds to become a permanent conquest. So a political victory with naval dominance would be more pragmatical, than a full scale permanent naval landing(s) in either empire’s home provinces(Fr. starts out with a BB & 2 transports & 1 fighter more than AH, also French Africa colony is not invasion-able by sea ).
