Slitherine

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ORIGINAL: brian brian

You know Ronnie, your idea of dropping the Fallschirmjaegers in the hex row beyond Brussels is the handiest development for German operational tactics that I have seen in some time. Using their PARA in Belgium can be an excellent thing, with very nice strategic knock-on potentials all round the globe, even. But I have always seen it done, and used the idea myself, with the idea of keeping the Allies off the Dyle line by dropping them right on the Belgian capital.

Putting them a little farther out front and telling the Allies - come n git it - is a different approach. Risk goes up, but so does reward. I am still trying to decide if I would pull that trigger on a sudden burst of sunshine in March or April, knowing the rain might slow down the Panzers on a potentially sehr gut riposte a fortnight later. I know what Kurt Student would have said about the whole thing; he would volunteer.

Now if only they could land a whole bunch of Anti-Tank guns, like the Red Devils could with their gliders later in the war. But I think I figured out a work-around there...