![]() ![]() There are five (5) Fortress Divisions (DIF), with their regiments spread along the Maginot Line. There were also two (2) Polish Divisions (DIP), with plans to raise a third. Two (2) were sent to metropolitan France and seven (7) would be considered Reservist Divisions. There was another group (after mobilization) of twenty-four (24) divisions (DM) raised in French North Africa (Morocco, Algiers and Tunisia). That's a total of seventy-one (71) divisions, which includes some of the one's that were stationed overseas (appears to be five (5) of them). We are going call those nineteen (19) Reservists Divisions.ĩ x Infantry Battalions (poorer quality infantry, a unit type we do not have) Nor were they enthusiastic about fighting. An additional nineteen (19) were stood up, but these were older men, equipment and lacking officers. Not quite what we consider motorized.Īfter mobilization, another twenty-two (22) Infantry and two (2) mountain divisions were added. And while seven (7) of them were called "Motorized", is simple meant the infantry were transported in buses and the horses in trucks. Three (3) of the twenty-eight (28) are Mountain divisions (a separate posting). In 1939 there were twenty (20) Infantry Division, by 1940 there were twenty-eight (28) of them. The above is your typical Infantry Division after mobilization. A Infantry Division and a Reservists Division. To simplify things, we are going lump all of the above (except where noted) into two (2) different divisions types. Within those divisions, they have three (3) classes: Active (peacetime), Type A (reservists) and Type B (reservists). ![]() Infantry (DI), Motorized (DIM), Mountain (DIA), Colonial (DIC), North African (DINA), Moroccan (DM) and Fortress (DIF). As such, they have a multitude of different infantry divisions. Almost every French division had to absorb reservists before it was ready to fight. ![]() The French Army is an army of reservists. Hear are the layouts based on the limitations of the base game. Bear in mind that the historical divisions are not as efficient in the game as other designs. ![]()
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