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Kangra
May 7, 2012

I'm in as a reserve for the Entente, because I discovered and decided to read that thread first.

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Kangra
May 7, 2012

Entente players don't expect the headlights to help them see, the point is for them to be seen. The idea is to either to trick the Germans into thinking they have more forces down there than they do, or to be canaries in the coal-black darkness. If the car dies, then something must be there to shoot them.

It might well buy them some time (given that the Germans are envisioning whole armies of taxicabs) but they're still going to be awfully confused as to how the German forces got across the stream.

Kangra
May 7, 2012

The Germans are still in a good position -- not the winning position they could have gained that round, but still okay. As long as they hold their ground for the moment and don't try to push hard until their reinforcements arrive, the BEF can't really do much to them.

The cavalry move out of the trench was yet another time when they were saying, "it'd be really bad if there were units in this direction... so let's ignore that option since it's too terrible to imagine".

Perfect information would have them stop in the North, and actually bring more force in the South to take the trench, but since the southern bridge crossing feels like a mistake, they're probably less likely to capitalize on it.

Kangra
May 7, 2012

In the German thread posted:

Oh, right, those guys still exist... Hopefully for once things go our way and they fail to respond.

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