Patrick Spens posted:

Trin, You magnificent bastard.

steinrokkan posted:

Bacarruda posted:

Here's my original plan, Plan SUD


Plan EST

Trin Tragula posted:

Tevery Best comes through with another highly pretty map. They may not post much, but bigads, when they do...



German thinking now appears committed to swivelling around St Croissant - and I must admit, I chose that name over Gooneville because I imagined both sides potentially favouring a croissant-shaped attack around it. French thinking remains slightly more open, though! It's pretty much everything I could have hoped for.

Loxbourne posted:

Assuming this is a serious question...it's artillery on horse-drawn limbers, ready for rapid movement. Usually lighter, rapid-firing weapons intended to support infantry and advance alongside it.

aphid_licker posted:

Ve haff set aside a bucket of Iron Crosses for the glorious dead and selected survivors *rattles bucket*

e: in terms of a reply to the other thread just send a pic of the French football jersey

e: sad, low-energy effort



Bad OPSEC ofc if you think that there is any chance whatsoever that they don't realize that that is our objective.

e:

Loxbourne posted:

It has been fun watching them almost get it twice, then rapidly back off each time. They're going to look magnificent as they march straight down that road...

One of their brigade commanders is sending out cavalry scouts. The look on their faces will be magnificent when they come around the ridge line.

Lazyfire posted:

I really want bullets to start flying. I'm staying out of the faction threads until things start up just to see the chaos once everyone's plans go to poo poo.

Hunt11 posted:

I have just had it pointed out to me that I used the wrong picture for my preferred battle deployment. Is there any point in me posting what I actually meant?

my dad posted:

For the observer thread, yes.

For the battle, no.

oystertoadfish posted:

seems like the BEF will stumble upon those germans in Q and get rid of them given current orders, but maybe i'm wrong. i wonder if the french will ever try to have those reinforcements digging in in the NW sprint into F, and if it'll actually happen?

Crazycryodude posted:

gently caress

Paul.Power posted:

Look at xthetenth go.

What happens if he makes it to Faibleimpot?

Trin Tragula posted:

Not to mention that, even if Cassandra is actually cheating (if he is, which I don't believe for a moment, he's also an exceptional liar and rationaliser), cheating's no good at all if nobody else actually listens to the intelligence you've gained...

wedgekree posted:

Sooo, the French plan is to try and do a night attack into the town that is thier main objective and the German trenches where the Germans are setting up thier artillery and MG's to get a nice crossfire?

my dad posted:

Although before that, there's some anvils that I need to drop on Trin's foot with regards to this scenario, and his opinion may change after that. I'll wait for him to show up here before doing that, though.

Slim Jim Pickens posted:

Slim Jim Pickens, Interrim Corps Commander

Official Telegram Notice

Attention, noble officers and enlisted men, currently engaged in valiant defense of St. Croissant and surroundings. I am with heavy heart and great sorrow, for we have heard reports that our dearly beloved Generale mon pere, is currently missing in action, having bravely and gallantly saved Quatreprouts from vile boche depravity, and gone on to lead the first charge into Saint Croissant itself! Heave, French hearts, our general's love for patrie bid him selflessly advance upon war-fevered Hun, guns, rifles, and shells be damned!

Pray that he return to us, in spirit or in body, for France will not forget a hero of his calibre! In the interim, I will be taking over the role of emotional Corps Commander, so that we can all have somebody to blame if catastrophic failure finds us in the future.

Soit brave!

Crazycryodude posted:

Ok, I've slept on it and think I can be a bit more civil now.

After doing some more thinking, I'm still of the opinion that sending Saros towards Haltebruit is the best thing to do. Up until last turn, what I would be doing in their shoes is getting everything lined up on a line from roughly Dejeuner to Clemenceau for a massed attack at the crack of dawn. Now that Mon Pere is dead and the Entente's ability to change orders is in all likelihood thoroughly shot to hell, they're probably going to be reduced to stumbling around on previous orders and unable to send the "go" signal - at least, not to everybody at once. So, the two things that could happen are either they trickle in piecemeal and get vaporized basically no matter which direction they come from, or they have to send every single unit an order saying "go at time X", which is probably a billion years in the future (or at least well after our timer runs out a single hour after sunrise) to make sure everybody's got enough time to roll well on the change of orders and get in position while accounting for the getting lost factor and the wrecked C&C that comes with a dead corps commander.

Given that, I think we can get away with sending Saros. The way things are now, we can fend off a series of piecemeal attacks easily, and if they want to mass everything for one big attack it would come after the game's over anyways. Making an end run around all their notional dudes on Dejeuner and into Q is admittedly a bit of a Hail Mary, but it's the end of the game and we can get away with a gamble that would turn a minor victory/stalemate into a proper one. Everyone else just sits where they are and finishes digging their trenches, popping off a few shots at any Frenchmen brave and/or stupid enough to follow their brave Mon Pere in.

Trin Tragula posted:

Seconding that non-playing staff officers who want to restrict themselves to one thread and give advice and opinions without having to command their own brigade are more than welcome.