Nothing was Phony about the war on the Western Front during this 2nd Week of November. After massive artillery barrage coupled with "flying artillery" -- Sturzkampfflugzeug Junkers Ju 87s pounding -- Wehrmacht risked frontal attack on formidable Maginot Line. 125% defensive bonus, coupled with Immobile promotions for the troops manning that particular segment of the line meant that Germans will loose 3 precious divisions (one Mechanized). However the job was done. First Division of Waffen SS is proudly facing the enemy from the captured Bunker System:
Desperate French deployed few Char 2C super-heavy tanks. It was the largest (in physical dimensions) operational tank ever made. The Char 2C had a loaded weight of 69 tonnes, partly because of its armour - 45 mm at the front, 22 mm at the sides, but much of it just because of its huge size. Length 10.27 m (33 ft 8 in), Width 3 m (9 ft 10 in), Height 4.09 m (13 ft 5 in), Main armament 75 mm gun, Secondary
armament: Four 8 mm machine guns (three in gimbal ball mounts at front and both sides forward, one mounted in a rear turret). To man the tank required a crew of twelve: driver, commander, gunner, loader, four machine gunners, mechanic, electrician, assistant-electrician/mechanic and a radio operator.
As their main value was in propaganda, the giants were kept carefully out of harm's way and did not participate in the September 1939 attack on the Siegfried Line. They were used instead for numerous morale-boosting movies, in which they were often shown climbing and crushing old French forts. To the public, they obtained the reputation of invincible super tanks, the imagined dimensions of which far surpassed the actual particulars. However after the Maginot Line was breached French AI decided to deploy everything they had.
In the separate success stories all 3 Bomber missions undertaken by Luftwaffe against London were a stellar success! German pilots damaged the current production in London, destroyed Factory building (Tank Factory) and regular building (Custom House). Too bad there is no mission to kill the population -- Hermann Wilhelm Göring is not pleased
