junk2drive Posted May 10, 2005 Share Posted May 10, 2005 The start of the war in the West. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Code13 Posted May 11, 2005 Share Posted May 11, 2005 Hmm, I see where you are coming from, what you meant to say was the beggining of the fall of France... 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
junk2drive Posted May 11, 2005 Author Share Posted May 11, 2005 Yes BoF would have been better. I was just knocking the spammer off my forum menu. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sequoia Posted May 12, 2005 Share Posted May 12, 2005 France, Belguim, Netherlands. Does Luxembourg count? That's what I want the next Combat Mission game to have-Luxembourgers. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chainman Posted May 23, 2005 Share Posted May 23, 2005 Luxembourgers? As far as I know they did not fight. you must understand that my tiny country had no military tradition. The "army" size was problably too small, and they were simply overhelmed on that fateful May morning. I'll check on some details and let you know. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
junk2drive Posted May 23, 2005 Author Share Posted May 23, 2005 Chainman, I have sent you an email. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chainman Posted May 23, 2005 Share Posted May 23, 2005 My email is down at the provider. Maybe it's just maintenance. even the webmail does not work currently. I'll see tomorrow. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Emrys Posted May 24, 2005 Share Posted May 24, 2005 I don't know how accurate it is, but I have always read that Luxembourg had no army amounting to more than guards at the border crossings and depended on Belgium for military protection. Michael 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chainman Posted May 24, 2005 Share Posted May 24, 2005 I don't think there was any official agreement with regards to protection from either Belgium or France. Luxembourg tried to avoid to attract Nazi-Germany anger playing unsuccessfully the 'hey we are neutrals!' card. By 1940, probably on paper, Luxbg had 13 officers, 255 gendarmes (more a police function) and 425 volunteers plus auxiliaries. The volunteers were until 1939 split into 2 companies with a captain each as company commanders. So there was a semi-professional army augmented by civil guards in this period of political crisis. I don't know about any war (defense) plans. However, I think by spring 1940, the officers and the governement had no doubt about the outcome. The escape of the governement and the Grande-Duchesse Charlotte was even planned in case of an invasion... and succeeded for but one (of 5) ministers (=secretary of state?). What (and if any) action was seen by the army is uncertain to me. I've never heard of any organised resistance at this point. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stoffel Posted May 24, 2005 Share Posted May 24, 2005 From what I learned in the marches around DIekirch,Luxemburg had a huge number of "volunteers"enlisted by the Germans to fight in the east. Some people there argued it could be over 10000 men,not much of them returned home after the war. It was considered a dark page in the History of Luxemburg. Btw may 10th is my daughters birthday too 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Emrys Posted May 24, 2005 Share Posted May 24, 2005 Originally posted by Chainman: I don't think there was any official agreement with regards to protection from either Belgium or France.Right. I think it was more of a tacit understanding than a formal agreement. Sort of like what Belgium had with Britain and France. Michael 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JonS Posted May 24, 2005 Share Posted May 24, 2005 Wasn't there an SL or ASL scenario set around the Lux borderguards/postmen? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Emrys Posted May 25, 2005 Share Posted May 25, 2005 There was one in COD where the Germans are trying to capture the Dutch royal family. Michael 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JonS Posted May 25, 2005 Share Posted May 25, 2005 nah, not that one. It was on the ridge map with a road running down each side. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Emrys Posted May 25, 2005 Share Posted May 25, 2005 Hmm, may have been in ASL then because I don't remember that map. Of course, I could have just forgotten it... Michael 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JonS Posted May 25, 2005 Share Posted May 25, 2005 Oh, wait. I just had a look. It was SL Scenario 25: Resistance at Chabrehez I was thinking of. It features elms of 7th M/c Bn up against a det from 3rd Regt Chasseurs Ardennais (Belgian). The map I was thinking of is either 2 or 5. Meh. Not Luxembourgians, but the effect is probably the same. Edit: I see that Scen 26 is "Assault on a Queen", the one you referred to earlier Mike. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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