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Originally Posted by Kai-Petri
That would have been the ideal way to supply Patton I guess, if the problem otherwise was how to divide the supplies landed in Normandy area. So perhaps Anvil should have been done at the same time with Overlord, thus perhaps keeping Das Reich in its place as well.?
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That would have been ideal. The trick was providing the amphib boats/ships for both. After Neptune was completed and the artificial ports operationing the amphib ships were moved back to the Med, and on to the Pacific. On the gameboard I saw a player use Rangers, Brit Commandos, which did not require amphib ships in the game rules, and airbourne to sieze Toulon. It was a high risk operation but it allowed him to bring the infantry and armor in without amphibs. Probablly not a good model of the real world, but he was thinking.
A alternate would be to capture Marsallise/Toulon in January 1942 instead of the Shingle operation aimed at Rome. Having a large enclave in southern France might supplement Overlord.