#MAGINOT LINE UPDATE#

Its intention was a delay of the enemy by in-depth defense. But when war finally came, the lightning-fast tanks of the German army simply went around the line, leaving the soldiers based in the defences unable to react to the invasion. Answer (1 of 12): The Maginot Line was not a Great Wall of China. Construction began in 1930 and billions of francs were invested in the impressive line of forts and artillery (protected by minefields and trenches) which was finally completed in 1940. This issue is a rare example of the March of Time, so often accurate in its journalistic judgements, getting it wrong, both about the the Maginot Line itself and French army which it calls ‘the most formidable fighting machine in Europe today’.The fortifications were the idea of Marshall Petain and Andre Maginot, who was French Minister of War in the 1920s. Bucolic scenes of farmers and vineyards give way to shots of the concrete gun turrets and pill boxes peeping above the long grass of the hilly border country: defences which would be utterly useless when faced with the Blitzkrieg tactics of the German army. The map is based off the area around a section of the Maginot Line a series of concrete fortifications built by France in the 1930s, along the border between France and Germany, to deter a German.

#MAGINOT LINE UPDATE#

It was added in Update 1.75 'La Rsistance'. Its original idea was to span the French border from Alps to Atlantic. Maginot Line sometimes referred to as Sector Montmedy is a ground forces map available in all modes. ‘The greatest line of frontier defences the world has ever known!’, thunders the commentary in this riveting, if spectacularly misjudged, assessment of the 125 mile long defensive wall along the French-German border. The idea of the Maginot Line was to be an impenetrable line of obstacles on the French eastern border to prevent onslaught and to purchase France time for full mobility.

Maginot line