This looks interesting

[Leman]

I always thought the expression was cheese eating surrender monkeys. However as it is based only on the events of 1940 it does seem a trifle over the top compared with the previous thousand years of French history. Don't forget there were some very influential British people who were prepared to do a deal with Hitler in 1940. Glass houses etc.

[GordonY]

Given that the cost of that particular war was no less than the loss of "the Empire on which the sun never sets" perhaps these people were the sane ones.

[holdfast]

I seem to recall the Secretary to the British Chiefs of Staff in April 1940 noting in his diary, apropos the British disinclination to bring conscription into law, that the Brits were ready to fight to the death of the last Frenchman.

[GordonY]

For any who are interested here's the playsheet



So looks like the French have a big advantage when in attack column (especially if you shove an Old Guard unit in the front a big +5)