Planning to battle my teacher in a battle of tactics?

Question

I'm currently taking a military class in my high school, and we're going to have to go up against him in a blitzkrieg. Our group takes the part of the Germans, he is the French. We do not know where his units are placed, and I'm not sure if he sees us. I'd like to note this isn't against any Germans or French, just a time where we're practicing basic tactics. He thinks we're only going to do shock combat, and try to flank him, but he doesn't realize that i know a few more tactic moves.

Anyway, it's a group of us, and we have to try to go through the forest, just like the Germans did to defeat the French. We get tank units, and we have to escort supplies forward. So he tells us if we get destroyed while moving like "Ok we go to K9 from K3, moving up through all the K's in between, where he says, "Wait, stop at K5, one tank moving up to K6 was hit by a land mine" or "4 of your tanks were ambushed by 7 heavy tanks, they were all lost at K7"

So how on earth do I defeat this guy! He's undefeated, and I really want to beat him, so honestly, how do i do it.

Answer 1

You seem to have got some fantastic answers already, so I'll just say this...  Why did we never get to do stuff like this at my school?  It sounds cool...

Answer 2

Listen to Jim...he's dead on.

Answer 3

Kick him in the balls.

Answer 4

jim has it pegged. i'm former infantry and only wish i had leadership like his 20 years ago.

Answer 5

Cheat....

Cheating is allowed in combat.

If the way to win is to get the most supplies through, capture his supplies and count them as yours.

Sacrifice everything else to get supplies through since HE has defined winning as getting supplies through.

Answer 6

Don't send in your Panzer IV yet.

Why not send StuG III assualt gun to wipe the floor with the heavy tanks

And French have a heavy tank? He's bulling you. In history, the German use Panzer I & II light tanks as the primarily tanks in the invasion.

Know the German cabability first before fighting.

Like in Sun Tzu's the Art of War:

Thus we may know that there are five essentials for victory:

(1) He will win who knows when to fight and when not to fight.

(2) He will win who knows how to handle both superior and inferior forces.

(3) He will win whose army is animated by the same spirit throughout all its ranks.

(4) He will win who, prepared himself, waits to take the enemy unprepared.

(5) He will win who has military capacity and is not interfered with by the sovereign.

Answer 7

No one's going to be offended-history's history.  The French know they were invaded three times, and the Deutschers know they did it.

Frankly the game sounds like its set up to favor him.  He's UMPIRING THE GAME?  As a player?  Did he give you a copy of the rules?  The combat results tables?  What intelligence are you given regarding his forces and deployments?  The "Sichelschnitt" worked because the Germans were well aware of French planning.  What role do your recon forces play? In most games, they move until they contact a enemy force-which is then revealed.  Blindly moving your panzer force which is most powerful offensive weapon you have forward-no wonder this guy's undefeated.

I can't help you without knowing if he's using a historical setup, or not.  If he's allowed to use his armor and airpower the way he wishes or has to follow French doctrine.  

Blitzkrieg which by the way is a term never used by the Wehrmacht or even by the modern Bundeswehr, relied on concentration of armor, with infantry and artillery acting as a combined arms force.  Tactical airpower was key both in close air support and interdiction (preventing enemy forces from moving-essentially).  If you aren't allowed the Luftwaffe-this is no simulation-and worse you're learning the wrong lessons.

I would advise purchasing a commercial wargame on the invasion of France, or early WW2.  I used "Rise and Decline of the 3rd Reich" as history class teaching tool-students really got into it.

EDIT:  Up to you but you're wasting your armor "guarding supplies".  This is what concentration of force implies.  You probe for a weakness with your recce, and exploit one with everything you've got.  You want to totally overwhelm and paralyze any potential reaction.  FYI what scale is this?  Division, Regiment, Battalion?  That will help decide your tactics.

EDIT II:  Ok, well you can tell him from me-as a Military Historian, part-time wargame designer, and retired officer-his game makes no sense.  "Getting supplies through"...to where?  to what end? that's not Blitzkrieg.  I recommend you pick up a copy of "Strange Defeat" by Avalanche Games if you want a"true" simulation of one of the most amazing military victories in modern history.

Answer 8

use recon...mass your strength where he is weakest.

The way you describe it though, he sounds like he has the upper hand, all he has to do is say 'boom' you lost a tank?!?  Doesn't sound like a real scenario of tactics if he can just place his units wherever he wants at will...am I missing something?