I tend to think that the portrayal of Reservist units here is somewhat inaccurate.
By the year 2000 there wouldn't be many Reservists in Europe who hadn't had at least one year fulltime in the war.
The idea of all Reserve units being mostly staffed by people with crap military skills discounts those Reserve units that are actually very good at what they do and I don't mean just the Reserve/Territorial units of the SASR in the UK or the Commando units here in Australia.
There are a number of Reserve engineer, signals and reconnaissance units that, granted they are specialized, are every bit as good as their Regular counterparts and the harsh reality is that for many Infantry units, it only takes approximately a quarter of a year to make someone competent to be an Infantryman.
Again, given the fact that the majority of Reserve units would have been committed to the war, there would be very few Reservists who hadn't had at least some fulltime experience at the front. By the time the war was in full swing it would be hardly worth raising Reserve units, you would simply send the personnel to Regular units (or Reserve units already at the front who by that time would be fulltime just like a Regular unit).
Well, that's my take on the war anyway...
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