RN I agree totally with the FAR in the game not matching the FAR in real life - it doesnt make any sense because as far as I remember the FAR and its components in real life were set before GDW issued that module.
And things like using the 1st Foreign Legion Regiment and missing units that had been deployed in Djibouti, in some cases for decades before the module was issued. If you read the RDF is makes it sound like the FAR showed up in 1995 and before that the French werent in the area when in reality - and by that I mean 1984 reality when they were putting the game together - they had been there for two decades!
this is yet another reason why I have been arguing that the canon needs to be corrected - at the least to get the right units there that really made up the FAR.
Right now, the way the canon reads, the French have taken a heck of a beating in those units for a country that is not at war and that has only been fighting guerrillas (these units were not part of the invasion of the Netherlands, Luxembourg and Germany in any way after all)
at the least it paints a picture of a lot of fighting in Djibouti that occurred to reduce those units that much
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