from V2.2
"France: Although ostensibly neutral in the war, France was still subjected to nuclear attacks to deny its port and oil refining facilities to NATO. Damage was largely confined to the coasts, but the resulting casualties were severe.
The riots and civil confusion caused by the war and by the hordes of refugees pouring across the borders forced the central government to close the borders, then occupy all territories west of the Rhine in order to prevent the country from being overwhelmed.
The military, to enforce the restrictions, has established a free-fire zone within 50 kilometers east of the Rhine, commonly called LaZoneMorte (the Dead Zone). The border is officially closed to non-French citizens (informally, bribes will get you in no matter what your origin if you have visible means of support). The border with Spain is also closed, but is permeable to smugglers.
Part of a thriving black market is dominated by the Union Corse (the Corsican criminal underworld). The central government has been forced to become increasingly repressive as conditions worsen, but life in most areas is onerous but tolerable. Some areas (the mountains, especially) are in open rebellion against the central government, and martial law is in effect almost everywhere.
The government of the southern departments is incredibly corrupt, largely because it is totally dominated by the Union Corse. Marseilles is the largest undamaged city, although it is in bad shape compared to its prewar condition. It represents the link between what remains of trade in Europe and the seaborne merchants of the eastern Mediterranean, and is totally under the control of the Corsicans.
Most of France is classified as organized (mostly by the French government/military, in some areas in the south by the Union Corse), with a few areas in the mountains disputed or independent. The area west of the Rhine River and east of the old border is a combination of terrorized, insular and cantonments. LaZone Morte is devastated"
V1 mentions nothing in any released module or article that I have seen (maybe you have one I havent seen in which case please tell me) about the southern part of the country being run by the Union Corse and that parts of the mountains are either disputed or independent.
The fact that Marseilles is the largest undamaged city and that it is totally dominated by the Corsicans appears nowhere that I have seen.
Also this line - Some areas (the mountains, especially) are in open rebellion against the central government, and martial law is in effect almost everywhere. - appears nowhere that I can find
As for "Although ostensibly neutral in the war, France was still subjected to nuclear attacks to deny its port and oil refining facilities to NATO. Damage was largely confined to the coasts, but the resulting casualties were severe."
In V1 the French and Belgians were described as hit the lightest and their casualties are not described as severe
If you have sections of your own country in rebellion why are you sending troops into Germany and the Netherlands and Africa and the Middle East? Why isnt the FAR being sent home instead of being sent to Kuwait and Saudi Arabia? Those are exactly who you need to use in situations like that - i.e. light elite troops.
V1 makes it sound like ports and naval bases and some refineries were hit but not to the level of severe casualties and a country where a big part of it is under the rule of the Mob.
V1 shows a pretty much intact country taking advantage of the war to re-establish its place in the world and its former colonies
V2 shows a country that cant even control its internal borders let alone reach out overseas to take over new ones.
at the least V2.2 means you would have to rewrite the RDF to show the worse state the French are in compared to V1. I dont see the France of V2.2 sending 48 top of the line fighter jets and most of the FAR to the Middle East with their own country in that kind of shape before they sent that force out.
(compared to the US which sent out a similar force but did it before the US was struck by the nukes in the main, not afterward as the French did)
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