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Originally posted by Phoenix-D:
"Static defenses aren't as good as ships in real life anyway. Have you heard of the Maginot Line? Not as great as a massive army of tanks."
Uh, I dunno. It was good enough to prompt the German army to go AROUND it.
That's the main disadvantage of static defenses- they don't move.
Phoenix-D
The Maginot line also took a massive amount of money out of productive defence procurement (Tanks, AFVs, Aircraft, effective mobile communications, etc) and put it into pouring concrete for about 10 years and resulted in a very passive defensive doctrine on the part of the French, which contributed a great deal to their collapse.
It was an unmitigated disaster for France.