<t> The poster, Pion Urpo is the name on the email, is playing against SMK and me. Against me, he is recovering nicely from my Russia First strategy but has had problems with naval operations resulting in thousands of Brits stranded in England and unable to help the French (who are just now coming ...

<t> As SMK said, there are only a few that appear to be actively playing PBEM, he and myself included and we would welcome new players.<br/>
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Buy it and SMK, I and maybe others will get you up to speed on the do's and don'ts of this game. In the meanwhile, the Master hjaco punishes me ...

Well, so much for the Bear Trap idea. The rest of it works, but could be done earlier, to Austria's advantage.

So when Italy is attacked, the TE can strat rail in, but not Romania?

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Russia gets no strategic movement into Romania on the 1st turn, so there should be no effective Russian reinforcements.<e>[/quote]</e></QUOTE>
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So, those Russian units that I saw were already sunning on the beaches of the Black Sea ...

<t> One transport used at different times. The Greeks could be taken after Romania falls, assuming the TE ever lets CP control the Eastern Med. Could happen. Didn't in our last game but the transport was at sea in the Med ready to take on troops for the attack on Athens. Incredibly, the Royal Navy ...

<t> Austria starts off producing six food and consuming seven each turn with a stockpile of seven. If it loses no food hexes and captures none, it will exhaust the stockpile in September 1915. Similarly, Austria's industrial production is hampered by limited raw materials. It produces only four per ...

<t> The steady flow of raw materials from the Ottoman Empire to Germany is important to the German war machine. Greek entry into the war on the TE side provides a base from which the TE could interdict the Berlin-Baghdad railway by attacking into Bulgaria and what used to be Serbia.<br/>
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I am still interested and available in having a new opponent.

Seven PBEM games completed, one nearly done and I project a 50% batting average.

It is tough being CP, so I'll take that side for the first game of what I hope is at least a multi-game series (switch sides each time one is done).

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<QUOTE><s>[quote]</s>ORIGINAL: SewerStarFish<br/>
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Ow, not putting the German transports at least in the Baltic had to hurt your chances.
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Not really. <br/>
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Trade from the Baltic is capped at three RM and no food. To maximize Baltic trade, the CP ...

<r> I will spare the readers a detailed, turn by turn account of the fifth game between SMK (Mike) and myself (my third time as CP).<br/>
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Germany and Austria suffer from a lack of food to feed its people and, eventually, begin to suffer morale losses as a result. Both countries, but Germany ...

<r> To my everlasting chagrin, Mike accidentally set TE to have an advantage in production AND I still lost! I did not notice that I was getting more production than I should have...easy beat I am.<br/>
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Re-reading the post about my attack on Holland (no neutrals left to be outraged, except ...

<t> A couple more notes. <br/>
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In Turkey, Mike succeeded in stopping me from taking Constantinople and even from interdicting the Berlin-Baghdad railway. German troops arrived on the scene and I made the decision to evacuate before being wiped out. I succeeded and gave the ship supplying the ...

<r> Excellent summary of a long and exhausting war.<br/>
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My setup was flawed by having the Russians too far west in Poland. As Mike points out, the Germans, with stronger corps, were able to keep me from cutting them off in East Prussia with disastrous results for the Russian army. It was ...

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Can someone break down how multiplayer works exactly? In particular, how does the turn and impulse structure work out? How long does it typically take to turn around a turn? How long typically to finish a full game?<br/>
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How's it rate ...

<t> I found reviews that hated GOA because of its complexity and one called it a "grognard's delight" or something like that. I had to look up grognard since I am not one but I do enjoy playing this game. It is not dead (although I guess there will not be any revisions to the software or the manual ...

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..of all movement, amphibious moves take place before all others... <e>[/quote]</e></QUOTE>
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I learned, to my dismay, that the above statement is only partly true. HQs moving amphibiously don't move faster than an activated enemy unit ...

This is a very informative thread and does not deserve to be buried.

Transports on shipping missions only bring goodies home for the first two out of the their three turns at sea.

You WILL lose ONE THIRD of your trade potential if you don't plan for this.

<r> In March, however, things fell apart as control of Gallipoli, for some unknown reason, went to the Turks. The cav had moved north of Gallipoli and promptly disappeared. I suspect the troopers ate their horses. My single British infantry corps and two HQ were completely out of supply and thus ...

<r> Even had I seen what was going on, I don't know if I could have corrected it in time. My oppenent, SMK, had begun attacking Serbia in earnest on 0914-3. Belgrade's valiant defenders held the city for an incredible four consecutive impulses of what had to be nasty urban combat, but the last ...