<t> I just thought I'd leave my thoughts on the game and some things I've noticed after reading other comments.<br/>
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On 1914 Start:<br/>
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Most countries should have small detachments on their ports or important cities, I think it's a little ridiculous that most ports are actually ...

Russia absolutely needs detachments on the cities near its borders. In fact I think a lot of places should have low strength detachments, for instance a huge amount of italian and turkish seaports have no units on them and could be taken easy peasy through naval landings.

I've noticed that minor countries barely move on the diplo track. Is it even possible to get a country into the war? I invested 20% of chits into romania and they never joined the war (I was CP)

Yes, declining to fund the Ottomans basically kept them out of the war for the whole game. Just finished my playthrough.

They also did not get their dreadnought from the UK.

<t> So I declined to fund the Ottoman Army early in the war because I wanted the Ottomans to come into the war later in the game.<br/>
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I got to a point in 1915 and suddenly the Ottomans went from 61% toward CP to 0%. There wasn't any kind of event associated with it. The number just dropped ...