where have all the strong players gone?

Ok just for the first 2 turns:

You can move a corps in Przemyl, and you also still have the 3rd cavalary. The first turns you can hold Lemberg, Russia should actually pay a high price to get it.

Without the Flensburg corps you can still put 1-2 corps from the initial mobilization to the east.

As ...

Might be missed slightly. But not that good at defending anyhow, the corps of the 2nd army are missed a bit more.
With Serbian blitz one needs to fallback to Lemberg directly, can't defend Tarnopol. But if you go west with Belgium, it is in my experience impossible to defend Tarnopol, and hardly ...

Typically (with 3 corsps 3 east of warsaw) Bulgaria joins after the capture of Nish. if so some bulgarian troops are still helpful to finish serbia.

otherwise the weak spots of CP are ottomans and AH. Hence bulgarian troops with german stats but other HQ can help defend these while Germany conquers ...

set up new game same PW

Hi Shri,

Thanks for the explanations. I fully agree with you that the CP were outperforming the Entente in the first 6 weeks. Except for a slightly better loss ratio for the Entente in Galicia (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Galicia; maybe 100k further losses for AH) your kill ratio ...

Hi Shri,

Thanks for your comments.

I agree that whether Belgrade is falling is crucial. Point is that the outcome of the game for two equally (very) good players should not depend on this turn-one luck with Belgrade, whether it is 30% or 50% or something inbetween.

The counter in Galicia has been ...

Looking for a strong opponent for vanilla Call to Arms. Happy to play either side.

hannaj

Hi,

Know it from
https://forums.matrixgames.com/viewtopic.php?p=4855599#p4855599

which is the mobilization trigger part of the --to be strongly recommended--
"Things that are good to know before MP":
https://forums.matrixgames.com/viewtopic.php?t=366565

The message is "the CPs advance in Poland ...

If Belgrade does not fall first turn, the game will be way more balanced and different opening strategies are similarly good, I think.

I would still try to entrench around Belgrade and attack 1-2 turns later, as it is still important for NM and Bulgarian mobilization trigger.
Possibly, attack ...

Hi,

Think the game is a possibly out of balance, see https://forums.matrixgames.com/viewtopic.php?t=413467
with Entente frustrated/no progress/no chance in 1915.

If some strong player wants to challange this: Have a game open with PW SerbianBlitz.

See you,

hannaj

Thanks for the game and accepting the challenge. You did a fantastic job defending Serbia, and also at the French and Russian frontier were doing better than I usually experience ;), though nothing too dramatically yet. I overall agree with your assessment, would not say though that CPs attack ...

Hi igsel,

Happy to play. Set up a game pw igsel.

Hannaj

Hi,

SC ww1 is a great game, but with two such different sides balancing can be difficult.

I think SC ww1 multiplayer is not balanced against the Serbian blitz strategy, which brings Bulgaria into the war so early that Bulgarians troops with Gemran stats can support Ottomans before Allies can ...

Hi HalfTauter,

Set up a game pw is: HalfTauter.

Hannaj

Anybody interested in a further game?

hannaj

Hi Zarevic,

Let's play. Password is Zarevic.

hannaj

Hi,

Looking for a strong opponent for the plain vanilla 1914 campaign, happy to play either side.

hannaj

GG, enjoy.

Both or one is fine with me. I also didn't know which side you prefer. Would prefer no special "house" rules though.