This is an amusing deceptively simple flash game: http://armorgames.com/play/2267/warfare-1917 Duke it out in the trenches!

<r> Well, at the end of the day, a game has to account for things that actually happened, or plausibly could have happened. I don't know of a single instance where static garrison type troops, on their own, imposed a significant delay or disruption, in GoA terms, on anybody, <I><s>[i]</s><B><s>[b ...

<t> First of all, in game time frames etc., on the few occasions when armies did come upon manned fortresses, they did indeed pretty much waltz right in.<br/>
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But more importantly, pretty early on it was concluded that fortresses were useless, and many were abandoned. Even when they should ...

<t> Well, the Serbs DID actually fight on, making up a significant chunk of the Salonika force that did such damage in 1918. They never actually did formally surrender.<br/>
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The Belgians too, never actually surrendered, and had forces in action right up to the Armistice.<br/>
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Maybe ...

<t> Um, a slight correction; the US did indeed have or could have had artillery and aircraft available; the decision to ship men rather than material across the Atlantic was quite deliberate. At the time, the TE, particularly the French,&nbsp; had a ton of artillery, but were very short of bodies ...

<t> Pershing was in the unique position of having a fresh army, with a ton of replacements guaranteed to show up. The allied commanders had for a very long time resisted the basic fact that they were engaged in siege warfare. But by late 17 and early 18, they had no choice; in the case of the French ...

<t> There are a range of historical setups available, once you get into the setup screen. They are interesting, though probably in need of some updating.<br/>
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The&nbsp; naked startup is asking you to make the decision Moltke had to: how Schiefflen do you want to go? Much against all the ...

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<QUOTE><s>[quote]</s>ORIGINAL:&nbsp; Marshall Thomas<br/>
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Is the A.I. capable of defeating an experienced player on the most difficult difficulty level? <br/>
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As the CP? I don't think so, though it is conceivable, if the ...

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<QUOTE><s>[quote]</s>ORIGINAL:&nbsp; FrankHunter<br/>
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One correction OrvalB, when you activate, the adjacent combat units are activated even if they are stacked with a non-activated HQs.&nbsp; The thing is, the HQs themselves aren't activated so if you click on that HQ and want to use ...

<r> The biggest single strategy tip I have learnt isn't that subtle, but involves the feature of the game that is most alien to most games and gamer behaviour: activation point management.<br/>
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This game does not reward massively aggressive play, like most do; rather, it punishes it. (Very ...

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<QUOTE><s>[quote]</s>ORIGINAL:&nbsp; BK6583<br/>
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Natuarally with all due respect to all soldiers who fought in that war, weren't the Canadiens arguably the best army on the TE side?
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Yes, we were. The big advantage of being an all volunteer army with no ...

<t> Yeah, those activation points. You play this game like you do most games, you know, the clever opportunistic attack thing when your opponent makes a mistake, well you are probably going to get your ass kicked. Your commander has two points, the enemy does an advance that leaves a gaping ...

<t> Well, I'm something of a WWI buff. I've thought about games around it for years (the old AH 1914 was actually my first game, and it still stands up as one of the best ever), and realized one of the reasons there are so few is that it is so very difficult to model. Basically, you are stuck with ...

<t> Oh, and finally, yes the CP should not be able to get past Gibralter. Indeed, the HSF capital ships probably should not be able to function outside of the North Sea and Baltic (raiders, yes, but not DNs and PDs). They were designed to fight there, and did not have the range to operate ...

<t> On the transfers to Russia thing, well the game is a bit far from history anyway. The whole idea behind the Gallipoli&nbsp; venture was to open the Black Sea route, because there really wasn't any other effective alternative. And the idea was to swap Russian food for British/French armaments ...

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<QUOTE><s>[quote]</s>ORIGINAL:&nbsp; Hanno Meier<br/>
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From my point of view, the 4 points are required for the AH, as this forces the TE to guard their sea lanes. Otherwise it will get very unrealistic.
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True enough, but it is also very unrealistic for ...

<t> Could you please please please do something about the Austro-Hungarian navy? Something very realistic, like have them start off with next to no naval assets. Thereafter, if the CP wants to blow scarce Austro points on the navy, they would, might be smart in some circumstances actually, but there ...

Doesn't work for me. No matter the resolution, things get squidgy, especially the replacement screen for some reason.

And Egypt is kinda the point; in 1918 it was precisely a cavalry swing around the rear (on both flanks for that matter, indeed on all three if you count Lawrence and the Arabs) that gave Allenby his crushing victory in Palestine. Though his cavalry were indeed able to occupy cities.

<t> This is actually pretty simple. If you are attacking, you actually don't want your artillery to move with the stack, because then you can't bombard, and almost all of the time in that situation, you want to bombard (god do you want to bombard), not move. In situations where you are blowing your ...