imbalance!?

[smoorf]

Hello

I have played a round "1914 Call To Arms" with version 1.05.00 in difficulty "veteran"

In the process, I suffered the following losses as "Central Powers":
Germany: 28 Corps
England: 33 Corps
France: 59 Corps
Russian: 57 Corps
Austria: 6 Corps

and in the end I have no success to brake trough.
Did I played wrong or have others the same problem and it shows an imbalance in the game?

[redrum68]

I'd say a few things impact interpreting the losses ratio:
1. Entente generally have more income than CPs but CPs (primarily Germany) tend to have the best tech/units so need to trade at a better than 1 to 1 ratio overall.
2. CPs generally have to focus their effort somewhere to make progress to expand their economic base and ideally take either France or Russia or Serbia or Italy or some combination out of the game otherwise they eventually lose to the superior Entente income especially if/when USA joins.
3. Losses only tell a portion of the story as it doesn't show all the hits you had to heal. For example, if I use 5 corps to destroy 1 corps and each of those 5 take 4 hits then I took 20 hits to destroy the unit and actually end up paying more to heal those units then my opponent does to purchase the replacement (assuming it was destroyed in supply so gets the discount).

All that being said, its hard to give much input without seeing your game. If those are the casualties in say 1915 then I would think you should be crushing the Entente where as if those are the casualties at the end of the game then you probably played too conservatively and the Entente could replace the units faster than you were killing them.

For reference you can look at my current Entente vs the AI AAR here: https://www.matrixgames.com/forums/tm.asp?m=5046374