The situation on the west front is not looking too good for the TE. The French GHQ is surrounded along with the remnants of the 3rd Army. The front is not quite as open as it appears, as there are additional French and British units which do not appear due to FOW.
Nancy has fallen with low losses for the Germans. This will enable the German 6th Army to continue to advance west on to Toul-which has another major fortress,
The 3rd Army is poised for an attack on Rhiems. The province appears empty, and I think it actually may be so.
Note: The large French flag near the bottom center of the map is the location of Paris,
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Thank-I will firing away for a while. This is actually getting a little exciting. In this game, France will not surrender because Paris is captured, but it will have a very bad effect. I think I am going to make it there and beyond in '15.
Banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies.
Here is a more local view of the French GHQ. Why don't they just surrender?[:)]
Note: I am up to 3 resumed games for this AAR. I finally had a CTS (using 104gbeta) during the Jan/Feb military phase. I got a little frustrated while trying to seperate a corp from an A/H Army and started clicking fast-then I swtched to another army-and bang-CTD. It did resume without problem.
Its back to the war for a while.
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As National Will (NW) is a critical component to a nations ability to wage war, I should include these on a regular basis.
After the inital choices of war plans and events, all the powers had approximetaly 30 NW points. Great Britain had closer to 40 at the start.
There were some significant changes during the first Interphase. Things such as battles, casualties, loss of territory/cities and fortresses affected NW each phase, but the interphase brought the biggist changes.
At the end of the Jan/Feb turn, the NW stats are as follows;
France-16 (large casuaties and city fortress loss)
Russia-19
GB -32
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Ger. -40
A/H -26
O.E. -26
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Bul. -38 (nuetral
Rum. -38 (nuetral)
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The situation in E. Pomern and Prussia is getting close to exploding. The Russians have 2 armies heading for Thorn. That little AI plan will soon end in a Russian disaster. One of those armies has already bee driven back by the 8th Army. Of greater concern is what must be a huge Russian army approaching Koenigsberg from the north. The month of May will be very exciting in the east.
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The German 1st Army is now ready to advance down the French coast. It is known that the BEF is in front of them-in force. The forces amassed were thought to be adequate for the task. This battle also qualifies as a "major battle". So far, in the course of this campaign, there have been only 2 others.
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And the result of the first contact with the main body of the BEF. This was not a good sign. It looks like it is time for a "grand offense". I do have 3 stosstruppen units available for deployment. I didn't think I needed them yet.
Unfortunately, this was not the only bloody nose the Germans would get this turn.
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On a happier note, the French in Longwy were finally subdued. This will free up the German 5th Army for some more special projects-a place called Verdun comes to mind...
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The French were noticed moving into position south of Rheims, so I kept the 4th Army in position-and added to its reserves. The following battle was an important victory for Germany.
Note: If a major city is recaptured by its owning nation, they get even more NW than what they lost when the city/location was initially lost
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The Germans' suffered too high casualties this turn. A price is now paid in a loss of NW. To put these losses in perspective, the 5 previous turns all had eaither a 1 or 2 point hit on NW. There was a whole lot of fighting on those earlier turns too. It seems the trench tech has gone into effect with the T.E.
Normally (Ha ha) this tech kicks in earlier.
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On the Serbian front, the A/H's are still holding Belgrade, and are flanking from the south. The Serbs seem to loosing their ability to fight, but launched several attacks anyway. They were generally slapped around by the A/H Army, but did win one victory at Uzice.
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France has had a remarkable recovery in NW. It jumped from 16 to 30 in one turn. Winning a major battle gets 3 points by itself-and the whole alliance gets it, not just the power that participated in the battle. The same goes for loosing a battle.
On the diplomatic front; the route for AMBs' has opened up to Bulgaria. I poured in German and A/H ambassadors in the hope of bringing them into the Great War on the right side. E.T. ambassadors have been spotted there-not good.
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