Cat (CP) versus the AI (Balanced)

[catwhoorg]

Turn 15 Entente Response,
The French are not dead yet, and move a fresh inf into Dijon and destroy the weakened German Inf.
Russians move to counter the AH.

Serbs surround an AH inf, but not for long! The French Battlefleet attacks the AH battleships

Brits pull South a touch in Palestine. Maybe going to make a move on Tabuk.

Turn 16

Serbian Front
Drive on Skopje
Heavily damage the French fleet.



Turkey
Repair and dig


Russian Front
Repair and dig
Convoy arrives


Western Front
Capture Dijon and destory 2 French units
Repair the inf by Brest.
Deliberate attacks on Toulhouse, will fall next turn
reach the coast by Marseille, which is garrisoned with an inf


Production AH Cavalry arrives, placed by Lemberg
Add to queue
AH inf
Turkish inf and Garrison

[catwhoorg]

T16 Entente Response
Briish Cruisers attack the AH cruisers, and the French Fleet self destructs against the AH battlefleet.
I'm tempted to push to sink the Brits, but just don't have the forces needed.
Russians Probs the AH sector

Serbs desperately try to cling on.
Brits Isolate Gaza and land an INF by Brest (heavily disrupted)

Turn 17
Serbian Front
Capture Skopje
Retire the fleet to base for repairs.


Turkey
Continue to build the Beirut-Damascus defense line


Russia
German Forces begin an outflanking effort to the North.
Not much else, some defensive shuffling and spoiling attacks.


France
Smack the British arrival hard. Capture Toulouse, start moving some inf to the Russian Front.


Production
Add 2 Zepplins
AH cavalry placed on the Russian Front

[catwhoorg]

T17 Entente France Surrenders
Brits Capture Gaza
Russians hit the AH hard, and destroy a garrison.

[catwhoorg]

Turn 18

Very Minor action. The envelopment North in Russia continues.
Serbia lose one of its three remaining units.

Western forces are moving towards garrison positions (versus a British amphibious assault) or Eastwards.

Turn 19
Further shifting of forces East.

The Fortress at Kovno falls to the Northern flanking maneuver


Quiet in Palestine, but the Turks are now all upgraded to industrial warfare. They will be tougher to dislodge.
Serbia down to one, badly damaged and disrupted unit

[catwhoorg]

Turn 20
Serbia Falls. Sarikamish falls in the Caucasus

Continue the Eastwards March. Generally quiet.

Turn 21

Riga threatened in the North, and AH breaks through to threaten Brest-Litovsk in the South sector.
German artillery in position by Warsaw


Entente rearrange forces. An artillery is potted near Riga, this must be taken out quickly.
Brits attack near Tabuk, little initial effect.

Turn 22
Two German Zepplins appear, They will move up to the Channel coast next turn and start bombing the British Morale away.

Start encircling Riga (and trying to get to the artillery as well). Warsaw isolated, waiting a turn before the attack, so they are at half supply and my artillery is less disrupted.

Entente action

Brits now have artillery in theatre, this could get messy. Thankfully the Turks just got barbed wire, so will be better entrenched.

[catwhoorg]

Turn 23


Russian front suddenly has turned a whole lot more open. Central units streaming through breaks in the lines, and a pocket of Russian units cutoff from supply.



Turks start encircling Tiflis

Zeppelins into position by the coast. Further shifts of German forces East.
The AH forces from Serbia are almost all in position to assault Italy.

In Entene action the Brits move up to the entrenched Beirut Damascus line, and pull their forces away from Tabuk.

Now the NFL calls.

[catwhoorg]

Turn 24


The blitz has begun.

Russia Front
Riga is now encircled, and cutoff from supply.
Another Russian inf is isolated and will be destroyed next turn.
The Germans are advancing, AH is more slow and deliberate


The expected Italian Front is more or less in position

Palestine: The turks attack an exposed British garrison, causing some significant losses.

Entente
Russians counter attack near Vilna, driving the Germans back a little. Brits move up in Palestine.

Turn 25


Italy now shows 0-2 turns before entry

The Blitz continues

Russia
Germans Start the reduction of Riga, and move more forces up into the Vilna area

AH surrounds Brest-Litovsk.



Turkey begins surrounding Tiflis, and heavily damage a British inf infront of their defensive line.
Germans add another submarine to the build queue.

We WILL starve the Brits to surrender if we have to.

Entente turn.
Russians counter near Brest-Litovsk with little effect
British fighters appear in the skies of Palestine.

[catwhoorg]

Turn 26
The Blitz continues, and the sole German submarine attacks a convoy enroute to the UK.

The Turks encircle Tiflis, and repair their frontline forces in Palestine

AH upgrades the 'Italian front' with grenades (and most of their Russian forces

German nearly encircles Vilna, and moves the artillery into range of Brest-Litovsk
Riga undergoes further attacks

Convoy arrives

Entent
Russians withdraw from Riga

Turn 27
the Blitz continues

The Turks attack a British garrison in Palestine that moved up to the Front line as well as beginning the assault on Tiflis.

Riga falls
Vilna isolated
Brest-Litovsk heavily attacked, but just holds

Forces advance on Minsk.

(as an aside the Italians still show 0-2 turns, but the timer is red. Does this mean they are goign to sit it out ?)

Entente.
Russians withdraw, British fling themselves ineffectually at the Turkish line

[catwhoorg]

Turn 28
The Blitz continues (about 1 in 3 attacks is succeeding right now - need more research obviously)
A new German sub is added in Wilhelmshaven

Germans take Vilna, and Brest-Litovsk.
Minsk is surrounded.

AH upgrade/repair/refit their forces on the Russian front.

Turks attack Tiflis again, but to little effect, and rotate forces in their line to move a slightly disrupted inf back for a rest.

Brits attack the Turkish line again for minimal effects


Turn 29
The Blitz is suspended for a turn for upgrades

The second sub transits the channel.

Pskov and Vitebsk threatened.

AH Cavalry clears the marshes and threatens the whole of the Ukraine.



Still no Italians
Brits trying to Outflank the Turks

[catwhoorg]

Turn 30

Blitz Resumes

Pskov and Kiev Fall


Turks counter the British flanking


6-8 Turns for Bulgarian entry

Germany buys another Zeppelin.
AH buys another artillery

Entente turn
"the race inland" continues

Turn 31
Russia is in disarray.
Gomel and Vinnytsia both fall

Petrograd, Novgorod, Bryansk and Dnepropetrovsk threatened

Entente turn
Brits break through the Turkish line (a garrison retreats and then is detsroyed)

[catwhoorg]

Turn 32
Blitz again

AH capture Dnepropetrovsk, and move next to Chisnau.
The entire border forces are now out of supply.

Petrograd and Novgorod have German forces adjacent

The Turks isolate a British Garrison and try to reform their line. Probe towards Aqaba, but it is defended.



Brits keep up their attacks.
Russians withdraw from Tiflis

Turn 33
Blitz

AH destroys in detail the Russians on the border (lets us call this Operation Bagration shall we ?) and capture Chisnau, and move up to Rostov

Germans capture Petrograd and Novgorod
Encircle Bryansk Smolensk and Vitebsk

Turks take Tiflis and fllow the infantry that retreated. They are going to have a hot pursuit every step of the way to Baku (or wherever)

Reform a line isolating a British inf



Entente
Brits fail to relieve their inf, but heavily damage the former Tabuk garrison.

A convoy wanders upto the German Sub screen

[Bossy573]

Just awesome. I'm tempted to ask for details on how you got into France so quickly, and with the French in such disarray, but the fun will be figuring it out for myself. [:)]

Might be fun to do one of the AARs to put my own special brand of operational incompetence on display.

[catwhoorg]

I'd be happy to kibbitz and make suggestions on one.

I think the key speed boost for the advance this time was following the retreating Belgian armoured car.
That gained me at least a turns worth of advancing at a key moment.

[Bossy573]

I've chased that armored car clear into France! Then I usually get bushwacked.

Thanks for this. I kinda want to know but I don't. Let's start right at the beginning. It takes an artillery bombardment plus attacks by 4 German units just to take Liege. Kinda slows things down. Does that sound about right?

[Myrddraal]

It's possible to take Liege and land two attacks on Brussels in the opening German moves. Bombard Liege, and try to attack Liege with the units from the back of your line.

[catwhoorg]

*nods*

That's what happened way back on turn 3.
Artillery, move a rear unit up and attack from the North first, then another from the South.

Attacked Brussels with an inf then the cavalry.

[catwhoorg]

Turn 33

The Blitz continues
3 subs combine for a whole 4 points of damage on a convoy...

Russian Front

Germans capture Kursk and Smolensk
AH Capture Rostov
Odessa however is well defended.

Palestine
Destroy the encircled infantry

Turn 34 and 35
Further Blitzing
The sub get a 2nd bite, and finish off the convoy
The US protests.

Russian Front
Germans Capture Vitebsk, Bryansk, Tver and Voronezh
AH Capture Krasnodar

Turks nearly destroy the Russian inf that withdrew from Tiflis

Palestine
Turks harass a British garrison

Turn 36
More Blitzing.

Germany Captures Helsinki and various other cities
AH capture Odessa, surely this can't go for much longer.

Russians Surrender
Brits are still being a nuisance in Palestine to the Turks.

Turn 37
Bulgaria enters the war

More Blitz

Disband the garrisons on the Russian Front start moving forces towards Romania and the jumping off points for Sealion.

AH moves an artillery towards Palestine

Turn 38

More Blitzing, and a transport moves into the range of the Wolfpack - it is attacked and heavily damaged.

Start moving the AH fleet out of the Med towards the Atlantic ports of France

[catwhoorg]

Turn 40
Declare war on Romania
Capture Bucharest and Iasi.

Turn 41
Eliminate Romania.

[catwhoorg]

Turn 47
Sink the British fleet near Scapa flow. Embark forces.

Turn 48
AH units threaten Norwich. German Forces are mid-North sea


Guess the loss of the fleet was a tipping point.

[:D]