Challenge: Neutral Belgium

Commander - The Great War is the latest release in the popular and playable Commander series of historical strategy games. Gamers will enjoy a huge hex based campaign map that stretches from the USA in the west, Africa and Arabia to the south, Scandinavia to the north and the Urals to the east on a new engine that is more efficient and fully supports widescreen resolutions.
Commander – The Great War features a Grand Campaign covering the whole of World War I from the invasion of Belgium on August 5, 1914 to the Armistice on the 11th of November 1918 in addition to 16 different unit types including Infantry, Cavalry, Armoured Cars and Tanks, Artillery, Railroad Guns and Armoured Trains and more!

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RE: Proposed house rules for the Belgium challenge

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Okay, thanks Ulver, re: US entry - that makes sense, and will also help with my planning.

Yes, let's do an AAR - although I've not yet kept any screenies. It's been a terrific game so far - very different to the standard 1914 campaign, which is what I was after.
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RE: Proposed house rules for the Belgium challenge

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It's very easy to mod the game for a neutral Belgium/England, so you don't have to worry about the French retreating into Belgium or Belgian zones of control. Open 1914.lua in data/Scripts, go to line 746 or search for ScenarioSetup(). There you can change the starting alignment of all neutral nations. Change the Belgian value from 99.7 to 50 and the UK one from 99.5 to 50. You can then have a house rule about the CP declaring war against England if the conditions for UK entry are achieved. I'm thinking about doing a neutral Belgium/England/Turkey challenge with the UK and Turkey permanently neutral. The UK didn't intervene in the Franco-Prussian war even after the Germans were winning, so maybe they would have behaved similarly in WW1. I think it's possible that Turkey might have stayed neutral if the UK stayed neutral, because there would have been no need for the UK to antagonize Turkey by confiscating Turkish warships in UK ports, which is what happened in the real game. [:'(]
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