RE: Argentum vs operating 92 turns

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Turn 68
Stettin
The Kreigsmarine is keeping Cuxhaven and Kiel garrisons in supply long enough to get my North Sea's Fleet into the Baltic while the Kiel Canal is still open. Making Stettin my strong point in the hope of recapturing Berlin. Relocated my airforce near Danzig to replenish and support Stettin... Here again the red arrows indicate where I aim to reposition Eastern Front troops.. The one saving grace my units have: Is that they are for the most part in top efficiency condition. I'm very concerned with Germany's NM, once it hits 0% it's all over for Germany.. You would think by getting Koenigsberg back it would have had a positive NM bump, but the game almost never allows an increase in NM unless you are capturing enemy cities.

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Turn 68
Koenigsberg
As a result of the Russian surrender Koenigsberg was repatriated along with any Russian occupied German hexes, also it has received it's first supply convoy since around turn 10 of the match, can't wait for it to start churning out PP. The only reason Germany is still in the match is because of recent convoys that got through to home ports, otherwise it would have already been finished..... Now I can combine my eastern airforce with their western contingents.

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Turn 68
CP Management
Germany's MP is relatively strong (black), but as the NM shows it is in the low red percentages. The green check mark beside Russia all but assures Entente will not get an Ultimate victory, the best I think I can hope for is draw, that would be as good as a win to me...[:)]

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Turn 69
Stettin
The Kiel Canal has been blocked by French infantry, yet I am still holding Kiel itself for the moment, supported by surface fleets and sub screens. My armored cruiser is stuck (intentionally) north of Cuxhaven keeping armored car in supply. Placed class IV subs in port at Stettin and Danzig for disbandment (lavender circles) next turn. Setting up a defensive (light blue) line to the southwest of Stettin, while waiting for stragglers and queue reinforcements to arrive. Seems my opponent is stalling to recoup unit efficiencies for an assault, so to keep him a bit off-balance do infrequent air attacks on his units and replenish as many of my air units at the same time...

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Turn 69
Vienna
Using Budapest as a way station for units that need to recoup from long train rides and winter effects. Zagreb is still holding a small front, while defenses are being built around Vienna for the expected siege. Ideally a 2 ring defense system would be great so will concentrate on pushing the English infantry back a hex if possible.. Orange circle is an indicator of where Entente fighters are gathering, much can be seen during replay. AH will not be getting anymore than it's 2 fighters for defense, simply there is no money to buy more, so I keep these guys well back of the lines as CAP or rather interdiction. Do have 4 AH airships scattering around in the AH backyard, but none are up to full strength.

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Turn 69
Adriatic
It's constant naval battle to hold the entrance way to the Adriatic using just my subs against his surface fleets on green sea hexes favorable to the Entente. Have to repair subs(3) constantly like the one at the Cattaro port. This defense allows the AH dreadnaught to bombard Taranto every turn, often racking up Italian casualties. The Russian fleets have all been swept from the Black Sea, now my fleets are heading for the Suez Canal (really don't want to tangle with all the heavies by Italy).

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Turn 69
Suez
Forming up an army by Tabuk to march south to take back Madina from the Arab Rebels, next turn a Turk armored train will arrive off the production queue by then winter will just about over.. Withdrawing my infantry back to original defensive positions by Gaza and Aqaba after seeing enemy naval fleets showing up, (guess my opponent did not like losing his French pre-dreadnaught to the AH subs). Had a brief naval skirmish causing strength losses on both sides, enough so as to force the English armored cruiser to think twice about bombarding my troops.

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Turn 69
Management window
In the lower left panel Germany in down to 15% NM getting pretty darn close to a surrender offer (0%) and Bulgaria's new units will have a reduced readiness (yellow)... Nothing will change the green check mark indicating Russia's surrender. Take note that Britain has now over 6 times the amount of air losses versus on the ground infantry losses, which is totally the reverse of such casualties of the actual Great World War... Top right panel circled in red is what Germany is losing in production beyond what it is actually producing, the only production point numbers come from recent Norwegian and Swedish supply convoys...

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Turn 70
Stettin (before movement)
This is a SS of this turn before movement. I'd do more before SSs however it takes up a considerable amount of effort to post, hence the post-mortem SSs.

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Turn 70
Stettin (after movement)
Recaptured Leipzig, but it does nothing to improve Germany's NM and moved armored car to near a supply source east of Kiel, at most it will only act as a temporary blocker for Stettin access. Naval bombardments around Kiel to reduce Entente efficiency and put pre-dreadnaught in Kiel port to supply nearby units.. Stettin units are busy building fortifications to thwart an expected siege or assault.. A weak front is established to the south of Stettin while other units move to western locations as German air units refit and harass Entente units. Concerned about Kiel for it has been under serious air and infantry attacks.

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Turn 70
Prague
CP High Command is hoping that it might be able to encircle Entente front line troops and turn the tide on my opponent, thus you see Turk and Bulgarian units RR to Prague (others to follow). One of my biggest problems is that Entente can see everything I do and make adjustments as needed..[:(]

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Turn 70
Vienna
Here AH is fortifying and putting up a weak front and the line is holding at Zagreb, at least for now.

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Turn 70
Suez
Not much is happening here except that the English armored cruiser sailed out of harm's way to Alexandria port for repairs (I presume) and I did likewise with my sub fleets. Meanwhile I'm waiting to see what the Italian "chicken of the sea" in Port Said is going to do? Sending Turk fighters to support the retaking of Medina and fortify a chokepoint around Gaza..

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Turn 71
Baltic
It looks like Germany will get one last supply convoy before Germany capitulates..!!![:)]

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Turn 71
Stettin
To the west of Stettin I was able to demolish a French garrison, directly below that a French fighter squadron went down in flames and to the south of Stettin a Portuguese infantry got wasted (all in yellow circles). The Brits recaptured Leipzig and got counter attacked almost being totally wiped-out. The French captured Kiel after giving a unprecedented air assault then mop by the French, opening the Kiel Canal to Entente battle fleets, which immediately caused heavy damage to my pre-dreadnaught fleet after which it sailed to Stettin port for repairs. North of Cuxhaven my German armored cruiser was knocked down to just a single strength point and escaped towards Scapa Flow to try and draw the enemy navy into giving chase. I think my opponent knows he is in trouble and will accept a German surrender when offered. His air-forces are close to being over run if given the opportunity by CP infantry.. "GREEN POINTERS" are still my objective to reach, it would be sweet to do so.. But do I have the time and the NM to complete this mission?[&:] Ultimately, would love to recapture Berlin... Reinforcements from Turkey and Bulgaria are helping to fill in the gaps and prepare for the Big Push..

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Turn 71
Prague and Vienna
Limited trains makes for slow and cumbersome for reinforcements from the old Eastern Front to the fresh Western Front. Really need a push from Prague into the heart of his air-force a little south and west of that city. Vienna is starting to have a fairly decent defensive wall, at the same time have to keep on the attack knocking efficiency down on Brit and Italian units with artillery. I'm really hoping this counter offensive works..![&o] [&o]

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Turn 71
Zagreb
Between Venice and Trieste is a transport holding an AH armored car that will be ready to disembark next turn, at the very least it will be a distraction to the Italians, let's see what happens there.. Italy finally captured Zagreb and is being counter attacked by both ground units and AH balloons. Keep attacking all units in red circles to prevent efficiency recovery and to improve my fortifications..

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Turn 71
Adriatic
Both our navies have to keep rotating positions back to ports due to battle damage, he wants in, I want to keep him out of the Adriatic. I'm sure he hates the constant bombardment of Taranto. More units on map heading for Vienna...

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Turn 71
Beirut
The victors of the Black Sea are starting to make their presence known in this eastern part of the Mediterranean. We just had a naval skirmish off the Beirut coast. I'm hoping to catch his navy in a trap local to my ports that have green dot sea hexes..

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Turn 71
Medina
Moving south and Scouting where the rebels are. Spotted a Brit supply convoy will have to plot an attack on it once it clears Port Said... Employed an Class II armored train for this mission to recapture Medina..