Entente AAR Piero Falotti's Great War 1914-1918 vs Cfant

[gwgardner]

Carpathian Front

It's misleading to call this area front just yet, as both Austrian and Russian forces are just now moving into positions, with early mobilization complete. Here too the Russians are attempting to feel out the Austrian positions with cavalry.

[gwgardner]

I have officially been awarded the TOAW4 grand prize for worst Allied player in a WW1 scenario ever! Yea.

Paris entered in late September. Capetown lost through gross imcompetence. Everywhere a German touches a Russian, collapse.

Oh well, Cfan is a great opponent, and I enjoyed being crushed.

[SpicyJuan]

ORIGINAL: gwgardner

I have officially been awarded the TOAW4 grand prize for worst Allied player in a WW1 scenario ever! Yea.

Paris entered in late September. Capetown lost through gross imcompetence. Everywhere a German touches a Russian, collapse.

Oh well, Cfan is a great opponent, and I enjoyed being crushed.

How do you think the battle in France would’ve turned out if the HQs didn’t attack in T1? Would your army still have gone into massive reorg?

[Cfant]

Just read the AAR and wanted so say thanks to Gary. He is far from a bad player! The overfullfilment of the house rule started a spiral downwards. He made really cool moves, like saving the BEF again and again. So: Thanks for a very enjoyable match!

(@reorg: maybe not that massiv, but yes. The losses and - even more important - the shock-bonus of the CPs - 160:80 on turn 1 - leads to that.)

[SpicyJuan]

Ok thanks, did you see my latest comment on your AAR thread?

[gwgardner]

Definitely would have changed the game if I had not gone all-out for Plan 17. It was probably silly of me to interpret the house rule to mean that every single unit on the map had to take part in actual combat in order to comply with Plan 17.

I never did figure out if units are reconstituted in this scenario. From looking at the 'expected reinforcements' listing I don't think reconstitution is in it.

From reading Cfant's AAR I note his comment about the Serbian Army using the same replacement pool as the French. Didn't know that. Also still have not figured out the supply situation re the ports.

[Cfant]

@Plan XVII: Definitly. For sure it is enough to attack once with limited losses or maybe two times with minimize losses. Maybe even one time with minimize. The French only get 960 Squads per turn - they will bleed dry quickly in 1914.

@reconstitute: They do. Looking in your sal-file, the reinforcement list shows lots of units who come splitted and/or with low readiness. That's reconstituted units. Of course they need enough reinforcements to spawn again. Squad preservation is quite tough for the French in the beginning, it seems.

[SpicyJuan]

ORIGINAL: gwgardner

Definitely would have changed the game if I had not gone all-out for Plan 17. It was probably silly of me to interpret the house rule to mean that every single unit on the map had to take part in actual combat in order to comply with Plan 17.

I never did figure out if units are reconstituted in this scenario. From looking at the 'expected reinforcements' listing I don't think reconstitution is in it.

From reading Cfant's AAR I note his comment about the Serbian Army using the same replacement pool as the French. Didn't know that. Also still have not figured out the supply situation re the ports.

How do you think the fight in Belgium would’ve gone if you didn’t do an all out Plan 17? Do you think your opponent would still have taken Calais and Boulogne?

[gwgardner]

Possible. There is a hefty shock bonus for the Germans and increased movement capability. Also the race to the sea never occurred because Cfant went straight to the west, perhaps seeing that he could do so given the weakness of the French line farther south.