mrdozer2379 vs operating (active match)

[operating]

Turn 56

Western Front:

Found that Class I English tanks do not last long after being pounded by class VI German artillery and fighter sorties. German ground units swarmed the tanks killing the tank crews and blowing up the infernal machines.[:@] Kaiserliche Marine dreadnaught bombarded a English fighter base in Leeuwarden destroying the unit. Deployed a fresh garrison at Frankfurt and repaired many other units expecting to do battle with the remaining English tank corp. The French managed to fight their way into Stuttgart capturing the city and killing the AH defenders. The AH line at this part of the front looks to be the most likely to break and least fortified. In their favor is a larger AH fighter force, yet scant reserves.[8|] During the latest engagement a French fighter base near Strassburg was down to I or 2 strength and was finished off with AH air-ship bombing runs out of Italy.[:)]

[operating]

Turn 56

Italy:

Bombed Paris from here with a zeppelin. The Corsica transport arrived outside Toulon ready to disembark next turn should the French not occupy the city, meanwhile the AH pre-dreadnaught gave a preliminary bombardment of Marseille to weaken the AT there. Keep an eye on the AH sub fleet progress up by Brest..

[operating]

Turn 56

North Africa:

CP captured 2 more French cities here, first the Germans took Oran after defeating a very weak French AT, the second city Mareth was a walk-in for an AH garrison. All toll; The French have lost 15 PP during the North African CP campaign, not counting another 3 PP lost at Corsica, bringing the total lost production to 18 PP overall. CP fleets are sailing east seeking new targets or for scouting.[8D] You will read why in following posts.

[operating]

Turn 56

Russian Surrender:

At the end of turn 55 the Russians made a surrender offer, I do not think my eyes had a chance to blink before hitting the "accept" button, it happened real quick..!![X(] Before I even had a chance to take a SS, I was so elated to get this offer and did not expect it. [:'(] The Russian surrender means a -25 NM to remaining Entente active factions. What contributed to the surrender offer was the capture of Warsaw, Novo-Georgievsk, and Brest-Litovsk, The surrender of Italy and Serbia, and the loss of the Russian dreadnaught events: Totaling -65 NM to Russia. the remaining -35 NM must have been a result of combat losses combined with the Russian economic situation. This is the miracle that CP has been hoping for..!![&o] As in the actual Great War CP units will start heading west to bolster the Western Front. The Bulgarians will also benefit from armies now destined to ramp up the war on their front..[:)] This surrender also denies the Baltic English sub fleets a port into which they could do repairs and not only that eastern and northern Baltic waters will be more than 30 hexes away from a friendly Entente port causing English fleets to lose morale rapidly. There were also other developments that occurred because of this surrender that will be explained in following posts.

[operating]

Turn 56

West Baltic:

Much of the Baltic Kaiserliche Marine are sailing for the North Sea to take on the English Royal Navy. Some of the fleet will remain behind to escort and protect supply convoys. Helsinki and Tallinn will remain under German control, hopefully those cities will start producing production points soon.

[operating]

Turn 56

Bulgaria:

Bulgaria is also celebrating the Russian surrender that returned occupied Bulgarian lands back to their country. Not only that: The Russians also had to forfeit all captured OE cities and land resulting in OE having borders once again, however as a neutral faction. This put the English in an undesirable position of being cut off from a friendly capital city (ie. Constantinople), leaving English armies in Bulgaria at half supply... I tried to demonstrate this by highlighting the new OE borders and stars to indicate what territory they now possess, with an arrow pointing to the most "critical hex" to the English. Of course the English could have DOW'd OE once again to bust through to Constantinople, "however" Now they would have to actually face a faction that can actually build and move an army under CP control. Gee! Why should that change their strategy from how they conducted the war here earlier???[:D][:D] Perhaps the English do not have any troops in the conquered OE lands..!![;)] Yes, that would present a logistical problem..

[operating]

Turn 57

Stats: Prior to the Russian surrender AH and Bulgaria called for reinforcements, they are ready for deployment. Where?

[operating]

Turn 57

France Surrenders:

Again I was shocked at the end of CP's turn (56) a French surrender offer was made.. Again I was in disbelief, again my reflexes were faster than my brain in accepting the offer, not taking the time to take a SS of the Event.[:D] Going from near defeat with a broken economy to being a victor here was humbling experience.![&o][8|] With the surrender came the liberation of Netherlands and Belgium as neutral factions and the near complete disbandment of the French army/navy/air-force say/except 1 French AT down by Toulon, France was defenseless.[:)] What contributed to France's downfall was the surrenders of Serbia -10 NM, Italy -15 NM, Russia -25 NM and the French dreadnaught sinking -20 NM = totaling -70 NM to France. The remaining -30 NM to France had to be a combination of combat losses and it's economic situation to bring France to "0" NM. As it is right now: "England is on it's own against CP"[X(][;)] France also had to return Metz, Strassburg, Dortmund and Stuttgart to Germany plus all occupied lands. Despite the surrender and reparations Germany's economy was somewhere between 7 to 13 PP per turn. Berlin is down to 13 from 38 due to English bombing.. This turn did a general westward advance, while giving thought on what to strategize next.[&:] Sank a English light cruiser fleet off the Dutch coast.

[operating]

Turn 57

Baltic:

Set up to protect the supply convoy that spawned up north last turn, placed surface fleets to make it difficult for the English subs to get a jump on the convoy. These subs did attack a CP transport, thus prevented it from sailing west, so had to disembark to wait for another opportunity to leave town. At first thought the fleets here were Kiel Canal bound, but realized that Germany needed PP more than having optional naval battles. What CP needs is PP to buy transports, RRs, infrastructure improvements and to buy back tech labs, all of which is going to cost a fortune.

[operating]

Turn 57

Central Mediterranean:

Feeling bold now, made one of my biggest mistakes in this match: "Attacking and sinking an English convoy"..! No, I did not really want the USA on the march to war, anyhow threw caution to the wind and did it anyway.. Sent the Corsica garrison transport eastward with the intent to capture Izmir or Gallipoli, as well as other CP fleets headed east. My impression of the English: Is that they are rich.! And are prepared to defend England itself. I also feel that to contain England CP has to eliminate the English colonies first, starting from Turkey , then working west to squeeze the English out of the Mediterranean so I do not have to defend a back door while being committed to an actual invasion of the English homeland. This looks to be the beginning of one long drawn out process.

[operating]

Turn 57

Bulgaria:

Gearing up here to finish off the trapped half supplied English army. Am also considering going after Romania once the Bulgarian mission is completed. If a diplomat screen is not shown this turn it will be next turn showing Romania is at red 1 on the march to war and also do not want them at my rear when the showdown starts in England. This all has to with logistics and to build up CP factions with sources of PP.

[Robotron]

I wonder what morale Britain had left at this point.

[operating]

ORIGINAL: Robotron

I wonder what morale Britain had left at this point.

You know I respect your analitical savy about this game, especially when explaining scripts in layman terms.[;)] The big difference between England and it's former allies is that it has not lost a Dreadnaught, it's economy has not been been heavily attacked (reduced PP per turn) very minor hits, When comparing posts #394 and post #403 Casualties chart England has less than 1000 casualties (approximately 900 at present) simular to France's at surrender, although France's MP may have had a lower MP then than England has now due to all the 2 MPs England recieved from each successful Supply convoy run (far more than the French). Not sure if England gains MP from capturing 14 OE cities that are producing PP, none the less England's economic output has to be far greater than it's original. If mrdozer is not maxing out England's PP to zero every turn, then his NM should be about 5 to 10% or so, depending on if England got a NM "bump up" from OE's surrender. One other factor is: Does England's NM go up when the USA enters the war? I'll check on that, I'm sure you will too.


PS: Cannot find a script for when USA DOW on CP, although I believe the USA lands in France event bumps up France and England's NM, also I believe England's NM get's a NM bump up with the Canadians event. Do not get a clear impression on NM when the Arab Revolt happens.

[Robotron]

The only morale-boosting event for Britain in the basic game is when US troops land in France and France has not yet surrendered.

Surrender of enemy nations does not provide morale.

USA DOWs on CP when her alignment reaches 100.
USA starting alignment is 74.
USA alignment rises 0,33 points per turn until it reaches 100 or the DOW timer "goes red".
High Entente convoy losses will accelerate this.
Without Entente convoy losses USA should always DOW on turn 78.

[operating]

Turn 58

Netherlands:

DOW'd Netherlands to capture all it's cities and eliminate English units here. English half supply class I tank corps at Leeuwarden was the first to go after dreadnaught bombardment, sorties and infantry assaults capturing the city, the English air-ship by Amsterdam was next to go after sorties destroyed it. The rest of the country was completely occupied by CP units for a non-conditional surrender. In order for CP to get good jumping off places to assault England proper the plan is to take Belgium next then France. Not only the CP access matters in those countries, it will receive the much needed PP that will be reaped from those countries as well to buy what is necessary for a successful invasion. CP has no problems with invading these defenseless countries after what happened with the OE..[:-] This battle for England is going to be expensive and takes time to accumulate the right forces to get the job done. Ordered new cruisers that take 12 turns to be deployed. Because England has a huge air-force and tanks, guess what? CP needs to increase it's number of labs to be competitive, also to create labs where none exist now. Take note that CP also has to have some kind of defense against English air-ship bombing runs, that have ravaged the German economy. Even though CP can build a juggernaut it has to have some way to get across the English Channel in force. This is going to be an WW I "Operation Sea-Lion".

[operating]

Turn 58

Mediterranean:

CP needs to gather information with naval forces to see what is occupied and what is the best location to capture next. Since the majority of naval forces here is AH Izmir is of prime importance, not only because it will deprive England of a PP source, but it can be a port for repairs and upgrading of AH fleets, for it is not known if England has produced any warships or submarines for this region, also at Izmir a garrison can go over-land to capture Gallipoli and prevent English transports from easily reaching Constantinople... Bombarding Malta has 2 effects: One it eliminates PP temporarily, second it is less likely the garrison there will amphib out knowing enemy warships are near-by. Remember England has 2 transport points, other nations do not, however that is about to change as CP nations accumulate wealth.

[operating]

Turn 58

Bulgaria:

The reduction of the English army here has begun and once completed, other CP units should be in place to go after Iasi and Bucharest. CP is going to commit to over running Romania, then south to Greece. CP needs ports in order to transport heavier units than AH garrisons into the Turkey arena.

[operating]

Turn 59

Belgium Surrender:

The re-conquest of Belgium went smoothly, opening another port at Antwerp for CP. Fleet action off the Dutch coast has the English Royal Navy in a pickle, Kaiserliche Marine are going full steam from the Baltic to join this battle. Meanwhile spread out fighters to assist protecting cities from bombing runs. It will be a few turns before invading France, next turn will finish mopping up Belgium territory. AH units upgraded as German units start to arrive from the now defunct Eastern Front. Take note of Romania's status in the information panel..

[operating]

Turn 59

Stats: AH received infantry (ect.) search-lights and gas mask techs. The search-lights will come in handy for AH units exposed to areole bombing raids from England.

[operating]

Turn 59

Mediterranean:

AH sub fleet movement radar must have picked up on an unidentified enemy naval presence on the Libyan coast. one fleet would have gone to investigate, discovered it was an English tank corp in transport, called in help to sink transport. Another sub fleet scouted Izmir to report the coast is clear for an amphibious landing there. The AH transport could not make the Turkey coast this turn. Bombarded Malta. The AH pre-dreadnaught sailed east to support the Izmir landing. After the CP action off Libya got me to thinking; What else are the English up to? (best to keep an eye on their ports here for other activity). CP's problem here is not having enough naval assets?