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August 1800

Training Pool

This was what was left two months after the great battle-there were plenty available in June.

August 1800

After the Battle of Belgrade (in July), the 1st Army stayed put for one month to recover-and to see where Emperor Matto would head to. I wanted to move into Grosswardein quickly, but there were issues-not the lest of which I did not know where his remaining large forces were at. The second Army and small detachments would continue to exploit in the presumably undefended north.

July 1800
Battle of Belgrade Report

Glory Report

Turkish Glory also got a boost from the battle.

July 1800
Siege of Zara

While the great battle of Belgrade was raging, the Austrian attempted to storm Zara-their attack failed. I'm am not aware of Austrian losses, but it looked to be severe-the nearly empty army scurried back north-a very bad month for Austria.

August 1800
Glory Points

Turkey gained a new general to boot!

August 1800
Battle list

Note the difference in losses from the decisive battle to the others in the report. I was very relieved that it did not go the other way. In addition to the heavy losses-Austria also had 5 (IIRC) divisions surrender, lost artillery, and a general was captured or killed.

August 1800
Loss Comparisons

Again, Austria is orange.

August 1800
Moral Comparisons

Russia's moral took a quick dive to the bottom after its surrender.

Russian Surrender Terms

June 1800
Diplomatic Situation

England under King Kingmaker did not wait long after the Russian surrender to get involved in another war. This time to gather some ground from Spain.

August 1800
Provincial Improvements

As the economy improved, much more could be spent on improvements. Also, there was a new confidnce in planning, resulting in long term plans with road building.

September 1800
Northern Area of Operations

In September, the first Army made its move north to Grosswardein. There was another little battle in which Turkey captured more Austrian artillery. It appears that the Austrian Emperor thought I was going to keep my main army in Belgrade and send one of the weaker corps into that province-he was wrong this time.

It was time to cut loose with the irregular cavalry. Most of Poland did not even have garrisons-so it was simply a matter of moving into a province and staying there one turn-most of Poland was overrun in a few months.

During this stage Austria's manpower was clearly going down fast. Most of the primary Austrian core provinces did not have any manpower-and Poland was occupied-(mostly).

OK-that was another two years pulled up from saved games. I know that this is a bit fast forwarding in this, but there was a long way to go to get caught up. Another two years and it will be current-then I can get into the monthly activities. With a little luck I will have that done this week. We still have 179 turns to go!

Maestro

Thanks for the updates. I can assure you that there are a numbe rof us following this with great interest.

Good luck!

Thanks Rondo-its appreciated. This was supposed to be a "during action report", but had languished for months. Its almost caught up.
To my recollection, I covered all the major events directly concerning Turkey. The various Infidel lands have had many major events which I did not mention. To keep it accurate, I would need to open too many saved games. Terje is covering France in this same game.

This has been a very interesting contest-with ups and downs for everyone. I don't want to get ahead of myself, but I see a future in this game that will be far more destructive and costly than anything that has transpired before.

Comments/questions are welcome.

Hi Maestro,

Been following the French AAr's. Yours now have added a lot more color to this epic struggle. By the way, good summerization.

Hi Zap

Thanks.

It was somewhat of a summary [;)]. I can go into more depth now. I am now creating folders of the current turns as we progress. When I get it caught up to Sept '02 it will be smooth sailing.

Over the next 12 months there was some wild moves, but no more decisive victories. Too bad, one more would have put me over the top. However, I still got what I wanted after all.

October 1800

On this map we can see a good part of Poland. Any of the provinces with a brown outline indicate they have fallen under Ottoman control.

This was also the beginning of the camping war for the 1st Army-again. It was very much desired to move into and capture Pest. This would have been a risky move. The main Austrian forces were just across the river and could force a defensive battle against the Ottoman1st. This was not desired at all.

Even though many of the Austrian divisions should be under strength, there is no telling just how much. There were other units that could have been used to beef up one army for another fight. I still must be careful about even odds battles. If you take a look at the Grosswardein battle results you will see some very close battle losses-other than the captured artillery. This happened even though I outnumbered the Austrians 2 to 1. There is still a problem in training doctrine deficiency.

These are happy days for the Sultan and his soldiers. In addition to the battle of Grosswardein there were sever other small engagements. Turks are victorious everywhere.