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France - UK rails in almost the entire Middle Eastern Army to back fill entrenchment left empty by moving to a close contact with the weakened looking German Army.

Black Sea - Russia lands raiders in Bulgaria and takes the city of Varna. Hopefully this will convince Romania to join the Entente!

September 8th 1917

Shadow Front - Romania joins the Entente! Bulgaria, seeing the writing on the wall sues for peace, drops out of the war! UK and Fr both get several tech upgrades, this turn and last time... but 5 total. IW2, Gas, TW3, AC2, IT3... wow. National Moral Uk 78, Fr 48, It 82, Ru 37 / GE 1 AH 13.

A SS of most of the combat zones will be posted below... combat on all fronts, each side losing unit with the German Navy taking a real pounding the last two turns.

Western Front -

German Coast blockaded -

Aftermath of the Battle of the Baltic - this broke the German sprit to continue the war. The Kiser abdicates after hearing his precious ships have been sunk (NM dropped from 5 to 1%)

Northern Russia - Battle to the death along the river NW of Vilna.

Southern Russian Front - Near constant trench raids north of Stanislaw.

Greece Front - AH tries to hold back two full army's with just garrison troops.

September 22nd 1917

National Moral - UK 77, Fr 48, It 82, Ru 35 GE 0, AH 12

Germany signs terms, roughly one year before the historical date. The blockage worked, and with no unrestricted submarine warfare USA sits the war out as a neutral (18%).

I hope everyone enjoyed the AAR, I know there are more then a few mistakes above, I might fix a few if I do a reread. I'll post final thoughts in the second submission.

Any questions?

No Fog of War -

Thank you Iron Ranger for this AAR, I guess it will be worth reading for the SCWW1 fans. Congratulations for you bright victory. You have been daring and inovating, conducting devastating actions in the Middle East and at sea.

Despite good results in the Balkans and beside my poor results in the Middle East, I failed to weaken the Russians and the French soon enough. My technology level grew pretty good but I did not have the time to really enjoy it.

That's been a lot of fun anyway and I am glad to have fought this "war" to the end.

Thanks for the AAR! Was very interesting and thrilling to read What made the difference? Was there a deceisive point? I was very long not sure, who would win. Congratulations to your victory!

The breakthrough count was 2 for Central Powers, 3 for Entente.... breaking the line of the Ottoman Empire then routing the front and destroying several units changed the game in a decisive manor.

Thanks for this, it's been great to see a WWI AAR like this!