mrdozer2379 vs operating (active match)

[operating]

Turn 29

Techs: AH has meager techs. After AH received AC and Industrial Train Design techs sold that lab to apply the PP towards the Italian campaign and upgrading units with available techs. Most matches I play as CP AH ends up with a very tight economy even after capturing all the Serbian cities, many of those are slow to recover PP from. What's odd about the game is the amount of techs Italy has when it enters the war.

[operating]

Turn 29

Baltic:

I'm not asking the Tallinn garrison to fight, what it needs to do is survive and fortify to enable CP fleets to have access to it's port. I do not know what the Russian balloon attacked for it is down 6 points, some have to do with the German Danzig zep bombing Helsinki. The blockading English fleets up north are starting to be reduced and continue their fight. There's some naval action by Koenigsberg, failed to get it into a SS.. Mind you 6 out of the 7 English sub fleets only have 1 port accessible to them at Riga and the 7th fleet cannot get free of the Finland sea, it cannot sail past the Tallinn port. I'm cooking up a plan to capture Helsinki, but first I'd like to reinforce the Tallinn garrison.

[operating]

Turn 29

Eastern Front:

Setting up for the next push to take out the Russian salient south of Brest-Litovsk. AH artillery fired and a couple of minor attacks took place only to affect enemy morale, moved around cav to be ready for any breakthroughs. Repaired and upgraded as many units as possible and sent the Krakow AH garrison by rail to the Italian Front. My German fighter took a loss of during it's mission meaning the Russians had upgraded with AA. Up top A German dreadnaught with sub screen are in a naval defense posture in green dot hexes (which is an important advantage), they have survived a vigorous English sub attacks 2 turns now. This has caused the Germans to hold back embarking another troop transport. Otherwise all is quiet on this front..

[operating]

Turn 29

Belgium:

After the infantry attacked and took losses by Metz felt that reserves should back him up in case of a strong counter- attack that could force a retreat. After these fighter missions these squadrons are going to need a refit. This is one of the few times where a ground unit in front of Nancy did not need a rotation.[:)]

[operating]

Turn 29

Eastern Mediterranean:

When this Italian pre-dreadnaught is sunk it will make it the 8th Entente warship fleet lost in this region, not counting the Russian losses. Does this mean CP has naval superiority in this region? I do not know for certain. What I do know Entente has 8 less warship fleets..!![:)] Finished off an English infantry by Izmir and from the looks of it the other does not have long to live. A AH class II sub fleet is on the way to join the action, no doubt will end up down by Adana after the mystery fleet(s) there.

[operating]

Turn 29

Black Sea: Chased the Russian troop transport over to Odessa causing it a further loss of 2, at the same time giving the AH garrison there full supply and possible upgrade. The OE AC at Rostov has been whittled down to a red 2 won't last another turn if attacked.

[operating]

Turn 29

Erzurum: Worried about being out-flanked had to reposition the OE line. OE's NM is at 30 now, it's just a matter of time before OE is forced to surrender..[:(] Deployed a OE garrison in Aleppo, need to keep this corridor open for the withdrawing Damascus army to be at full supply.

The Italian SS got trashed by accident and was not able to retrieve it because the trash bin is overloaded, empty now. Too bad, it was an excellent SS..

[operating]

Turn 30

Stats: The Germans have a class II fighter, cav and AC ready for deployment.

[operating]

Turn 30

Baltic:

The Germans are perfectly content with the naval battle raging in the northern Baltic, even at the expense of almost losing a merchant supply fleet. A pre-dreadnaught is bombarding Helsinki which has gone from a 6 to a 4 now down to a 2 PP wise. I'm more concerned with eliminating Entente ports to prevent Entente fleet repairs, thus giving the German main fleet a leg up on the naval war of attrition. What I do notice is the lack of Russian navy presence? Out of sight by Koenigsberg is the other active naval battle, my intention there is the same as up north, to keep the enemy busy with attrition and keeping the enemy's attention away from further CP capture of Russian ports.

[operating]

Turn 30

Belgium:

Besides swapping out positions and repairs the Germans here have been on guard passive.

[operating]

Turn 30

Italy:

Almost completed this phase of the campaign with the capture of Florence, to complete this phase I'd like to capture an uninterrupted rail link between Florence and Venice, which means kicking the Italian garrison out that is just northwest of Florence and at the same time solidifying this flanking front while continuing on to Rome and beyond. I'm using the commander-less German units more as blockers than lead units. 1 AH general will stay with the flanking front while the other goes on the offensive. CP air-power is dominating so far, which is CP's ace in the hole for success here. The details are not always accurate, none the less gives the reader an idea of the flow of action.[;)]

[operating]

Turn 30

Eastern Front:

English sub fleets are aggressively attacking the German dreadnaught near Danzig. Would guess their aim is to isolate the capital fleet for possible destruction, the Germans are only too happy to welcome attacks in their green dot home waters hoping to rid the Baltic of some of these PITA's.

Meanwhile, AH has pushed back the Russian salient southeast of Brest-Litovsk and attacked it's weak reserve. German artillery is softening up another Russian salient for a push there next turn. The Russians have tried a number of minor attacks up and down the line to my mind to stymy the center offensive here, but fail to have any real affect on my goal of clearing the Russians from contact with the fortress city, thus having a clear railhead.

Have a German Garrison ready to embark as soon as it looks possible at Koenigsberg.

[operating]

Turn 30

Erzurum:

The main OE army is getting whittled down with no PP for repairs is withdrawing once again leaving a token 4 garrison as a delaying sacrifice. Had to detach the general from this unit to be reattached later to a stronger unit. The English infantry is all but finished off by Izmir now that the Italian pre-dreadnaught has been sunk off the coast. Repaired fleets for what should be a naval showdown with an unknown Entente fleet(s) by Adana. The English army is still chasing my OE Damascus army north, but looking off to the east of Aleppo can see the Russian are trying to cut the OE from a good supply source.

[operating]

Turn 31

Stats: Germans received phosgene gas tech and 2 ACs

[operating]

Turn 31

Milan Captured Event:

Two game aspects with this is important: 1.) Italy loses 10 PP and 2.) Italy takes a -15 NM loss. This NM loss with a -30 NM loss should Rome be captured is often enough to force Italy to offer to surrender. Should add that Italy loses another point of deployment and opens up a railhead for CP units. The capture takes place during the Italy campaign post.

[operating]

Turn 31

Italian Front:

The French AT in Milan had a AA defense rating of 1, knowing this did several CP fighter sorties to severely damage and demoralize the AT, followed up with an AH infantry assault blowing the AT back 1 hex where it was finished off with a AH garrison. The garrison first moved into the hex occupied by the German cav, then struck north capturing the hex where the AT had been, then RR the German cav from Munich to Milan, at the same time flew the Munich fighter squadron to a forward base. Used German zeppelins and AH balloon corps to bomb Rome. Moved and upgraded German artillery (phosgene) to prepare for the push to connect the rail line between Milan and Florence. If this is not done before Italy surrenders, it's a long walk out of this Peninsula. With the capture of Milan Turin is very exposed to capture where it is only occupied with vulnerable fighters. Should be interesting how mrdozer deals with this..!![:'(] Rested some units and advanced others towards Rome..

[operating]

Turn 31

Belgium:

Maintaining a passive defense here yet keeping units in tip top shape, do not want to waste PP on assaults or counter-attacks if possible. Enemy air-power is becoming more evident, not sure of their numbers. Up north have been deploying ACs (2 AA) in cities that are being blitzed so as to prevent the free pass (no air losses) the Entente have avoided so far.

[Robotron]

Looks like Italy and Turkey will be gone by 1916 and Bulgaria is nowhere near joining CP.
Also almost no convoy war in the Atlantic.

Is this behaviour deemed standard for a standard vanilla CTGW multiplayer game or are you guys trying out some wacky-stuff tactics?
I like seeing a big AH submarine fleet quite a lot for a change but I liked the Entente landing at Beirut even more.
Wicked![:D]

[operating]

Turn 31

Baltic:

There's a heavy presence of English class II sub fleets roughly 10 fleets, no Russians. Embarked the German garrison at Koenigsberg destined to join the beleaguered Tallinn garrison, provided undetected sub fleets to escort the transport, while the Kriegsmarine repair it's dreadnaught at Danzig. A pre-dreadnaught bombarded Helsinki expecting to zero-out the PP there. There is without a doubt going to be a lot of naval action here.[;)]

[operating]

Turn 31

North Baltic:

Mrdozer may realize the Germans are moving a transport to somewhere(?) and may try to intercept it, so to help prevent this attacked his sub fleets here and sailed other fleets to be repaired while his are having difficulty doing the same, plus I am able to upgrade my fleets where he can't. My fleets have felt the punch from Russian balloon corps, now that they have been located in Vassa by German zeppelins should neutralize the threat to some degree and at the same time destroy more Russian PP.[:)]