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Turn 48

S.O.S! Special Event: Is when a faction's dreadnaught fleet is sunk, this event results in a -20 NM to the fleet's owner, in this case it was the French, details will be covered in the Central Mediterranean post.

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Turn 48

Western Front:

Just when this front was bad enough, it got worse..! Evidently mrdozer was not satisfied with the slow pace it was taking to push trough Germany and decided the Dutch were ripe for picking and do a left hand flank offensive to get in the backdoor to Germany circumnavigating the front line action. This is a big change in Entente strategy..![X(] The Netherlands lost it's capital right away, so forget about reinforcement from them, their economy is 2 PP, what PP they had in the bank got applied to it's front line infantry in upgrades and repair to it's garrison at Groningen and that's after selling their infantry lab.[:(] Look down at the information bar to see the Netherlands alliance, this faction has no commanders, however has the ability to put up some resistance to the Entente invaders. Other players have used the same strategy as mrdozer here, so this is not totally new to me, although a little unexpected.[;)] As a result of this major offensive, (which by the way killed off 1 of my fighter squadrons) you'll see a mad scramble by CP units to try and bridge the new gap in defenses. RR out the damaged German artillery to Berlin and pulled back the air-force to a safe distance to better adjust to a changing situation while repairing. One of my first counter measures was to attack the French artillery by Strassburg with AH fighters driving down the potency of this weapon as AH ground units take more responsibility for holding this part of the front. You will also see an empty hex at Metz where a French fighter base was destroyed by CP long distance air-ships. A new garrison was deployed up by Wilhelmshaven and oh yes Commander Hindenburg (adds +4 to defense base) was attached to the front line while Commander McKesson was detached to be deployed elsewhere. Another AH infantry has arrived by RR at Vienna. This front has been thinned out some, however the general staff feel as though it's still defendable.

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Turn 48

Italy:

What's important here is showing the source of attacks on France. The starting point of the AH infantry by Vienna and the AH potential to launch another troop transport from Naples. The garrison at Marseille lost 1 strength from bombardment. Take note of some of the other cities in southern France that have reduced PP. You can compare PP totals to earlier France maps. Also notice how captured cities in Italy are starting to show positive CP production.

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Turn 48

Central Mediterranean:

You can see where the French dreadnaught with admiral had been sunk just north of Tunis, after a combined 4 sub fleet attack.[:)] Also Algiers was captured this turn by AH, it's port put to immediate use for sub repairs. Seeing no French opposition in this region embarked the Germans at Tunis for another adventure. With the French dreadnaught gone there should be no other Entente fleets in the Mediterranean to challenge AH fleets, so went on a bombardment run at French Mareth, although I am still mindful of the possibility of French sub attacks. Sent the AH pre-dreadnaught to Naples to escort the intended transport there next turn. Sailed the AH AC past Tunis to look for opportunities to explore. With the capture of Algiers, pounding of Mareth and southern French cities should set France back -9 PP this turn and I'm sure the French just loved to hear about the pride of their navy going to the bottom.

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Turn 48

Baltic:

The CP supply convoy managed to slip past the English blockade and was sent a protective sub escorts in the hope of unloading the supplies at Koenigsberg. Counter-attacked the blockading English causing 1 English loss. Anti-sub activities detected an enemy sub fleet in the Finland Sea, which ended up about a draw for both sides. Helsinki and Tallinn defenders are still holding on against greater odds. I do question why English fleets continue to go in harm's way?[&:]

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Turn 48

Eastern Front:

The Germans were expecting to fire the big guns this turn here, but guess what? They did not have enough ammo to execute the job.! Germany receives 13 ammo points per turn, but when the German artillery at the Western Front got attacked and lost 5 of it's strength, it also meant a loss of 5 ammo for this turn, which actually made no sense to me????[&:] I've seen this happen before in other matches, still the methodology to it coming to fruition totally eludes me to this day...[&:] It did not prevent the Germans to use ammo in lesser assignments. Continued with attacks on the southern flank with AH artillery trying to dislodge a Russian garrison salient. Was able to kill off a Russian garrison to the east and caused a Russian infantry to retreat on the northern flank. With a couple of new units here CP should be able to penetrate north towards Vilna next turn. What's great about this game with a few exceptions, it's almost like I expect WW I would be. [:)]

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Turn 49

Economic Deterioration: OK, I'm not totally clear on this event and I do not know if my opponent get's to see this event? First it tells you have a problem with your workforce (MP)(man-power). That means to me that your faction has lost over a thousand (1000) combined casualties (army-navy-air-force-ect.) lowering your MP quality from black (good) to yellow (fair), which is reflected by the faction indicated here in the information window/panel below that is highlighted in red. Secondly, Germany has lost several (3 actually) cities lowering it's production, plus other cities that have lost production due to bombing raids on them, having the affect of it's costing Germany more for the upkeep of the arm forces than it can afford. CTGW has a member Robotron who is real good at explaining this technical angle. If your interested in knowing more check out the Slitherine forum, it's explained in more detail there someplace. If I get the time I'll try and link it here later.
Whoops! Just realized failed to highlight during editing: Check out the yellow numbers to the right of the AH and German icons, The orange numbers next to the Netherlands indicate poor quality, if you see red numbers here will indicate bad quality. So it goes Black/good Yellow/fair Orange/poor Red/bad..
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Turn 49

Defensive Pack Event: As far as this match evolved never went into effect as intended. The way it was designed to work meant a 1 turn delay by Bulgaria to mobilize it's army (in theory) before actually entering a war, however in this match after Entente DOW on OE to trigger this event was set and offensive actions (capturing cities, ect.) were taken by Entente resulted in no change to OE's prior status of "0" NM, at the end of Entente's turn OE (at "0" NM) offered to surrender and was "accepted". Now you would think the Bulgarians would continue on the march to war on OE's behalf, but, a BIG BUT, if OE surrenders the same turn it was DOW'd on, it causes Bulgaria to "stop the march to war". It did not end there and I will try to be a gentleman and leave it at that.

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Turn 49

Stats: Germany receives search-light tech (this tech adds 3 AA defense to applicable units (Meaning a garrison with 2 AA now can have a 5 AA defense) that applies to garrisons-infantry-cav and artillery at the cost of 2 PP per unit.

AH has an AC and garrison, also Germany has a garrison all ready to be deployed this turn..

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Turn 49

Western Front:

The scramble continues by CP to maintain this front, units with blue circles have been upgraded with searchlights, which to me is a game changer. Losing Dortmund came as a surprise, not only as a huge PP loss, but it also penetrated Germany's second line of defense. The area around this city is heavily wooded and difficult to maneuver in. Deployed fresh German garrison by Wilhelmshaven attaching commander McKesson to it. No CP offensive moves here this turn, it was about getting organized and digging in for others. AH deployed a garrison by Innsbruck.

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Turn 49

Italy:

Areole attacks continued from here on Entente positions by the Western Front and at local French cities. German raider making use of bombardment backed by AH pre-dreadnaught. Deployed AH AC by Trento later to Florence as a last resort to defend if Italy was to be invaded. Thinking about using the Rome garrison as an amphib force out of Naples where you see a transport ready to leave next turn.

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Turn 49

North Africa:

Having kept up the pressure on the French here has resulted in the French spending their PP here buying units, instead of units for the Western Front, which I feel is part of the success of this African campaign. Sfax and Mareth both bombed resulting in French casualties. AH is moving to capture Constantine to rob France of more PP and German transport from Tunis is heading to Algiers to prevent any possible capture of this capital city, for if the French are deploying at Sfax, it would most certainly would deploy elsewhere in North Africa..[;)]

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Turn 49

Baltic:

The white circled sub detected an English sub fleet, which was destroyed immediately, but not without the Kaiserliche Marine suffering casualties itself. The supply convoy escaped to Koenigsberg port, while CP sub fleets engaged the English up north. 8 German fleets here need to either repair or repair and upgrade due to continuous naval combat for several turns now. With a supply convoy reaching port will free up some PP next turn to begin refitting this fleet.[:)]

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Turn 49

Eastern Front:

Had some success here advancing on Vilna with the northern flank, first by destroying a Russian infantry that was blocking the way and advancing into it's fortified position. The southern flank also was able to advance by knocking out a Russian garrison salient, also attacked a Russian commander forcing the unit to retreat. German zeppelin continued to bomb Odessa scoring casualties on the blimp there. I can see a massive Russian airforce build-up by Vinnytsia, which will be a problem down the road.[:(] The artillery in white circle will be spotted during replay RR up past RIGA. More on that later. Feeling good about this front.[:)]

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Turn 50

Constantinople Fallen Event: That's strange...! Didn't OE surrender for second time last turn?[&:] Neither turn did OE show up as a CP ally in the below information window. The diplomacy window shows OE as a neutral this turn as well as Bulgaria, Hmmmm! What's going on here?[8|] Don't tell me that Entente DOW'd OE again then accepted surrender the same turn for the "Third Time"?[:-] I'll let you figure it out.

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Turn 50

Stats: AH receives mustard gas artillery tech. costs about 2-5 PP per artillery unit.

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Turn 50

Western Front:

The front here is starting to take shape again, but by no means stable. Moved the German air-force closer to the front now that it is healthy again and badly needed to intercept marauding enemy fighters. Lost 1 AH fighter squadron near Innsbruck. The 2 remaining fighter groups attacked French artillery. Deployed a fresh garrison northwest of Wilhelmshaven. Did not commit to any frontal assaults, the order of the day is to just hold your ground..


Take a look at the information window; First you will see that Bulgaria is at a red (means stopped) 1 on the march to war, before the Defensive Pack event fired Bulgaria was a red 3-5, if OE's surrender was not accepted next turn Bulgaria would have been in the war, also take note of the red arrows: They are pointing to where OE and Bulgaria flags should be (or should have been) on the CP side of the ledger..

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Turn 50

Italy:

Pounded Nice with AH pre-dreadnaught. The 8 strength AH blimp did no damage to Paris IIRC, so next turn will bring it up to full strength. Also bombed Lyon.. Repaired and upgraded the zeppelin here.

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Turn 50

North Africa:

Sent the Algiers fleet towards Gibraltar to scout, on it's way spotted a French garrison heading for the capital here..![8D] AH captured Constantine robbing France of 2 PP.[:)] Here's the question around Sfax: Where did the garrison there go? Did it head north or travel west, or is it just sitting there in the FOW? I'm not taking any chances, next turn will land a garrison at Tunis..[;)] Realizing that the German garrison near Algiers is going to need some help sent the AC Raider to assist.

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Turn 50

Baltic:

Both German dreadnaughts were sent to port for repairs and upgrading then off to the North Sea to do battle. The rest of Kaiserliche Marine is staying behind to protect and support ports and escort supply convoys.

The white circle north of Riga is where "during replay" that the RR Russian artillery stopped on a previous turn. If I am guessing right that artillery has been able to move just 1 hex in forested hex northward during this Russian turn (50). It's the only logical reason to RR that unit so far to the north in the first place is to attack Tallinn with it. It could have RR to a lot of other cities besides Riga.

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