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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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.







. 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.







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.





