CleverDevils2 AAR

[Jimmer]

ORIGINAL: fatfloyd

Turkey here.

I am not sure what you expect Turkey to do in the game. I am trying to win and the best way for that at the moment is be allied with France. It gave me money and a chance to fight Russia while his main army and best leaders were far away. I was fortunate with chit selection so I have done well with the PPs.

I do not see this as being a French lackey. I am not trying for second place at Napoleon's feet. Am I supposed to get the Ottoman Empire and then go on auto-pilot for the rest of the game, this may be the best way for the Turks to finish with a decent score but how boring is that. I may well be crushed by Austria and Britain but who knows. Either way I will enjoy the action.

I have no trouble with your actions thus far. As I pointed out, in fact, at your current pace (admittedly not sustainable), France is NOT going to win this game; YOU will win it (possibly with France and Spain joining you due to manpower being added to VP).

I've been in your shoes before, and I would take nearly all the actions you have without hesitation. I probably wouldn't execute them as well as you have, but that's a different issue.

By the way, I also have no problem with France standing by you, either. Nor with Spain sitting out. All three of you are playing the game extremely well so far. As I said before, there CAN be three winners, since we are playing with the original EIA end-of-game rules. I suspect there will in fact be three winners. But, I'm trying my best to make it FOUR winners. Not doing that as well as you guys have done, though.

[gwheelock]

Ok; here are some more combat results from the French land combat of Feb 1807.

Massena & 1 corp makes successful breakin of Kustrin.
Casulties 1 Prussia M; no French losses

[gwheelock]

1 French corp (no leader) makes successful breakin in Breslau.

Casulties 1 Prussia M; no French losses

[gwheelock]

Napoleon & 6 French corp attack Blucher & 3 Prussian corp in Posen.

Chits were outflank vs withdraw.

Prussia withdraw was unsuccessful

[gwheelock]

France starts with 141 factors; Prussia with 49.

France puts 4 corp (95 factors) into the flanking force; leaving 46 in the pinning force.

France takes 1I & 1M in the 1st round of combat. Prussia takes 2 I.

Napoleon makes outflank roll on 2nd round;

Prussia commits guard to end battle (appearently losing 2 guard).

France takes 2M in the 2nd round; Prussia takes 35 factors of combined loses.

[gwheelock]

Here is the result prior to persuit

[gwheelock]

France kills an additonal 8 cav-equivalent in pursuit eliminating the Prussian army & capturing Blucher

[Jimmer]

The game has hit a snag. GB cannot finish her turn, due to the game not allowing more than one corps to change from the rural area to the besieging area. Bug report has been filed. This prevents GB from ending her land phase, thus halting the game in its tracks.

[delatbabel]

ORIGINAL: Jimmer

The game has hit a snag. GB cannot finish her turn, due to the game not allowing more than one corps to change from the rural area to the besieging area. Bug report has been filed. This prevents GB from ending her land phase, thus halting the game in its tracks.

Bug ID number?

[Jimmer]

I'll have to get it to you tonight. I don't have a bookmark here for the bug tracker. But, in case you can look them up by date, I submitted within a few minutes of the above post.

[gwheelock]

Just wanted to announce that we are back up & playing again.  The fixes in 1.04 fixed the problem that Britain was having in attacking (Turkish controlled) Ottoman corp & garrisons.  We are now just finishing up the dp phase of March 1807.

[Odysseus]

Yay!

[ess1]

[:)]

[gwheelock]

Ok; combats for March 1807.

Russia moves a cossack to Coberg & destroys a French depot.

Turkey moves Ali & 1 cav corp to Vienna. Breakin is unsuccessful.

Austria moves 1 corp w/John to counterattack the Turks in Vienna; but
due to a program bug no combat occurs there.

Austria makes successful breakin in Athens; unsuccessful in Salonika, Sofia & Nicopolis

France attempts to attack the Russian Cossack in Coberg; but it makes a successful withdrawl

France makes successful breakin in Konitz;
Prussian casulties 5I, 2M; French casulties 1I

[gwheelock]

France makes successful breakin in Danzig.
Casulties 1 Prussian M

[gwheelock]

France makes successful breakin in Warsaw.
Casulties 1 Prussian I  (sorry forgot to take screenshot; unit doing breakin was French IX corp: 14I,1M,C)

[Jimmer]

Great Britain finally had a turn with positive results and no big game bugs affecting it.
 
GB moved a Swedish corps to Portsmouth via the sea (on a 14 factor heavy fleet). She also left three fleets at sea outside of the Channel: In the lower Adriatic and off the coasts of Tunis and Algiers. I left the Algerian fleet there in case the game didn't allow me to supply myself from the depot in Algiers itself.
 
The Turks attacked Algiers (the one factor on the garrison). Apparently, that factor and the depot were taken into the city automatically, because no battle is listed during the Turkish turn. 
 
On my turn, I ran the cavalry corps to Algiers. Since the cav corps had Wellington, I had the 5 factor corps from the capital, the one inf factor from the depot, and the cavalry corps (with 7 cav) against the full Tunisian corps. HOW did the Tunisian corps get full again (I killed a factor or two last month in the debacle there)? No idea, since it was no longer in its own territory and had no depot anywhere near it. Perhaps it counted Algieria as part of the Ottoman Empire?
 
Anyhow, the battle was echelon vs. defend. The results were predictable once the chit choice was known: Tunis broke on round 2, both sides lost 2i in the main battle (one each round), and Tunis lost 3 more infantry to pursuit.
 
In a side-pursuit, the Swedish corps and the British corps with Moore on it attacked Sarajevo. There was no combat, so I assume he had the garrison set to surrender. But, I forgot to check to make sure.
 
NOTE to rookies: Britain should ALWAYS put Wellington on its cavalry corps if that choice is an option in the current situation. The extra mobility can mean the difference between life and death sometimes. Or, as in this case, it was the difference between a lopsided battle in my favor to one that is basically even-up.

[gwheelock]

OK; its now the end of March, 1807.

Here are the political standings (after manipulation & drift)

[gwheelock]

And here are the VP standings

[gwheelock]

OK; here are the highlights from April 1807:

Russia moves 1 Cossack to Kustrin & kills a French depot & (French controlled) Prague.
Russia attacks Turkish controlled Sevastopol; makes breakin & eliminates Turkish garrison.



Turkey distroys Austrian depot in Nish; makes successful seige & garrison surrenders.
Khan w/6 corp attack 1 Austrian corp in Nicopolis. Chits are E. Assault vs Defend.
Turkish Casulties 1I, 1C; Austrian Casulties 4I, 4G; Austria wins battle.



On the Austrian turn; the besieged garrison in Vienna dies due to forage losses.
John w/1 corp attacks Ali w/1 corp. Chits are Probe vs Counter Attack.
Austrian casulties 1M, 9I (due to persuit losses); no Turkish losses
Turks win battle
Austrian corp is eliminated & John is captured by Turks



France besiges remaining Prussian garrisons in Konigsberg, Thorn & Glogau.
All breakins are unsucessful.
French controlled Saxon corp attacks Russian cossack in Prague.
Cossack makes successful withdrawl.
Massena w/1 corp attacks Russian Cossack in Kustrin. Cossack FAILS to
withdraw. Casulties : 1 Russian Ck