The Great War 2.0 AAR For Kaiser and Fatherland memoirs of Max Hoffmann

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And meanwhile at Oostende rather BIG NEWS were happening... It is August 19th, 1914 and our 4KB from IV Korps, so cavarly brigade have reached La Manche at Oostende in Belgium! Quite a feat!

Kaiser was at Bruxelles, before not too long Belgium will capitulate, he was thinking to himself... But there was battle to be fought here... Major Hoffman from special intelligence unit was informing the Kaiser about what have happened on Western Front up to date...

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Major Hoffman began his report: "Your Majesty, as you can see we have captured Bruxelles, Givet, Namur, Liege, Wawre, Ghent, Oostende (sic), Mons (no British there [:D]), we are in front of Lille! And in front of mighty French fortress of Mauberge!
Still we have not done serious blow to the French but we have destroyed some of their units already and we shell them with arty that is causing them big losses. On the other hand Belgium is soon gone, finito, maybe only Antwerp will be a little harder to conquer but we will take it soon as well. They are soundly beaten."

add: After the capture of Fortress Namur and Liege we have gotten 1 arty unit in each city with around 120 guns and other equipment. Nice addition to the German army after we have lost 2 Morser units. Arty is king. Or queen of the battlefield. [8D]



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And this is southern part of the Western Front, we mainly here defend, bombard with arty etc... No need for advance here for now. Any offensive must have steady flow of reinforcements or it will be bogged down. So for now we attack in Belgium and made a spectacular gains there...

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In Kamerun enemy have started some offensive... OK Kamerun is a goner but German East Africa is another story, there some good fight can be seen...

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And finally this is Mesopotamia... Although, Turkey is still neutral and with mostly frozen units, one action of my Spee East India Squadron against Mantis River Gun Boats (and nothing, heavy armored cruisers cannot damage river gun boats phew...=. Mantis then have attacked Basra with no losses sustained or given but came in a death trap, as one Turkish army came online, one Turkish division evaporated Mantis... Bye bye Mantis and Turks march now on Kuwait. Yes, Turkey is not in the war still but Mantis attack have brought us here [:D]

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This is a river ship that we have destroyed or several of them...

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And Mantis is also bye bye! [:D]

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Watching this AAR!
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Thank you John. I also read your adventures in Stalingrad. [;)] This scenario is really a joy to play - superb design... Will update it when I play a little bit to have something to write about [:)]

World War 1 is fascinating...
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Rat Patrol From El Arish Ataturk September 2nd, 1914 (Turn 6 beginn.)
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Mustafa Kemal Ataturk was talking to assembled endless mass of Ottoman soldiers:
"Soldiers! We are here to avenge the honor of Turkish people. And of our dear Sultan. And of our faith. So we proclaim JIHAD, a holy war against the Infidels. In this case those British, with awful food, cold and too hot water for their TEA, only good thing is The Clash and we Turks love The Clash, especially that number Sheriff dont like it.... LOL But soldiers I digress here so forgive me.... We march today to capture Suez canal because those British were actually stealing our dreadnoughts from our Sultan!
...in the distance you could hear endless mass of soldiers screaming "Alahh Oukkhbarrrrr..."
"Our women sold their hair for those ships to be paid, our f..beauracrats gave one salary, and we introduced taxes on Bosphorous bridge to pay those ships! And British have STOLEN it from us! Arghhh! Arghhh! :) But, don't worry my soldiers, Kaiser has sent us GOLD and one powerful Battlecruiser "Goeben", and one modern light cruiser "Breslau". So Germans behaved like real Gentlemen, and we will enter the war ON THEIR SIDE. Those ships will soon attack Russian Black Sea Fleet... But, today we march on Suez, Ismaillia, Port Said... It is difficult march through Sinai desert, we must cross it fast and attack THOSE INFIDELS!!! We must be fast here.... GO MY SOLDIERS AND AVENGE OUR SULTANNNN....ARGH!"
Soldiers... Soldiers.... "I DON'T ASK THAT YOU FIGHT FOR ME TODAY, BUT TO DIE FOR ME TODAY!!!"
...Soldiers "ATATURK.... ATATURK.... ALAH OUKHBARRRRRRRR ARGH::::" :)

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x4ZmGwPu2vs
"This mighty ship will help us in The Black Sea against powerful Russian fleet that is stronger than our own..."

http://roadstothegreatwar-ww1.blogspot. ... ships.html

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Turks march towards Suez canal.... We will teach those British some manners... [:'(]

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Meanwhile in Chicago....

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Meanwhile in El Arish, Ataturk found some time for a walk with nice lady....

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Meanwhile, Turkish HQ was contemplating about seizing Aden, very important British strategic objective and valuable town.

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Turkish attack on Yemen, Aden, is developing but we must wait for one more division before we attack...

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Meanwhile, great battle was developing for Lille, in Northern France... Very important objective.

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Meanwhile on the other side of the Globe, near Lille, German Emperor, Wilhelm II was having conference on latest developments on Western and Eastern Fronts...
General Fridrich was briefing His Majesty on latest developments....
"...And Sir, as you can see on this map of the Western Front we have managed to capture Antwerp, very important objective and big harbour... We have also encircled big industrial city of Lille, which is a fortress and few French divisions there. Before that French counterattacked near Lille and mauled one of our Ersatz divisions and evaporated one of our fighter squadrons by bombing one of our airfields... We plan to capture Lille as soon as possible, yes, we will storm it.... And then press on to capture Fort Mauberge, St. Quentin. Arras and Cambrai is already captured". Here on this flank we will try to advance until stopped. Reconstituted Belgian units appears in Rouen and we see that they are coming our way but are tired..."



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Bigger map of Western Front (part of it that saw most combats this turn).

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"And wat's happening in Serbia and Eastern Front?" asked Kaiser...
General Fridrich replied "Your Majesty, here is a map of Serbia. Serbs has proved as worthy opponent and they have struck back with great fury! They made several counterattacks... In some of them they destroyed Potiorek HQ and Frank HQ. Ouch! Both HQ's are of our little cousins Austro-Hungarians. They will be shortly back but there is lesson to be learned to not expose such units in the front lines... But, we brought 2 more German divisions and we will attack as well! We must get to Nis and destroy Serbian forces... Montenegro would be also encircled and starved..."

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