This AAR starts after the game has been in progress for quite awhile but the game is such fun and so crazy that I thought it would be an interesting AAR since we don't currently have a Great War AAR. Libor and Martin are buddies and wanted to play on the same side so here is how it shook out:
Germany - jjdenver
AH/Ottoman - Alex
West/Italy - Libor
Russia/Serbia - Martin
The Central Powers plan at start was to both defend against Russia while AH went after Serbia to knock them out and open things up for Ottomans to move north. Germany would focus on the West.
1914-1915 events:
- Germany takes Warsaw and sets up a fairly impenetrable line in the East against Russia. Both Russia and Germany take heavy losses in a constant war of attrition but the line doesn't move much.
- AH takes heavy losses to Russia and is eventually sent tumbling back toward Budapest
- AH loses the war in Serbia and Serbia advances to take Budapest combined w/ Russians moving from the east
- Ottomans fight w/ the Brits over Damascus but lose the city and are pushed back toward Ankara
- Germany quickly takes Brussels, Lille, and finally Paris - but Paris only falls the turn after Italy is scheduled to enter the war - this Italian entry is almost prevented but not quite - by 1 turn!
- French while losing the war in the north advance to take Strasbourg then follow up with an offensive into Germany to take Frankfurt. The Germans respond however by cutting off the French spearheads and eventually annihilating them. This combined w/ the loss of Paris results in the almost total collapse of French forces in France and the Germans chase them west.
- Throughout the war French armored trains launch lighting attacks which greatly damage the Germans in places where they don't expect it. French and German forces take absolutely horrific losses and by Dec 1915 both armies are a shadow of their war start size.
- Italy punches across the Alps and takes Munich.
Here is a look at German losses until Dec 1915. The large spike in kills around May 1915 was the fall of Paris and the spike a couple months later in 1915 was the final destruction of the French offensive into Germany.
