I've been looking at toaw3 AAR boards for a long time, but never wrote anything. I like to come every then and again and read all those new AARs page by page, because i find them very entertaining and interesting.
I mostly play short pbem scenarios with a buddy ('beer and pretzels' scenarios meaning not beeing 'worthy' of putting them down in an AAR).
But we decided to play a little bigger one this time and this beasty is probably borderline, but still qualifies to be 'worthy' of an AAR.
So on to the scenario.
It is Kaiserschlacht 1918, the last german major attempt on the western front to change the course of WWI and force Entente forces to surrender, before americans come in numbers.
I play as central powers and my buddy as entente forces.
As this is WW1, arty(or better proper utilization of arty) is the key to the victory. I've played this scenario with PO as allies and bitterly lost after starting major success.
[font="Times New Roman"]To recap that battle, i was just whamming british forces with my arty (on ignore loses) for the whole first turn. I managed to get 4 batlles, where on the last 2 i would use stosstrupen to assist with limited attack. End result was i managed to evaporate every second british infantry unit in the first fornt line, but i have not moved any of my own into the breach. Turns 2 to 6 i managed to exploit this succes somewhat and pushed the british to the Arras-Bapaum-Perone-Nesle-Ham-Tergnier, whereupon things started to go really bad really quickly, partly beacuse reinfrcements and a big reillroad network and partly because i think PO recombined its units, so at this point my stosstrupen were practicly in splinters and i only defended till the end against fresh british-french fromations. After the end as i inspected the map, i saw that entente forces were not that many as i had thought, they were just 'bigger'.
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So for this one i plan to go forward as quickly as possible and to destroy as many entente forces befre those reinforcements start coming in. First few turns CP(central powers) have bonuses that i need to exploit for maximum effect. And I especially need to do as much damage as possible to those two british armies that are in reorganization so i planed accordingly. I employed only arty on the first cycle of battles and whacked at 4 places, so that i destroyed fortifications. For the second wave i already used stosstrupen on limited attack, and for the third i attacked. I managed to puncture through all four places and started arty shelling and stosstruppen limited attack on a second line where it existed(if not i just tried to move as much troops in the breach as posible). I think i managed 5 battle cycles. This agressive stance has come at a great cost and now wonder if i have acted corectly. Yes british front is in shambles and i have plans for a few encirclements but i have already stosstrupen troops that are below 10(urg) in strenght.
So this is the map at the beginning.
