NML 1914 - Team Game #3

[FMErwinRommel]

@redrum No thanks on UK, I’ll take Austria.
Might be nice to try to duplicate G’s all out assault on F. But I’m not as decisive or a fast player as some of you, to play G or UK. Austria isn’t creative or as much fun as G or T, but it is the safest.

[redrum]

I guess I should begin planning the British invasion of Austria now :)

[FMErwinRommel]

@redrum More likely, will Austria take Piedmont before G takes Paris; or be the first CP to take an enemy capital? Taking Rome or Greece before T takes Mecca? That would be a challenge.

[redrum]

@fmerwinrommel Equally unlikely as I don’t plan to let any of my Entente allies capitals fall!

[FMErwinRommel]

@redrum UK can give T a very hard time, and help save Paris. So that will make it that much easier for Austria to be the first to take a capital; as Brits have little to no direct effect on Austria’s march on its weak neighbors, including Russia.

[FMErwinRommel]

Elrood, AEV, Witt, Dawg, who wants to join me on the dark side? Bwwaahh

[Elrood]

Private-Panic - Russia
redrum - UK
Entek - USA
FMErwinRommel - Austria
Elrood - France / Serbia
aequitas-et-veritas
witt
dawgoneit

I play Entente now, and still would like to have Centrals something nice at the start, as I stand by my point that they need sth. more than they have. Especially if a player like Ron steers the british navy

[FMErwinRommel]

@elrood I agree. I suggest that Turkey get a free tech at the start. Austria doesn’t need any special help against F/S. :blush: Yes, when the sides were reversed, I gave Austria a hard time, but in the end, it just prolonged the inevitable. I don’t expect a R collapse this time, so Austria will have a harder time against F & I, but we shall still prevail eventually.

[aequitas-et-veritas]

Playing the Turks.

[Elrood]

@fmerwinrommel I do not think a Tech will cut it for Turks… the one I had was not usable while the game was still ongoing.

I would not mind Turks having some extra units at the start.

[Elrood]

I mean, Ron as Germany singlehandedly defeated Entente last game… what Austria and Turks did was inconsequential, at best.

[aequitas-et-veritas]

@elrood said in NML 1914 - Team Game #3:

I mean, Ron as Germany singlehandedly defeated Entente last game… what Austria and Turks did was inconsequential, at best.

I wouldn’t say that.
It was more like a Kentucky shuffle 🤣

[Elrood]

@aequitas-et-veritas Let me be more verbose then ;-)
Ron won the game despite Kevin playing Kentucky shuffle with Serbs and me playing Battleship with France. :-D

[Elrood]

Private-Panic - Russia
redrum - UK
Entek - USA
FMErwinRommel - Austria
Elrood - France / Serbia
aequitas-et-veritas
witt - Germany
dawgoneit - Italy / Arabia

Witt chose Germany, leaving Italy for dawg.

So, what you guys say to give Centrals sth. nice? Ron? I know that Witt is too stubborn to accept something for Germany (although an IC would be nice), but Kevin could benefit from it.

E.g. that tech where IC can produce 2 more units than usual. Plus maybe 3 Inf to place at his leisure… so the presence of a “bid” can be felt.

Any opinions?

[Private-Panic]

As I intimated last time, IMHO the best way to even up the game would be for redrum and Elrood to stop teaming up!

G vs F should be interesting in this game. We will see what Witt’s G can do.

Although I have not played 1914 very much in recent times, my memory of the game following the changes brought in by redrum and co a while back is that the CP position was much improved. G also has a decent crack at getting Armour early on, which seemed to make them unstoppable. Of course, I bow to the superior knowledge of those who made the last set of changes to the standard set up.

[dawgoneit]

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[redrum]

@private-panic That almost seems like another compliment! That would be 2 in just a few weeks!

Balance in these team games tends to favor Entente so I prefer to give the CPs a small bid (though CPs have won 2 straight with very different strategies). My recommendation would be to just give the CPs a bid that they can spend on units or tech that any nation except Germany can use as I think any bonus to Germany would make it too easy to run over France. I would probably start with something like 10-15 PUs.

[redrum]

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[redrum]

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[Witt]

Hi guys . I will take my favourite, after Colonial Britain , Imperial Germany .
Redrum has set it up for me, but I will be sow to start . Birthday tomorrow and a full week ahead , as you can imagine , despite the countless cancellations due to Covid fears .