NML 1914 - Team Game #3

[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]

TripleA Manual Gamesave Post: Germany round 1

TripleA Manual Gamesave Post for game: Domination 1914 No Man’s Land, version: 1.4.1

Game History

Round: 1

    Research Technology - Germany

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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 .

[Witt]

Of course , I will copy the Master and take Paris from that nasty, Anglophile , Elrood.

[Witt]

TripleA Manual Gamesave Post: Germany round 1

TripleA Manual Gamesave Post for game: Domination 1914 No Man’s Land, version: 1.4.1

Game History

Round: 1

    Research Technology - Germany

    Combat Move - Germany
        Turning on Edit Mode
        EDIT: Changing PUs for Germany from 100 to 90
        EDIT: Turning off Edit Mode
        Turning on Edit Mode
        EDIT: Turning off Edit Mode
        1 submarine moved from Sea Zone 5 Arctic Ocean to Sea Zone 16 North Sea
        2 battlecruisers, 1 battleship, 2 cruisers and 1 submarine moved from Sea Zone 12 Baltic Sea to Sea Zone 16 North Sea
        1 submarine moved from Sea Zone 4 Greenland Sea to Sea Zone 20 Labrador Sea
        1 submarine moved from Sea Zone 23 Mid Atlantic to Sea Zone 20 Labrador Sea
        1 submarine moved from Sea Zone 23 Mid Atlantic to Sea Zone 21 Gulf of St. Lawrence
        1 submarine moved from Sea Zone 28 Sargasso Sea to Sea Zone 21 Gulf of St. Lawrence
        2 submarines moved from Sea Zone 34 Mid Atlantic to Sea Zone 54 Alboran Sea
        1 submarine moved from Sea Zone 52 Mid Atlantic to Sea Zone 54 Alboran Sea
        1 submarine moved from Sea Zone 48 Mid Atlantic to Sea Zone 50 Mid Atlantic
        1 cruiser and 2 submarines moved from Sea Zone 76 Indian Ocean to Sea Zone 94 South Atlantic
        1 infantry moved from German Southwest Africa to Pretoria
              Germany take Pretoria from Britain
        1 cavalry moved from Kamerun to Fezzan
              Germany take Chad from France
              Germany take Fezzan from France
        1 infantry moved from Kamerun to Chad
        1 cavalry moved from German East Africa to Italian Somaliland
              Germany take British East Africa from Britain
              Germany take Italian Somaliland from Italy
        5 infantry moved from Silesia to Western Poland
        2 field_guns and 4 infantry moved from Posen to Western Poland
        1 heavy_gun moved from West Prussia to Western Poland
        1 infantry moved from West Prussia to Western Poland
        1 heavy_gun and 3 infantry moved from West Prussia to East Prussia
        1 gas moved from Saxony to Champagne
        1 heavy_gun and 6 infantry moved from Alsace to Champagne
        2 field_guns and 5 infantry moved from Rhine to Champagne
        2 cavalrys and 2 fighters moved from Wurttemburg to Champagne
        1 battlecruiser, 1 battleship and 1 cruiser moved from Sea Zone 11 Baltic Sea to Sea Zone 9 Gulf of Bothnia
        1 field_gun moved from Caroline Islands to Sea Zone 122 Bismarck Sea
        1 infantry moved from German New Guinea to Sea Zone 122 Bismarck Sea
        1 battlecruiser and 1 cruiser moved from Sea Zone 106 Pacific Ocean to Sea Zone 112 Pacific Ocean
        1 battlecruiser, 1 field_gun, 1 infantry and 1 transport moved from Sea Zone 122 Bismarck Sea to Sea Zone 112 Pacific Ocean
        2 cavalrys moved from Westphalia to Champagne
        1 cruiser moved from Sea Zone 122 Bismarck Sea to Sea Zone 112 Pacific Ocean
        1 submarine moved from Sea Zone 113 Pacific Ocean to Sea Zone 112 Pacific Ocean
        1 submarine moved from Sea Zone 132 Pacific Ocean to Sea Zone 112 Pacific Ocean
        1 field_gun and 1 infantry moved from Sea Zone 112 Pacific Ocean to Tuamotu
        3 cavalrys moved from Silesia to Western Poland

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[Elrood]

For your convenience I will edit the following:

IC tech for Turks.
3 inf added to turks at the 3 ICs it has

[FMErwinRommel]

@witt Why did you take 10 PU away from G. Did you intend to spend it on tech? If so, I didn’t see any such edit.

[Witt]

@fmerwinrommel I rolled two Dicr amd failed . Them the Nattke Calculator crashed the game . I told Ron . I amused £20. Will tts and remnetr to edit it Val do nect go .

[Witt]

I can’t type amd I can’t see!