@The_Good_Captain
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Round 3:
AH - Dive Albania, cap-open into Ukraine. Evacuate Tyrolia/Trieste (1 G INF each). 1 INF -> Livonia
(2/3 Russian territories gone)
R - Dive Ukraine (60 Vs. 53). This is the game-losing move. All AH units died, then G moved in to put R on a permanent back-foot until Russia eventually died.
(1/3 Russian territories gone)
G - Stack Ukraine (no combat) + 1 INF -> Belorussia
(2/3 Russian territories gone).
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Again, if UK had their stack in Karelia ready here, they could have started fighting back in Livonia to delay the risk of RR.
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Germany not pressing combat might have actually given me a chance to evacuate (leaving 1 INF behind on purpose to stall, which would have turned the mistake above into a net positive outcome, as CP would no longer have the can-opener advantage in the area).
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Shoved their fleet on top of America’s fleet in SZ1.
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Ratio is 7 East/5 West
F - Held the line. Needed to put more pressure on Germany to save Russia. Even a small stack into Rhur would have forced a response.
B - Reinforced Ukraine (really should have just went to Tartarstan instead to continue to slow the CP advance. This also convinced me to keep Russia in Ukraine, which ultimately cost me the game in the long-term.
- Once again didn’t see the idea to buy the transports in UK yet. Doing it here may still have been enough to save Russia combined with Russia leaving Ukraine on R4.
O - Stacked Mesopotamia, continued the stall in SZ17.
I - Dove on Tyrolia with everything. Idea was to either go into Munich or force AH to turn around (instead of streaming more guying into Russia), probably.
- (apparently not accounting for the possibility of AH just diving on Tyrolia and forcing a attrition battle that Italy can’t afford to fight on its small income).
- A better move here would have probably been to gobble up Switzerland, Tyrolia and Trieste with small groups just to inconvenience AH and make them clean up the mess (and just use that time to rebuild the Venice stack later).
USA - Had to build fleet to counter Germany’s fleet. This is bad because it ruined the timing of getting the shuck set up
- This had disastrous repercussions long-term, as America was never quite able to make a positive contribution anywhere on the map other than stemming the tide of the Ottoman advance in Egypt.
Round 4:
AH - Attacks Tyrolia and the battle goes badly (but is still attrition). The Italian attack accomplished its secondary objective of forcing 100% of AH forces to go into Tyrolia instead of heading into Russia.
R - Stays put in Ukraine. Should have left to prevent more attrition from Germany.
G - More attrition from Germany. Ratio is 8 East/6 West. Stacked Rhur (left Alsace).
F - Should have moved main stack into Alsace instead of staying in Belgium.
B - Finally had the idea of dropping a fleet in UK to shuck into Russia. Ultimately it was too little too late, but the idea was solid and kept Russia alive a fair bit longer than it had any right surviving. Made progress cleaning up Africa.
- As a desperation move, moved everything from Persia -> Sevastopol with the ultimate aim of moving into Ukraine to prop up Russia.
- Dove on TJ with a TT to try slowing down Ottomans. This was more or less successful but no major impact on game.
- The attempt here was to offer India to the Ottomans as an exchange of sorts, but ultimately this failed because of Ottoman’s next move…
O - Dove Mesopotamia on Sevastopol. Super swingy fight in O’s favor (all O FTRs survived, all B FTRs died, 11 offensive hits Vs. 7 defensive hits).
- Had this round of combat gone differently it may have stopped Ottomans from snowballing their income out of control, which may have forced the CP to take the RR instead of directly occupying Moscow
- (meaning Entente would have maintained their economic edge in the late game).
- Ottomans start making progress in Africa against the Entente (a long-term consequence of the bad UK opener where they dove on TJ with not enough force).
I - Takes Albania, leaves Tyrolia (still making good progress in forcing AH to respect Italy instead of running after Russia). Cleaned up German boats that aren’t sitting on USA.
USA - Forced to sit and clean up German fleet in SZ1. Moveout delayed a turn (this is also a long-term consequence of the poor UK opening where they left the fleet building to the other Entente members.)
