Flashman is there any chance you could start to produce a profesionell map and selling it to wargamers with real historical interest ? Dont know if I can live with that map scenario. I was pissed after your disclosure of the Eastprussia failure weeks ago but nonetheless such things can happen. Now Im horrified about such dumb geographical errors an average 12year old would`t make. A single view on a map would have been enough to prevent that educational fiasco…
Its just TOO weird.
This could be assumed after all but since Gamereports don´t mention it I don`t think so. When you take a close look at the 3D board you can see that German Infantry is west of Upper Rhine so gladfully they made Elsass german.
Would be too silly if they called a region in Germany Alsace and actually let the Rhine be Germanys West Border.
Ok I´m still not 100% sure because they did so with Kiel…
Yes Hannover borders Silesia.
No Berlin doesn`t border Ruhr.
Can´t see that Ruhr border Lorraine but don`t think so.
South bavarian border towards tyrol is shorter to make west Tirol bigger.
Yes its grey and not pink praise the lord :lol:
What I`ve seen on the pictures from the 6 sec. clip is that ruhr is bigger and has most parts of your hannover tt.
Berlin is much smaller so that hannover wich was pushed to the east could now fit between Berlin and Bavaria.(!)
Theres a tt called Kiel but the city of Kiel and its whole province is now danish. Parts of Upperbavaria are now austrian and
we´ve already talked about East Prussia. The German Empire looks more fucked up then after the treaty of Versailles. Pardon me but whoever was responsible for this “Germany” is either ignorrant or a total schmuck!
thats only a question in your game…
In the real world according to international law Greece was one state that included Macedonia so of course a landing of British or French troops has to be seen as what it was, a violation of neutrality even clearer than the case of Belgium that wasn’t that neutral - even on this gameboard it’s French blue instead of neutral white.Actually, Serbia controlled part of Macedonia at the time as well. Although I agree that Belgium should probably have a neutral marker, since it hasn’t been invaded by Germany yet on the board. Belgium wasn’t blatantly pro-Allied at the start of the war, and the German general staff believed that they would do nothing more than make a show of force to display their neutrality before allowing the German armies through.
Belgium had actually contracts with France allowing them to pass through so its ok for me to mark it blue.
But for Flashman`s game I would suggest to part Belgium into Wallonia (pro Allies) and Flanders (neutral or even pro German before the war)
Edit: Romania was all but not alligned to tzaristic Russia. In 1914 they were like Italy a member of the Dreibund and with outbreak of the war King Carol I of Romania wanted to support his cousin, Emperor Willhelm II. However, Romanian upperclass opinion was overwhelmingly Francophile and sided with the Triple Entente so Romania stayed neutral (for a while) and declared like Italy that casus foederis would only occur in case of an unprovoked defense war.
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Venizelos was the legitimate Prime Minister of Greece, so if he invited the Allies in how is that a breach of neutrality?
… and the head of state King Konstantin didn´t allow the Entente to operate in his country
so it doesn´t matter if they were “invited” by previously bribed Prime Minister Venizelos
The French and British troops that marched into Greece for preparing the landing at Gallipoli, specifically on the island of Tenedos and in Salonika in 1915 did according international law the same thing what germans did one year earlier in Belgium. It was blatant violation of Greek neutrality.
Not to mention that the demobilization of the greek army was orderd by the “invited” Entente or that British and French ships blockaded the Greek ports to starve people and to force King Konstantin into abtication.
thats only a question in your game…
In the real world according to international law Greece was one state that included Macedonia so of course a landing of british or french troops has to be seen as what it was, a violation of neutrality even clearer than the case of Belgium that wasn´t that neutral - even on this gameboard its frenchblue instead of neutral white.
There are many reasons for the failure of the Spring Offensive the nutritional status of the German Army, the Deciphering of German radio traffic by Georges Painvin, 1 mio CP Soldiers still hanging out in the East, but the main reason were the Strategic errors of the German leadership.
Ludendorffs decision to reinforce troops who encountered the stubborn resistance led to an improper use of the powers. The findings of the subsequent World War showed that to maximize the shock effect precisely those troops should be increased, which had already achieved the greatest success. Generally, the reserve management during the offensive was problematic, since only the troops in the front line were reinforced and that no full new units were brought there. This led to rapid fatigue of the deployed forces. Furthermore, the fixation of the General Staff only on the military concept of the breakthrough. The offensive had been planned by the OHL consistently methodically, but only up to the supposedly decisive goal, the shock through the enemy lines. An orderly plan for the exploitation of the resulting gaps, something like an (don´t know whats it in english) “Umfassungsmanöver” was not hit. The shock of the attack had been identified as shock troops tactically decisive factor, however, to use this principle as a strategic moment, was not considered.
Hey Flash, will you also simulate the Christmas Peace of 1914 ? Maybe with a little football on the map ? :wink:
So Hannover is south of Berlin?? That`s like Chicago beeing south of Washington :lol:
The area should be named Dresden or maybe Frankfurt but Hannover is not correct
I´ve written earlier about that but my intention was an scorched earth withdraval like Operation Alberich was.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alberich_(World_War_I_German_operation)
On the Western front in March 1917 German troops moved back to the heavily fortified Siegfriedstellung (you call it Hindenburg Line) But the Operation started already in October 1916, they devastated the area largely shared and mined it partially. With this operation the Germans shortened the front line and retreated to a line that was much better to defend because of the terrain relief.
I have a book called “Die Deutschen an der Somme” (the germans at the somme) that contents lots of original diaries and letters. One soldier reports of an officer who painted an inscription on a toilette-door to welcome the british:
"
You crie: poor little Belgium
Poor Ireland you don´t care
Protecting culture, God and law
You brought the niggers there
I know you always hypocrites
No hear, what I you tell,
Our Germany will go to head
But you oh, go to hell!
With every good wish for a Happy Xmas
and bright New Year at Metz en C. � (Metz en Couture)
Yours Truly
Herman
" � �
At Peronne a table and chairs were put on an command post. The table was set with plates some with herring others with rats. Finally a glass of champagne with a card: “Dear Tommy, bon appetit! Do not fret, just wonder!”
All decored with a bunch of grenades, one of them a seemingly loose, so that she had to detonate when beeing picked up.
In Storms of Steel (ger: In Stahlgewittern) (For me the best book to get a first side view into ww1 battles) Ernst Jünger describes poisened fountains, undermined Streets that targeted on heavy artillery transports and the placing of time fuse bombs in the cellars of houses that weren`t destroyed already. (these bombs worked with acid)
I´m writing all this to clarify that there shouldn´t be a gain in IPCs for the allies when the germans retreat on western front.
Especially late in the AA 1914 game a situation like this could happen when more and more us troops arrive in northern france and they build up for a big push offense. Now for example if there were only a few German ifs remainig in contestet Picardy that could not be reinforced because of slow movement they may consider to go back to belgium and hold a stronger line together with units that arrived there. But before they leave they may devastate the area to slow the allies down.
As a houserule this could mean if you retread with units from an contestet region the enemy won`t get the IPC from this zone in the following round(s).
wow thank you for the overtime i had concerns that it would be only 3 seconds or less
Sounds interessting, but wouldn´t the enemy be warned when you place the minemarker that there will be an offensive next round ?
By the way, did you ever thought of including something like Operation Alberich
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alberich_(World_War_I_German_operation)
to shorten your frontline as CP including the policy of scorched earth so that no IPCs would remain for the enemy to conquer?
Not to forget flamethrowers, Stormtroopers, Paris-caps, French units with red trousers in first two rounds that could be easily hit by 5s, the Paris-Geschütz that was able to shall Paris from 75 miles (maybe 2 tts?) away, and of course a 3-D Board that allows you to undermine your enemy…
In 1915 French and British troops marched into Greece for preparing the landing at Gallipoli, specifically on the island of Tenedos and in Salonika.
This happened in blatant violation of Greek neutrality. (maybe because it was just a scrap of paper)
Yeah ask Germans that “ideally” Belgium must have been parted in regions that were needed to get into france and those that werent… :roll:
In fact the head of state King Konstantin didn´t want the entente to operate in his country (doesn´t matter if they were “invitated” by good payed venizelos)
He was actually forced by an french ultimatum to abdicate in 1916.
For that goal the good allies made an exerted pressure on Greece (British and French ships blockaded the Greek to starve people)
http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erster_Weltkrieg
yes its german wiki but the sources are international and reliable… (don´t know if english wiki says something about that)
so allies are the good guys hmm then I wonder what they did in neutral greece actually?
But how long would these troops need to get there I guess 6/7 Rounds to much time to avoid powerfull US-Forces reinforce France.
Maybe its just historical that you can´t move them too quickly to western front because in march 1918 when the big last
Spring offensive started there had been still 1 Mio CP-Soldiers in Russia.
I suspect djensen is having a hard time translating the rule book into intelligible English.
Chimp is a difficult language, having no common Indo-European source.
Hahaha made my day
I mean common we`re all starving here.
Just give us some news/rule infos /larry-reports.
Feed us !!
If German troops push into moscow an Russia surrenders these troops may still be a usefull help for the ottomans holding off the british army.
There are 6-7 tts between moscow and france but only 2 between moscow and turkey…
I think it depends on your people …
You describe it as if they would go and watch tv when its not their turn. :|
Speaking for me, I need the time during others turn to plan my next moves and I also enjoy watchin the others play and combat each other. Last week I played A&A for the first time after years with two friends. I was the Allies and I hated it beeing involved within each turn.
There was massiv Desertion late in this war. To simulate that you should be allowed to buy propaganda flyer (maybe after turn 4) for 5 IPC and take 1 enemyinfantry away from the frontzone were you dropped your flyers via plane in representation of the desertion.
5 IPCs seem like a heck of a lot for the enemy to only lose one infantry unit.Â
I don´t know how much it should finally cost to do that. Have to try it in game first.
Just think about to weak the enemyfront where you want it is a strong might.
But you shouldn´t be allowed to buy more than one “propaganda” per turn otherwise spending 25 ipcs on it could
get you an full conquerd zone without fighting.