New PBEM adaptation of TGW-Div 1.6: Playtesting!

Got and played. Will send and do report tomorrow.
 
Russia's only standing Corp, which also happened to be it's most recently comissioned, had been sent out to the Georgian area to quell a Turkish uprising there. It had succeeded in turning away the Turkish Corp by showing it's futility in advancing. But there had been a few stragglers that stayed in the SE hills. This week the most prominent of these stragglers, harassing the locals outside of Tiflis, was eradicated. Sweeping down from the North, the Corp took out the Turkish Infantry unit quickly, but with heavy losses (6/14) before regrouping.
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At Strassburg, 155mm shelled an R-Inf for 1HP, the 2nd 155mm hit the Rupprecht Army Group for 1HP.

At Essen, an R-Inf kills a red-lined A-Inf. A pair of 15mm outside of the city fired off a series of rounds into Essen and one of them hit the Est Army Group for 1HP, while the other only managed to hit a Bratwurst stand. There was pommes frites and mayo everywhere.

Just so the the British are aware, Germany has gathered most, it not all of it's Army Groups in the area East of Essen. Shown below are the strength and formations.

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French expansion continues.
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Year End Report

Russia ~ In the very begining of the war it was determined that a large amount of Workers needed to be produced to build roads around the cities and complete the Railroad to Odessa and the far end of the Black Sea. These projocts are almost complete.

The search for luxuries to bring some joy to Russia was fruitful as sufficient items were found to keep the Motherland content.

Frustration mounted in Petrograd, as it was determined by the ruling class that Russia's lack of potentcy in its military was going to be a huge problem against the Germans, who had over-whelming strength in their ranks, due to better training and technology. Then came the Lodz Campaign. No need to rehash the terrible losses suffered by the Russian people that tried to push back an exploratory force of German Infantry outside the border city. It was belived that Nicolas was just trying to show the futility of this war. But the loss of Lodz galvanized the Russian people and no more major losses have occured since those dark days.

The Black Sea and Georgian region have been fairly quiet. Battling the Ottoman Empire, whose troops are equally weak as the Russians, has become more of a hobby for the locals than a war. Most of the Naval action for Russia has taken place in the Black Sea, as its Naval forces are to weak to face the Germans in the Baltic Sea.

Russians have prodded and probed into Austria, but nothing has been accomplished - or even planned for that matter.

Overall, Russia has a great population, capable of recruiting many young soldiers. But the lack of equipment and training counters the number of troops and make the military mediocre.
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France ~ France's military has one redeeming factor, and that is it's 155mm cannons. These units have helped the French not only save it's cities, but advance into German territory. Also, much is owed to the French Resistance, as heavy local support bolsters the 155mms.

France was not meant to be a military machine. Most of it's mineral resources are mid-country, but the government decision of keeping a rural French central region means most of these resources go unused. The major cities are on flatlands and mainly produce foodstuff. I find Southern France more productive than the Northern area.

The French Navy is mainly concentrated in the Mediterranean Sea. Moderate success has been made in the shelling of the Ottoman coastline. The small bit of water between Italy and the Austrian held lands have proven to be quite treacherous for the French ships.

As Germany has kept it's mounting forces at bay for the most part, it now has a very large, potent Army. France has taken advantage of the multi-front efforts of the Entente by advancing independant units across enemy lines. Some of this culminated in the retaking of Liege for the Neutrals, although th French have wisely not given control of this city back to it's original owners. The multi-front efforts, the Resistance, and the 155mms were the powerhouse combo that allowed the taking of Metz also.

To close, I would like to say that this scenario can seem very much like WWI. Slow, methodical advances with a lot of killing and lot of dying. At one point I believed the effort to be useless, that Germany would walk right in and take France. Luckily the Germans and the Austrians found other areas to plunder. But at this point, it seems the Entente are doing well, even in the face of massive German Army Groups around Essen.

The lack of trading in the scenario is disturbing. Techs and luxs should be able to cross some borders to help the lesser countries.
 

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Britain

7 HP were shaved off the Corp defending Essen. Finally Britain got some heave howitzers capable of doing nice dengue. Huge losses of infantry, however, forced to shift from gun production to A Div production, and the last railroad connecting Essen is still enact! :mad:

Royal Navy is getting new ships slow but steady. We are very concerned with the submarine activity in Atlantic. No transport (Neutral or British) was sunk so far, or at least was not reported.


The main success of the war for British is certainly the dramatic capture of Gaza. Lack of artillery, however prevents any further advance. BEF can be credited with the help in liberating Liege. Germany even lost Metz, so Entante actually pushed back Germans and made some gains. The loss of Trieste is the most regreating event so far, as well as inability to help Balcan countries. Royal Navy took heavy losses but destroyed submarine yards in Kiel. Overall visually things are not going too bad, but the outrageous Entente losses will make Centrals win this game in 20 or so turns, if we don't review tactics together with Cyc.

Worlds Victory Points after 1 year of fighting:

Centrals -- 298,268 out of 400,000. Unit kills accounts for 2/3 of this :cry:
Entente -- 208,230 out of 400,000​

Italy

Austrian CL was sunk by BB generating survivors.
 
I have indeed sunk Neutral transports with submarines and DD Flotillas during this game but never reported them. Most of the time the sinkings occurred outside the field of view of any Entente power. Naturally I did not disclose this because I did not want to give away my positions especially since no Entente member would have seen it anyway.
 
gps Cyc

Week 31, 1915


Ottoman Empire:

British Transport intercepted and sunk near Nikosia by Turkish DD Flotilla.

On the Jerusalem front British positions were shelled by Turkish artillery then the Hero of Gaza Army kills wounded British Rifle A.

Near Gallipoli waters French BBs were bombarded by Turkish CAs which then withdrew out of reach of the French ships.


Austria-Hungary:

French forces shelled near Essen and a Rifle A and Rifle R were redlined. Then an Army kills the Rifle A and the other Army that was already wounded killed Rifle R.


Germany:

British mine detected near Esberg and sunk by German BC. An unknown object destroyed near Alborg by German DD Flotilla.

A French spy was detected near Cologne and was promptly arrested and executed by a German Rifle R.

Essen - Major artillery bombardment of British position outside of Essen doing great damage. All infantry units yellowlined. Then the full power of all German armies move in to defeat 10xRifle R, 2xRifle A, and 2xArmored Cars. German armored cars defeat a Trench Artillery and a Light Artillery piece. German Rifle Rs come down to finish the rest of the stack killing 3xLight Artillery and 5xField Howitzers. A German Armored car is lost in the battle. German counterbattery gun defeats British counterbattery gun before the battle started. Battle ends with all British forces threatening Essen eliminated.

Then a Landwehr unit crosses the border into the greater Liege area and kidnaps a British Worker spotted there.

Near Strassburg a French Rifle R is weakened by Trench artillery bombardment then killed by a German Rifle A. A French Colonial unit near the southern end of Strassburg is destroyed by a German Armored Car.
 
:sad::cry::eek:::cringe::wow::wallbash:
 
Light Artillery East of Lublin shells an R-Inf for 1HP. Nothing much else to report.
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@ Essen, French troops bow and have a moment of silence for their lost brothers in the BEF. They stand ready to be dealt their hand.155mm fire into German troops. Two fail, one hits an A-Inf for 1HP. Ditto. 155mm hits R-Inf for 2HP. 155mm hits A-Inf for 3HP. 155mm hits R-Inf for 2HP.

@ Liege, 155mm shells Landweir for 3HP. Cav unit kills Landweir and returns to Liege. R-Inf kills A-Inf and promotes. R-Inf kills R-Inf and captures Worker. From the trenches outside of Essen, 3 0f five 155mms hit Kiel AG (12/24) for 1HP each.

@ Strassburg, 155mm shell into the city. Both hit R-Inf for 2HP.

SW of Constantinople the Jean de Vienne enters the channel, sinking an unknown and shelling an Ottoman AC blocking it's path. A Courbet Class follows it in and shells an R-Inf protecting a War Materials unit. A second Courbet Class goes in and sinks the AC.

Observation Planes spot Nord AG healing in Hannover (12/24) and Rupprecht healing in Frankfort (6/21).

From Metz, 155mm shell R-Inf for 1HP. Ditto. Ditto. Then a Div IV Armee rides out to finish the R-Inf off, but gets stuck on the hill in doing so.

gps to Tigranes.
 
Sorry guys, I got very strange and annoying crash.... The city of Cork causing the game to freeze. Aready fixed it but no idea WHY does it happening ((( WIll play soon...
 
Re Cork: Sitiation is really strange with this city. It was causing problems from day 1. I kept giving it to Italy or Neutrals and return it during the next turn. That seamed to work. Finally after 3-4 times I got annoyed with this and disbanded the city creating a new one right next to it instead. This time new Cork created a crash again! I wish I knew a thing or two about debuging for this crashes sound like a real puzzle to me. My only guess is that I have generated this game while under No city raze patch to the exe file from AoI games. Anyways, when it gets to the final version I need to advance in turns for 10+ turns for all the Civs in order to make sure this crash occur only for our game...


Britain

2 Turkish DDs were sunk this turn. One was mined near Cyprus and the other one was no match for our glorious BC, generating survivors. As all the cash was sent to discover better Destroyers this extra 1000 gold was very handy! ;)

Italy

3 Light guns took 4 HP off the Austrian troops in Trentino area. Then Cordona Corps attacked and killed 1 Austrian A Div.
 
gps Cyc

Glad you fixed the problem Tigranes. I'm not sure why we keep getting those crashes either, but I do know that this type of crash has happened to me during the single player version of this scenario as well. (Rocoteh version)

Week 32, 1915


Ottoman Empire:

Turkish CL bombards and destroys a field and road near Batumi. Near Gallipoli two mines attack and sink a French BB and a French CA. Artillery, Turkish CL, and Turkish CAs (3) bombards the two remaining BBs in the Dardanelles bringing them down to the yellow.


Austria-Hungary:

Continuing to support her brother to the north, Austrian artillery shell the French Colonials blocking the path to Strassburg. Then a Rifle A kills one of the French Colonial troops who was redlined. The other Colonial was also redlined.

Near Lecce Italy the Austrian navy moves in and sinks an Italian DD Flotilla while losing a Semi Dreadnought against the Italian CA there.

A spy is captured and executed near Antivari after the transport carrying him there was sunk by an Austrian DD Flotilla.

Austrian counter battery fire kills two Italian light artillery near Venice.


Germany:

Essen - major shelling reduces most of the French invaders in the NW tile down to red. Quite a few are in the yellow however with at least 2HP remaining. When the shelling is over German armies move in to kill 5 French Rifle Rs. Counter battery fire destroys two 155mm artillery for the loss of 1 counter battery gun.

Strassburg - German armored car kills the last colonial blocking the way to Strassburg. Shelling resumes of the French positions taking a few HP off of some of the units. Two German armored cars die trying to kill the fortress division there. It is decided to gas the fortress division to death. 3000 (i.e. 3 tear gas) shells are fired into the stack killing the fortress division. Then German Rifle A and R troops kill 2 Cavalry, 2 Rifle R, 2 155mm guns, and force a French cavalry to retreat back to France. One German Rifle R is lost in the fighting. Two more French colonials are also killed in this stack.
 
This week opens up with the Neutrals kicking Mother Russia off its lands - or war will be declared! We leave of course, and recipricate, demanding they do the same, which they do. After a heavy sigh of relief, Central Command concurs that this event has long been awaited for. All of the VP Monoliths are now free of the Neutral occupiers.

An AC tries to shell Memel as usual, but cannot shell the coast!?!

East of Lublin, CBs take out 2 Austrian LAs, the Russians LAs go to work. 1st fails, 2nd hits A for 2HP, 3rd hits a for 1HP, 4th hits A for 2HP, 5th hits R for 1HP, 6th hits R for 2HP, 7th hits A for 1HP, 8th hits A for 1HP, 9th hits TA for 2HP, R kills A, R kills A, R dies by A, R dies by A who promotes, LA hits A for 1HP, R kills , R kills TA, R killed by R who promotes, LA hits R for 1HP (the centrals get promotions as if rank were falling from the skies), R kils R and captures worker.
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France starts the same way Russia does this week, and the Neutrals are expelled from France as well. The French VP Monoliths are also freed for French occupation.

Corbet Class at Constantinople takes out the R/R SE2 of the city. The Jean de Viennes follows to try and take out the road there but fails.

At Metz, 155mm shells A-Inf and fails, 2nd one hits for 2HP, 3rd one hits for 2HP, 4th one hits for 1HP. A 9th Cav unit charges the hill and takes the A-Inf down. The Cav unit receives a promotion and the Light Brigade medal, but still remains on the hill.

gps to Tigranes
 
Good to know we can finally clean that wheat tile near Paris!

Moff:

3000 (i.e. 3 tear gas) shells are fired into the stack killing the fortress division

Are you sure about that? I thought I made it so no unit has a lethal land bombardement in this game...:confused:
 
Tigranes said:
Are you sure about that? I thought I made it so no unit has a lethal land bombardement in this game...

Yes I am sure and saw it with my own eyes. Perhaps when you set the cruise missile flag you get lethal bombardment regardless if lethal land bombardment is set or not?
 
Final countdown:
Centrals: 308,139 VPs
Entente: 216,680 VPs


Britain

Turkish destroyer was sunk near the Gaza strip by English BC.

Italy

Major sea battle in Otranto straight. 1 BB and 2 CA sunk an Austrian CL, DD and a Semi drednought. 1 Survivor was generated.

LA shelled Austrian positions for 1 HP. Brand New trentino corps then attack Austrians, but barely susrvives, withdrawing with 1 HP! :whew:
 
Central Powers ~ 77%

Entente ~ 54%

No problem. We'll catch them in no time....
 
gps Cyc

Week 33, 1915

Ottoman Empire:

French BB sunk by mine after being shelled by 4 Turkish CAs. Turkish CA and CL plus Light Artillery shell the other French BB in the Dardanelles.

Russian Rifle bombarded by Turkish Light Artillery near Ezerum. Russian Rifle near the Turkish Coal colony killed by Turkish Army.


Austria-Hungary:

Russian Rifle killed after being shelled by Trench Artillery by Austrian Cavalry who then retreats to safety.


Germany:

Essen - French stack south west of Essen bombarded heavily and then 2 German Armies, Rifle A, and a flamethrower kill 6 French Rifle R and 1 Rifle A.

French Cavalry and Rifle R killed near Metz on the German side of the border by German Rifle A and R units.

The unknown that was terrorizing the German navy near Copenhagen was finally destroyed generating a survivor. German DD Flotilla was credited with the victory.
 
Nothing much of any importance happened in Russia this week. Training exercises.

A Corbet Class once again tried to shell the road SE2 of Constantinople and failed.
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In Metz, 155mm shelled the A-Inf who took the lives of their countrymen earlier. The 1st hit for 2HP, the second failed, the 3rd did the same as the first, the 4th hit for 1HP. Then a Cav unit died attacking it. Because of this the A-Inf promoted to Elite and received 3HP!!! 2 LAs shelled it, but only one hit for 1HP. Of the 3 155mm that shelled it next, only 2 hit for 1HP each. Finally, a Colonial unit takes it out and captures the Worker.

gps to Tigranes.
 
The unknown that was terrorizing the German navy near Copenhagen was finally destroyed generating a survivor. German DD Flotilla was credited with the victory.

I wonder if German propoganda is allowed to tell was it just an accident or a deliberate hunt gone right ;), as I was feeling so cool in operating that sub in your backyard :mischief:
 
Final countdown:
Centrals: 310,800 VPs (+2,670)
Entente: 224,630 VPs (+7,950)


Britain

Lot's of important things happening beyond the stage, however national interest prevents us from reporting it. We just looking forward for some good news very soon! ;)

Meanwhile Desert Mounted Corps (2 Cav units in Egypt) had some fun with Turkish party trying to rebuild a road between Jerusalem and Haifa. First Cav killed 3/4 Turkish Infantry and the second one took care of Combat Engineer. Also unknown sunk unknown near Haifa.

Italy

Veteran Italian CB from Milano destroyed in pieces German 210 Gun near Trieste. 2 LA fired at Austrian MG at Trentino area, only one shaved 1 HP from it. Then Codorna Corps attacked and almost died :whew:, surviving with 1 HP. The stubborn MG lost only 1 HP in that fight.

Italian A Div discovered 2 Austrian vessel which apparentely destroyed a road in Libya. All the available Entante ships are urged to show warm hospitality to that CA and CL, carring survivors from some unreported(?) event from the past...
 
Tigranes said:
I wonder if German propoganda is allowed to tell was it just an accident or a deliberate hunt gone right

Well we definitely were on the hunt, but I did not think you had a sub there. Germany suspected mine activity but looks like we were wrong.
 
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