It was our Sunday game and we had to continue the First World War as it never happened!
Bart (German Generalstab) and Campbell (as v. Hotzendorff) came out of the last episode ...
https://meneken.blogspot.com/2021/11/sunday-game-guns-of-august-first-wolrd.html
... with 11 victory points around Christmas 1914 as the strategic victors of the first 6 month. But somehow Serbia didn't want to die, the Russian east front froze with lethargy and ice and on November Britain joined the allies ... finally.
Against the protest of the United States, the French declared war on Belgium and invaded, and later the British did the same to the Dutch. In the new year 1915 the allies took on the blockade and were pushing for Antwerpen and Liege. In February the Greek as well as the Bulgarian governments declared war on Serbia. The Balkan seemed a lost cause to the allies.
In the meantime the German Brest-Litovsk offensive in the East seemed to get to an halt as in the spring of 1915 the allies landed in Montenegro, Citinje, as it had not yet fallen ... and the French declared war on Albania and invaded again. Again the US send a protest note. The Turkish corps were on their way to Belgrade as the British landed in Gallipoli, this time successful, as they didn't encounter any opposition at all!!
But the best thing that happened was the declaration of war of the Italian government in May 1915 and the opening of the Italian front on the alps (for better or worse). Again the French and Italian and British corps were opposed by relatively few Central power troops.
In the meantime Belgium surrendered to the Allies and Monte Negro to the Central Powers. The blockade tightened as the lower countries are participants now. And of course, yes, the United States protested again ...
As it stands in July the Central Powers had 10 victory points, which would equate to an allied strategical victory (a similar situation as in December for the Central Powers but in reverse). The Allied lost in total 98 units vs 69 of the Central powers so far since August 1914 - and it looks like it won't be over this Christmas in 1915 as well...
Finally Breaking News!
In July miraculously a Russian Reservist corp managed to get to unoccupied Königsberg! But for how long will they be able to hold out, as they are cut off from the supply already? Will their fellow comrades come to their rescue? Or will they have to surrender?
... until the next part ...
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| The initial set up End of February 1915 from last time... |
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| The eastern front and the German invasion |
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| The Western Front summer 1915 |
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| A small Russian insurance for the diplomacy phase in May 1915 |
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| Spectacular breakthrough at Gallipoli!! |
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| The Balkan front somewhat stabilised ... |
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| After end of play the Eastern front gets mapped out |
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| The Italian and Western fronts summer 1915 |
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| Chaos in the alps - please, where is the way to Vienna? |
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| The German command is fortifying the North german coast vs British landings |
A few things surprised me during that game. First your landing in Turkey and then in Albania, which took off a large number of our troops needed somewhere else. The second is Italy at war, that complicated things a lot. I had to send troops quicker to support Austrians than I was going to. As you see I was preparing a defending line on the Western front for some time and I was going to move some units to the east, to finally take the Riga, but my plans have to change right now... I am hoping that Romania join the Central Powers, if not...
ReplyDeleteWell, that is exactly the predicament of the CP/German player in 1915 lots of more enemies and fewer troops - the reason why they shortened the divisions. The A-H messes a bit up/makes a mistake and boing you have to take care of it/ suffer because of it. Italy was a stroke of luck. Campbell now (hopefully) sees that his job is to secure the balkan. The Turkish train episode was just plain Hotzendorfer nonsense. The British landings are mean, but the British cannot replace that quickly (than France for example) ... Even if Romania joins the allies it is not all lost. The USA will come in later (by luck) because of my lowland raids ... wI think it is still up in the air!
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