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ORIGINAL: kirk23

The turn each Country activates is unchanged,I was talking about turns in regard to research and the time they take to complete,the Germany will have the advantage in research,but the other Countries will complete their research,in respect off each other,in total game scale roundabout 6 turns on average.

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ORIGINAL: kirk23

The first Russian Revolution does not take place until February 1917, from your screen shot you are still in July 1915. Why is the Russian morale so low? Is it because you have been taking to many casualties in combat, or because you have Lost Capital Cities & Fortresses?

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Amtrick wrote;
Some strange things did happen during the game. When playing as CP I landed in invasion force in Finland near Turko then advanced on and captured St. Petersburg. Shortly after that Russia surrendered. I moved my invasion force back to Turko, but when I got there the port was gone! My troops were stuck in Finland for the duration.

Playing as Entente, around turn 9, I noticed the Gibraltar garrison just disappeared. About two turns later it was back in place.

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ORIGINAL: amtrick

Operating/Bob:

You're right, my bad. No port at Torku. Should have done better research when I got back and couldn't leave. Thanks for the info on "ghost" units. Apt name, kinda spooky when they fade in and out!

MP is kind of "out there" for me. My game time is pretty limited and sporadic. The challange would be for my opponent to not lose patience with me.

Rick

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ORIGINAL: amtrick

Bob:

Tell you what, when the 1.6 official patch comes out I'll give MP a go. Reserve me a slot.

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ORIGINAL: operating

Hello Kirk!

Been thinking about the Tallinn Port placement on the map. What do you think about moving it 1 sea hex to the west? The reason being: Once CP captures the city of Tallinn, any Entente ships (Russian) are trapped to the east of Tallinn Port, I'm not sure yet if Entente subs can wiggle under that port in either direction (east or west), hard to tell in SP. Plus I don't know yet if the Baltic becomes a zone of red dots (to the Entente), once Tallinn is captured!? At this point: Essentially Helsinki and Petrograd would in a state of blockade (not that Russia got merchant ships anyways). I do have a couple of MP matches where this is about to happen, where I am CP it is OK, but as the Russians it could be a disaster, plus I question if English subs would be able to repair at remaining Russian ports, getting past captured Tallinn Port? . Of course this map might have been designed for just such an out come, blockade. So I have to question if this was the intent of game design not realizing the consequences?

Just thinking, Bob

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Just found out in a MP match that "NO" Entente ships or subs can get by CP Tallinn port either way.

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ORIGINAL: MarechalJoffre

Will we get to see the new patch soon after the New Year's eve? Just out of curiousity, I can't wait.

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ORIGINAL: kirk23

Not much of a compromise really, Germany will always have the advantage for her land forces,but the time she has this advantage for will be reduced,France,Britain & Austria will be round about 4 game turn between each other,while Russia & Turkey will be about 4 or 5 game turns behind France for example. Another thing if you focus researched,it will be quicker than any other version off the game so far.

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Kirk wrote;

Turkey did not really have any Submarines in world war 1 of her own, so the best solution is to place another port in the Black sea next to Constantinople, I have also positioned the Turkish Light Cruiser in this port hex for all the scenarios in the game,this should stop the Entente gamey ploy of placing a cruiser unit next to Constantinople before Turkey officially jouns the war.

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1915[edit]

Operations at the Dardanelles[edit]

In April 1915, the Imperial German Navy sent their first submarines to the Mediterranean in response to the Anglo-French Dardanelles campaign, after it became obvious that their Austro-Hungarian allies could do little against it with their small submarine force, which nevertheless was successful in defending the Adriatic.

The first U-boat sent—U-21—achieved initial success, sinking the Royal Navy predreadnought battleships HMS Triumph and Majestic on 25 and 27 May respectively on her way to Constantinople, but ran into severe limitations in the Dardanelles, where swarms of small craft and extensive anti-submarine netting and booms restricted their movements. In addition, the Germans dispatched a number of UB and UC Type boats; these were sent in sections by rail to Pola where they were assembled for transit to Constantinople. One was lost, but by the end of 1915 the Germans had established a force of seven U-boats at Constantinople, misleadingly named the Mediterranean U-Boat Division.

The Pola flotilla[edit]

Main article: Pola Flotilla

At the same time, the Germans determined to establish a force in the Adriatic to open the commerce war against Allied trade in the Mediterranean.

By the end of June 1915, the Germans had assembled a further three pre-fabricated Type UB I submarines at Pola in Istria, two of them intended for transfer to the Austrian Navy. They were also assembling three Type UC I minelaying submarines, which were ordered converted into transports to carry small quantities of critical supplies to Turkey. However, the UB submarines were hindered by their short operational range and the Dardanelles currents, and in July U-21—the only U-boat with a decent operating range—was damaged by a mine and confined to Constantinople.

On 21 July, the ocean-going submarines U-34 and U-35 were detached from service in the Baltic and sent to Cattaro (in present-day Montenegro), the Germans deciding to make use of Austrian bases rather than Constantinople, since there were better supply and repair facilities in the Adriatic and it avoided submarines having to negotiate the dangerous passage through the Dardanelles. In August, U-33 and U-39 joined the German Flotilla stationed at Cattaro, following pleas from the German military attaché in Constantinople, who reported that the Royal Navy's close naval support was inflicting heavy losses on Turkish forces at the Gallipoli beachheads.

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The Constantinople flotilla (German: U-Halbflottille Konstantinopel) was an Imperial German Navy formation set up during World War I to prosecute the U-boat campaign against Allied shipping in the Mediterranean and the Black Sea in support of Germany’s ally, the Ottoman Empire. Despite its official name, the "U-boats of the Mediterranean Division in Constantinople" (U-Boote der Mittelmeerdivision in Konstantinopel), it saw little service there, operating mostly against Russian shipping in the Black Sea.

The Constantinople Flotilla had a maximum strength of 11 U–boats but due to the unfavourable conditions for commerce raiding in the Black Sea saw little success during its three years of operations. In three years of operation, the force sank ships totalling 117,093 GRT.

14 U-boats served in the Constantinople Flotilla; 6 were lost operationally.

In 1917 the force was amalgamated with the Pola Flotilla, coming under the command of the U-Boat Leader, Mediterranean (Führer der U-boote im Mittelmeer) there; the unit was renamed the Constantinople Half-Flotilla (U-Halbflotille Konstantinopel).

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In 1918, with the collapse of the Central Powers, the U-boats were scuttled, or fled to join the Pola boats in their evacuation to Germany.

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ORIGINAL: operating

The map needs to be corrected in the 1915 scenarios. German supply ships are marooned up in Norway because of a flaw in hex description, see below SS.

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ORIGINAL: kirk23

I forgot to mention that I have corrected the entrenchment level in the desert,it is now zero!