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ORIGINAL: Xsillione

In my full run with Germany, they never went below 90%, but Ottomans surrendered and AH was well below 50%. In the Entente run (early '15 at the moment) AH already below 50%, and Germany also closing to that point, with some luck Germany can surrender before '16.

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ORIGINAL: Peter Hugo

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ORIGINAL: Xsillione

In my full run with Germany, they never went below 90%, but Ottomans surrendered and AH was well below 50%. In the Entente run (early '15 at the moment) AH already below 50%, and Germany also closing to that point, with some luck Germany can surrender before '16.

Does that mean in your game you weren't going full throttle using the blockade? After one year in my game, German NM was below 50%, they were in Belgium and N France and hadn't taken Warsaw, but Russia was making inroads towards Konigsberg. during the final year they finally sortied to break up the blockade but lost half their battle fleet. In the meantime they lost Brussels, never took Warsaw, but lost Konigsberg in June 1916. In addition, since the AI gets tons of free troops, even though they still had about 60 ground units left, they had lost over 100. It seemed that enforcing the blockade with maximum effort for over a year made the difference, otherwise their NM wouldn't have dropped to zero by July 1916, and the war would've continued. But since historical Germany might have also crashed and burned by 1916 given these same battlefield and naval losses along with the blockade, I'll probably attempt a scenario where the Allies simply "hold the line" for as long as possible and maximize the blockade to see if something similar results in 1916 or not. I'd also like to try blockade hexes added in the Med for A-H and Turkey, so they have an incentive to use their fleets. My game ended with German NM at zero, A-H at 47% and Turkey at $70%.

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ORIGINAL: Peter Hugo

Attached Detailed Losses for July 1916.

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ORIGINAL: The Land

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ORIGINAL: Peter Hugo

Attached Detailed Losses for July 1916.

Yes that'll be the reason why German NM fell so low! To lose 76 Corps it's probably take 150 Corps-worth of damage (since repairs are more common than counter eliminations), which is 3/4 of Germany's National Morale. Then there are the naval losses, which probably add up to 10-15%. Then the blockade will be responsible for the rest.

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ORIGINAL: BillRunacre

Hi

Just to clarify, is this playing against the Central Powers AI at normal difficulty settings?

Only I would like to be sure of the exact circumstances before considering changing anything.

Thanks

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In terms of NM losses via unit casualties, the graphs showing the NM values of losses should give a clearer picture

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ORIGINAL: BillRunacre

Using Unrestricted Naval Warfare is the way to boost German National Morale, as doing so will boost it by 75 points per turn per area of unrestricted hexes where German naval units are operating. These areas have different designs to signify them, and therefore German NM could be boosted by 300 NM points a turn by this.

It will trigger the US to mobilize, but it can be stopped before the US reaches too high a mobilization level. It's best for Germany to pull back from actual hostilities with the USA, as a US war entrance will hit German NM by 2,000 points.

In terms of NM losses via unit casualties, the graphs showing the NM values of losses should give a clearer picture, rather than of units destroyed as all casualties impact on NM, whether or not the unit is destroyed.

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ORIGINAL: Peter Hugo

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ORIGINAL: BillRunacre

Using Unrestricted Naval Warfare is the way to boost German National Morale, as doing so will boost it by 75 points per turn per area of unrestricted hexes where German naval units are operating. These areas have different designs to signify them, and therefore German NM could be boosted by 300 NM points a turn by this.

It will trigger the US to mobilize, but it can be stopped before the US reaches too high a mobilization level. It's best for Germany to pull back from actual hostilities with the USA, as a US war entrance will hit German NM by 2,000 points.

In terms of NM losses via unit casualties, the graphs showing the NM values of losses should give a clearer picture, rather than of units destroyed as all casualties impact on NM, whether or not the unit is destroyed.

Bill, I completed several games to test my blockade hypothesis that it may be too harsh. My first game was as Allies on default settings and enforced full blockade as much as possible, and then played a second game without enforcing the blockade at all. In the first game, the German NM hit zero in July 1916 and they surrendered, they had taken 37,410 MPPs in losses. In the second game at July 1916 the German NM is 28% and they have taken 34,116 MPPs in losses. Total Allied losses were 34,253 MPPs and 30,660 MPPs respectively. Unfortunately, in the first game, the Germans hardly used USW, but in second game they used it more. The 28% difference could mostly be related to the blockade, but could also be partially explained by the degree of use of USW and total MPPs lost by Germany and the Allies. Assuming 20% is due to the blockade, does that seem like an unreasonable amount by mid 1916 with more years of war left? It seems if the AI is playing the CP, and the Allies enforce the blockade, then the AI should be made to use USW or it will likely face defeat before 1917.