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operating -> RE: mrdozer2379 vs operating (active match) (1/1/2019 2:58:12 PM)
Turn 46 Western Front: Lost another German infantry right where that front line French 7 garrison is. CP's reply was to take out a French garrison that was a little west of Stuttgart. Then the French took out an AH garrison at the most northern tip of Switzerland. Can anybody not see how this battle is going?[&:][:)] Mrdozer must be licking his chops to get at Berlin, one breakthrough of this line, he'll be well on his way there.[:(] [image]local://upfiles/43885/73146571C48E404687F876E89A2CF913.jpg[/image]

operating -> RE: mrdozer2379 vs operating (active match) (1/1/2019 4:44:33 PM)
Turn 46 Central Mediterranean: I'm willing to bet that the French had intended to place the Corsica infantry somewhere near the front instead of being at half supply on a 3 PP island with a unit that uses 4 PP for upkeep.[:'(] Likely Corsica will only produce 1-2 PP after the German raider's bombardment. The AH transport sailed off to attempt a landing somewhere else, perhaps Algiers? Sailed the German transport to the northwest of Tunis for a possible landing there (white circles and arrows). You'll notice AH did not attack the English merchant fleets, for 2 reasons: One, CP has already sank approximately 310 points worth of merchant supplies, the lua scripts read that if CP sinks 400 points worth of convoys the USA will go on the "March to war", however for some reason in another MP match that happened much earlier than 400, so I do not want to take a chance of that repeating.[:-] Two, If you look at Malta you'll notice the garrison is at full supply. The only way that can happen is if a surface war fleet is adjacent to it (Likely the French dreadnaught is in Malta port).! Knowing what success the dreadnaught had sinking the AH transport at Tobruk, he might try it again at Tunis..??[:(] If he tries it again this time, I want to be ready for him..[:@] If AH attacks the supply fleet, the French will know where my fleets are and may not decide to attack the CP transport. I'm sure mrdozer can hear (during replay) all kinds of sub fleet movement, but does not know where? You might know where what is, however the French (mrdozer) does not know, for it could be movement in the Baltic - Eastern Mediterranean - anywhere.? Just like I do not know where much of his sub fleets are? OK, Do you get the picture? I'm setting a trap...!![8D] [image]local://upfiles/43885/E2E55E86F75C4B2A96445BABC46E8DCB.jpg[/image]

operating -> RE: mrdozer2379 vs operating (active match) (1/1/2019 6:20:36 PM)
Turn 46 Baltic: Sometimes I ruin my own plans/strategy. For whatever reason returned one of the subs from up north (a mistake).[&:] The Kasierliche Marine purposely leaves gaps in the Finland Sea hoping to ensnare enemy submarines, sure enough during an anti sub search detected one small English class II sub fleet and was able to destroy it (small victory) and at the same time bombard a Russian garrison.[sm=fighting0056.gif][sm=happy0005.gif] On a bombing run to Petrograd found another Russian infantry. [image]local://upfiles/43885/1D9874E0BE9944508C0541ED43D2F5FA.jpg[/image]

operating -> RE: mrdozer2379 vs operating (active match) (1/1/2019 6:37:03 PM)
Turn 46 Eastern Front: Had a couple of minor victories; one, killed off a Russian general (Brulsiov sp ?) and infantry and advanced. Two, German garrison caused a Russian infantry to retreat, Three, Sent southern flank Russian infantry into retreat. Four, did significant damage to a Russian garrison to the center of this line. There have been some slight line changes here to bolster the northern flank. At least CP has something to cheer themselves up with, when compared to the carnage at the Western Front..[;)] Noticed Russian artillery moved north to Vilna.[8D] [image]local://upfiles/43885/00C998AB64C3404FBDD666AF36926E86.jpg[/image]

operating -> RE: mrdozer2379 vs operating (active match) (1/2/2019 1:56:56 AM)
Turn 47 Stats: Germany has received Defensive Position tech for zeppelins which cost about 2 - 5 PP each unit. [image]local://upfiles/43885/CF8209263B254C0BA7459CE0CE4F85A8.jpg[/image]

operating -> RE: mrdozer2379 vs operating (active match) (1/2/2019 2:51:46 AM)
Turn 47 Western Front: Germany lost 2 more garrisons and pounded French artillery with German artillery, plus strafed English artillery. Counter- attacked a French garrison, all attacks resulted in minor losses to the enemy. Shifted AH fighters a little north and railed an AH infantry to Nuremberg. CP front line is looking a bit shaky right now, holding on as best I can with what's there. Until I did this AAR did I realize how much of a beating the Germans were taking at this front losing many major units time after time. It the heat of the action as a player I'm more concerned with the big picture than down into the trenches where an AAR recreation really takes thought and clearly sheds light on the casualties and kills.[;)] [image]local://upfiles/43885/A6684326918647B6B9DB11A693C9F573.jpg[/image]

operating -> RE: mrdozer2379 vs operating (active match) (1/2/2019 3:09:43 AM)
Turn 47 Central Mediterranean: The French dreadnaught fell for the trap..!! Yahoooo![:D] The French did not see the undetected AH sub fleet until it was too late, forcing the French to stop in Tunis port, but he was not safe there, the German transport had not yet disembarked, before he did, I made sure to leave an opening for the French to have to retreat to once the Germans captured Tunis (thus the port). Then did a six sided no escape attack on the now diminished morale dreadnaught. If a fleet is forced to retreat from a port it loses 2 or 3 morale points (in the yellow). Making it very vulnerable to attack. Now I am fairly sure the French sub fleets were spotting the main AH navy sending a signal that the coast is clear for the French dreadnaught to attack and I do not blame him for doing so.. Now the AH main fleet can roam at will with no known Entente surface fleets in the Mediterranean..[:)] With Tunis captured France has 2 less PP to play with, the other shoe about to drop is that the AH transport is now poised to capture Algiers the French capital of North Africa...!!![8D] Meanwhile Corsica and 3 other French cities are getting bombed, this has to be taking an effect on the Entente strategy and robbing it's Western Front offensive of fuel..[sm=dizzy.gif] [image]local://upfiles/43885/DE99DDCE78574F0E85F4E85746CF0120.jpg[/image]

operating -> RE: mrdozer2379 vs operating (active match) (1/2/2019 6:31:04 AM)
Turn 47 Baltic: Some light action here with bombardments and preemptive sub to sub fleet strikes now that a merchant convoy has spawned. Sending another fleet north in the event it can get on the backside of the convoy to help protect it.. Lost Turku, a minor loss, what The German garrison gained is another enemy unit that is a drag on the Russian economy..[:)] [image]local://upfiles/43885/C50A4146EC1048A5A8775B0DB3032D2A.jpg[/image]

operating -> RE: mrdozer2379 vs operating (active match) (1/2/2019 6:50:33 AM)
Turn 47 Eastern Front: Moved and upgraded AH artillery with specialized shells (increases bombing level +2). There has been a Russian blimp down at Odessa that has been hitting AH cities causing PP losses, so now a German zeppelin under a flight commander's influence has been hitting back at this antagonist causing it blimp losses and Odessa PP loss. The CP northern flank is making a major push on a line of Russians blocking the way to Vilna. To boost the next turn's attack brought over German artillery, which I'm sure the Russian AC has spotted, what is not spotted is the garrison that is reinforcing this front. Southern flank is preparing to remove a Russian salient next turn and forced a retreat on a Russian general. Picked up an AH garrison by Lemberg from the queue, also withdrew the AT from this front to recuperate up by Brest-Litovsk. Also take note of the red Russian 4 garrison to the center east of this CP army. Count 12 Russian units in need of repair at this front. Might that tell the reader something?[;)] [image]local://upfiles/43885/FD09D0DC69444F659233BEFCA3B18BCD.jpg[/image]

operating -> RE: mrdozer2379 vs operating (active match) (1/2/2019 8:22:47 AM)
Turn 48 Stats: Germany has 1 lonely garrison ready to be deployed.. [image]local://upfiles/43885/1C0C1E064F1F43C28AB0FD20BBBAB237.jpg[/image]

operating -> RE: mrdozer2379 vs operating (active match) (1/2/2019 12:25:09 PM)
Turn 48 S.O.S! Special Event: Is when a faction's dreadnaught fleet is sunk, this event results in a -20 NM to the fleet's owner, in this case it was the French, details will be covered in the Central Mediterranean post. [image]local://upfiles/43885/C6AFD18972B74225A2A53A4DFAA34348.jpg[/image]

operating -> RE: mrdozer2379 vs operating (active match) (1/2/2019 3:28:39 PM)
Turn 48 Western Front: Just when this front was bad enough, it got worse..![sm=sad-1361.gif] Evidently mrdozer was not satisfied with the slow pace it was taking to push trough Germany and decided the Dutch were ripe for picking and do a left hand flank offensive to get in the backdoor to Germany circumnavigating the front line action. This is a big change in Entente strategy..![X(] The Netherlands lost it's capital right away, so forget about reinforcement from them, their economy is 2 PP, what PP they had in the bank got applied to it's front line infantry in upgrades and repair to it's garrison at Groningen and that's after selling their infantry lab.[:(] Look down at the information bar to see the Netherlands alliance, this faction has no commanders, however has the ability to put up some resistance to the Entente invaders. Other players have used the same strategy as mrdozer here, so this is not totally new to me, although a little unexpected.[;)] As a result of this major offensive, (which by the way killed off 1 of my fighter squadrons) you'll see a mad scramble by CP units to try and bridge the new gap in defenses. RR out the damaged German artillery to Berlin and pulled back the air-force to a safe distance to better adjust to a changing situation while repairing. One of my first counter measures was to attack the French artillery by Strassburg with AH fighters driving down the potency of this weapon as AH ground units take more responsibility for holding this part of the front. You will also see an empty hex at Metz where a French fighter base was destroyed by CP long distance air-ships.[sm=00000028.gif] A new garrison was deployed up by Wilhelmshaven and oh yes Commander Hindenburg (adds +4 to defense base) was attached to the front line while Commander McKesson was detached to be deployed elsewhere. Another AH infantry has arrived by RR at Vienna. This front has been thinned out some, however the general staff feel as though it's still defendable.[sm=nono.gif] [image]local://upfiles/43885/144C9D77D8944E1B81B4B79D4C1777E0.jpg[/image]

operating -> RE: mrdozer2379 vs operating (active match) (1/2/2019 4:31:54 PM)
Turn 48 Italy: What's important here is showing the source of attacks on France. The starting point of the AH infantry by Vienna and the AH potential to launch another troop transport from Naples. The garrison at Marseille lost 1 strength from bombardment. Take note of some of the other cities in southern France that have reduced PP. You can compare PP totals to earlier France maps. Also notice how captured cities in Italy are starting to show positive CP production. [image]local://upfiles/43885/9E400DA2C1C641AF95C10C46CE00212D.jpg[/image]

operating -> RE: mrdozer2379 vs operating (active match) (1/2/2019 4:44:08 PM)
Turn 48 Central Mediterranean: You can see where the French dreadnaught with admiral had been sunk just north of Tunis, after a combined 4 sub fleet attack.[:)] Also Algiers was captured this turn by AH, it's port put to immediate use for sub repairs. Seeing no French opposition in this region embarked the Germans at Tunis for another adventure. With the French dreadnaught gone there should be no other Entente fleets in the Mediterranean to challenge AH fleets, so went on a bombardment run at French Mareth, although I am still mindful of the possibility of French sub attacks. Sent the AH pre-dreadnaught to Naples to escort the intended transport there next turn. Sailed the AH AC past Tunis to look for opportunities to explore. With the capture of Algiers, pounding of Mareth and southern French cities should set France back -9 PP this turn and I'm sure the French just loved to hear about the pride of their navy going to the bottom.[sm=00000003.gif] [image]local://upfiles/43885/642780A739DD40DC9DFAEF783B8E916B.jpg[/image]

operating -> RE: mrdozer2379 vs operating (active match) (1/2/2019 5:33:46 PM)
Turn 48 Baltic: The CP supply convoy managed to slip past the English blockade and was sent a protective sub escorts in the hope of unloading the supplies at Koenigsberg. Counter-attacked the blockading English causing 1 English loss. Anti-sub activities detected an enemy sub fleet in the Finland Sea, which ended up about a draw for both sides. Helsinki and Tallinn defenders are still holding on against greater odds. I do question why English fleets continue to go in harm's way?[&:] [image]local://upfiles/43885/B596CFF1A3DC4CA2B5CF22AA1A6A8165.jpg[/image]

operating -> RE: mrdozer2379 vs operating (active match) (1/2/2019 7:15:49 PM)
Turn 48 Eastern Front: The Germans were expecting to fire the big guns this turn here, but guess what? They did not have enough ammo to execute the job.! Germany receives 13 ammo points per turn, but when the German artillery at the Western Front got attacked and lost 5 of it's strength, it also meant a loss of 5 ammo for this turn, which actually made no sense to me????[&:] I've seen this happen before in other matches, still the methodology to it coming to fruition totally eludes me to this day...[&:] It did not prevent the Germans to use ammo in lesser assignments. Continued with attacks on the southern flank with AH artillery trying to dislodge a Russian garrison salient. Was able to kill off a Russian garrison to the east and caused a Russian infantry to retreat on the northern flank. With a couple of new units here CP should be able to penetrate north towards Vilna next turn. What's great about this game with a few exceptions, it's almost like I expect WW I would be. [:)] [image]local://upfiles/43885/FA3C599AA67C4D1FA9DD15B8D1DBE12E.jpg[/image]

operating -> RE: mrdozer2379 vs operating (active match) (1/3/2019 6:39:18 AM)
Turn 49 Economic Deterioration: OK, I'm not totally clear on this event and I do not know if my opponent get's to see this event? First it tells you have a problem with your workforce (MP)(man-power). That means to me that your faction has lost over a thousand (1000) combined casualties (army-navy-air-force-ect.) lowering your MP quality from black (good) to yellow (fair), which is reflected by the faction indicated here in the information window/panel below that is highlighted in red. Secondly, Germany has lost several (3 actually) cities lowering it's production, plus other cities that have lost production due to bombing raids on them, having the affect of it's costing Germany more for the upkeep of the arm forces than it can afford. CTGW has a member Robotron who is real good at explaining this technical angle. If your interested in knowing more check out the Slitherine forum, it's explained in more detail there someplace. If I get the time I'll try and link it here later. Whoops! Just realized failed to highlight during editing: Check out the yellow numbers to the right of the AH and German icons, The orange numbers next to the Netherlands indicate poor quality, if you see red numbers here will indicate bad quality. So it goes Black/good Yellow/fair Orange/poor Red/bad.. [image]local://upfiles/43885/AAD89C25E6414DD092E8670EF47C0B9B.jpg[/image]

operating -> RE: mrdozer2379 vs operating (active match) (1/3/2019 7:16:36 AM)
Turn 49 Defensive Pack Event: As far as this match evolved never went into effect as intended. The way it was designed to work meant a 1 turn delay by Bulgaria to mobilize it's army (in theory) before actually entering a war, however in this match after Entente DOW on OE to trigger this event was set and offensive actions (capturing cities, ect.) were taken by Entente resulted in no change to OE's prior status of "0" NM, at the end of Entente's turn OE (at "0" NM) offered to surrender and was "accepted"[sm=sign0003.gif]. Now you would think the Bulgarians would continue on the march to war on OE's behalf, but, a BIG BUT, if OE surrenders the same turn it was DOW'd on, it causes Bulgaria to "stop the march to war"[sm=Christo_pull_hair.gif]. It did not end there and I will try to be a gentleman and leave it at that.[sm=00000003.gif] [image]local://upfiles/43885/FA38BFF03F2D4825A58C42C3A62D3E5B.jpg[/image]

operating -> RE: mrdozer2379 vs operating (active match) (1/3/2019 12:51:06 PM)
Turn 49 Stats: Germany receives search-light tech (this tech adds 3 AA defense to applicable units (Meaning a garrison with 2 AA now can have a 5 AA defense) that applies to garrisons-infantry-cav and artillery at the cost of 2 PP per unit. AH has an AC and garrison, also Germany has a garrison all ready to be deployed this turn.. [image]local://upfiles/43885/463225D6B8A04AE4AA809160F5F35663.jpg[/image]

operating -> RE: mrdozer2379 vs operating (active match) (1/3/2019 1:09:59 PM)
Turn 49 Western Front: The scramble continues by CP to maintain this front, units with blue circles have been upgraded with searchlights, which to me is a game changer. Losing Dortmund came as a surprise, not only as a huge PP loss, but it also penetrated Germany's second line of defense. The area around this city is heavily wooded and difficult to maneuver in. Deployed fresh German garrison by Wilhelmshaven attaching commander McKesson to it. No CP offensive moves here this turn, it was about getting organized and digging in for others. AH deployed a garrison by Innsbruck. [image]local://upfiles/43885/284A48A51647419DB96A3DFC255F7B86.jpg[/image]

operating -> RE: mrdozer2379 vs operating (active match) (1/3/2019 1:26:21 PM)
Turn 49 Italy: Areole attacks continued from here on Entente positions by the Western Front and at local French cities. German raider making use of bombardment backed by AH pre-dreadnaught. Deployed AH AC by Trento later to Florence as a last resort to defend if Italy was to be invaded. Thinking about using the Rome garrison as an amphib force out of Naples where you see a transport ready to leave next turn. [image]local://upfiles/43885/E9A073BDF53445DA8EEFF0727B231EAD.jpg[/image]

operating -> RE: mrdozer2379 vs operating (active match) (1/3/2019 1:43:15 PM)
Turn 49 North Africa: Having kept up the pressure on the French here has resulted in the French spending their PP here buying units, instead of units for the Western Front, which I feel is part of the success of this African campaign. Sfax and Mareth both bombed resulting in French casualties. AH is moving to capture Constantine to rob France of more PP and German transport from Tunis is heading to Algiers to prevent any possible capture of this capital city, for if the French are deploying at Sfax, it would most certainly would deploy elsewhere in North Africa..[;)] [image]local://upfiles/43885/B853D9FD805C42989211E763A6A5BE9C.jpg[/image]

operating -> RE: mrdozer2379 vs operating (active match) (1/3/2019 2:00:49 PM)
Turn 49 Baltic: The white circled sub detected an English sub fleet, which was destroyed immediately, but not without the Kaiserliche Marine suffering casualties itself. The supply convoy escaped to Koenigsberg port, while CP sub fleets engaged the English up north. 8 German fleets here need to either repair or repair and upgrade due to continuous naval combat for several turns now. With a supply convoy reaching port will free up some PP next turn to begin refitting this fleet.[:)] [image]local://upfiles/43885/E9536DC8A1D047F3865D6E36F2D6074D.jpg[/image]

operating -> RE: mrdozer2379 vs operating (active match) (1/3/2019 2:16:30 PM)
Turn 49 Eastern Front: Had some success here advancing on Vilna with the northern flank, first by destroying a Russian infantry that was blocking the way and advancing into it's fortified position. The southern flank also was able to advance by knocking out a Russian garrison salient, also attacked a Russian commander forcing the unit to retreat. German zeppelin continued to bomb Odessa scoring casualties on the blimp there. I can see a massive Russian airforce build-up by Vinnytsia, which will be a problem down the road.[:(] The artillery in white circle will be spotted during replay RR up past RIGA. More on that later. Feeling good about this front.[:)] [image]local://upfiles/43885/6807AEE911DE46E68A70FF6EACB2F1EE.jpg[/image]

operating -> RE: mrdozer2379 vs operating (active match) (1/3/2019 6:11:11 PM)
Turn 50 Constantinople Fallen Event: That's strange...![sm=dizzy.gif] Didn't OE surrender for second time last turn?[&:] Neither turn did OE show up as a CP ally in the below information window. The diplomacy window shows OE as a neutral this turn as well as Bulgaria, Hmmmm! What's going on here?[8\|] Don't tell me that Entente DOW'd OE again then accepted surrender the same turn for the "Third Time"?[:-] I'll let you figure it out.[sm=crazy.gif] [image]local://upfiles/43885/83399FFAE14B4D4DB3B522ED075AA908.jpg[/image]

operating -> RE: mrdozer2379 vs operating (active match) (1/3/2019 9:00:29 PM)
Turn 50 Stats: AH receives mustard gas artillery tech. costs about 2-5 PP per artillery unit. [image]local://upfiles/43885/BD4CA61D148147F1AA51B67D88007B97.jpg[/image]

operating -> RE: mrdozer2379 vs operating (active match) (1/3/2019 9:06:27 PM)
Turn 50 Western Front: The front here is starting to take shape again, but by no means stable. Moved the German air-force closer to the front now that it is healthy again and badly needed to intercept marauding enemy fighters. Lost 1 AH fighter squadron near Innsbruck. The 2 remaining fighter groups attacked French artillery. Deployed a fresh garrison northwest of Wilhelmshaven. Did not commit to any frontal assaults, the order of the day is to just hold your ground.. Take a look at the information window; First you will see that Bulgaria is at a red (means stopped) 1 on the march to war, before the Defensive Pack event fired Bulgaria was a red 3-5, if OE's surrender was not accepted next turn Bulgaria would have been in the war, also take note of the red arrows: They are pointing to where OE and Bulgaria flags should be (or should have been) on the CP side of the ledger.. [image]local://upfiles/43885/3FAFD84909AC41A4A70DA0C9515A748A.jpg[/image]

operating -> RE: mrdozer2379 vs operating (active match) (1/3/2019 9:48:39 PM)
Turn 50 Italy: Pounded Nice with AH pre-dreadnaught. The 8 strength AH blimp did no damage to Paris IIRC, so next turn will bring it up to full strength. Also bombed Lyon.. Repaired and upgraded the zeppelin here. [image]local://upfiles/43885/402AEFA2DB63451594F29A506C350F65.jpg[/image]

operating -> RE: mrdozer2379 vs operating (active match) (1/3/2019 9:55:52 PM)
Turn 50 North Africa: Sent the Algiers fleet towards Gibraltar to scout, on it's way spotted a French garrison heading for the capital here..![8D] AH captured Constantine robbing France of 2 PP.[:)] Here's the question around Sfax: Where did the garrison there go? Did it head north or travel west, or is it just sitting there in the FOW? I'm not taking any chances, next turn will land a garrison at Tunis..[;)] Realizing that the German garrison near Algiers is going to need some help sent the AC Raider to assist. [image]local://upfiles/43885/50282BB74478441ABA399FB8947E2D44.jpg[/image]

operating -> RE: mrdozer2379 vs operating (active match) (1/4/2019 3:53:03 AM)
Turn 50 Baltic: Both German dreadnaughts were sent to port for repairs and upgrading then off to the North Sea to do battle. The rest of Kaiserliche Marine is staying behind to protect and support ports and escort supply convoys. The white circle north of Riga is where "during replay" that the RR Russian artillery stopped on a previous turn. If I am guessing right that artillery has been able to move just 1 hex in forested hex northward during this Russian turn (50). It's the only logical reason to RR that unit so far to the north in the first place is to attack Tallinn with it. It could have RR to a lot of other cities besides Riga. [image]local://upfiles/43885/3352D54B0252431485FDEB610EECAFF7.jpg[/image]

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