RE: The Great War 2.0 AAR For Kaiser and Fatherland memoirs of Max Hoffmann

RE: The Great War 2.0 AAR For Kaiser and Fatherland memoirs of Max Hoffmann (Full Version)

All Forums >> [New Releases from Matrix Games] >> The Operational Art of War IV >> After Action Reports

Message

MonkeysBrain2 -> RE: The Great War 2.0 AAR For Kaiser and Fatherland memoirs of Max Hoffmann (5/28/2020 5:52:12 PM)
"...Herr General, on this map you see Warsaw area... Warsaw is mighty fortress, Ivangorod, SE down Vistula river is also a mighty fortress, and already mentioned Novogeorgievsk is also a mighty fortress. All three have armored trains in addition of hundreds of guns as defense so they will be hard to destroy and taken, we don't want high losses in any battles so that all our units can be up to strength brought up very fast... But we must take all those fortresses before we can continue any offensive to the east... But, offensive is rolling really fast and exceeds our expectations beyond belief. Either Russian generals are dead drunk or I don't really know... See on the map that we are in the process of destroying Elite Russian Guard corps. They are in the pocket just west of Warsaw. Entire Guard Corps, elite of the elite was surrounded and now will be destroyed, only remnants are left... And very important we are advancing on broad front toward Vistula river. A great victory in the making in the East. Our ancestors would be proud. German Reich has proved it's invincibility." [image]local://upfiles/70602/1BDAEF1ACDA44D35A468CEEAF5D70A2E.jpg[/image]

MonkeysBrain2 -> RE: The Great War 2.0 AAR For Kaiser and Fatherland memoirs of Max Hoffmann (5/28/2020 6:00:41 PM)
"Sir, on this map you can see generally southern Poland area, as you can see we have destroyed those Russians units near border and destroyed some pocketed Russian divisions and still in the process of making more pockets. That way it is much easier to destroy them, rather then frontally... Situation here is favorable for continuing of our offensive. We will try to destroy that Russian flank completely but that takes time..." [image]local://upfiles/70602/9BCB7D89CEE14F2BB41741982CF837C9.jpg[/image]

MonkeysBrain2 -> RE: The Great War 2.0 AAR For Kaiser and Fatherland memoirs of Max Hoffmann (5/28/2020 6:10:19 PM)
"Sir, this is new map of Brody area. Russian here attack like that they have eaten mad cows or I don't know what has bitten them, but they are attacking with mighty anger. But, so far our little cousins Austro Hungarians have done their duty admirably and except few crises, line - HELD. And that is most important for now. Some second rate Austrian March brigades were brought here but we don't have much reserves left. Only some maybe 5 to ten divisions but that is only for really critical emergencies... As everywhere we are shelling them with our superb artillery and inflicting them horrendous losses. Some units evaporated during arty bombing of ours... Well we will shell them till New Year if needed, just not with Morser units because we already lost two, they are very fragile so we will pull them out of front to not lose any other..." [image]local://upfiles/70602/8FEC461D2E5F43C59EA8464879DC1013.jpg[/image]

MonkeysBrain2 -> RE: The Great War 2.0 AAR For Kaiser and Fatherland memoirs of Max Hoffmann (5/28/2020 6:16:38 PM)
"This is Czernowitze part of the Austro Hungarian Eastern Front. Austro Hungarian forces are defending magnificently. We must give their Generals medal for heroic defense. We are digging in here, and shelling Russians to hell with mighty AH arty which has tubes up to 420mm. We will tear them apart with such arty tubes, believe me or not... And when they are significantly weakened we will of course advance with our much fresher troops... That is the plan." [image]local://upfiles/70602/FCC770BB04784B8AA1E74DB2CC67E663.jpg[/image]

MonkeysBrain2 -> RE: The Great War 2.0 AAR For Kaiser and Fatherland memoirs of Max Hoffmann (5/28/2020 6:25:19 PM)
"And this is area of Eastern Prussia. We defend here, Russians are attacking here but so far they didn't have any notable success here. Our lines are very strong here. Lines will be fortified with multiple trench lines and good arty as support. Some reserves OK are put on tactical support or just defend behind front lines for any emergency. It is good to have some reserves behind front lines, but for now almost all fronts will have to fight a war with what they have. We must wait for some time to new reinforcements arrive." [image]local://upfiles/70602/252E7CA2A59F4BBDBBA9E8FC4E4773AB.jpg[/image]

MonkeysBrain2 -> RE: The Great War 2.0 AAR For Kaiser and Fatherland memoirs of Max Hoffmann (5/28/2020 6:35:51 PM)
Battle for Ivangorod [image]local://upfiles/70602/3009DF03903347C5B18B7AE0C46C019F.jpg[/image]

MonkeysBrain2 -> RE: The Great War 2.0 AAR For Kaiser and Fatherland memoirs of Max Hoffmann (5/28/2020 6:42:52 PM)
And one map from our intelligence, but not quite to this situation but good map [:D] [image]local://upfiles/70602/8EDF711423E44E319011A63778E42B4B.jpg[/image]

MonkeysBrain2 -> RE: The Great War 2.0 AAR For Kaiser and Fatherland memoirs of Max Hoffmann (5/28/2020 6:51:01 PM)
And of course medals for bravery for our soldiers presented directly from Kaiser himself [:D] [image]local://upfiles/70602/BA42907B68D541869F864B8F243095E3.jpg[/image]

MonkeysBrain2 -> RE: The Great War 2.0 AAR For Kaiser and Fatherland memoirs of Max Hoffmann (5/28/2020 8:02:31 PM)
Meanwhile in Serbia we have taken their capitol, Belgrade with not so big losses sustained. We have also destroyed many Serbian units and we will keep advancing from the north, according to General Alfred Krauss book that is valid strategy (he destroyed one Serbian division and took 5000 prisoners so he is a trusted man [;)]) Generally offensive in Serbia is going rather well, but majority of Serb forces are inland and this will be tough fight as their units are strong and they have few really good units, they will damage us but we must take Serbia as soon as possible and link with Bulgaria and Ottoman Empire they will all join us sooner or later and we must clear this rail connection. [image]local://upfiles/70602/454B37EC181C431D82B3DDDECC740171.jpg[/image]

MonkeysBrain2 -> RE: The Great War 2.0 AAR For Kaiser and Fatherland memoirs of Max Hoffmann (5/28/2020 8:05:37 PM)
And this is Montenegro area, well we have brought two good Bayern division to teach those Balkan peasants how to behave. [:D] So, we will here counterattack or let Montenegrians bleed themselves in attack. We have also ships here. Planes are crap, this is WW1. [image]local://upfiles/70602/605B6FB529C5458287B73F9F615EE794.jpg[/image]

MonkeysBrain2 -> RE: The Great War 2.0 AAR For Kaiser and Fatherland memoirs of Max Hoffmann (5/28/2020 8:15:09 PM)
And meanwhile at Oostende rather BIG NEWS were happening... It is August 19th, 1914 and our 4KB from IV Korps, so cavarly brigade have reached La Manche at Oostende in Belgium! Quite a feat! Kaiser was at Bruxelles, before not too long Belgium will capitulate, he was thinking to himself... But there was battle to be fought here... Major Hoffman from special intelligence unit was informing the Kaiser about what have happened on Western Front up to date... [image]local://upfiles/70602/F84BD0F1A3F64DC0B974C614B366740D.jpg[/image]

MonkeysBrain2 -> RE: The Great War 2.0 AAR For Kaiser and Fatherland memoirs of Max Hoffmann (5/28/2020 8:24:53 PM)
Major Hoffman began his report: "Your Majesty, as you can see we have captured Bruxelles, Givet, Namur, Liege, Wawre, Ghent, Oostende (sic), Mons (no British there [:D]), we are in front of Lille! And in front of mighty French fortress of Mauberge! Still we have not done serious blow to the French but we have destroyed some of their units already and we shell them with arty that is causing them big losses. On the other hand Belgium is soon gone, finito, maybe only Antwerp will be a little harder to conquer but we will take it soon as well. They are soundly beaten." add: After the capture of Fortress Namur and Liege we have gotten 1 arty unit in each city with around 120 guns and other equipment. Nice addition to the German army after we have lost 2 Morser units. Arty is king. Or queen of the battlefield. [8D] [image]local://upfiles/70602/9980BF0866984C78A1E5D57F54C2626C.jpg[/image]

MonkeysBrain2 -> RE: The Great War 2.0 AAR For Kaiser and Fatherland memoirs of Max Hoffmann (5/28/2020 8:28:58 PM)
And this is southern part of the Western Front, we mainly here defend, bombard with arty etc... No need for advance here for now. Any offensive must have steady flow of reinforcements or it will be bogged down. So for now we attack in Belgium and made a spectacular gains there... [image]local://upfiles/70602/CEA7000BA6FB462790173CB5BD0AAB04.jpg[/image]

MonkeysBrain2 -> RE: The Great War 2.0 AAR For Kaiser and Fatherland memoirs of Max Hoffmann (5/28/2020 8:30:50 PM)
In Kamerun enemy have started some offensive... OK Kamerun is a goner but German East Africa is another story, there some good fight can be seen... [image]local://upfiles/70602/C0D324BB82B643A9816C3FEE77BF3AE3.jpg[/image]

MonkeysBrain2 -> RE: The Great War 2.0 AAR For Kaiser and Fatherland memoirs of Max Hoffmann (5/28/2020 8:36:31 PM)
And finally this is Mesopotamia... Although, Turkey is still neutral and with mostly frozen units, one action of my Spee East India Squadron against Mantis River Gun Boats (and nothing, heavy armored cruisers cannot damage river gun boats phew...=. Mantis then have attacked Basra with no losses sustained or given but came in a death trap, as one Turkish army came online, one Turkish division evaporated Mantis... Bye bye Mantis and Turks march now on Kuwait. Yes, Turkey is not in the war still but Mantis attack have brought us here [:D] [image]local://upfiles/70602/20958A4D3AEC49E1AA37CA7359CE8C1E.jpg[/image]

MonkeysBrain2 -> RE: The Great War 2.0 AAR For Kaiser and Fatherland memoirs of Max Hoffmann (5/28/2020 8:51:45 PM)
This is a river ship that we have destroyed or several of them... [image]local://upfiles/70602/797BE905F5104675B803966BB2DBF677.jpg[/image]

MonkeysBrain2 -> RE: The Great War 2.0 AAR For Kaiser and Fatherland memoirs of Max Hoffmann (5/28/2020 8:52:33 PM)
And Mantis is also bye bye! [:D] [image]local://upfiles/70602/2340929132A54A408E9F41ECA117E8C1.jpg[/image]

John B. -> RE: The Great War 2.0 AAR For Kaiser and Fatherland memoirs of Max Hoffmann (5/29/2020 1:03:02 PM)
Watching this AAR!

MonkeysBrain2 -> RE: The Great War 2.0 AAR For Kaiser and Fatherland memoirs of Max Hoffmann (5/29/2020 1:07:08 PM)
Thank you John. I also read your adventures in Stalingrad. [;)] This scenario is really a joy to play - superb design... Will update it when I play a little bit to have something to write about [:)] World War 1 is fascinating...

MonkeysBrain2 -> RE: The Great War 2.0 AAR For Kaiser and Fatherland memoirs of Max Hoffmann (6/4/2020 8:19:16 AM)
Rat Patrol From El Arish Ataturk September 2nd, 1914 (Turn 6 beginn.) ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Mustafa Kemal Ataturk was talking to assembled endless mass of Ottoman soldiers: "Soldiers! We are here to avenge the honor of Turkish people. And of our dear Sultan. And of our faith. So we proclaim JIHAD, a holy war against the Infidels. In this case those British, with awful food, cold and too hot water for their TEA, only good thing is The Clash and we Turks love The Clash, especially that number Sheriff dont like it.... LOL But soldiers I digress here so forgive me.... We march today to capture Suez canal because those British were actually stealing our dreadnoughts from our Sultan! ...in the distance you could hear endless mass of soldiers screaming "Alahh Oukkhbarrrrr..." "Our women sold their hair for those ships to be paid, our f..beauracrats gave one salary, and we introduced taxes on Bosphorous bridge to pay those ships! And British have STOLEN it from us! Arghhh! Arghhh! :) But, don't worry my soldiers, Kaiser has sent us GOLD and one powerful Battlecruiser "Goeben", and one modern light cruiser "Breslau". So Germans behaved like real Gentlemen, and we will enter the war ON THEIR SIDE. Those ships will soon attack Russian Black Sea Fleet... But, today we march on Suez, Ismaillia, Port Said... It is difficult march through Sinai desert, we must cross it fast and attack THOSE INFIDELS!!! We must be fast here.... GO MY SOLDIERS AND AVENGE OUR SULTANNNN....ARGH!" Soldiers... Soldiers.... "I DON'T ASK THAT YOU FIGHT FOR ME TODAY, BUT TO DIE FOR ME TODAY!!!" ...Soldiers "ATATURK.... ATATURK.... ALAH OUKHBARRRRRRRR ARGH::::" :) [image]local://upfiles/70602/338735E946774199A02F5EF0058645F6.jpg[/image]

MonkeysBrain2 -> RE: The Great War 2.0 AAR For Kaiser and Fatherland memoirs of Max Hoffmann (6/4/2020 8:34:10 AM)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x4ZmGwPu2vs "This mighty ship will help us in The Black Sea against powerful Russian fleet that is stronger than our own..." http://roadstothegreatwar-ww1.blogspot.com/2016/03/goeben-and-breslau-fateful-warships.html [image]local://upfiles/70602/7821445F6BF640398358FC4A6A8BF2BE.jpg[/image]

MonkeysBrain2 -> RE: The Great War 2.0 AAR For Kaiser and Fatherland memoirs of Max Hoffmann (6/4/2020 8:49:20 AM)
Turks march towards Suez canal.... We will teach those British some manners... [:'(] [image]local://upfiles/70602/5793ADF43A2646DF8B4211002AC46A41.jpg[/image]

MonkeysBrain2 -> RE: The Great War 2.0 AAR For Kaiser and Fatherland memoirs of Max Hoffmann (6/4/2020 9:07:03 AM)
Meanwhile in Chicago.... [image]local://upfiles/70602/766DC2DF7DAD41CDAAB6BF940C1038D9.jpg[/image]

MonkeysBrain2 -> RE: The Great War 2.0 AAR For Kaiser and Fatherland memoirs of Max Hoffmann (6/4/2020 9:26:44 AM)
Meanwhile in El Arish, Ataturk found some time for a walk with nice lady.... [image]local://upfiles/70602/F1B3639768714E28AE454F960EE78AF4.jpg[/image]

MonkeysBrain2 -> RE: The Great War 2.0 AAR For Kaiser and Fatherland memoirs of Max Hoffmann (6/5/2020 4:47:29 PM)
Meanwhile, Turkish HQ was contemplating about seizing Aden, very important British strategic objective and valuable town. [image]local://upfiles/70602/9D52F3BC55C94F959873E1D79D7587BB.jpg[/image]

MonkeysBrain2 -> RE: The Great War 2.0 AAR For Kaiser and Fatherland memoirs of Max Hoffmann (6/5/2020 4:49:29 PM)
Turkish attack on Yemen, Aden, is developing but we must wait for one more division before we attack... [image]local://upfiles/70602/90598E1BB9C64F6ABAEF3C0E786A12AA.jpg[/image]

MonkeysBrain2 -> RE: The Great War 2.0 AAR For Kaiser and Fatherland memoirs of Max Hoffmann (6/5/2020 5:00:50 PM)
Meanwhile, great battle was developing for Lille, in Northern France... Very important objective. [image]local://upfiles/70602/9E4CE0D3D843458E98B20A1467CF1BBB.jpg[/image]

MonkeysBrain2 -> RE: The Great War 2.0 AAR For Kaiser and Fatherland memoirs of Max Hoffmann (6/5/2020 7:47:27 PM)
Meanwhile on the other side of the Globe, near Lille, German Emperor, Wilhelm II was having conference on latest developments on Western and Eastern Fronts... General Fridrich was briefing His Majesty on latest developments.... "...And Sir, as you can see on this map of the Western Front we have managed to capture Antwerp, very important objective and big harbour... We have also encircled big industrial city of Lille, which is a fortress and few French divisions there. Before that French counterattacked near Lille and mauled one of our Ersatz divisions and evaporated one of our fighter squadrons by bombing one of our airfields... We plan to capture Lille as soon as possible, yes, we will storm it.... And then press on to capture Fort Mauberge, St. Quentin. Arras and Cambrai is already captured". Here on this flank we will try to advance until stopped. Reconstituted Belgian units appears in Rouen and we see that they are coming our way but are tired..." [image]local://upfiles/70602/EF8C0812AC374F53B6388376837255C1.jpg[/image]

MonkeysBrain2 -> RE: The Great War 2.0 AAR For Kaiser and Fatherland memoirs of Max Hoffmann (6/5/2020 7:49:07 PM)
Bigger map of Western Front (part of it that saw most combats this turn). [image]local://upfiles/70602/68AF088A4AFC4950AD1EC02CC83DB9DD.jpg[/image]

MonkeysBrain2 -> RE: The Great War 2.0 AAR For Kaiser and Fatherland memoirs of Max Hoffmann (6/5/2020 7:54:58 PM)
"And wat's happening in Serbia and Eastern Front?" asked Kaiser... General Fridrich replied "Your Majesty, here is a map of Serbia. Serbs has proved as worthy opponent and they have struck back with great fury! They made several counterattacks... In some of them they destroyed Potiorek HQ and Frank HQ. Ouch! Both HQ's are of our little cousins Austro-Hungarians. They will be shortly back but there is lesson to be learned to not expose such units in the front lines... But, we brought 2 more German divisions and we will attack as well! We must get to Nis and destroy Serbian forces... Montenegro would be also encircled and starved..." [image]local://upfiles/70602/A29785C2F1974DE3BBD29EA5B4D171EE.jpg[/image]

Page: << < prev 1 [2] 3 4 next > >>

Forum Software © ASPPlayground.NET Advanced Edition 2.4.5 ANSI

0.671875