OldCrowBalthazor -> RE: Eliminating Montenegro on turn 2 (2/26/2021 2:56:43 AM)
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ORIGINAL: Chernobyl Elaborating on my above post for 1.04, railing in the str 10 Serbian corps is slightly stronger defense than repairing the Montenegro detachment. However, it's not that much stronger, even with the free trenches due to the patch. My german corps which attacks first is predicting 3 damage to the enemy Serbian corps. This is too much. The Serbian corps will die in one turn to my strikeforce. If the predictor was saying only 2 damage, then maybe it would have a chance with good rolls. On a side note I think that surrender bonus is what makes turn 2 assaults on Nancy or Lodz so effective. Luxembourg surrenders and you get to do something cool with attacks next turn. Sigh..I just tried a test with the new patch regarding Cetinje. I don't want to seem ungrateful..for the patch overall is awesome...but it might take something as radical as making Cetinje a fortress...coupled with a alternative capital at Pec. The whole hex where Cetinje is placed was a virtual fortress anyway..for hundreds of years this area kept Montenegro either semi-independent or out right independent because of the extreme nature of the terrain here. There's the deep fjord-like Kotor Bay, Mt Lovcen, and other steep rugged defiles and mountains all around covered with medieval to early 20th century hardpoints, hill forts and the like...with artillery. Also..this would balance Trento being a fort..which was necessary to keep that area from being rolled first in the older version. If there was a fortress here, the Entente has a detachment that will be at a level of 3 entrenchment..and that may give the Entente time to get either reinforce the detachment...or move another unit in..I don't know...it needs testing for sure. Like I said before, I like The Montenegro Gambit...but the rewards are so great for the CP in the early game and equally devastating to the Entente. Its going to become a normal play...and not a risky gambit. At the very least..this gambit should require artillery..so by 1915 the CP can contemplate it...while mean time still savaging Serbia. Montenegro went down about the same time as Serbia in 1916..and should not be so prone to be roll over in 2 turns..with all the snowball effects it has to the Entente. my humble opinion anyway...and I am going to test this idea. Image is of the top of Mt Lovcen, outside of Cetinje and Kotor Bay. The Austro-Hungarians had to storm this mountain covered with entrenchments and forts in 1916. [image]local://upfiles/72627/07F372E8733641358688623845B367EE.jpg[/image]
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