Aryaman

Thanks to you Bill, the detailed OOB for the Ottoman army is also in the book I quoted before, "EJ Erickson. Defeat in detail, The Ottoman Army in the Balkans 1912-1913", if you don´t have the book I can send the OOB to you.

I would like to try the scenario against a human opponent. I am a novice to the game, but would you like to try it against me? I hope I can give the Balkan League a better fight than the AI

Hi Bill, thanks for the swift answer I have beaten the Turkish AI, but I doubt I can beat a human player of similar experience (very limited in my case). The historical Turkish position was rather desperate from the start, but I think there are 2 possible answers to that and at the same time keeping the historical accuracy 1) Working the Victory conditions making the historical outcome a draw, so that the Balkan league player has to go for more than just taking Salonica to win. 2) Making redeployment possible for replayability, but within historical limits, instead making new units available for the player to purchase making the historical units mobilized earlier so that they could be redeployed, like the option the Germans have in the Call to Arms scenario. Just my suggestions. Regarding the Bulgarian Army, you can see the OOB here on wiki http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military_of_Bulgaria#First_Balkan_War The links to the three armies detail their respective OOB. Quoted from EJ Erickson. Defeat in detail, The Ottoman Army in the Balkans 1912-1913 "The Bulgarian Army employed a unique infantry division comprised of three brigades, each of two infantry regiments, with each regiment containing four infantry battalions. This configuration gave full-strength Bulgarian infantry divisions a grand total of twentyfour infantry battalions. Additionally these divisions contained two artillery regiments, a cavalry regiment, and an engineer battalion. At full strength, Bulgarian infantry divisions could contain as many as thirty thousand soldiers, making them nearly the equivalent of a single new 1910 Turkish army corps."

Hi I am very delighted with the game I bought a couple of weeks ago. I am surfing the scenarios and I have palyed the 1st Balkan War scenario. Having recently read a couple of books on the subject I was very interested on that very neglected conflict, but I found the scenario OOB puzzling. 1) First of all it seems to be heavily weighted in favour of the Turks, were in fact they were clearly outnumbered. The Turkish Eastern Army starts the scenario with the historical 4 Inf Corps plus the 2 provisional Inf Corps already in position (They didn´t arrive until October 28, second turn, and were not ready for action for some days). 2) The OOB of the Western army is not very accurate, and rather short of effectives, 5 instead of the 8 Corps present, you can mora than counter that with the 1500 MPPs available to the Turks the first turn to buy units available for inmediate deployment. However you can deploy them wherver you want, while in reality Aremy Corps were territorially based and they could no be mobilized magically in other regions. 3) The Bulgarian army is very much understrength, especially the Bulgarian army. The OOB of the Bulgarian army could be deceptive because the Bulgarian division was the equivalent of a Turkish Army Corps in strength. The Bulgarian army deployed 10 Corps size divisions but in the game they just deploy 4 Corps, 2 Divisions and 1 heavy artillery (?). To sum up, the non historical weakness of Bulgarian forces and the correspondingly overstrength of the Turkish force means that the scenario is balanced in favour of the Turkish in a non historical way. I would like that to be redressed if possible. I am not familiar with the scenario editor, but if someone is willing to edit it I can supply the historical data for the deployment of the forces.

Just to add some data to the weight of the argument, of 30 Battleships lost in WW1, 9 were lost to mines, other 9 to submarine, 4 to torpedo boats and the remaining 8 to accidentes/sabotage. Not a single one was lost to enemy gunfire.

Hi I am tempted to buy SCWW1 but I always play games against human opponents, and I don´t see any place in the to go looking for opponents, is there a community of PBEM players playing SCWW1?