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    1914: Call to Arms AAR (Central Powers)

    in Strategic Command - World War 1: The Great War 1914-1918

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    The war continues...

    1916: Germany once again focuses on the Eastern Front, launching offensives in both the north towards Kovno and in the center towards Brest-Litovsk. As the Germans continue to destroy Russian units, a vicious cycle emerges for the Tsarist Empire: as Russian morale plunges, their armies drop in effectiveness; this allows the Russian units to be destroyed that much easier, therefore dropping Russian morale further. By late spring, the Germans are practically taking a city (or two) per turn: Kovno, Vilna, Grodno, Dvinsk, Minsk. As a result of these losses, the Russians force Tsar Nicholas II to abdicate, and a provisional government under Kerensky is formed. This raises Russian morale, but not enough to halt its military reversals.

    Thanks to a continuous stream of diplomatic pressure, Romania joins the war on the Central Powers’ side. This helps the Austrians to regain their lost cities in the eastern regions, and soon they and their new Romanian allies are pushing into the Ukraine. The Austrians take Lutsk and Rovno, while the Romanians take Vinnitsia and Kishinev. To make matters worse for the Russians, Finland declares its independence and, with the help of the Germans, defeats the Bolshevik forces in their country. This opens a new source of trade for Germany, no to mention a potential future ally.

    The Germans push through Riga and march onwards to Petrograd. The German high command is offered a chance to send the communist revolutionary Lenin to Russia, with the goal of helping push the country into further chaos. However, the Germans fear that Lenin’s fiery oratory might not affect just his own countrymen, but the Central Powers’ populations as well. As such they decline the offer, and keep him in Switzerland, in obscurity. While this delays the final fall of Russian morale below 0%, it does not stop it. Finally, after the fall of Pskov, Polotsk, and Vitebsk, Russian morale drops below zero and, on September 7, 1916, Russian signs an armistice with the Central Powers. The old Tsarist Empire breaks apart, and several new nations – Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Ukraine, Crimea, and Trans-Caucasia – are formed. Germany annexes Poland, while the Romanians gain Bessarabia and the Turks seize land in Armenia and Georgia.

    The loss of Russia has a profound impact on the other fronts of the war. With the loss of Russian support, Serbia is unable to hold out and is overrun by the Austrians and Bulgarians. Montenegro falls quickly afterward, and the Austrians push into Albania. The Entente receives some good news when Greece declares war on the Central Powers, but the Bulgarians and Turks push over the Grecian frontier and take Salonika before the Greeks can fortify it. In the far south, Turkish troops take El Arish on the Sinai Peninsula, and dig in on the east bank of the Suez Canal, facing off against the British. The Turks also are forced to send troops to Medina, as Arab tribes begin a series of revolts against Ottoman rule.

    In the west, all has been quiet again for most of the year – except for one major development. German unrestricted submarine warfare has been very effective in shutting down the British sea trade routes, crippling shipping and national morale. However, this has also caused the United States to grow angrier with the Germans, and by late summer the U.S. commitment to the Entente has soared to 90%. The Germans back off on their submarine use, but the fall of Russia appears to be the final push for the Americans, and in September 1916 the U.S. joins the Entente.

    Now the Germans are faced with a race – to shift all of their victorious forces from the east to a showdown in the west before the U.S. can make its full presence felt. As the Germans begin the massive move of their forces from one end of Germany to the other, a truly amazing event takes place. After much diplomatic pressure and support of pro-German elements within the country, Switzerland joins the Central Powers in November! Taking advantage of this opportunity to outflank the French front line, the Germans race to get troops into the Swiss nation before the Entente can do the same.

    At first, it seems the Entente gains the upper hand: French forces take Basel and destroy a Swiss detachment. The Germans manage to regain the initiative, forcing the French out of Basel and then pushing them back into France proper, managing to take Besancon before the year ends. As the calendar turns to the new year, the question remains, can the Germans and British halt the German advance in the south, or will this be the beginning of the end of the war in the west?

    More tomorrow.

    Dave

    Thanks for a new AAR, Omegaman1!!!:cool: It's really awesome to read a different AAR. I love reading to see how others conduct their campaigns! Thanks, Omegaman1, keep it up:)

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    First patch with WWII

    in Strategic Command - World War 1: The Great War 1914-1918

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    The simple answer is that at the moment, scouting, much like the trenches, are a WWI feature only and not part of the WWII engine.

    We might look into including it but the way it is now for example, since Carriers in WWI and WWII behave completely differently, their functions are not really compatible as they are using two different coding structures and not easily mixed together.

    Put another way we coded some things specifically for WWI for this release but kept the older code (behind the scenes) so that it would be easy enough to mod WWII by turning on the 'switch' in the Editor.

    Oh, ok, thanks for the reply, I appreciate it!

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    Nice Printed Manual

    in Strategic Command - World War 1: The Great War 1914-1918

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    Part of the advantage of our consolidated shipping for pre-order customers (meaning, instead of shipping out of two warehouses - one in the US and one in the U - pre-orders are shipping out of our US warehouse only, while stock is produced/in transit to Europe) is that the physical part of your pre-orders can now be fulfilled faster. For some international customers this may be partially negated by the shipping times and/or occasional delays in customs, but overall everyone should get their CD, box and printed maual quicker. In the past we often were not able to start shipping until a couple of weeks after the release.

    Martin

    Well, that's awesome thinking Moon! I'm very glad you guys did that, so thanks!!!!:)

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    France's army size -- from the AAR

    in Strategic Command - World War 1: The Great War 1914-1918

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    We are now in early 1917, and I have one Arab unit that escaped from the Ottoman suppression in Palestine. It worked its way across the desert in Iraq, and is now in Basra. And as you will see when the AAR gets up to that point in time, this little unit will be helpful. The Ottomans are suffering from bad morale (at least the two units in Basra are) and I suspect that a band of boy scouts could take them now :)

    Thanks for the answer!!! Really looking forward to see how your both game ends!!!!! Keep the awesome work & AAR:D

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    Elvis vs. JonS DAR Discussion Thread

    in Combat Mission Battle for Normandy

    Posted

    It probably hasn't changed much since being incorporated in 1945 ... last census shows only 195 houses and 421 people. I have 45,000 university students outside my office window most of the year.

    Not being smart, DaveyJJ, but are we talking about the same City?!?!:confused:

    We were talking about Alexandria, LOUISIANA USA. Alexandria was incorporated as a town in 1819 and received a city charter in 1882. Current Estimated Census is about 55,000.:)

    From what I understand from the locals, nothing has changed except a city by-pass being put in about 12-15 yrs. ago!!!

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    Release date...

    in Strategic Command - World War 1: The Great War 1914-1918

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    That would be nice, but I don't see that happening, as Hubert himself said in an earlier post that a few "final touches" are still being tweaked. Since it hasn't gone gold yet, it still has to through duplication with the printer (subject to their schedule) and stocking with the distributor. Seems like at least 2-3 more weeks to me. I hope I am wrong.

    Sorry lettowvorbeck, but I really, really hope you are wrong and Cantona66 is right!

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    Elvis vs. JonS DAR Discussion Thread

    in Combat Mission Battle for Normandy

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    Is there really such a place as Dry Prong? I grew up on the Gulf Coast and had occasion to travel in LA many times, but never heard of it before.

    Michael

    Yep Michael! It's one of those places, that if you don't live in it or from it, no-one has ever heard of it.:D To tell the truth, I never heard of it either, 'til my family and I moved here!!! Dry Prong is right next to Pineville and also just right outside of city limits of Alexandria, La (CenLa area).

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    Release date...

    in Strategic Command - World War 1: The Great War 1914-1918

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    Hi Madwoman, we have more or less done this when we announced pre-orders and mentioned it will be anywhere between 4 and 6 weeks before final delivery. So far we are still on track for that.

    As to being more specific, CSS is essentially correct and as mentioned as soon as everything lines up it will be released which is hopefully soon enough. I only mention this as sometimes things are beyond our control such as having the printers ready, hard copies properly stocked and so on via our third party partners. Basically as soon as we have the green light you guys will know :)

    I hope that helps,

    Hubert

    Thanks again for the "heads-up" Hubert and Company!!! I really can't wait:D

    I haven't been around as long as those guys whom played the SC1. Although, I've been a loyal follower since the SC2 days and NEVER was disappointed with SC2 or any of the games that followed! Man, I'm really looking forward to this one:)

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    France's army size -- from the AAR

    in Strategic Command - World War 1: The Great War 1914-1918

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    As the Entente side of the AAR, let me assure you that I agree with Xwormwood in that there is nothing wrong with the force balance. I had lots of French units, but my opponent keeps killing them :)

    Hey Happycat, just a few questions if you don't mind/can answer?!? Do you have any Arab units for the Mid-East against the Turks? If so, are they useful (meaning like a full fledge force with a punch) or are they more of the annoying (for your opponent) partisans?

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