SC PBEM AAR : 'The Guns of August ; kurt88 (Central Powers )vsBlashy (Triple Entente)

[kurt88]

CP's Turn 19,

The war on the eastern front began a new.The Tsar is apparently attacking with all he's got,doing some serious damage.

German forces remained quite defensive.Only the 2nd Warsaw Army and Conrad's forces saw some action against the 11th Russian Army that was brought down to 10%.

Secret operations behind the frontline will ensure further defense.

On the French front the offensive was tempered to reposition and reinforce our forces after a heavy counterattack.Only the 5th and 2nd Army went on the offensive attacking a UK Army southwest of Paris reducing it to 20%.

A new player arrived at the front !!

[Blashy]

The Ruskies are showing their manpower and are starting to make the CP use resources on 2 fronts.

Not significant losses were had on both sides, its about to get really dirty in the East.

The West is another matter. The good news is that more army units have arrived from the UK.

Some experience CP units were moderatly hit and will have to regroup and bring in fresh troops.

French corps units participated in the battles, this is the bad news. The French corps defending Paris attacked on damaged Army unit but the execution was just not there, some left their fortifications (overconfidence) the end result, reduced to 80%, surrounded by 4 CP units, getting shelled and now planes of all things have started to fly over the city. Are the planes recon or can they actually participate in the battle? Hopefully the british troops have not arrived too late.

[kurt88]

CP's Turn 20,

Russia is attacking with everything she gots.German lines hold well enough.In local counterattacks a Russian Army was brought down to 10%.Other units or reinforced.

In the west the CP are now going for Paris.The French corps there started out with strenght 8 and entrenchement 6.Attacks by 'Die Grosse',Red Baron airfleet,1st Cologne Army and 2nd Koningsberg Army brought it down to strenght 6 and entrenchement 3.The British are attacking along the Channelcoast,so far the lines hold.South west of Paris 2nd Army atacked a French corps bringing it down to 50%.

The war is going heavy now.German resources are taxed but the end of Paris comes near.Can't wait to see how things develop.

Oh,a Russian Navy Cruiser was destroyed by the Goeben and a Turkish Cruiser near Odessa.µ

Back to Blashy.

[Blashy]

The TSARs arm is flexing itself.

The pressure is on the CPs now, 2 units were modereatly damaged and will have to ressuply.

The TSAR is still pushing to have military trained men sent to the front, he will not have civilians given weapons, rumours are he fears a revolution from the people.

Paris lives! Paris is now at strength 10, 1xp and level 4 entrenchment.

The UK Armies are doing quite will at releiving pressure on the French, they've heavily damage to German Armies and moderatly damaged 1 with massive shore bombardement. Another Army was engage by French and UK Corps and managed to inflict minor casualties.

Even though US publice support is not growing much, both political parties are in accord to do something in this conflict (58%).

NOTE: I'll start putting picks again in a couple of days, I should have more time then.

[kurt88]

CP's Turn 21,

The Russian forces in the east keep attacking full force.German High Command is confident that the Russian economy is struggling.

Commander von Hindenburg is rotating his forces and conducting counterattacks over the whole front.

The Russian 13th Army was brought down to 20% by attacks of the Deutschland Army and the 2nd Warsaw Army.The Kaiser Army and the 2nd Austro-Hungarian Army attacked Russian corps along the frontline doing moderate damage.

German elements resisting a Russian Cavalary attack.

In the west Paris has become the major objective.The French capital was attacked from 5 directions this turn.'Die Grosse',Red Baron Airfleet,1st Cologne Army,4th Army and 3rd Army all contributed to the attack.The French corps defending Paris was brought down to 20% and lost it's entrenchement bonus.

Battleship Hannover took out a UK Battlesship along the Channel coast.It will probably be destroyed next turn but maybe British shore bombardement will be less for a while.

French medical troops at work in the suburbs of Paris.

Will the proud capital of the French hold?

[kurt88]

Blashy and me decided to restart the game.

When Paris was conquered by axis,3 British units in Vichy territory were lost to him.Also plunder for Germany (over 800 mpp's) was not really realistic.

France would have never surrendered in WWI when Paris would have fallen.They would have fought on.Thus the cities of Brest and Bordeaux would have to reamin French.

Blashy made some excellent modifications to the scenario and added a bunch of houserules to prevent this from happening again.

WWI starts all over again

[Blashy]

I've also had to add some units, 3 in Italy, on cities and 2 on the Italian African cities all are strength 1.

This is simply to help out UK, since UK has Italy it has to buy a unit in UK, transport it to Italy.

The time and wasted MPP on transport are just a killer for UK.

France has been removed and replaced with UK units. I did not have much of a choice because once Paris falls even with Free French on some units would disapear, in WW1 France did not have a "surrender" attitude.

Some House rules have been implemented to deal with the WAY too much plunder received by German should Paris fall and the creation of Vichy France also had to be dealt with.

This to say, the house rules are more expansive but permit the game to not be broken halfway which is what happened to us :eek:

Now the biggest issue will be to see how UK only being able to buy units from UK and having to transport them to France works out. This could be the only stumbling block, we'll see.

Blashy takes out shovel and starts digging once again!

[kurt88]

Too bad for our AAR