I’ve created a separate thread for my work on the OOB 1914 map. Please go here to discuss it in more detail.
Images of the Map?
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But DO invade Switzerland.
Why isn’t it 2 or 3? -
Someone didn’t read the rules, on page 12 Serbia doesn’t have any control markers on it, meaning it wasn’t attacked by Austria as per the rules.
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Someone didn’t read the rules, on page 12 Serbia doesn’t have any control markers on it, meaning it wasn’t attacked by Austria as per the rules.
It has an Austria marker on it in both pics.
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The piece colours really do chance with the light; in some pics the Russian pieces look dark brown, on other they’re positively pink.
Planes don’t look too bad, though a little small. Even have props!
The setup of German tts is devious; look how much harder it is to reach Paris than Moscow from Berlin:
If the Germans are clever, they’ll trick the French into heavily reinforcing Lorraine, then outflank them through Belgium and Switzerland, trapping the French. If only the Germans could move by rail…
Note that by land, Petrograd is the same distance from Berlin as Moscow; its further away from Vienna.
Moreover, there are 3 direct approaches to Moscow, only one to Petrograd.
The real killer for Petrograd as capital, then, is the direct sea route in one move. But then by the same route you could be in Moscow on turn 2…
In the west, you can cut down the time by shipping units to Holland, but the cost of invading and the threat of Allied ships to SZ10 makes this a perilous road. Larry really doesn’t want Germans in Paris…
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@Imperious:
Does anyone else notice the German fighter up on its side in this pic? :-P
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The road to Paris goes through Switzerland.
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Yeah, Switzerland and Belgium should be the German targets R1.
If the French want to attack into Alsace its their funeral.
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It looks inevitable to invade switzerland with the bavarian army from munich (if thats at least possible on the current map)
“In August 1914 the army of Crownprince Rupprecht made an amphibious assault over the lake constance and attacked Switzerland without any prior warning”
Now thats what I call Alternate History …
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Does anyone else notice the German fighter up on its side in this pic? :-P
It’s turning to make another strafing run. :lol:
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Does anyone else notice the German fighter up on its side in this pic? :-P
It’s turning to make another strafing run. :lol:
Richthofen can do whatever he wants :wink:
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I like how you can travel from the Caspian Sea to Petrograd in two turns, but try to go from Berlin to Paris…
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Ooops, seems Germany starts with no transports, so you have to add one to those sea route numbers.
Seems like cheating, that.
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I also like how a US cruiser can get from New York to Sevastopol in 2 turns.
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Well here’s the sum of my night’s work.
Still not 100% on Germany, and is Switzerland really worth only 1 IPC?
I’m assuming that “Bombay” simply indicates a unit placement area, and is not considered a capital for victory purposes.
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Good work Flashman.
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Maybe I missed the conversation, but it seems the ottomans can’t have their navy safe in the Black Sea from the mediterranean fleets even if they control constantinople?
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I have to say I’m not a big fan of the geography on this map.
Paris is way to far to the west.
Munich is in Tyrol.
Poland has a coast line in 1914… that’s news to me. Prussia should boarder the “Livonia” province and Poland should be land locked.
The Aegean sea, and Turkey in particular are completely placed incorrectly.
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Maybe I missed the conversation, but it seems the ottomans can’t have their navy safe in the Black Sea from the mediterranean fleets even if they control constantinople?
We haven’t heard yet, but I’m assuming there are strait rules, just like in other A&A games for Panama and Egypt. Like you, I wonder if the player controlling Constantinople has the ability to have their fleet on either side of the sea zone at will. Can the British attack the Ottoman fleet even though the Ottoman fleet is clearly in the Black Sea and the British fleet is clearly in the Aegean?
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Tell us about it.
The East Prussia in Poland issue has been a scandal for weeks.
Paris is closer to Berlin than Moscow for gamey reasons; my instinct would have been to cut down the tts, certainly Burgundy & Lorraine should be one tt. If its too easy for Germany to take Paris give the teutons fewer starting units, or reduce their IPC income - don’t mess with geography by pushing Paris into the Atlantic.
Its all a bit like Moscow being somewhere in central Siberia on the old WWII boards.
The Finnish Atlantic coastline, Schleswig-Holstein in Denmark and the Greece-Turkey border are other shockers, and Rome being a tiny enclave to shield it from an Austrian AA just looks silly.
And why on earth isn’t Sevastopol 2 tts with the Caucasus in the south east bordering Armenia in the north and Mesopotamia to the south carved out of the weird “Mesopotamia”? Hejaz is also sadly missed, especially when you read the UK frontline report where Britain invades Trans-Jordan from the Red Sea.
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I have to say I’m not a big fan of the geography on this map.
Paris is way to far to the west.
Munich is in Tyrol.
Poland has a coast line in 1914… that’s news to me. Prussia should boarder the “Livonia” province and Poland should be land locked.
The Aegean sea, and Turkey in particular are completely placed incorrectly.
Well, ‘Poland’ wasn’t a country as it was part of Russia at the time, so I’m ok with the territory of ‘Poland’ having a coastline. Clearly Paris is moved to the West to allow bigger territories on the West front- again, fine with me.
No Axis & Allies game has been true to geography exactly- who would want to play Global 1940 with a tiny Europe?
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