Ottoman Empire

@Flashman:

For a moment there, I thought we were going to learn something new about tanks.

Thanks to Larry for dedicating an entire week to that most informative article.

There’s an awful lot of naval action in this game.

Just like the war. Isn’t that what you want?  :wink:

No. he wants railroads, not war

All Quiet on Near Eastern Front…

Is Italy going to be the last posting or will reports from the front continue for the second round ?

I really like them !

Agreed. Keep those reports coming. It builds excitement.

@Flashman:

Navy stays in port.

What with the minefields, the high costs of the land war, and the (relative) ineffectuality of naval battles to make a difference in this game, this game is going to see very few naval battles.
Oh, at least it’s historically accurate this way.

You wanted historicalness, you get inactive navies. Though the Atlantic will certainlly be more interesting.

Gosh Bulgaria worth 3 is insane, the only hope for Russia is the Ottomans get REALLY bad dice roll or my British strategy turns out to be a bigger threat to them than the jucyness of the Balkans.

@Flashman:

Naval war would be much livelier if we had German cruisers starting in East Africa and the Mediterranean. Austria might consider a sub or two to raid the Italian fleet, while Italy could risk wrecking its navy in the Adriatic to close down Austrian troops bridging into Tuscany.

Bulgaria did raise a large army, I think 3 is quite reasonable. This will certainly help protect the Turksih section of the Ostwall (Romania). Much less reasonable is Albania on 2, this was barely a state at all and had no industry or army to speak of.

I plan to houserule the Königsberg in, but I think the Goeben and Breslau are already represented by those two Turkish cruisers. And if Bulgaria gets that amount of troops, then Belgium should be a 3 as well.

Or make Romania 3 as well, they mobilized a lot of men even if half of them were dead or in Bulgarian prison camps withing 3 months  :-P

@Flashman:

Much less reasonable is Albania on 2, this was barely a state at all and had no industry or army to speak of.

Everything is wrong about Albania. It shouldn’t even be aligned to anyone. Neutral with 1 IPC would be better.

@Flashman:

Bulgaria did raise a large army, I think 3 is quite reasonable. This will certainly help protect the Turksih section of the Ostwall (Romania). Much less reasonable is Albania on 2, this was barely a state at all and had no industry or army to speak of.

I’m with Flashman, since Bulgaria is the fourth and final Central Power, I’m perfectly happy with a 3 and giving it to the Ottomans helps make up for their general weakness.

Since Albania on the map includes Montenegro, which, if I recall, had a plucky little army, 2 seems alright by me as well. Likewise, giving it to Italy helps make up a bit for their general weakness, although I wonder which will be more common: Albania brought into the game by Italy or by an Austrian attack.

If German troops push into moscow an Russia surrenders these troops may still be a usefull help for the ottomans holding off the british army.
There are 6-7 tts between moscow and france but only 2 between moscow and turkey…

But how long would these troops need to get there I guess 6/7 Rounds to much time to avoid powerfull US-Forces reinforce France.
Maybe its just historical that you can´t move them too quickly to western front because in march 1918 when the big last
Spring offensive started there had been still 1 Mio CP-Soldiers in Russia.

@Flashman:

Turkey may well abandon the south and just hold on to Constantinople-Bulgaria-Romania and trade Smyrna-Ankara while the Germans and Austrians drive for the two target capitals. Why bother fighting over Trans-Jordan and the Syrian desert?

I can see how that would be viable to the Turks holding their higher income producing territories, and defend their capital (except that Romania will most likely be in A/H pocket). With that said, there isn’t much resistance to the English in Africa (the German units aren’t going to hold out too long), and only the Brits or the Turks can reinforce this region (Africa/Mid East). If the Turks don’t put up some resistance in TJ etc… (to occupy the Brits attention) the UK will be able to gain full control of Africa rather easily. Eventually the English will be able to use the income it gains and over power the Turks with reinforcements from Egypt & Bombay by land & sea. Then they have easy access into southern Russia pulling A/H units away from that front to possibly head off the Revolution.