Speaking of WWI Miniatures Games…

You’d have to make SZ 20 two zones for Constantinople to be able to block movement like Suez.

I’ve been playing this game with mostly the same group for a couple of years now and not once have I seen Germany declare USW. The minor hit to the Allies’ income just isn’t worth the risk.

Regarding opening setup: Should the opening setup reflect the situation on August 4th 1914? In this case, Germany will have the equivalent of 7 armies massed in the West, with just 1 to hold tt in the East. This effectively commits Germany to the Schleiffen plan; just about practical if rail movement is used, suicidal if it is not. However, I would suggest a non-combat “Mobilization” round before any combat rounds, following these steps: 1. All starting units are placed in their Army Corps district headquarters/depots (land) and Home Station (ships). That is, each county’s units begin on their Peacetime settings. 2. Each player will simultaneously write down his mobilization orders in secret (don’t worry its one turn only). They are then revealed and units given their Mobe orders. 3. Referring to MOs, land and air units are moved as ordered, restricted of course to moving anywhere in home tt. Ships can be moved to any friendly port, or ordered to sea. This may result in rival fleets passing through the same sea zones, or ending up in the same zone. This is not a problem, as there is no combat in this round. 4. Nations may call up their national reserves, placing such units in their appropriate depots. Any new units purchased are also placed at this time. Players may, Diplomacy style, confer in secret with Allies before writing orders. Depending on politics at set up: The Mobilization round may involve just Germany, Austria, France & Russia; perhaps Serbia as Russian ally. Britain can only mobilize after G or A attacks a neutral. Turkey mobilizes at the start of Round two; Italy mobilizes in May 1915; USA under conditions agreed as per rules. Newly mobilizing nations do not collect income before their Mob turn. Effectively they don’t take a turn before this. Any country coming under attack before it is mobed automatically activates. Its units can defend themselves, and attack next turn. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mobilization#Mobilization_in_World_War_I Edit: An alternative system is for each power to Mobe in turn order, so that Player Two can Mobe in response to Player One’s Mobe moves and so forth.

@DessertFox599 said in 1914 Tournament Rules Game Play: i only play with those rules. They are great. Nice mate. What are you finding the CP need for a bid? Are you playing with the time limit?

In my opinion it is impossible for the CPs to win without the Russian Revolution rules (still super hard with them). Be sure however, to allow the Central Powers to decline the armistice if they wish, as detailed in the errata.

From a simple math min/max perspective which some are intersested in, a naval strat is extremly unwise. Simple plus/minus math will tell you you need to add appr. 81 IPC worth of naval as CP in total accross the board (using the starting naval as ref) to even break even which means if you wanna “controll” something you will need to add more than the competition. As CP you cant ever get into a building race with the allies as your starting income is so much less, but rather you need to as fast as possible close the incomecap. Consider sz17. (I will assume the ottoman and russian navy cancel each out). Allies can after turn1 have 2 BS (France+Italy)+3Cruisers(UK+Italy+France which means AH wont be able to break even, even if the go all out navy. After turn2 the allies will have additional 1BS+Crusie (UK) in the zone and again AH wont be able to break even, even if they spent all during 2 turns. After this france plus Italy can with great ease together spend equal to AH for each turn. So I have to ask how in hell are AH suppose to get controll over sz17?=) I suppose you can counter and say “the allies dont counter my moves in my games” but then what is the point of argue the value of strats. I can  ask what do you think about my “attack-AH-first-as-Italy strat”, assuming AH dont defend their borders?=)

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