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Great replies, guys.  I agree and concur with them all.

@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?

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.

@KimRYoung:

Question,

Since you used the optional Russian Revolution rules, did youuse the rules from the game, or the new revisions from Krieg?

Thanks, looks like you had a great game!

Kim

Thanks, Kim.  I used the Russian Revolution rules from Krieg, which is great because that is how I was planning on playing anyway.  Make no mistake, RR is a GREAT thing for the Central Powers.  (Frankly, I think I even prefer it over capturing Moscow in retrospect.)

we must not play right or just have different playing styles but the CP for us usually win, i played a game where my ally germany built  transports on the first turn and took Norway, and sweden. I was Austria and fuming so i said screw it and went full bore into italy and russia by the time he finished his norwegian expedition i had no infantry or artillery left. The entire German army was intact we eventually won because of that extra production and i had driven the italians and russians far enough back he was able to wipe the french off the board. Now whenever he does something stupid i say yeah like take norway, it gives us a good chuckle but we usually have a winner by turn 7 or 8 and it is about 60/40 Allies vs central.

70 USD is about the standard price for the 1914 game. You might get only used ones for less.

There is no 1914-map for TripleA atm, although some enthusiasts had been working on it:

http://tripleadev.1671093.n2.nabble.com/1914-development-td7583942.html

Like was the reality back then……

link for vote, do it today:

http://www.axisandallies.org/forums/index.php?topic=32108.0