Ottoman Turks;
did what they could with what they had . But facing a UK build onslaught were mostly on the defensive. He did however activate Bulgaria and help crush Russia. Was able to initially throw the Brits back from Mesopotamia but have since lost it, and it looks permanent.
also invaded Africa and took Egypt, Sudan and East Africa as well as Libya and Tunisia.
now however he is penned up in Constantinople, have been swept from Africa and are contesting Sevastapol with the Brits. and his forces in Russia won’t survive my next assault. They have troops to hold their capital currently but the Brits are coming and have plenty of options.
I sort of agree with Flashman that the UK unlimited building is really unbalanced for Turkey to deal with.
A-H is finally sending some troops south east to help but…
Sorry about switching the Turks and Italy in proper turn order…
USA:
By far the least engaged as usual. Man it takes a long time to get US forces into action. He wisely built men and transports and using Brit and French TT’s he is slowly getting going.
the inital US army was diverted to Africa to help stop a rampaging Turk at Algeria, they have since been liberated Tunisia and Libya and are waiting to be transported to Italy.
small numbers have arrived in France but for now its France that has the heavy lifiting.
the Africa side show was mostly that, Germans expand a little, get pushed back, turkey expands a little more, but is pushed back.
Everyone is exhausted from 9 turns all night.
Although the CP currently look formidable, I am beginning to see that they won’t win the longer this goes.
either they build in Russia to hold on to that, or Russia is liberated and they will lose that income.
And Paris seems so far away. and while the Germans are almost 2-1 in $ over the French, the US $ is unassialble
and the Brits aren’t going away. I will continue to pump out INF and a few cannons in India and push into Russia and A-H.
At least that’s the plan.
cheers and over the top!
Morning Legion. Glad you got this mammoth 8 player game together. Must be fun.
Not sure if you got your answer about building in a captured capital, but the answer is no, you cannot.
The UK being able to build any number of units in India, bugs the hell out of me. Both my playing friend and I, agree it is stupid and a game breaker.
Oh, one other thing, despite what I thought was obvious and everyone seemingly knowing the rules, Switzerland stands unmolested. Un-invaded by the Allies or the Central Powers.
Even when I took Persia and Arabia, they didn’t seem to take notice of switerland’s position.
I attribute this to Axis and Allies thinking about Neutrals…why bother?
Only the US player seemed to press for such a move, maybe he will do it with the AEF.
but I think its from not messing with neutrals in other A&A game mentality.
@wittmann:
Morning Legion. Glad you got this mammoth 8 player game together. Must be fun.
Not sure if you got your answer about building in a captured capital, but the answer is no, you cannot.
The UK being able to build any number of units in India, bugs the hell out of me. Both my playing friend and I, agree it is stupid and a game breaker.
Cool… thanks
Then the CP are doomed, the UK will out build in India enough troops to counter any moves the CP make and will liberate Russia
I will let the German and A-H player know they need to rethink some deployments.
I doubt it will matter.
Prosit and over the top!
I hoped I was not too late with that answer!
Don’t get me started on Neutrals. And Switzerland.
Have fun.
Go france first. Take it in 5 rounds or less. Just do it. Crush your opponents hopes and dreams, they will remember you for centuries.
I will let the Germans and Austrians know. Press on and don’t worry about whats behind you.
Well the war is entering a whole new phase. Germany is poised to try to take Paris but the larger hoard has been cut down enough that it may not take Paris only contest it.
The Brits have liberated Russia and its likely to stay liberated enough to get back in the game.
The Brits have been expelled from Constantinople but more are coming and turkey’s money is real low.
The Germans built a large fleet with their large amounts of Russian flush cash (knowing they might not have as much and the decisive land battle over Paris is imminent) and did interdict the Allied US troop movement.
they trashed a lot of the allied fleet. including plenty of transports. They were lost in the process but did what I think their warlord hoped to do.
A-H failed to take Rome and is slowly being pressed out of Italy, they did however invade Switzerland and entered southern France meeting the AEF for the first time. But have been repulsed. A-H is now again fighting in Romania and Russia vs the Brits from India.
I hope we can wrap this up tonight as the weekend the group will be dispersing.
So unless Germany takes Paris this evening when we start up again, the CP’s $ situation looks in jeopardy.
That’s always been my problem. It isn’t too hard to get your troops outside the capitol, bit you have to make sure you’ve brought enough to get the job done. If you only contest the territory the defender can reinforce during the battle and you can’t. So if you don’t take the capitol quickly you’re screwed. Sounds like an entertaining game.
