I am not sure why I post these reports and will make this my last one unless I am convinced otherwise.
We had five players and played 1914:
Central Powers: Dukla Passer - Germany; NFP (non forum player) - A-H & Turkey
Entente: Credulous - UK; Private Panic - France & Italy; NFP - US & Russia
In all my previous games I have been Axis and gone for Moscow, successfully each time. So Dukla Passer surprised me by sending everything G had for Paris. :-o G pushed hard West and reached the gates of Paris. French forces were always outnumbered and retreating. However F did win a couple of battles against those superior G forces, reversing G’s numerical superiority. :-D G was forced to retreat. By the end of the game the F had recaptured it’s sacred lands and just invaded G in force. :-P
The US played a valuable part in this reversal of G fortunes, but gained more pleasure from the capture of Spain and Switzerland than from any attempts to fight the enemy! :roll: The UK also provided some half-hearted support. :x
The G fleet also destroyed the UK North Sea fleet in G1. The UK in its second turn regained control of the North Sea, sending the G fleet to the bottom of the sea with all hands!
Meanwhile A-H were tasked with giving R a hard time and did well against R initially, getting a sizeable force to Livonia, at the gates of Moscow. However, this was largely because R consolidated its forces, so A-H never had a prospect of taking Moscow and were immediately in full retreat. R engaged A-H’s eastern army in Galicia, always with superior firepower and inflicting the greater losses. This took pressure off Italy and led eventually to the capture of Vienna by R. Well done Ivan! 8-)
A-H also invaded Venice but lost that battle with Italy. However a later invasion with too big an army for Italy to handle was successful for a while. As A-H’s reinforcements dried up, Italy was able to fight the second Battle of Venice, with this territory contested for the final turns of the game.
From UK2 onwards, the UK maximised its India builds against Turkey (and also to take Africa with some French help). By the end of the game the UK was besieging Istanbul. What took them so long?! :wink:
I think we played 8 turns in all, with the Entente the clear victors. :evil:
We had a real laugh, despite Credulous only knowing 3 jokes.