So the Romania attack isn’t a good idea it seems.
The Romania attack will always fail if you attack Venice, due to a lack of reinforcements.
Look, just trust me on this!
So the Romania attack isn’t a good idea it seems.
The Romania attack will always fail if you attack Venice, due to a lack of reinforcements.
Look, just trust me on this!
Keep in mind that I wrote this up back well before we had really any news of the game at all and we all thought it was just going to be a fiasco.
Don’t forget the coastal artillery and air supremacy rules. I think those would be very useful as well.
It’ll be interesting. Like for example, Britain, France, and Germany are contesting Picardy. Germany has 18 inf 6 art, Britain 11 inf 3 art, and France 9 inf 5 art. Pretend they aren’t getting any reinforcements, or they’re all getting perfectly proportional reinforcements. Germany won’t attack because the Allies are too strong together, and the Allies can’t attack because separately they’re weaker than Germany!
I like this rule.
If you can’t see the reinforcements for Italy, or an attack on Albania, I advise you to go back to the first page and actually take a look at my strategy write-up for Austria.
I think its more important to kill the UK home fleet.
What, I didn’t make it clear enough how much it needed to be destroyed?
@Frontovik:
that are tactics…
where is your main focus: russia or france?
combining france with italy conquest might be good idea (so combined with austria)
France, as I rather screamed. You must- I cannot emphasize this enough- MUST destroy France quickly. The Pincer, and Germany as a whole, is built for speed. Allow the Allies to seize the initiative, and you may as well surrender already.
Why send any troops to Prussia?
And what about sending 2 subs to seazone 2?
I suppose you could send all troops to Silesia if you wanted, but remember that Poland must be secured to be able to place all focus on the Western Front. It doesn’t particularly matter where the troops go, just so long as the Russian can’t break through.
And I am not willing to sacrifice any naval power from the grand assault on the Royal Navy. They must be wiped out and fast to keep reinforcements from reaching France. Germany cannot outproduce both Britain and France.
Yes, and on A2 you invade and Venice becomes that moonscape. But Venice should be the furthest object of permanent Italian conquests, at least until Russia is dealt with.
Yes, Italy will be crippled, but Italy is a fringe power at best and if Austria devotes too many troops to assaulting the wasp-waist peninsula, then Russia will seize the opportunity to pour overwhelming force into Romania and Galicia. When I said that Larry failed in Romania because he attacked Venice, I meant that he sent in major attacks on opposite fronts, thus splitting reinforcements. Attacks in Italy and the Balkans will divide the Austrian armies and dilute their fighting power. Attacks into Romania and Ukraine by way of Galicia should be the main strategy of Austria-Hungary, especially with Russian Revolution in effect. Italy should be a secondary theatre for the Austrians, with limited drives into Piedmont and Tuscany to protect an Austrian Venice being the limits of your expansion. If you want to drive full-on for Rome and Marseilles then devise your own strategy, but my Austria will focus on the Eastern front and leave the West mainly to the Germans.
Larry’s failure in Romania was because he attacked Venice. Austria can’t launch more than a few attacks per turn, which is why I advocate sending them all against one front, so as to quickly end that front and turn the troops eastwards. You can defend Galicia easily just by sending half the Vienna and Bohemia forces there; now you have a 15 inf 4 art Galicia threatening Romania, Poland or Ukraine. You also have an imposing force in Tyr and Tri. Italy won’t attack, and you stand to lose little and gain much by attacking Venice AH2. You can attack Serbia with just the forces from Trieste and Romania with just the forces from Budapest and now have the upper hand in both regions.
I have a German opening too. Titled “Pincer Move” for what it does on the Western Front.
PINCER MOVE
All Ruhr to Belgium
All Munich to Switzerland
All Silesia to Poland
All Prussia to Poland
All Kiel to Ruhr
All Hanover to Munich
1/2 Berlin to Silesia, 1/2 Berlin to Prussia, send the fighter to Poland
Alsace stands
Togoland to Nigeria
Kamerun to French Equatorial
German East and South-West stand
ENTIRE FLEET TO ATTACK BRITISH IN SZ9
The naval attack on the Grand Fleet is crucial. You absolutely must keep the British from France for a few turns. The Pincer Move puts high priority on outflanking Lorraine, dealing a critical blow to the French straight-out and quickly ending the war. The fighter goes to Poland mainly because it can reach, and a secure east is vital to the success of the Pincer. Africa is really inconsequential. Austria is not, and if needs be you must prop up your southern ally to ensure victory in the west. Let the Frenchman attack Alsace if he so chooses, he is overextended and you can easily decapitate his army. The Pincer, with Austrian success in Romania and Ukraine and naval success in the North Sea, can be a way to defeat the French before their allies arrive in numbers.
If you don’t take Romania Russia literally cant make a single offensive move on its first turn. (unless it attacks Mesopotamia like a psycho.
If you hold off, everything they can attack will be too powerful for them to hit.
Russia’s options are:
A) Attack Romania if Austria-Hungary did
B) Activate Romania if it is empty.That’s it. They can’t attack anywhere else. So you are safe.
Waiting a turn preserves your forces from being exposed to counterattack in Romania on R1 and instead exposes them to a full blown attack of near 30 units WITH air supremacy if you build a fighter on AH1. Then on R2 they are faced with tough choices.Push back in Romania, and then get hit by Ottomans THEN Austria-Hungary AGAIN.
All the while a huge German force in Poland is ready to move.
So what you’re saying is basically, “If they can’t attack you turn 1, you’re somehow automatically safe from them.”
But, even if you build a fighter and have powerful reinforcements for a AH2 assault, there’s still this: Russia gets an attack too. If you stand by and allow Russia to reinforce the fronts and activate Romania, well, not only do they have the resources to menace Galicia now that otherwise would’ve been flung into Romania, but they can frightfully entrench Romania and there’s a massive Russian army in Poland. Germany will be very lucky to overcome the Russian defences there; hell, they’re even outnumbered! And Austria can’t devote troops to the Polish front, because they have to try to take a Romania which they could’ve already been contesting.
If I’m playing as Russia in a game, I’m not going to draw back from the table and bite my lip fearfully just because- horror of horrors!- Austria-Hungary has deprived me of the chance to launch an offensive!
Why is the only historical stuff we get the things that are useless, like infantry in every territory or destroyers not being present, while they leave out things like battlecruisers, gas attacks, and the Konigsberg?
Yes, I think the American Expeditionary Force would be most useful in Italy, probably. Attacking Spain is just silly.
I agree Austria-Hungary doesn’t have the resources to contest three fronts, which is why it’s vital to strike first and strike hard in the Balkans. Attacking Venice AH1 will only thrust insufficient forces into Italy before reinforcements arrive. Only an idiot Italian would launch an offensive into Tyrolia or Trieste I1; far better to amass the assault forces for a crippling blow on AH2. To take Romania is to seize the initiative on the Eastern Front, and Russia is forced to react rather than to launch a powerful offensive into the northern Balkans. Russia, if Austria allows Romania to fall to it, can easily reinforce from Moscow via Sevastopol. Everyone seems to be arguing that Germany can relieve pressure on Romania by advancing into Poland, but if Russia amasses a large, free force in Romania extra troops suddenly are available for the Polish front, and both Germany and Austria are halted.
Reminder: RR is an optional rule.
Russia can be defeated just fine without the Revolution rule in effect.
Maybe they made Switzerland so weak because the CP capturing Switzerland to flank the French and Italians was the only way to balance the game. It does seem fairly Entente-skewed from what I’ve seen.
I hadn’t actually considered a Swiss attack, I figured 'twould be best to mass an army in Tyrolia and let the German army in Munich take it. With 14 units against 2, it is a virtual guarantee that Switzerland will fall and you’ll have both a German dagger leveled at the Franco-Italian supply line and two Austrian masses menacing Venice.
Depends on the Central strategy to start. If all three Central Powers go for a Revolution, then there’s not much Russia can do. But if even one Central Power is forced to abandon or scale down the Eastern front, Russia may just be able to stay afloat.