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I would be happy with only the update 
I want to see how you finish off the rest of your enemies
I want to see how you finish off the rest of your enemies
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Beamed: Thanks ! Glad you enjoy it.
Gwynn: The US won't join the party before early 1917. Wether I will let the war last until then will mainly depend on results on the Western front, since US going to war means 20+ immdiate reinforcement for the French...
Kurt_Steiner, robou: Yup. Only a matter of time now.
Enewald: I think this is an effect of WotN mobilization events, which converts arbitrary pops to soldiers, regardless ethnic origine. Though I won't complain...
Murmurandus: I must admit that peace offer was kinda relieving.
oddman: Yes indeed. Though as explained, I have no plans to keep all thoses lands.
Wannabe Tatar: Hehe. You may notice that Ukraine didn't gain its independence through brest-litovsk; thus the "Plan Mitteleuropa" won't trigger until I release Ukraine...
As of Italy, it is my hope that Austria WON'T occupy Firenze, since peace at the Italian front would kill my plan to attack France from a second front...
ptan54: I really don't care. Should there be some need of a plausible story, I could always simulate a letter of insults addressed at the White House !
Middelkerke: Crime fighting depends mainly on how many factories you have, and I didn't gain a lot of them through Brest-Litovsk. Education becomes expensives through inventions that apparently did not trigger in WWI scenarios, keeping cost quite low. Notice that on the other side, similar inventions which normally boost you capis income over a century are not coded in, making it impossible to build up a work liberal economy (capis building stuff for you)...
As of you question, you think of Serbia in WWI ? No chance !
yourworstnightm, Rabid: As explained, releasing Ukraine will trigger the "Plan Mitteleuropa" and the loss of most territories in the East. I won't let this happen before the end of the war, for obvious reasons.
Phax, Iche_Bins and ALL : I'm currently taking exams; so any new update will have to wait another 1-2 weeks.
Beamed: Thanks ! Glad you enjoy it.
Gwynn: The US won't join the party before early 1917. Wether I will let the war last until then will mainly depend on results on the Western front, since US going to war means 20+ immdiate reinforcement for the French...
Kurt_Steiner, robou: Yup. Only a matter of time now.
Enewald: I think this is an effect of WotN mobilization events, which converts arbitrary pops to soldiers, regardless ethnic origine. Though I won't complain...
Murmurandus: I must admit that peace offer was kinda relieving.
oddman: Yes indeed. Though as explained, I have no plans to keep all thoses lands.
Wannabe Tatar: Hehe. You may notice that Ukraine didn't gain its independence through brest-litovsk; thus the "Plan Mitteleuropa" won't trigger until I release Ukraine...
As of Italy, it is my hope that Austria WON'T occupy Firenze, since peace at the Italian front would kill my plan to attack France from a second front...
ptan54: I really don't care. Should there be some need of a plausible story, I could always simulate a letter of insults addressed at the White House !
Middelkerke: Crime fighting depends mainly on how many factories you have, and I didn't gain a lot of them through Brest-Litovsk. Education becomes expensives through inventions that apparently did not trigger in WWI scenarios, keeping cost quite low. Notice that on the other side, similar inventions which normally boost you capis income over a century are not coded in, making it impossible to build up a work liberal economy (capis building stuff for you)...
As of you question, you think of Serbia in WWI ? No chance !
yourworstnightm, Rabid: As explained, releasing Ukraine will trigger the "Plan Mitteleuropa" and the loss of most territories in the East. I won't let this happen before the end of the war, for obvious reasons.
Phax, Iche_Bins and ALL : I'm currently taking exams; so any new update will have to wait another 1-2 weeks.
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My good sir, it has been a month! Does your conscience not trouble thee for the sake of thy devoted readers?
Oh, wow. Totally lovely. Brest a year early, even. Very well done - I am looking forward to the next udpate. Do you have concrete plans for the territories you just grabbed? You're almost 50% non-German.
Wonderful AAR, i enjoyed it !!
thx for it
im planning a Great War AAR with Austria if ppl are interested.
also i would need ftp location as well.
thx for it
im planning a Great War AAR with Austria if ppl are interested.
also i would need ftp location as well.
Dude I know I haven't posted recently much in my AAR either but that doesn't mean you should do so, too. Please post an update.
Started Reading all o the AAR today. Great. \o/
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I realized, that I would make more stupid moves than Austria. Hooo, I'm SOO noob. XD
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Anyway, Great Job. Realy is.
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I realized, that I would make more stupid moves than Austria. Hooo, I'm SOO noob. XD
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Anyway, Great Job. Realy is.
Not dead
Summer was a busy time (I moved). But I'm determinded to finish this one. Sorry for the delay folks !
PS: Strange things are happening here, at my new place: I simply can't post on this forum (this message is sent from another place). I don't think it is my internet connection (everything else works fine), but this certainly won't easy updates. Wondering if it is the paradox server, which is just "overloaded". More (hopefully soon) to come.
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Summer was a busy time (I moved). But I'm determinded to finish this one. Sorry for the delay folks !
PS: Strange things are happening here, at my new place: I simply can't post on this forum (this message is sent from another place). I don't think it is my internet connection (everything else works fine), but this certainly won't easy updates. Wondering if it is the paradox server, which is just "overloaded". More (hopefully soon) to come.
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Cut-off posting
I have to face it: posting on this forum isn't realistically doable for me anymore. I can log in, read everything I want, click on "Edit/create post" - but once I hit the "submit button", firefox just gets stuck at loading. I managed twice to post an update (my last 2 replies), but it took me around 2 weeks of daily tryouts... I don't think the problem is my internet connection, since I basically experience the same thing everywhere, so it must be either the paradox server or my account. Don't know if I haven't been blocked or something; but I guess I would at least have been notified first... Fact is that this is really annoying if I am to pursue this AAR. And given the interest I got, I really think it deserves an ending. So here is my proposition: I can write a pdf to end the story, which I could post on my ftp. You guys could check it out, as it progresses - and even post your comments here, but ofc, there won't be any feedback, as long as this *weired* connection problem freezes my posts. So what do you say: is it worth it ?
EDIT: OMG it seems to work today. I already posted an update, hope the good fortunes will last !
I have to face it: posting on this forum isn't realistically doable for me anymore. I can log in, read everything I want, click on "Edit/create post" - but once I hit the "submit button", firefox just gets stuck at loading. I managed twice to post an update (my last 2 replies), but it took me around 2 weeks of daily tryouts
... I don't think the problem is my internet connection, since I basically experience the same thing everywhere, so it must be either the paradox server or my account. Don't know if I haven't been blocked or something; but I guess I would at least have been notified first... Fact is that this is really annoying if I am to pursue this AAR. And given the interest I got, I really think it deserves an ending. So here is my proposition: I can write a pdf to end the story, which I could post on my ftp. You guys could check it out, as it progresses - and even post your comments here, but ofc, there won't be any feedback, as long as this *weired* connection problem freezes my posts. So what do you say: is it worth it ?EDIT: OMG it seems to work today. I already posted an update, hope the good fortunes will last !
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Ummm.
Use another browser/create another reg?
I assure you, we will find it worth your trouble.
Use another browser/create another reg?
I assure you, we will find it worth your trouble.
That really sucks mate, this is a really good AAR.
BTW whenever I go to another page with pictures in here i get
"The server qwerkus.free.fr at Restricted Aera requires a username and password."
Which is odd :S
Best of luck, even a word doc would do haha I know its not the same though
BTW whenever I go to another page with pictures in here i get
"The server qwerkus.free.fr at Restricted Aera requires a username and password."
Which is odd :S
Best of luck, even a word doc would do haha
I know its not the same thoughUPDATE XXXVII: April 1916 - PART I
Spring 1916 comes with a new economical plan: since we are not to keep the hard-fought vast eastern territories, we shall at least benefit from its population. By promoting craftsmen in jobless aeras, we encourage western migration, and thus a broader population move from eastern slavs to core germany. Of course, they won't assimilate - but hey: Bayern is way to german for my taste in this game.
On April 5th, von Deimling arrives in Lille, following our plan to cut-off the attackers of Brugge.
We check the ongoing battles, and discover that both are going very well: while von Mudra is doing his job holding off the enemy in Brugge, von Einem starts to reduce the numbers in Cambrai.
On the Italian front, our second army corps arrives in Udine, in preparation of the upcoming northern italian campaign. Only von Hutier's XII Korps is missing, and he's well on his way.
By April 9th, both battles in northern France are won. We loose no time advancing as far as possible.
With the ally fleet heavily bombarding his positions, casulties are climbing among von Mudra's corps.
Unfortunately, our advance towards Arras is again delayed by a french suicide-attack. This isn't very rewarding in the long term, as he looses way too much divisions, but right now, this dumb AI strategy has the advantage of seriously slowing us down.
On a side-note: Portugal finally joined the allies, which doesn't mean much more trouble for us, besides in south-west Africa.
By mid-April, good news arrive from south-africa:the battle of Johannesburg is over, and with it perished nearly all remaining divisions from the SA Army.
On April 17th, another french division vanishes in Cambrai, and Ludendorff resumes his offensive towards Arras. Tough the situation considerably worsened during the last few days, as it seems the the French finally decided to commit a sizeable force to the defense of Picardie.
To make things worse, the British managed to land 2 division in Dunkerque just as we finally occupied Lille. Defended by shore-Bombardment and lvl 5 fort, those Brits won't make it easy to encircle Brugge. The nice thing is that the Entente keeps moving its fleet, reducing the shore-bombardment bonus in Brugge a lot; thus, from time to time, von Mudra is able to completely destroy enemy divisions.
In South Africa, as Johannesburg is occupied, we resume our offensive, with little resistance expected from the remains of the SA Army. We hope to trigger another advantagious peace deal very soon there.
Checking our provinces from time to time, we notice that our "force-immigration" plan seems to work, as eastern pops fill up empty factory slots.
On April 20th, von Mudra reports the destruction of yet another enemy division; it looks like we won't need any encirclement after all.
On day later, as expected, von Einem meets another french assault on Cambrai. 38k is much better than previously registered 1-division-suicide-attacks, but still nothing to worry about.
The usual rebellions in Poland...
On April 22th von Deimling finally arrives in Dunkerque, and immediatly asaults enemy defenses. According to his report, the British under-manned divisions points to manpower shortage also among the British Army.
The day later, the battle of Brugge is won: only 4 barely-manned divisions managed to retreat ... towards Dunkerque. Hopefully von Deimling will be able to finish them off there.
Cambrai is slowly turning into another bloodbath, as the french keep pooring new divisions at the same pace we destroy them. Butchering around becomes disgusting. Where is the strategy, guys ? We are tempted by ending this war ASAP, but, ofc, surrender is not an option...
April 27th: In Dunkerque, von Deimling reports the arrival of survivors from Brugge. One division is nearly immediately destroyed.
South Africa is slowly occupied by our forces. The terrain type clearly deosn't speed up things...
On April 30th, von Hutier finally arrives in Udine, triggering the beginning of our Italian Campaign. All forces are order to attack Venice, avoiding the mountaneous terrain in Treviso. We count on our Austrian ally to secure Udine, and prevent any cut-offs...
Towards the end of the month, our much needed cavalry gets ready. We reinforce existing cavalry corps to 6 divs each, in order to deal more efficiently with uprisings.
And thus ends our update. Monthly overview to follow...
YET THE WAR ISN'T OVER
Spring 1916 comes with a new economical plan: since we are not to keep the hard-fought vast eastern territories, we shall at least benefit from its population. By promoting craftsmen in jobless aeras, we encourage western migration, and thus a broader population move from eastern slavs to core germany. Of course, they won't assimilate - but hey: Bayern is way to german for my taste in this game.
On April 5th, von Deimling arrives in Lille, following our plan to cut-off the attackers of Brugge.
We check the ongoing battles, and discover that both are going very well: while von Mudra is doing his job holding off the enemy in Brugge, von Einem starts to reduce the numbers in Cambrai.
On the Italian front, our second army corps arrives in Udine, in preparation of the upcoming northern italian campaign. Only von Hutier's XII Korps is missing, and he's well on his way.
By April 9th, both battles in northern France are won. We loose no time advancing as far as possible.
With the ally fleet heavily bombarding his positions, casulties are climbing among von Mudra's corps.
Unfortunately, our advance towards Arras is again delayed by a french suicide-attack. This isn't very rewarding in the long term, as he looses way too much divisions, but right now, this dumb AI strategy has the advantage of seriously slowing us down.
On a side-note: Portugal finally joined the allies, which doesn't mean much more trouble for us, besides in south-west Africa.
By mid-April, good news arrive from south-africa:the battle of Johannesburg is over, and with it perished nearly all remaining divisions from the SA Army.
On April 17th, another french division vanishes in Cambrai, and Ludendorff resumes his offensive towards Arras. Tough the situation considerably worsened during the last few days, as it seems the the French finally decided to commit a sizeable force to the defense of Picardie.
To make things worse, the British managed to land 2 division in Dunkerque just as we finally occupied Lille. Defended by shore-Bombardment and lvl 5 fort, those Brits won't make it easy to encircle Brugge. The nice thing is that the Entente keeps moving its fleet, reducing the shore-bombardment bonus in Brugge a lot; thus, from time to time, von Mudra is able to completely destroy enemy divisions.
In South Africa, as Johannesburg is occupied, we resume our offensive, with little resistance expected from the remains of the SA Army. We hope to trigger another advantagious peace deal very soon there.
Checking our provinces from time to time, we notice that our "force-immigration" plan seems to work, as eastern pops fill up empty factory slots.
On April 20th, von Mudra reports the destruction of yet another enemy division; it looks like we won't need any encirclement after all.
On day later, as expected, von Einem meets another french assault on Cambrai. 38k is much better than previously registered 1-division-suicide-attacks, but still nothing to worry about.
The usual rebellions in Poland...
On April 22th von Deimling finally arrives in Dunkerque, and immediatly asaults enemy defenses. According to his report, the British under-manned divisions points to manpower shortage also among the British Army.
The day later, the battle of Brugge is won: only 4 barely-manned divisions managed to retreat ... towards Dunkerque. Hopefully von Deimling will be able to finish them off there.
Cambrai is slowly turning into another bloodbath, as the french keep pooring new divisions at the same pace we destroy them. Butchering around becomes disgusting. Where is the strategy, guys ? We are tempted by ending this war ASAP, but, ofc, surrender is not an option...
April 27th: In Dunkerque, von Deimling reports the arrival of survivors from Brugge. One division is nearly immediately destroyed.
South Africa is slowly occupied by our forces. The terrain type clearly deosn't speed up things...
On April 30th, von Hutier finally arrives in Udine, triggering the beginning of our Italian Campaign. All forces are order to attack Venice, avoiding the mountaneous terrain in Treviso. We count on our Austrian ally to secure Udine, and prevent any cut-offs...
Towards the end of the month, our much needed cavalry gets ready. We reinforce existing cavalry corps to 6 divs each, in order to deal more efficiently with uprisings.
And thus ends our update. Monthly overview to follow...
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UPDATE XXXVIII: April 1916 - PART II
On the Western front, things did not exactly evolve as we had planned it, but there is nothing to worry about. Von Deimling, now joined by von Mudra is finishing off the enemy divisions in Dunkerque, while Cambrai saw yet another victory of ours, and Ludendorff is still on his way towards Arras. The Alsatian border is slowly emptying, as more troops seem to be directed to conter our nothern offensive. Of course, many soldiers are still on their way redeploying from the eastern front, and we hope they will arrive in time to avoid a stalemate/enemy build-up in northern France.
A closer view at the battle of Dunkerque shows worrysome news: given the enemy shore-bombardment bonus, entrenchment and fortification, our attack isn't very efficient, and will ultimately result in much higher losses for us. We seriously wonder if the 5 depleted divisions there are worth the sacrifice.
Not many changes on the Italian front; our offensive there just started. Seing that our Austrian ally hasn't launched any stupid attack on heavily entrenched enemies is the mountains is quite a relief...
In Syria, the Ottomans are slowly gaining the upper hand. Very slowly though, given the fact they now outnumber the British 3:1.
A global pic of the situation in South Africa. Only one SA division is left so far, and we are busy occupying the whole country. Notice the tiny portuguese invasion in the north. We don't really care, since our priority is to knock South Africa out of the war before starting any new campaign there.
National Army comparison:
A good month, after all: the French are down 17 Divisions, the British 2 and the South Africa 4, leaving them with only one fighting division. Belgium, although fully occupied managed to get 2 divisions, but i suspect some expeditionary forces transfers. On our side, only the Ottomans are loosing troops, but hey: at least, they are still here... We also doubled the size of our cavalry, in order to fight more efficiently against uprisings.
Domestic Situation:
Manpower is always low, but we are now gaining more troops than we actually loose on the battlefield. This might change once we heavily assault both the French and the Italian forces. Money is not much of a problem, and we are thinking about new investment possibilities.
Income: +360
Debt: 0
Notice that our income dropped by about 200pounds, since we taxed out the reserves of newly conquered pops in the east; no more reserves...
OVERVIEW: May 1st 1916
On the Western front, things did not exactly evolve as we had planned it, but there is nothing to worry about. Von Deimling, now joined by von Mudra is finishing off the enemy divisions in Dunkerque, while Cambrai saw yet another victory of ours, and Ludendorff is still on his way towards Arras. The Alsatian border is slowly emptying, as more troops seem to be directed to conter our nothern offensive. Of course, many soldiers are still on their way redeploying from the eastern front, and we hope they will arrive in time to avoid a stalemate/enemy build-up in northern France.
A closer view at the battle of Dunkerque shows worrysome news: given the enemy shore-bombardment bonus, entrenchment and fortification, our attack isn't very efficient, and will ultimately result in much higher losses for us. We seriously wonder if the 5 depleted divisions there are worth the sacrifice.
Not many changes on the Italian front; our offensive there just started. Seing that our Austrian ally hasn't launched any stupid attack on heavily entrenched enemies is the mountains is quite a relief...
In Syria, the Ottomans are slowly gaining the upper hand. Very slowly though, given the fact they now outnumber the British 3:1.
A global pic of the situation in South Africa. Only one SA division is left so far, and we are busy occupying the whole country. Notice the tiny portuguese invasion in the north. We don't really care, since our priority is to knock South Africa out of the war before starting any new campaign there.
National Army comparison:
A good month, after all: the French are down 17 Divisions, the British 2 and the South Africa 4, leaving them with only one fighting division. Belgium, although fully occupied managed to get 2 divisions, but i suspect some expeditionary forces transfers. On our side, only the Ottomans are loosing troops, but hey: at least, they are still here... We also doubled the size of our cavalry, in order to fight more efficiently against uprisings.
Domestic Situation:
Manpower is always low, but we are now gaining more troops than we actually loose on the battlefield. This might change once we heavily assault both the French and the Italian forces. Money is not much of a problem, and we are thinking about new investment possibilities.
Income: +360
Debt: 0
Notice that our income dropped by about 200pounds, since we taxed out the reserves of newly conquered pops in the east; no more reserves...
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