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Strizimon

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Hello,

for a long time i wrote some events here and there and decided to put it all into a rework, so far only for the grand campaign mod though. I also moved the 1917 scenario from peace without victory to tgc and fixed it according to historical accuracy to my best knowledge so far.

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In the balkans Venizelos has set up his own Entente alligned government in defiance of his King and Serbia is alive, their army escaped to Corfu. No more easy annexation of Serbia for 1914 scenario too.

1917-1.jpg


Russia is in big trouble, the Czar will not hold onto power for much longer. I dont know if Russia is weak enough or not, nothing is polished.

1917-2.jpg


Trench warfare continues in 1917, nobody has a clue how to break the stalemate yet.

1917-3.jpg


The Ottomans are on the defensive, they need to stall the British as long as possible, the war will not be won here.

1917-4.jpg


Regarding events there is a lot to be done because there was much more to WW1 than what all the mods offer so far.

More or less finished:

-Germany now has the option to decide about giving Austria-Hungary a free hand against Serbia or not.
-The Macedonian front should now set up more or less accurately. No more Venizelos government spawning with 20 divisions or so, the Entente will land troops in Saloniki now.

Near future:

-Romania should not peace out so easily as long as Russia is in the war.
-Germany should be able to decide to be defensive in the west and instead knock out Russia faster. No more easy excuse for war for the UK. If UK goes to war with Germany anyway and blockade them the USA will not like that and probably stop trading with the Entente too.
-More events for Germany like Operation Albion, Paris Gun, Softer Brest-Litovsk to get Russia out of the war faster, Reinforcement of secondary fronts instead of Spring Offensive after Brest-Litovsk (I dont know so much about Entente countries for good events atm).
-Slim chance to get Sweden into the central powers, more so if UK declares war despite Belgium not being invaded (Swedish King liked Germany a lot if i remember correctly).

Also planned (No promises its so much to do):

-Peace initiatives from Wilson, the Pope and whoever offered to broker a peace historically.
-More peace options like white peace or peace without victory, peace according to status quo (like Germany wins Mitteleuropa but loses its colonies) and other things. If i had unlimited time and vigor i would like to have soft, medium, hard, white peace and status quo peace option for all great powers. If i go into peace options i will focus on Germany first.
-What if WW1 does not start in 1914 - will France and Russia finish their buildup and start the war in 1915 or 1916?
-Lettow-Vorbecks guerilla campaign in East Africa
-Making everything playable for all mods, especially those without cold war tech tree expansion.
-Fight to the bitter end for Germany (and its remaning allies) and France if the big german push to Paris succeeds.

What is probably beyond my capabilities (i will go insane if i do this haha) and it is too much for 1 person anyway:

-The whole grad campaign from WW1 with central power victory or some sort of white peace to WW2 and beyond


Atleast the absolute necessary events should soon be finished to play 1914 and 1917. I dont know how good or bad the order of battle is for 1917, playability and more or less historic strength of opposing armies is more important for me atleast.
 
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Sounds very interesting.
A huge task for sure.
Is there a download to try it out?
I think i will release a playable version as soon as i finish the soft Brest-Litovsk treaties and other German events - weekend maybe. Minors are finished so far but of course events need polishing here and there sometimes later.

China is a mess btw, i dont want to touch any of it tbh :D
 
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There was one time nice mod named: Peace without victory. It got taken out from forum due to author bad behavior. It also contained a WW1 scenario but wasn't finished. Maybe you could reach to mod author or at least look into files to speed up your work? :)
 
Opinions needed:

I read this wikipedia article https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_aircraft_carrier_I_(1915)

Germany converted 4 smaller ships into seaplane tenders during the war: I dont think i should implement these because i would need to add a lot of these small CVE to other nations too and the article says "Regardless of the preference toward airships, several small merchant vessels were converted into seaplane carriers during World War I; these included Santa Elena, Answald, Oswald, and Glyndwr. They carried only two to four aircraft each, however, and were too slow to operate with the High Seas Fleet." so i think these are small enough to ignore.

However Germany also converted a light cruiser into a seaplane tender: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SMS_Stuttgart

Do you think this should be implememented as a CVE 1912 (or maybe 1916)?

Also the german navy thought about converting the passenger ship Ausonia into a carrier: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_aircraft_carrier_I_(1915)
Grand Campaign has Ausonia as class name for 1916 CVE for Germany however from reading the article i think this carrier would have been too big to be just a CVE.

I will add this for sure but what should it be? 1916 CVE, a CVL or a CV?
 
I think
Opinions needed:

I read this wikipedia article https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_aircraft_carrier_I_(1915)

Germany converted 4 smaller ships into seaplane tenders during the war: I dont think i should implement these because i would need to add a lot of these small CVE to other nations too and the article says "Regardless of the preference toward airships, several small merchant vessels were converted into seaplane carriers during World War I; these included Santa Elena, Answald, Oswald, and Glyndwr. They carried only two to four aircraft each, however, and were too slow to operate with the High Seas Fleet." so i think these are small enough to ignore.

However Germany also converted a light cruiser into a seaplane tender: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SMS_Stuttgart

Do you think this should be implememented as a CVE 1912 (or maybe 1916)?

Also the german navy thought about converting the passenger ship Ausonia into a carrier: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_aircraft_carrier_I_(1915)
Grand Campaign has Ausonia as class name for 1916 CVE for Germany however from reading the article i think this carrier would have been too big to be just a CVE.

I will add this for sure but what should it be? 1916 CVE, a CVL or a CV?
the first few ships listed are merely normal ship types with a float plane attachement.

The Ausonia is a carrier though. I'm not sure if it should be a CVE or CVL. But the normal tech tree lists only CVE for the WWI time.
 
There was one time nice mod named: Peace without victory. It got taken out from forum due to author bad behavior. It also contained a WW1 scenario but wasn't finished. Maybe you could reach to mod author or at least look into files to speed up your work?
Exploring the "Peace Without Victory" mod and its WWI scenario looks amazing. If the original author's behavior is a worry, reaching out or reviewing the files may provide insights or speed up your own endeavor.
 
Update:

More or less finished:

-Germany now has the option to decide about giving Austria-Hungary a free hand against Serbia or not.
-The Macedonian front should now set up more or less accurately. No more Venizelos government spawning with 20 divisions or so, the Entente will land troops in Saloniki now.
-Romania should not peace out so easily as long as Russia is in the war.
-Germany should be able to decide to be defensive in the west and instead knock out Russia faster.
-More events for Germany like Operation Albion, Paris Gun, German naval aviation
-France will get random dissent hits as long as the Paris Guns are deployed
-Slim chance to get Sweden into the central powers, more so if UK declares war despite Belgium not being invaded (Swedish King liked Germany a lot if i remember correctly).

Missing:

-No more easy excuse for war for the UK. If UK goes to war with Germany when Belgium is neutral and blockade them the USA will not like that and probably stop trading with the Entente too.
-Softer Brest-Litovsk to get Russia out of the war faster, Reinforcement of secondary fronts instead of Spring Offensive after Brest-Litovsk (I dont know so much about Entente countries for good events atm).
-Peace initiatives from Wilson, the Pope and whoever offered to broker a peace historically.
-More peace options like white peace or peace without victory, peace according to status quo (like Germany wins Mitteleuropa but loses its colonies) and other things. If i had unlimited time and vigor i would like to have soft, medium, hard, white peace and status quo peace option for all great powers. If i go into peace options i will focus on Germany first.
-What if WW1 does not start in 1914 - will France and Russia finish their buildup and start the war in 1915 or 1916?
-Lettow-Vorbecks guerilla campaign in East Africa
-Making everything playable for all mods, especially those without cold war tech tree expansion.
-Fight to the bitter end for Germany (and its remaning allies) and France if the big german push to Paris succeeds.

No idea how fast i will progress through the missing list, some things are easier done than others. I will upload a test version as soon as the naval events for Germany are more polished.
 
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Lovely work! I hope you'll continue to polish this one, I fully agree that WW1 offers so much more than we've seen so far and it's a real opportunity for any modder to distinguish themselves with a great WW1 mod.
 
Three things to consider. 1:Watch "Kings and Generals" Why America joined the Great War. Simplified, the USA joined, because the french and uk were so broke the us banks and lenders were afraid of loosing their money. So, they did some things to get the US involved. The Ubooten were so successful. From two sources, they state england only had 3 months of food in 1917. 2:Sorry I can't remember all of the books, but if Deutschland would not have used the Schlieffen Plan, britain would have waited to join the war. The french invasion of Alsace Lorraine was a disaster. They lost a lot of troops and it could have been a reenactment of the Franco-Pussian War. 3: The book "the Arms of Krupp" and some others, state that the Kaiser was very close to being thrown out in 1917 and later. The population was tired of the war, the high casualties and food was becoming scarce. With the fall of Imperial Russia, the Ukraine was starting to supply food to Deutschland, just not quick enough.
On another note, it is amazing what Italy was promised by the entente and how little they got.
 
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Three things to consider. 1:Watch "Kings and Generals" Why America joined the Great War. Simplified, the USA joined, because the french and uk were so broke the us banks and lenders were afraid of loosing their money. So, they did some things to get the US involved. The Ubooten were so successful. From two sources, they state england only had 3 months of food in 1917. 2:Sorry I can't remember all of the books, but if Deutschland would not have used the Schlieffen Plan, britain would have waited to join the war. The french invasion of Alsace Lorraine was a disaster. They lost a lot of troops and it could have been a reenactment of the Franco-Pussian War. 3: The book "the Arms of Krupp" and some others, state that the Kaiser was very close to being thrown out in 1917 and later. The population was tired of the war, the high casualties and food was becoming scarce. With the fall of Imperial Russia, the Ukraine was starting to supply food to Deutschland, just not quick enough.
On another note, it is amazing what Italy was promised by the entente and how little they got.
Had Italy not betrayed her alliance they would have gotten more, and Europe would not have gotten a ww2 (maybe) and no holocaust (for sure) o_O
 
I am working on a 1914-1999 mod but I first focused my work on WW1, I compiled a lot of mods and modified vanilla ones and AI. I'm currently slowly integrating Peace without victory, would you be interested to check it out ? I would definitely be interested to take a look at your work and maybe integrate some events to my compilation mod if you're okay with that :)
 
Eagerly awaiting to trial this... my favourite mod was TGC and I prefer to start with minor/regional powers in early WWI to build-up as much as possible.
 
Update:

More or less finished:

-Germany now has the option to decide about giving Austria-Hungary a free hand against Serbia or not.
-The Macedonian front should now set up more or less accurately. No more Venizelos government spawning with 20 divisions or so, the Entente will land troops in Saloniki now.
-Romania should not peace out so easily as long as Russia is in the war.
-Germany should be able to decide to be defensive in the west and instead knock out Russia faster.
-More events for Germany like Operation Albion, Paris Gun, German naval aviation
-France will get random dissent hits as long as the Paris Guns are deployed
-Slim chance to get Sweden into the central powers, more so if UK declares war despite Belgium not being invaded (Swedish King liked Germany a lot if i remember correctly).

Missing:

-No more easy excuse for war for the UK. If UK goes to war with Germany when Belgium is neutral and blockade them the USA will not like that and probably stop trading with the Entente too.
-Softer Brest-Litovsk to get Russia out of the war faster, Reinforcement of secondary fronts instead of Spring Offensive after Brest-Litovsk (I dont know so much about Entente countries for good events atm).
-Peace initiatives from Wilson, the Pope and whoever offered to broker a peace historically.
-More peace options like white peace or peace without victory, peace according to status quo (like Germany wins Mitteleuropa but loses its colonies) and other things. If i had unlimited time and vigor i would like to have soft, medium, hard, white peace and status quo peace option for all great powers. If i go into peace options i will focus on Germany first.
-What if WW1 does not start in 1914 - will France and Russia finish their buildup and start the war in 1915 or 1916?
-Lettow-Vorbecks guerilla campaign in East Africa
-Making everything playable for all mods, especially those without cold war tech tree expansion.
-Fight to the bitter end for Germany (and its remaning allies) and France if the big german push to Paris succeeds.

No idea how fast i will progress through the missing list, some things are easier done than others. I will upload a test version as soon as the naval events for Germany are more polished.
Excellent work so far, keep us updated (Im dying to play some WW1 Goodness)

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Could perhaps some stuff regarding Fisher's Baltic Plan be included? I find it a fascinating proposal for a different way for the UK to fight WW1.
 
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Hows progress with this one? I am looking for a good Mod where I can start in 1914 and play all the way through beyond 1945.

I guess I would ask is, how will this mod differ from Blood and Iron?
 
Had Italy not betrayed her alliance they would have gotten more, and Europe would not have gotten a ww2 (maybe) and no holocaust (for sure) o_O
Italy didn't betray any alliance. She had a mere defensive treaty with the Central Powers and certainly would have not shed blood in the name of Austrian expansionism. Italy never wanted Austria to be part of the alliance she previously had with then Prussia to begin with. Perhaps if after 1866 Prussia and Italy made sure to properly integrate Germanic and Italic lands within their respective borders and liberate the other nationalities under the Austrian empire, then we might have spared ourselves not one but two World Wars.