Raghar
Arcane
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I TOTALLY MURDERED ITALIANS. MY TROOPS SWARMED THEM FROM THE NORTH AND I KILED THEIR FLEET. I EVEN MADE A NAVAL INVASION AND THEY COLLAPSED. THEY EVEN HAD TO EAT THEIR DOGS TO SURVIVE. ALAS AI SEND TROOPS FROM FRANCE TO ITALY INSTEAD OF LETTING THEM BURN, AND THAT MADE MY ATTACK IN FRANCE MUCH EASIER.I was wondering how you managed to pull off your relative successes, and I guess you neglected research, having fallen behind in both offensive (ARTY) as well as defensive (trenches). That might cause some issues.Wheels definitely coming off in the West. Probably have to pull out of Belgium. If you don't get the full Schlieffen toward Paris, this route can't work as the front gets too stringy. Also, the AI is pulling hitting power out of its ass, so I keep losing units on the front to massive, cheap hits from guys who are not even as experienced or well equipped. I think maybe I should have been dumping more into research? I notice that the Allies have "barbed wire" for their trenches.
Also, the Serbs fell back to literally their third capital and still didn't capitulate, so I charged into it with multiple corps and artillery and they lucked out to 1hp and then boosted right back to 10, so instead of taking it in the Fall of 1915 I had to wait 'til May 1916.
I'm somewhat irritated that there are forts in the East I've surrounded for like a year now and they don't lose supply. So I just move past them, but have to requisition a few units to keep an eye on them. Morale is definitely flagging for the Ottomans, making them suck even more than usual.
Edit: to give an example of them pulling hits out of their ass, I just got counter-fired by artillery in the East with a basic Russian arty, which did 4dmg across 4-attacks. In my entire time in the West including the use of more advanced arty, I've yet to see it actually do unit damage with counter-battery fire.
Edit 2: I really have zero answer for Allied arty. I'm not even sure how they're dropping so many rounds, but every single turn they just rake the entire front and then kill a couple Corps.
In my games, I always tried to invest as much as possible in research, and even so I found it impossible to really outpace the Entente.
You mentioned two things I'd neglected to go into, Italy and the Ottomans.
About Italy, yeah, like you discovered the Italian front is just another trench to man - I mostly used the Austrians and a few Germans. Over time, I managed to advance a little bit, taking Venice and the surrounding area. Unfortunately, Italy also swamped most of it's territory with infantry units, supported by artillery, so I got bogged down. I even tried an amphibious landing with the Austrians, but even down in the south there were far too many Italian units. Managed to pull out my invasion forces with a bloody nose.
As for the Ottomans, there were two main theatres, the border with Russia and Egypt. Due to the difficult terrain, holding the Russian border is fairly doable, provided a few HQs have been sent over. Used most of my offensive power in Egypt, where I eventually managed to break through and take Cairo. Not that it did me that much good. By and large, I don't think the Ottomans are that bad, I even teched them up to have a tank unit late in the war.
Will be interesting to see if you can actually win the war this way.
NOT MUCH REPLAYABILITY WHEN YOU HAVE CLUE WHAT YOU ARE DOING.
I KINDA REMEMBERED ON BLOBERT WHEN I WROTE ABOUT HOW I MURDERED ITALLY, DUNO WHY.
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