Let me start by telling you something: if you like AARs with thousands of images and as a fewer words as possible, stop reading right now; if you are looking for an AAR with thousands of tanks and planes conquering countries in weeks, spectacular dashes from the Channel to the Urals and continuous movement and action, stop reading right now; if you like invincible generals who rarely make mistakes and are always right, if you look to read about heroic acts that change the course of a battle and, perhaps, of the war, stop reading right now.
This AAR is not for you. Look elsewhere, because you're not going to like it.
This AAR is going to be my own retelling of the First World War, one of my endless obsessions, because it was during this cataclysm when our present world began to take shape.
For all this I guess this AAR is going to be a slow one, as the Great War, with hardly any great push and casualties by the thousands por a few inches of muddy ground. You'll find plenty of lions led by donkeys, but, as you can imagine, I am not quite eager to make the same appaling mess that Haig, Nivelle and Cadorna did. I plan, however, to keep the Great War going on until November 1918. If by then it's not over, you can tell that something is going wrong.
Game: HOI2
Mod: 1914.
Scenario: 1914
Dificulty: Normal
Country: The British Empire, because it's the country that I'm more familiar with from all that took part in WW1
Goals
-To make the war to last from 1914 to 1918 in order to
-reproduce the main campaigns of the war in the different theatres of war and
-to win the war with the allies and to avoid repeating the bloody Versailles Treaty, having Germany in shambles and, thus, f*****g as much as possible our good and beloved Bohemian Corporal.
-Not ending like Allenby, that is, having my readers sending me to the Tower for lack of updates
PS: Don't worry about the rest of the AARs (thus, no need to say "another Kurty's AAR?"). I shall keep all of them running.
I hope...
Antebellum: The Road to War
1914
Chapter two: Sarajevo.
Chapter three: Preparing for war.
Chapter four: Kanalkampf.
Chapter five: Northern Mist.
Chapter six: "Essentially, the English Channel is
a bitch of body of water to cross.... ".
Chapter seven: The Battle of the Frontiers.
Chapter eight: Charleroi and Mons.
Chapter nine: The Battle that Was not, yet Turned the Tide.
Chapter ten: The Empire at War.
Chapter eleven: Corsair Warfare.
Chapter twelve: Trenches in the West.
Chapter thirteen: The Old Sick Man of Europe.
Chapter fourteen: British Difficulties, German Opportunities.
Chapter fifteen: We Must Hack Our Way Through.
1915
General Overview.
Chapter sixteen: The Future is Hidden by Clouds of Dust.
Chapter seventeen: Sailing to Byzantium.
Chapter eighteen: Gallipoli - The Fatal Shore
Chapter nineteen: Head-on against the Wall
Chapter twenty: The Shell Scandal
Chapter twenty-two: Coalition government
Chapter twenty-three: And Giuseppe Took his Gun.
Chapter twenty-four: The first Battles of the Isonzo.
Chapter twenty-five: Coming to terms with the Army.
Chapter twenty-six: Remembrances of a past gone and buried
Chapter twenty-seven: Persian Oil, British interest, Allied obligations
Chapter twenty-eight: Clash in the Channel
Chapter twenty-nine: Black October.
Chapter thirty: A Change in Command .
1916
General Overview
Chapter thirty-one: Preparing the Big Push
Chapter thirty-two: Verdun or the Mincing Machine
Chapter thirty-three: Éirí Amach na Cásca
Chapter thirty-four: From Russia to the Somme
Chapter thirty-five: Grasping at the Shadow.
Chapter thirty-six: Over the top.
Chapter thirty-seven: Cry havoc...
Chapter thirty-eight: Calvary sharpening their Swords
Chapter thirty-nine "We Are a Bit Stuck"
Chapter forty: The Allied offensives.
Chapter forty-one: Revolt in Downing Street.
Chapter forty-two: A Hell of a Time
Chapter forty-three: The Growing Pains of the Tank (1)
Chapter forty-four: Revolt in the Desert.
Chapter forty-five: Jerusalem, Jerusalem!
Chapter forty-six: Reality and the Royals
Chapter forty-seven: Blame the Torpedos!
Chapter forty-eight: Enter the Colonials!
Chapter forty-nine: Winter Is Coming
Chapter fifty: The Yarmouth Raid
Chapter fifty-one: The battle of Jutland - the action of Cramorty Firth
Chapter fifty-two: The battle of Jutland - the action of Cramorty Firth (2)
Chapter fifty-three: The battle of Jutland - Dogger Bank
Chapter fifty-four: Up to the leads!
1917
General Overview.
Chapter fifty-five: When Teddy goes marching in...
Chapter fifty-six: Arms and the Man.
Chapter fifity-seven: "Where's Johnny Turk?"
Chapter fifty-eight: Agitation in the trenches
Chapter fifty-nine: Many Wars Away...
Chapter sitxy: Revolution in Petrograd
Chapter sitxy-one: Imperial bussiness and American innuendo
Chapter sitxy-two: Kaiserschlacht
Chapter sitxy-three: Mourning and mirth
Chapter sitxy-four: The Crucible
Chapter sitxy-five: The Devil's arythmetics
Chapter sitxy-six: They called it Passchendaele
Chapter sitxy-seven: The glorious summer of 1917.
Chapter sitxy-eight: Et in Bulgaria ego....
Chapter sitxy-nine: There's a long, long trail...
Chapter seventy: A "genius of evil".
Chapter seventy-one: Red Flag over the Winter Palace.
Chapter seventy-two: Achtung, Panzer!
Chapter seventy-three: Flemish kermesse, Bulgarian Via Dolorosa
Chapter seventy-four: Closer to the Rhine
1918
General Overview.
Chapter seventy-five: Peace offensives
Chapter seventy-six: War on the Skies
Chapter seventy-seven: Bulgarian Kermesse
Chapter seventy-nine: The Iron Thrones Are Trembling
Chapter eighty: Ultimum moriens
Chapter eighty-one: The Coupon Election.
Chapter eighty-two: Settling Accounts.
Chapter eighty-three: A revolution and its ghost..
Chapter eighty-four: Peace treaties.
Epilogue: Aftermath.
THE END
This AAR is not for you. Look elsewhere, because you're not going to like it.
This AAR is going to be my own retelling of the First World War, one of my endless obsessions, because it was during this cataclysm when our present world began to take shape.
For all this I guess this AAR is going to be a slow one, as the Great War, with hardly any great push and casualties by the thousands por a few inches of muddy ground. You'll find plenty of lions led by donkeys, but, as you can imagine, I am not quite eager to make the same appaling mess that Haig, Nivelle and Cadorna did. I plan, however, to keep the Great War going on until November 1918. If by then it's not over, you can tell that something is going wrong.
Game: HOI2
Mod: 1914.
Scenario: 1914
Dificulty: Normal
Country: The British Empire, because it's the country that I'm more familiar with from all that took part in WW1
Goals
-To make the war to last from 1914 to 1918 in order to
-reproduce the main campaigns of the war in the different theatres of war and
-to win the war with the allies and to avoid repeating the bloody Versailles Treaty, having Germany in shambles and, thus, f*****g as much as possible our good and beloved Bohemian Corporal.
-Not ending like Allenby, that is, having my readers sending me to the Tower for lack of updates
PS: Don't worry about the rest of the AARs (thus, no need to say "another Kurty's AAR?"). I shall keep all of them running.
I hope...
Antebellum: The Road to War
1914
Chapter two: Sarajevo.
Chapter three: Preparing for war.
Chapter four: Kanalkampf.
Chapter five: Northern Mist.
Chapter six: "Essentially, the English Channel is
a bitch of body of water to cross.... ".
Chapter seven: The Battle of the Frontiers.
Chapter eight: Charleroi and Mons.
Chapter nine: The Battle that Was not, yet Turned the Tide.
Chapter ten: The Empire at War.
Chapter eleven: Corsair Warfare.
Chapter twelve: Trenches in the West.
Chapter thirteen: The Old Sick Man of Europe.
Chapter fourteen: British Difficulties, German Opportunities.
Chapter fifteen: We Must Hack Our Way Through.
1915
General Overview.
Chapter sixteen: The Future is Hidden by Clouds of Dust.
Chapter seventeen: Sailing to Byzantium.
Chapter eighteen: Gallipoli - The Fatal Shore
Chapter nineteen: Head-on against the Wall
Chapter twenty: The Shell Scandal
Chapter twenty-two: Coalition government
Chapter twenty-three: And Giuseppe Took his Gun.
Chapter twenty-four: The first Battles of the Isonzo.
Chapter twenty-five: Coming to terms with the Army.
Chapter twenty-six: Remembrances of a past gone and buried
Chapter twenty-seven: Persian Oil, British interest, Allied obligations
Chapter twenty-eight: Clash in the Channel
Chapter twenty-nine: Black October.
Chapter thirty: A Change in Command .
1916
General Overview
Chapter thirty-one: Preparing the Big Push
Chapter thirty-two: Verdun or the Mincing Machine
Chapter thirty-three: Éirí Amach na Cásca
Chapter thirty-four: From Russia to the Somme
Chapter thirty-five: Grasping at the Shadow.
Chapter thirty-six: Over the top.
Chapter thirty-seven: Cry havoc...
Chapter thirty-eight: Calvary sharpening their Swords
Chapter thirty-nine "We Are a Bit Stuck"
Chapter forty: The Allied offensives.
Chapter forty-one: Revolt in Downing Street.
Chapter forty-two: A Hell of a Time
Chapter forty-three: The Growing Pains of the Tank (1)
Chapter forty-four: Revolt in the Desert.
Chapter forty-five: Jerusalem, Jerusalem!
Chapter forty-six: Reality and the Royals
Chapter forty-seven: Blame the Torpedos!
Chapter forty-eight: Enter the Colonials!
Chapter forty-nine: Winter Is Coming
Chapter fifty: The Yarmouth Raid
Chapter fifty-one: The battle of Jutland - the action of Cramorty Firth
Chapter fifty-two: The battle of Jutland - the action of Cramorty Firth (2)
Chapter fifty-three: The battle of Jutland - Dogger Bank
Chapter fifty-four: Up to the leads!
1917
General Overview.
Chapter fifty-five: When Teddy goes marching in...
Chapter fifty-six: Arms and the Man.
Chapter fifity-seven: "Where's Johnny Turk?"
Chapter fifty-eight: Agitation in the trenches
Chapter fifty-nine: Many Wars Away...
Chapter sitxy: Revolution in Petrograd
Chapter sitxy-one: Imperial bussiness and American innuendo
Chapter sitxy-two: Kaiserschlacht
Chapter sitxy-three: Mourning and mirth
Chapter sitxy-four: The Crucible
Chapter sitxy-five: The Devil's arythmetics
Chapter sitxy-six: They called it Passchendaele
Chapter sitxy-seven: The glorious summer of 1917.
Chapter sitxy-eight: Et in Bulgaria ego....
Chapter sitxy-nine: There's a long, long trail...
Chapter seventy: A "genius of evil".
Chapter seventy-one: Red Flag over the Winter Palace.
Chapter seventy-two: Achtung, Panzer!
Chapter seventy-three: Flemish kermesse, Bulgarian Via Dolorosa
Chapter seventy-four: Closer to the Rhine
1918
General Overview.
Chapter seventy-five: Peace offensives
Chapter seventy-six: War on the Skies
Chapter seventy-seven: Bulgarian Kermesse
Chapter seventy-nine: The Iron Thrones Are Trembling
Chapter eighty: Ultimum moriens
Chapter eighty-one: The Coupon Election.
Chapter eighty-two: Settling Accounts.
Chapter eighty-three: A revolution and its ghost..
Chapter eighty-four: Peace treaties.
Epilogue: Aftermath.
THE END
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