Had they abandoned the Ukraine offensive, and indeed the pointless long line inside Russia they occupied, they would've had the troops to face the Rainbow Offensive.
Operations in the east had already reached a point of no return by this stage Poach. Yes, cancelling the offensive into Russia would mean the Rainbow Offensive could be dealt with, but then what? By this point there'd be no hope of going on the offensive in the west and winning, so the only realistic option was to continue pressing in Russia. Rumania could and should have been covered (my preference would have simply been an invasion to gain precious manpower, resources and security), no doubt that that strategic flaw lost us the game.
Regarding my rather huge army by the end of the war, I must have pumped out a good third of that army size in just the last few months...At this stage of the war, my fronts were secure (as secure as feasibly possible when facing the brunt of Britain while having to cope with other fronts ) but my manpower was still around the 800 mark. I knew the war would now not be decided long term, so technology didn't matter as much, therefore I switched to minimal training to pump out a huge quantity of troops in a short space of time, in a hope to go on the offensive once more when I switched my training law back again. About 150k went to the Istanbul Front, 100k to the Caucasus, another 50k I guess went as a reserve to the middle east, while the rest was sent to central Turkey to act as a strategic reserve against any massed allied naval landings. Due to poor infra in Turkey (I put a lot of effort into alleviating this inevitable problem during the early game, but there was only so much I could do) these took a long time to reach full org and were only really combat ready towards the very end of the game session.
I was just about to throw some of these troops against the British in a counter-offensive designed to try and lift the pressure off my allies in the west, but the task was simply too great to achieve, with supply issues hampering my advance even further...
My point is, do not mistake the massive Turkish forces by the end game for me being comfortable throughout the majority; I was really on the ropes against numerically superior foes
- Oh how I yearn to play as a major in our next game! :unsure:
Please feel free to ask me any specific questions regarding the Ottoman Empire, I'd be more than happy to answer!
Operations in the east had already reached a point of no return by this stage Poach. Yes, cancelling the offensive into Russia would mean the Rainbow Offensive could be dealt with, but then what? By this point there'd be no hope of going on the offensive in the west and winning, so the only realistic option was to continue pressing in Russia. Rumania could and should have been covered (my preference would have simply been an invasion to gain precious manpower, resources and security), no doubt that that strategic flaw lost us the game.
Regarding my rather huge army by the end of the war, I must have pumped out a good third of that army size in just the last few months...At this stage of the war, my fronts were secure (as secure as feasibly possible when facing the brunt of Britain while having to cope with other fronts ) but my manpower was still around the 800 mark. I knew the war would now not be decided long term, so technology didn't matter as much, therefore I switched to minimal training to pump out a huge quantity of troops in a short space of time, in a hope to go on the offensive once more when I switched my training law back again. About 150k went to the Istanbul Front, 100k to the Caucasus, another 50k I guess went as a reserve to the middle east, while the rest was sent to central Turkey to act as a strategic reserve against any massed allied naval landings. Due to poor infra in Turkey (I put a lot of effort into alleviating this inevitable problem during the early game, but there was only so much I could do) these took a long time to reach full org and were only really combat ready towards the very end of the game session.
I was just about to throw some of these troops against the British in a counter-offensive designed to try and lift the pressure off my allies in the west, but the task was simply too great to achieve, with supply issues hampering my advance even further...
My point is, do not mistake the massive Turkish forces by the end game for me being comfortable throughout the majority; I was really on the ropes against numerically superior foes
- Oh how I yearn to play as a major in our next game! :unsure:
Please feel free to ask me any specific questions regarding the Ottoman Empire, I'd be more than happy to answer!