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And still no sign of Royal Navy
What is happening on the naval side, BTW?
And still no sign of Royal Navy
Are you expecting it to arrive to the land frontline?
I'll be soon posting an overview, showing the fronts, resource situation etc. including the naval situation.
What the point then in mentioning kaiser fleet blocking la Manche strait and not telling what happened after. It's kinda wraps AAR's consistency
Not blocking. My fleet was there sinking convoys, but as I mentioned in the previous update, I moved it away from there to combat British landing attempts.
There's a small swedish community in Finland (5% or less of the total population I think. Most of then live in Aland, an island relatively close to Sweden) who even have their own party and are very reivindicative about this issue. As they always get a few seats on the parliament and take part in government's alliances, they can push for Swedish to remain an official language and be taught in the schools, as it's been since Finland's independence.
Finnish posters feel free to correct me if I'm wrong.
There are also many cities and communities along the coastline of Finland that are swedish majority and in some cases completely swedish.
As has been pointed out by others, this is very very unrealistic for WWI timeline. The British should have naval superiority by at least a semi-comfortable margin; they kept most of the German fleet penned up for the war as the Germans were simply incapable of facing the entire British fleet at once. The one really main battle (Jutland) came about because the Germans were trying to lure a small part of the British fleet into a trap. Parking the German fleet off the coast of France should be the recipe for a vast naval disaster, and it's amazing that the British Grand Fleet didn't even bother escorting their transports during an attempted landing.
The German navy in WWI should be confined to U-boats and small groups of commerce raiders operating on the high seas, as well as perhaps attempts to lure parts of the British fleet into a trap. But naval superiority simply shouldn't be possible bar a vast ship-building program.
I am also disappointed by the relatively light defense of Paris. Where was the French army? The German Schlieffen plan was simply to surround it (with the French army) and force it into surrender.
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The situation where German Navy can prevent UK landing troops in France is just absurd...
I'm beginning to have my doubts about this one...
I am not preventing their landings in France, I am preventing them from landing to my land. I haven't been near the Channel for a long time.
Also, there were less than ten expeditionary divisions from Britain in 1914. The maximum amount they ever had at a time was 2 million.
It's a computer game. The AI should not just be programmed to handle "historic" behavior but also "ahistoric behavior". So rather than state what the *German* fleet should be doing, it could help the AI designers to state what a proper reaction for the British fleet would be, given the player actions shown here.
I.e. how should the AI position its fleet during lull times? How should it react to a sighting of a large German fleet? How much of its units should it move to counter the German fleet, and how much should it keep in reserve?
If the entire Hochseeflotte sallies forth into the Channel, it's probably a good idea to send a British force double that size against it, would it not?
Indeed. As the devs have said before, the AI adopts different war plans. I agree that the current plan is... interesting. Nevertheless, I'm sure they will be challenging anyway.