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November 25,1915 to December 4,1915

Since it’s been a couple of weeks since I was able to regularly update, I’ll try to make this update more of an overview of what is going on in a variety of places.

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We begin in Bayern where there still seem to be a few loose Russians running around. I must admit that when I first started thinking about doing this AAR I never thought I would be fighting the Russians in Bayern. The battles however should soon be over as we have nearly defeated the last Russian resistance in the area, and will soon complete our liberation of the Russian occupied territories in western Austria.

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Back in Afrika we continue to fight the British in Kamerun. The battle for Kamerun has at present seen neither side able to take the advantage. We defeated the British at Kribi, and again at Duala, but have lost the battle for Yaonde. The new strategy will be to liberate Duala, and Bamenda, so as to isolate the British at Yaonde, and thus wipe them out.

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In the Danish Straits, Gedicke and the High Seas Fleet had just completed their first major victory against the Royal Navy, but there was still one dreadnaught that got away, so orders were given to find the damaged ship and sink her. She was found and engaged at Kattegat.

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Of course both sides sent in additional ships, and soon the Danish Straits were again reverberating with the sounds of battle. The new British squadron consisted of 6 dreadnaughts, and 2 modern cruisers. Unfortunately for the Germans the Swedes withdrew their monitor, so Germany must face the British alone.

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The battle started with the sinking of the damaged British dreadnaught Centurion, but unfortunately the Germans were unsuccessful in their attempts to withdraw their own damaged dreadnaught, and the Seydlitz was sunk, but not before she took down a British modern cruiser. The next round of fighting cost the British the dreadnaught St. Vincent, while the Germans modern cruiser Pillau was damaged, and forced to retreat.

With the collapse of Austria, the Russians reorganized their forces to focus on the Germans in Poland. All Russian forces in Austria moved to Krakow in order to regroup, and prepare for the liberation of Poland, when the Germans struck. Of course we are outnumbered…

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The situation in Krakow is obviously not advantageous for the Germans, so additional reinforcements have been called for.

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In Italy the German goals are two fold, capture Rome in anticipation of the future armistice, and eliminate the Italians, and their fortifications in the north. Rome fell with no real resistance, leaving the Germans free to press the offensive in the north.

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The primary goal at this point is to clear up several minor Italian incursions while preparing for yet another go at the Fortress of Bergamo. And so Italy is slowly being captured although the price has been higher than anyone would have imagined. If only the French could have fought as well.

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If the French fought this hard your manpower would be lower than what it is if it matters. Had the monitor stayed in the fight the outcome would of been more in your favor. How goes the Austrian civil war?
 

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Hey guys, just thought I'd tell you that I've been playing Victoria for about 6 months now. I just spent all night reading this AAR. Wow this is some incredible stuff hope I can pull something like this off in the near future. I'll keep my eye on this and good luck.
 

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Oh come, Trento and Bozen are undefended! Run around Bergamo and pocket them. And if they go into Milan, their problem, they won't hold something as long as there is no fortification. Sometimes I wonder if the German General Staff has got a knock on the head and thus doesn't use it. ;)

The Russians should be no real problem anymore. I see you deal with them with only a small part of your army and they can't take Poland back.

And I must agree with the others, show us how the Austrian Civil War is going. I'll still root for the Socialists, but I guess you'll annex them soon anyway.
 

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Welcome to the forums Billy_Bishop. Quirimus308 has indeed a marvellous AAR here.

Personally I await the next round at Bergamo with great interest.
 

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CSK said:
Oh come, Trento and Bozen are undefended! Run around Bergamo and pocket them. And if they go into Milan, their problem, they won't hold something as long as there is no fortification. Sometimes I wonder if the German General Staff has got a knock on the head and thus doesn't use it. ;)

I love it when people look at the maps :D

You are correct CSK in your analysis. I didn't go into detail on this but if you look closely you can see that I already have an army of 9 divisions moving to Trento from Verona. I also have 8 divisions liberating Innsbruck from the Russians, who will then move to Bozen and thus have Bergamo encircled. :D
 

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Would going around Bergamo and getting the encirclement bonus be worth it at this point? :wacko:
 

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Would going around Bergamo and getting the encirclement bonus be worth it at this point? :wacko:

Judging by my past success (or lack thereof) I would say that any help would be worth it.
 

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Quirinius,

Sorry I haven't been around, but it looks like I didn't miss more than a couple of updates.

What do you do when your computer is down? At my old job, if the server was down we'd all pull up chairs around the lunch table and have long talks about life and politics! :D Pfft. This is the 21st Century... who can do ANYTHING without a computer?

That great big sucking sound you hear is the black hole they hid under the snow in Bergamo... STAY AWAY! :D

Gotta love the naval pictures... ((dreams))

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Quirinius,

Sorry I haven't been around, but it looks like I didn't miss more than a couple of updates.

What do you do when your computer is down? At my old job, if the server was down we'd all pull up chairs around the lunch table and have long talks about life and politics! :D Pfft. This is the 21st Century... who can do ANYTHING without a computer?

That great big sucking sound you hear is the black hole they hid under the snow in Bergamo... STAY AWAY! :D

Gotta love the naval pictures... ((dreams))

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Well, its not so much that my computer is down, as much as it is just out of place. We lost one of our POS computers, so I toook mine out of my office, and set it up to run our POS software. The business is taken care of, but I actually have to come out of my office and manage the business now. :mad:

I'm hopefull the old computer will be back form the shop by Monday, but we'll see. In the mean time all teh pics I've taken are still on my computer, and I have access to them via our company network, but I don't have access to my picture editing software, so I'm having to use MS Paint. :mad:

The real problem I have though, is having the privacy/time to prepare the updates, but I've managed to squeeze a couple out, and I'm hoping I can get another one out this weekend. I've been passing the time by slowly converting all the early pics in the AAR from Image Cave to Image Shack. (I don't want this AAR to lose it's pics like my Swedish one did). :eek:o

Unfortunately I don't have an update ready for today, so knowing how fond you, and I are about old battlewagons pics, I will leave you with the Seydlitz, that was regretably sunk in the last update.

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Oh, and Billy_Bishop, welcome to the forums, and thanks for checking out the Great War
 

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Bless you, Kind Sir!

The Seydlitz has a fascinating history from the Battle of Jutland. Very badly banged up, and having to limp home in the dark. I don't recall 100% whether she barely made it back or whether she foundered enroute.

There was one ship, if I recall correctly, that couldn't make it over the sandbar into the harbor because it had taken on so much water, so they had to do some tricky balancing stuff to get it over. Might have been Seydlitz. I wish my memory for these things worked as well as it does for some other things.

I can't remember where I left my eidetic memory chip... ((searches))

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She is one smart looking vessel in that photo. Very sleek.
 

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Italy is going down, and the one word that says it all is woot...

As for Africa, well... umm... good plan what you've got right now... and there's not much else I can say.

It sounded early on as if Africa was a real big battle, how did it suddenly quiet down so much? What happened?
 

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stnylan said:
She is one smart looking vessel in that photo. Very sleek.

yeah maybe she and the Bismarck can get together and exchange gun turrets and shells :rolleyes:
 

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wonderfull progress, i really have nothing more to say