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Merlin

Agreed. Pasha is 100% correct.

Merlin

@Merlin Can you explain that angle a bit more?Interesting. I like PITT mainly as he controlled inflation, increased monetary supply and kept the Gold Standard. France lost its way in the late 1700's as it did not do these things properly. The whole John Law type episode or Robespierre or Lenin did ...

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England will and will and will enter any war whatsoever when the opponent is threatening the English Position. If you have any more doubts please consult- Prof. Paul Kennedy's MAGNUM OPUS of Europe (500 years of history) or AJP Taylor or even Keegan (people quoting Keegan forget that Keegan always ...

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Merlin, Does that take into account the Tunisa decision? I know it costs NM but it gives the WE wiggle room. With a Hindenburg event would this cost NM? Did you look at what I outlined in my 1.01 suggestions? That would more or less balance all the Italian decisions to a 30%/15% WE/CP total alignme...

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@Merlin Pocus has scolded me to continue my discussion here. As the Headmaster has instructed, let us keep it here instead of on forum. Me too, since I was part of that discussion. :D CIC Issues- CIC changed for the UK mainly due to death of Kitchener, if this is to be shown, the Death of Kitchener...

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@Pocus. Well, sorry, i will stop the discussion here and will shift it to Help Improve, i guess MERLIN does have the BETA Access. No, I don't. However, I certainly want EAW to be the best of AGEOD games, so I'm posting my opinion wherever I can. FWIW, our verbal sparring should help the Big Three t...

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He may have been wounded. Look at surrounding towns/cities and see if he's there.

Merlin

Are you certain you didn't have your armies under the GHQ influence?

As for passwords, they exist but I've never used them since my opponents have never given me cause.

Merlin

That depends on your settings. If you chose "No delay" under the appropriate commitment tab in the options menu, then you have to fight. Anything else will see you leave unless you have less than 25% MC.

Merlin

Well, this is a thread about CP- Command Points, NM- Morale and VP- Victory Points. Basically, VP as on date is quite useless, unless you are a player who waits for RIGOR MORTIS. CP, is evaded using only corps instead of armies; the problem with the GHQ being able to help only a few generals is eva...

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My 2 cents on the issues.. Railway Issue- Traffic setting at highest has removed the Advantages of Rails, also if you see the History of the Great War it is basically the CP making each and every offensive with only German Troops, where and how did they come and go so fast? Railways, whether it is ...

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I have. And you're right, the highest level might well be sufficient if the network is overloaded. I'll play a couple more campaigns and see how that turns out. I still got the feeling that the rails are linked too well, especially in the east. The continuous railroads are still a problem in my boo...

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Wait, so province can be entrenched inside and out...I was wondering why entrenchment level was so low. Figures. :blink: What Prussia is talking about relates only to structures. Units inside structures will entrench as well, but my statement relates only to entrenchment in the region, not within t...

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I disagree. In relation to the gains, the penalty is not nearly sufficient, in my opinion. Have you turned it up? My experience has been that rail redeployment is vital to being able to conduct offensives past 1915. If you make it so a few armies overload the network, you transfer a massive advanta...

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Use individual militia units. It works like this: 1) Have a militia unit slowly dig in on it's own. When you move a larger force into the region, combine it with the militia, and move the militia back into its own stack the next turn. The larger force will inherit the entrenchments. OR 2) Merge a mi...

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Absolutely. If you want to confirm it with your own eyes, send in a transport when there are several other stacks (individual units or not) and check the transport's supplies the turn after it has spent one full turn in the box. It'll often drop from 90% something to less than 10% in a single turn w...

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Hey guys, I've been playing quite a few PBEMs lately and I've noticed some stuff that I would like to share or put up for discussion in general. 1. The Railpool (especially in the later game) seems excessive. Thanks to continuous rail connections, a German Army can mount a train in Königsberg, be i...

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Build one transport too. Give it to Tattnal and rotate it through port to the blockade box of your choice (there's no reason to put your brigs into more than one box) every other turn. Tattnal keeps it from getting killed and it will redistribute its supplies to the runners if left in the box for a ...

Merlin

Why enter a city?

You may have a superior force within a few turn's march. but not outside the gates. In that case, hold inside and fight outside.

Combining garrisons?

It depends on CP. If you can do it and fit the forces in a single division, go ahead. Otherwise, don't bother.

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If McClellan got his way, there would be only one army--his of course--and it would be situated where it would be the most effective--in the Florida Keys, on R&R and on Team Building seminars http://i658.photobucket.com/albums/uu305/Der_Ami_At_Bucket/Smileys/woo-woo.gif . That would be the most eff...

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If you ever need more than six armies, McClellan needs a word with you.

Merlin

Interesting, I thought that cavalry was virtually useless and that allenby was seriously wasted on the cavalry division in the b.e.f. at start of campaign That will change the moment you get routed out of a region and take upwards of 90 pursuit hits. ;) Cav really helps keep the post combat casualt...

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Put them in charge of cavalry corps. That way they tend to get shuffled between armies with the intent of getting or preventing pursuit hits and are usually involved in most offensives.

Merlin

DrPostman wrote:Thanks, but are you sure it should be in CW2 at all?

It will help with having 200,000+ men in a single region, but requires optimization separate from EAW. Unless I'm mistaken, it's just a placeholder mechanic in CW2 at the moment.

Merlin

High cohesion? I can't honestly remember, just don't lose them; they work great when breaking enemy lines.

You could always compare stats with a normal line infantry unit in the unit detail screen.

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In the ledger, though I wouldn't even bother with VP against another player.

Merlin

Well this is probably too late to be helpful in your PBEM, but yes, all Russian stacks on German soil should be locked, their commanders inactive, and their cohesion reduced by 66% during the resolution of the turn on which it is played. So you should be able to play the card and plan your attacks ...

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I'd suggest keeping the heavies (CA and up) together in Wilhelmsaven and a few scout cruisers on watch outside the Atlantic blockade box as well as the Baltic box. That way you can keep an eye on British and Russian cohesion and raiding. Choose your moment wisely, however. Coming up at the wrong mom...

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Traffic is primarily for EAW AFAIK, and I don't see why it should be used at all in this game, at least until it becomes a full-fledged option for EAW. Then we can work on porting it to CW2. Don't use traffic; if EAW experience carries, and at this early point I'm fairly certain it does, units will ...

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I know I've said part of this before and some has been covered already in this thread, but here are my thoughts on the subject. Partisans: They have a pretty poor record of effectiveness in the ACW, so I'm fine with them having a 50% RGD chance to rip rail and the auto-pillage. Partisans rarely chal...

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