What are your opening CP moves?

[HidekiTojo]

Historical campaign of course, what are your opening moves for the factions?

Central Powers opening moves have intrigued me since the beginning of beta and now after repeating the first four turns dozens of times I am now interested in learning everybody else's strategy for enacting schlieffens plan, or if you have another one altogether.

Why do you choose your strategy?

[H Gilmer3]

I am sorry, I have not played the CP yet.

[DrPostman]

As the CP I do not do Schlieffen and avoid bothering Belgium. I want to delay the UK
as long as I can so my fleet can combine with the raiders and play hell on the French.
On land I hold the line in the West and try to take out Russia first, then Serbia, guarding
against Serbian raids (they do tend to go deep sometimes). Once Russia is rolled up
I can then make a run through Belgium and take out France, or get them so demoralized
they sue for peace. A recent game I won I had chosen to go through the Swiss, and there
were a lot of bloody battles in Basel. I don't think I'll pick on the Swiss again, even though
I took most of it and still managed to win the game without coming near Paris. I might
have won because of the millions of dead over Basel. They were awfully single-minded
about there, and Lausanne. The WE always seemed to lose twice as many as I did in
battles there and in Northern Italy. Mountains are a bitch to fight in

Having a fleet that dominates the high seas is awesome, and I can take on the UK and
win against their ships. Very important to get out there and go after the French right
away though. I was even able to take most of Southern Africa because of a strong fleet.
That was very slow going though, even with the 3 corps I shipped down from Germany.

This was on Lieutenant level with normal aggression against Athena. A human player wouldn't
have let me get away with a lot of the stunts I pulled.

[Durk]

Still new to the game but I went all out, historical German deployment, Austrians focused upon Russia. My plan, march my troops hard and attack everything in reach. That is, all out attack and march forget the flanks, the rails and supply. Head for Paris and Moscow. I am making great progress, except my NM just dropped below 60. This early aggressive attack, I think, can work with really careful play. In the first four months the Germans win battles at less than 1-2 odds versus France; and both Germany and Austria win versus the still deploying Russians at even lower odds. No deep entrenchments, Central Powers win.