deathsheep wrote:If poor Ivan is sent into battle with one.
Shri wrote:Now, the low literacy meant - Officers and NCO deaths impacted Russia worse than any other nation (Russian officers were terrible at staff work but incredibly brave at the front, as a %, Russia and Germany lost maximum number of officers in both wars).
Metatron wrote:Actually the literacy rate in russia went up drastically in the 2 decades before WWI. In 1914 about 42% of the population was literate, but that number hides the fact that women were disproportionately much more illiterate than man (orthodox religious priests and schools of course...). Meaning that male literacy was actually higher than that. In 1913 army recruits were reported at around 2/3 literate. Of course geographical disparities meant that certain units from certain areas would have had higher literacy (cities and urban centres) while others lower literacy (rural and far east regions).
Of course that is not even close to the 99 % literacy of Germany but Austria-Hungary had some regions in it's empire that could rival Russian illiteracy rates, mostly on the fringes, gallicia and bosnia. But the cliché of the massively illiterate Russian soldiers is very much been how Europeans saw russia at the time (even into WWII) but it does not live up to the facts. (also soviets blamed post WWI decline of literacy on the russian empire of course and not on the complete collapse of the russian society during the russian civil war, so the bolchevik could take all the credit for their literacy campaign in the 1920s)
The main problem (beside arty) for the russians as you said was the officer and nco replacement (as for most nations) since it's peacetime officers and nco's were not really enough to build up into a multi million army. Once the trained officers and nco's died the russians had a massive problem to train replacements for their massive army.
Shri wrote:@Altaris and @Ebbingford
I am sorry to have stopped the game, BTW i wasn't AWOL just that i would like the Belgium thing fixed somehow if possible, else it is very difficult to continue the game in the position the game is in - the German armies in France are nearly "OUT OF SUPPLY" and will have to retreat to a -
Duisburg-Aachen-Luxemburg-Colmar line or something.
Altaris wrote:Sorry for the delay guys, I'm completely swamped this week moving into new house and prepping my old condo for rental, on top of working some heavy overtime at work. It's doubtful I'll have time to do much for about another week.
It might be best to bring this game to an end, as it seems to have fizzled out. For next test game, I think I'd like to keep it down to 2 players. Easier to keep track of people.
Nostra wrote:How did that happen?
I am also Germany in the Paradox Forum game and had no supply problems at all with my advance going as far as Versailles.
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