New WWI IH

[Ferret]

Just checking interest and rules atm. This is the sign up phase, the game will start in late June/early July. THIS IS NOT HISTORICALLY ACCURATE!

Map:


Factions:
Great Britain - Julian the apostate
France - woad&fangs
Russia - Sarmatian
Germany - empty
Austria-Hungary - empty
Ottoman Empire - makaikhaan

Scandinavian League (Denmark, Sweden, Finland, Norway) - SwedishFish
Coalition of the Lowlands (Belgium and Holland) - scottishranger
Italy - Lt. Pinard
Serbia - shlin28
Bulgaria - Sarathos
Romania - {BHC}AntiWarmanCake88
Greece - King Jan III Sobieski
Iberia (Spain and Portugal) - Caius
Switzerland - Baby Boomer

Leaders:

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Britain: John French, Douglas Haig, John Jellicoe, Horatio Herbert Kitchener, Lloyd George, Asquith

France: Raymond Poincaré, Georges Clemenceau, Joseph Joffre, Ferdinand Foch, Robert Nivelle, Philippe Pétain

Russia: Nikolas II, Grand Duke Nicholas Nikolaevich, Alexander Samsonov, Paul von Rennenkampf, Nikolai Ivanov, Aleksei Brusilov

Germany: Wilhelm II, Erich von Falkenhayn, Paul von Hindenburg, Reinhard Scheer, Erich Ludendorff, Dieter von Franken

Austria-Hungary: Franz Josef I, Karl I, Conrad von Hötzendorf, Arthur Arz von Straussenburg, Anton Haus, Maximilian Njegovan

Ottoman Empire: Mehmed V, İsmail Enver, Wilhelm Souchon, Otto Liman von Sanders, Mustafa Kemal, Nafiz

Scandinavian League: Bjorn, Hjalmar, Lars, Torvald

Coalition of the Lowlands: Albert I, Dries

Italy: Victor Emmanuel III, Luigi Cadorna, Armando Diaz, Luigiof Abruzzi

Serbia: Radomir Putnik, Petar Bojović

Bulgaria: Vladimir Vazov, Nikola Zhekov

Romania: Constantin Prezan, Alexandru Averescu

Greece: Hippolytus, Antiphos

Iberia: Cristobal, Eduardo, Alfonso, Julio

Switzerland: Henrik, Wolfgang

Populations (stolen from Motep )

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France - 39,500,000
United Kingdom - 45,500,000
Germany - 67,000,000
Ottoman - 21,000,000
Russia - 159,000,000
Italy - 35,600,000
Austria-Hungary - 51,500,000
Serbia - 4,500,000
Bulgaria - 5,500,000
Iberia - 46,000,000
Switzerland - 4,000,000
Greece - 4,800,000
Scandinavian League - 30,000,000
Coalition of the Lowlands - 12,500,000
Romania - 5,000,000

Starting Military: (also stolen from Motep )

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France - 8,400,000
United Kingdom - 8,900,000
Germany - 11,000,000
Ottoman - 2,900,000
Russia - 12,000,000
Italy - 5,600,000
Austria-Hungary - 7,800,000
Serbia - 700,000
Bulgaria - 1,200,000
Spain - 8,650,000
Switzerland - 500,000
Greece - 300,000
Scandinavian League- 1,500,000
Coalition of the Lowlands - 800,000
Romania - 900,000

Rules:

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money:
starting treasury=amount of leaders*1 million

income=1/2 population per turn

defences:
standard trench:costs 80,000 per cm on map and takes 1 turn to build. Each cm holds 50,000 infantry max.

fortified trench:costs 150,000per cm on map and takes 1 turn to build, requires trench already in place. Each cm holds 50,000 infantry max.

underground dugouts (bonus from artillery):costs 200,000 per cm on map and takes 2 turns to build, requires fortified trench in place. Each cm holds 40,000 infantry max.

artillery: costs 10,000 per battery, used to bombard enemy before an assault. Costs 1,000 per turn for each battery while firing. Can cause 60-360 casualties per turn of firing per battery. 1cm range on a 200% version of the map.

upgrade soldiers: (note that it is only possible to advance men up one tier per turn, no jumps from untrained to elite)

untrained:newly recruited soldiers.Can recruit up to 10% of population each
turn for 1 per person.

standard:all starting soldiers are standard, costs 1 per soldier otherwise.

specialised: costs 5 per soldier

elite: costs 10 per soldier

best of the best:costs 15 per soldier

population:goes up by 5% per turn, can be gained faster through conquest.

technology:
light tanks:100,000 to initially research and then 500 per tank.

heavy tanks:a further 200,000 to research and then 1,000 per tank. Far more effective than light tanks.

gas:200,000 to research, 2 per soldier for gas masks. Effective against defences. 1,000 per gas bomb.

machine guns:50,000 to research and a further 200 per gun, can only be used in defence.

armies: can be of any size but may only move into enemy territory if they number at lest 50,000, must be commanded by a leader unless garrisoning a fort or city.

orders:send me what soldiers will accompany each leader which defences will be built, and research for new technology, the places each army will head towards and any upgrades you wish to purchase. I will post the deadline for the next set of orders.

alliances:
GB-France-Russia
Germay-AH-Ottomans
all others neutral but can join the main alliances publicly or privately and may even form their own alliance (eg-balklans alliance between Serbia, Bulgaria and Romania)

battles:if two forces hit each other then I will use the following method of deciding the battle:

army strength:
soldiers:untrained:0.1 each, attack and defence.
standard:0.5 each, attack and defence.
specialised:1 each, attack and defence.
elite:1.5 each, attack and defence.
best of the best:2.5 each, attack and defence.

light tanks:30 attack and 40 defence
heavy tanks:50 attack and 60 defence

machine guns:+50 defence each, no attack.

gas:100 attack per bomb.

trenches:
standard: x1.5 defence for infantry
fortified: x2
dugouts: x4
military base:x10 for garrison

to resolve battle:
total attack strength of attacking army and total defence of defending army timesed by a dice roll. Highest number wins and casualties will be randomised.

Transport by sea: costs 1 per soldier, 20 per tank, 50 per battery per cm of sea to transport. Maximum of 4cm movement in one turn. Note that you may not transport through the Dardanelles or the gap between Denmark and Sweden without the owning faction's permission or if they are no troops in the immediate radius.

Military bases: can garrison up to 500,000 troops, cost 500,000 to build and take 2 turns to build. Can only be built in friendly territory.

Capitals:loss results in massive economy drop, can garrison up to 2,000,000 troops and has the same defensive bonuses as a dug out.

Leaders:tell me which direction you would like them to move, average of one or two cm per turn. Can have any amount of soldiers with them.

research:it is only possible to research one item (eg:light tanks, gas or machine guns) per turn due to lack of manpower on the scientific front.

Spies: can detect enemy troops in a rough estimate of numbers and rough placement on the map. However Elite and BoB class troops can not be detected.

suggestions welcome.

Current Wars:
Entente vs Central Powers
Germany vs Lowlands
Austria-Hungary vs Serbia

more to be edited in...

[Lt. Pinard]

I'm interested. I was Italy in the last failed WW1 interactive and I still have all the research and battle plans had I made.

[Csargo]

I'd play Germany.

I still have the starting navy sizes of all the nations in a graph if you would like it.

The specific problem I had was a way to calculate how battles would go. I couldn't figure anything out to simulate them, and that was the biggest reason why I had to prematurely end my game. I hope you can figure out a way.

[Ferret]

okay I'll put you in, I am still writing the rules but they should be done soon.

edit:navy sizes would be great thanks

[Csargo]

You don't have any PM space.

[Ferret]

sorry, I do now.

[Caius]

Iberia (again!) for me!

[woad&fangs]

I'd like to play as France

[Ferret]

you two have been added and I have put up the first draft of rules, suggested very welcome, these are off the top of my head and will doubtless be improved by you veterans

[shlin28]

In as Serbia please



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Thats right! I want to play as a small country!!!

[Ferret]

notice that Serbia also controls Albania and Montenegro to remove some of the smaller factions. If all 6 major factions are filled at the start then I don't care who you are.

[Frodge]

Edit: Never mind please delete

[Sarmatian]

Sign me up Russia and let's see if I will be the last of the Romanov's :D. Just make it at least a little bit historical. Last time half of the great powers weren't at war with each other and there was no point in the game. GB, France, AH, Russia and Germany should start at war...

[seireikhaan]

Ottoman Empire.

[Csargo]

khaan as an ally. I'm ruined.

[Julian the apostate]

I'd love to take England if no one has yet

[PrinceofTroy]

Austria-Hungary if no one has it yet?

[KarlXII]

I'll take the Scandinavian League.

[Baby Boomer]

Elite Ferret, I would like to play as Switzerland please.

[Ferret]

you are all being added in, everyone okay with the rules? Still a bit about fleets to be added and let me know if I missed anything else.

edit:and Sarmatian the two main alliances start off at war.

[Ferret]

I have decided to omit fleets for fear of over-complicating the game but it will be possible to transport navies by sea and one British general can start on the North coast of France and one German general can start in Southern Belgium.

See rules for updated section on sea transport and the building of military bases.

Can everyone please send me where their leaders will be placed and where their soldiers will be (garrisons may be placed in the military bases and capitals I have added to the map-the small circles are bases and the squares are capitals).

edit:state in text whereabouts the leaders should be, I have small flags to represent them on map.

[ELITEofWARMANGINGERYBREADMEN88]

nooooooo, me Swiss are taken!!


I lke to take Romania please then! :-)

[Ferret]

sure, please send me the PM I said about above (initial deployment).

[King Jan III Sobieski]

Can I sign up for Greece?

[Ferret]

so long as you send me your initial deployment yeah

[Ferret]

added rules for leaders, capitals and military bases (replace forts pretty much)

[scottishranger]

Can I sign up?

Coalition of the Lowlands Please...

[Ferret]

righto Capo

[Tiberius of the Drake]

Ill take Spain if anyone hasnt taken it yet.

[KarlXII]

Your map seems to be a little off. Finland was part of Russia at the time, unless the Russians would like to cede that territory to the League ?