Commander: The Great War is Out Now!

[Gusington]

Con your campaign sounds almost exactly like mine. And again I ask...has anyone won? Anyone at all?

[Sigma One]

New update released! Added in some new events, tuned the AI and some other settings as well!

http://www.slitherine.com/news/item542

v1.1.4 – Dec 21, 2012

Bug Fixes:

• Spelling fixes
  
• Tsaritsyn city location fixed (behind Volga)
  
• Easiest AI (handicapped) will now correctly receive penalty instead of bonus!
  
• Can no longer detach enemy commanders
  
• Map terrain & railroad fixes
  
• Can no longer swap armored trains to hexes without a railroad
  
• "At War" Commander requirement no longer checked if nation is still neutral.
  
• Evert (Russian Commander) bonus changed to reflect his description.
  
• Calculation of remaining turns for technologies displayed in research tab fixed.
  
• Fixed Italy surrenders message
  
• Fixed Airships inability to attack revealed submarines

Changes:

• German counter color changed (darker) to differ more from Russians
  
• Convoy kills are counted as naval kills (in stats & Commander requirements)
  
• Combat penalty for amphibious attacks decreased.
  
• 1915 Scenario: Entente AI will attempt Gallipoli invasions.
  
• Early submarines deal less damage to convoys.
  
• Anti-sub upgrades rebalanced.
  
• Battleship cost reduction, naval unit upkeep reduced.
  
• Improved opening moves for Austria-Hungary AI, emphasizing on outflanking attempt
  
• German AI now pushes harder in France.
  
• Central Powers AI builds more subs.
  
• AI defends the USA and Britain better if these are the only surviving nations.
  

Additions:

• Morale penalty for disbanding a Battleship + event message.
  
• Capture events for Rome, Milan, Madrid, Sofia & Washington
  
• Several events for Greece's part in the war.

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[Gusington]

Can this update be added over the beta that was released last week or is it the same thing?

[Lord Zimoa]

@Gusington

The official patch v1.14 has some more changes, but you can just update over the Beta patch and it is save game compatible.


Commander – The Great War – Reviewed! at GameTheory

http://www.gametheorycast.com/commander-the-great-war/


Quote:

To summarize my summary, if you are a fan of strategy games, I believe this is one that must not be passed up on. Play it, learn it, then dominate in Commander – The Great War!

[Lord Zimoa]

Got some PM`s about this so:


If automatic update is blocked by eg. your firewall, just download it by hand, see the first post for the link.

To get the update, run "Check for Update" on the game menu or click here.


Or at the games download product page at Matrix:

http://www.matrixgames.com/products/385/downloads/


Cheers,

Tim aka LZ

[Gusington]

Thank you LZ.

[Con]

I have a question for equipping artillery with gas

When upgrading is there a way to check to see if you are upgrading an artillery unit to a gas artillary unit?
When you have equipped an artillery unit as a gas unit is there a way to use it without shooting gas shells?
Can you upgrade arty bypassing the gas upgrade?

The reason is that I am playing a game upgrade my arty units and now when I am ready to launch an offensive or spoil an incoming attack as the Entente I end up gassing them and taking the hit as the first powers to use gas thus screwing up my relations with other nations.

However since I upgraded the units my other option is to just sit there and not fire my arty until the central powers eventually use gas on me.  Not ideal for the tommies in the trenches not having any arty

Con

[Con]

Total Victory for the Entente March 20th 1918. 

The French and English broke through the Huns defenses in the west.  The Kaiser committed his troops to reinforce and protect Frankfurt and the Ruhr the Russian bear launched their carefully husbanded hordes of troops backed with arty.  Kaliningrad fell and the Hungarians could not disengage from their fixed positions as Warsaw and other cities fell leaving a huge number of Central power troops isolated and ultimately cut off from supply thus leading to their inevitable demise.  A strike into Berlin was ordered and with a small struggle the capital fell and so did the will of the Germans to keep fighting.

French and British troops meanwhile poured through the back door of the alps cutting off the mountain troops who were in a life and death struggle with the Italians in the mountain passes.  Once they had been surrounded they were easy pickings.  A quick march to Vienna showed that Austria was so thinly spread that they required Turkish help to shore up Vienna's defense.  Particularly galling for the Austrians.  The Turks were no match for these battle hardened veterans and Austria/Hungary too was ingloriously knocked out of the war with nothing to show but bitter tears for their start of this power grab.

Now the combined mighty armies of France, Britain, Italy and Russia turned their attention south and like a tidal wave flooded into Serbia.  Artillery smashed the opposition there and the Turks sensing defeat tried to form a deep line but their time was too short.  Units were quickly surrounded reduced and harried until Constantinople fell.

The world celebrates a European victory, America never intervenes continues its policy of isolationism and the seeds of WWII are being planted in the diplomatic halls of the victorious capitals

Con

[Nefaro]

Woot!

Con wins!  Con wins!  :D

[Gusington]

Con is the first on these boards to win a game of Commander: TGW that I know of.

[Con]

i played on balanced and here are the main things i did that I think helped me.

The first year is all about stabilizing all the fronts and not going on the offensive.
Serbia I just try to hold Belgrade and make it difficult for any invading army.
I send my British sub into the waters north of Kaliningrad and in combo with the Russian battleship sink every ore convoy running into Kaliningrad
I pull the rest of the British battlefleet plus the French mediterranean fleet into the English channel and use them to bombard German troops on the coast.  Eventually the Imperial German Navy has enough and sails at which point you should be able to take them out with some pretty horrendous losses.
I pull the Russians North give up Warsaw without a fight and set up my defensive line in the shape of a 7 running from the swamp to the sea.
Start pumping troops out
Make sure research is focused on defensive techs and and if you can afford it at the same time any arty techs.  These are crucial
Sell off the navy labs for the French to gain more production points.  They have always been useless sailors since Waterloo anyhow   :P
Get your defensive lines setup trading space all the way back to Paris itself.  Try and setup behind rivers they are invaluable in helping your troops survive.
Put garrison troops and one infantry unit ASAP into the Suez canal.  You will need to keep it open to make sure your convoys get through to the UK.
Upgrade those troops who are going to see immediate action rear troops are going to have to wait their turn
Wait until you have a couple of convoys from the UK and then start upgrading Arty ammo manufacturing
Order at least 1 arty for the French and Brits by the summer of 1915 (2 are better)
Rotate your troops out of their defensive lines and replace with fresh troops when needed.  Garrison troops should always be used in fairly safe places but have a reserve infantry unit near them in case it goes hairy for them.
The Russians should be only used defensively until 1916 or so until you have built up a good number of infantry units and got them some upgrades.  Then you will need to weather a long time of attacks without adding in replacements as you wait for enough PP to purchase an arty unit.
Pick the right moment after the Huns have been attacking you to rotate in fresh troops and go on the offensive (late summer of 1915 for me).  Its a meat grinder and you will need a ton of infantry units backed with arty to smash holes in the line.  concentrate your arty at key spots and pick units with lower entrenchments.
Focus on getting cities but pour your troops through the gaps and try to encircle the enemy.  Units with no supply are pathetically weak.
After the French and British have some good gains going wait about 6-8 more turns to allow the Huns to bring reinforcements out from the East then unleash the Bear on them.  Once again split your forces into battlegroups with cities as their sole focus but also to envelope the Germans who are grappling with your defensive line further east. 
The Russians pick up a lot of PP as your grab the cities so keep pumping upgrades into surviving units and show no mercy for your own troops as you feed them into the meat grinder of the Eastern front.  You will be facing mostly garrison units but again encircling them is the only way to take them out.
Put the Italians in the alps as soon as possible and get them an arty piece as well.  Grab Trieste and other nearby cities.
Send the Portuguese as soon as you can into Serbia.  The will be needed to stem the Turkish tide, any spare Brits can be sent there as well from the Sinai.
I only used infantry and arty and upgraded them as often as possible, no bombers, tanks etc.
Be careful accepting surrenders as the border lines will go permanent after that making for some long hikes to get the Russians out of German territory and back to where the action is.
Learned my lesson from that and I did not accept the Austro/Hungarian surrender and instead crushed them into submission but this allowed me to have free reign through their territory...bad for them!
Just for fun I had an armored unit beating up the low level Turkish units in the Sinai.

War was over by early 1918 Total Victory and I had plenty of spare PP. 

[Sir Slash]

Congrats on your very impressive victory Con. I was beginning to think nobody would ever beat this game. What do you think... "Lord over the Lordz"?

[Con]

Drank a victory toast "Glenmorangie 18 year old scotch" and now going to wake the wife up and tell her I won WWI.  She will be most underwhelmed :o

Con

[TheCommandTent]

Congrats Con and thanks for the write up explaining how you did it.

[Martok]

Congratulations, Con!  I think you're the first one here to actually win.