FINAL STANDINGS

1. Austria-Hungary 8 (including St. Petersburg)
2. Germany 6 (including Paris)
3. Ottoman Empire 6
4. Italy 5 (including London)
5. Britain 2
6. France 2
7. Russia 0

Winter 1916

WAR IS OVER
LONDON BRIDGES FALL DOWN

Exactly eight hundred and fifty years after the Normans successfully deposed King Harold, the Italian fleet sailed triumphantly up the Thames as the British surrendered all weapons of war. Sailors from Naples, Venice and Genoa ransacked the halls of Parliament, tearing four hundred year old souvenirs off the walls and ceilings to take back home. As the Prime Minister was arrested and led away to the Italian admiral's ship, those members of the British Houses of Lords and Commons who were unable to flee north or to America were being held in a prisoner-of-war camp in Greenwich. The king and royal family remained missing and were presumed to have fled the country or have died in the process.

Meanwhile, the scene in London looked positively inviting compared to the hell that emerged in St. Petersburg as the last remnants of the Russian defense fell. The smoldering ruins that were once the Winter Palace spoke of the boiled-over rage of Austria-Hungary for the assassination of the archduke and Russia's insistence on supporting Serbia.

In occupied France, the end of the war was hardly noticed outside Paris as life went on as dreary and defeated as before. In the capital city, the resident German army drank into the early morning hours, singing songs to the Fatherland. The Parisians huddled in darkened corners and awaited the terms of what they cannot hope to be a just peace.

Fall 1916

FOR WHOM DOES THE BELL TOLL? IT TOLLS FOR RUSSIA
ITALIAN FLEET IN SIGHT OF LONDON

The Austro-Turkish alliance proved potent once again as both Moscow and the Russian capital of Sevastopol fell. The once intimidating Russia army disintegrated and abandoned its capital as the tsar stood idly by. Rumors abound that the tsar has been arrested by Austro-Hungarian officials, and some report that he has been tried in a secret military court and summarily executed.

Great Britain is in a panic as it prepared for what may be the first successful invasion of the island state since William the Conqueror in 1066. As the Italians took control of the English Channel, the German fleet in Kiel took to sea, which may make the British attempt to defend the North Sea moot.

Will the war end in the fall of 1916? Or will Britain fend off its would-be conquerors?

Spring 1916

Winter 1915

PARIS FALLS, MOSCOW SURROUNDED
GERMANY ACCEPTS FRENCH SURRENDER

The German army marched unopposed into the French capital, routing its traditional enemy for the second time in less than fifty years. "Today is a great day for Germany," remarked Kaiser Wilhelm II as he led the victory parade through the Arc de Triomphe, the massive memorial originally built by Napoleon to glorify his victories over the German peoples.

Fellow German nationalists in Vienna had cause to celebrate as well as the Austro-Hungarian and Ottoman forces completed their conquest and submission of the Balkans. With Sevastopol firmly in Turkish hands, Moscow appeared ready to fall with the Russian capital St. Petersburg not far behind. Meanwhile, the Italian fleet entered the Atlantic Ocean in what some analysts described as the first major step towards an invasion of the British Isles.


BUILD MOVES--armies/fleets that powers gaining supply centers may build in Winter 1915

AUSTRIA-HUNGARY: builds TWO armies/fleets
GERMANY: builds TWO armies/fleets


LOSS MOVES--armies/fleets that powers losing supply centers must lose in Winter 1915

FRANCE: loses A Gascony, and according to the terms of surrender, A Marseilles must stay in camp and F Brest must remain in port. They may not be attacked by the Central Powers for the duration of the war as France is no longer in the war.
RUSSIA's fleet in Sevastopol had nowhere to which it could retreat and therefore it has already been removed.


NO CHANGE--Britain, Italy, Ottoman Empire

Fall 1915

PLEASE NOTE: WAR LOGS ARE DUE EVERY DAY BY 8 AM.


ASSASSINATION AVENGED, GERMANS OUTSIDE PARIS
RUSSIAN FLEET SUNK AS ALLIES REMAIN PARALYZED

The Central Powers score their greatest victory of the war against the Slavic peoples as Serbia is occupied by Austro-Hungarian forces, the Ottoman Empire grabs ahold of Bulgaria, and the Russian fleet at Sevastopol is sunk by the strength of these once bitter enemies-turned-allies.

France appears on the brink of disaster as German troops occupy Belgium and move into Burgundy. Currently undefended, Paris is left vulnerable by French inaction.

Meanwhile, Italian forces move west in what could be leading up to a journey around Gibraltar, and curiously, British and Russian forces show no aggressive or defensive movement at home or abroad.

Spring 1915

Winter 1914

NOTE TO ALL EURO-SHULMANIACS: YOUR NEW SYLLABUS IS NOW ONLINE.




WARSAW FALLS TO AUSTRO-HUNGARIAN FORCES
DENMARK & RUMANIA JOIN THE CENTRAL POWERS

(For Build Moves, see below.)

Almost 99 years to the day when it split the territory of Poland with Russia at the Congress of Vienna, Austria-Hungary unites the ethnic Polish capital of Warsaw with the other Polish areas under its control. Russia loses a vital resource center on its western border, and the path to the Russian capital in St. Petersburg widens. Meanwhile, the Danes and Rumanians throw their lot in with the Central Powers and hope for victory in the Great War.

Elsewhere, the Italians continue war exercises in the Alps while the French forces across the border remain strangely inactive. A German division enters the Ruhr and appears only a year's campaign away from capturing Paris. The British and the Russians show movement by taking to the high seas, but the latter power appears to be in danger as Ottoman forces prepare for what may be an attack on Sevastopol. Rumors of the killing of hundreds of thousands of Armenian Christians abound as a Turkish division passes through the territory. The Ottomans deny any such coordinated action is being taken against this minority.


BUILD MOVES--armies/fleets that powers gaining supply centers may build in Winter 1914

AUSTRIA-HUNGARY: builds TWO armies/fleets
GERMANY: builds ONE army/fleet
ITALY: builds ONE army/fleet


LOSS MOVES--armies/fleets that powers losing supply centers must lose in Winter 1914

RUSSIA: loses ONE army/fleet


NO CHANGE--Britain, France, Ottoman Empire


Instructions:

• Send an email in the format described in the Sample Orders Tutorial.
• Clarify what you are building (ex. A or F) and where it is to be built (ex. Berlin).
• You may only build on a supply center in your own country.
• Powers losing supply centers must detail what you are losing (ex. A or F) and where it currently resides (ex. Sevastopol). Any power losing a supply center that does NOT send in an order will have the requisite number of forces removed at the Game Master's discretion.

Fall 1914

In the first season of the war, Germany is the story as the kaiser wastes no time in petitioning Denmarks for an alliance, the Berlin division moves west to attack France, and the Munich division heads east to Russia. Germany's ally Austria-Hungary also makes a move on Rumania, seeking to secure an alliance there. Of course, the German and Austrian forces in Denmark and Rumania will have to remain there through the Fall 1914 move to ensure that the Danes and Rumanians are serious about allying with the Central Powers.

France's Paris division mysteriously moves west leaving the French capital exposed. Russia's excitement for war is not enough to cut down on its mobilization time, and so the Russian forces remain where they are. In a move of replete with curious motives, Britain is silent and fails to mobilize as Europe heads for a bloody war.

The Ottoman Empire and Italy, two powers not officially in the war, make interesting moves into the sea.

Spring 1914

The Great War begins as the Allied Powers and Central Powers meet on the battlefields of Europe.

Italy remains neutral throughout 1914 as Europe awaits the kingdom's decision regarding which alliance it will join.

The Ottoman Empire prepares to join the war in 1915 on the side of the Central Powers.

Due to its lack of domestic industrialization, Russia is unable to mobilize its forces and begin moving them until Fall 1914.