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Table of Contents INTRODUCTION 6 1. INSTALLATION 7 1.1 Installation Procedure 7 1.2 System Requirements 7 2. UNDERSTANDING THE GAME 8 2.1 Key Concepts 8 2.2 The Map 10 2.3 Victory 14 2.4 Scenario Objectives 15 2.5 National Will 15 3. THE MAIN MENU 18 3.1 Options 18 3.2 Campaigns and Scenarios 18 3.3 Loading Games 18 3.4 Saving Games 18 3.5 Multiplayer 18 4. MAIN SCREEN AND GAME INTERFACE 19 4.1 Tour of Main Screen 19 4.2 Regions and Sea Zones 20 4.3 Structures 20 4.4 Areas and Theaters 21 4.5 Map Filters 21 4.6 Game Interface 21 PRELIMINARY NOTE: 1914 21 5. ORGANIZING YOUR FORCES 22 5.1 Understanding the Unit Panel 22 5.2 Unit Information 23 5.3 Stacking Units 24 5.4 Artillery 24 5.5 Armies and Army HQ’s 25 5.6 Fleets 26 5.7 Other Units 26 6. REINFORCEMENTS 27 6.1 Reinforcements Placement 27 6.2 Recruit Points (RP) 27 7. LEADERS 28 7.1 Leaders 28 7.2 Leader Attributes and Special Abilities 29 7.3 Appointing or Relieving Leaders from Command 29 8. MILITARY CONTROL, WEATHER, FOG OF WAR 30 8.1 Controlling Regions 30 8.2. Weather 30 8.3 Fog of War 30 9. SUPPLY 31 9.1 Definitions of a Supply Source 31 9.2 Penalties for Lack of Supply 32 9.3 Isolation 32 10. ORDERS 33 10.1 WEGO Activation of Armies and Units 33 10.2 Army-by-Army Activation Mode 33 10.3 Movement Orders 34 10.4 Interception and Reaction Moves 37 10.5 Blocking Movement and Zone of Control 38 10.6 Combat Orders 39 10.7 Entrenching 39 10.8 Immobilized Units 40 10.9 Units in RP conversion and vice versa 40 11. FIELD COMBAT 40 11.1 Combat Procedure Summary – General 40 11.2 Case of Major Battles 42 11.3 Engaging in Field Combat 43 11.4 Breakthroughs and Counter-Attacks 48 11.5 Trenches 50 11.6 Trench Warfare Fronts Sectors and Offensives 52 11.7 The Grand Offensive 52 11.8 Preliminary Bombardments 55 11.9 HQ and GHQ Reserves 57 12. SIEGE COMBAT 58 12.1 Fortresses and their Effects 58 12.2 Laying Siege 59 12.3 Storming a Fortress 60 13. AIR UNITS 62 13.1 The Air Force 62 13.2 Air Missions 63 13.3 Aerial Battles 64 13.4 Aces 65 13.5 The 1914 Air Force 66 14. NAVAL WARFARE 66 14.1 Definitions 66 14.2 Naval Operations 67 14.3 Naval Movement and Missions 68 14.4 Naval Tactics and Battle Types 73 14.5 Engaging in Naval Combat 73 14.6 Naval Units and Supply 77 14.7 Naval Transport and Amphibious Landings 78 14.8 Coastal Raids 79 14.9 Various Rules 80 15. THE INTERPHASE 81 16. THE GUNS OF AUGUST – 1914 FIRST TURN 83 16.1 Special Turn Sequence 83 16.2 Warplans 83 Choice of War Plans 83 Choice of Options 84 Revelation of Plans and of Options 84 16.3 Initial Events 84 16.4 Initial Diplomacy 85 16.5 Preliminary Moves and Mandatory Offensives 87 16.6 Various 87 17. DIPLOMACY 87 The Diplomatic Map 87 The Diplomatic Window 88 Sequence of the Diplomatic Game 88 17.1 The Alliances 89 Allies, neutrals, enemies 89 17.2 Diplomats 89 Ambassador Points, or “AMB” 89 17.3 Diplomacy Management Window 89 Sending Diplomats 89 Asking audience for Ambassadors 90 17.4 Diplomacy Resolution 90 Diplomatic Check Procedure 90 Promises 91 17.5 Nations Status and Levels 91 Diplomatic Levels 91 World War One: La Grande Guerre 1914-1918 3
17.6 War Declarations 91 Entry Into War After August 1914 91 Declaration of War on a Neutral Country 91 17.7 Peace 91 17.8 Separate Peace 91 17.9 Special Cases 92 Balkans Rivalries 92 Serbia 92 Bulgaria 92 Greece 92 Romania 92 Ottoman Empire (Turkey) 92 The United States 92 Italy 92 Great Britain 93 Forum Hints on Diplomacy – November 2008 93 18. POLITICS 94 18.1 The Government 94 18.2 Parliament Mood & The Press 95 18.3 National Will 96 18.4 War Weariness & Patriotic Reaction 97 18.5 Political Actions 99 18.6 Social Unrest & Troubles 100 18.7 Surrender 101 18.8 Revolution 102 19. PRODUCTION 109 19.1 The Economy 109 19.2 Civilian and War Production 111 19.3 Land Combat Units Production 111 19.4 Ammunitions 112 19.5 Recruits 112 19.6 Support Units 112 19.7 Firepower Improvement 113 19.8 Naval Construction 114 19.9 Assault Troops (Stosstruppen) 114 19.10 Other Construction and Production Expenses 114 19.11 Various 115 20. TECHNOLOGIES 116 20.1 The Types of Technologies 116 20.2 Procedure 116 20.3 Research Budgets 117 20.4 Discoveries and Progression of Research 117 20.5 Implementation and Use 117 20.6 Public Domain Effects 117 20.7 Specific Cases 117 21. DOCTRINES AND COMBAT TACTICS 118 21.1. Generalities of Doctrines 118 21.2 Movement Doctrine 118 21.3 Firepower Doctrine 120 21.4 Combined Doctrine 120 21.5 Trench Warfare and Combined Tactics 122 21.6 Artillery Bombardments 123 21.7 Gas Warfare 124 21.8 Infiltration Tactic 125 21.9 Air Support 126 21.10 Defense in Depth 126 21.11 Combined Arms 127 21.12 Stosstruppen 127 21.13 Tanks 128 22. STRATEGIC WARFARE 130 22.1 The Blockade 130 22.2 Blockade Effects 130 4 World War One: La Grande Guerre 1914-1918 23. SUBMARINE WARFARE 131 23.1 Definition and Start 131 23.2 Restricted Submarine Warfare 132 23.3 All-Out (Unrestricted) Submarine Warfare 132 23.4 Fighting the Submarine Warfare 132 23.5 Submarine Warfare and Diplomatic Effects 133 24. OFFMAP AND COLONIAL WARFARE 134 24.1 Offmap Boxes Description 134 24.2 Colonial Warfare Specifics 135 25. GREAT WAR VICTORY 135 25.1 The Victory in 1914? 135 25.2 Voluntary Capitulation 136 25.3 Unconditional Surrender 138 25.4 General Peace 140 26. SPECIAL RULES PER COUNTRY 141 26.1 Germany 141 26.2 Austria-Hungary 144 26.3 Russia 147 26.4 France 150 26.5 Great Britain 153 26.6 Italy 155 26.7 Ottoman Empire 155 26.8 USA 157 26.9 Other Nations 160 27. EVENTS AND STRATAGEMS 162 27.1 Picking Events 162 27.2 Public Events 162 27.3 Historical Events 162 Austria-Hungary 162 Death of Emperor Franz Joseph 162 Reformation of the Austrian Empire 163 Triple Monarchy successfully introduced in the Austrian Empire 163 Failed reformation of the Austrian Empire 163 Hungarian Crisis 164 Hungarian Crisis brings about collapse of Austro-Hungarian empire 164 France 164 Abandonment of Plan XVI 164 French Marine Corps redeployment 164 French Colonial troops redeployment 165 Germany 165 The Kaiser’s gold to Turkey 165 Goeben battlecruiser seeks refuge in Constantinople 165 Goeben battlecruiser takes refuge in Pola 166 Kaiser sacks Von Bülow 166 Kaiser sacks Von Kluck 166 Great Britain 166 Britain delivers Sultan Osman and Reshadieh battleships to Turkey 166 Blockade 167 British Marine Corps Reinforcement 167 Turkey 167 The genocide of Armenian people 167 Enver Pasha ‘the little Napoleon’ 168 Mustapha Kemal is appointed army leader 168 USA 168 USA Commercial submarine ‘Deutschland’ arrives in Baltimore 168 USA closes Baltimore’s harbor to Commercial submarine ‘Deutschland’ 169
Page 1 and 2: Instruction Manual
Page 3: A game produced by SEP WW1 This man
Page 7 and 8: Introduction World War One: La Gran
Page 9 and 10: 2. Understanding the Game There are
Page 11 and 12: Advantages of Initiative ● For ea
Page 13 and 14: Terrain Description Movement Cost C
Page 15 and 16: The names of country capitals are i
Page 17 and 18: Calculating National Will Each majo
Page 19 and 20: 3. The Main Menu The Main Menu Scre
Page 21 and 22: 3. Game Turn The current game turn
Page 23 and 24: 5. Organizing Your Forces Success i
Page 25 and 26: Naval Squadron Unit Under the unit
Page 27 and 28: ● Germany and USA HQs may command
Page 29 and 30: 7. Leaders Leaders have an importan
Page 31 and 32: 8. Military Control, Weather, Fog o
Page 33 and 34: 9.1.3 Supply by Railroad A stack of
Page 35 and 36: Commands ● The activated HQ begin
Page 37 and 38: ● During the August 14 pre-turn,
Page 39 and 40: An infantry unit must pass over the
Page 41 and 42: Entrenchments provide defensive ben
Page 43 and 44: 11.1.4 End of Round Each player now
Page 45 and 46: ● The difference of the Attacker
Page 47 and 48: A destroyed isolated unit always eq
Page 49 and 50: If both sides have no more units to
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Page 53 and 54: ● The Russian Front extends to th
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● Italian Front: the same. ● Ru
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However, this does reduces the effe
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(commander in chief) or the GHQ Res
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This is the only case when opposing
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12.3.4 After the Assault (in all si
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● During a Major Battle, this bon
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● Each Ace has a single life. Onc
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If allowed, both sides execute miss
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Encounter Test An encounter test is
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● The possibility of “Trapping
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If your side gets the higher result
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All ship squadrons victim of these
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Moreover, any HQ located on a landi
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This Raid costs Germany 2 (Erleucht
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Civil Production +4 level 8 or 9 +3
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● Each Plan gives an initial NW a
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The event Turkish Battleships: The
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friendly nations (i.e. currently a
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“Send on Station” and you will
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These talks, on the opposing side,
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9. Don’t waste resources on Japan
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18.2.3 The Press The status of the
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● The Counter-offensive negative
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● Accept the Italian War goals or
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level, the higher the chance). Base
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War Weariness: +1 penalty to the Wa
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World Revolution: all Social Tests
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Revolt and Revolution: same as work
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This income depends on the Civilian
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Design Note: from the construction,
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Maximum firepower: +3 Elite and Vet
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20. Technologies Technology advance
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21. Doctrines and Combat Tactics In
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21.3 Firepower Doctrine This Doctri
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Reinforcements Change The Attackers
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Condition The only preliminary bomb
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● 2 Stosstruppen or 2 Tanks must
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21.12.4 Stosstruppen and Losses Sus
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22. Strategic Warfare Strategic War
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There are two grades for submarine
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24. Offmap and Colonial Warfare War
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attlefield (including conquest of e
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Separate Peace effects in Russia Ge
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● For Russia, all Off-map boxes m
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German Garrisons German garrison co
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Also, in the event of a “Trap”,
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● get an extra +1 diplomatic bonu
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The Arms Shortage Russia had a chro
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These supplies are provided by Brit
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Coordination between Allies Entente
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Britain receives its II Army fairly
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If Turkey joins Entente, I Army may
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The US diplomatic level lowers by 1
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● Until June 18, no American Army
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27. Events and Stratagems Many even
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Monarchy reformation and the event
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Difficulty: die roll 3+. Modifiers:
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marches through the Syrian Desert w
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The fourteen points of President Wi
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Conditions: automatic. Difficulty:
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Option #2: Uprising in French Afric
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Historical notes: The 19th and earl
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have no choice in this matter, a la
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End of Senussi Uprising Description
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Diplomatic Stratagems Diplomacy Des
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Military Stratagems Initiative Desc
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Conditions: not before 1915. Diffic
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strong leader, inspiring confidence
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Option #1: (historical choice) Revo
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everything! In addition a secret ev
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including the Fokker Dr.I, the trip
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28. Game Statistics To enter the st
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Terrain Description Movement Cost C
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Terrain Description Movement Cost C
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Geopolitical: +1 if Kiew or Venice
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Italy ● Starts at Level 2 ● Pro
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At the end of the war, a random num
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immediately move 2 levels up, Roman
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Luxemburg ● No diplomacy is possi
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Serbia ● Starts at Level 4 (if no
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E. List of Political Actions Callin
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Conscription (Britain only) This Ac
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● Penalty: Centrals get a +1 bonu
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Air warfare impacts: Dogfight +2, T
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I. Historical Timeline 1914 1915 Ju
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1918 March 12 US President Woodrow
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J. Credits Credits & Thanks AGEOD w
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Notes 228 World War One: La Grande
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