Board Thread:Fun and Games/@comment-39133133-20200423205640/@comment-38730394-20200501111140

Panch molina wrote: danubia

-we begin our assault on Utrecht: artillery rains down on the city before jagdkommandos and tanks push the dutch defenders to the outskirts

-danubian artillery focus fire on allied tanks which usually takes them out

-the Luftwaffe responds in kind by bombing allied trenches in the Netherlands

-the dutch zeppelins prove pretty easy targets for our airplanes and guns

-greek front: our Albanian offensive begins jagdkommandos of course jump into british trenches killing allied soldiers and causing mayhem causing us to break through all across the front and push them to sarande

-tells the germans that if they commit their troops to the battle of Utrecht we can take the city and march on Amsterdam As I previously said, you guys are nowhere near Utrecht.

This map shows the current front lines of the war. The orange line is what the front lines were at last turn. The blue line is what you think the front lines are at.

We were winning in the north. Even with the influx of Danubians, trench warfare lines do not shift that much in four months. besides, the Germans and Danubians would have to be competing with the superior technology and manpower of the Low Countries and colonies, the French Empire, all the countries of Scandinavia, Portugal, the entire British Empire,  and now the Japanese, Chinese, and Thai troops as well.

While I do agree that you could be pushing us back, four months is not enough time for Germany and a weaker power like Danubia to invade the entire way from Eindhoven and Brussels to Utrecht and Leeuwarden. If anything, we should be holding you guys, or even pushing back to the original borders.

​​​​​​Danubia isn't the powerhouse you think it is. Out of the five major European powers in WW1, Austria-Hungary had the smallest army and mobilized the least troops. They didn't exactly have a large population, and in this timeline, they had already been fighting a war for a few years before WW1 started. Danubian troops would have had to march from Greece all the way over through Danubia and  Germany, crossing many mountains and traveling over rugged terrain, all the way to the Low Countries, who they were not originally hostile to. Furthermore, this is Austria-Hungary after a civil war, which would certainly weaken the nation, using up supplies for a real war and killing thousands. Most of the Hungarians, who lost the civil war, probably wouldn't be too keen on supporting an ally of the Austrians.

Moreover, do you think we haven't learned our lesson from the Jagdkommandos and learned how to repel their attacks? It isn't that hard to do. All we need is someone always keeping watch and making sure that the Jagdkommandos are spotted before they make it into the trench and then they're toast. Thinking that you can invent a new type of soldier that can take out multiple troops at once and survive and then expecting it to work for more than a few months is unrealistic.