Centennial Paths of Glory. Turn 1

Our standard Fall PoG game had begun last October 2nd.  As many other wargamers we will celebrate the Centennial of WWI by playing PoG. We decided to not go for the historical setup but a standard one. Molina will lead the CPs and me will command APs.
Turn 1: August 1914
MO: AH and BR.

CPs had opened with a standard movement. Playing Guns of August for a devastating attack on Sedan, succesfully flanking the French Armies with no GE losses and 7 steps for the poor French. GE 1st and 3rd Army entered Sedan when FRc retreated to Melun.

Then action was shifted to the East with Russian and Austrian trying flankings attacks on Tarnopol and Belgrade respectively. Both attacks failed and were big defeats for the attacking players. Russian offensive in Galicia was stopped at the very first attempt and AH must deal with the menacing serbs.
Then followed a few Action Rounds with CP player replacing their forces in Austro-Serbian border while AP was  playing for events to advance in his WS (now at 4, Rape of Belgium and Blockade) towards  limited War.
CP continued to hit in the Western Front by attacking the fortress at Verdun and causing big casualties while the combined BEF and Belgium forces counterattacked at the german flanks in Liege.
Russians tried to put some pressure into AH ranks but with little success.
AP missed a big opportunity at the end of August when CPs played for Replacements and Allied did not have enough OPs to penetrate directly into the German supply sources.

After the Brit attack Germans have a hole in their lines that goes directly into Essen (supply source).  AP can not penetrate because having only 2CP cards they can not activate Brussels (2ops) and Lomza (1op) in the last action to put the whole CP army into OOS (and ending the war in August).

End of turn: VP=9, WS: AP=4, CP=2.

Coming back to blogging …

Last  season (as happy dads we measure our running year by summer holidays so september marks the beginning of our gaming season) I was very busy to update our blog (including a laptop death in November-December).
But not enough to stop playing.  Thus, I had some very good Vassal plays: Paths of Glory, Normandy’44, Twilight Struggle and a long, long game of Here I Stand. Also Alberto was enough patient to teach me ASL and his favourite game For the People.
In the folowing posts I will try to recover some of the old pics of our Vassal games as well as some of the face-to-face sessions from last year.
We begun last season, as usual, with a now classical Fall Paths of Glory match. Unfortunately I did not keep a good record of our blasting PoG game (files were in the now reformatted laptop). It was a really funny match with Central Powers (me) surrounding half of the French Army but being surrounded in Austria and in the Middle East.
At some point it seems that CP could achieve enough VPs for winning but Allied Player (evil Alberto Molina) counterattacked in Pomerania and put a Russian Corps next to Berlin !!!
Finally the last two game turns were critical and AP won after succesfully defending Italy and Paris.
This is the only pic I had in my computer, It corresponds to Fall 1917 when German Armies are ready to envelope Frenchs:

But at the same time, Turks are suffering in Middle East:

And Russians have destroyed AH Armies at Przemsyl envelopping those at Lemberg:

Some day i will find the USB key where i had all the logs of this incredible match. Then I will show you how big mistakes are made .