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Scenario Notes

Getting Started: The Guns of August

This scenario is meant to demonstrate the awesome firepower of the German siege guns against forts.

Many Belgian fortress garrisons surrendered from the siege gun bombardment. Instead of having Belgian units automatically withdrawn from the map, the surrendering procedure works perfectly when you disrupt *all* of the defenders of the fort with the siege guns, then surround and follow up with infantry assaults. When executed correctly, this procedure will yield large quantities of captured Belgian garrison ...

The guys on the Ancient Warefare team have been hard at work hammering on the games and refining them to make them better than ever. This has resulted in updates for all four current titles in the series, which you can check out here:

http://www.hpssims.com/Pages/updates...p_Ancient.HTML

A first update has been released this weekend for the new France '14 game:

http://www.hpssims.com/Pages/updates...14/UP_wwi.HTML

Changes to France '14 V1.01
- Change so that Interdiction attacks have twice the chance of Disruption and can cause the loss of up to half the movement allowance in movement points.
- Added a range 1 hard target artillery fire modifier (see Users Manual under Firing).
- Added Optional Rule for delayed reporting of enemy Disruption.
- Added Quality Fire Modifier Parameter Data Value which ...

Replacements

Replacements is the strength recovery of a unit based on the individual unit's replacement rate that is applied in the Order of Battle. Replacements are in addition to the recovery rate (if any) which is specified in the parameters data. It important to familiarize yourself with replacements and how to get the maximum amount of replacements to your units. The most critical aspect of gaining replacements is the Local Supply Level. First World War Campaigns titles are meant to be played with the Virtual Supply Truck optional rule activated. By activating this rule, your ...

The German Army

Organization

German jäger battalions were an item of frustration. Some sources place jäger battalions as a corps level asset, however, other sources and historical accounts place the same jäger units in various German cavalry divisions. Thus, in 1914, it was decided to place most of these active jäger battalions in the cavalry divisions since it is indisputable that they were indeed attached to some of these divisions at some point. However, it may be noticed that the jäger assignments are in no way uniform. Historically, some German cavalry divisions ...