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7.0 The 1916 “Total War” Historical variant (Based on Ted Raicer’s 1916 scenario)
7.1 Marker Changes
a) Place the Game Turn marker on the Winter 1916 space (Turn #8).
b) Victory Points = 15 on the ‘Blockade’ side.
• Note: It is assumed that the CP player lost 2 VPs for failed MOs.
c)
d)
e)
f)
g)
h)
German RP marker on the ‘Rathenau’ side.
Combined War Status = 25.
Current Russian VP = 4.
Russian Capitulation marker is in the “Tsar Takes Command Allowed” Box.
US Entry marker is in the “US Neutral” Box.
There is no roll on the MO Table at the start of the scenario (Turn #8); instead:
• Place the CP Mandated Offensive marker on “GE”.
• Place the AP Mandated Offensive marker on “IT”.
7.2 Initial Strategy Cards
a) The CP player begins with ‘Place of Execution’ and the AP player with ‘Landships’
in their hands respectively.
b) All three decks are in play, but some Events have happened, so the following cards are
removed before play starts:
• CP Mobilization Cards:
1
2
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
• CP Limited War Cards:
GUNS OF AUGUST (2)
WIRELESS INTERCEPTS
LANDWEHR
ENTRENCH
GERMAN REINFORCEMENTS
RACE TO THE SEA
REICHSTAG TRUCE (1)
SUD ARMY
OBEROST (1)
GERMAN REINFORCEMENTS
FALKENHAYN (2)
AH REINFORCEMENTS
15
20
21
22
23
27
29
32
33
34
• AP Mobilization Cards:
1
2
3
4
6
9
10
11
13
14
• AP Limited War Cards:
BRITISH REINFORCEMENTS (1)
BLOCKADE (2)
RUSSIAN REINFORCEMENTS
PLEVE
WITHDRAWAL
MOLTKE
FRENCH REINFORCEMENTS
RUSSIAN REINFORCEMENTS
RAPE OF BELGIUM (2)
BRITISH REINFORCEMENTS (1)
17
20
22
24
25
26
27
29
30
31
32
34
7.3 Set-up
Following fortresses are destroyed
In Belgium: Liège and Antwerp
In Austria-Hungary: Przemysl
In Turkey: Trebizond and Erzerum
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CHLORINE GAS
AH REINFORCEMENTS
GERMAN REINFORCEMENTS
GERMAN REINFORCEMENTS
AH REINFORCEMENTS
ZEPPELIN RAIDS (1)
11TH ARMY
WAR IN AFRICA (1)
WALTER RATHENAU (2)
BULGARIA (2)
ITALY (2)
BRITISH REINFORCEMENTS
ITALIAN REINFORCEMENTS
FRENCH REINFORCEMENTS
RUSSIAN REINFORCEMENTS
LUSITANIA (2)
GREAT RETREAT (1)
YUDENITCH
SALONIKA (1)
MEF (1)
RUSSIAN REINFORCEMENTS
BRITISH REINFORCEMENTS
In Serbia: Belgrade
In Russia: Warsaw, Lutsk, Kovno,
Grodno, Lomza, Brest Litovsk and
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Reserve Box
4 GE Corps, 2 AH Corps
4 FR Corps, 2 BR Corps, 1 AUS Corps, 1 CND Corps, 1 BE Corps, 2 IT Corps,
3 RU Corps, 2 SB Corps
Eliminated / Replacement Box
Central Powers: 2 GE Corps, AH 6th Army, AH 10th Army, 1 TU Corps
Allied Powers: FR 2nd Army, FR 9th Army, 1 FR Corps, 2 BR Corps, 2 IT Corps, RU
12th Army, 1 RU Corps, SB 2nd Army, 1 MN Corps
Permanently Eliminated / Removed
MEF Beachhead, BEF Army, BEF Corps, 1 BR Corps
Central Powers Set-up (by Fronts)
Western Front:
Ostend:
Brussels:
Cambrai:
Sedan:
Metz:
Strasbourg:
Mulhouse:
Eastern Front:
Cracow:
Konigsberg:
Szawli:
Vilna:
Grodno:
Breslau:
Pinsk:
Kovel:
Lutsk:
Tarnopol:
Czernowitz:
Cluj:
Italian Front:
Trent:
Villach:
Trieste:
Balkan Front:
Belgrade:
Tirana:
Monastir:
Strumitsa:
Kavalla:
(All GE units - CP Control Markers at Antwerp and Liège)
4th Army, 2 Corps, Trench 1
(1 Corps)
2nd Army, 1 Corps, Trench 1
1st Army, 1 Corps, Trench 2
3rd Army, 5th Army, 7th Army, Trench 2
6th Army, Trench 2
2 Corps, Trench 1
(All Russian spaces West of this Front are CP controlled)
Trench 1
Trench 1
(GE 10th Army), Trench 1
GE 8th Army, Trench 1
GE 12th Army, Trench 1
GE 9th Army
1 GE Corps, 1 AH Corps, Trench 1
3 AH Corps
(AH 4th Army), Trench 1
(AH 2nd Army), (1 GE Corps), Trench 1
(AH 7th Army)
(AH 1st Army)
(All AH units)
(3rd Army), (11th Army), Trench 1
5th Army, Trench 1
3 Corps, Trench 1
(All of Serbia and Montenegro are under CP Control)
(GE 11th) Army
2 AH Corps
1 BU Corps, (1 BU Corps)
1 BU Corps, (1 BU Corps)
1 BU Corps, (1 BU Corps)
Near East:
Constantinople:
Giresun:
Erzingan:
Diyarbakir:
(All TU units)
(1 Corps)
(1 Corps), Trench 1
(2 Corps)
3 Corps
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Kut:
Bagdhad:
Gaza:
Bersheeba:
Medina
1 Corps
(1 Corps), Trench 1
2 Corps, Trench 1
1 Corps
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Allied Powers Set-up (by Fronts)
Western Front:
Calais:
(BR 1st Army), (BR 2nd Army), (BE 1st Army), Trench 1
Amiens:
BR 3rd Army, Trench 1
Paris:
(10th Army), Trench 1
Chateau-Thierry: FR 6th Army, 1 FR Corps, Trench 1
Verdun:
(FR 3th Army), FR 4th Army, Trench 1
Bar le Duc:
(FR 5th Army)
Nancy:
(FR 1st Army), FR 7th Army, Trench 1
Belfort:
2 FR Corps, Trench 1
Eastern Front:
(All RU units)
Riga:
6th Army, 2 Corps, Trench 1
Dvinsk:
1st Army, 5th Army
Moldechny:
(2nd Army), 10th Army
Baranovichi:
4th Army, 2 Corps, Trench 1
Sarny:
(3rd Army)
Rovno:
(8th Army), (1 Corps)
Dubno:
(7th Army), (11th Army), (1 Corps)
Kamennets Podolski: (9th Army), 1 Corps
Odessa:
1 Corps, Trench 1
Italian Front:
(All IT units)
Verona:
1 Corps
Asiago:
1st Army, Trench 1
Maggiore:
2nd Army, 4th Army, Trench 1
Udine:
3rd Army, 5th Army, Trench 1
Venice:
1 Corps
Balkan Front:
Valona:
1 IT Corps
Salonika:
SB 1st Army, 2 FR Corps, Trench 2
Near East:
(AP Control Markers at Rize, Eleskirt and Van)
Alexandria:
1 BR Corps
Port Said:
Trench 1
Cairo:
Trench 1
Sinai:
1 BR Corps, (1 BR Corps)
Basra:
(MEF), Trench 1
Trebizond:
1 RU Corps
Erzerum:
(RU CAU Army), 1 RU Corps
Bitlis:
(1 RU Corps)
Hamadan:
1 RU Corps
Neutral Set-up
Greece:
1 Corps each in Florina, Larisa and Athens
7.4 Map Changes
a) Brest-Litovsk replaces Florence as a VP space.
b) Gallipoli and Constantinople are part of the NE map; not the main map.
c) Trent/Verona and Taranto/Valona have a special type of connection.
For a more detailed discussion of the changes above, especially the Map Changes and the
Salonika set up, see the “VtV 9.2 Rules & Design Notes” document.
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7.0 The 1916 VTV “Total War” Historical Variant
Notes and commentary on card, set up and map changes to Ted Raicer's 1916 Scenario in the
Players Guide.
Tsar Takes Command’
Even though the Tsar has historically taken command by this time, the Event Card ‘Tsar
Takes Command’ has not yet played in VtV. This card should renamed to read: 'The
Corrosive Effects of the Tsar in Command.' Thus the card reflects a combination of the
disruption in leadership on the home front caused Rasputin's perceived influence at the Tsar's
palace, government corruption, food shortages or any of many factors, which hastened the
‘Fall of the Tsar’. By making the CP play the ‘Tsar Takes Command’ Event, the designers
are saying things have not yet deteriorated but they could do so at any time. Without this
change the 'Fall of the Tsar' Event becomes a virtual certainty perhaps as early as 1916 and
luck just becomes too strong a factor.
‘11th Army’
The ‘11th Army’ Card is already played as an Event. This represents the appointment of the
competent General Mackensen as overall German-Austro-Bulgarian commander who led the
successful offensive against Serbia in the fall of 1915. At the start of the “Total War” scenario
we assume Mackensen’s HQ – the German 11th Army – is still located in the Serbian capital.
Western Front
Verdun and Nancy have a “Level 1 Trench” – instead of a “Level 2 Trench” – to avoid an
easy conversion in CP trenches during the Kaiserschlacht.
Falkenhayn turned West again in 1916 to attrit the French out of the war. This decision of the
High Command is simulated with the German MO and the reinforcement of the German
troops around Verdun. The CP may, with moderate luck "bleed the French white" as
Falkenhayn intended but it will come at a cost. To capture Verdun, ‘H-L in Command’ using
a trench buster card probably will be needed.
Italian Front
The changed Italian Front set-up takes in account the prohibition to attack between Trent and
Verona.
The Italian MO represents one of the numerous battles fought along the Isonzo River.
Balkan Front
The AP gets a “Level 2 Trench” in Salonika and has established a Serbian Army in the
beachhead. This changed Balkan Front set-up reflects the difficult terrain and gives the AP
more staying power to discourage ahistorical ‘blitzkrieg’ operations in the Balkans.
The Mediterranean Expeditionary Force (MEF Army)
The MEF is set-up in Basra at reduced strength. This represents the arrival of the energetic
general Maude in Iraq.
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