World War I (Map Game)

Rules
1. A turn is 6 months exept on cases of important parts of war, in which case is slowed down to one month.

2. The game will start on 1914 and end at 2010 or when everybody stop editing

3. Nothing ridiculous (i.e Serbia can't take over the whole Ottoman Empire)

4. At least one person must post before you

5. Post a map within the turn, or ask for someone to make it. If not, your post will be deleted

6. If an event is implausible, it will be erased or changed to be plausible.

7. This map game is CLOSED (Which means that you have to sign up and nobody can edit your nation)

8. PLEASE place the images on thumbnail. It looks too large on other ways.

User Nations

 * Austria Hungary:Batmanary 03:27, June 24, 2010 (UTC)Batmanary


 * Italy: Fedelede 03:26, June 24, 2010 (UTC)


 * Germany: Ownerzmcown 3:27, June 24, 2010 (UTC)


 * Britain:Baconton 13:51, June 24, 2010 (UTC)


 * France:Bob 13:30, June 25, 2010 (UTC)


 * Ottoman Empire:Eastward Expansion 21:57, June 24, 2010 (UTC)
 * Greece: BlackSkyEmpire 17:22, June 25, 2010 (UTC)BlackSkyEmpire
 * Japan: Destroyanator 03:36, June 24, 2010 (UTC)
 * USA: BoredMatt 22:24, June 24, 2010 (UTC)

January, 1914
Austria-Hungary decides to reform under the Austria banner, with each people getting presence in Vienna. This diffuses tensions and helps to strengthen ties within the country.
 * After seeing them as great potential allies, Germany, Austria-Hungary, and the Ottoman Empire, sign the Central Pact in Berlin, which states that in the event of war, all three countries will support each other and declare war on the aggresive nation.
 * Austria formed under the United Empire of Austria agrees to sign the pact and decides to ask Italy as well. It also starts an Air Force Programme and considerably modernizes its Army and Navy.

The US Army creates an aircraft arm, known as the USAAF. It begins research on various viable types of aircraft for use by the military, including triplanes, biplanes, monoplanes, airships, and dirigibles. The Marines increase their strength to 19,000, from their previous 12,000. A commitee is created to improve the various weapons currently in use by the US military. Because of some preliminary research, the Madsen machine gun is quickly bought and issued to the various branches.

The Ottoman Empire decides to begin Industrialization. It has long been known as the "Sick Man of Europe" because of its lack of industrialization. But this soon changes as the Ottoman Empire becomes the fastest industrializer in Europe and Western Asia. It also excepts membership into the Central Pact.

Italy accepts membership into the Central Pact, while starts a great process of industrialization, modernization and improving the Italian army. The king of Italy starts dividing capitals, creating the Capital of Commerce (Milan), Capital of Culture (Florence), and Capital of Industriality (Turin). Finnaly, the King of Italy asks the Emperor of Austria-Hungary to give them the Trentino, Firuli and Trieste regions back, in exchange for some of their new technological secrets.

Greece looks torwards the Ottoman Empire and see's that it is no longer "The Sick Man of Europe" and begins its own indutstrialization. It also begins to import the materials needed for the industrialization program. Greece also begins to modernize its navy and army, it also begins conscription for its small army and navy. Research is begining to take steps forward in Greece as the early signs of tank research begins to materialize, but would not do so until 1916. Greece signs a Non-Agression pact with the Ottoman Empire, the pact does allow the two nations to supply there allies in any war, but forbids any contact (they simply can not attack each other) between the two.

Austria declines Italy's offer.

Archduke Franz Ferdinand visits Sarajevo. Because the Austrians gave every ethnicity equal representation, he does not get assassinated.

Whoever made this game (Batmanary i think) Franz got shot this turn, so should I post the event or do you want to?

'Whoever has the nation that shot Franz will post the event. If he's not avaliable, then Batmanary who is Austria. If not, me because I made the game. Fedelede 02:06, June 26, 2010 (UTC)'

'The guy who shot Franze was from Serbia, so because nobody has it someone else has to do it. Ownerzmcown 02:08, June 26, 2010 (UTC)'

I'll be Serbia I guess since I want to annex it anywaysBatmanary 02:10, June 26, 2010 (UTC)batmanary

June 1914

 * Franz Joseph goes to Switzerland on a diplomatic trip, and is assassinated. Austria declares war on Switzerland. Them being unprepared, in a matter of four weeks troops have run over Bern and Zurich. On the eve of July 1st, Franz Ferdinand becomes Kaiser of the United Empire of Austria and Switzerland becomes another land within.
 * Germany, begins a huge process of industrialization, the car industry booms in the country and thousands of new cars are put into production, construction is started upon many new ships, including two new dreadnoughts, and research is started into making a functioning tank for the army.
 * Italy continues industralization, becoming the fastest industralizing potence on Western Europe. They also lay claim to France so that they give them Tunis, Algiers, French West Africa and Nice.
 * Greece Imports Resources recently found in Thessaly. Greece also begins to import cars from Germany, U.S.A, and Great Britian. It also creates the Euro Defense Pact and it asks the following nations to join it: Great Britian, France, Serbia, and Russia.
 * Italy's weapon and machinery industry dominate the industrial landscape of Western Europe. A great army is fielded on Italy to attack France if the claims aren't accepted.
 * Greece signs a Non-Agression pact with France, Italy, and Germany. Greece begins to increase its Industrialization Program. Greece begins to cach up major industry nations such as Germany and is right behind Italy. The greek navy is now one of the finest ever to set sail while the army is well armed and strong.
 * The Ottoman Empire invades Bulgaria. Bulgaria had long been an ally of the Ottoman Empire, so the locals are essentially OK with the new rulers. The Ottoman Empire also calms many Orthodox Christian Rebels by asking for an alliance with the Orthodox Nations of Russian and Greece.
 * The US begins a massive industrialization program, with huge factory towns entirely owned by corporations scattered throughout the southwest and new england. The Navy expands it's fleet of battleships, and with John Holland as their main project team leader, manage to design a sub that can operate effectively throughout the Atlantic unsupported, and attack mechantmen with ease. These are built in great numbers. The US (being the breadbasket of the world) threatens to cut off all shipments of any product, including their oil to any nation who declares war on anybody. The USAAF adopts the F-1 Jenny as their main fighter, and a French immigrant, Roland Garros, designs a system for the plane that enables it to fire through the propeller. This is quickly adopted.
 * Greece supports the Ottoman invasion and even invades it itself, taking Thrace, Smolyan, and part of Blagoevgrad, while also giving Serbia Vidin (for more info go here:Provinces of Bulgaria). Greece creates the Balkans Pact, a pact that ensures that no war will erupt in the area, Greece and Serbia become the first members and Greece offers the Ottoman Empire membership (Even if that nation is already in an alliance, the members of the Balkan Pact would not attack one another in any war).
 * Shipments of grain and oil stop to both Greece and the Ottomans, and the US threatens to close the Panama Canal to any Greek or Turkish ships passing through if both nations don't allow Bulgaria it's independence. As the Turks have very little exploitable oil reserves, and far less arable land, many protests arise, and all their ships not directly involved with the invasion are forced to return to port. Greece, with very little arable land of it's own, thinks about backing down.
 * Greece Agrees to back down, but refuses to give up Thrace. But all other territory under Greece control in Bulgaria are to be under the U.S. Administration untill the Ottoman grants Bulgaria its independance Bulgaria.
 * The US agrees to Greece's terms, and takes away their embargo on Greece. However, the Turkish embargo is still in effect.
 * Italy warns the US to lift the Ottoman embargo or face hostilities, while it continues industralization and modernization/expansion of the army. The first army planes and a new invention called "tank" are starting to be placed upon the Italian army.
 * Greece begins to export supplys to the Ottoman Empire, it also asks the Ottoman and Italy to join the Balkans Pact, which now states: If any ally is attacked or declared war on by any nation, then all other members of the pact shall defend its ally in any means necissary.
 * The Ottoman Empire realizes that although the US has more useable oil, it has far more underground oil than any other nation in the world. It soon starts to support itself and pledges that if Greece need any extra oil, they give it to them. Bulgaria is now successfully divided with the West/South being Greek and the North/East being Turkish.

January, 1915
The US replies to Italy's threats by threatening to embargoe Italy itself. The US says it is simply defending the soverienty of Bulgaria, and that Italy cannot do anything to the US. The US continues research on various weapons (and continues to build up the USAAF and the Navy). Due to this research, Madsen guns are issued two per squad for both the Army and Marines. The US also reaches out to it's Latin friends Peru and Venezuela, and them, together with the newly-installed government of Mexico, form the Continental Alliance.

The Ottoman Empire requests that it's allies, Greece and Italy create the Mediterranean Pact (if one of the three members is attacked the other two will join in the war on their side). It does this in hopes of making the US back down.

Italy continues modernizing and expanding it's army, and accepts the Mediterranean Pact. It also warns the USA to stop any embargo on any Mediterranean nation immediatly.

The US accepts, under the conditions that Italy back down on their threats to France.

Italy does not stop claiming the Nice area, Algeria, Tunis, or French West Africa.

(I'm just trying to start WW1 with a good and large backstory :D )

The US begins cross-training of it's cavalry for infantry duties, and the submarine fleet and the USAAF are expanded again. Due to increasing calls from Nicaragua for membership, the US annexes them and simultaneosly grants them territory status. Panama has the same thing done to them.The US also offers Britain an alliance.

A US design team, looking at the slow, lumbering "tanks" of Italy, begins development on an armored car that can successfully go offroad (a real feat for any vehicle, tracked or not), and be able to replace most cavalry in the future.

The Ottoman Empire establishes control over all the Arabian Peninsula (except for the British Protectorate of Aden). It secretly discusses plans with Greece to do a joint invasion of Serbia.

Italy condemns the USA for their annexion of Nicaragua and Panama. They send them an ultimatum claiming the freedom of the two countries, handing the Canal to Italy, and un-embargoing every nation on Europe, or face war from the Central Power's side.

The US responds, and shows the popular support of these actions, in both the two annexed nations and in America. They also point out that the Canal has always been under US control, and that Italy has absolutely no influence in Latin America, nor any way of projecting their influence into the region. They do, however, unembargo the Ottomans.

June 1915
The Ottomans attack the British Protectorate of Aden. After the tiny colony is easily defeated (in part by the fact that the locals want to join the Turks) a Global Jihad is announced to drive out the British out of Egypt. Muslim from all nations join the Ottoman Empire. The Nations of the Central Pact (Germany, Italy, and Austria) are all join the war against the British.

Greece considers an alliance with the Central Pact but waits to see who would be winning. Greece now has some choices to make, join the Central Powers and probally get hardly any land or join the British, who would probally hand them more territory, but not too much. But it does grant millitary acces to the Ottoman Empire and Britian. After much argument, Greece joins the Central Pact and it informs the Ottoman that the attack on Serbia would soon begin.

Austria declares war on Serbia and invades Belgrade. It offers the southern chunk of Macedonia to Greece and promptly annexes them within 5 weeks. Austria sends its troops to attack Romania within the same time period. The troops put up a fight and many refuse to surrender but in the end, with considerable support from German troops, Romania is annexed.

Austria starts totally upgrading its espionage program and commences to start producing tanks to advance in the case of war with Russia.

Russia, realizing the threat of a strong central european alliance, sides with the British, and invades the Ottoman empire through the Caucasus, while still keeping most of their forces in Europe.

The Continental Alliance, including the US, declares war on the Central Pact. Grain and oil shipments stop to all of their countries, while Latin troops invade Camaroon and Namibia. The US sends much of their surface fleet to Gibraltar, along with much of Venezuela's navy. They completely close off the Straits to all Central ships, and, as France is pro-Allies, Portugal is leaning Allied, and Spain is as well, all of these nations support these actions.

Due to the relative political stability of both Brazil and Argentina at this point, they both join the Continental Alliance as a way to get prestige and to receive lands in Africa.

January 1916
The Ottomans barely make it in time to get a small piece of Serbia. They start their invasion of British-held Egypt.

After the annexation of Rumania, Austria starts Operation Blitz, the storming of Russia. Within weeks the Austrians tanks reach Odessa and the Crimean Peninsula.

US troops land in German Africa, and make great gains. Due to the use of light machine guns and the newly-made armoured cars (much more effective in open combat than the lumbering tanks of the Central Pact), as well as local support, most of the northern coast of Namibia is liberated, as is Yauande and the entire Camaroon river valley.

Armored cars, light machine guns, and submarines are put into wartime production in the US, and their massive submarine fleet prowls the North Sea and the Channel, shutting down any seaborne trade with Germany.

South African troops capture the Caprivi Strip and much of inland Namibia, while Rhodesians move into unprotected Tanzania. ANZAC forces and US Marines take the Solomons and New Guinea from Germany as well.

Indian troops land in Muscat and throughout Oman, while the Indian Fleet defeats the combined Ottoman and Italian fleet at Socotra.

The Ottoman Turks attack Russia through the Caucus Mountains.

Italy sees it's chance to get an empire. With it's new army, it declares war on France and attacks it. Nice is theirs within two weeks, while the Italian troops also advance to OTL Algiers, Marseilles and Chad. They also start using light tanks and even armoured cars. At the same time, another squad of Italians goes to the British territories, attacking Alexandria. El Alemein is theirs within a week, and Alexandria is seiged. Some planes are starting to be used in war, to bomb cities close to the borders as the plains don't have much range.

February 1916
Portugal, feeling that their African colonies are threatened by the Italians, declares war. Troops out of Mozambique and Angola attack Germany, while their navy is split between supporting the Indian Squadron and defending Gibraltar.

Spain, under the control of the Catalan Francisco Rivera, seeks to reestablish their Mediteraenian empire of ages past, and declares war on Italy. The Allied fleet at Gibraltar defeats the main Italian fleet at Alba, and Spanish troops invade Sardinia and Sicily. The US army arrives in Provence, and quickly pushes the Italians back to Nice. American subs based out of Malta begin to shut down the Ottoman oil trade to Italy, and their war machine begins to grind to a halt.

US planes arrive in Africa, and assist the French in pushing back the Italians.

The Allies offer the CP a unilateral ceasefire, with prewar borders restored.

March 1916
Italy defends itself launching several armies to Sicily, Sardinia, Algiers and Alexandria. The army is able to push the Spaniards back to Spain's mainland, while the Balears are taken by Italian armies. Finnaly, the Italian navy is able to defeat part of the US navy and recuperate moves on France and North Africa.

The US continues it's sub campaign in the Med, while they reoffer the armistace. French troops, reinforced with Tuareg allies and new American armored cars and planes, retake all the lands lost.

Indian troops, most notably the Queen's Sikh Division and the Gurkhas, invade Etriea and Somaliland. With most Italian forces in North Africa, they quickly take the lands. Eithiopia also invades, and secures Jubaland. ANZAC troops stage an invasion of Aden, and retake it.

Under pressure from three fronts (France, the Belearics, and Africa), Italy begins to lose ground in France. US, French, British, and Portuguese troops push most of the Italians to the prewar borders, and begin to fortify.

African troops continue to take German Africa.

The first Latin troops arrive in Europe, and reinforce the German front, as well as Africa. Germany is pushed to the prewar borders, while Argentine and Peruvean troops help the Spanish and the US retake the Belearics.

Britain agrees to release Eygpt (not sudan or any of East Africa) as an independent state if a peace is made.

Austria uses its influence to get British colonial support by showing how they treat every ethnic group equally in their country, whereas the British mistreat the natives in their colonies. Because of this, many Indians and Africans rebel all over the British Empire. Austria also proposes that the USA split from the Allies, since they have more to gain. They think the US could achieve Manifest Destiny, and will fully support them, also citing the British and French involvement with the Confederate States.

Italy launches a great offensive on the west, re-retaking Nice. They also offer a separate peace to the Allies: Italy will enter into peace for now if Nice, Tunis and northern Algiers is given to them.

The Allies decline.

The US agrees, they withdraw their troops from North Africa and Europe. They agree to switch sides, under the condition that they get Indochina. They do all of this in secret, however (other than the withdrawing of troops and a truce with the CP). They prepare to switch sides completely by August. It is accurately gauged by the US government that this would go over well with the public.

The Latin Allies agree to this as well, and their troops return home. They are seen as heros by much of the population, and their relations with the US are as good as ever.

Since Serbia, Switzerland and Rumania were taken prewar, the Austrians agree to peace if they can keep those and get Tunis.

The Ottomans agree to peace, if they can keep all their conquered territory.

April 1916
The US speeds up their redeployment schedule, and take their Marines in Guinea and the Solomons, and ostensibly send them back to their Phillipine bases. However, they then redeploy to Indochina, and with local support, they take much of Veitnam from the token French garrison. By now, the rest of their troops are well on their way home, escorted by the Navy, who is headed home as well.

Thanks to the USA's new grant of land and their peace, the Italians can continue attacking their enemies. As the Ottoman oil is given to the mechanized divisions again, the Italian war machine is improved. Great advances are made on Southern France, Algiers, Tunis and Egypt. Alexandria falls. The troops siege Tolouse, while that Ibiza, Formentera and Mayorca are occupied by Italy. Italian armies also march north to attack Lyon and Paris.

Austria keeps pushing in Russia until they reach Kharkiv. They keep Odessa, and Crimea, but with the rest of the land they create Ukraine. Austria also sends a huge fleet to break open Gibraltar, and they keep it, offering one batallion of tanks to Spain if they invade Portugal. Theyalso send a dirigable to London which bombs Buckingham Palace.

Italian armies disembark on Barcelona, Denia, Granada and Andalusia.

Greece conqurs Albania quickly, introducing Blitzkrieg or "Lightning War". Greece moves troops to the Greek-Austrian border and begins to disscus with the Ottoman Empire and Italy, an invasion of Austria. But its first priority is to replace any lost equipment and men. Greek industrys are increasing at a incredible rate.

The CP agrees to peace if Savoy and Nice are returned to Italy, India, Burma and Sudan be given to Austria, French West Africa is given to Italy, Angola and Mozambique are given to Germany, and there is a demilitarized zone in British Africa. Egypt should be ceded to the Ottoman Empire, all of Arabia will go to the Ottoman Empire. French Indochina is given to US. South Africa is divided in three zones with Cape Town going to Germany, Natal going to Austria and Pretoria going to Italy. French Equatorial Africa goes to Austria and Canada is given to the US.

Austria sends an envoy to Greece and is willing to share resources for free under the Tax-Free Resources Act which increases ties between both nations. Since Greece is in the CP Austria also gives them transit right through them so they can conquer the oil-rich Caucasus

The King is chased out of the UK and a Republic is founded. The Commonwealth of Great Britain is formed and Ireland breaks free. The Commonwealth is to be run along federal lines, similar to the USA.