August 1914 Week 1: Gluttons, Bad Equipment and General lack of Healthcare
Eastern Front, somewhere around StallupönenWeek 1 Orders: Light Guard DutyYou have occupied the town of Stalluopönen and wait for the Russians to arrive...really now what could possibly go wrong?
[10] While on a Patrol Erik finds a Great Coat...more importantly in grey! [7] It is of Good Quality.
Erik gains Great Coat of Good Quality[4] Arik's Patrols are calm.
Week 1 Free Time[7] Erik easily manages to trade his ration of Coffee at the Quartermaster for more Alcohol, it seems the Qm is not getting out of bed in the mornings...
[4] however he laughs at you as you try to trade some food and water for a Uniform or a helmet...
[10] As you complain about your bayonet however, he produces a grinding stone and shows you how to use it. "Consider it a gift for the Coffee...bring the Stone back whenever. [10] And with it you immediately begin to work on the Bajonet turning it as sharp as possible.
Erik lost Coffee Ration, Erik gained Alcohol Ration. Erik gained Grinding Stone (borrowed). Erik gained a new Trait Comrade(Quartermaster). Erik improved his Bajonet to Average Quality[1] As Arik goes to another Quartermaster and begins to haggle around a Oberst (Colonel) comes by and notices him trying to bribe the Quartermaster with Alcohol. As any good German Soldier should know bribing of Officers is illegal and can be punished...in your case by the Halfing of all your Rations except for Water.
[5,?] You walk away a good way from your Camp before trying to do some Accuracy shooting...on the front however this is not a good idea. [6-1] The same Oberst arrives a few minutes after you have fired your first shot and is arresting you. "Grenadier Bauer, i have an eye on you, one more such a joke and you will enjoy a whipping! HAVE I MADE MYSELF CLEAR?"
Arik's Rations have been halved. Erik gained a New Enemy (Oberst Steinmetz).Mental and Health Conditions[2] Heavy Summer Storms have turned the trenches and the whole area muddy, gnats are breeding like mad.
Erik Weather Roll: (3 +1 Boots)
Arik Weather Roll: (10 -1 )
Arik:
Your lack of Tobacco Rations is getting to you:
Mental Health Reduced to: Stressed, other Effects: -1 Awareness, -1 Accuracy, -1 CharismaYour lack of Coffee in tandem with your Tobacco withdrawal further reduces your
Mental Health: Severly Stressed -1 Awareness, -1 Charisma, and causes you to develop a
Condition: InsomniaStrength: ca.10.000 Men
Morale: Good
Supplies: 100%
Ammunition: 100%
Health: Perfect
Mind: Perfect
Comrade(Quartermaster)
+1 Weekly Health (Good Boots)
+1 Morale ( Good Boots, Bad Uniform, Good Coat)
-1 Protection (Bad Helmet)
Equipment:
Trench Boots M1866 (Perfectly Fitting)(New) (+1 Weekly Health Modifier) (+1 Morale Modifier)
Grey Uniform M1907 (Badly Fitting, Scratching) (New) (-1 Morale Modifier)
Grey Great Coat (Well Fitting, Keeps Warm) (new) (+1 Morale Modifier, +1 Health Roll in Winter
Trench Spade
Field Tent (Average)(New)
Mauser G98 Rifle (Average) (New)
18 Magazines x 5 Shots (90 Shots)
Bajonet (Average Quality) (New)
Pickelhaube M1895 (Bad Quality) (New) (-1 Protection)
3 M15 Stielhandgranaten
Personal Stash:
Grinding Stone(borrowed)
One and a Half Ration Food (perishable)
One and a Half Ration Water (perishable)
Weekly Ration
Double Ration Food (You need a Half Ration)
Double Ration Water (You need a Half Ration)
One Ration Alcohol (You need a Double Ration) Withdrawal-Warning
One Ration Coffee (You don't need any)
One Ration Tobacco (You need One Ration)
Health: Not Really Healthy
Mind: Severly Stressed
Enemy: Oberst Steinmetz
Insomniac: (One Additional Health Test every Week)
-2 Awareness (Tobacco, Coffee)
-2 Charisma (Tobacco, Coffee)
-1 Weekly Health (Bad Boots)
-1 Morale (Bad Uniform)
+1 Accuracy (Tobacco, Perfect Rifle)
Equipment:
Trench Boots M1866 (Badly Fitting)(New) (-1 Weekly Health Modifier)
Grey Uniform M1907 (Badly Fitting, Scratching) (New) (-1 Morale Modifier)
Trench Spade
Field Tent (Average)(New)
Mauser G98 Rifle (Perfect) (New) (Will never Degrade in Quality) (+2 Accuracy)
18 Magazines x 5 Shots (90 Shots)
Bajonet (Bad Quality) (New) (Quality Degradation twice as fast)
Pickelhaube M1895 (Horrible Quality) (New) (No Head Protection)
3 M15 Stielhandgranaten
Personal Stash:
a Half Ration Alcohol
Weekly Ration
One Ration Food (You need a Double Ration) Malnutrition-Warning
Double Ration Water (You need a Double Ration)
a Half Ration Alcohol (You don't need any)
a Half Ration Coffee (You need a Double Ration) Withdrawal!
a Half Ration Tobacco (You need a Double Ration) Withdrawal!
Western Front, Siege of LiegeYou are Marching upon Liege, the First of the Belgian Fortresses. It is a heavily guarded town with a dozen or so forts surrounding it:
Week 1 Orders: [3]Assault on Fort BarchonCongratulations, you drew the short straw!
[2] Wilhelm you indeed are in one of the worst positions whatsoever, you will Assault the Heavily Fortified Position, defended by Artillery and Machine Guns, in the First Wave. [Will be handled in a Mini-Turn]
[9] Bastian you are lucky, you are ordered to defend the Baggage Train. [7] Where not much of note happens.
Week 1 Free TimeWilhelm
[4] Wilhelm your Diet doesn't really work out, indeed you feel rather sick...[Malnutrition!]
[3] The Quartermaster also refuses to give you a Trench Spike, especially not now that you try to trade in your grenades for it. He threatens to tell you off to the Commanding Officer if you continue to hand away your Equipment
[10] The Day before the Assault you meet a young Leutnant who is looking for Volunteers, you joke a bit with him and agree to join his detail. He sents you to the Quartermaster with a handwritten note. Once there you are handed a Breastplate and another grenade, aswell as the Trench Spike you wanted and an extra Ration Alcohol. Something is dawning ony ou that it wasn't THAT good an idea to befriend the Officer...
Wilhelm gains a new Friend(Suicide Mission Leutnant), Wilhelm gains a Good Quality Breastplate, a grenade, a Trench Spike and a Weekly Extra Ration of Alcohol.Bastian
[6] You work on your gun for a long while and finally it seems a bit cleaner and a bit better working...
Mauser upgraded to Bad Quality[1] Turns out the Quartermaster and the guys at the Baggage Train hate people...or just you...whatever you did you did annoy both.
New Enemy: QuartermasterMental and Health Conditions[3] Heavy Storms and Constant Rain make you feel somewhat ill...
Wilhelm Weather Roll: [1+2] despite good boots and a dry tent you contract a Cold.
Condition: Common Cold (-1 Awareness, -1 Stealth, -1 Weekly Health Modifier) Bastian Weather Roll: [1] You contract the Flu
Condition: The Flu (-1 Awareness, -1 Fitness, -1 Stealth, -2 Weekly Health ModifierWilhelm
Condition Malnutrition: (-1 Weekly Health Modifier)Strength: ca. 15.000 Men
Morale: Good
Supplies: 95%
Ammunition: 100%
Health: Ill
Mind: Perfect
+0 Weekly Health Modifier (Common Cold, Good Uniform, Good Tent, Malnutrition)
+2 Protection (Breastplate)
+2 Close-Combat (Bajonet, Trench Spike)
-1 Awareness (Common Cold)
-1 Stealth (Common Cold)
-1 Accuracy (Bad Quality Rifle)
Friend(Suicide Mission Leutnant)
Equipment:
Trench Boots M1866 (Fitting)(New)
Grey Uniform M1907 (Well Fitting) (New) (+1 Weekly Health Modifier)
Breastplate (Good Quality) (New) (+2 Protection)
Trench Spade
Field Tent (Good Quality)(New) (+1 Weekly Health Modifier, while not in a Trench)
Mauser G98 Rifle (Bad Quality) (New) (Quality Degrades Twice as Fast)(-1 Accuracy)
18 Magazines x 5 Shots (90 Shots)
Bajonet (Perfect Quality) (New) (No Degradation of Quality)(+1 In Close-Combat)
Pickelhaube M1895 (Average) (New)
4 M15 Stielhandgranaten
Personal Stash:
One Ration Food
Two Rations Alcohol
One Ration Coffee
One and a Half Ration Water
a Half Ration Tobacco
Weekly Ration
Double Ration Food (You need a Double Ration)
Double Ration Water (You need a Half Ration)
Two Rations Alcohol (You don't need any)
One Ration Coffee (You don't need any)
One Ration Tobacco (You need a Half Ration)
Health: Ill
Mind: Stressed
Enemy: Quartermaster
-1 Awareness (Flu)
-1 Fitness (Flu)
-1 Stealth (Flu)
-1 Accuracy (Bad Mauser)
-2 Weekly Health (Flu, Good Boots, Bad Tent)
-1 Head Protection ( Bad Pickelhaube)
Equipment:
Trench Boots M1866 (Well Fitting)(New) (+1 Weekly Health Modifier)
Grey Uniform M1907 (Fitting) (New)
Trench Spade
Field Tent (Bad Quality, Leaking)(New) (-1 Weekly Health Modifier, while not in a Trench)
Mauser G98 Rifle (Bad Quality) (New) (Quality Degrades Twice as Fast)(-1 Accuracy)
18 Magazines x 5 Shots (90 Shots)
Bajonet (Good Quality) (New) (No Degradation of Quality)
Pickelhaube M1895 (Bad Quality) (New) (-1 Protection)
3 M15 Stielhandgranaten
Personal Stash:
One Ration Food
One Ration Water
One Ration Cofffee
a Half Ration Alcohol
Weekly Ration
Double Ration Food (You need One Ration)
Double Ration Water (You need One Ration)
One Ration Alcohol (You need a Half Ration)
One Ration Coffee (You don't need any)
One Ration Tobacco (You need One Ration)
African Front, TogoWeek 1 Orders: On the MarchCurrently there is not much to do for you, Döring is still gathering mroe recruits and reinforcements...
Week 1 Free TimeHans:
Quitting smoking isn't that easy and for the rest of the month (like the other soldiers who try) you will face ever more serious withdrawal effects...
[8= Good Quality -1 Equipment Quality = Average] Indeed the Quartermaster is not averse to trade in your Rifle for one for your rum rations.
[3] While being out hunting you run across a Warthog. It turns out Warthogs aren't that easy to kill and your now bleeding leg-wound shows for that...
[10] At least you got more luck at Playing Cards.
[2] Yeah trying to to trade your Tent with an Oberst...good idea, except it isn't. Your rations have been halved. congrats.
Rifle Quality upgraded to Average
Wound: Flesh Wound on the Leg (-1 Fitness, -1 Health Per Week)
Your Rations have been halved
gained two rations of Coffee
Zimmermann:
[1] The Quartermaster and especially the NCO now keeping a watch on your unit is not very pleased that you want to trade valuable ammunition for smokes and Coffee. Your Rations also got halved.
[7] You find a stick. You sharpen it. You now have a sharpened stick. I am sure the British will run at the sight of your terrible,terrible weapon.
Halved Rations!
gained Sharpened StickMental and Health Conditions[9] Its Twenty Four Degrees Celsius and a light wind is going. For Togoland that is eerily cold. But for your it is a nice weather change for the better.
Hans:
Condition: Malnutrition (-1 Weekly Health Modifier)
Condition: Dehydration: (-1 Fitness)
Condition: Tobacco Withdrawal (-1 Charisma, -1 Accuracy, -1 Awareness)
Mental Stability reduced to Stressed
Zimmermann:
Condition: Malnutrition (-1 Weekly Health Modifier)
Condition: Dehydration: (-1 Fitness)
Condition: Tobacco Withdrawal (-1 Charisma, -1 Accuracy, -1 Awareness)
Condition Coffee Withdrawal (-1 Awareness, -1 Charisma)
Mental Stability reduced to Very StressedStrength: ca. 70 Men, 400 Askaris
Morale: Average
Supplies: 50%
Ammunition: 100%
-1 Equipment Quality
Health: Lightly Wounded (Untreated Flesh Wound on the Left Leg)
Mind: Stressed
-1 Weekly Health Modifier (Malnutrition, Horrible Boots, Untreated Leg Wound, Perfect Tent)
-2 Head Protection (Horrible Pickelhaube)
-1 Awareness (Tobacco)
-1 Charisma (Tobacco)
-3 Accuracy (Tobacco, Horrible Mauser)
-2 Morale (Horrible Boots, Bad Uniform)
-2 Fitness(Dehydration, Untreated Leg Wound)
Equipment:
Trench Boots M1866 (Far too Small, has Holes)(New) (-1 Weekly Health Modifier)(-1 Morale Modifier)
Colonial Uniform M1907 (Badly Fitting) (New) (-1 Morale Modifier)
Trench Spade
Field Tent (Perfect Quality)(New) (Quality will not Degrade)(+2 Weekly Health Modifier, while not in a Trench)
Mauser G98 Rifle (Horrible Quality) (New) (Quality Degrades Twice as Fast)(-2 Accuracy)
18 Magazines x 5 Shots (90 Shots)
Bajonet (Average) (New)
Pickelhaube M1895 (Horrible Quality) (New) (Quality Degrades Twice as Fast) (-2 Protection)
3 M15 Stielhandgranaten
Personal Stash:
Two and a Half Rations Coffee
One Half Ration Alcohol
Weekly Ration
a Half Ration Food (You need a Double Ration) Malnutrition-Warning
a Half Ration Water (You need a Double Ration) Dehydration- Warning
No Alcohol (You don't need any)
No Coffee (You don't need any)
No Tobacco (You need a Double Ration) Withdrawal-Warning
Health: Perfect
Mind: Very Stressed
-1 Weekly Health Modifier (Malnutrition, Bad Tent, Good Boots)
-1 Fitness (Dehydration)
-2 Charisma (Coffee, Tobacco)
-2 Awareness (Cofee, Tobacco)
0 Accuracy(Tobacco, Good Mauser)
+1 Protection (Pickelhaube)
Equipment:
Trench Boots M1866 (Well Fitting)(New) (+1 Weekly Health Modifier)
Colonial Uniform M1907 (Fitting) (New)
Trench Spade
Field Tent (Bad Quality, Leaking)(New) (-1 Weekly Health Modifier, while not in a Trench)
Mauser G98 Rifle (Good Quality) (New) (Quality does not Degrade)(+1 Accuracy)
18 Magazines x 5 Shots (90 Shots)
Bajonet (Horrible Quality) (New) (Degrades thrice as fast)
Pickelhaube M1895 (Good Quality) (New) (+1 Protection)
3 M15 Stielhandgranaten
Personal Stash:
A Half Ration Alcohol
Weekly Ration
a Half Ration Food (You need One Ration) Malnutrition!
a Half Ration Water (You need One Ration) Dehydration!
No Alcohol (You don't need any)
No Coffee (You need One Ration) Withdrawal- Warning
No Tobacco (You need One Ration) Withdrawal-Warning
_______________________
Several Things Again:
On the Rations. The Left Figure is what you are given each week. The Right one is What you need each week. If you dislike to consume a different amount than you need of your Rations you have to tell me.
Example: You get Two Rations a Week and Need One Ration. Now you can consume automatically consume the one Ration or given an order to consume two rations or evne only a half ration to save for better days.
On the Matter of Withdrawal: Quitting smoking, coffee or even Alcohol is hard. Those of you who have tried know how hard it sometimes is. The Maluses of these Needs will increase once every two weeks. After a month however they will decrease. So to effectively quit smoking you need to stop it for 2 Full Months. Reducing your smoking is easier and will take only one month. With only one increase in Maluses.
Malnutrition and Dehydration work differently however. The Maluses for that will constantly increase every two weeks, up to a point where you just fall over and die/need to be brought to a hospital.
Only after several months at the front your Need for food and water will automatically decrease as you can accustomed to the hardships of the trench.