World War I Simulation 2005

A strong start for the Central Powers!

Germany invades France and finds itself at the outskirts of Paris. The war between these old enemies could indeed be over within the year! Meanwhile, Germany occupies Denmark in the hope of having the Danes join the Central Powers, and a German army flexes its muscles at the gates of Russian Warsaw. Germany's ally Austria-Hungary occupies Rumania, and the Central Powers potentially grow even stronger.

Among the neutral powers, the Ottoman Empire takes advantage of Russia's slow mobilization to occupy the Black Sea--a long fought conflict that takes us back sixty years to the days of the Crimean War. And in a movement whose intentions remain unclear, Italy sends its forces to the east.

Will Germany take Paris in the Fall of 1914, thus knocking out France and completing stage one of the Schlieffen Plan? We shall see...