 

For God, Tsar, and Motherland
An Imperial Russian Campaign
1904-1917

Version 1.3
Toliy (gutalinn@yahoo.com)
February 17, 2006

History:
"The Russian colossus exercised a spell upon Europe" - The Guns of August

This campaign covers Russian participation in two conflicts of the 20th century:  the Russo-Japanese War of 1904-05 and WWI.  The former war presented many lessons about waging modern war:  many of them to be overlooked until blood began to spill.  At the outbreak of WWI, Russia's peasant army represented a bottomless well of manpower reserves, with only a slow mobilization schedule holding it from overrunning her enemies outright.  The opening year of the war saw massive armies of men engaged in a battle of maneuver with casualties running into hundreds of thousands by September.  As the Western Front froze into entrenched positions, the campaigns of maneuver continued in the East.  The front only settled briefly in the winter, to be shattered by a Central Powers' breakthrough offensive in 1915.  The year of 1916 saw the frontier stabilized into lines of trenches:  in places very porous along a vastly longer front.  Launching a truly successful offensive in the summer of 1916, Russia's tragic role in the war approached victory:  only to be snatched away by internal turmoil.  Suffering staggering losses in the war, pressured by civil unrest, and manipulated by the Bolsheviks, Russia signed a separate peace with Germany, Austria-Hungary, Bulgaria, and Turkey on March 3, 1918.

Experience the development of a modern army, as you participate in the early conflict with Japan.  As the Russian army reorganizes, you will march to war against Germany, Austria-Hungary, and Turkey in a series of yearly paths you may choose as you progress through the campaign.

Notes:
The Version 1.x releases are not the complete campaign:  they only cover the battles through the year 1915.  This ambitious project has involved significant time devoted to research, so it makes sense to release the work in blocks. 
 
Release Notes:
V.1.3 17/02/2007
The JP CC XXXVI release
V.1.2 16/01/2007
The second beta release
V.1.1 01/11/2006
The first beta release
V.1.1 23/12/2006
The first public release


Installation
To play this campaign, you will need the following:
1.	The Baltic Efile V.16/01/2007 (included) 
The Baltic Efile requires the Aug 2006 DATUP and the V.2.02 PG2 patch!
Get them from:
	http://www.alderkorps.com
	http://www.wargamer.com/pg2campaigns/steve/pg2.htm
2.	Optional: install the Baltic Efile dossier and flags using the Flagshifter tool available at either of the two sites above.
3.	Copy the campaign files to the SCENARIO folder of your Panzer General II directory


* Maps Needed *
[RJW path]
luzon
cape gloucester
ulan-ude
ekaterinburg

[path selection]
europe [eurodf mapfile]

[East Prussia 1914 path]
oboyan
tannenberg
lodzn
lodz

[Galicia 1914 path]
ebro
russian plains
przemysl
teruel

[North Poland 1915 path]
osowiec [osowiecr mapfile]
bobruisk
novogeorgievsk
kursk2
kaunas
vilnius
narotch

[Galicia 1915 path]
dukla
colmar
talavera
gorlice
przemysl
mullhouse
kharkov

[Kavkaz path]
sarykamysh
tabriz
chosin
catania
busaco
alaskhert
teheran
				


Acknowledgements
	To Sergei Kozlov for his invaluable historical expertise
and infantry icons in the new datup
	To Juankar for his amazing WWI-era icons in the newdatup
	To Andrew for his beautiful Gorlice-Tarnow map
	To WonderDoc for his help with the efile, OOBs, and playtesting
	To Patrick Steinmann for his help with the efile and playtesting
	"	To Pzmaniac for an incredible effort in playtesting
	To Graf von Dracula for playtesting
	To Johan for graciously offering his website to host the campaign and
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Final Note and Disclaimer
These files are freeware and may be freely distributed as long as they are not modified. The author makes no warranty as to the suitability of the files for their intended or any other purpose. Furthermore, the author is not responsible for any damage to your system nor is he liable for any other damages whatsoever that may be incurred by use of these files.

