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I'm looking for a way to improve The Great War: Paths of Glory, and I need some of you, armed with commendable intelligence, to help me and suggest something that will truly make a difference.

Anything goes! New units, new countries, general economic changes, adding or removing players, etc. When you open the form link below, fill it out and write your suggestion in the last text box. As mentioned, the best suggestion will be announced, and the person who submitted it will receive 300 ProtoCoins.

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Let me clone it to fix it full: add Spain, Persia and Arabia >:)

Terrible idea.

I feel like it should at least be viable for the WG, with funding, to be able to rush France early. Right now, even if Wg takes France, it doesnt seem that taking France is decisive enough since UK is still quite seemingly impregnable. This means that every time the only way for CP to win is if Prussia beats Russia. But it would be nice if the CP could win by hard focussing on the Western Front as well.

So what if Wg is able to produce some kind of expensive elite attack unit on the first 4 turns only so that Wg could have a serious possibility of smashing through the trenches. And to make it seemingly worthwhile to do so, perhaps WG could produce some kind of elite naval unit in France only to really give UK a hard time. These elite units would be expensive, thus requiring perhaps even Prussia to help fund Wg.

Improving balance. You need to fix West Germany's income in that map. It becomes impossible to make troops past a certain turn, even with the imperialist strategy. Now, imagine with other stats, such as PD. I am well aware this is not the best of the recommendations, but it is a simple one to give more balance to the map. I think that 500 to 1000 more per turn will give this balance. You could also check the incomes of the basic WW1 for comparison: In original WW1, WG would make even more than the UK, and UK would be richer than France. In your map, France is richer than UK, and also richer than West Germany.

Eshkruar nga Lord Aragorn, 27.07.2025 at 14:00

feel like it should at least be viable for the WG, with funding, to be able to rush France early.

Nobody on Central Powers will be able to fund West Germany. That also wouldn't be historically correct.

Eshkruar nga Lord Aragorn, 27.07.2025 at 14:00

Right now, even if Wg takes France, it doesnt seem that taking France is decisive enough since UK is still quite seemingly impregnable

UK would be extremely vulnerable once France falls.

Eshkruar nga Lord Aragorn, 27.07.2025 at 14:00

This means that every time the only way for CP to win is if Prussia beats Russia.

It's not the only way, but CP indeed must take Russia out of the equation indeed.

Eshkruar nga Lord Aragorn, 27.07.2025 at 14:00

So what if Wg is able to produce some kind of expensive elite attack unit on the first 4 turns only so that Wg could have a serious possibility of smashing through the trenches

I dont think any WG player would risk that. And WG already has elite attack units after t14.

Eshkruar nga Lord Aragorn, 27.07.2025 at 14:00

WG could produce some kind of elite naval unit in France only to really give UK a hard time.

Thats not historically accurate. Germany never gave UK a hard time, rather than uboats.

But thanks a lot for your insights, Aragorn.

Eshkruar nga Estus, 26.07.2025 at 13:38

Terrible idea.

You made bad maps, i can fix it

Eshkruar nga Estus, 28.07.2025 at 12:22

Eshkruar nga Lord Aragorn, 27.07.2025 at 14:00

I feel like it should at least be viable for the WG, with funding, to be able to rush France early.

Nobody on Central Powers will be able to fund West Germany. That also wouldn't be historically correct.

True, but it is historical that Germany initially gambled on a 80% troop deployment on France with 20% acting as a screening force against Russia. This was later adjusted to 70/30 but clearly rushing France very early was the strategy. And this strategy very nearly succeeded. But this rarely plays out for whatever reason.

Eshkruar nga Lord Aragorn, 27.07.2025 at 14:00

This means that every time the only way for CP to win is if Prussia beats Russia.

It's not the only way, but CP indeed must take Russia out of the equation indeed.

Yes, Russia must be taken out at some point. But rarely is the Western Front the early prime focus of the CP.

Eshkruar nga Lord Aragorn, 27.07.2025 at 14:00

So what if Wg is able to produce some kind of expensive elite attack unit on the first 4 turns only so that Wg could have a serious possibility of smashing through the trenches

I dont think any WG player would risk that. And WG already has elite attack units after t14.


I think my general idea is to make it just feasible enough that WG might risk it every once in a while, however it is made possible.

Eshkruar nga Lord Aragorn, 27.07.2025 at 14:00

WG could produce some kind of elite naval unit in France only to really give UK a hard time.

Thats not historically accurate. Germany never gave UK a hard time, rather than uboats.


This idea, while unhistorical, was made solely to insure that there was an incentive for rushing France. Some have made the argument that the French front is "relatively insignificant", meaning even if France falls, UK will still be able to hold, possibly even to a win if Russia also holds on long enough. I tend to agree with you on this though.

Eshkruar nga Lord Aragorn, 29.07.2025 at 15:37

I think my general idea is to make it just feasible enough that WG might risk it every once in a while, however it is made possible.

Some have made the argument that the French front is "relatively insignificant", meaning even if France falls, UK will still be able to hold, possibly even to a win if Russia also holds on long enough.

Something can be done from this, it is a possible path to move forward in the next updates.

Its niceto add Spain even if Spain did not participate WW1. its better to attack Spain and then go for Portugal.

And i think that Prussia can push Russia to Belarus easy and then Prussia got very hard to take Russian Capital, I mean Russia get event or something that will make Prussia very hard to take Russia capital and other Russians cities.

I mean Prussia didint win Russia

In WW1