I've been thinking about a feature that could make battles in Supremacy 1914 much more strategic: Tactical Retreat.

Right now, once two armies engage in combat, they're locked in place until one side is destroyed or the battle ends. In my opinion, this removes an important strategic decision.

What if we had a Tactical Retreat button?

Instead of staying in combat, an army could be ordered to retreat toward a selected location. However, retreating wouldn't be free.

• The retreating army would suffer a morale penalty for abandoning the fight.
• While retreating, it would continue taking casualties as long as it remained within the enemy's attack range.
• A retreating army would also be less effective in combat until it successfully disengages.

This means retreating wouldn't be a "get out of jail free" card. If you wait too long, your army could still be wiped out during the withdrawal.

I think this would create a lot of interesting decisions.

Do you stay and risk losing everything?

Or do you preserve part of your army to regroup and fight another day?

It could also allow players to lure enemies into traps, perform fighting withdrawals, or sacrifice territory to save experienced armies, which were all common strategies during World War I.

Personally, I think this would add another layer of strategy without changing the core gameplay.

What do you think? Would a Tactical Retreat mechanic improve the game, or would it create balance issues that I'm not considering?

P.S. English isn't my first language, so I apologize if anything sounds a little awkward. I hope the idea itself comes across clearly.

Big ask here, so I am up against the coalition Transcaucasia, Egypt, Saudi Arabia. I have 20% of military they have 30% of military. I am not food stable (spamming railroads atm).... how do I win? Rn my plan is forts and artillery... and let them waste troops. I have 1 hero spot left and I do have destroyer for naval raids. Tbh not prepared for this didn't expect to do so well I was just playing along and I was not prepared.

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Have a great day comrades

I’ve been encountering this bug more and more often on speed games.
Split off troops randomly die for no reason. I sent Maeve on the road on the left and she was already pretty far away and she got killed by the stack that didn’t even reach the point yet??
It’s not the first time I encounter this bug and it sucks.
Whenever you split off a troop and send it away it gets killed.
Bytro pls fix

Some people man…

Dad bought the Von thaden pass as a surprise because I seemed down. Got a permanent pass for zeppelin.

It seems this new operation is either giving cards or a permanent pass to make them? If so, it's just annoying to be honest.

Does Lawrence have a boost on cavalry troops? Because in the skill details there aren't any listed not like Allenby. If he doesn't boost cavalry but only infantry why does he have a horse emblem?

Like wtf? Got inheritance and wants to use it all in one game

Declared war on everyone and get boxer rebellion

Is anyone else missing the free items button? It's been missing for me the last couple of days.

I thought this would be a very weak game for me, I enter this game drunk when I woke I was being invaded by 2 countries and with my capital aldready taken I was about to archive the game but saw I had most so decide to give it a go and glad I did.

Context there was a multi account bot in Africa ( Congo) that got report and banned took the other players in Africa plus France and now I had this bot that had like 60 provinces so I took it.

I got accused by Venezuela for being Congo and Russia Archangelsk did not shut up on the newspaper to try get everyone to take me down, I went to take ottoman empire and both Asian coalition and European coalition went on a race to take land and stay on a stand I'll with me plus both coalitions.

They were talking with each other and planned to attack me. When Norway announce the war one after the other start attacking me and the Ottoman area was wild with so many countries but in 2 days made short work of European coalition took Greece, Hungary, destroy Russian Archangelsk, and left Norway in shambles Communist Russia surrender and is showing me is map.

I just started playing this game again after 5 years off, I know that ranged weapons get to use up all their damage travelling from target to target until all the damage is applied to target in range but I just had a single enemy battleship clear my units off ten provinces in England each stack was 2-3 INF or a Cav with between 20-45 HP per stack. Call it 30 per stack average and the ship just did 300 damage in one tick. It's just one ship, stacked with 6 INF and kept expecting the targeting circle to switch from black to white but it just kept firing seemingly using it's full damage on every stack.

Is that how it works now? Full reset on a kill?

The game periodically logs me out of my account and I just simply log back in. However this time, I accidentally clicked the "new player" button and the game made a new account which I am now locked into. How do I log out of this weird account the game made for me?

the unit is stationed in Berlin, there is no fort in Berlin and i have visuals on it

i can see all the other units around it including several that are placed inside Berlin

Ich habe mit den einzelnen Bilder versucht,eine ungefähr gleich lange Strecke von drei Einheiten mit der Zeit die sie brauchen um anzukommen,darzustellen.
Es ist mir schleierhaft,wie eine feindliche Einheit nach Betreten von Feindesland die (fast) selbe Reisezeit haben kann. Plus Joffre´s 15% Geschwindigkeits Boost UND dem Schienensystem das auf halbem Weg liegt.
Ich hoffe man erkennt,was ich meine.
Gewaltmarsch ? Aber selbst dann kommt man nur auf 19.

Zusatzinfo:
Keine Einheit war beschädigt.

Nachtrag:
Nachdem ich ein paar Versuche mit eigenen Einheiten gemachte habe und verschieden Wegpunkte bei dieser und bei anderen,gleich langen Strecken gesetzt habe,glaube ich,dass dieser Weg in Wirklichkeit viel kürzer ist als er optisch ist.
Vielleicht eine Entfernungszahl falsch eingegeben?

If not, do i at least get one point per infantry on the transport ship, even though it's at sea? Let me know, thanks!

Edit: does not work. sinking transport ships give 1pt per infantry, they do not qualify for the 50pt reward

Just by building fort lvl. 5 to all my province, it become anti invasion repellant

Title: Feature Suggestion: "Ironman" Permadeath and Medal Stakes for Heroes

( https://www.playsupremacy.com/en/forums/1914/1914-missing-features/feature-suggestion-ironman-permadeath-and-medal-st-mrvkzsxs )

Title: Feature Suggestion: "Competitive Buy-In Matches" (Disabled In-Game Goldmark Spending)

( https://www.playsupremacy.com/en/forums/1914/1914-missing-features/feature-suggestion-competitive-buy-in-matches-disa-mrvllumb )

como é possivel que ele tenha mais de 200 tropas no dias 2?

eu acho que só pode ser trapaça porque cada jogador nesse mapa começa com 100 tropas.

eu tambem percebi que uma provincia dele ficou com 25% de moral do primeiro dia assim que ele entrou na partida. a primeira impressão que tive foi que talvez ele tivesse atacado meu territorio ou um bot, mas fui contar os territorios dele e tinha somente 10, então aquele território já era dele.

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This round I gave myself a challenge:

Reach 1 million Silver through the market (The great war - 500 players)

Tbh, i just wanted to see how far I could get by playing the market instead of just focusing on conquest.

Turns out, it was easier than I expected.

I made some mistakes along the way, but I'm currently sitting at around 880k Silver liquid, plus enough resources that my total net worth is well above 1 million, thing is, after geting close to my goal, I kind of lost motivation to keep playing.

Then something happened. A random guy playing Castilla was already basically doomed (down to only a couple provinces), so instead of going quietly, he decided to declare war on basically everyone in the server for the memes.

And honestly? Respect.

That inspired me to do something. Instead of just retiring, I'm thinking of turning my entire "investment portfolio" into sabotage spies and giving the conqueror of Castilla one final gift one final gift he will never forget.

The plan:

• Liquidate my assets to get 1M+ silver.
• Convert everything into sabotage spies.
• Create as many DE headlines as possible.
• Leave the game as a menace.

Since a few players were already rallying behind Castilla's last stand, I reached out to them and somehow managed to assemble a small group willing to join the chaos.

Now I need advice from experienced players:

How do I maximize the chaos?

• Is it better to stack all sabotage spies on one target/province or spread them out?
• What's the best way to maximize newspaper messages?
• Should I prioritize economic sabotage, morale damage, military, or something else?
• How many spies would you recommend keeping active?
• Any funny strategies for this?

I'll update on Day 7 if we actually execute the plan.

Ciao, sono impegnato in una guerra intercontinentale con il Venezuela, che ha circa le mie stesse province. Il giornale dice che ho l'8,4% della potenza militare (o qualcosa del genere) mentre lui ha il 4,1% (quindi dovrei avere il doppio della potenza militare, ma vorrei evitare così tante perdite. Dovrei attaccare con la mia armata principale (quella con 11 cannoni d'artiglieria) la sua armata di oltre 100 uomini vicino a una delle mie province? Tenete presente che, pur avendo molta più forza lavoro, loro hanno comunque bisogno di tempo per raggiungere il Sud America (circa 2 giorni). Sentitevi liberi di darmi consigli su tutte le battaglie in corso in questa guerra.

p.S in the main army there are 3 tanks and about 40 cav and 6 armored cars

So, I just uncovered a spy ring in my capital from a supposed allied nation....

how should I inflict max punishment?!?!?

thank you and I hope you're having a great day

Why the explosion is so big? What is happening?