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Oh, how I was waiting for a game like this. Amazing news. I'm glad that the "secret project" was worth the wait.

I think World War I is the single most overlooked modern war, from operational and strategic perspectives. I can hardly think of ANY PC wargame that modeled the war at this scale. Or any scale, for that matter, if you don't count TOAW scenarios.

The war has a certain apocalyptic charm to it, more than World War II. Many aspects of the Great War are shockingly modern, yet seems almost as distant as the antiquity and oddly anachronistic - ancient monarchies battling each other over centuries-old quarrels with chemical weapons, tanks, submarines.

P.S.: When this is released though, another patch for GI would be sweet

alexander seil wrote:The war has a certain apocalyptic charm to it, more than World War II. Many aspects of the Great War are shockingly modern, yet seems almost as distant as the antiquity and oddly anachronistic - ancient monarchies battling each other over centuries-old quarrels with chemical weapons, tanks, submarines.

Yes. I have been always fascinated by this conflict for those reasons. And WW1 had a much bigger impact on how our world looks today than WW2 did. Because the latter's stage, and for a big part, its outcome, was set by the former.

cant wait for this game!

A must buy for me. The Great War meets the greatest maker of grand strategic computer wargames.

alexander seil wrote:Oh, how I was waiting for a game like this. Amazing news. I'm glad that the "secret project" was worth the wait.

I think World War I is the single most overlooked modern war, from operational and strategic perspectives. I can hardly think of ANY PC wargame that modeled the war at this scale. Or any scale, for that matter, if you don't count TOAW scenarios.

It also tends to be a very stereotyped war in the public mind. The deadlocked trench warfare on the narrow Western Front is the more enduring image of the war obviously. But, it had a more fluid mobile aspect on the geographically larger Eastern Front, and the Mesopotamian, Balkan and colonial campaigns are mostly forgotten.

It's sort of the same thing with the ACW. Gettysburg and Antietam in the more politically important east are well remembered. Shiloh and Vicksburg out west not so much.