lettowvorbeck

It is nice to see that there is room to maneuver on the western and Italian fronts. Does the game have a mine belt feature (an important aspect of naval warfare of the period)?

How long before release does Furysoftware/Battlefront typically have a demo available for their games? Can't wait to try out this one to evaluate the WW1 "feel".

Glad to hear that. I wish there was more talk on this board about the Great War aspects of the WW1 game. Fancy that. ;-)

A different one: "The Berlin-Baghdad Express: The Ottoman Empire and Germany's Bid for World Power" by Sean McMeekin (Belknap, 2010).

Ludi1867, I am an eastern/middle east/balkans guy, too. I just finished a new book about the Berlin to Bagdad railway and the German plans to launch an anti-Entente Jihad in Libya, Sudan, Arabia, Afghanistan, Persia, etc. They invested a huge amount of money for little historical result, but I hope the option is in the game. The Sussumi tribesmen actually launched a fairly serious attack on Egypt from the west.

Thanks, Hubert. I'll look forward to it.

Big Al, How are the setups handled for the new ww1 game? Are we constrained to the historic France-first/Schlieffen arrangement or does each major power get to choose its own Plan (i.e. either a choice among the various historical plans or a free setup)? Thanks!

Any chance we could get more screen shots?

I'm with you. Whatever one things of the war tactically, at the strategic level, WW1 takes a back seat to none. In my early wargaming years, I loved Avalon Hill's "Guns of August". A pretty simple game but very addictive. I don't know anything about La Grande Guerre, but I played quite a bit of Frank Hunter's Guns of August before I got bored with it. He designed a great system overall, but, after a time, I just didn't like the scale of the map anymore (e.g. there's no room for maneuver on the western front). The screenshots of Hubert's map look more like what I am looking for.

Great! thanks

Thanks a lot. That's what I wanted to hear. Another thing, if I may. Do units auto retreat? When I was playing earlier demo versions of other SC titles, units would just sit there and get pounded over and over until eliminated. Thanks again.

I am completely new to SC games, only trying out the demos of SC2 and the latest one. For SC2, I was bothered that you had to basically have two lines in order to make a continuous front or a unit could slip through by moving through a box corner. Is this feature still in the game and will it be in the WW1 game, too?