This allows us to integrate as many different weapons and vehicles as possible, while keeping a consistent timeline in regards to uniforms and tactics. While the mod’s main goal is to represent the First World War, we decided from the start to specifically portray the Western Front only and the period going from 21 March 1918 to the armistice, or more precisely the Spring Offensive, the second battle of the Marne and the Hundred Days offensive. In its wake followed waves of German assault troops, small elite units of specially selected soldiers trained and equipped for a single task: to break throughĪs the spring Offensive punched deeply in the old trench systems, armies once again fought over the open fields and villages of northern France and Belgium.įar away from the shelter of trenches, soldiers entered the last yet bloodiest year of the war. New offensive tactics brought short victories followed by bloody defeats as the defensive caught up in an endless cycle of innovations and counters.Īnd yet despite all this, the stalemate of trench warfare was still going on…Īt 4.40 in the morning a violent barrage fell on the lines held by the British 5th Army. There had been no shortage of ingenuity when it came to finding new ways of killing the enemy, from heavy howitzers to flamethrowers and poison gas. Planes brought warfare to a new dimension, and the tank had made its entrance on the scene.

The glorious rifle-armed battalions of 1914 charging through the wheat fields of northern France had given way to small squads of specialists armed with grenades and light machineguns, crawling from cover to cover in the mud of no man’s land. War though never changed so much in so little time. The Western front changed little on the map since the Entente’s armies had stopped the German onslaught on the Marne river in September 1914.

Company of heroes 1 great war mod