Ww1 grand strategy games mod#

How do you model that easily? I don't see this as something that an AI would handle well, at least not right away. The eastern front was extremely dynamic, but when the average person thinks WWI they think 'trenches'.ДҐ) The outcome of World War I is hard to model - A huge part of the end of WWI was the literal redrawing of Europe, the Middle East, Africa, and the Pacific.

Territory didn't change often and it was just a grind. This makes for a easily compelling story of good vs evil without all that grey morality bullshit that all us modern writers go on about.Д¤) World War I wasn't dynamic enough - at least in the public image WWI was a waiting game. They are literally so bad that most people ignore (or at least try to) the evils of Stalin in the USSR. Now, this is not really a problem for strategy games but I think it is a massive reason why there is literally a single FPS game set in WWI and hundreds in WWII. It is also the first major conflict with video footage that was broadcast 'back home' which made it much more real, especially to Americans.ДЈ) No Heroes - World War I is a lot more morally ambiguous than World War II. Here are a few reasons both on a consumer side and a developer side I can come up with:ДЎ) Lack of public knowledge of World War I - the Great War exists in the minds of many as 'That war that is the reason the Second World War is second'.Дў) Increased public knowledge of World War II - The Second World War is also more recent and therefore more on people's minds. So the real question is why don't consumers want a WWI game? Why hasn't this been done right yet? Why have so few even tried?ДЇew of anything in the market implies a lack or perceived lack of interest in the consumers. It seems like a strategy game set in WW1 could be fascinating to play, if done right. You could use pigeons for that, and later phones, and eventually radios.Д«iplanes and triplanes, airships and balloons, landships and tanks, trenches - lots of trenches. You have runners passing information between the lines now, to headquarters, to artillery. You need more communications technologies, better communications technologies. More machine guns - better machine guns, to defend your lines. Landships and tanks to soak up enemy fire as your infantry advances. You absolutely need more artillery, mortars and gas to clear the enemy's trenches ahead of you, because you already don't have enough - but you need more than that. The war is in stagnation, and you can't win it by hiding endlessly in your trenches. In addition to heavy investment in industrial production, you'd need to invest heavily in research. You'd need strong supply lines and industrial production to keep that ammunition, equipment, and food flowing to the trenches. You'd need men to relieve those men so that they can rest, practice hygiene, eat, and clean their weapons. I'd need to research upgrades for those trenches, and also build communication trenches to the rear where I'd build support trenches there, to house latrines, storage, food production. Attrition would set in over time as a result of such things as trenchfoot, poor hygiene and malnutrition. I then imagined ordering my men to dig trenches throughout the night, repelling enemy advances through the day.

Ww1 grand strategy games mod#

Why is that? Is there not a market for WW1 strategy games, or is that market just virtually untapped? The moment I saw that WW1 mod on HOI4, I had this image in my mind of advancing men across the field of battle until that advance slowed to stagnation due to strong enemy resistance. It seems like there's hundreds of WW2 games on the market, across several genres, but it looks like there might only be a dozen WW1 games - none of which appeared very well developed. I decided to look into other WW1 strategy games, and what I found was that there are very few.

I recently found a WW1 mod under development for HOI4, and I found that a fascinating idea.