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When most people think of the Great War, they picture the endless, churned fields of France and Belgium, of beleaguered infantrymen desperately charging into a wall of lethal machine gun fire, and of endless lines of trenches pounded by distant artillery. All of that is accurate, but it’s not the whole picture. Cavalry - so deadly in earlier ages - were still deployed right to the very end of the conflict, albeit in a much reduced capacity. Tanks, meanwhile, started to see ac

"Artillery Conquers, Infantry Occupies. " Maj. Gen. J.F.C Fuller. Although cannons, mortars and other big guns had been in heavy use across European battlefields since the 15th century at least, it wasn’t until the Great War that the terrible dominance of indirect fire really came to be felt.  No game about the horrors of this conflict would be honest without the relentless thud of distant guns - and the very real threat they posed to life and limb - but the trick is to make

Over the last few weeks, we’ve seen how 1918: A Miniatures Game works, from selecting forces and issuing orders to combat and morale . But, as more than a few old-fashioned generals discovered during the Great War, pitched battles can only get you so far… 1918 focuses on the Spring Offensive and the dying days of the war for several reasons, but one of the main ones is simple: by this point, military technology and tactics had evolved enough to make battles more fluid, mor

By 1918, morale was terrible for every soldier on every front in each nation. After four long, grinding years of war and death, no man was immune to despair. And yet, the great powers still battled. Morale is a key element in most tabletop wargames, but it comes to the fore especially in a simulation of the First World War. And it need not even take much death before a side begins to waver - horrific innovations like the tank, the machine gun and mustard gas reaped a heavy ps