It's a methodical, turn based, almost board game-like strategy experience which aims to faithfully recreate the general flow and historical environment that the real event experienced. But war is also fascinating because military strategy is interesting from an academic point of view, and that's where Commander: The Great War comes in.Īs a grand strategy game this game is not about pumping out units and overwhelming the opponent with fast attacks. War is never as heroic as the propaganda continues to try to convince us of, and we've already seen games this year that have offered us a look at the human and emotional toll of World War 1. It was a time when aerial warfare started to play a role in battle, and nations realised the importance of technological advancement and industry in times such a this.
It also produced some of the bloodiest fighting the world had ever seen, with literally hundreds of thousands of lives lost in order to progress the front a couple of feet. The war produced fascinating stories of heroes, such that of T.E Lawrence, or Lawrence of Arabia. Japan and America came into bat for the allies for very different reasons (the same reasons that would see the two fight the Pacific conflict in World War 2). A complex series of political and military alliances later and Europe was divided into two, with very few neutral parties Germany, Austria-Hungary and allies such as the Ottoman Empire on the one side, England, France, Italy, Russia and later on America on the other.Īt the time these nations all held colonies on other continents in the world, and these colonies were pulled into the war. This was a war that erupted when a unpopular prince was assassinated, and encouraged the then Austria-Hungary European power to declare war on the war-weary Serbia. I am of course talking about the First World War.
A war that was directly responsible for its even more tragic successor, and a war that in many ways we're still paying for today. It was 100 years ago now when the first of two global conflicts would erupt and fundamentally change the future of humanity.
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