WW1 Tactical Game?

[Father Ted]

I'm re-reading "The War the Infantry Knew" by J C Dunn (great read by the way) and was struck by the potential for an interesting company-level game.  Whilst the strategic picture was one of attrition and sheer-brute-force frontal assaults, at a tactical level patrols and raids were undertaken which I think would be good gaming material.  Does such a game exist, does anybody know?

[Gusington]

Squad Battles WWI:

http://www.johntillersoftware.com/SquadBattles/FirstWorldWar.html

[Father Ted]

Thanks Gus - this seems to be just what I was looking for!

[TacticalWargames]

A must own book for anyone into WW1. O0

[jomni]

Squad Battles WWI:

http://www.johntillersoftware.com/SquadBattles/FirstWorldWar.html

Very good title for those into WWI small tactics.

[Silent Disapproval Robot]

If you want to throw some Cthulhu into the mix, there's The Wasted Land for PC and smartphones.  Tactical combat game against eldritch horrors in the trenches of WWI.

http://redwaspdesign.wordpress.com/call-of-cthulhu/

[Gusington]

You're welcome, Father. For some reason I always forget about the Squad Battles games too.

SDR - have you played The Wasted Land?

[Silent Disapproval Robot]

Yes, I played it on my phone.  It's pretty fun but very challenging.  It reminds me a bit of Silent Storm, but with Shoggoths instead of Panzerkleins.

[Nefaro]

Someone said it was too simple, when it first came out.

Being a phone/tablet game, I took it for truth.

[Boggit]

Thanks Gus - this seems to be just what I was looking for!

If it helps here is my review of it...
http://grogheads.com/?p=2081#more-2081

[Gusington]

Oops sorry, forgot to include that.

[Father Ted]

Thanks Gus - this seems to be just what I was looking for!

If it helps here is my review of it...
http://grogheads.com/?p=2081#more-2081

Thanks Boggit - I did find my way to your reviewm and very useful it was too!

[Boggit]

Glad it helped. What I really liked about the game is how the tactical combat changes between 1914-18. By 1918 it's very similar to WW2. casualties in 1914 while armies are learning to fight with modern weapons are frightful. :o It's designed by Ed Williams, someone who is IMO quite an authority on WW1. :)

[Skoop]

^ I have to agree with that, he also designed the 2 ww1 panzer campaigns engine games, France 14 and Prussia.  He is also part of the dev team at esim for steel beasts and he's pretty active in their mp community.   

[jomni]

One unique feature of the game that's not present in other SB titles is that the machine gun can do indirect fire.  Must be an era-specific tactic.