Squad Battles: First World War Released

[Compass Rose]

JTS just released the 15th title in their very popular Squad Battles Series and the first of its kind, titled First World War.











Campaigns & Scenarios:

Campaigns & Scenarios:

• 67 scenarios covering actions from 1914 to 1918, in such battles as Gallipoli, Somme, Verdun, Cambrai, Vimy Ridge, Argonne, Belleau Wood, Cantigny, and more.
• Scenarios range in length from 10 to 132 turns and cover actions from small firefights between a hundred men to huge battles of tens of thousands of men battling it out for trench networks and objectives on a variety of battlefields across all four fronts of the war.

• Close quarters trench clearing fighting, as well as longer ranged battles in the open during the more mobile campaigns of the war, and battles with the world's first tanks.
• A staggering 7 linked scenario campaigns covering most major battles in the conflict, including a 17 scenario German campaign that spans the entire war from 1914 to 1918, which puts you directly in a position to experience the drastic change of warfare from early rifle battalions to stosstruppen at the end of the war, and a British campaign which puts you in the role of a World War One tank commander to experience the birth of modern day armor.

Features:

• Early in the war players control large half platoons and companies of men squads or fire teams of men and individual leaders, and by late war players will control more modernized sections and squads of men, as well as a variety of early war tanks.
• Experience chemical warfare on a grand scale as both sides struggle to break the deadlock of the Western Front.

• Experience the development in tactics, weaponry, and the birth of small unit warfare as units change drastically from horde like formations of men in 1914 to modern day assault type infantry of 1918.
• Based on a tried and true turn-based platform using 40 meter hexes and an intuitive interface allowing players to use a combination of mouse clicks, menu commands and hot keys to control their units.

• Views are in two levels of 2D and 3D.

Changes:
Changes to the Squad Battles Series in this game include:

• Added ability to define Rolling Barrages (see Scenario Editor and Users Manual).
• Changes that reduces protection and movement cost between adjacent Trench hexes (see Users Manual under Movement and Firing).

• Added Inspirational Weapons in addition to Motivational Weapons (such as regimental colors/banners).

Full information about the game can be found on the JTS website here:

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

[Bison]

Holy Schnikey!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  I just got France 14 too.  Awesome!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Bison]

OK.  I'm calm.  I really am but it's not listed on the store yet.  I suspected it'll be released for sale later on this morning.

[Jarhead0331]

Wow.  This is big news. Can anyone confirm if there is a Belleau Wood scenario?

[steve58]

This looks great.  I'll have to add it to my Christmas list.

Wow.  This is big news. Can anyone confirm if there is a Belleau Wood scenario?

I'd say this screen confirms it...

[Nefaro]

You even get a .30 Chauchat to take with you, for luck.  ;D

[jomni]

Great news!  Thanks for the heads up.

[son_of_montfort]

It is like the 100 year anniversary of WWI two years early!  I was not big on the SB games before, I liked the idea but felt little connection to the battles. But WWI... Holy crap! Too... Many... Games...

[Gusington]

This makes it official....it's an embarrassment of riches as far as WWI games. This one looks almost too good to be true!

[LongBlade]

OK, that's very interesting.

I can't think of another tactical wargame set during WWI. This is groundbreaking.

[Zulu1966]

You might want to hang on a sec before ordering.

Just bought and its failed to send me the license key in the usual place - so may be they have an  issue.

[Zulu1966]

Sorted now... the man himself sent me the key by mail ... presumably the store will / is sorted now.

Wow there is a regimental 132 turn scenario at Verdun.

[tgb]

Can someone tell me how this compares to SC:WWI and CtGW?

<tgb runs and hides>

[Slick Wilhelm]

Can someone tell me how this compares to SC:WWI and CtGW?

<tgb runs and hides>

They're completely different. CTGW and SC:WWI are grand strategy. SB:FWW is WWI small unit tactical. There is no comparison possible. Apples vs. Oranges.

But hey, more WWI loving is a great thing. This is going to be my first John Tiller purchase!

[Bismarck]

Wow.  This is big news. Can anyone confirm if there is a Belleau Wood scenario?

No less than EIGHT Belleau Wood scenarios!