The great war or World War I was started by the assasination of the Arch Duke of Austria-Hungry. A investigation was ordered by Goverment of France and other countries neiboring the country. The Boshavicts put off the investigation claiming they had allready investigated the murder.
The murder was a plot devised by the Black Hand, a secret military group formed by the Bulshavicts after the reconstruction of Austria Hungreys goverment reform. Because the investigation failed to suit the needs of the neighboring countries, they threated to bring war to the country to reconstruct the goverment as they seen fit.
As apart of a previous pact Germany was bound to help the Bulshavicts in times of war. When the French of other countries attacked, German quickly stepped in to help the Bulshavicts in battle.
The main reason why it became a trench war was because when the French and the Germans encountered each other. They both begain to dig in because they were at a stale mate. Both ordered for reenforcements. When re-enforcements arrived, they too dug in. This digging in process occured for a long period of time until both sides were completely dug in and at a complete stale mate.
The instroduced a few new weapons as well as warfare that was later ban from war because it was to dangerous for both sides. An example would be the ban on use of gas. Gas was often use during the war but the problem was if the wind blew the wrong direction. The gas would return to your side, killing your men instead of theirs which it was intended for. They also agreed at the end of the war that gas was simply to dangerous. Deeming it a un-gentalmen like form of warfare.
Other new techonlogies that would carry on would be the invention of the machine gun. Which would later be transformed into a assult rifle in later wars. Another new invention was the air plane. Mostly used for observations durning this war. Primarly for watching movements of troops etc. It would not be until World War 2 were the air plane would really take off in battle.
This game was created to deminstrate the horror the men of World War I endured. Life expectency was 11 seconds or shorter. The trench was literly your personal tomb and gateway to hell. The most common cause of death next to gunshot was infections. Lice amoung one of the leading infections. In order to keep infection low, dogs now named "rattier" were used to kill mice and keep the trenchs clear of infected rats.
The Trenchs were also confusing to navigate through. Men would often find there self getting lost in the giant maze that was the Trench. Also men would get lost in the land called "No Mans Land". An often find their self inside the oppsing forces trench.
This is a breif history of the war. Please feel free to google it for more information.
Notes:
Only one lightmap was created for this map. I created a Sun lightmap about 19 tiles above ground. This is to simulate the fact that eletricity was not used hardly in the Trenchs. Water would often cause more problems then what eletricity was worth. Also having oil lamps would attract atrillery fire. Very little light was used, so they relied mostly on daylight.
Trench Outline:
This is the model I used to make the full scale trench map. If you will also notice this is the loading screen for the game. Both Trenchs Allies and axis our designed after this model.
IF you would like to play the game for free, please DL from the link. Please feel free to share this version with your friends as well. Give the gift of history to your friends and family and enjoy reinacting the history of World War I.
This Game:
This game references strong violence. I recomend it be rated T for teen. This game also uses the power of Project Blue and is a team based map 7 v 7. Enjoy
Download:
http://www.uokgames.com/downloads/WWI-The Great War.rar
