On 28 June 1914, Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria and his wife were shot dead in Sarajevo, by Gavrilo Princip, member of the Black Hand, a political organization seeking for a merging of the Balkan area into a Greater Serbia or a Yugoslavia. Austria-Hungary subsequently issued an ultimatum against Serbia. As the ultimatum was rejected, Austria-Hungary...
In August 1914 many French people were proud to fight for Freedom, against autocracy and pangermanism. Germans and French were confident of victory, the former would soon see themselves in Paris and the latter in Berlin, all of them knew the price of duty. The vast majority of soldiers mobilized in August 1914 thought that the conflict would be swift and...
Az I. világháború nyugati frontvonalára visz el minket az 1914: Offensive à outrance. Ebben a grandiózus játékban teljes egészében átélheted a háborút a Csatornától egészen a svájci határig. Teljesen részletesen és igazán történelemhűen. Tartalma: - 1960 színes ½″ jelző - 70 színes ½″×1″ jelző - Három 22″×34″ térképlap - 40 oldalas szabálykönyv -...
An alternative opening for the Campaign Game of 1914, Offensive a Outrance, published in C3i magazine Nr.28. This scenario adds the German "Handstreicht" attempt and subsequent siege of Liège for the Grand Campaign Scenario of 1914: Offensive à Outrance (From the index of C3i # 28). It contains a 4 page booklet (with additional rules and set-up...
"1914: Opening Moves is a simple solitaire game where the gamer plays the German, and the game system plays the allies. The object of the game is to get enough victory points (VP) to win. VP can be gained by holding VP hexes on the western front (on the map, vs. the western allies), and through rolls simulating developments on the eastern front (vs....
In a short few years of unrelenting carnage following the descent into world war, the Russian and Austro-Hungarian empires collapsed into ruin and passed from the march of time. Plan 19 was the name of the Russian operational war plan and, from its inception in 1910, evolved into a strategy that demanded both offesnsive action against Germany and...
(From the GMT website:) Twilight in the East: The Eastern Front, 1914 models the battles that took place in Poland and Galicia during the first year of World War One. Beginning with the Russian invasions of Prussia and Galicia in August and ending after the Battle of Lodz in December, it recreates the ebb and flow of the huge forces sent marching across...
1914: Dispatches is the first issue of Oregon ConSim Journal (a Charles S Roberts Award winning magazine), is a support magazine that focuses on the Eastern Front during 1914 by expanding on the CSR Award winning WWI simulation game 1914: Twilight in the East (TitE). During the design of 1914 TitE a great deal of research material was accumulated that was...
1916: Romania – Prelude to Blitzkrieg is a comprehensively researched operational-level game that explores the intriguing campaign fought in and around Romania from August to December 1916. The campaign was unique for the Great War as it featured sweeping advances by both sides, and effective use of cavalry forces. In contrast to the large cavalry forces...