Trenchant Trench Ants: THC tries The Great War
For decades forum sages have been telling us that a Total War-style strategy game with WWI’s famously static and linear Western Front trench warfare at its core wouldn’t work. The Great War proves these Cassandras wrong. While the action-packed real-time scraps served up by Petroglyph’s latest are arguably too breathless, brief, and shrunken to qualify as ‘wargames’, because they come with a history-steeped, turnbased strat layer and incorporate something almost no wargame offers – DIY trench construction – The Great War isn’t without grog appeal.