The Flare Path contests a continent

Like all the WWI grand strategy titles that came before it, Strategic Command: World War I isn’t awfully good at pathos. When a flurry of enemy assaults reduces one of your infantry corps from “10” to “3” in a single turn, your first thought is rarely “That’s another 20,000 families who won’t be seeing their loved ones again”. It’s generally “Ouch. But it could have been worse. At least the hex is still mine. I’ll reinforce or replace the poor battered blighters next turn”. One day a game in this field will dare to break ranks. Tucked amongst the battle reports glibly posted at the close of a turn will be tiny text Mills bombs like “Your old chauffeur, Nobbs, perished at Passchendaele” and “Your son, David, was decapitated by machine gun fire on the first day of the Battle of the Somme”. (more…)

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