Great War

1918 saw great changes in the warfare of the Western Front in France and Belgium. The Germans moved 500,000 men from the Eastern Front to the Western Front after the Russians pulled out of the war, and launched a series of offensives to break the Allied lines between March and July 1918. Great gains were made and the Allies’ positions were pushed back huge distances. The Allies immediately launched a series of offensives that gave no respite to the now exhausted Germans. With new tanks to break though German positions and the Allies’ own implementation of fire and movement tactics, they pushed the Germans back towards their own borders and defeat.

Adding to their Western Front 1918 theme Battlefront have released the Great War expansion book containing World War One Battles of 1918, all in a beautiful 72 page book. With even more equipment, new missions and two additional nations added, this book allows you to field armies from all of the Western Front combatants in 1918. Covering nations such as Germany, Britain, France and America from World War One where your chosen forces can face each other on the table top to recreate this historical time.

This book includes:

• The Great War History.
• History of the Battle of Villers-Bretonneux, Battle of Soissons, and the Meuse-Argonne Offensive.
• Flames Of War Great War rules for fighting the battles of 1918.
• Options to field German Infanterie and Stoss companies with supporting A7V panzers in the offensives of 1918.
• Field a British Rifle Company and stop the German offensives, or go on the attack supported by the Army’s great new war machines: Mark IV, Mark V and Whippet tanks.
• Field a French Colonial or Metropolitan Companie de Fusiliers as they drive the Germans from France with the aid of their Schnieder CA.1 and Char Saint Chamond heavy tanks, as well as the nimble FT-17 light tank.
• Field an American Rifle Company with French tanks, British tanks, or your own American FT-17 tanks in support.
• History of how tanks were developed.
• Six Great War missions and mission rules.
• Inspirational painting guides and colour photos.