It'll all be over by Christmas

[Luddite]

Next year is the 100 year anniversary of the start of the Great War.

What are your gaming plans to commemorate this?

[Fenton]

I'm off to the Marne to play in a GWSH 2 game at a chateau there...

[Nosher]

Trumps me - I'm on a Comrades Association battlefields tour to commemorate the anniversary

[Fenton]

While were over there were going up to see friends in Ieper  and the surrounding area

[Duke Speedy of Leighton]

Ohh, no clue.

[Sunray]

A few of us have the idea of a walking holiday following von Kluck's First Army and their actual route.  Friends did it in 1984 and I have the route plan.  They liked their wine so it was more of a "bottle field" tour.   But it allows revisiting Soignies and Mons.

[Shecky]

Well, my resistance to get into WWI is quickly fading so I will probably do something. I like the new releases so I will probably start with early war and work my way forward.

[Duke Speedy of Leighton]

Went to Mons in 1999, my wife has never forgiven me for taking me with her, "A canal bridge in an industrial area..." She has never let me forget that.

She enjoyed Waterloo though. 

[Sunray]

From a gaming perspective, I can see fresh interest in the initial  skirmish contacts via the "battles of the frontiers" to the Marne.  A transiition war before trenches and the stalement of killing grounds ruled by HMG and HE.  Red trousers, Napolonic uniforms, lances, and shoulder to shoulder formations. 

What rules do you recommend for 1914 to refect this mindset?

[Fenton]

I guess it depends on the size of battle, As I mentioned elsewhere I shall be using GWSH2 but test of battle ww1 supplement is meant to be good, The free set from WTJ aren't bad either

[Leman]

Oddly enough I've started in the east with Austrians and Russians, but plan to move on to the BEF and also the Antwerp campaign. Hoping some more Belgians are going to appear before too long.

[GrumpyOldMan]

Hello

Well I've thought I'd look at some of the out-of-the-way campaigns:-

South West Africa
Caucausus
Siege of Tsingtao (currently the smart money is on this as favourite  )
A what-if on Rabaul
East Africa

Cheers

GrumpyOldMan

[Steve J]

Having played 'Through the Mud and Blood' at Wyvern Wargames yesterday, we were talking about the very early battles up to the Marne as being of interest, with very late War, the Eastern Front, Mesopotamia and East Afica in the mix as well. Assaulting trenches does not a fun game produce methinks. Having re-read 'Goodbye to All That' recently, I'd forgotten that whole companies simple never returned from an attack, and this happened over and over again whilst the author was at the front. So if I game this I will stick with the theatres as outlined above.

[fsn]

Can't say the 14-18 War engages me much. I do like the pretty French uniforms of 1914, and I do like late war tanks, but the "classic" Western Front just saddens me.

[Hertsblue]

Can't say the 14-18 War engages me much. I do like the pretty French uniforms of 1914, and I do like late war tanks, but the "classic" Western Front just saddens me.

Have to agree. The first few weeks of 1914 with a war of movement, the eastern front with its wide open spaces, or in Palestine and Mesopotamia against the Turks, perhaps. Otherwise, no thanks.