Though not as dominant as on the Western Front, there are some trenches
We have a new edition of Frontline News for you, to keep you warm during your first encounters with the cold and harsh Eastern Front. This time we are looking more closely at another new map, located in Poland, so read on!
New Map: Poland
We have more up our sleeves when it comes to the new maps that Tannenberg will introduce to the 1914-1918 WW1 Game Series. But for now we are focusing on the third map reveal, joining the ranks of East Prussia and Galicia. Poland will offer a harsh and gritty setting, with its open landscape, scorched earth and burned villages. It is set in the central Polish plain, an area of vast flatland around Warsaw, the capital of Russian Poland.
Another nice set piece, but you won’t be taking to the skies obviously
The Stage Is Set
The 64 player map features a rural farming hamlet set around a crossroads. The scenario depicts an overextended Russian Army, in the north-east corner, applying the principle of scorched earth. In the south-west corner, 400 meters down the road, we find the German Army stationed around an abandoned farmhouse. In this map you'll find destroyed buildings, war-battered chimneys in piles of rubble, an improvised Russian airstrip with Morane-Saulnier airplanes, Russo-Balt armored cars and much more!
Finding your way through the fog using burning houses isn’t the best of times
Poland features a range of different combat locations, such as intense building-to-building fighting in entrenched and fortified wooden dwellings, creeping tactical gun fights along hedges and firewood stacks or long distance engagements over ploughed fields and fenced meadows. The wooden buildings are a first in the 1914-1918 WW1 Game Series.
The wooden houses look safe, but don’t forget there is bullet penetration now!
Eye For Detail
Much attention to detail was put in researching the different styles of fences, haystacks, wells and unadorned interiors. These cultural features really sell the feel of an early 20th century impoverished Polish village, while also providing abundant cover and movement options to keep the map fun! We hope you are ready for the fight in this barren and flat landscape. All the characteristics of the terrain and environment will require new strategies and insights, so you will need to bring your A game to be victorious.
Always, always, ALWAYS... bring your gasmask
Thanks for reading and keep a close eye on all our channels. We have more previews coming up this month!