This article is a 'first look' at an Early Access (EA) version of Factus Games' Making History: The First World War (for this article FWW). Good thing, too, because it didn't take me long to realize that FWW is absolutely a Grognard level wargame and is gonna need a lot of time investment to play right.
Some dozens of hours later I am still learning the ropes, so expect a detailed analysis and review of how this thing works both historically and competitively after it drops for real in about three - four months.
Until then, here is what I have to report.
Basics and Visuals
FWW is a region based grand strategy wargame covering the entire globe, Ireland to Japan and everything in between. By that I mean the game is concerned with running the entire conflict by ministry of war level decision making and managing national level resources to obtain victory. The 'grand' part means that your strategy not only deals with the military part of the equation, but everything else such as the economy, diplomacy, research, and internal social issues.
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