I don't get it...

[adembroski]

Why do I see requests for WWI or WWII mods pop up so often?

The communication situation in WWI totally changed warfare to the point where nothing the TW series could approximate. A WW mod for TW would not come close to resembling the conflict itself.

WWI was fought primarily in trenches, and units did not stand side-by-side in ranks.

WWII saw the air war become as critical as the ground war, and the air war cannot be recreated.

Is there really any way TW could come close to pulling this off!?!?!

[Lord Condormanius]

The communication situation in WWI totally changed warfare to the point where nothing the TW series could approximate. A WW mod for TW would not come close to resembling the conflict itself.

WWI was fought primarily in trenches, and units did not stand side-by-side in ranks.

I think it that there was far more than the "communication situation" that distinguished WWI from previous wars. The introduction of Tanks, Airplanes, Chemical Weapons and Machine Guns were, I think, the real evolution. In fact, the war itself is interesting because it was fought in the "old style" at first, ranks of infantry marching side-by-side in formation. The trenches came about later (not much later), when it was realized that standing in a line makes a machine gunner's job far too easy.

*I suggest reading Barbara Tuchman's The Guns of August. It is a great book and gives an insight into the folly that was WWI.

Is there really any way TW could come close to pulling this off!?!?!

No. It is not possible with the current engine. Besides, there are enough of those games out there.

-LC