![]() ![]() It aims to create an authentic representation of World War 1-era tactics, strategies and general warfare within the game. ![]() The parallels are astonishing, making this vivid narrative history. The Great War mod is a total conversion modification for Napoleon: Total War. Bell brings this period to life while keeping an eye on our own “war of liberation” in Iraq. The revolutionaries were leading “the last crusade for universal liberty.” A war for such stakes could only be apocalyptic – and terribly bloody. Indeed, nearly every modern aspect of war took root in that time: conscription, unconditional surrender, total disregard for the rules of combat, mobilization of civilians, guerrilla warfare, and the perverse notion of war fought for the sake of peace. For this, we need to travel back to the era of muskets and sailing ships, to the age of Napoleon.Īccording to Bell, it was then that warfare was transformed into the hideous spectacle that seems ever present today. But as David Bell argues in this interpretive history, the Great War was not, in fact, the first total war. World War I has been called “the war to end all wars”, the first time combatants were mobilized on a massive scale to ruthlessly destroy an enemy. ![]()
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