The Field artillery represents short ranged artillery that armies tried to use at the beginning of the war because they thought the war would be fought in fields at relatively short range like the Napoleonic wars. The Germans hid these behind the lines at the end of the war so when the tanks would break through they had a way of stopping them before they got through to there long ranged artillery.
Axis and Allies 1916
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The idea of a 1916 scenario was introduced in a house rule topic, and I was wondering what people think of the possibility of a 1914 re-release moving the war forward a couple of years.
What would the designers/publishers need to do to make a new version worth buying, considering most of the potential market already own 1914?
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It’s possible that the designers may have intentionally left the door open for such a variation. I may be reading too much into this, but note that the game is called “A&A WWI: 1914”, not simply “A&A WWI”. On one level, you could say that the “1914” part is redundant unless it’s a potential way of distinguishing the game from hypothetical versions set in 1915, 1916, or 1917…and even possibly 1918, though I think that one’s too much of a stretch.
On the other hand, leaving the door open does not in itself prove that the designers have any actual plans to make use of it. So who knows.
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