The Entente: Battlefields World War I
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The Entente: Battlefields World War I is a real-time strategy
PC game published in 2004 by Buka Entertainment
. It simulates World War I from the perspective of the five main combatants: Russia
, France
, Germany
, Britain
and the Austrian-Hungarian Empire. It is similar in many ways to other real-time strategy games, focusing on economy and military paths to victory.
.
The second option is the combatants’ own campaigns. These represent some of the main battles that the countries fought that were linked in some way. The final option is random maps. Similar to the Age of Empires random and death matches, these games start with the player having a single building and several workers. The victory condition for these games is to destroy the enemy completely.
, artillery
, vehicles (including tanks and transport
vehicles), ships, and planes.
Infantry
are ranks of foot soldiers often supported by several officers
(or workers), although specialist infantry such as machine gunners, flame throwers, elite foot soldiers, mortar teams, and mounted infantry
can also be used.
Artillery allows the player to wipe out key enemy positions like buildings and large blocks of units. The basic artillery units in the game are howitzers and guns
such as the 105mm Schneider and the 80mm Gun.
Vehicles include tanks such as the Whippet and the A7V
that can be used to support infantry and truck
s can quickly transport infantry. Anti-aircraft guns are effective against planes when used in large numbers.
The most destructive units in the game are ships. These include destroyers such as the Russian Narvik, cruisers, battleships and merchant ships. Most of the ships in the game can produce considerable amounts of firepower.
The Entente includes several of the most famous aircraft of the era such as the SPAD XIII and Fokker D.I
, reconnaissance planes such as the Etrich Taube
and light and heavy bombers such the Maurice Farman S.11 and Sikorsky Ilya Muromets
.
An invention of the First World War, poison gas is a final weapon that can be used. The gas cloud will slowly kill any infantry enemy units in the gas cloud for a few minutes until it disappears.
The six resources in The Entente are food, wood, iron, gold, oil and electricity. The resources in the list can be gathered by workers working in farm
s, sawmill
s, iron mines, gold mines, oil rig
s, and electric power stations.
It runs on a basis of a war of movement, rather than the stereotypical image of World War I being dominated by trench warfare, and units are created in huge masses, rather than that appropriate for small skirmishes. There are no trenches.
The units' uniforms are accurate, almost to the full, but both historic factions share some units, such as officers, mortarmen, all artillery, flamethrowers, ships and others, since from a distance they were more or less identical. Machine gunners and transport ships are identical in all factions. The vehicles used are also well researched, if not controversially distributed. The anti-aircraft artillery piece is based on the Russian 7.6 mm cannon (only used by Russia). The tanks that are included in the game were mostly used by their sponsored nation, but not specially during World War I. For example, the Renault FT-17, as used by the Russians, as well as its French manufacturers, was only used by them in the Russian Civil War
, and was a slightly modified version. The K.u.K
meanwhile, erroneously uses A7Vs for balancing reasons, since Austria-Hungary had very few tank developments
.
Real-time strategy
Real-time strategy is a sub-genre of strategy video game which does not progress incrementally in turns. Brett Sperry is credited with coining the term to market Dune II....
PC game published in 2004 by Buka Entertainment
Buka Entertainment
Buka Entertainment is a Russian software development and distribution company founded in 1993 in Moscow with an additional six branch offices across Russia, located in St. Petersburg, Yekaterinburg, Khabarovsk, Novosibirsk, Samara and Nizhniy Novgorod...
. It simulates World War I from the perspective of the five main combatants: Russia
Russia
Russia or , officially known as both Russia and the Russian Federation , is a country in northern Eurasia. It is a federal semi-presidential republic, comprising 83 federal subjects...
, France
France
The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...
, Germany
Germany
Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...
, Britain
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland was the formal name of the United Kingdom during the period when what is now the Republic of Ireland formed a part of it....
and the Austrian-Hungarian Empire. It is similar in many ways to other real-time strategy games, focusing on economy and military paths to victory.
Single player
The single player battles in The Entente are the standard battles of the game. The first option for single player games are the missions. They are battles of the Great War that don’t fit any of the campaigns, particularly on the Eastern FrontEastern Front (World War I)
The Eastern Front was a theatre of war during World War I in Central and, primarily, Eastern Europe. The term is in contrast to the Western Front. Despite the geographical separation, the events in the two theatres strongly influenced each other...
.
The second option is the combatants’ own campaigns. These represent some of the main battles that the countries fought that were linked in some way. The final option is random maps. Similar to the Age of Empires random and death matches, these games start with the player having a single building and several workers. The victory condition for these games is to destroy the enemy completely.
Units
The Entente: Battlefields World War I sports an array of different units from all aspects of the First World War and can be broken up into several different types-infantryInfantry
Infantrymen are soldiers who are specifically trained for the role of fighting on foot to engage the enemy face to face and have historically borne the brunt of the casualties of combat in wars. As the oldest branch of combat arms, they are the backbone of armies...
, artillery
Artillery
Originally applied to any group of infantry primarily armed with projectile weapons, artillery has over time become limited in meaning to refer only to those engines of war that operate by projection of munitions far beyond the range of effect of personal weapons...
, vehicles (including tanks and transport
Transport
Transport or transportation is the movement of people, cattle, animals and goods from one location to another. Modes of transport include air, rail, road, water, cable, pipeline, and space. The field can be divided into infrastructure, vehicles, and operations...
vehicles), ships, and planes.
Infantry
Infantry
Infantrymen are soldiers who are specifically trained for the role of fighting on foot to engage the enemy face to face and have historically borne the brunt of the casualties of combat in wars. As the oldest branch of combat arms, they are the backbone of armies...
are ranks of foot soldiers often supported by several officers
Officer (armed forces)
An officer is a member of an armed force or uniformed service who holds a position of authority. Commissioned officers derive authority directly from a sovereign power and, as such, hold a commission charging them with the duties and responsibilities of a specific office or position...
(or workers), although specialist infantry such as machine gunners, flame throwers, elite foot soldiers, mortar teams, and mounted infantry
Mounted infantry
Mounted infantry were soldiers who rode horses instead of marching, but actually fought on foot . The original dragoons were essentially mounted infantry...
can also be used.
Artillery allows the player to wipe out key enemy positions like buildings and large blocks of units. The basic artillery units in the game are howitzers and guns
Güns
Güns or Guens may refer to:* Kőszeg, Hungary * Kőszeg Mountains, Hungary * Akiva Güns , birth name of Akiva Eger, a Hungarian-Polish rabbi- See also :* Guns * Gün, a surname...
such as the 105mm Schneider and the 80mm Gun.
Vehicles include tanks such as the Whippet and the A7V
A7V
The A7V was a tank introduced by Germany in 1918, near the end of World War I. One hundred vehicles were ordered during the spring of 1918, but only 21 were delivered. It was nicknamed "The Moving Fortress" by the British because of the shape of the hull...
that can be used to support infantry and truck
Truck
A truck or lorry is a motor vehicle designed to transport cargo. Trucks vary greatly in size, power, and configuration, with the smallest being mechanically similar to an automobile...
s can quickly transport infantry. Anti-aircraft guns are effective against planes when used in large numbers.
The most destructive units in the game are ships. These include destroyers such as the Russian Narvik, cruisers, battleships and merchant ships. Most of the ships in the game can produce considerable amounts of firepower.
The Entente includes several of the most famous aircraft of the era such as the SPAD XIII and Fokker D.I
Fokker D.I
|-See also:-Bibliography:*Gray, Peter and Thetford, Owen. German Aircraft since the First World War. London:Putnam, 1962.*Green William and Swanborough, Gordon. The Complete Book of Fighters. New York: Smithmark, 1994. ISBN 0-8317-3939-8....
, reconnaissance planes such as the Etrich Taube
Rumpler Taube
The Etrich Taube, also known by the names of the various manufacturers who build versions of the type, such as the Rumpler Taube, was a pre-World War I monoplane aircraft. It was the first mass-produced military plane in Germany...
and light and heavy bombers such the Maurice Farman S.11 and Sikorsky Ilya Muromets
Sikorsky Ilya Muromets
The Ilya Muromets refers to a class of Russian pre-World War I large four-engine commercial airliners and heavy military bombing aircraft used during World War I by the Russian Empire. The aircraft series was named after Ilya Muromets, a hero from Russian mythology...
.
An invention of the First World War, poison gas is a final weapon that can be used. The gas cloud will slowly kill any infantry enemy units in the gas cloud for a few minutes until it disappears.
Resources
Resources are collected in The Entente to fund the construction of units and buildings.The six resources in The Entente are food, wood, iron, gold, oil and electricity. The resources in the list can be gathered by workers working in farm
Farm
A farm is an area of land, or, for aquaculture, lake, river or sea, including various structures, devoted primarily to the practice of producing and managing food , fibres and, increasingly, fuel. It is the basic production facility in food production. Farms may be owned and operated by a single...
s, sawmill
Sawmill
A sawmill is a facility where logs are cut into boards.-Sawmill process:A sawmill's basic operation is much like those of hundreds of years ago; a log enters on one end and dimensional lumber exits on the other end....
s, iron mines, gold mines, oil rig
Oil platform
An oil platform, also referred to as an offshore platform or, somewhat incorrectly, oil rig, is a lаrge structure with facilities to drill wells, to extract and process oil and natural gas, and to temporarily store product until it can be brought to shore for refining and marketing...
s, and electric power stations.
Buildings
The Entente has buildings in the game that fairly accurately represent each country’s style of architecture during the 1914-1918 conflict. Buildings can all do different tasks, including building units and gathering resources.Historic basis
The game is considerably accurate, and extensively researched.It runs on a basis of a war of movement, rather than the stereotypical image of World War I being dominated by trench warfare, and units are created in huge masses, rather than that appropriate for small skirmishes. There are no trenches.
The units' uniforms are accurate, almost to the full, but both historic factions share some units, such as officers, mortarmen, all artillery, flamethrowers, ships and others, since from a distance they were more or less identical. Machine gunners and transport ships are identical in all factions. The vehicles used are also well researched, if not controversially distributed. The anti-aircraft artillery piece is based on the Russian 7.6 mm cannon (only used by Russia). The tanks that are included in the game were mostly used by their sponsored nation, but not specially during World War I. For example, the Renault FT-17, as used by the Russians, as well as its French manufacturers, was only used by them in the Russian Civil War
Russian Civil War
The Russian Civil War was a multi-party war that occurred within the former Russian Empire after the Russian provisional government collapsed to the Soviets, under the domination of the Bolshevik party. Soviet forces first assumed power in Petrograd The Russian Civil War (1917–1923) was a...
, and was a slightly modified version. The K.u.K
Austro-Hungarian Army
The Austro-Hungarian Army was the ground force of the Austro-Hungarian Dual Monarchy from 1867 to 1918. It was composed of three parts: the joint army , the Austrian Landwehr , and the Hungarian Honvédség .In the wake of fighting between the...
meanwhile, erroneously uses A7Vs for balancing reasons, since Austria-Hungary had very few tank developments
Günther Burstyn
Gunther Burstyn was an inventor, technician, and officer of the Austro-Hungarian Army....
.