Guides, strategies and news from the world of Frontkrieg — a free real-time WW1 strategy game.
Room 40 read some 15,000 German signals, the Zimmermann Telegram brought the United States into the war, and Mata Hari turned out to be a media figure. How intelligence was gathered in 1914-1918.
Read →Roughly 8 million horses, mules and donkeys, over 100,000 homing pigeons and tens of thousands of dogs: how animals carried the logistics, communications and medicine of 1914-1918.
Read →A railway gun strips 15 points per round, infantry only 0.3. Here is how damage splits across a province, how much HP a factory and a fortress hold, and when ruins stay ruins.
Read →The unofficial ceasefire on the Western Front, 24-26 December 1914: around 100,000 soldiers, the truth about the football match, and why it never happened again.
Read →Artillery caused roughly 60% of battlefield casualties in 1914-1918. A guide to gun types, Big Bertha and the Paris Gun, the shell crisis, the creeping barrage and counter-battery fire.
Read →Why two 25-unit armies deal 40% more damage than one army of 50, how to set up Ctrl+1…9 control groups, and which hotkeys save the most time.
Read →151 British ships against 99 German, 8,645 dead in 12 hours - and a victory delivered by the blockade rather than the battle.
Read →How auto-recruitment works in Frontkrieg: a 4,000-money recruiting office yields an infantryman a day, a barracks pushes it to 2.5. The numbers, payback and upkeep.
Read →A skeleton of dates: four phases of the war from 28 July 1914 to 11 November 1918, and three lessons that apply to a Frontkrieg match.
Read →Chat channels, 6 AI temperaments, five bot tells, and the rule that decides matches: a chat promise is not an alliance.
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