In The Great War: Western Front, timing is everything. You will live and die based on the speed and timeliness (or lack thereof) of your actions. Send your troops across enemy lines too soon, and they’ll be brutally slaughtered by enemies camped in the trenches. Delay on ordering a squadron to commandeer a derelict, enemy-occupied building, and they’ll pelt you with mortar shells from above at range. I wasn’t around during the actual first World War – my great grandfather on my dad’s side fought in it; with my grandfather having fought as a Commando in WW2 – but I imagine this is true of the real thing.
