Landships! Tactical Weapons Innovations 1914-1918

About this board game

Landships! Tactical Weapons Innovations 1914-1918 is a two-player World War I tactical game with an approximately 120-minute playing time. It depicts combat at an exceptionally detailed scale, where each turn represents about five minutes and each hex covers roughly 100 meters.

The game follows the development of battlefield tactics during the Great War, from the simple slaughters of 1914 to the sophisticated combined-arms offensives of 1918. As trench warfare brings increasing stench and horror, both sides search for a breakthrough weapon, testing immense barrages, air power, flamethrowers, and poison gas before the arrival of the landship.

Its 420 playing pieces represent individual battlefield formations and weapons. Infantry platoons and cavalry squadrons operate alongside single tanks and guns, giving the game a focused view of tactical weapons innovations between 1914 and 1918.

• 420 counters representing infantry platoons, cavalry squadrons, tanks, and guns
• Eight geomorphic map sections, with each hex covering about 100 meters
• Turns representing approximately five minutes of combat
• More than 20 scenarios to introduce and explore the game

Easy-to-play rules help you get started quickly while the scenarios trace the changing character of combat across the war. Recreate clashes shaped by increasingly ambitious tactical weapons and follow the path toward the most awesome machine of all: the landship.

Released in 1992, Landships! was nominated for the 1994 Charles S. Roberts Best Pre-World War II Board Game award.