The First World War, subtitled August 1914 to November 1918, is a board wargame that Simulations Publications Inc. (SPI) published in 1977 to simulate the conflict of 1914 to 1918. It is an expansion of SPI's monster game War in Europe and ships without maps: players must own War in Europe and re-mark its Second World War maps with fortifications and the national boundaries of 1914. About 2000 die-cut counters are played on six hex-grid maps. Each nation tracks a morale level that affects supply, combat and reserves, and a nation drops out when morale reaches zero. Resource points, replenished only every three months, are needed to launch offensives and raise units, so the game is largely an exercise in logistics. Five single-year scenarios and a campaign game of the whole war are offered, and the campaign is estimated to take over 100 hours. Frank Chadwick designed it; reception was mixed and it was not a commercial success for SPI.
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is a board wargame published by Simulations Publications Inc.
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SPI published The First World War as a boxed set in 1977
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which is estimated to take over 100 hours to play
Derived From: War in Europe (game), Lead, expansion of War in Europe
The game is an expansion of the SPI "monster" game War in Europe
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