Supreme Ruler The Great War

The simulation clearly has something going for it - playing as Russia in the alternate history sandbox, my frontline with Germany wound up looking quite similar to Russia and Germany's actual frontlines in World War Two. Our war went very similar in the beginning to the actual World War One as well. Germany declared war on my ally France and I thought that we could spread them thin and destroy them with France from the west and Russia from the east. My Russia had initial successes, but Germany quickly redeployed and began pushing me farther and farther back. They've taken all of Eastern Europe and I am currently essentially reenacting the Siege of Leningrad (St. Petersburg in WWI). Of course, my war has a distinctive World War One feeling despite the WWII-esque events that have taken place. The trenches are an excellent addition to the game, much like WWI my frontline has become a static stalemate for in-game years as parts of my network of trenches get taken and retaken. Austria-Hungary is very much a Great Power and batters my frontline cities, which are only barely being held through mass artillery. Chemical weapons flew freely at first, but quickly became a minor nuisance at best to the industrialized nations as protective gear was researched and developed. Not that any of this keeps you bound to simply replaying the World Wars as we know them. The most fun comes with creating your own history. Like Great Powers historically did, I found my population declining by unsustainable amounts that would eventually crash my economy and destroy my war effort as people fled my war-torn nation and conscripts were shoveled by the truckload into the meatgrinder of the frontline trenches. Desperately needing more bodies, I began to look on the vast yet unindustrialized population of China with hungry eyes. My poison gasses having become nearly obsolete against the Central Powers, I relocated them to the east. Even though I began the game fully intending to play as an honorable nation that behaved gallantly, I now found myself reduced to declaring war on a neutral nation, using chemical weapons on their unprotected civilians in order to throw the survivors into the thousand-mile charnel house of my western trenches. Very epic, thoroughly recommend if you are into World War One settings.