IW may go backwards to the point what was considered the first "modern war".
You might find yourself in the middle of the Somme in 1918, rain lashing down, enemy shells churning up the thick muddy ground in front of you, creating both potential cover from snipers & heavy machine gun fire, however making your advance forwards slow, difficult & potentialy deadly.
The clock ticks down the whistle blows & over the top you go..or you'll be shot for being a coward.
As you advance towards the enemy trenchlines through a hail of bullets & bombs, dodging in & out of cover you hear the cries of "GAS! GAS! GAS!" you find cover, fumble your toggle switch to apply your gasmask but now your vision is now impared...........for a while at least.
You continue to fight forward using every weapon you can find, rifle, bayonet, trench-shovel, gun implacements, machine pistols & grenades. You mercilously take lives without flinching & awarded an airstrike... you just have to make it alive to a field telephone to call it in.
You grin insanely and look to the heavens still holding the field telephone. The Zepplin glides down through the clouds droping it's whistling payload & pummeling your foe into oblivion........but the grin soon turns to grimace as the silky shimmer of the Zepplins skin is punctured by enemy fire, turning it into a ball of flame which now plumets towards you on the ground..
WWI was fought on many fields, forests, beaches, towns & villages all of which could disintigrate under heavy fire & create new area's to fight & hide. You might not get a Zepplin to fly in as your air support but i'm sure flying aces like the Red Baron could drop a few bombs & straiffe a few enemies as he swoops by. Perhaps a mustard gas attack awarded to you for your fighting prowess, will either kill or deny part of the battlefield to an enemy, it will certainly impair you enemies ability to see you with his mask on...this could be interesting if it's a toss up between carrying a gas mask & more ammo....
Just an idea.... I'll shut up now.
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