First Trench Warfare

Following the Cantral Powers defeat during the First Battle of the Marne, the war in the west enters first period of prolonged trench warfare. Casualties grow immensely.

After Imperial Germany was defeated in the First Battle of the Marne, it changed approach and dug in, planning to decimate enemy manpower by a prolonged war of attrition. The end result was a prolonged massacre, with tens of thousands of soldiers dying to gain merely a kilometre or two of the ground.   All sides began searching for an alternative. For a path to new weapons that could be used to break the stalemate. The Entente created the first tanks, The German Empire employed the first gas attacks, and - finally - succeeded in breaking the stalemate through the combination of new tactics and stormtrooper units.