Fields of Passchendaele
"As the men crawled, the General called, and the killing carried on."
A medium map that takes place in Passchendaele, Belgium, during WW1. A purely infantry map with scattered machine guns (mainly in key points). If you are looking for armoured combat, there ain’t any here.
Map aspects:
1. Taking place after/during a gas attack, the map is covered in a thick green fog, hindering visibility.
2. As is the case with nearly all WW1 maps, the landscape is covered with craters, providing much needed cover.
3. Contains two key points (A shelled village, A ruined church) and has an open area in between for general charges.
4. Trenches. Pretty self-explanatory, you know how trenches work.
HISTORY (Not lore this time lads): The Third Battle of Ypres, also known as the Battle of Passchendaele, was a campaign of the First World War, fought by the Allies against the German Empire.
The battle took place on the Western Front, from July to November 1917, for control of the ridges south and east of the Belgian city of Ypres in West Flanders, as part of a strategy decided by the Allies at conferences in November 1916 and May 1917.
Passchendaele lies on the last ridge east of Ypres, 5 mi (8 km) from Roulers (now Roeselare), a junction of the Bruges-(Brugge)-to-Kortrijk railway.
The station at Roulers was on the main supply route of the German 4th Army. Once Passchendaele Ridge had been captured, the Allied advance was to continue to a line from Thourout (now Torhout) to Couckelaere (Koekelare).
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