Cambrai in November 1917 is where the tank stopped being a curiosity and started being a weapon — the first massed armored assault in history, and a preview of the way wars would be fought for the next century. Tankschlacht from Revolution Games takes on that moment, and in this first look I walk through the components and the system before diving into the gameplay series.
The birth of combined arms
What makes Cambrai interesting on the table is the same thing that made it interesting in 1917: tanks alone don’t win, and infantry alone can’t keep up. A good treatment forces you to coordinate the two, manage the mechanical unreliability of those early machines, and reckon with the German counterattack that erased much of the initial gain. This first look sets up how the game frames those problems; the playthroughs put them to the test.
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