Blueprint for Armageddon, in particular, I cannot strongly enough recommend. Nothing else I've encountered has so thoroughly brought home the fashion in which World War I and surrounding events have determined the subsequent course of history.

All six episodes are still on the free feed, and will be for at least a little while longer. Anyone reading this could do a lot worse than to at least download them for later listening, if not to go ahead and get into the series now.

I agree. Funnily, I saw that the current Humble Bundle includes a game called Verdun, which is as you would expect, a game about WWI's battle of Verdun (as far as I know). Carlin painted such a bleak portrait of that battle, my first reaction was "Why the hell would anyone want to play that?"

In my imagination, you play the game by huddling in a trench or bunker for extended periods as massive explosions go off around you, and if you try to leave you are almost immediately blown up or sink and drown in the mud.

I suspect they went for something a bit less bleak. ;)

Looks like a CoD-style tactical FPS, but in Great War drag. Might be fun for people who enjoy those sort of games, but I can't really say; on the one hand, I'm no longer that person, and on the other, I only got far enough into its Humble Bundle page to see

> Gore Settings: Players can now experience the real horrors of WW1.

before I started laughing, and I still haven't stopped.

Avalon Hill had a board game called 1914. Read this for a hilarious takedown: https://boardgamegeek.com/thread/371289/1914-jim-dunnigans-g...

The funny thing is that my parents bought this for me way back when but then, upon opening it, no one wanted to actually play it. I spent quite a few hours futzing with it though :-)