The World War theme is the most popular game theme, especially for action or first-person shooter (FPS) games. Although most games take the theme of the Second World War, not many carry the theme of the First World War which is just as exciting. Electronic Arts (EA) and Dice, which is famous for Battlefield, succeeded in raising the theme of the First World War through their masterpiece, Battlefield 1.

The enormity of the First World War atmosphere that doesn’t exist in other wars is presented in Battlefield 1. Installment Battlefield 1 features trench battles with the dangers of poison gas attacks, dragonfly wars with Zeppelin balloon ships, and cavalry that still use swords and spears. What are the War Stories in Battlefield 1? Find out in the following list!

1. Storm of Steel

Storm of Steel is the War Story prologue of Battlefield 1, set in 1918, you get to control various members of the Harlem Hellfighters, a unit of African-American soldiers as they defend their positions against the German attack on France. You initially start the game near the front lines and have to survive as long as possible against waves of invading German soldiers.

If you survive the attack, a barrage of artillery will rain down on your troops and then the perspective of Battlefield 1 will shift to other soldiers that you can play as well. During the first mission of Battlefield 1, a narrator, one of the unnamed Harlem Hellfighters, comments on the state of the war as the fighting continues and also when every soldier you control is killed.

At the start of the battle, the Harlem Hellfighters lost to the Germans, but British tanks forced the German troops to retreat until the tanks were stopped by artillery. The Harlem Hellfighters counterattacked and pushed the Germans back to defend their positions. When you switch perspective to the last soldier, a German soldier tries to kill your character with a shovel but is stopped by a barrage of artillery that wipes out all the fighters on the battlefield and leaves you unconscious.

When your character regains consciousness, he seems to be the only survivor of the battle, but is quickly reunited with a German soldier who survived as well. Even though the two were pointing their weapons at each other, exhaustion and frustration arose as both realized the futility of their situation, prompting both combatants to lower their weapons. Battlefield 1's gameplay then continues into the introductory cinematic that unlocks another War Story.

2. The Runner

The Runner is a War Story set during the Battle of Gallipoli in Turkey in 1915. You will play an Australian soldier and veteran of the Second Boer War, Frederick Bishop. The story begins with Bishop meeting a young soldier named Jack Foster, who tells him that he is a new member of Bishop's team. Although initially cynical, Bishop eventually agrees to Foster fighting alongside him, and tells Foster to refrain from fighting due to his inexperience and young age.

Bishop stormed the coast of Gallipoli on the Cape of Helles and captured the Ottoman strategic position. Bishop fires a flare to signal his position but is surprised by Foster who is advancing alone, and disobeys Bishop's orders to simply move up with the rest of the Allied forces.

Bishop berates Foster for his naivety to see war as a noble activity, considering that Foster had also lied to hide his age to enlist in the army. Foster is taken aback when he sees the true horror of war with all the carnage around him, but Bishop softens his stance and assures Foster that they will be fine.

The next day, Bishop took the initiative to become a runner in place of Foster, whom Bishop deemed inexperienced for the task. Bishop returns to base to deliver the message and is rescued by Foster, who shoots a nearby Ottoman soldier.

The British officer Whitehall on the front lines sent Bishop to the rear command to inform that the British troops intended to advance further. But Bishop found the command of his allied forces in the rear lines absent, and realized that there was a new plan to withdraw from Gallipoli in defeat and protect its troop withdrawal with artillery fire.

Remembering that Foster was still on the front lines, Bishop rushed back to pick him up. Reunited with Whitehall, Bishop is surprised to see Foster has joined the attack on the Ottoman fort. Bishop decides to go after Foster, while a distressed Whitehall allows Bishop to disobey the retreat order to have Foster tell him he doesn't have much time.

Bishop finds Foster and informs him of an imminent artillery attack, but the young Australians say they cannot retreat because they are wounded. Bishop attacks the fort to protect the retreating soldiers and tells Foster to fire a flare when the troop withdrawal is complete so that his troops can retreat safely.

Bishop single-handedly captured the Ottoman stronghold and was mortally wounded in the battle, but he saw Foster's flare in the sky and was relieved that his withdrawal was successful. The story ends when Bishop finally succumbs to his wounds, watching British warships attack the fort before closing his eyes.

The Ottomans eventually won the Battle of Gallipoli, and some famous survivors such as Mustafa Kemal Pasha led Modern Turkey after the war. Despite the defeat, Australian and New Zealand troops fought bravely at Gallipoli under their own flags, distinguishing themselves from British troops during the war.

3. Friends in High Places

In this War Story set in the spring of 1917, you play Clyde Blackburn, an American pilot, gambler, and pathological liar. Initially, Blackburn tricked George Rackham, a British aristocratic pilot, into a card game and stole the latter's plane. Disguised as Rackham, Blackburn introduces himself to Rackham's gunman named Wilson, and the two begin aerial training.

During the exercise, German planes ambushed the two, and both pilots took photos of the German ammunition base they had found after fighting the enemies. Although Wilson was reluctant to show the photos to British Command out of fear of insubordination, Blackburn persuaded him to do so to earn a military medal of honor. Wilson agrees on the condition that Blackburn can take them both safely from their next mission.

Blackburn and Wilson escort British bombers in an attack on the German ammunition base they photographed. Although the base is destroyed, Blackburn and Wilson are caught in a bomb blast and fall behind the enemy lines. Blackburn sneaks through the German positions and finds an injured Wilson. Realizing that he would not be able to return to the British lines safely while carrying Wilson, Blackburn thought of ending his friend's life from suffering but changed his mind instead when Wilson revealed that he had known Blackburn's true identity all along.

Blackburn carries Wilson through "No Man's Land" to safety but is detained by the British Military Police Provost under Rackham's orders. On the way to court martial in London, the ship carrying Blackburn, Rackham, and Wilson is attacked by German air raids, and Rackham is killed. Blackburn and Wilson pilot a fighter plane and fight off a German attack.

Blackburn and Wilson first destroyed waves of German bombers and warplanes before crashing into a German Zeppelin and using their anti-aircraft guns to destroy another Zeppelin. Both pilots jumped into the Thames river after the Zeppelin crashed to the ground. The War Story Friends in High Places ends as Blackburn climbs out of the river unscathed, reflecting on his experiences and adventures.

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4. Avanti Savoia!

Avanti Savoy! is Battlefield 1 War Story which takes place during the fall of 1918 in Dolomites, Northern Italy. You play Luca Vincenzo Cocchiola, a member of the Italian Arditi unit. The story is told by an old Luca many years after the war as he recounts his memories to his daughter on her birthday. Luca and his twin brother, Matteo, take part in a major attack to capture the Austro-Hungarian troops' stronghold a few days after their 21st birthday.

While Matteo took part in the main attack, Luca's unit played a supporting role i.e. removing obstacles to the advancing main force. Dressed in heavy armor and wielding a large MG08/15 machine gun, Luca spearheaded attacks on key Austro-Hungarian positions, capturing defensive points, destroying artillery guns, and thwarting enemy air raids.

In desperation to stop the attack on their fort, Austro-Hungarian bombers set off a landslide to block the Italian attack. Panicked to save his brother, Luca sets out alone into the battlefield to find his brother's unit, armed with a Villar Perosa and a Beretta M1915. Along the way, he helped trapped units and advanced towards enemy strongholds.

After securing the fort, Luca finds the remains of his brother's unit and finds his dead brother. Luca who is mourning in the present bids farewell and happy birthday to his brother.

5. Through Mud and Blood

Through Mud and Blood is a Battlefield 1 War Story set in the Fall of 1918 during the Battle of Cambrai in the Hundred Days Offensive. You play Daniel Edwards, a former driver of a wealthy family who enlists in the war as a British tank driver. Edwards was assigned to a Mark V tank nicknamed "Black Bess," and met with his other tank crew: Townsend, the tank crew commander; McManus, a cynical shooter who doubts Edwards' abilities and the crew's success; Pritchard, another gunner on the Black Bess tank; and Finch, the friendly mechanic.

The tank crews had to break through German lines to reach Cambrai, and help seize strategic positions and destroy enemy artillery. Finch the mechanic was killed by a machine gun while trying to repair the tank, and later, the tank was caught in the mud and surrounded by German infantry. Townsend decided to call artillery strikes on their own positions with the carrier pigeons the tank crew had prepared to save the tank, although McManus objected to that.

Pritchard is shot and killed by the enemy while trying to release the pigeons, forcing Edwards to do so, which allows him to call in British artillery support to save the tank from encirclement by German infantry. Then they encountered heavy fog near Bourlon Wood, Edwards acting as a scout on foot to guide the tank's passage.

After clearing the forest, the tank was hit by mechanical problems again, and Townsend sent Edwards and McManus to retrieve spark plugs from the British tanks that the Germans had stripped from the previous battle. The cynical McManus is reluctant and leaves the mission. However, McManus later changed his mind and returned just in time to save Edwards from the Germans' attack.

With the Black Bess repaired, the crew continued their journey to a train station defended by German troops. Although the Bess was the only British tank in the area, the crew attacked the train station to trick the Germans into thinking that a major British offensive was underway. After defeating the German troops at the train station, the tanks continued to Cambrai but were unable to move again as they were hit by enemy artillery and attacked by German soldiers.

Edwards and a wounded McManus protect the tank, and the mortally wounded Townsend sacrifices himself by triggering a gas leak in the tank and detonating it, killing himself as well as the German troops. The Black Bess was destroyed but Edwards and McManus survived, the two continued on foot to Cambrai. This War Story concludes by showing that with the participation of more than 300 tanks in the Battle of Cambrai, the first world war ended a month later.

6. Nothing is Written

Taking place in the spring of 1918, Battlefield 1 players take control of Zara Ghufran, a rebellious Badawi girl from Arabia who works closely with British intelligence officer T. E. Lawrence. Better known as Lawrence of Arabia, the legendary historical figure along with Zara fought to weaken the Ottoman occupation in the Arabian Peninsula. Zara infiltrates the derailed Ottoman train in "Al-Ajdar" and retrieves the manual with the Ottoman troop communication code.

Despite being caught in a trap by Tilkici, an Ottoman officer, Zara is rescued by Lawrence and some Badawi tribal rebels. Zara and Lawrence decide to interrogate Tilkici on how to manually use the code to invite the Ottoman armored battle train Canavar into a trap, but Tilkici scoffs that the rebels will not win.

After interrogating Tilkici, the rebels discover that they must use a message capsule held by three Ottoman officers to ask the train to retreat. Zara struggles alone and infiltrates the Ottoman camp to release two message capsules by carrier pigeons while defeating the Ottoman commanders. However, as she prepares to release the third capsule, she is knocked unconscious by Tilkici, who manages to escape from Lawrence.

Tilkici drags Zara into the desert and taunts her, because Tilkici has ordered Canavar to attack Lawrence's base. However, Zara kills Tilkici first before he can execute her. Returning to Lawrence, who survived the attack after Tilkici escaped, Zara and Lawrence decide to attack the Canavar armored fighting train while it stops to refuel. Zara infiltrates the village where Canavar stops and destroys parts of the train to ruin the movement of the train.

Arab warrior Zara and the rebels of the Badawi tribe destroy the train in a fierce battle, ending Canavar's great threat to their army. After achieving "revenge" against Canavar, Zara joins forces with Lawrence to attack targets on the Suez Canal.

This War Story ends and shows that even though the Ottomans lost the war, Britain and its Allies refused to give full autonomy to the Arabs. The conflict over territory in the Palestinian territories continued into the 21st century. That's why this War Story is titled Nothing is Written.

Those are the 6 War Stories in Battlefield 1. Which War Story is the best? Share your answer in the comment section.

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