Battlefield 1: From Suez to Monte Grappa

The Suez map sets British and Ottoman troops against each other on the canal's riverbanks, in long desert dunes and across city outskirts, and rolls in an armored train as its behemoth. The real fight came first. Between 26 January and 4 February 1915 a German-led Ottoman force advanced from southern Palestine to seize the canal, which would have cut British links with East Africa, India and Asia. The canal had a railway along its whole 100-mile length, and an armoured train with New Zealand infantry reinforced the Gurkhas' post on the east bank. The attack failed, with nearly 2,000 troops lost.

Location precision: The map is the game's own stretch of canal country; the pin marks the Suez Canal, not a level.

In the War Story The Runner, Australian messenger Frederick Bishop storms the beaches of Gallipoli at Cape Helles and captures a position, then fires a flare, only to find that Foster, who lied about his age to enlist, has come up alone. Bishop is later mortally wounded taking a fort, and closing subtitles say the Ottomans eventually won. The Cape Helles map gives the Ottoman side the Sedd el Bahr fortress and coastal guns. The real landing on 25 April 1915 turned V and W beaches into bloodbaths despite meagre defences.

Location precision: The War Story and the map are the game's own versions of the landing; the pin marks the Cape Helles headland.

Visitor guidance: The Helles Memorial, maintained by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission, commemorates over 20,000 names from the Gallipoli campaign.

Achi Baba is the second Gallipoli map of the Turning Tides expansion, released with Cape Helles on 11 December 2017: a fast, infantry-focused British assault. Together the two maps form the Gallipoli Operation. The hill is the point of it. On the first day of the landing the 29th Division was to advance six miles and seize its heights, because Achi Baba was the main Ottoman defensive position. Four separate attempts between April and July failed, and the heights stayed in Turkish hands for the whole campaign.

Location precision: The map is named for the hill but is the game's own battlefield; the pin marks the real height.

Sinai Desert is set in the Sinai and Palestine campaign of 1915 to 1918, British Empire against Ottoman Empire. You ride full speed on horseback across huge desert areas and hunt for enemies in narrow streets, while much of the fighting follows railroad tracks where an armored train can swing the battle; a high stone arch is a sniper's favourite. The real railway mattered as much: British engineers built a railway and pipeline across the peninsula, and Romani, the last Central Powers ground attack on the canal, was fought on 3–5 August 1916, 37 km east of it.

Location precision: The map's desert, outposts and arch are the game's own; the pin marks Romani, which the British railway and pipeline were being built towards in 1916.

In the War Story Nothing is Written, set in spring 1918, Bedouin rebel Zara Ghufran fights beside T. E. Lawrence. She infiltrates a derailed Ottoman train in Al-Ajdar and takes a manual of Ottoman codes, then the rebels destroy the Canavar, an Ottoman armored train. Al-Ajdar is the game's invention; the war behind it is real. The Hejaz railway ran from Damascus to Medina, and Ottoman trains were ambushed by Lawrence's guerrilla force. In July 1917 Al-Akhdhar station was attacked and 20 Turkish soldiers captured.

Location precision: Al-Ajdar exists only in the game; the pin marks Al-Ukhaydir (al-Akhdar), a Hejaz railway station with a Hajj fort.

Amiens pits British against Germans in the French city, fought among collapsing alleys, a courthouse, bridges and railways, with an armored train as its behemoth. The game puts it in the middle of the German spring offensive. The real stakes were rails: Amiens was a vital railway junction, and the German push was halted at Villers-Bretonneux on 4 April. The better-known Battle of Amiens began in dense fog on 8 August with almost 600 tanks; Ludendorff called its first day the "black day of the German Army".

Location precision: The map's streets, courthouse and bridges are the game's own; the pin marks Amiens station, the railway junction the fighting was about.

In Avanti Savoia, Luca Vincenzo Cocchiola of the Arditi and his twin brother Matteo join an offensive on an Austro-Hungarian fortress, days after their 21st birthday. Austro-Hungarian bombers trigger a landslide, and after clearing the fortress Luca finds his brother dead. The multiplayer map, with underground trenches and a tunnel bored into the mountainside, is based on the final Italian offensive of 1918. In fact the third battle began on 24 October, when 9 Italian divisions attacked; the Austrians raised their forces from 9 to 15 divisions, then began a general retreat on 28 October.

Location precision: The fortress and tunnel are the game's own layout; the pin marks the summit of Monte Grappa.

Visitor guidance: A military memorial and ossuary stand on the summit, and a World War museum lies on the mountain.