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Ten dispatches. One long road.

The Narrow Front campaign is 10 missions at real places on the Western Front, from Colleville, 7 June 1944 to Remagen, 7 March 1945. Follow five fictional people through a war fought one farmhouse, one street, one crossing at a time.

All 10 missions are playable now on Android, iPhone and iPad.

For a continuing war across the map, explore The Front. For zombie survival, enter Dead of Night.

Soldiers approach the Ludendorff Bridge across the Rhine at Remagen.
The road leads east.Normandy → Holland → Aachen → Ardennes → Rhine

Ellis keeps
the book.

Each mission is a dispatch: an order recorded by Cpl. Ellis, a US signals corporal, with its own battlefield and an attached unit that joins your force. A voice comes over the radio. A place becomes an order. You lead the Allied force through ten connected encounters, each on its own battlefield, with voiced motion comics carrying the story between them.

The places and dates are real. Ellis, Marin, Pell, Vogt, and Brenner are fictional. Their stories stay close to the ground, on both sides of the line.

Clear each dispatch to open the next. Choose Recruit, Regular, or Veteran, and take a different attached unit into every fight.

The people on the line.

Five perspectives. The same few metres of ground.

Portrait of Ellis, a fictional character in Narrow Front.

Cpl. Ellis

US signals · the dispatch keeper

A handset, a notebook, and the job of making sense of the line. Ellis connects the scattered fights, recording the war one dispatch at a time.

Portrait of Marin, a fictional character in Narrow Front.

Pvt. Marin

US infantry · the ground view

For Marin, the map is a stone step, a hedge, the next door. His part of the story happens at walking pace, with a rifle in his hands.

Portrait of Pell, a fictional character in Narrow Front.

Sgt. Pell

British armour · the troop commander

Pell commands a Cromwell troop on the road through Holland. He has a practical eye for narrow roads, waiting columns, and where a tank can actually go.

Portrait of Vogt, a fictional character in Narrow Front.

Feldwebel Vogt

German infantry · the opposing line

From the other side of the farmhouse wall, Vogt sees the same ground differently. His orders put a human voice to the resistance ahead.

Portrait of Brenner, a fictional character in Narrow Front.

Uffz. Brenner

German armour · the tank commander

Brenner commands a Panzer IV. Roads, junctions, and the limits of his machine shape his view from inside the turret.

A different kind of ground.

The opening situation and a field hint for each dispatch. The rest is yours to discover.

  1. A Sherman and infantry move up a sunlit Normandy farm lane.
    Orchards & farm lanes

    Colleville, 7 June 1944

    Mission 1: The First Road

    A day after the landings, Baker Section reaches an orchard road. A farmhouse overlooks the crossing. The beach is behind you; the first stretch of France is ahead.

    Field hintBring infantry with the Sherman. Ground is only yours when someone can hold it.

    Historical context: Omaha Beach

    Attached to your force M4A1 Sherman 75

  2. A flooded causeway leads toward the church and houses of Carentan.
    Flooded causeway

    Carentan, 12 June 1944

    Mission 2: The East Edge

    Flooded fields funnel the approach to Carentan onto a narrow causeway. Beyond the water, the first street offers shelter—and a new direction for the fighting.

    Field hintA quick advance means little without a secure way back.

    Historical context: Battle of Carentan

    Attached to your force M5A1 Stuart

  3. A Sherman approaches a sunken lane between the dense hedgerows of Hill 192.
    Bocage & sunken lanes

    Hill 192, 11 July 1944

    Mission 3: Beyond the Hedgerow

    On Hill 192, the next field might as well be another country. High banks hide the approaches, and a sunken lane gives armour precious little room to work.

    Field hintFind the infantry gaps. Make room for the heavier guns.

    Historical context: Battle of Saint-Lô

    Attached to your force M4 Sherman 105

  4. Infantry and armour approach the cratered junction at St-Gilles.
    Cratered crossroads

    St-Gilles, 26 July 1944

    Mission 4: The Breakout

    The road to St-Gilles runs through the aftermath of the bombardment. At the junction, broken houses and shell craters turn a breakthrough into a fight for a few metres.

    Field hintKnow when to stop the advance and hold the junction.

    Historical context: Operation Cobra

    Attached to your force M4A3 Sherman 76

  5. A sandbag roadblock closes the orchard road near Chambois.
    Orchard roadblock

    Chambois, 20 August 1944

    Mission 5: The Shut Road

    Near Chambois, an orchard road becomes the meeting point of two armies moving in opposite directions. A Firefly joins the line. There is little room to give.

    Field hintA long gun needs a line of fire—and infantry beside it.

    Historical context: Falaise pocket

    Attached to your force Sherman Firefly

  6. British armour waits beside the narrow road and drainage ditches at Veghel.
    Polders & a road bridge

    Veghel, 22 September 1944

    Mission 6: The Corridor

    At Veghel, Sgt. Pell's Cromwells share a single road with the supply column. Ditches frame the tarmac. Every house along the corridor matters to everyone behind it.

    Field hintOpening a road and keeping it open are different jobs.

    Historical context: Operation Market Garden

    Attached to your force Cromwell IV

  7. An infantry section moves through a ruined street in Aachen.
    Ruined city streets

    Aachen, 18 October 1944

    Mission 7: The Next Door

    Aachen reduces the front to one ruined city block. Marin faces a short walk to the next doorway. Ellis stays on the radio, outside a fight measured room by room.

    Field hintArmour cannot take a house. Give the infantry a way through.

    Historical context: Battle of Aachen

    Attached to your force Assault Section

  8. Soldiers keep watch behind sandbags among the snow-covered Ardennes farmhouses.
    Winter outposts

    Skyline Drive, 16 December 1944

    Mission 8: Cold Watch

    A quiet watch in the Ardennes. Two scattered posts, dark pines, and a road disappearing into the cold. The wire is getting unreliable.

    Field hintDecide which ground you can afford to leave.

    Historical context: Battle of the Bulge

    Attached to your force M24 Chaffee

  9. Armour and infantry move along a snowy, damaged street in Assenois.
    Snow & blocked streets

    Assenois, 26 December 1944

    Mission 9: A Road to Bastogne

    King Company is on the air. The route to Bastogne runs through Assenois, where rubble and close-set houses leave the relief force little space to manoeuvre.

    Field hintKeep the infantry close to the Jumbo.

    Historical context: Siege of Bastogne

    Attached to your force M4A3E2 Jumbo

  10. Soldiers approach the Ludendorff Bridge across the Rhine at Remagen.
    River crossing

    Remagen, 7 March 1945

    Mission 10: The Crossing

    At Remagen, the signal party reaches the west bank of the Rhine. Across the water stands a bridge—and beyond it, a town that puts the next order just out of reach.

    Field hintA crossing is only the beginning of a bridgehead.

    Historical context: Battle of Remagen

    Attached to your force M26 Pershing · T34 Calliope

Infantry hold the ground. Armour helps you reach it.

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