When video game producer Petr Kolar and his future colleagues made a research trip to the Legiovlak, a replica World War I-era train that chugs around the Czech Republic, he noted the pristine Czechoslovak Legion uniforms worn by the museum guides.
¡°The Legion were like gentlemen fighting,¡± says Kolar, who co-founded Ashborne Games after that visit. ¡°They always made sure that they were well cleaned, well equipped. That¡¯s one of the reasons 70,000 men could control the whole Trans-Siberian Railway.¡±
Foregrounding historical accuracy was a priority for Ashborne¡¯s first original game, Last Train Home, which retells the Legion¡¯s rolling evacuation eastward across Russia in the embers of the war. Its journey for homebound ships at the port of Vladivostok was tangled in Russia¡¯s internal conflict between Bolshevik and anti-Bolshevik armies.
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