Who And When "The Trenches" is a World War I mod for the Half-Life engine. Included in our first release are the British and Germans, two large players of the "Great War". Players will be able to fight for their homelands with six different weapons on many locations on the Western Front with two different kinds of gameplay. Game Play Rush over the top with your teammates or stay in your trench to pick off enemy troops in "Trench Capture" gameplay (tt) and cover the advance of your army to in territorial push (tp) play. Special Features The Trenches will have some features that will make this an even more unique mod than it already is. Some of these features (for the first release) include: -Custom Faces (no additional files needed!) -Built in MP3 Player with Exclusive Tracks -Realistic ambient sound system -Two classes for the Germans and British Imperial Forces -Manual "game action" system -High damage variables -Anti-"Cheap" measures...
The Trenches will be released on 4:00 P.M. EST on Friday, October 8th, 2004. The Linux Server will be released on Thursday, October 7th. Some Sponsors...
OK, it's time for a new Media Update. First of all big thanks to Polygon, who contributed the Skin for the Webley. We further finished the Mauser...
The Trenches: is as close you can get to World War One combat that's capable with the half-life engine. Attacking a trench by yourself only gets...
The Trenches have released their newly-crafted lebel 1886 and lebel 1886 Sniper, credits to Go chek it out amongst all their other beautiful models. Lebel...
Terminus has tweaked his some of his weapons to reduce polycount, which should boost performance on lower-end machines.Here's a list of those that have...
I've decided to take our mod to another website, modDB. We're also on hexdot, but I feel that we could also benifit from modDB just as we do at hexdot...
Well, a few team members have left and some more were fired for reasons not needed to be known to the public. In such a case, we're looking for replacements...
I would just like to clarify that the rumors about the mod being dead are false and unjustified. The mod is very much alive, but I'll admit, we could...
We've switched hosts back to United Gaming. We can be found at our old URL of Unfortunatly, there were some slgiht complications with the MySQL switch...
Our prize mapper, Westcon-X, has once again stunned us with another fanstic map called Zerstorung! Be sure to check out the screen shots (below) and give...
Our friend DosEvil has bought The Trenches a domain name! You can now find our site at For convience, still works, this way everybody will still know...
Although we're booming right along, we are still in need of some help in order to get The Trenches released at a relitivly early date. If you can Skin...
Even though I resigned as leader, I'm still with The Trenches as Web Master and Public Relations, so it is my honor to present to you (using both of my...
There's been a lot of things going on lately! Due to personal reasons, Baer has decided to part ways from The Trenches for the time being. Thanks for...
With over 350 applications in just under two days, HotelSecurity and I read every single one, and chose 25 very lucky people to be able to beta test The...
TT's new public relations person speaking :) , We have a truckload of updates for you guys!!But first to tell you the status of our mod..We have been...
Just a quick update that the trenches has just crossed the 90% done barrier.All sounds are done,1 model remaining to be skinned,meshed and we're on the...
Hey! Long time no news post..But thats because the team has been workin extremely hard to get the mod out :) . Today I bring you 2 important news. #1...
We're sorry for not posting news in quite some time but at least we got a lot to tell you now. We have quite a few updates to inform you about so let's...
Well, it's my pleasure to finnally show you some spanking new map & ingame pics. This is a map that TT's lead mapper(the_Leprechaun) has been working...
The cover of darkness was used by armies to sneak out of their trenches to retrieve bodies, install barbed wire, repair trench defenses, or to go on raids...
Just a bit of an update. Oelund is working on some sweet new animations for the grenadier's melee trench club, to give it a more authentic striking appearance...
The Leprechaun has been working on a replacement map for the test map Swamp! The Germans and British take a break from the war to show off the details...
Hi, Beta Testing is going on and with every Update major bugs are being squashed. Today I want to present you some new ingame screenshots. Visit
I'd like to extend a huge thank-you to Prime Suspect for all of his hard work on the official "The Trenches" video trailer. After hours...
The Trenches is done and the installer is being compiled the moment I write this. So why not take the time to organize a little release party? The release...
Well I announced it and I'll post the links. Special thanks go out to Omega for his help with the coding. Note: You need The Trenches Beta 1.0 installed...
OK, well it didn't happen much in the last time. But here is a small, but nice Media Update. First the Pics: Good Job Oelund (Model, UVMap and Skin...
Official The Trenches mappers like Hawk and gotrick weren't always on the team. After dedication, persistance, and demonstration of a great degree...
This is the new higher detail player model featured in The Trenches. The screenshots are of the British Infantry. Compare the texture of the cloth and...