Along with innovative multiplayer experiences, Battlefield™ V will explore mankind’s greatest conflict across a collection of single-player War Stories that bring the human toll of World War 2 in focus. War Stories uses the anthology format introduced in Battlefield™ 1, and each War Story will take players to unexpected conflicts. Today we’ll look at Tirailleur, where a brotherhood of over-matched French colonial soldiers fight against superior foes on, what was for decades, a forgotten front.

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Set late in WW2, the story title refers to the Senegalese Tirailleurs, colonial units of the French Army who were deployed to France – usually from West Africa – to fight and liberate a homeland that they themselves had never seen before. Their contributions to the war, particularly the invasion of southern France, have only recently been recognized and are still obscured by the more famous landings at Normandy.



The events are told in retrospect by Deme, now weary of his days as a tirailleur in the French Army when once he was emboldened by the promise of combat.



The player takes over a young Deme as he learns that the stakes of the conflict go beyond surviving the battle at hand to include earning acceptance for his duty.