Assault Beast - Crimson Crisis

Assault Battalion No. 5 (Rohr), was an experimental infantry battalion of the Imperial German Army during World War I. Under command of its namesake, Hauptmann Willy Rohr, it became known for its innovations in infantry tactics that would give rise to the German Stoßtruppen. The battalion began as a combat engineer detachment of the 8th Army Corps, part of a larger effort among German commanders to try and gain the tactical upper hand following the strategic and operational stagnation of trench warfare on the Western Front of World War I. The unit pioneered what would later be referred to as Stoßtrupptaktik, a body of field tactics taught to every subsequent German assault unit.