"Differences between factions in Great War" Topic

Different tanks, stormtroopers or cavalry. The force structures are quite similar across all nations, but what would be the difference between gaming french or british, beside different colour schemes on the tanks? (And the french infantry more visible for my aging eyes…)

Where did this 'faction' nonsense come from? Real world states don't fight against factions, they fight other states.

The Great War was fought between:

The Central Powers:
Germany
Austro-Hungary
The Ottoman Empire.

and

The Allies:
France
The British Empire
Russia
Japan
Italy
The United States (eventually)

There were no tanks in the field until the British used the on the Somme in September 1916.
French tanks appeared in 1917, and the Germans deployed only one tank, the A7V, in March 1918. There were only a couple of dozen built. The first tank v tank battle took place a month later at Villers-Brettoneaux when three A7V stumbled across three British MkIV.

After 1915 few mounted cavalry were seen performing heroic mass charges, they were used to exploit advances and fight as mounted infantry.

Only Germany had Stormtroopers, but other nations developed similar infiltration tactics.

Outside of the Western Front, the war was much more mobile, and fronts more fluid.

There seems to be a misunderstanding: I am talking about a wargame from battlefront.
As a German, I will game either with miniatures representing British forces or German forces. My opponent/gaming buddy (another wargamer from Germany) wants to game with miniatures painted in field grey, but we both like the blue-ish uniform colour of the French forces in WW1.
I do not plan to represent the muddy fields of Flandern, I will try to create interesting scenarios.
My main question is: are there special rules that represent different tactical approaches of the different armies of the big european family? For example can the British choose to attack at night like in Fow V1-3? Are french artillery barrages (sic?) different from german?
I will use the British cavalry as fast moving reserves, not for frontal assaults. And maybe I will even put down some trenches when I feel like.
It might be just kind of a language barrier, but my usage of the word "faction" was meant to take away any patriotic approach in choosing which army to field. Not more, not less.
cheers!
Btw thanks for the info about British Empire, I was not aware that Australia was still part of it, I thought Australia was already an independant state.

"Btw thanks for the info about British Empire, I was not aware that Australia was still part of it, I thought Australia was already an independant state."

The were, has of January 1 of 1901.

British, French and German infantry platoons were all organised differently, and those organisations changed through the war as new weapons such as light machineguns and rifle grenades were introduced. Similarly battalion and regimental support weapons changed as did artillery doctrine.

I've no idea how that is reflected in Flames of War I'm afraid, I didn't even realise they did a WW1 game.

A gaming buddy told me that the British Elite! Division still can choose to do a night attack. Same for the Stosskompanie. The French have already bombardment boni when using 4 guns instead of five.
And I can use French Infantry and Tanks as support for my British, so I am looking forward to play those weird V4 rules. Hopefully I forgot the old rules, is much harder for me to seperate old and new rules than learning completly new stuff.