The major countries in the game i think would be best like this. But maybe France should recieve a convoy as well, because they weren't conquered in world war 1 and put up stiff fights.Īlso, i think italy should be a minor, maybe under France's control. ![]() (If it starts at 1914, that is) But i would like USA to have a small island that can't be conquered, just to send convoys to UK. They joined the war in april 1917, and im sure by that time the game's direction should be shown. True, canada should be put into play, but i dont think USA should. So while the horror of the trenches is certainly the lasting impression we all have of WW1 it is not the whole truth! On the Eastern front and in Palestine there were also many more opportunities for "manouvre" - especially if you were the Germans or Empire forces respectively. The battles in July also showed what proper preparation could do, with the Australian 1st Division commander refusing to attack Pozieres until his troops were ready, and subsequently taking it with ease, and a roling barrage used to take Bazentine Ridge on Bastille day. South of the Albert-Bapaume road French artillery had done a better job of the bombardment - being more numerous and more experienced than the British artillery, plus hte German defences were weaker. ![]() By the end of the war they had progressed to walking barrages, box barrages, "silent" registration, map fire.Īnd it was the needs of artillery spotting aircraft that drove most of the air war - the requirements to protect your own and shoot down the other guy's 2-seaters was the driving force.Įven at the Somme there were excellent examples of attacking tactics from some of the British divisions - some had crawled out into no-mans land and were only a few hundred yards from the German trenches when the barrage lifted (eg the 36th (Ulster) Division, while the 56th had dug trenches out into no-mans land to get them closer. WW1 combat is commonly portrayed as slaughter and gas and machineguns, but the truth is far from that.Īs early as 1915 French Captain Andre Laffargue was advocating by-passing strong points and it was his ideas that the Germans adopted and refined to form their Stosstruppen in 19.Īrtillery tactics evolved enourmously - at hte start of the war field artillery was often stilll as it had been in Napoleonic times - firing directly at enemy they could see. Most of the a/c "lost in combat" were actually lost in accidents - the a/c of the time were very fragile by todays standards, and a hard landing could be enough to bust a fuselage or a wing spar.Īnd of course the state of training wasn't that hot (that is the way they trained pilots, not the amount of training they gave them - that's a seperate issue) because aeronautical science was in its infancy, hence training accidents were as common as muck - I read somewhere that on average every pilot in WW1 probably destroyed 1 a/c during training!
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