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Blog Entries: 1 | Hey guys, I wanna get this thread going again. Killer was wondering why there are no WW1 FPS games, and it has peaked my interest in the Great War again. Does anyone know about battles that occured in places other than the Western Front? I remember reading that there was mobile warfare during the war, but I can't recall much of it. (BTW, the MK Ultra program involved the CIA giving LSD to unwitting employees, not really military history, but interesting nonetheless).
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| The Eastern Front was much more static, IIRC. Oh, and the beginning of the war, before the creation of the trenches, was much more mobile and the like. But, after that... barely any movement for several years.
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Blog Entries: 4 | WWI FPS: level 1- when the whistle is blown jump from the trench and run for the enemy. Ready? Go! *bang* your dead, game over restart....Go! oh no caught in barbed wire! *bang* game over restart...Go! oh no machine guns! *bang bang bang bang* game over restart...artillery! game over does anybody see a pattern?
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Blog Entries: 4 | Hmm... as far as i can remember (I'm not nearly as well learned in WWI as in WWII, and even then probably not as much in WWII as many of you out there) But mostly the war was static most everywhere once the trenches got started. Oh there was a lot of land being taken and retaken, but it's not the fluid high speed dynamic type of battle as the image conjured by the phrase "modern warfare"
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Blog Entries: 21 | Middle eastern warfare in ww1 was largely invasion after invasion of turkey by the brits, ausi's, and canadians. in that region there was the famous battle of Gallipoli, in which ausi's got the short end of a british stick. other than turkey, that region saw little action.
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| I know about modern armor tactics (was a tanker *M1A1*) and have an ENORMUS Field Manual on Mine-Countermine ops (boobytraps included) BTW: Omar Bradley was the shiznittle-bomb-snip-snap! *even tho the POS named after him sux*
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Blog Entries: 2 | fact of the matter "current" tactics are **** simple. its all about the fire fight. make them keep their heads down then manouver up and blast the bastards straigh to hell. as for hand signals they vary from country to country if you want i can get some photos of them and send em to you. and as for Middle Eastern combat there was alot don't wanna get into it but i strongly suggest reading John Keegans "the first world war" very insightful account of the great war on a statgic, tactical AND logistcal level
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Blog Entries: 21 | Just a side note, yeah i would like to learn, you'd think they would have something like the ABC's of military sign lingo er sumthin... But I do have a military history question for someone, when was the sickle-magazine invented? and how big of a round is .75 caliber?
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