PeskyToaster
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Here's the breadth of change we are looking at by doing a game for this war.
1914 French troops. The colors worn are blue coats/upper stuff and red pants. Very Napoleonic and early modern style. From the time of long lines of infantry facing off.
1917 French troops. Notice the helmets and the uniforms have become sort of blueish-grey.
French Heavy Cavalry off to war. Notice the armored breastplates. Like I said, Napoleon would not have felt out of place leading this army despite being active almost 100 years before this.
Here you have German Hussars (light cavalry) in the early part of the war.
And by the end of the war a German army kit could look like this. Very much an aesthetic associated with WWII.
What's makes the war such a fascinating study and setting is that in four years, Europe moved from the Napoleonic early times to modern times. The army that left was early modern and the army that came back was modern.
1914 French troops. The colors worn are blue coats/upper stuff and red pants. Very Napoleonic and early modern style. From the time of long lines of infantry facing off.
1917 French troops. Notice the helmets and the uniforms have become sort of blueish-grey.
French Heavy Cavalry off to war. Notice the armored breastplates. Like I said, Napoleon would not have felt out of place leading this army despite being active almost 100 years before this.
Here you have German Hussars (light cavalry) in the early part of the war.
And by the end of the war a German army kit could look like this. Very much an aesthetic associated with WWII.
What's makes the war such a fascinating study and setting is that in four years, Europe moved from the Napoleonic early times to modern times. The army that left was early modern and the army that came back was modern.