World War I (1914-1918): Year of Remembrance

[GodsEmbryo]

[...] Battlefield 1 just got announced and it will be a WWI game!! It's been a while since we've seen a non-modern warfare game, and I think this is the first WWI game for current gen consoles. How cool is this? Maybe we'll see a resurgence of interest in WWI? [...]

Looks pretty awesome! Although there are some games about WW1, I was still waiting for something 'grand'. Sure, there are a lot of strategy games, and there is 'Verdun' which is quite nice (for a while), but it still feels like there is a big gap

 

[Theopolis Q. Hossenffer]

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opin...556a50-3d56-11e6-84e8-1580c7db5275_story.html

 

[cronus100]

On the scale of conflict in history, 1916 would rank as a most vicious year.
Jutland on the High Seas , Verdun on land but it did not end there.
The First of July is a Century on from the beginning of one of History's most bloodiest battles , The Battle Of The Somme of 1916
A battle that lasted over 5 months destroying lives on both sides.
More than a million troops either ****** or injured in the mayhem. A battle which defined the sheer Horror of War.

 

[Theopolis Q. Hossenffer]

On the scale of conflict in history, 1916 would rank as a most vicious year.
Jutland on the High Seas , Verdun on land but it did not end there.
The First of July is a Century on from the beginning of one of History's most bloodiest battles , The Battle Of The Somme of 1916
A battle that lasted over 5 months destroying lives on both sides.
More than a million troops either ****** or injured in the mayhem. A battle which defined the sheer Horror of War.

But unfortunately hasn't seemed to slow it down.

 

[GodsEmbryo]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2iKufS4UfNg

 

[GodsEmbryo]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a2pGoz4ZDgE

Holy ****, now that's a flamethrower

 

[Theopolis Q. Hossenffer]

First use of Flame throwers was in WWI. I don't remember when though.

 

[tvstrip]

I know Battlefield 1 is getting all the attention for WWI video games, but I found a cool 2014 game called "Valiant Hearts: The Great War" that's on sale this weekend on the PSN and it reminded me of this thread.

It's a pretty good story intertwining 4 solders from all sides of WWI, and although it has a cartoony/scribblenauts feel to it, the music, storyline and general atmosphere does the war justice.

 

[Theopolis Q. Hossenffer]

http://nationalinterest.org/blog/th...s-world-war-i-plan-1919-might-have-been-17893

http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-york-north-yorkshire-37424081

 

[GodsEmbryo]

 

[tvstrip]

https://www.yahoo.com/news/christma...e-off-unearthed-letters-reveal-101531629.html

Christmas Day truce of 1914 was not a one-off, unearthed letters reveal
This is one of my favorite war stories, where soldiers on the front lines fighting in the trenches in WWI called a truce on Xmas and basically had a party in no-man's land. They played football, exchanged gifts, sang carols, etc.

I'm pretty sure a lot of people have heard this story, but I think it's news that it actually happened over several years in multiple places, and the scale of these events was kept a secret by the governments.

It's so unique because from WWII onward you never had soldiers that respected the other side, whether it was racism, religion or just plain ****, so you wouldn't be able to put those feelings aside, even for a day.

 

[acenipplelicker]

I knew of this

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I knew of this

 

[xfire]

Welp, Cheeto Benito kinda fucked up commemorating the end of the war.

 

[Ace Boobtoucher]

Dickhead, don't bring politics to this.