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 killed 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 killed 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 shit, 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 hate, 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.