WW1: Russia, Britain, France versus Germany, Austria-Hungary, Ottoman

[Mithridates]

I still hate WW1. It seemed stupidly obvious almost immediately in WW1 that the old tactics of charging across open terrain in mass had become outdated overnight due to technology like machine guns and better artillery that now wiped out whole units at once. And yet they continually did basically the same thing until 9,000,000 soldiers were dead, and usually for little or no tangible gain of territory.

Compared to other wars where brilliant, unorthodox and daring new strategies were used to win legendary battles that are still studied today like Cannae and Trafalgar, someone should've realized that even the newest inventions like tanks and warplanes weren't winning decisive victories and stopped sending guys out of the trench to slaughter until they could figure something better out. The tactics used really never caught up to what was going on and it resulted in an uncountable number of needless casualties. And if that wasn't enough of a failure the resolution to WW1 was a catastrophe and lit the fuse for WW2 along with much of the conflict still going on in the Middle East.

ottomans didn't have tanks??

 

[vostok]

In Russia it is called "Forgotten War". Because of Revolution and Civil War Russia went out of WW1 and all the victims, victories and defeats were in vain. In Soviet times and even nowadays it is studied much worse than WW2.

 

[Nein]

ottomans didn't have tanks??

Nope they did not have tanks but they did face them in the Middle East at the Battle of Gaza in 1917 when the British deployed tanks. A lot of the British tanks used either got stuck in the desert or broken down which made them easy targets for artillery. Hence why the British no longer used tanks in the Middle East and switched to Armoured cars while tanks went back to the Western Front.

In ww1 only the French, British and the Germans used tanks. Americans used French made Renault FTs. Ottomans, Austro-Hungarians and the Russians did not use tanks at all. But the Russians had the infamous Tsar Tank that was a prototype.

Interestingly enough in the Russian Civil War both Whites and Reds used British tanks.

 

[Mithridates]

Nope they did not have tanks but they did face them in the Middle East at the Battle of Gaza in 1917 when the British deployed tanks. A lot of the British tanks used either got stuck in the desert or broken down which made them easy targets for artillery. Hence why the British no longer used tanks in the Middle East and switched to Armoured cars while tanks went back to the Western Front.

In ww1 only the French, British and the Germans used tanks. Americans used French made Renault FTs. Ottomans, Austro-Hungarians and the Russians did not use tanks at all. But the Russians had the infamous Tsar Tank that was a prototype.

Interestingly enough in the Russian Civil War both Whites and Reds used British tanks.

shame, if u had tanks or apc back in the time outcome of the war would be different.