My grandma said I lost a distant uncle in WWI. He jumped into a shell hole, and the bottom of it was filled with gas from a gas attack several days previous. He wasn't masked. Another distant uncle wrote home after the Armistice that he'd be home on the next troop ship. He was never heard from again. Family never learned his fate. Probably died on one of the Hell ships full of Influenza victims on the trip back. They were throwing bodies over the side because it was so bad.

Word of advice..... when playing war games, always advance forward. If you stay in an area without moving forward, the enemies will keep coming nonstop. So all you're doing is wasting ammo...... Move Ahead!

Verdun, Tannenberg and now Isonzo are WW1 games that give you the vibe of that warfare... multiplayer games but you can play solo vs bots quite entertaining. Tanks were not very useful but developed quickly and became a key tool in WW2 as you know, similar to airplanes, in WW1 were introduced to warfare and that changed battlefield forever. Take care, Cheers!!

Apart from being there in person, this is as realistic as it gets by far 💯

Yes! Horses were used fairly extensively in terrain like this during WWI, especially to tow the cannons, and a sabre came along with the deal.

Loved the music in this and the build up as the multiplayer missions got close to the end, shame I can never find anyone on the PS servers these days, best I’ve played.

you just missed a big part of that mission, after salvaging spark plugs, walk through th village, it's a hell in itself

Brian, i found this info on the web: "In 1942, what many consider the last major cavalry charge took place in the Soviet Union. With sabers drawn, about 600 Italian cavalrymen yelled out their traditional battle cry of “Savoia!” and galloped headlong toward 2,000 Soviet foot soldiers armed with machine guns and mortars." "The last successful cavalry charge, during World War II, was executed during the Battle of Schoenfeld on March 1, 1945. The Polish cavalry, fighting on the Soviet side, overwhelmed the German artillery position and allowed for infantry and tanks to charge into the city."

48:40 "You know what sucks? We're just rolling through sandbags. You guys don't know all the effort it takes to make sandbags." Fair enough. You know what else sucks? You're just rolling through farms, barns, houses, walls. These are places that humans live. These humans are your allies. You don't know all the effort it takes to make all these buildings. Just sayin'... I think sandbags are the least of the worries of anybody who actually might want to live here after the battle is over.

Well, I've watched the best part of an hour of this, and while it seems like a real fun game (and I know it's only a game), it's also as much fantasy as fiction. Automatic weapons would have been a luxury the British and Commonwealth troops would have loved, for even the Lewis gun was pretty much only available for aircraft, and it required two men to handle from a fixed base. As for pistols, basically it was only officers who had pistols, and they were standard six-round .45 revolvers. The Mk 4 and 5 tanks weighed 28 tons and had an absolute maximum speed on flat ground of 5mph. There were two versions, the male and female ; the male had two x 2-pdr guns (later 2 x 6-pdrs) and eight crew; the female had six Hotchkiss mgs. While the tanks took the initial advantage in late 1916, that advantage was lost through them being vulnerable to artillery, getting caught in deep trenches, and being stuck in the mud. As a result, they always carried anti-ditching logs, and/or fascines to get over the trenches.Their worst problem was carbon monoxide poisoning and acute deafening from the engines - the crew could only manage short periods without proper ventilation. This game makes the tank behave like whippets, both in forward/reverse movement and in turning - all of which was wholly impossible in the day! Second Worls War tanks couldn't even have managed the game's speeds, except on reasonably flat ground. All of the scenarios I saw during that hour would have been totally impossible for the Mk 5. On that basis, I wouldn't buy this game, purely because it's gone far too far into fantasy.

Hard to believe this game is just a few years short of being a decade old.

Loved this campaign, it's good to relive with your play-through. Have fun!

Bro imagine fighting the bloodiest war in history and knowing the fate of you and hundreds of your brothers in arms lies in the hands of a fucking pigeon

These were the Harlem Hellfighters of the US Army's 369th Regiment. These guys were true heroes in every sense of the word. When you look up "bad-ass" in the dictionary, it shows a picture of these guys! I am a Navy Veteran, of the Cold War, Panama and Gulf War. Remember these guys on Memorial Day! They had an assortment of machine guns including the Browning M1917 and Colt-Vickers, both water cooled, the BAR just to name a few. They had Springfield 1903s and Lee, Enfield M1917 and Lee-Enfield bolt action rifles. I believe these were the bulk of US small arms. There was the Colt M1911 as well. That crazy paint on the tank was like the so-called "dazzle camouflage" paint scheme. Naval vessels are said to have used it during WWI and WWII. The idea of camouflage was only close to the end of WWII. American tanks were green, and German tanks like Panzers were black or grey. I think in WWI they were just green. I honestly don't remember ever seeing the WWII pictures of "dazzle paint" and ships were always grey, hence the phrase, "Haze gray and under way." NOW we see them all over the internet. I do not know where it came from. I was born in 1962 just about 20 years after the war. I can tell you I have seen lots of WWII pictures and watched the documentaries the World at War which was about the war in Europe, and Victory at Sea about the war in the Pacific. Never saw "Dazzle Paint" until about a year ago. And I did see ships like Destroyers and Battlewagons with a Naval form of camo, with blues gray and black, only after I played Battlefield 1942 which was about 2003. Before that nothing, just gray. Don't know where all that came from. Oh yeah, one last thing. I went to 32nd Street Naval Base and North Island Naval Base several times growing up. On these bases, trucks, buses and even jeeps were all painted gray. Now if there was a "dazzle" paint scheme during WWI & WWII, don't you think we would still be using that paint scheme? I'd be willing to bet.

This game still looks incredible. I loved the multiplayer too. Put hundreds of hours into it.

my fav battlefield

Right at the start you said you've never seen a tank like that before. Then I guess you've never seen Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade? The movie that properly ended Indy's saga so perfectly that I prefer to pretend the 4th movie never existed and definitely will pretend the 5th movie coming out next year doesn't exist. In any case, the movie built a replica Mk VIII Liberty painted in desert tan . This is an earlier version without the top structure you see in the movie, probably a Mk V since it's painted U.S. Army green. At first, when I saw this tank in the video game I thought it was the same one as in The Last Crusade. Not quite, but very close. The only really visible difference is the small upper structure on the Mk VIII. Edit: Once you got in one, and the drivers are British, I still think it's a Mk V based on the shape. The Brits used them too. I didn't think they painted them the same. 2nd Edit: Nice. At 18:15 the game actually mentions it's a Mk. V tank. Called it!

Sorry, that's What i meant to say Raven Aeser, i knew about the u-boats because maritime history is my favorite, Donitz was a sub captain during WW1.Thanks for clarifying for me.

One of the best games ever made.

SUPPORT, LMG, EXPLOSiVE FRAG CROSSBOW & SMOKE GRENAdES ARE THE WINNINGEST COMBO

1:57:55 Yes, they had legit cavalry in WWI. They also had legit cavalry 22 years later in WW2. Yep. September 1, 1939, Krojanty Poland. Nazis invaded and, at that time, Poland had a world-famous cavalry. That night, the Polish cavalry charged a German infantry unit and were victorious. The Germans were dispersed and fled. To my knowledge, that's the last official "cavalry charge" on a battlefield, and it won that battle. Unfortunately for Poland, the Germans followed that up with a whole lot more infantry, including mechanized mobile infantry, and tanks. The Poles were slaughtered. German propaganda said the Polish cavalry charged the tanks. Never happened. They had some anti-tank weapons and tried to fight almost entire by foot but were very overmatched. Most of the cavalry soldiers and their horses were slaughtered. Horses and riders have been used in this century by some third world militaries, though primarily as messengers and scouts. Horse fuel is cheaper than engine fuel. I don't know of anybody that had a "cavalry" or used cavalry tactics, including the famous "cavalry charge" on a battlefield after that one in Poland.

Just found this channel and really enjoying it. You play the kind of games I really enjoy!

My great grandfather was a sergeant of the 46th "suicide battalion". Wounded twice, made it through.

I love this game, cool seeing a newby discover it.

Patton was a tank commander during WW1

The look on your face when you find a cool gun, got my sub.

Fighter aircraft, or Scouts first appeared on the Western Front in 1915. The period you will be playing is Bloody April 1917

My dads great uncle was unlucky enough to be gas in both wars but he lived died of lung cancer in his 90s they were definitely built different back then

Not a very Realistic World War 1 game but still enjoy watching ya play. Somehow the algorithm brought me to this channel and I love watching ya play these games.

Pegeons were used for messages, there were crude forms of telephone lines during the turn of the century. I love history.This game is awesome!

Just a small mistake…. In the British armed forces you never salute without a hat or helmet on…… you just stand to attention when an officer is present.🤨

Thank you for streaming this Brian. One of my grandfathers was in WWI (2nd one was in WWII), Canadian cavalry, and thank God he made it home. Ps. If that isn't homemade pizza, what pizzeria did it come from?? Yummy!

Love how the tank rolls so smooth over the debris...lol. They really should have remade BF1942 and that's the bottom line to Dice.

I keep getting your channel on my feed so I thought I'd give you a look. Glad I did. Did you serve? I served with the 101st in Air Assault as a Sgt (E5) for just a tick over ten years from 95-06. Afghanistan in the Kandahar region mostly. There are a few things wrong with the game historically, and the is a desire to be "inclusive" when its not realistic, but still a good game if you aren't looking for total accuracy. Enjoyed your channel a lot so far.

This game was produced in Guilford Surrey a short train journey for me, I went to college there. The graphics are great, the game play difficult, but with better PCs now perhaps it is a better game to play ? The PC I was using at the time is no more, so I am building a new one, it won't be finished until 2023, cost, however it will be better. I'd like to think a local production is a good one and give them another go ! I shall be about 100 meters from there front door on Friday, I wonder if they welcome visitors and maybe suggestions from end users, sales may soar !

Looked interesting... went to look into purchase... saw EA and noped right back to this page.

damn sorry i missed this stream BF1 is one of the.. if not the... best games ever made IMO. ive got thousands and thousands of hours in this game. This, and COD World At War are probably my 2 favorite games

thank you for the heart Brain mate, I wish I could watch you live, but here in the UK I'd be forced to buy a TV license........... anything live streamed, it's just another way we get ripped off over here

those zeppelins once used to dock at the top of the Empire State Building, I believe, carrying passengers only then.......... every heard of the Hindenburg Airship?

By the way they didn't have parachutes in world war 1 so the American surviving the crash doesn't work. And the light tanks were French char b 1 or 2 which didn't appear until 1926.

The idea of the side mounted guns was to clear the trenches of German soldiers! To make them break so the advancing infantry could kill them as they ran away. The imperial tank museum in London has on on display you actually cannot enter. Think it was the first one ever made, don’t quote me on that. But one of the first off the line.

Personally, I applaud what dice attempted to do with this game. It is hard to convey how war is even to people of the same age and generation as your own. What Dice did here was attempt to portray, as best they could, a virtual simulation of the absolute atrocities of WW1. We must remember our past, lest it doom our future...

Great game. Great video. Simply and clearly shows the futility of war as such...

It is a very good game. Its very gritty and true to life.

The shotgun you were using is worth about 5k in very good shape.👍

Kinda reminds me of the best COD game that ever came out, Call of duty world at war

No fps games set during WW1? Here are four off the top of my head: Verdun, Tannenburg, Isonzo, and Iron Storm. There is also, Codename Eagle, Rising Front, and mods for other games.

The Tank is a Mark IV or V, MK 4 or MK 5.

Give me bad company 2 with its destruction and I‘m fine.

Cool channel man, subscribed

Horses, mules were used in WW1, this is before cars

Yeah, pigeons bro. The big problem in WWI was that the technology and range of weapons, and the size of the battlefield, outstripped communications technology. Up til then, a general could sit on his horse and command an entire battle. Artillery had been line of sight. In WWI you had arty firing well behind the lines, and coordination with maneuver forces was shit. That's a big reason for the high casualty count. It was real difficult to coordinate accurate, responsive supporting fires for assaults. And yeah, carrier pigeons were usually the rule. You could string out phone wire, but it would always get cut by arty bombardment. Nobody had portable radios. At least one pigeon I know of was given a medal for heroism.

Interesting they went with a black soldier. Less than 1% of British forces were black but something like 700,000 African Americans fought in WW1. I did not know that.

When in the tank change the view to 3rd person.

Amazing game can’t wait for next episode love the content on our way to 100k

Don't forget mustard attacks

I’m related to Sgt. Alvin York

The Spanish flu was a huge issue, there was a big makeshift hospital at Frensham ponds nearby, My Grandma was a nurse there, bless her. The great war is a terrible description, for there is nothing great about war. the big, disgusting war would better described.

I thought tanks in ww1 were a lot slower in real life than in the game

Apart from the pigeon part obviously🤷😂

Does anybody know what type of machine gun is used in the very beginning? I guess technically it takes clips instead of magazines.

Yes I got this game it’s an old game though but it was a good game and still is a good game and I think this is battlefield five I believe

"Das ist mir egal" means "I don't care/-give a s...". btw no parashutes in ww1. You got shot down, that was it...

Best battlefield game to this moment

In real war, there's not much music playing though.

Doesn't look to be a bad game. I might just buy it based on what I've seen.

this game makes my day just after metro exodus § days gone

‘Are these British tanks ?”…………..No Einstein, they are Mexican 😂😂😂😂😂😂

All war is gruesome !

I think we enter WW1 in 1917, other than that, it was the british and canadian fighting with the french the germans,WW1 was a brutal war! That's why they call it the great war!

man you late with this one. everybody played this game pimp. where you been? under a rock bro

They checked the diversity boxes. Battlefield has become very good at that.

top off that infinite round mag.

Graphics 10/10, Realism 1/10. This is fancy Quake with even dumber AI. This game is just ridiculous.

this game was a Masterpiece 👌

what a game

this is AWESOME

good game shame theres adverts every 2 mins.

What kind of face armor did they have?

Best battlefield ever

Bro, in regards to you question about having cavalry keep in mind that tractors (which i personally view as the key to the modern age), hadn't been invented yet, and people were still working their fields with horse drawn plows. The fact that roads were still those mud tracks isn't helping. For further details, watch the WW1 movie War Horse 2011.

We had a somewhat integrated military until Woodrow Wilson came in and gave the separate but equal nonsense. The tank commander sounds British, and I have no idea what their views were of blacks within country. Either like Republicans, seeing them as equal, or like Democrat party, second class citizens. The tank is correct for the time. The air attacks didn't happen until later in the war when the pilots started dropping handheld mortar rounds.

This has been out about a decade! Check out Hell Let Loose.

Wow.

What's the name of this game and is it for ps4?

playstation needs 2 buy this company

Serbia here 🇷🇸

Richard why you do not answer my emails..

itried, the ads are horrific, every 30 seconds, unwatchable

What game is this

how is it realistic when you run around the battlefield getting hit all the time in slow mo? Realisticaly you'd be dead within first 25 seconds.

What battle field is it please?

Battlefield V

its trying it best to show just what a real meat grinder it was, how cheap life had become..... turn up, go out, don't come back............ never seen again

Literally every 5 minutes has 2 ads. 🙄

in ww1 the only countries that had tanks were Britain, France and Germany, Britain was the first to have tanks.

I don't think so...

The best WW1 ever made was VERDUN on last gen .Unfortunately a dead game now as skill lvl was high and an awful update yrs later that added AI and changed the hud etc , the trench warfare was brilliant and the way maps worked with advancing or retreating battlelines was genious....if you missed out on this one its too late now , its in my top 3 fps of all time

Realistic ..what a load of BULL. Bi planes firing missiles.. Yeah right! .. Hand held bombs / grenades were dropped from the cockpits of Bi Planes.. about as realistic as Santa Claus

You posted this 2 months ago? What are you a toddler?