You're an excellent presenter and content creator. Grateful I'm part of the fellow niche lucky subscribers who've discovered your mastery of presentation, editing, and clarity within complex topics.

The sheer hell of this war and the butchers bill interests me greatly and I have really enjoyed your commentary. Reading Haigs diaries and the pressure our generals were under to relieve the French who had taken unimaginable casualties , even though we weren’t trained , ready or had tactics capable of sustaining any initial success . The western front associations lectures are an invaluable resource on understanding the difficulties we faced at this time .

Well done. Great analysis. Welcome back War Room. You've been missed.

2nd vote for book recommendation video. I will say, i do really appreciate your combat mission stuff and with the fact that you and only a very small handful of people do AAR style editied videos of CM, you'd never burn out the audience by a constant stream of them. Covering obscure ww1 battles is never a wrong-foot though, great video mate.

My Uncle died at this battle, he was 19, a Lance Corpral of the Kings Royal Rifles

Fantastic video! I was worried that this series had suffered a premature demise!

This was fantastic. WW1 battle tactics are fascinating, and much more sophisticated and thought out than the 'Blackadder' version that has taken a grip in popular culture. It is interesting to see even in early 1915 the British are already approaching battles with a high level of thought. Looking forward to the next video!

This is an excellent and detailed breakdown! I wish there was more work on KZfaq like this looking at the Great War.

I'm happy to see more War Room! I always enjoy your Combat Mission videos, but it is the War Room that originally brought me to the channel

I need so much a video of yours with books recommendations, on war, tactics, doctrines and such.

Great to see this series back Hapless

The Great War is my absolute favourite piece of military history to learn about. This was an incredible overview of this battle! May I ask though, where did you find these illustrations? They are gorgeous and as an artist myself, is massively inspirational and I have the urge to study them

Well researched and explained.

I personally think that the British will learn their lesson after this pyrrhic victory and am sure the attack on Aubers Ridge will go swimmingly! (clueless)

After watching this video I think I finally really grasp what Ike meant when he said "plans are useless, but planning is vital"

I enjoyed the detailed and meticulous analysis of the various aspects. This is history that satisfies.

I've been to some of the battleifields in France where the Champagne offensives were fought. It's amazing; there's a slight rise on one end of the field and it took the French years and tens of thousands of lives to capture some of these place.

Well I waited a year and it was worth it! I LOVE these videos

This is an amazing video! I always look forward to seeing a new episode of The War Room. You are very adept at both explaining and solving tactical problems in your own CM videos, so it's always interesting to see how you evaluate real-life scenarios as well. There's certainly a lot of intelligence to gather here :) I know you said you 'borked' the audio on this one, so don't take this as a specific complaint about this video. It's just that in general my only real criticism of your content is the microphone quality. Again, I know you have an excuse for this video, but in my view your microphone sometimes sounds overall low-quality, sometimes sounds too "tinny", and sometimes sounds like you're too far away/too quiet. I'm not an audiophile so I don't mind it that much, nor do I really have any suggestions on how to fix this-- but since your commentary, gameplay, and editing are all top-notch, unfortunately it makes audio issues stand out (at least for me, especially since I listen at 2x speed and have it piped into my headphones twice as quickly as usual). In the past you've said you don't have a Patreon, but I'd love to contribute to getting you some better audio gear if you ever set something like that up. I don't know how you usually record audio for your videos, but maybe you could establish a standard recording distance from the microphone? In lieu of being able to provide legitimately helpful audio advice, I'd be happy to put my money where my ears are and support the channel :P

These are my favourite videos on your channel! Thanks so much for making another one!

Amazing quality, man. Truly.

Great stuff mate, love the war room vids you make.

Wonderful as always Hapless! Question/suggestion for future topic: if the artillery has not developed their combined arms capabilities, or "firing from a map" as you mentioned, what have they been doing? They seem like such obvious paths of technological improvements that it's hard to imagine that artillery officers would not jump on the idea. So what has their focus been on instead? Developing ways to crack fortresses or something? Many thanks!

Another great video.

Fantastic, I cant wait for more of this series.

Really good explanation of an early WW1 set piece battle. Would love to see later battles for comparison- what lessons were learned? How much of a "butcher" were entente generals like Haig? Perhaps looking at some battles from the 100 days offensive, or the German 1917 offensive?

Excellent video.

me 3 for the book recommendation suggestion

What always puzzles me in situations when some random unsuppressed by artillery machine gun nests stopped entire rifle companies is why certain platoon/company commanders didn't try to suppress them with concentrated platoon rifle fire. Platoon fire concentrated on a single target must be roughly equivalent to a single machine gun fire. Perhaps it still wasn't efficient enough to neutralize MG nest? I also wonder what weapon system was crucial for infantry organic firepower later in the war. Perhaps mortars?

Read that title way too quick and thought you did a war room on Dave Chappelle

Great overview

Love your analysis, have you considered covering less known wars where tactics developed very differently such as the Chaco war?

Please do more ww1 battles analyses .

well done

weldone as allways !