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eth1234567890
Knight
helmet will help you. you will only get wounded.Aventori said:
So your telling me they did not use helmets mass produced in WW1? Wtf have you been smoking.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brodie_helmet
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adrian_helmet
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stahlhelm#M1916_and_M1917
All three of these famous helemts were in use by 1916.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brodie_helmet
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adrian_helmet
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stahlhelm#M1916_and_M1917
All three of these famous helemts were in use by 1916.
eth1234567890
Knight
they did not use it in ww1 sorry.crodio said:
Yes they did but it was made out of leather so fell out of use by 1916-7 ( I think it was then) when the stahlhelm arrived.
Pazanius
Master Knight
I'm sorry but you are wrong, chiefeth1234567890 said:they did not use it in ww1 sorry.crodio said:
http://tinyurl.com/6v8hekz
Pichelhaube was in army till the end of 1916,in 1916 german army just started using Stahlhelm's but before this there was an modernized version of Pickelhaube, without "pickel"Slawtering said:
lol without the pickel
Looks like they got a bit pissed off with it and just yanked it off.
Der Einzige
Master Knight
They didn't use "muskets" in WWI.Aventori said:
Also... Are you on the mod team?
Aventori said:
Lolwut? The rifles from this time were pretty accurate.
A young vampire
Knight at Arms
Slawtering said:
The pickel (or spike) was actually removable, at least on the ones I've seen. So i would say that the young lad most likely had his stuffed away in the backpack when the photography was taken.
Just so you know Lee-Enfields (as example) Could fire accurately upto 1 mile with anything over that still a high chance of hitting + the fact that sure some may be ****ting themselves but training and adrenaline can overcome fear in the middle of the battle. For example 8 British soldiers with lee enfields scared of around 50 Germans left in this trench just because they fought it was some kind of light machine gun on the move they were firing that fast. No to do the "mad minute" it requires the right frame of mind and physical state.
QuailLover
Marquis
Your mental state has nothing to do with how accurate a rifle is.
Also a musket is quite different than a rifle.
Also a musket is quite different than a rifle.
QuailLover said:
Its easier to think of it in this way.
Your (gun) rifle has no accuracy whatsoever it has precision. If it in an adapted holding brace and fired off remotely at target you would find out how precise it was. Now your going with a Lee-Enfield which it being a solid bolt action design, is very precise yet when you give it to a person to fire..
Accuracy comes in to play. Whereas before you did have "accuracy" the effect of it was minimal still the rifle was locked down and there was no sway or last m.second adjustmants. Mental state can affect accuracy but when factoring in things like adrenaline and the fact that they might have been fresh from 2 weeks in recovery (from the rotations between trenches and what not) you have a 1/3 (3 days staying on the frontline) of the enemy you are shooting at being fresh as a fiddle, reducing your combat effectiveness.
Anyway hows things going on the dev front, none of this lets see montenegro or invasion bull.
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Obviously you're not knowledgeable on the period so stop passing your guesses as facts. I'm not knowledgeable myself but it doesn't take a historian to know that what you say is complete BS. I mean really, you're basically saying that in WWI steel helmets were issued to thousands of soldiers by many nations for no reason but to make shooting more difficult for the wearer. Ever heard of shrapnel? How about how the Brodie helm was capable of "withstanding a .45 caliber pistol bullet traveling at 600 feet per second fired at a distance of 10 feet". Do I even need to say anything about the "musket=rifle" thing?
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