Caltrops - Battlefield 1 - Re: This cannot be true.

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by laudablepuss 06/17/2016, 6:55am PDT

Oom Shnibble wrote:

laudablepuss wrote:

...I see a guy with an entrenching tool beating people to crap (because why not) in a wasteland of barbed wire and mud...
:(

According to what I saw at the Australian War Memorial in Canberra hand-to-hand combat in the trenches played a huge role in the war. They have a massive collection of improvised melee weapons on display.

On an unrelated note - if you have any interest in military history you owe it to yourself to come to the memorial. The collection of artifacts is staggering.

Guy was in no man's land, and not in any hurry to get anywhere it seemed like. As opposed to trench assault where you jump in and then systematically murder the defenders, almost like fighting in a tunnel. But I get that it's a game and not going to very closely resemble the historical event.

I'd love to get back Australia. I have never visited the eastern half, though, actually. Always headed straight on to Perth where my brother had been living. For WWI stuff, we have exactly ONE museum dedicated to it, and it's in Kansas City. I do plan to get out there at some point.