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I've been looking at the World War 1 version of Flames of War, and it stirred something in my mind which I can't seem to get rid of. It bugs me that we only ever see depictions of the Western Front, especially the later years when things like tanks started becoming more prominent.
There's so much more to it than that - literally three other fronts which were just as pointless and a waste of life - the Eastern Front, Italian Front, and Palestine - and that's not even counting Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck's campaign in Africa, the South Pacific rampage of the SMS Emden, the battles in the Caucasus between Ottoman and Russian armies, the uprising of the Arabs against the Ottomans, the Gallipoli campaign, the British push up the Euphrates river, and more I can't even think of/remember.
It's always just trench warfare, mud, and tanks. It's true that pretty much every army had a doctrine of digging in with trenches, but it's always Britain, France, and Germany which get the focus and I think that's deeply disappointing.
Hopefully someone can see where I'm coming from here. I'm also not sure why I'm so passionate or knowledgeable about this.
There's so much more to it than that - literally three other fronts which were just as pointless and a waste of life - the Eastern Front, Italian Front, and Palestine - and that's not even counting Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck's campaign in Africa, the South Pacific rampage of the SMS Emden, the battles in the Caucasus between Ottoman and Russian armies, the uprising of the Arabs against the Ottomans, the Gallipoli campaign, the British push up the Euphrates river, and more I can't even think of/remember.
It's always just trench warfare, mud, and tanks. It's true that pretty much every army had a doctrine of digging in with trenches, but it's always Britain, France, and Germany which get the focus and I think that's deeply disappointing.
Hopefully someone can see where I'm coming from here. I'm also not sure why I'm so passionate or knowledgeable about this.
