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In Warfare 1917, the player orders soldiers to capture ground and trenches while fighting programmed enemies. In-game units such as the riflemen, machine gunners, assaulters, officers, sharpshooters, and tanks can be used in both the British and German campaigns and custom mode. [1] Support weapons can also be called down upon command, such as ...
Trench warfare is a type of land warfare using occupied lines largely comprising military trenches, in which combatants are well-protected from the enemy's small arms fire and are substantially sheltered from artillery. It became archetypically associated with World War I (1914–1918), when the Race to the Sea rapidly expanded trench use on ...
Western Front tactics, 1917. In 1917, during the First World War, the armies on the Western Front continued to change their fighting methods, due to the consequences of increased firepower, more automatic weapons, decentralisation of authority and the integration of specialised branches, equipment and techniques into the traditional structures ...
Russian Civil War. The Russian Civil War[a] was a multi-party civil war in the former Russian Empire sparked by the overthrowing of the liberal-democratic Russian Provisional Government in the October Revolution, as many factions vied to determine Russia's political future. It resulted in the formation of the Russian Socialist Federative Soviet ...
The Cold War was a period of global geopolitical tension and struggle for ideological and economic influence between the United States and the Soviet Union (USSR) and their respective allies, the Western Bloc and the Eastern Bloc, that started in 1947, two years after the end of World War II, and lasted until the fall of the Soviet Union in ...
Arrival of the Giants (1917) Fire plan (1917) Whitsun Raid (1918) Tipton Zeppelin raid (1916) Bombing of Warsaw during World War I 1915 in aviation. Battle of Dogger Bank (1915) (one Zeppelin included) First victory using a synchronized gun (1915) 1916 in aviation. Airstrike on Zonguldak (1916) 1917 in aviation. Action of 4 May 1917; Folkestone ...
The Battle of Smorgon (Belarusian: Абарона Смаргоні; ‹See Tfd› Russian: Оборона Сморгони) was an 810-day battle near the town of Smorgon along the Eastern Front of World War I. [1] It was during this battle that Russian troops successfully halted the enemy's advance for the first time since the Great Retreat.
Technology during World War I. The machine gun emerged as a decisive weapon during World War I. Picture: British Vickers machine gun crew on the Western Front. Technology during World War I (1914–1918) reflected a trend toward industrialism and the application of mass-production methods to weapons and to the technology of warfare in general.