I was looking at the wikipedia page to learn about the Nivelle Offensive https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nivelle_offensive. I switched to the French version out of curosity to see there is no mention of the UK https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bataille_du_Chemin_des_Dames. Is there a good reason for this?
Is there any biographical record or data on the mutineers?
My dad's an historian and as I was going through some of his old newspapers and stuff I found a really cool book called The Great Battles of World War I, and he said I could have it.
Did some reading about Nivelle last night, since Nivelle Nights is my favorite map. I though it'd make an interesting Friday read. The actual Battlefield 1 map is awesome, and it includes a few cool historical references that I never thought about until I read about the actual Nivelle Offensive.
And hoo boy. It was a rough one.
General Robert Nivelle was a very proud, passionate and influential French general, and was a hero for ordering a successful surprise assault on a strong German position at Verdun. He was subsequently promoted to commander in chief of the French Army. Just after the New Year in 1917, the heads of state of France, Italy, and Britain met in Rome to discuss the state of despair over the length and stagnation of the war and to try to come up with a solution. They needed an end to the conflict. They agreed that the Austro-Hungarian/Italian front was not a good option for a breakthrough, as it could force Italy out of the war. Instead, a Franco-British offensive was the only real option. After the Rome meeting, General Nivelle concocted an extraordinary plan to decisively break German defenses along the Hindenburg Line. There was a section of the German line that had bulged out from the main Hindenburg Line (called a salient) and was vulnerable to an attack. Nivelle's secret plan was essentially to wipe out the salient from three sides in a crushing artillery barrage that would destroy German gun emplacements, followed by lightning-fast infantry attack, that would move 7 miles in a (completely insane) single day. The infantry would break through the Hindenburg Line with that attack's momentum, and hopefully end the war. The plan was fraught over and discussed for weeks. Nivelle convinced everyone that his plan would work, even after being told by nearly everyone that it was unrealistic to move that quickly through the German lines. It was also absolutely dependent on secrecy, since if the Germans knew about the attack they'd be prepared and the whole thing would be ruined.
Here's the book excerpt about Nivelle's plan.
The French Army began training in this lightning-speed approach, with the mantra "Keep Moving!" and soldiers were trained in setting up light 37mm machine guns quickly, intending to destroy German m
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I have a suggestion on how you could add a really unique operation without having to put in too much effort.
The first map is a daytime version of Nivelle Nights, where the French attack. The operation ends with the French capturing the first and second lines of German trenches.
The second map is the current version of Nivelle Nights, but the Germans now counter-attack the French.
The Battalions available to the Germans could be in inverse of the leftover french reinforcements.
So for example, the French end the first map with 1 battalion left, the Germans would start the next map with 2 battalions.
If the french win the first map in 1 go without using any reinforcements they automatically win the operation.
French Battalions used: 1 = French win automatically
French Battalions used: 2 = Germans get 2 Battalions
French Battalions used: 3 = Germans get 3 Battalions
I've made a comment about this on an earlier thread, but I think it makes more sense to have French Attackers and German Defenders on "Nivelle Nights."
On a similar note, "Prise de Tahure" means "Capture/Taking of Tahure" in French, and I think they should be retaking the German-occupied town --not the other way around, i.e., "Défense de Tahure."
I'm suggesting all this on the chance that there will be a future Operation with these two maps, which would be nice --especially considering their inclusion to the TSNP package/rotation.
However, if there is no planned Operation, then perhaps split it down the middle: French attack on one, and the Germans attack on another --this gives both factions an equal amount of attacking/defending.
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These are minor suggestions, but I think they will add to the game. Thanks!
Hi.
I have been translating several Week episodes to Spanish, and I am having trouble understanding the meaning of two parts of the Week 131 video (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LZbaRmScn5o) that happen to be quotes from people of the time:
- At 0:56
"[...] President Woodrow Wilson said that while the US would not have a voice in determining what terms of peace for the World War should be, they would have a voice in seeing whether those terms would be lasting as guaranteed.
Things the US would join in guaranteeing were: [...]".
It seems kind of contradictory. I understand the first part as meaning "we will not take a stance, we will agree to whatever peace plan is agreed between the European nations and we will help make it to last", but then in the second part it comes to tell how such a peace plan should be. Is there something I am missunderstanding?
- 6:15, telegram from Constantine of Greece to the Kaiser Wilhelm "The transport of the whole artillery and war materiel to the Peloponnesus is being maintained by the pressure of the blockade. "
Since there is no previous context of who wanted the artillery and war materiel to be sent to the Peloponnesus, I wonder what is going on. Is King Constantine complaining that he is being forced to move the artillery and materiel to the Peloponnesus by the Allies?
Thank you.
I don't want to step on anybody's toes here, but the amount of non-dad jokes here in this subreddit really annoys me. First of all, dad jokes CAN be NSFW, it clearly says so in the sub rules. Secondly, it doesn't automatically make it a dad joke if it's from a conversation between you and your child. Most importantly, the jokes that your CHILDREN tell YOU are not dad jokes. The point of a dad joke is that it's so cheesy only a dad who's trying to be funny would make such a joke. That's it. They are stupid plays on words, lame puns and so on. There has to be a clever pun or wordplay for it to be considered a dad joke.
Again, to all the fellow dads, I apologise if I'm sounding too harsh. But I just needed to get it off my chest.
Do your worst!
I'm surprised it hasn't decade.
For context I'm a Refuse Driver (Garbage man) & today I was on food waste. After I'd tipped I was checking the wagon for any defects when I spotted a lone pea balanced on the lifts.
I said "hey look, an escaPEA"
No one near me but it didn't half make me laugh for a good hour or so!
Edit: I can't believe how much this has blown up. Thank you everyone I've had a blast reading through the replies 😂
It really does, I swear!
Buenosdillas
They’re on standbi
Pilot on me!!
