Ww1

[Rodion Romanovich]

I disagree that a realistic ww2 would be more dramatic than a realistic ww1 game. CoD isn't a very realistic display of ww2 at all - first of all you NEVER fight duels over distances close to the maximum effective range of your weapons - which was usually 500 or more meters - the maximum distance to an enemy in CoD is hardly more than 50 meters, and most commonly 5-25 meters. Therefore, you have a gun accuracy percentage of close to 100% - which is completely unrealistic! There should be more shooting up ammo just to suppress and enemy and more difficult to aim (but I think BIA exaggerates this aspect - especially because BIA like CoD has the player fighting all duels with the enemy only 5-20 meters away ). Secondly, you have no ability to command friendly troops. Thirdly you have only one way to go at all times, so you MUST run over a field covered by enemy machinegun fire, rather than sending some men around a flank, or alternatively the game decides for you that you should flank, but then the option of charging ahead is locked and the game already tells you to flank giving you no choice there either. And then the ridiculous part when running through machinegun fire you can just run from one piece of cover to another, then stay hidden for long enough and the mg will aim for someone else, then you run again to the next cover, and the machinegun again soon forgets about you when you've lied hidden for a while, even though you are the most dangerous threat to the machinegunner as you're the only one advancing closer to him to be able to kill him... And the fact that the enemy tanks seldom have any infantry support at all, and you have all the time in the world to destroy them if you just sneak a bit (and the tanks are equally vulnerable to your AT weapons no matter if you shoot them from behind, the sides or the front). Then the ridiculous part when your squad leader screams orders in a panicked voice even when everything is under your control and there are say 2 enemies alive and completely exposed without any cover.

ww1 would be a lot more dramatic and varied IMO! ww1 simply has EVERYTHING ww2 had, but also another element which ww2 doesn't have - the epic mass charges and trench warfare. The game could pictures the western front trench warfare - during which there were many advances even if the gains were minimal. There could be massive charge and defense-against-charge missions. And there could be missions of sniping, sneaking and scouting between the trench lines here, with skirmishing patrols. There could also be the eastern front highly mobile warfare (only it would feature larger squads and more epic combat than ww2 games), and then finally the German offensives during the late war, where infantry infiltration tacics similar to the ww2 tactics were used.