What Total War Games do Org Members have?

[The Foolish Horseman]

César Victor, Oh contre'

WW 1, acutally was the first time in history that Major artillery groupings where used in a war.
And that is why ww1 is also Called, "The Artillery War".

10,000's of them on every side, from small bore 12pdr's to 14in and 16in mortars, in fact, in both ww1 and ww2 the biggest killer of any military equipment, was artillery.
The machine gun was nothing in ww1, when compared to artillery. And, the Tanks and panzers come near the end, believe it or not in ww2.

Quick note: each British Brigade had a Art Regiment Attached, 3 batt of 6 if i remember correctly. 2 or 3 bde's to a division. plus divisional artillery, then corps artillery. then siege park. So about 200 to 300 Artillery peices per Division. About 3 to 5 thousand per army, with out a Artillery Division included for attacks.
NOTE: All Figures are roughly correctly, as i cannot be bothered walking the 11 steps to my filing cabinets.


( Trivia Note: The british, under general haig actually acually developed "worm running", that is sort of like running in zig zag, as they didn't like their french commanders full frontal run straight assult idea.)


I forget the production figures, but British Empire, France and Germany, produced over 100,000 artillery peices each in ww1.

ww1 is a stand out, because of these, the first time to be used enmass.

And hence the name of WW1 is "The Artillery War".
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Aircraft,
No one started off well,

Aug 1914,
RAF (RFC = Royal Flying Corps)..... had about 200 Aircraft, and about 230 pilots. Plus about 90 in Royal Navy Fleet of Air Arm. Initially sent about 50 or 60 each to France with first BEF.
France.. about 140 Aircraft 220 pilots.
Germany... About about 245 Aircraft. Can't remember how many pilots.

No one else worth mentioning, as all had under 50 aircraft of all types.

7 months later in March 1915..All three had about 400 to 450 aircraft.

Trivia
Pilots............the average life span of a pilot was 3 weeks.

Most production of all the different companies, in all three countires could produce about 50 to 150 aircraft a month.

Hence in June 1916 France alone had over 1120 Aircraft, That same month, Britian and france had 386 fighters, vs Germany's 129.

In sept 1916 the hindenburg program in Germany had been in effect, and begun to produce over 1050 aircraft per month. thats over 13000 a year.
You where saying about hardly any?

France actually produce far more than anyone, But only half of there planes ever got to the front for operational duties.

fast forward here
Aug 1917, France 2335 planes
Britian 1890 Planes
Germany 1200 Planes.

All three where producing aircraft at the rate of over 1200 aircraft per month. by june 1916.
So for 1917 alone...... thats about 15,000 aircraft each, or about 45,000 between the three.
Of course by this stage, Italy, USA, Austria, and Russia had all got in on the Act.

I don't know about You César Victor, but I reckon about 110k of aricraft in 1917 is a lot.

Edit:
In 1918 Britian out stripped eveyone, they produce 32,000 Aircraft. And Winston Churchill was minister for Munitions.



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Bravo matey boy