Comments by "" (@TheArklyte) on "The Great War" channel.

  1. ​ @MahiMahi-oiasdf  "Any recon armored cars were capable of would be worthless in trench warfare." "Any recon jeeps were capable of would be worthless in trench warfare." WWI had fronts OTHER then german-french border, you know?😅
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  2. Tbh I wouldn't be surprised if they'd still be useful today, it's just that I don't recall there being many places where troops can be trained in their use and the equipment of specifically horse cavalry wasn't updated in over a century. In combat by deploying as dragoons nowadays they're potentially the deadliest they could have ever been with widespread availability of MANPADs, GPMGs, light mortars, grenade launchers, hadheld ATGMs to be used on foot and even carbines and PDWs that can be used on the horse. In role of actual cavalry scouts they're slightly worse then they would have been around 1980's. By that I mean that electronic equipment like radios, night vision devices, portable reconnaissance radars and now thermals and drones was all at first too cumbersome for individual soldiers, but can be carried around by the horse and used by the rider more easily. Nowadays minituarization led to there not being a clear benefit a cavalrymen would have in this over infantrymen. Unless a horse can carry an active Starlink terminal while on the move, I guess? Then recon potential of horse cavalry is still ahead of its infantry. Might even also add helmet with HUD for drone control since rider isn't as encumbered by personal equipment as soldier on foot. But then again, I don't recall seeing modern kit for horses being designed or produced anywhere in the world. Do MOLLE standard saddles exist? Are there kevlar vests for horses?😅
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  3. Not five. They covered Greco-Turkish War, Russian Civil War and Irish Independence War as direct continuations of WWI. We're technically still in final phases of timeline of original series.
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  4.  @MahiMahi-oiasdf  probably because armored car 1)can't travel no man's land; 2)isn't armored from field artillery. It's fun that you've also decided to limit your opinion solely to first sentence. I accept your defeat;)
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  5.  ROMAnski  serfdom was abolished in 1860's... on paper. But the land ownership situation persisted the previous order. How many peasant rebellions were in that period right after abolishment alone? Plus it's nice of you to try and paint people, who wanted to destroyy new nations like Poland and hang their leaders as traitors to Empire in a posititve light:D
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  6.  @kadudeduder5103  intentionally? You mean like when russians "bumped" american ships trespassing and not reacting to warning shots and order in Black Sea several decades ago? Or do you mean as military around the world is once again proving its collective incompetence?:D
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  7. Laughs in Yalta... no, seriously, it gets worse every time:(
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  8.  @yaz2928  I don't recall Russian Empire losing 18 million soldiers and 20+ million civilians to fighting Japan in 1905. USSR fighting germans in 1942 though on the other hand... So what were you blubbering about again?:\
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  9. Pff, Red Scare is a constant state of being for yankees and brits, nothing new here. Can't wait for EU to stop playing their flute.
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  10. Entente intervention didn't have the goal to help Whites to begin with, read Churchill's memoires. He de facto admits that the goal was to evacuate gold and to prolong the period of russians killing other russians:D
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  11.  @armedwombat6816  well, you can always ignore them. If people see no difference between Third reich, USSR, modern China(I have to admit, for some reason I look at it as megacorp wearing a skin of dead nation. No idea why) and modern Europe then I'd say this is definetly NOT the biggest problem in their lives, not to mention how their only escape from it is to argue about terms and their use on internet in their free time:D
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  12. If that book doesn't start with the events of 1848/49 or earlier with such a title then you can demand your money back:D
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  13.  Klaidi Rubiku  very sober words from you. Now use that attitude to all sides involved, internal and external included:D
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  14. We make joke about how bad and dumb treaty was(and how it was premature due to events in Russia and Turkey which were basically sanctioned by Entente genocide), but let's face it, sequel had even worse ending;)
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  15.  @brazilianpc6627  just copy 1998 solution and drop US inflation onto somebody else. It's not like Russia or China would fund armed uprising in retaliation if that happens again, right?;)
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  16. Considering the tradition to call AT launchers and ATGMs by standoff polearms like Javelin or Spike(or Spear AGM) it's just a matter of time before Lance appears as a weapon name, likely for something man portable and antiarmor.
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  17.  @neiloflongbeck5705  okay... how do we mount it on the horse though?
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  18. Was there brainwashing? Yes, there always is? But at the same time, you're literary quoting a stereotype too:D
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  19. ​@Nikola S. Russia can start to be considered industrialized only by 1960's. For f//cks sake, compare wartime production of USSR and bloody Canada, that has almost no population and no usable land.
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  20.  @britainman3459  yeah, but again, training facilities are lost and new cavalry equipment wasn't designed since 1918.
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