June
I started counting how many random short sentences, historical facts, and in-game information appear under the loading screen.
I currently count 286 such short messages, but I think there are at least 300.
according to lexicographic order in ascending order (numbers first):
1. 140000 men of the Chinese Labor Corps worked in Europe during the war, performing manual labor to support the frontline troops.
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286. You need to activate a Medal in order for it to start tracking towards completions. Only on Medal can be active at one time.
my screenshots:
June
They have some pretty cool infos every now and then.
June
to infinity and beyond
287....
July
I printed out these short in-game info and historical facts.
So far I have collected 298 messages, but there are more.
July
308 short messages in total?
July
My updated list now contains 345 items (345 short historical fact and in-game information on the loading screen):
August
372 short messages in total?
a month ago
My updated list is growing.
My screenshot collection now contains 382 items (382 short historical fact and in-game information on the loading screen):
a month ago
1. - 10. (my screenshot collection, 2023.08.15.)
1. "Better to perish under the ruins of the fort than to surrender it" - inscription on a wall inside Fort Douaumont at Verdun
2. "Following without artillery prepartation, only the sudden onset barrage, supported by numerous low-flying planes and unprecedented tank masses, the enemy infantry joined to the attack." - The German Crown Prince at Soissons.
3. "I died in hell they called it Passchendaele" - famous quote from Siegfried Sassoon's famous poem.
4. "I remember one lad from our regiment in particular - the memory has haunted me all my life. He was in a pool of blood, ripped open from his shoulder to his waist by shrapnel" - Veteran from Passchendaele.
5. "There was one comfort about Passchendaele, just one, and that was that the Bosche (Germans) detested it as much as we did" - Ralf Frederic Lardy Sheldon-Williams.
6. "We are lost! They have thrown us into the furnace" - French soldier at Verdun
7. 140000 men of the Chinese Labor Corps worked in Europe during the war, performing manual labor to support the frontline troops.
8. 4121090 Allied soldiers became prisoners of war during World War One. 3629829 soldiers from the Central Powers were captured.
9. 63 Schneider CA1 and Saint Chamond tanks participated in the Battle of Malmaison. Most of them got stuck in mud or broke down, but 21 reached the German second position a planned.
10. 68000000 men and women served in World War 1. 57.6% of them became casualties; either killed, wounded, prisoners, or missing on action.
a month ago
11. - 20. (my screenshot collection, version 2023.08.15, total 384 item)
11. A creeping barrage is a forward moving artillery bombardment protecting advancing soldiers behind a curtain of shellfire.
12. A good but dangerous counter to a Bayonet Charge is to Bayonet Charge back! The late charger will win when two chargers clash.
13. A letter from an Italian at Caporetto officer stated: "even the air tastes like misfortune. Dreczenca was burning, throwing off sparks and clouds of reddish smoke; the reflection of the flames lit up side of the mountain".
14. A Serbian artilleryman downed an enemy plane with a cannon in 1915, the first ground-to-air kill.
15. A small group of German soldiers under General Von Lettow-Vorbeck fought a guerilla war in German East Africa against Allied forces. They held out for the entire duration of the war.
16. Ace Pilots with their often more privileged treatment, were sometimes housed in chateaus.
17. Adolf H. was a dispatch runner during the war, and for his actions was awarded the Iron Cross by the Jewish officer Hugo Gutmann.
18. After Caporetto the German aircrafts dropped leaflets on the retreating Italian troops saying: "Your enemy does not deny you the respect owed to valorous adversaries. And your General has dishonored you. He insults you to save himself".
19. After the Ottoman Empire failed to take the Suez Canal from the British in early 1915, the British pursued them into the desert and a new front was created that lasted till the very end of the war.
20. All bullets damage airplanes.