What kind of POD would be needed to make the weaponry and combat of Battlefield 1 accurate?

Battlefield 1 is a FPS game that takes place during WW1 and has technically period correct weapons but uses them in ways that they were not used iotl.

Way more sub-machine guns and way more semi-auto rifles, scoped rifles, portable light machine guns being used than in the actual war where the vast majority of troops got along with bolt-action rifles. What kind of POD could have gotten our ww1 more like that?
 

Delta Force

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Battlefield 1 is a FPS game that takes place during WW1 and has technically period correct weapons but uses them in ways that they were not used iotl.

Way more sub-machine guns and way more semi-auto rifles, scoped rifles, portable light machine guns being used than in the actual war where the vast majority of troops got along with bolt-action rifles. What kind of POD could have gotten our ww1 more like that?

Battlefield 1 is kind of a look into what the Spring offensives of 1919 might have looked like. With the exception of Pedersen Device converted M1903 Springfield rifles there weren't that many semi-automatic rifles produced or planned for production, but small unit tactics and anti-tank weapons closer to those seen in the 1930s and World War II were in service by 1918 or planned for 1919.
 
Battlefield 1 is kind of a look into what the Spring offensives of 1919 might have looked like. With the exception of Pedersen Device converted M1903 Springfield rifles there weren't that many semi-automatic rifles produced or planned for production, but small unit tactics and anti-tank weapons closer to those seen in the 1930s and World War II were in service by 1918 or planned for 1919.

Yes perhaps the game should have taken on an alternate history format and went with that idea of the war dragging into 1919.
 
Battlefield 1 is a FPS game that takes place during WW1 and has technically period correct weapons but uses them in ways that they were not used iotl.

You could also say that about Battlefield 1942 and the combat depiction of its WWII weapons. ;)
 

Delta Force

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Yes perhaps the game should have taken on an alternate history format and went with that idea of the war dragging into 1919.

It would have been better than some of the forced ahistorical oddities they had in game. It's one thing for a model of rifle or even aircraft or tank to show up a year or two early in fiction, but it's really glaring when it's an entire capability like anti-tank rifles. You know what happens if you move atomic weapons up a year? Well, consider that Trinity was test fired in July 1945...
 
It's not that they're wrong or period-inaccurate to any great degree, it's that they're too easy to get in the game for it to be historically accurate.

That said, the semi-auto I've picked up in the assault on the fort at Gallipoli is really growing on me.
 

Delta Force

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It's not that they're wrong or period-inaccurate to any great degree, it's that they're too easy to get in the game for it to be historically accurate.

That said, the semi-auto I've picked up in the assault on the fort at Gallipoli is really growing on me.

They didn't use airships or dreadnoughts for tactical fire support though, or at least it was very rare for dreadnoughts (Queen Elizabeth and Inflexible did participate at Gallipoli).
 
I think the best way to make WWI be more like the one in BF1 (or as I like to call it BF0 but I digress) is to have research and production of automatic weapons be prioritized ASAP at least on both sides of the conflict just after the war began.
 
They didn't use airships or dreadnoughts for tactical fire support though, or at least it was very rare for dreadnoughts (Queen Elizabeth and Inflexible did participate at Gallipoli).

IIRC QE fired over the Gallipoli peninsula into Asia, everyone was very impressed.
 
Battlefield 1 is a FPS game that takes place during WW1 and has technically period correct weapons but uses them in ways that they were not used iotl.

Way more sub-machine guns and way more semi-auto rifles, scoped rifles, portable light machine guns being used than in the actual war where the vast majority of troops got along with bolt-action rifles. What kind of POD could have gotten our ww1 more like that?

Smaller armies, No machine guns and much less effective artillery would be required to allow such combat to take place.
 

Delta Force

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IIRC QE fired over the Gallipoli peninsula into Asia, everyone was very impressed.

In both world wars it was the older battleships that most often provided the fire support. It doesn't much sense to risk the more modern battleships or even just wear out their gun tubes (limited production items that require a while to replace) shooting at targets the other ships can handle. Queen Elizabeth was used to crack some particularly difficult areas of fortification in World War I, and in World War II and beyond the modern battleships were only used to shell everything within a few miles of the coast because there was complete naval supremacy.
 
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