memecucker:

So something interesting about WW1 is that while it’d be silly to say the American Expeditionary Force was not success it is interesting how the United States was in the war for a pretty short period of time and yet racked up disproportionately high casualties and the way I’ve heard that explained is that the US forces reached the front in 1918 fighting as if it were 1914 so like massed infantry charges but backed up with enough numerical superiority and high morale to overcome German defenses

and like i think that’s interesting bc if you were to make a WW1 based game the United States should be the faction that views it’s soldiers as the most expendable but that would be the sorta thing American gamers would neither expect nor necessarily agree with in a “idealism” sorta way