All right, Veeky Forums, post your best World War I memes

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I don't get it

"In the Battle of the Marne alone, French shell expenditure was on the order of some 50,000 rounds per day."

The French have been utterly fascinated with artillery since Napoleon.

The French battleplan for WW1 could probably be described as an ever increasing intensity of howitzer and 75mm concentration. And when the artillery doesn't work, get back in the trench.

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Was the Schleiffen plan a mistake?

Evidently, because Germany lost.

not a turkraoch I swear

They lost because of the Schleiffen-Moltke plan.

A true Schleiffen plan in conjunction with a non-useless Austria-Hungary army would have swiftly defeated France and defended Germany's eastern front from Russia.

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>with a non-useless Austria-Hungary
Therein lies the problem. I'm a huge Austriaboo but there was no hope for Austria by that time.

And yet nothing compared to the British.
The batle of the Somme opening week the british fired approx. 1 700 000 shells at the german lines. On the day of the attack, 250k shells were fired.

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Veeky Forums """meme""" threads are one of the most cringy, unfunny shit imaginable. It's just re-branded facebook/twatter shite with zero originality behind it.

Stop making these threads.

His 1st mistake was sacking Bismarck

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