Ww1

No, gas was so negligible in ww1 it is shocking how much of a meme it is, very few casualties occurred from gas and most were temporary blindness.
Tanks only really become influential during ww2, after the initial shock factor wore off tanks were very insufficient to the war in most cases, infantry taking primacy
It's good but it doesn't really feature to a huge extent after ww1
Yes. The concept of arty completely changed during the war and became the definitive staple point of the war with shell-shock and tearing holes in the french countryside. Arty is the correct answer.
>Mp-18
Only like 2000 ever issued, shit design, last year of the war. Nah storm troop doctrines would have been a better pic.

Poison gas, so good that if the wind changes direction, you kill your own soldiers.
It happened at the Battle of Loos, when the British tried using it for the first time...

Definitely artillery. If we use "weapon" to refer to an individual piece of equipment rather than a category, its probably the Canon de 75mm mle. 1897, since while it had shortcomings in being a field gun when there was a need for howitzers and other heavy artillery, it was still built in the largest numbers of any WW1 artillery gun to my knowledge, with at least 16,000 examples produced before the end of WW1. It also started the entire quick-firing revolution.

>Tanks only really become influential during ww2, after the initial shock factor wore off tanks were very insufficient to the war in most cases, infantry taking primacy

That's still important. Tanks weren't a decisive weapon in of themselves - but then, they never were, it always took infantry and supporting arms to make tanks fully effective, even in 1940 there was still infantry, airpower, and artillery which was needed to break the French lines and then conduct the breakthrough - but they were still tremendously useful for infantry support. As part of a combined arms effort with artillery, tanks, infantry, aviation, and cavalry providing exploitation and scouting uses, they were tremendously useful.

The Human Being

Semi auto rifles like the Mondragon and the Cei-Rigotti probably.

I almost took this b8, good one

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Artillery and Landmines.

Aerial bombardment.

>What was the most influential weapon in ww1
Like, influential during the war itself, or a weapon from WW1 that would become influential?

If former, then artillery (french 75 field gun if you had to pick one model). If latter... either tanks (a century of yuuuge developments and continued use, french ft 17 for a specific type) or aircraft - but those had been in some very limited military use before.

The common soldier and the junior officers.

When the war ended, it would be them who determined how future wars would be fought and passed onto the next generation so that future of warfare never stayed that static again.

...except for the Iran-Iraq war. those idiots don't know how to fight or learn from the past.

POWER RANKINGS

MACHINE GUN
BARBED WIRE
ARTILLERY
RIFLE
POWER GAP
GAS
TANKS
PLANES
POWERGAP
ZEPS N FLAMETHROWERS

>Weaponized aircraft
Completely revolutionized warfare forever, as well as civilian aviation
>Shocktrooper tactics
Birth of special forces techniques of bypassing hardpoints and attacking targets of tactical value
>Armored breakthroughs
Birth of armored vehicles as a weapon to make breakthroughs and support infantry
>Chemical and biological agents
Pioneered unorthodox methods of warfare with new ethical dilemmas.
>Massed artillery barrages
Very influential during the war itself since it caused the most casualities but it fell out of favor in the long run with the introduction of mobile artillery, infantry mortars, and eventually guided missiles.

Not a weapon, but rail logistics.

It caused the war to break out at the speed it did (due to rapid mobilisation), gave the defender a strong advantage preventing any major breakthrough, and helped the Central Powers (especially Germany) hold two fronts.

Rail logistics was the influential weapon during the Franco-Prussian war though. That and universal conscription.

Nationalism

>What was the most influential weapon in ww1
IT'S IN YOUR PIC

>POWER RANKINGS
>MACHINE GUN
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Machine Gun like in your pic. It forced both sides to change their tactics from a mobile to a static warfare.

You're aware that "most influencial" doesnt mean "most decisive/deadliest", right?
Maybe OP mean the later, but anyway most influencial would mean the weapons that influenced the most the next generations of weapon.
In which case MP18 and FT17 are correct

>Implying it wasn't artillery that did that.

no, the relative static nature of trench warfare has very little to do with machine guns and very much to do with the insufficient transportation, communication and supply lines an attacking force would have

crossing the no man's land and taking a trench was never the problem "pop" history makes it out to be - the problem was telling your command you have the trench, getting reinforcements and resupply in your new trench, holding the trench against a counterattack which did not suffer from the above, and - if you managed to do that - utilizing the breakthrough while lacking the means to properly do so

Both wrong
The Western front devolved into trench warfare when the Germans started to dig trenches and man them with machine guns
The French couldn't take those trenches despite their relentless charges so they dug as well and here we go

Hadn't it been for MGs, defending a trench would've been much harder and trench warfare wouldn't have been a thing

you obviously know very little about the war, please stop posting

Both sides began to improve their artillery and use more artillery due to the static warfare.

Your argument just explains partly why the front stayed relatively static, but it does not explain the change from a mobile to a static warfare. The extreme loses on both sides due to machine guns was one of the main reasons they began to dug trenches and therefore mark the begin of the static warfare.

let me fix that shit for you

>artillery
>machine guns
>diseases and rats and shit
>barbed wire
>rifle
>power gap
>everything else

It was 100% artillery

It completely changed the nature of all wars going forward

Hell, you can attribute most changes in post-war society, to real and psychological damage of artillery fire

B-but I'm just repeating what the youtube channel The Great War told me...

You're aware that artillery has existed since the HYW, right?

protip: trenches have been known for several centuries
the reason they dug in on the western front was a strategic decision dictated by the failure of the german plan for a swift victory in france and the necessity to shift their focus eastwards to russia

You're proving my point. They weren't able to advance, because the new weapon technology (mostly MGs) favored defensive tactics. That was the reason why the front stayed static and both sides began to dig more and more trenches.

Artillery doctrine would be a better choice.

Barbed wire Bruh

Artillery. While barbed wire and machine guns are a close second, they did nothing but lengthen the war. It was artillery that led to breakthroughs and ensured successful attacks, thus ending the war.