Poilu uniforms are absolutely god-tier beautiful

quality shitpost

That's why the entire war was fought between a few miles right? The combat so complex, please, they didn't even perfect artillery tactics with infantry until 1917.

>just fuck my camouflage up

>that's why the entire war was fought between a few miles right
Taking ground is easy, holding it against a counter attack with exhausted troops is hard as fuck. While they may not have "perfected" infantry tactics, they weren't all marching slowly forward with bayonets fixed. French forces actually were using cover and shit during the somme.

What do you think soldiers actually did in Trench attacks? Walk in a straight line to the enemy?

What do you think they did in defence? Shot a machine gun on a stand into a wall of men?

The Brodie Helm was cheaper and covered more area from artillery. Though it still lacked defense from bayonets and whatnot. The Stahlhelm was objectively best for infantry close quarters.

people who use rocks during gunfights deserve the best shitposts we have to offer

Somehow I think that helmets probably had little effect in bayonet combat

>implying these weren't the rock stars of WWI

boring thread, needs more poilu uniform pics

A lot actually, there were tests done and it was like 7 times easier to hit people in the bright uniforms than the camouflaged ones
The French blue horizon uniforms were fine for camouflage though, especially in the Champagne soils for example.

There already blue nibba

Yeah, it's not like you're going to be outlined against a blue sky when charging across an open field or anything.

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It's 2017 and none of you fags know what to wear. Pic related, check mate.

They will never see us coming!!!

>those shoes

Yeah nothing screams military might and prestige as dressing like a Mediterranean elf.

Un aigle noir a plané sur la ville,
Il a juré d'être victorieux,
De tous côtés, les corbeaux se faufilent
Dans les sillons et dans les chemins creux.
Mais tout à coup, le coq gaulois claironne :
Cocorico, debout petits soldats !
Le soleil luit, partout le canon tonne,
Jeunes héros, voici le grand combat.

Et Verdun, la victorieuse,
Pousse un cri que portent là-bas
Les échos des bords de la Meuse,
Halte là ! on ne passe pas...
Plus de morgue, plus d'arrogance,
Fuyez barbares et laquais,
C'est ici la porte de France,
Et vous ne passerez jamais.

Les ennemis s'avancent avec rage,
Énorme flot d'un vivant océan,
Semant la mort partout sur son passage,
Ivres de bruit, de carnage et de sang;
Ils vont passer... quand relevant la tête,
Un officier dans un suprême effort,
Quoique mourant, crie : À la baïonnette
Hardi les gars, debout! Debout les morts!

Et Verdun, la victorieuse,
Pousse un cri que portent là-bas
Les échos des bords de la Meuse,
Halte là ! on ne passe pas...
Plus de morgue, plus d'arrogance,
Fuyez barbares et laquais,
C'est ici la porte de France,
Et vous ne passerez jamais!

Mais nos enfants, dans un élan sublime,
Se sont dressés; et bientôt l'aigle noir,
La rage au cœur impuissant en son crime,
Vit disparaître son suprême espoir.
Les vils corbeaux devant l'âme française
Tombent sanglants, c'est le dernier combat
Pendant que nous chantons la Marseillaise,
Les assassins fuient devant les soldats.

Et Verdun, la victorieuse,
Pousse un cri que portent là-bas
Les échos des bords de la Meuse,
Halte là ! on ne passe pas...
Plus de morgue, plus d'arrogance,
Fuyez barbares et laquais,
C'est ici la porte de France,
Et vous ne passerez jamais.

youtube.com/watch?v=Bj3n02CQJiU

Why wearing a heavy wool greatcoat AND wool tunic even in summer and spring? Are they crazy?

>non-aesthetic uniforms
>they don't even match
>they fell for the drab meme

>all WW1 battles were in the trenches and involved running towards machinegun fire

Top kek.

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Is light blue the most aesthetic color for uniforms?

>Non-Iconic.
>Absolutely god-tier beautiful.

>>Non-Iconic.
reminder that when normies see your krauts they just think of the Nazis and WW2

i dont know how is doing this called, but its the most aesthetic thing you can do with your greatcoat

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literally clown shoes
pretty hard to claim you're le pericles rebron when you look like a FUCKING ALBANIAN CATTLE THIEF

>be you, strolling with your Ottoman mate in the 18th century
>see Greek soldier
>AYY LMAO ARISTOTLE THE CLOWN
>WHAT ARE THOOOOOSE
>greek soldier pulls out small triangle blade out of shoe pompom
>slits your throats
>steals all your loot and hides it in his Albanian curtain
Who's laffin now?

ROACHED

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What’s the better WW1 helmet? Pickelhaube or Stahlhelm?

Stahlhelm of course, there's a reason why it replaced the Pickelhaube. In terms of aesthetics - inconclusive, I'd say.

on ne passe pas?

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RIA tunics >everything else

That's pike grey

Are those Bulgarians?

Glorious!

German Sturmtruppen

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>*Starts war with Germany in 1870*
>*Gets BTFO*
>REEE I'M JUST GOING TO KEEP WEARING THIS OUTDATED UNIFORM WELL INTO THE 20TH CENTURY OUT OF SPITE UNTIL I HAVE DEFEATED GERMANY IN IT

Good lord, does french autism know truly no bounds?

I truely honestly hate the nazis, but their black wool trench coats are just frickin awesome.

Everything I've seen from that site looks like low-quality Chinese shit

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>shitty copy of a firemans helmet
Meanwhile the stahlhelm design is still used in modern helmets because its not only the best shape in terms of protection but is also aesthetic as fuck.

>they don't even match
Thats because special forces have always worn whatever the fuck they want. You dont see modern spec ops guys wearing uniforms either.

how can G*rmans even compete?

>Meanwhile the stahlhelm design is still used in modern helmets
imagine unironically believing this

They won the war didnt they?

what year had the best unifrom lads?
1916 for me

1917

1916 or 1917, 1914 has the best boots though

>best boots
Have fun with trench foot

Heres my original Kerensky Offensive Russian Imperial tunic

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that is it

i am learning french

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>Baby blue
>camouflage

that guy with the machine gun seems so happy :)

>we have the option of choosing French as a foreign language of choice on my university
>all the beginner classes are at the same time as some obligatory classes
>mfw had to take German instead
Life is suffering.

Has anyone got colourised pictures of the Japanese field uniforms for the WWI period?

1905

Pike gray was used later in war, early uniforms were indeed blue, similar to French ones.

You could still get trench foot even with the later boots

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You'd be happy to if your job was shooting Germans

My favorite desu. Really grew on me.