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121. German morale remained high during the Hundred Days Offensive, with massive casualties inflicted on both sides.

122. German Pilot Gunther Plüschow downed a Japanese Airplane with his Luger Pistol, the first time a pilot ever shot down another plane. He was also the only German POW to escape Britain and make it back to Germany.

123. German pioneers managed to do coordinated attacks on Fort Vaux and entered through the casemates by grenade successful grenade spamming.

124. German U-35 was the most successful submarine of the war and sank 224 ships for a total of 539741 gross register tons.

125. German wives exchanged their golden wedding rings for rings made out of iron to help the German war economy. They were inscribed with the words "I gave gold for iron".

126. Germany brought in a special artillery conductor known as 'Breakthrough Muller' to conduct the 10000 artillery guns used at the start of Operation Michael.

127. Germany gave 20000 rifles and a million rounds of ammunition to Irish nationalists in an attempt to convince Ireland to join the war against Britain.

128. Grenades came in many shapes and forms, discs, potato shaped, cylinders attached to sticks, some fired from rifles but the hand grenade became the most popular version.

129. Help your teammates, and yourself, by spotting enemies.

130. Hills like Cote 304 and Mort Homme, the "Dead man's hill", became lasting synonyms for the truly unbelievable slaughter there.

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131. Hold a majority of the flags to win the match.

132. Holding & defending a captured flag is key to victory as an attackter!

133. If you are sprinting with a weapon equipped with a bayonet, you can tap the melee button to enter a powerful Bayonet Charge.

134. If you attack with a melee weapon and you are inside the takedown zone, you will automatically perform a takedown.

135. If you don't kill anyone with your Bayonet Charge, you will get a run and sprint speed penalty during the cooldown period.

136. If you kill an enemy rider, you can steal the horse to gain access to the full arsenal of cavalry weapons for as long as you stay on the horse.

137. If you let go of sprint immediately after activation, you will perform a short Bayonet Charge. Keep sprinting for a longer charge.

138. If you spawn onto a horse as a true Cavalry class, you will gain the benefit of armored plating on your rider.

139. If you successfully retreat as a defender after a sector has fallen, you will regain full ammo & health.

140. If your next melee swing would deal enough damage to kill your opponent, you will automatically perform a takedown instead of a normal swing.

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141. In 1914 British forces moved to capture the Ottoman controlled Al-Faw Peninsula, and the ancient Fortress of Fao was the main Ottoman stronghold there.

142. In 1916 nearly half the British population went to the cinemas to watch "The Battle of the Somme" - it remains one of the most watched films in British cinema history.

143. In 1917, the Italians halted the Austrian summer offensive at the very peak and by December the Austrians had been pushed off the mountain.

144. In early 1915 the Ottomans crossed the Sinai Desert to attack the canal - a feat that had been thought impossible.

145. In late 1918 thirteen German AV7 tanks appeared and broke through the British defensive lines, threatening Amiens.

146. In New York 1916 German spies were blamed for the "Black Tom" explosion shattering all windows on lower Manhattan, damaging the statue of Liberty. The blast equaled a 5.5 earth quake.

147. In preparation for the Battle of Malmaison, French super-heavy artillery fired on the Chemin des Dames with exceptional accuracy. On October 21, an observer reported that a gun fired consecutive shells into the same hole.

148. In preparation of the Battle of the Somme, the British and French marshaled over 1300 artillery pieces and fired 2000000 shells on German positions.

149. In preparation to attack Verdun Falkenhayn's men spent seven weeks constructing new railway lines, assembling heavy concrete bunkers to house troops, and stockpiling more than 1200 artillery pieces.

150. In the autumn of 1917, right before the start of the Battle of Malmaison, French and German troops still fought over the Butte de Tahure, ceaselessly attacking each other in night time trench raids.

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151. In the desert British tanks bearing names like Pincher, Sir Archibald, and War Baby had room to maneuver and to use the speed of their engines to the fullest.

152. In the first eight days of the Somme, roughly 1.7 million rounds of artillery were fired at the German lines, at Messines one year later 3.2 million shells entered the ongoing apocalypse.

153. In the initial battle for Fort Vaux - the French casualties were roughly 100 men whereas the Germans lost 2600 soldiers. However, when the French lost the fort their counter attacks proved equally costly.

154. In the Middle East, the rebels of the Arab Revolt and their Ottoman adversaries relied on the speed and endurance of their horses and camels.

155. In total, some 40 million shells were fired over the course of the entire battle of Verdun.

156. Irish troops served not only on the Western Front, but even fought Bulgarians in the Balkans.

157. Ironically, when the fighting moved out of the trenches and into open ground in 1918 it was far deadlier than during previous trench warfare. It was now obvious that the trenches had saved lives.

158. It was rare for soldiers to be at the frontline more than five days. Those five days could still be hell.

159. Italy developed the MAS - the anti-submarine motorboat. Made of plywood and only useful in calm water, they were still faster than any other warship and carried depth charges, torpedoes, and mines.

160. J. R. R. Tolkien took part in the battle of the Somme. It is a subject of debate whether or not his experiences of No Man's Land and the hell of the battlefields influenced his writing on the Lord of the Rings.

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161. JRR Tolkien, Wilfred Owen and H.tl.r all took part in the Battle of the Somme.

162. K Bullets damage all vehicles. When close enough, they even damage tanks. Not recommended for use against infantry.

163. Knives are the fastest melee weapons with the largest takedown zones, but they deal the least amount of damage with each swing.

164. Konrad Adenauer, who would be German Chancellor after World War Two, invented the soy sausage during World War One as a cheaper alternative to meat during food shortages.

165. Lasting some nine months Verdun is the longest battle history has ever known.

166. Lead your target, rather than aiming directly at your enemies.

167. Learn about how use each of your weapons: the PLAYER/VEHICLE HIT scoring event will let you know how much damage your bullets are doing.

168. LMGs become very inaccurate after the first shot and then regain accuracy, meaning they are best used for sustained fire.

169. Lothar von Arnauld de la Perière famously made 14 voyages with the German submarine U-35 and sank 189 merchant ships, 2 gunboats, and the troop carrier SS Gallia, earning the Iron Cross first class and the Pour Le Merite, Germany's highest medals. He was the most successful submarine ace in history.

170. Lt General Sir Julian Byng commanded the Canadian Corps and his Canadian troops called themselves "the Byng Boys".

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171. Major Sylvain-Eugene Raynal took command of Fort Vaux on the 24th of may 1916. His garrison set up makeshift defenses inside the fort and heroically defended the interiors.

172. Many armies experimented with "night sights" for rifles and other weapons, utilizing small amounts of fluorescent and radioactive radium on the sights to improve night time target acquisition.

173. Many melee weapons have alternate uses on the battlefield, such as cutting barbed wire, destroying barricades, or even damaging light vehicles.

174. Many wartime fortresses in the Italian mountains are still there and have been converted into museums.

175. Many weapons allow you to customize their recoil bias to your liking. This has no influence on weapon performance itself, only on how well you can use it.

176. Match Bonus points are awarded for completing a round. In certain game modes, even the losing team will receive a minor bonus.

177. Medals consist of several stages that need to be completed in order. Each stage will award you a substantial amount of points.

178. Melee weapon categories differ in attack speed, damage, and how large their takedown zone is.

179. Melting Glaciers in the Alps frequently reveal remains of WW1 soldiers.

180. Momčilo Gavrić was, at eight years of age, the youngest soldier of the war. He joined a Serbian artillery division after his family was killed in 1914.

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181. Monte Grappa occupied a strategic position on the Asiago Plateau, overlooking the gateway to the plains of Veneto.

182. Mortars came in various different sizes in the World War 1 and were widely used by all belligerents. Sizes ranged from small portable mortars, to big siege mortars that had a range beyond 2000 meters.

183. Most casualties in World War 1 were caused by artillery, not by the machine gun or gas.

184. Most of the equipment, tanks and planes used by the Americans in World War One was French.

185. Most Scout weapons deal more damage from a distance than in close quarters.

186. Mount Grappa- by then the symbol for Italy's defense- would play a huge part in the final Italian offensive of the war, on Vittorio Veneto.

187. New Medals are received every week, so keep an eye on the remaining time before expiration.

188. Nocturnal attacks on the enemy trenches were often carried out during moonlit nights.

189. Officially known as the Third Battle of Ypres, but history recalls the horror in one word: Passchendaele, has come to symbolize the Great War for many.

190. On the eve of the battle, the Italian Army held a paper-thin deployment against on enemy whose tactics were specifically developed to punch holes in even the deepest defensive systems. The stage for disaster was set.

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191. Once Italy joined the war, the Italian and Austro-Hungarian navies faced each other across the Adriatic Sea in a deadlock.

192. Once past the first line trenches, the columns of the German infantry continued to drive into the enemy rear without stopping to secure their flanks. This resulted in cutting the Italian lines of communication and the disaster unfolded.

193. One of the allied pilots wrote in a letter "I take my hat off to Voss, he was the bravest fellow and the best scrapper I have ever met".

194. Operation Michael would be the first battle of the new offensive, and was to punch through the British 5th Army and outflank the 3rd near St. Quentin.

195. Over a million troops from India served in the war.

196. Philippe Pétain was hailed as the heroic defender of Verdun and the savior of France in World War One. In World War Two he was condemned as the traitor who sold France to the *.

197. Pilots, help your gunner by considering their line of sight while flying

198. Poison gas was first used by the German army at Ypres in 1915, though both the French and Germans had used tear gas earlier in the war.

199. Poland, Lithuania, Latvia, Finland, Yugoslavia, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, and Estonia emerged as independent countries in mainland Europe after the war.

200. Promises were made 100 hundred years ago that we would never forget the sacrifice by everyone involved in the Great War. New polls suggest we are.

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201. Raids were sent out in advance to report if the preliminary bombardment had broken the barbed wire by the German lines at the Somme. The reports were ambiguous.

202. Records show that mines were very effective against tanks during the Meuse-Argonne Offensive where 15% of all American tank casualties were due to the AT-mines.

203. Remember to defend your flags!

204. Reviving a teammate stems the losses of your team reinforcements.

205. Russia left the war following the November Revolution and installation of a communist government in 1917. The Treaty of Brest-Litovsk made it official March 3, 1918.

206. Self-Loading Rifles become inaccurate when fired too quickly.

207. Self-repair is interrupted when a vehicle takes damage. This means that even small amounts of damage matter.

208. Service Stars are awarded for 100 kills with each weapon, vehicle, and much more. Each Service Star can be obtained 100 times.

209. Several armies had bicycle battalions during the war. Among their many duties they served as scouts, messengers, and ambulance carriers.

210. Shellshock was the term used for stress-induced neuroses in soldiers that were unable to cope with the experience of battle.

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211. SMGs are best used in short bursts.

212. Smoke, gas, and fumes made sleeping impossible, and forced the soldiers to fight in total darkness between the dead bodies in the narrow corridors.

213. Smokescreens were fired to conceal the slowly advancing tanks 478 tanks and infantry, but they still came under heavy German artillery fire as soon as their noise reached German positions.

214. Soissons fell on August 2 1918, and the German army was forced to withdraw behind the River Aisne.

215. Soldiers approaching the front at Verdun noticed a shifting sky and animated tongues of orange fire moving across the heavens.

216. Some early grenades in World War 1 were simple wooden boards wired and loaded with dynamite.

217. Some numbers indicate that over 7000 horses died at Verdun, per day.

218. Special night fighter aircraft with machine guns, search lights and rockets were developed to attack observation balloons or airships at night.

219. Sprint with the horse to automatically lean forward and make yourself a smaller target.

220. Squad up with medics for increased survivability. Getting revived earns you score.

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221. Standing still while writing the message will make the progress faster!

222. Tanks played a limited role during Passchendaele and the Third Battle of Ypres. Due to the rain and mud 77 had to be ditched and only 19 participated in the attritional battle.

223. Tanks were largely immune to small arms fire but could be damaged by field guns, mortars, K-bullets, Anti-Tank rifles, flamethrowers and the "Geballte Ladung" (Bunched Charge) - several German stick grenades bundled together.

224. The "Siegfriedlinie" was a new German system of defense in 1916. Witch bunkers 3-9 metres deep, concrete machine-gun posts, and a main combat zone of 2-3 kilometres, it was designed to withstand any breakthrough attempts.

225. The 12m deep "pool of peace" is a crater formed by the explosion of 45 tons of TNT from the mining operations at Messines Ridge in June 1917.

226. The Albatros was the pre-eminent fighter plane of 1917. This aircraft was flown by many aces including, Ernst Udet, Manfred von Richthofen and Kurt Wolff.

227. The Allies goal was the prevention of an operational Berlin-Baghdad railway for the Central Powers, who had already connected Berlin with Constantinople.

228. The ancient city Verdun was surrounded by a ring of underground fortresses protecting the heights in the area.

229. The area around St Quentin was covered in heavy fog as German Stormtroopers attacked effectively and captured all their objectives.

230. The Argonne Forest was a labyrinth, teeming with German machine gun defenses, bunkers and pillboxes.

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231. The attack on Fao Fortress was the first action of the Mesopotamian Campaign, which continued until the capture of Baghdad in 1917 relieved all British concerns about the safety of their oil.

232. The Austro - German infantry assault was greatly helped by the dense fog that provided them with cover until they were almost on top of the Italian trenches.

233. The Austro-Hungarian infantry did not attack in waves at Caporetto, but rather in agile columns that allowed the Germans to achieve local numerical superiority at those places where they wanted to achieve a breakthrough.

234. The Austro-Hungarians were reinforced by German troops, artillery and innovative tactics that surprised the Italians at Caporetto.

235. The battle around Fismes and the Vesle river is unique because of the street fighting that occurred. During a month it would change hands five times.

236. The battle cry 'Ils ne passeront pas!' - meaning 'They shall not pass' was forged by French General Robert Nivelle.

237. The Battle of Jutland was the biggest naval battle of the war. 250 British and Germans combat ships clashed in the North Sea.

238. The Battle of Malmaison, 23-27 October, was the final French assault of 1917. It was a successful operation that showed the combined arms formula for the large offensives of 1918.

239. The Battle of Passchendaele was really a series of engagements with the one objective of taking Passchendaele Village and its Ridge.

240. The battle of Soissons in 1918 featured a French armada with over 470 tanks and attack planes in a combined attack.

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241. The battle of Soissons was an attempt to eliminate the german salient that was aimed at Paris.

242. The Battle of the Selle was launched with the intent of crossing the Selle river and getting within artillery range of the vital German railway center at Aulnoye.

243. The Battle of the Somme in 1916 lasted four months and produced 1.2 million casualties. The Brusilov Offensive, also in 1916, lasted just over 3 months and produced 1.8 million.

244. The battle of the Somme included the first use of tanks in warfare. With their assistance, the British and overran German positions at the edge of Delville Wood.

245. The Battle of the Somme left over one million dead and wounded on all sides. Lest we Forget.

246. The battle of the Somme was preceded by a seven-day bombardment firing 1.7m shells, to little overall effect. The German lines were extremely deep and extremely well made, protecting them from artillery fire.

247. The Battle of Verdun was the longest battle of the war, lasting from February to December 1916.

248. The Bayonet Charge has a short cooldown period during which time you cannot perform another Bayonet Charge.

249. The behemoth will become available if your team is losing by a large margin.

250. The Belgian Armored Car Division fought on the Eastern Front, using modified Peugeots and Mors Minervas. They were stranded by the Russian Revolution and had to make their way home eastward by the Trans-Siberian railway.

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251. The bolt-action rifle was the most common weapon in WW1 but artillery was the biggest killer.

252. The bombers are slower than other planes, but can deal devastating damage if they get to the behemoth.

253. The British agreed that they would support the Arabs, since they could harass the Ottoman Army in their own backyard, drawing their attention away from British defenses in the Suez Canal.

254. The British also financially and materially helped the Arab Revolt against the Ottomans that grew in strength throughout the region, and when Damascus fell the revolt was complete.

255. The British Army transported two boats through the jungle to fight the Germans on Lake Tanganyika.

256. The British developed the first tracer rounds in 1915, containing flammable material leaving a phosphorescent trail, making trajectories visible at night. Incendiary ammunition also proved highly effective against Zeppelins.

257. The British Empire controlled 25% of the earth surface at the outbreak of World War One.

258. The British gun carrier Mk.1, using the same mechanical parts as the Mark 1 tank, was the first piece of self-propelled artillery ever built.

259. The British nicknamed the German A7V tank "The Moving Fortress".

260. The British Phonetic Alphabet was developed for the emerging technology of the telephone. In order to be accurate, letters were replaced with recognisable words to reduce miscommunication. "A" became "Apples", "B" became "Butter".

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261. The British Stokes Mortar was the answer to the German Minenwerfer. Easy to use and surprisingly precise, it was a perfect weapon to be fired from inside the trenches and was light enough to be quickly carried into an attack.

262. The British Vickers Machine Gun was in service from 1912 to 1968 and served in over 20 armies.

263. The bullet of a German T-Gewehr measured 13.2 x 92mm and weighed 51.5g - they were initially meant to be used in an anti-tank and anti-aircraft machine gun.

264. The Butte de Tahure (ridge of Tahure) was the main objective of the allied autumn offensive of 1915, with heavy fighting for Tahure village and nearby "Tooth brush" wood and Navarin farm.

265. The cannons on the side of the Mark V tank was a deliberate design to allow the tank to fire into the trenches it was passing.

266. The Centro-Caspian Dictatorship was a nation that briefly emerged from the chaos of the war and the Russian revolution in mid 1918.

267. The Chauchat light machine gun has an internet reputation of being the worst gun ever. Those who look beyond headlines know this is not true.

268. The Chemin des Dames (the "ladies' path") got its name in the 18th century from being a route taken by Lous XV's daughters; Adélaïde and Victoire.

269. The commander of the FT Tank in the turret would kick the driver in the head if he wanted to stop, or kick him in the back if he wanted to move forward. Repeated kicks in the head meant the driver should back up.

270. The defenders barricaded themselves behind sandbags and for nearly 5 days French grenadiers and machine-gunners held their own in vicious close combat fighting.

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271. The Eastern Front was 1600km long, stretching from St. Petersburg in the North to the Black Sea in the South.

272. The F2B also known as the "BRISFIT", was the main 2 seater reconnaissance plane of the Royal Flying Corps.

273. The famous exotic dancer Mata Hari was a spy during World War 1. She was executed by the French in 1917.

274. The first airmail was mail sent by plane from Austrian troops inside Przemysl Fortress- under siege by the Russians- to Austrian High Command.

275. The first tank-on-tank battle in history happened in the vicinity of Amiens on April 24th 1918.

276. The fluidity of "semi-mobile" warfare during the Hundred Days Offensive depended on command and control being delegated to divisional and brigade commanders.

277. The French and Americans attacked to the south at Château-Thierry, aiming at driving a wedge between the German defenses and forcing them back over the river.

278. The French Army was the linchpin of the entire Allied effort.

279. The French Blue Devils, The Italian Arditis and the German Stormtroopers using the radical Hutier infiltration tactics, a new aggressive combat style that saw the light of day during the Great War.

280. The French built an entire fake Paris, complete with lights, arch de Triomphe and the Opera towards the end of the war to fool German Bombers.

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281. The French called upon soldiers from all their colonies including Moroccans, Alegerians, Tunisian and roughly 180.000 Senegalese infantrymen.

282. The French command had learned to master the different modes of combat at the Somme - coordination between artillery, aviation and infantry movement. The British were less successful.

283. The French garrison inside Fort Vaux captured German flamethrowers and used them against the attackers.

284. The French initially used Coehorn mortars from the Napoleonic Wars a hundred years earlier.

285. The French Saint Chamond tank was armed with the famous 'canon de 75' - the worlds first field gun with a hydropneumatic recoil mechanism.

286. The French troops advanced several kilometers at the Somme and even seized many German trenches - they suffered over 200.000 casualties.

287. The French troops called Verdun 'la fournaise' - the furnace, while the German soldiers spoke of 'die blutmühle' - the meatgrinder.

288. The French were unprepared for when the attack at Verdun started in the cold February of 1916. The remaining snow was soon just a memory.

289. The German Army hired the German Expressionist Franz Marc to paint camouflage for artillery before the Battle of Verdun. He died there on March 4, 1916.

290. The German Army protested the use of shotguns by US Soldiers on the Western Front as unnecessarily brutal, because of the internal wounds that the pellets would create.

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291. The German Gotha Bombers were designed to replace vulnerable Airships. Able to transport up to 300 kg of bombs and armed with two machine guns, the twin-engine machines could fly up to 4,600m high at a speed of 128 km/h.

292. The German MP18 was the first submachine gun widely used in combat during WW1, though the Italian Villar Perosa had been used in smaller numbers earlier.

293. The German Quartermaster general Erich Ludendorff resigned under pressure from Kaiser Wilhelm II the day after the Battle of the Selle, on October 26, 1918.

294. The German Zimmermann Telegram was intended to draw Mexico into a war against the USA in 1917.

295. The Germans captured a huge French 370mm railway gun near the town of Fismes. The shells exceeded the size of a man and weighed more than a ton.

296. The Germans managed to advance several miles during the first days of the Battle of Verdun.

297. The goal of the German spring offensive in 1918 was to seize the vital railway center of Amiens.

298. The Great War produced wounds that no doctor was used to treating, not only from shrapnel and bullets, but from poison gas, flamethrowers, and high explosives.

299. The Great War was the effective birthplace of professional camouflage. Armies would not only disguise their weapons, but even created wooden guns and dummy tanks to trick aerial photography.

300. The Harlem Hellfighters served nearly 200 days in the frontlines and were the first American unit to be awarded the Croix de Guerre.

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301. The hatchet deals massive damage, but is slow and has a small takedown zone.

302. The heavy shelling of Fort Vaux breached the massive concrete shell exposing the interior corridors.

303. The Hundred Days Offensive was the last period of WW1, beginning with the Battle of Amiens on 8 August 1918 and leading up to the November 11 armistice.

304. The icy mountain regions of the Carpathians were the graves for many under equipped soldiers, who froze to death or were surprised by hungry wolves that dragged strugglers and wounded away.

305. The initial phase of the battle of Verdun was a war of motion, at least until the French decided do defend it at all costs.

306. The Italian Army and especially the officer corps was unprepared for the tactics used by the enemy at Caporetto. Surprise, gas attacks followed by sophisticated infiltration maneuvers.

307. The Italian navy was superior in numbers and quality, but the Albanian and Dalmatian coastal harbors were better fortified and easier to defend.

308. The Italians also gathered mass fighter formations of 120 planes acting as big moving barriers in the skies.

309. The Italians developed more armored shields and body armor than most other combatanant nations.

310. The L30 was recognized as one of the "Super Airships" with a maximum speed of 96km/h (60mph) and was armed with up to ten machine guns and could carry up to 9.000lbs of bombs.

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311. The Lafayette Escadrille was a flying squadron that consisted of American volunteers before America joined the war. They flew for the French Air Force.

312. The main Ottoman force attacking the Suez Canal was attacked by aircraft and British battleships anchored in the canal itself.

313. The mass deployment of French tanks at Soissons was too numerous for the German artillery to handle and allowed for breakthrough on a wide front.

314. The Mauser C96 pistol was the basis for Han Solo's blaster in Star Wars.

315. The melee takedown zone extends in a cone in the opposite direction of where the enemy is aiming.

316. The more teammates that are within a capture area, the faster you will capture a flag.

317. The most common motorcycle used in the war was the British Douglas 2. The Allies used over 70,000 of them.

318. The most persistent users of aircraft armed with cannons were the French.

319. The most successful flying ace of World War 1 was Manfred von Richthofen, known as the Red Baron. He shot down 80 enemy aircraft.

320. The most successful sniper of World War 1 was Francis Pegahmagabow, a member of the Canadian Shawanaga First Nation. He is credited with 378 kills.

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321. The name "Bloody April" refers to a period during 1917 where England lost a third of its fighter force, which was about 3 times that of the German Army Air Service.

322. The nation that mobilized the greatest percentage of its population in the war was Bulgaria.

323. The opening artillery barrage on Verdun was the largest mankind had ever seen at that time.

324. The petrol engine of the Saint Chamond tank was connected to an electric generator that in turn was connected to two separate electric motors that drove the tracks.

325. The Picardy countryside was chosen for the launch of the Allied 1918 autumn offensive partially because if offered solid ground for tanks, unlike in Flanders.

326. The preliminary bombardment of Operation Michael could be heard in the streets of London.

327. The projectiles of the Paris Gun- a gun so large it could fire shells from within Germany and hit Paris- were the first manmade objects to reach the stratosphere. The gunners had to figure in the rotation of the earth when aiming the gun.

328. The Red Baron was the leader of "The Flying Circus" - fighter squadrons that painted their planes in bright colors and often set up at makeshift airfields with transportable tents.

329. The remains of the craters on Messines Ridge can be seen to this day as massive holes in the Belgian countryside.

330. The ring of fortresses around Verdun was not defending the citadel - they were infact built to prevent the enemy from using its roads and railways to reach the interior of France.

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331. The Royal Dutch * factory sold * to both sides during the war.

332. The Russian army during WW1 is often portrayed as backward and ineffective, and while it did suffer huge setbacks in 1914 and 1915, by 1916 it nearly managed to destroy the Austro-Hungarian army in the field and end the war.

333. The Sacred way, Voie Sacrée in French, was the critical communications road transporting troops and supplies to the frontlines at Verdun.

334. The Serbian Army retreated through the Albanian Alps after the Central Powers's invasion of Serbia in 1915. They reassembled on Corfu and were back in action in 1916.

335. The shadowy depths of the Argonne Forest provided the setting for Meuse-Argonne Offensive, part of the final Allied Offensive.

336. The sheer force of the German Spring Offensive in 1918 had stunned the British, pushing them back almost to Amiens before they could stop the Germans at the outskirts of the city.

337. The Somme is a British military and human disaster. Less celebrated are the successes of the French. In the first 10 days they achieved most of their objectives, advancing serveral miles and taking 12,000 German prisoners.

338. The Somme offensive began with the main objective of simply relieving the pressure on the French at Verdun. In this it succeeded.

339. The Somme represents a major trauma for the British army. But it was also an important moment for the French, South Africans, Australians, New Zealanders and Canadians.

340. The spotting flare will mark nearby enemy units on your and your allies' map.

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341. The steel helmet was introduced into a war that most armies entered with a soft cap.

342. The Suez Canal was a vital supply line that if captured by the Ottoman Empire would severely disrupt British troop and supply routes and put the entire Eastern Mediterranean in Ottoman hands.

343. The term "World War" was actually coined at the beginning of the war. Everyone was aware of the enormous global consequences of a war between the world's most powerful nations.

344. The term stormtrooper originates from the German Sturmtruppen - assault troops specialized in quickly breaking into and through enemy trenches.

345. The total number casualties are estimated at 275.000 for the British and 222.000 for the Germans - making it one of the first world war's most costly battles of attrition.

346. The U.S. Army fought alongside the French Army in the Meuse-Argonne and the Second Battle of the Marne.

347. The US army incorporated bilingual female switchboard operators into the service of the US Army signal corps. They were called the "Hello Girls".

348. The walls of Fao fortress were finally breached by the heavy artillery but it was the Indian-British forces who stormed and took the fortress in hand to hand combat.

349. The Western Front was 750km long, stretching from the Belgian coast to the borders of Switzerland.

350. There were 12 Battles of the Isonzo River on the Italian Front.

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351. There were coastal raids in the Adriatic back and forth on both sides, but it was the Allied naval blockade that had the strongest effect, as it exacerbated a food and supply crisis in the Empire.

352. This was to be the mother of all battles, and it began with one million artillery shells raining down on the British in five hours.

353. Though the trenches were hell on earth for the soldiers, they saved lives and 9 out of 10 soldiers who went to war came out alive.

354. To combat tanks, the Germans not only developed specialized anti-tank artillery pieces and rifles, they experimented with anti-tank mines, flamethrowers, and grenade-bundles, called the "Geballte Ladung".

355. Too young to be sentenced to death, the man who assassinated Franz Ferdinand was ineligible for the death penalty. Gavrilo Princip sat out most of the war while imprisoned. He died of tubercolosis in 1918.

356. Transport vehicles can be found close to your HQ and captured flags.

357. Trenches were built in narrow zigzag patterns, this prevented the blast to travel further than next corner of the trench.

358. Use stationary anti-air guns to battle airplanes & the powerful airship.

359. Use the Cavalry Sword attack from horseback to instantly kill enemy soldiers.

360. Use the terrain destruction feature to take cover in craters.

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361. Use your horse's high speed to surprise and trample enemy soldiers to death.

362. Using a bayonet increases the time it takes for your weapon to be ready to fire after sprinting.

363. Verdun is one of military history's rare cases where the defenders lost more men than the attackers.

364. Very lights were flares fired into the air from flare pistols to illuminate the battlefield at night or send signals. Flare guns were also used by airmen to ignite hydrogen filled observation balloons.

365. Walt Disney and Ernest Hemingway both served as ambulance drivers during World War 1.

366. When on the horse, you have access to an endless supply of ammo and grenades, but it is replenished slowly over time.

367. When the large French Fort Douaumont fell - it was celebrated with a school holiday in Germany.

368. When the Ottoman Empire joined the Central Powers in 1914, the British Empire feared for the security of its oil wells at Abadan near the Persian Gulf.

369. When the war broke out, a large part of the American population supported joining the Central Powers, not the Allies.

370. When you hit a player with a melee swing, you will track that target for a brief moment to help you close in for the kill.