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Nagant Revolver Skins:
Distinguished: Émile, Léon
Legendary: The Rasputin, Sarikamish

Émile and Léon skins for Nagant Revolver: Fabrique d'armes Émile et Léon Nagant (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fabrique_d%27armes_%C3%89mile_et_L%C3%A9on_Nagant). The Fabrique d'armes Émile et Léon Nagant, later known as L. Nagant & Cie, Liège, was a Belgian firm established in Liège in 1859 as a manufacturer of firearms and later automobiles. The company was originally founded by brothers Émile (1830–1902) and Léon (1833–1900) as an industrial repair business, which included repairing damaged firearms. The company is best known for Émile's contribution to the design of the Mosin–Nagant Russian service rifle, adopted in 1891. This introduction to the Tsar's military administration led to the adoption, in 1895, of the Nagant M1895 revolver (designed by Léon) as their standard-issue sidearm.

The Rasputin skin for Nagant Revolver (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grigori_Rasputin): Grigori Yefimovich Rasputin (Russian: Григорий Ефимович Распутин 21 January 1869 – 30 December 1916) was a Russian mystic and self-proclaimed holy man. He is best-known for having befriended the royal family of Nicholas II, the last Emperor of Russia, through whom he gained considerable influence in the later years of the Russian Empire.

Sarikamish skin for Nagant Revolver: Battle of Sarikamish (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Sarikamish). The Battle of Sarikamish was an engagement between the Russian and the Ottoman Empires during World War I that took place from December 22, 1914 to January 17, 1915 as part of the Caucasus campaign. The battle resulted in a Russian victory.

Mars Automatic Pistol Skins:

Distinguished: Fairfax, Hush-Hush
Legendary: The Beast, Syndicate

The Beast skin for Mars Automatic Pistol (In-game description): "The Mars was an absolute beast of a gun. Observers described that the Mars looked more like a firearm exploding than being fired. For a time, it was the most powerful handgun in the world."

Fairfax skin for Mars Automatic Pistol (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mars_Automatic_Pistol): The Mars Automatic Pistol, also sometimes known as the Webley-Mars, was a semi-automatic pistol developed in 1900 by the Englishman Hugh Gabbett-Fairfax and distributed by the Mars Automatic Pistol Syndicate Ltd. of Birmingham.

Syndicate skin for Mars Automatic Pistol (https://www.forgottenweapons.com/early-automatic-pistols/gabbett-fairfax-mars/): By the end of 1903, it became clear that no military contracts were going to be won, and Gabbett-Fairfax (who had been financing the whole project with personal loans) was hopelessly bankrupt. His patents were taken over by a consortium of his creditors under the name of the Mars Automatic Pistol Syndicate in an effort to revive the gun and recoup their investments. In late 1905 Clement Brown (formerly Gabbett-Fairfax’s shop manager) filed a patent for several improvements to the design. The Syndicate subcontracted manufacture out to a number of local Birmingham gunsmiths and in conjunction with remaining stocks of parts they attempted to market the improved gun in 1906. Their efforts failed completely, and by 1907 the effort was given up and the next year the Syndicate was also bankrupt, and dissolved.

Hush-Hush skin for Mars Automatic Pistol (https://www.aucklandmuseum.com/discover/collections/topics/dunsterforce-kiwis-in-the-hush-hush-brigade): Dunsterforce: Kiwi soldiers in the 'Hush-Hush Brigade'. One of the lesser known but most intriguing campaigns involving New Zealanders in the First World War was the Dunsterforce expedition into the Caucasus mountains and Northern Iran. Needing to keep these oil-rich and strategically important regions out of Ottoman and German hands, Britain sent 350 hand-picked Officers and NCOs (non-commissioned officers) from New Zealand, Australia and Canada to join the secretive 'Hush-Hush Brigade,' which was established by General Lionel Dunsterville, the man behind Rudyard Kipling’s character ‘Stalky’.
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Modello 1915 Pistol Skins:
Distinguished: Baracca, Diaz
Legendary: The Arditi, Il Risorgimento

Baracca skin for Modello 1915 Pistol (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francesco_Baracca): Count Francesco Baracca (9 May 1888 – 19 June 1918) was Italy's top fighter ace of World War I. He was credited with 34 aerial victories. The emblem he wore side by side on his plane of a black horse prancing on its two rear hooves inspired Enzo Ferrari to use it on his racing car and later in his automotive company.

Diaz skin for Modello 1915 Pistol (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armando_Diaz): Armando Diaz, 1st Duke della Vittoria, (5 December 1861 – 28 February 1928) was an Italian general and a Marshal of Italy. He is mostly known for his role as Chief of Staff of the Regio Esercito during World War I from November 1917. He managed to stop the Austro-Hungarian advance along the Piave River in the First Battle of Monte Grappa. In June 1918, he led the Italian forces to a major victory at the Second Battle of the Piave River. A few months later, he achieved a decisive victory in the Battle of Vittorio Veneto, which ended the war on the Italian Front. He is celebrated as one of the greatest generals of the war.

Il Risorgimento skin for Modello 1915 Pistol (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unification_of_Italy): The unification of Italy (Italian: Unità d'Italia, also known as the Risorgimento (lit. 'Resurgence'), was the 19th-century political and social movement that resulted in the consolidation of different states of the Italian Peninsula into a single state in 1861, the Kingdom of Italy. Some of the states that had been targeted for unification (terre irredente) did not join the Kingdom of Italy until 1918 after Italy defeated Austria-Hungary in the First World War. For this reason, historians sometimes describe the unification period as continuing past 1871, including activities during the late 19th century and the First World War (1915–1918), and reaching completion only with the Armistice of Villa Giusti on 4 November 1918. This more expansive definition of the unification period is the one presented at the Central Museum of the Risorgimento at the Vittoriano.

The Arditi skin for Modello 1915 Pistol (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arditi): Arditi (from the Italian verb ardire, lit. "to dare", and translates as "The Daring") was the name adopted by a Royal Italian Army elite special force of World War I. They and the opposing German Stormtroopers were the first modern shock troops, and they have been defined "the most feared corps by opposing armies".
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Obrez Pistol skins:

Distinguished: Bednyak, Serednyak
Legendary: The Kulak, Romanovka

Bednyak, Serednyak and The Kulak skins for Obrez Pistol (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kulak): Soviet terminology divided the Russian peasants into three broad categories:
1. Bednyak, or poor peasants.
2. Serednyak, or mid-income peasants.
3. Kulak, the higher-income farmers who had larger farms.

Romanovka skin for Obrez Pistol (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Romanovka): The Battle of Romanovka was fought in June 1919 during the Russian Civil War. Russian Bolsheviks of Yakov Tryapitsyn launched a surprise attack on an American army camp at Romanovka, near Vladivostok. As a result of the engagement, the attacks were repelled. Romanovka and the Suchan Valley Campaign that followed were the final major engagements of the Russian Civil War involving the United States. Battles would later break out again between the Americans and Soviets, as well as the Cossacks, on much smaller scales. Likewise, the Americans were invariably victorious.

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"He fell in October 1918, on a day that was so quiet and still on the whole front, that the army report confined itself to the single sentence: All quiet on the Western Front."

Fedorov Avtomat, General Liu Rifle, Model 1900, Mosin-Nagant M91, Nagant Revolver, Obrez Pistol, Parabellum MG 14/17, Perino Model 1908, SMG 08/18 and Vetterli-Vitali M1870/87 skins
Special: Battle of Gnila Lipa, Battle of Gorlice-Tarnów, Battle of Jugla, Battle of Lutsk

Battle of Gnila Lipa skins for "Battlefield 1: In the Name of the Tsar" expansion's weapons (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hnyla_Lypa): Hnyla Lypa (Ukrainian: Гнила Липа, Polish: Gniła Lipa) is a river in Ukraine, a tributary of the Dniester river. The name literally means "rotten linden tree" both in Polish and Ukrainian. It runs parallel to the Zolota Lypa river.
The river is namesake to the Battle of Gnila Lipa on 29–30 August 1914, where the Imperial Russian Army defeated the Austro-Hungarian Army. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Gnila_Lipa The Battle of Gnila Lipa took place early in the World War I on 29–30 August 1914, when the Imperial Russian Army invaded Galicia (reference to the Gewehr M.95's Galicia skin) and engaged the defending Austro-Hungarian Army. It was part of a larger series of battles known collectively as the Battle of Galicia. The battle ended in a defeat of the Austro-Hungarian forces. The battle is named after a river in Western Ukraine, an historical region of Galicia. It is a tributary of Dniester, and is also called the Hnyla Lypa (Polish: Gniła Lipa). http://www.historyofwar.org/articles/battles_gnila_lipa.html The actual Russian attack came from the east. The Russian Third Army (General Nikolai Ruzski) attacked north east of Lemberg, while the Eighth Army (General Aleksei Brusilov, reference to the Model 8 Autoloading's Brusilov skin) had travelled up the railway from the Black Sea port of Odessa to attack across the eastern border. Eight Russian army corps were preparing to attack the three corps of the Austrian Third Army (General Brudermann). The fighting took place along the northern back of the Dniester. The Gnila Lipa and Zlota Lipa rivers are northern tributaries of the Dniester, with the Zlota Lipe furthest to the east. On 27 August the Austrian commander in chief, General Conrad von Hötzendorf (reference to the Repetierpistole M1912's Hötzendorf skin), ordered the third army to form a new line on the Gnila-Lipa. The Russians, expected to encounter the main Austro-Hungarian army at any moment, advanced slowly and carefully westwards, giving the Austrians the time they needed to create their new line. 115 Austrian battalions with 376 guns faced 292 Russian battalions and 750 guns. The Russians attacked on 30 August, and pushed the Austrians back in chaos.

Battle of Gorlice-Tarnów skins for "Battlefield 1: In the Name of the Tsar" expansion's weapons (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gorlice): Gorlice (Ukrainian: Горлиці) is a city and an urban municipality ("gmina") in south eastern Poland with around 29,500 inhabitants (2008). The city is nowadays situated in a heavily populated region 14.6 miles (23.5 kilometres) from Jasło, 21.2 mi (34.1 km) from Nowy Sącz, 25.5 mi (41.0 km) from Tarnów, and 62.6 mi (100.7 km) from Kraków. By early 20th century, the population of Gorlice grew to 6000, but its development was halted by World War I. The city was the focal point of the German Gorlice-Tarnów Offensive during World War I, in May 1915. Extremely heavy and prolonged fighting took place here, Gorlice frequently changed hands, and as a result, the town was completely destroyed. During the First World War, Gorlice played a strategically significant role in the 1915 Gorlice-Tarnow Offensive. On May 1, 1915, the combined forces of Austria-Hungary and Germany initiated artillery barrages against Russian soldiers stationed on the battle line stretching from Gorlice to Tarnow. The following day, Austro-German infantry units launched an unsuccessful attack near Tarnow. In Gorlice, the weakened Russian forces were unable to defend against the Austrian and German attackers. On May 6, General Radko-Dmitriev, commander of the Russian Third Army, ordered his troops to retreat. An attempt by General Radko-Dmitriev to counterattack on May 7 and 8 resulted in disaster for the Russians, as German reinforcements outnumbered the defenders. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gorlice_breakthrough The Gorlice breakthrough occurred in the May 1–10, 1915 as part of the Gorlice–Tarnów Offensive during World War I. The German 11th Army led by General August von Mackensen, with the support on the flanks by the 3rd and 4th Austro-Hungarian Armies, defeated the 3rd Russian Army. For the first time in the history of the First World War a heavily fortified and long-term defensive position was broken through during the Gorliсе offensive. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gorlice%E2%80%93Tarn%C3%B3w_offensive The Gorlice–Tarnów offensive during World War I was initially conceived as a minor German offensive to relieve Russian pressure on the Austro-Hungarians to their south on the Eastern Front, but resulted in the Central Powers' chief offensive effort of 1915, causing the total collapse of the Russian lines and their retreat far into Russia. The continued series of actions lasted the majority of the campaigning season for 1915, starting in early May and only ending due to bad weather in October. Mackensen viewed securing a breakthrough as the first phase of an operation, which would then lead to a Russian retreat from the Dukla Pass, and their positions north of the Vistula (reference to Russian 1895's The Vistula River skin).

Battle of Lutsk skins for "Battlefield 1: In the Name of the Tsar" expansion's weapons (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lutsk): Lutsk (Ukrainian: Луцьк; Polish: Łuck; Yiddish: לוצק) is a city on the Styr River in northwestern Ukraine. In 1795, as a result of the Partitions of Poland, the Russian Empire annexed Lutsk. During the First World War, the town was seized by Austria-Hungary on 29 August 1915. The town sustained a small amount of damage. During more than a year of Austro-Hungarian occupation, Lutsk became an important military centre with the headquarters of the IV Army under Archduke Josef Ferdinand stationed there. A plague of epidemic typhus decimated the city's inhabitants. On 4 June 1916, four Russian armies under general Aleksei Brusilov (reference to the Model 8 Autoloading's Brusilov skin) started what later became known as the Brusilov Offensive. After up to three days of heavy artillery barrage, the Battle of Lutsk began. On 7 June 1916 the Russian forces reconquered the city. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Lutsk The Battle of Lutsk took place on the Eastern Front during World War I, from June 4 to June 6, 1916. This was the opening attack of the Brusilov Offensive under the overall command of Alexei Brusilov. The Russian 8th Army made a decisive breakthrough in the defenses of the Austro-Hungarian Fourth Army in the area of the city of Lutsk in Ukraine. On the night of June 4, General Alexei Kaledin opened an artillery barrage against Archduke Joseph Ferdinand's Austro-Hungarian defenses. Lasting through the night and into the morning, the Russian artillery broke gaps through the barbed wire trenches. Within days, 130,000 Austro-Hungarian soldiers were lost. The influential German high-command requested the dismissal of Archduke Joseph, which was subsequently granted. The success of the Russian breakthrough caused Austria to halt its attacks in Italy and convinced Romania to enter the war. The Brusilov Offensive would continue with success until running out of steam in late September 1916.

Battle of Jugla skins for "Battlefield 1: In the Name of the Tsar" expansion's weapons (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maz%C4%81_Jugla): Mazā Jugla (previously German: Kleine Jägel) is a river in Latvia. Mazā Jugla joins with Lielā Jugla thus forming the river Jugla shortly before its mouth into Jugla Lake at the Riga city eastern border with the municipalities of Garkalne and Stopiņi. The Battle of Jugla of World War I between the German and Russian armies took place on the banks of the river in 1917. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Jugla The Battle of Jugla was a defensive battle of the Russian Republic's 12th Army of the First World War from 1 to 5 September 1917. It was part of the German offensive called the Battle of Riga (German: Schlacht um Riga). The main objective for the Russian 12th Army was to prevent the German 8th Army from forcing the Daugava river and besieging Russian troops in Riga. The battle took place at the banks of the river Mazā Jugla. One of the main units involved was a brigade of 6,000 Latvian Riflemen from the 2nd Latvian Rifles under the command of Ansis Lielgalvis. On the morning of 1 September 1917, after a three-hour artillery bombardment, the Germans launched the assault and began the construction of three wooden pontoon bridges over the river Daugava near Ikšķile. The Germans used aviation, flame throwers and gas attacks but despite this, the Latvian Riflemen managed to hold back the German advance for 26 hours. This allowed the 12th Russian Army (including 1st Latvian Rifleman Brigade which still was in the Tīrelis swamp positions near Olaine) to safely withdraw from Riga. German losses were 4200 compared to the Russian 25,000. https://www.historynet.com/battle-riga-wwi/ On the strategic level the Battle of Riga, fought in Latvia on Sept. 1–5, 1917, effectively knocked Russia out of World War I. The innovative offensive tactics tested by the Germans in that battle proved the key to breaking the long stalemate of trench warfare. Bruchmüller’s (reference to the MP18's Breakthrough Muller skin) greatest innovation was the shift from artillery destruction fire to neutralization fire. Rather than trying to destroy everything in the path of the attacking infantry, Bruchmüller focused on tightly synchronizing the fire support and the infantry scheme of maneuver to neutralize the enemy defense just long enough for the attacking infantry to overrun it. Captain Willy Rohr (reference to M1917 Trench Carbine's The Rohr skin), the commander of Germany’s first unit of storm troops, was among its proponents and pioneers. Rather than advancing in the rigid, linear attack formations so characteristic of World War I, Hutier’s (reference to MP18's The Hutier skin) infantry was trained to advance using fluid infiltration tactics. The infantry companies were organized into small, highly trained combined-arms assault elements. At Riga the German army would conduct the first large-scale test of these “infiltration tactics,” often referred to incorrectly as “Hutier tactics” or “storm troop tactics.” Riga was also the first clash in which the new infantry assault tactics and Bruchmüller’s artillery tactics were combined and synchronized. The second position consisted of two sets of trench lines anchored along a smaller river the Germans called the Kleine Jägel (the present-day Maza Jugla), a few miles northeast of the Dvina. (The five-day clash is sometimes referred to as the Battle of Jugla.)

Carcano M91, Farquhar-Hill, M1917 MG, M1917 Trench Carbine, Maschinenpistole M1912/P.16 and Type 38 Arisaka skins
special: Battle of Jutland, Battle of Tsingtao, Battle of the Falkland Islands, Battle of the Strait of Otranto

Battle of Tsingtao skins for "Battlefield 1: Turning Tides" expansion's weapons (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siege_of_Tsingtao): The Siege of Tsingtao (or Tsingtau) (German: Belagerung von Tsingtau; Japanese: 青島の戦い) was the attack on the German port of Tsingtao (German: Tsingtau) (now Qingdao, China) during World War I by Japan and the United Kingdom. The siege was waged against Imperial Germany between 27 August and 7 November 1914. The siege was the first encounter between Japanese and German forces, the first Anglo-Japanese operation of the war, and the only major land battle in the Asian and Pacific theatre during World War I. On 15 August, Japan issued an ultimatum, stating that Germany must withdraw her warships from Chinese and Japanese waters and transfer control of its port of Tsingtao to Japan. The next day, Major-General Mitsuomi Kamio (reference to the Type 38 Arisaka's Mitsuomi skin), General Officer Commanding (GOC), 18th Infantry Division, was ordered to prepare to take Tsingtao by force. The ultimatum expired on 23 August, and Japan declared war on Germany. The Austro-Hungarian cruiser SMS Kaiserin Elisabeth (reference to the Gewehr M.95's Die Kaiserin Elisabeth skin) was stationed in Tsingtao at the start of the war. On 6 September, the second air-sea battle in history took place (the first air-sea battle in history was at the Balkan wars in 1913) when a Farman seaplane (reference to the Model 8 Autoloading's Farman skin) launched by the Wakamiya (reference to the Type 38 Arisaka's Wakamiya skin) unsuccessfully attacked the Kaiserin Elisabeth and the Jaguar in Qiaozhou Bay with bombs. The German garrison was able to field only a single Etrich Taube airplane during the siege flown by Lieutenant Gunther Plüschow. That airplane was used for frequent reconnaissance flights and Plüschow made several nuisance attacks on the blockading squadron dropping improvised munitions and other ordnance on them. Plüschow claimed the downing of a Japanese Farman MF.VII with his pistol, the first aerial victory in aviation history. On the night of 6 November, waves of Japanese infantry attacked the third line of defense and overwhelmed the defenders. The next morning, the German forces, along with their Austro-Hungarian allies, asked for terms. The Allies took formal possession of the colony on 16 November 1914. As the German garrison was able to hold out for nearly two months despite the naval blockade with sustained artillery bombardment and being outnumbered 6 to 1, the defeat nevertheless temporarily served as a morale booster. Japanese casualties numbered 733 killed and 1,282 wounded; the British had 12 killed and 53 wounded. The German defenders lost 199 dead and 504 wounded. The 4,700 German prisoners were treated well and with respect in Japan, such as in Bandō prisoner-of-war camp.

Battle of the Falkland Islands skins for "Battlefield 1: Turning Tides" expansion's weapons (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_the_Falkland_Islands): The Battle of the Falkland Islands was a First World War naval action between the British Royal Navy and Imperial German Navy on 8 December 1914 in the South Atlantic. The British, after their defeat at the Battle of Coronel on 1 November, sent a large force to track down and destroy the German cruiser squadron. Admiral Graf Maximilian von Spee commanding the German squadron of two armoured cruisers, SMS Scharnhorst and Gneisenau (reference to the P08 Pistol's Count Gneisenau skin), the light cruisers SMS Nürnberg, Dresden and Leipzig, and the colliers SS Baden, SS Santa Isabel, and SS Seydlitz attempted to raid the British supply base at Stanley in the Falkland Islands. The British squadron consisting of the battlecruisers HMS Invincible and Inflexible, the armoured cruisers HMS Carnarvon, Cornwall and Kent, the armed merchant cruiser HMS Macedonia and the light cruisers HMS Bristol and Glasgow (reference to the Martini-Henry's Glasgow skin) had arrived in the port the day before. Visibility was at its maximum, the sea was placid with a gentle breeze, and the day was bright and sunny. The vanguard cruisers of the German squadron were detected early. By nine o'clock that morning, the British battlecruisers and cruisers were in hot pursuit of the German vessels. All except Dresden and Seydlitz were hunted down and sunk. Casualties and damage were extremely disproportionate; the British suffered only very lightly. Admiral Spee and his two sons were among the German dead. Rescued German survivors, 215 total, became prisoners on the British ships. After the battle, German naval experts were baffled at why Admiral Spee attacked the base and how the two squadrons could have met so coincidentally in so many thousand miles of open waters. Kaiser William II's (reference to the Gewehr 98's The Kaiser skin) handwritten note on the official report of the battle reads: "It remains a mystery what made Spee attack the Falkland Islands".

Battle of Jutland skins for "Battlefield 1: Turning Tides" expansion's weapons (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jutland): Jutland (Danish: Jylland; German: Jütland; Old English: Ēota land), known anciently as the Cimbric or Cimbrian Peninsula (Latin: Cimbricus Chersonesus; Danish: den Kimbriske Halvø or den Jyske Halvø; German: Kimbrische Halbinsel), is a peninsula of Northern Europe that forms the continental portion of Denmark and part of northern Germany. Denmark was neutral throughout the First World War. The 1916 Battle of Jutland was fought in the North Sea west of Jutland as one of the largest naval battles in history. In this pitched battle, the British Royal Navy engaged the Imperial German Navy, leading to heavy casualties and losses of ships on both sides. The British fleet sustained greater losses, but remained in control of the North Sea, so in strategic terms, most historians regard Jutland either as a British victory or as indecisive. The battle is commemorated and explained at the Sea War Museum Jutland in Thyborøn. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Jutland The Battle of Jutland (German: Skagerrakschlacht, the Battle of the Skagerrak) was a naval battle fought between Britain's Royal Navy Grand Fleet, under Admiral Sir John Jellicoe, and the Imperial German Navy's High Seas Fleet, under Vice-Admiral Reinhard Scheer, during the First World War. The battle unfolded in extensive manoeuvring and three main engagements (the battlecruiser action, the fleet action, and the night action), from 31 May to 1 June 1916, off the North Sea coast of Denmark's Jutland Peninsula. It was the largest naval battle and the only full-scale clash of battleships of the war. Jutland was the last major battle in history fought primarily by battleships. Beatty's withdrawal at the sight of the High Seas Fleet, which the British had not known were in the open sea, would reverse the course of the battle by drawing the German fleet in pursuit towards the British Grand Fleet. Between 18:30, when the sun was lowering on the western horizon, back-lighting the German forces, and nightfall at about 20:30, the two fleets—totalling 250 ships between them—directly engaged twice. Fourteen British and eleven German ships sank, with a total of 9,823 casualties. After sunset, and throughout the night, Jellicoe manoeuvred to cut the Germans off from their base, hoping to continue the battle the next morning, but under the cover of darkness Scheer broke through the British light forces forming the rearguard of the Grand Fleet and returned to port. Both sides claimed victory. The British lost more ships and twice as many sailors but succeeded in containing the German fleet.

Battle of the Strait of Otranto skins for "Battlefield 1: Turning Tides" expansion's weapons (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strait_of_Otranto): The Strait of Otranto (Albanian: Ngushtica e Otrantos; Italian: Canale d'Otranto) connects the Adriatic Sea with the Ionian Sea and separates Italy from Albania. Its width at Punta Palascìa, east of Salento is less than 72 km (45 miles; 39 nautical miles). The strait is named after the Italian city of Otranto. During World War I, the strait was of strategic significance. The Allied navies of Italy, France, and Great Britain, by blockading the strait, mostly with light naval forces and lightly armed fishing vessels known as drifters, hindered the cautious Austro-Hungarian Navy from freely entering the Mediterranean Sea, and effectively kept them out of the naval theatre of war. The blockade was known as the 'Otranto Barrage'. However, the barrage was notoriously ineffective against the German and Austrian U-boats operating out of the Adriatic, which were to plague the Allied powers for most of the war throughout the Mediterranean. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otranto_Barrage The largest raid was carried out on the night of 14/15 May 1917 by the cruisers SMS Novara (reference to the Gewehr M.95's SMS Novara skin), Helgoland, and Saida supported by the destroyers SMS Csepel and Balaton and Austro-Hungarian U-boats U-4 and U-27, along with German U-boat UC-25 (operating as Austro-Hungarian U-boat U-89). The fleet, commanded by Commodore Miklós Horthy, sank 14 drifters out of 47 on duty, and damaged a further three seriously. Skipper Joseph Watt was later awarded the Victoria Cross for defending his drifter Gowanlea under heavy attack from Novara. The British light cruisers HMS Dartmouth and Bristol—together with Italian and French destroyers, under command of Italian Rear Admiral Alfredo Acton—steamed from Brindisi to engage the Austrians, resulting in the Battle of the Otranto Straits. The British damaged Saida and disabled Novara, severely injuring Horthy. However, the British cruisers broke off the engagement when the Italian flag officer received notice of heavy Austrian forces coming out of Cattaro. Saida towed Novara back to port. In June 1918, Horthy—by now commander-in-chief of the Austro-Hungarian Navy—decided to launch an attack on the barrage employing the four Tegetthoff-class battleships based at Pola, the most modern in the fleet. While en route down the Adriatic, the battleship SMS Szent István (reference to the Gasser M1870 Revolver's St Stephan skin) was torpedoed and sunk by an Italian torpedo boat at dawn on 10 June, resulting in the attack being cancelled. https://honvedelem.hu/hirek/commemorating-the-third-battle-of-the-strait-of-otranto.html The Bay of Cattaro served as the southern naval base for the fleet of the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy, from where the SMS warships set sail to go into battle. The battle took place on May 15, 1917 between the Imperial and Royal Navy and the fleet of the Allies. This was the largest surface action of World War I on the Mediterranean, and the greatest victory of the Imperial and Royal Navy. The force consisting of just three light cruisers and two destroyers was able to deal an operationally significant blow on the enemy. By crushing the Allied naval blockade (Otranto Barrage) in the straits, this naval force allowed free access for Austro-Hungarian and German submarines and ships to the Mediterranean Sea. A special feature of this force was that all but one of its Austro-Hungarian vessels had been made in Hungary.

Chauchat, Lebel Model 1886, Ribeyrolles 1918, RSC 1917 and Sjögren Inertial skins
special: House of Bonaparte, House of Bourbon, House of Lancaster, House of Valois

House of Lancaster skins for "Battlefield 1: They Shall Not Pass" expansion's weapons (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/House_of_Lancaster): The House of Lancaster was a cadet branch of the royal House of Plantagenet. The house became extinct in the male line upon the death or murder in the Tower of London of Henry VI, following the battlefield execution of his son Edward of Westminster, Prince of Wales, by supporters of the House of York in 1471. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_VI_of_England Henry VI (6 December 1421 – 21 May 1471) was King of England from 1422 to 1461 and again from 1470 to 1471, and disputed King of France from 1422 to 1453. The only child of Henry V, he succeeded to the English throne at the age of nine months upon his father's death, and succeeded to the French throne on the death of his maternal grandfather, Charles VI, shortly afterwards. Henry inherited the Hundred Years' War (1337–1453), in which his uncle Charles VII contested his claim to the French throne. He is the only English monarch to have been also crowned King of France, in 1431. His early reign, when several people were ruling for him, saw the pinnacle of English power in France, but subsequent military, diplomatic, and economic problems had seriously endangered the English cause by the time Henry was declared fit to rule in 1437. He found his realm in a difficult position, faced with setbacks in France and divisions among the nobility at home. His ineffective reign saw the gradual loss of the English lands in France. By 1453, Calais was Henry's only remaining territory on the continent. Shakespeare wrote a trilogy of plays about his life, depicting him as weak-willed and easily influenced by his wife, Margaret. Succeeding to the throne as King of England at the age of nine months on 1 September 1422, the day after his father's death; he remains the youngest person ever to succeed to the English throne. After the death of King Henry V, England had lost momentum in the Hundred Years' War, whereas the House of Valois (reference to the House of Valois skins) had gained ground beginning with Joan of Arc's military victories in the year 1429.

House of Valois skins for "Battlefield 1: They Shall Not Pass" expansion's weapons (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/House_of_Valois): The Capetian house of Valois was a cadet branch of the Capetian dynasty. They succeeded the House of Capet (or "Direct Capetians") to the French throne, and were the royal house of France from 1328 to 1589. Junior members of the family founded cadet branches in Orléans, Anjou, Burgundy, and Alençon. List of Valois kings of France (dates indicate reigns, not lifetimes): -Philip VI, the Fortunate 1328–1350, son of Charles of Valois, -John II, the Good 1350–1364, -Charles V, the Wise 1364–1380, -Charles VI, the Well-Beloved, later known as the Mad 1380–1422, -Charles VII, the Victorious or the Well-Served 1422–1461, -Louis XI, the Prudent 1461–1483, -Charles VIII, the Affable 1483–1498, -Louis XII, the Father of the People 1498–1515, great-grandson of Charles V of France, -Francis I – 1515–1547, great-great-grandson of Charles V of France, -Henry II – 1547–1559, -Francis II – 1559–1560, -Charles IX – 1560–1574, -Henry III – 1574–1589. In 1589, at the death of Henry III of France, the House of Valois became extinct in the male line. Under the Salic law, the Head of the House of Bourbon (reference to the House of Bourbon skins), as the senior representative of the senior-surviving branch of the Capetian dynasty, became King of France as Henry IV. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_III_of_France Henry III (French: Henri III; Polish: Henryk Walezy; Lithuanian: Henrikas Valua; 19 September 1551 – 2 August 1589) was King of France from 1574 until his assassination in 1589, as well as King of Poland and Grand Duke of Lithuania from 1573 to 1575. In 1589, Jacques Clément, a Catholic fanatic, murdered Henry III. He was succeeded by the King of Navarre who, as Henry IV, assumed the throne of France after converting to Catholicism, as the first French king of the House of Bourbon.

House of Bourbon skins for "Battlefield 1: They Shall Not Pass" expansion's weapons (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/House_of_Bourbon): The House of Bourbon is a dynasty that originated in the Kingdom of France and is a branch of the Capetian dynasty, the royal House of France. In 1589, at the death of Henry III of France, the House of Valois (reference to the House of Valois skins) became extinct in the male line. Under the Salic law, the head of the House of Bourbon, as the senior representative of the senior-surviving branch of the Capetian dynasty, became King of France as Henry IV. Bourbon monarchs then united to France the part of the Kingdom of Navarre north of the Pyrenees, which Henry's father had acquired by marriage in 1555, ruling both until the 1792 overthrow of the monarchy during the French Revolution. Restored briefly in 1814 and definitively in 1815 after the fall of the First French Empire, the senior line of the Bourbons was finally overthrown in the July Revolution of 1830. A cadet Bourbon branch, the House of Orléans, then ruled for 18 years (1830–1848), until it too was overthrown.
List of Bourbon rulers of France (dates indicate reigns, not lifetimes): -Henry IV, the Great (1589–1610), -Louis XIII, the Just (1610–1643), -Louis XIV, the Sun King (1643–1715), -Louis XV, the Well-Beloved (1715–1774), -Louis XVI (1774–1792), -Louis XVIII (1814–1824), -Charles X (1824–1830), -Louis-Philippe I (House of Bourbon-Orléans) (1830–1848). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_XVI Louis XVI (Louis Auguste; 23 August 1754 – 21 January 1793), sometimes known as The Last, was the last king of France before the fall of the monarchy during the French Revolution. Louis was tried by the National Convention (self-instituted as a tribunal for the occasion), found guilty of high treason and executed by guillotine on 21 January 1793. Louis XVI was the only king of France ever to be executed, and his death brought an end to more than a thousand years of continuous French monarchy. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bourbon_Restoration_in_France The Bourbon Restoration was the period of French history during which the House of Bourbon returned to power after the first fall of Napoleon (reference to the House of Bonaparte skin) on 3 May 1814. Briefly interrupted by the Hundred Days in 1815, the Restoration lasted until the July Revolution of 26 July 1830. Louis XVIII and Charles X, brothers of the executed King Louis XVI, successively mounted the throne and instituted a conservative government intended to restore the proprieties, if not all the institutions, of the Ancien Régime. Exiled supporters of the monarchy returned to France but were unable to reverse most of the changes made by the French Revolution. Louis-Philippe ascended the throne on the strength of the July Revolution of 1830, and ruled, not as "King of France" but as "King of the French", marking the shift to national sovereignty. The Orléanists remained in power until 1848. Following the ousting of the last king to rule France during the February 1848 Revolution, the French Second Republic was formed with the election of Louis-Napoléon Bonaparte (reference to the House of Bonaparte skin) as President (1848–1852).

House of Bonaparte skins for "Battlefield 1: They Shall Not Pass" expansion's weapons (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/House_of_Bonaparte): The House of Bonaparte is a former imperial and royal European dynasty of Corsican origin. It was founded in 1804 by Napoleon I, the son of Corsican nobleman Carlo Buonaparte and Letizia Buonaparte (née Ramolino). Napoleon was a French military leader who rose to power during the French Revolution and who, in 1804, transformed the First French Republic into the First French Empire, five years after his coup d'état of November 1799 (18 Brumaire). Between 1852 and 1870, there was a Second French Empire, when a member of the Bonaparte dynasty again ruled France: Napoleon III, the youngest son of Louis Bonaparte. However, during the Franco-Prussian War of 1870–1871, the dynasty was again ousted from the Imperial Throne. Emperors of the French (dates indicate reigns, not lifetimes): -Napoleon I (1804–1814, 1815), -Napoleon II (1815), -Napoleon III (1852–1870). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Napoleon_III Napoleon III (Charles-Louis Napoléon Bonaparte; 20 April 1808 – 9 January 1873) was the first president of France from 1848 to 1852, and the last monarch of France as Emperor of the French from 1852 until he was deposed in absentia on 4 September 1870.
Prior to his reign, Napoleon III was known as Louis Napoleon Bonaparte. A nephew of Napoleon I and cousin of the disputed Napoleon II, he was the first person elected to the presidency of the Second Republic in 1848, and he seized power by force in 1851 when he could not constitutionally be reelected. He later proclaimed himself Emperor of the French and founded the Second Empire, reigning until the defeat of the French Army and his capture by Prussia and its allies at the Battle of Sedan in 1870. From 1866, Napoleon III had to face the mounting power of Prussia as its Minister President Otto von Bismarck sought German unification under Prussian leadership. In July 1870, Napoleon III reluctantly declared war on Prussia after pressure from the general public. The French Army was rapidly defeated and Napoleon III was captured at Sedan. He was swiftly dethroned and the Third Republic was proclaimed in Paris.

Artillery Truck skins
Legendary: Crimson Silver (Super Rare), Golden Shell (Super Rare), Platinum Chevron (Super Rare)
Distinguished: Canadian, Flanders, Junovicz, Kurzemiesk, Panzerwagen, TwoTone

Flanders skin for Artillery Truck https://battlefield.fandom.com/wiki/Artillery_Truck_(Codex_Entry) A relatively fast, formidable, and versatile but weakly armored gun platform serving many different roles in the Great War. Even though its cross-country performance left a lot to be desired, the ability to carry both smaller artillery and automatic anti-air fire made this truck an adaptable ally. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-propelled_anti-aircraft_weapon Anti-aircraft machine guns have long been mounted on trucks, and these were quite common during World War I. A predecessor of the WWII German "88" anti-aircraft gun, the WWI German 77 mm anti-aircraft gun, was truck-mounted and used to great effect against British tanks. The British QF 3 inch 20 cwt was mounted on trucks for use on the Western Front. The British also had a first dedicated anti aircraft weapon, the QF 1-pounder pom-pom. Mounted on a armoured truck titled the Pierce-Arrow armoured AA lorry, which was produced in limited numbers and only seeing service throughout 1915. Towards the end of the war Germany produced three prototype SPAAGs with AA guns mounted on A7V chassis known as the A7V Flakpanzer. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flanders_Fields Flanders Fields is a common English name of the World War I battlefields in an area straddling the Belgian provinces of West Flanders and East Flanders as well as the French department of Nord, part of which makes up the area known as French Flanders. The name Flanders Fields is particularly associated with battles that took place in the Ypres Salient (reference to the M1907 Selfloading's Ypres skin), including the Second Battle of Ypres and the Battle of Passchendaele. For most of the war, the front line ran continuously from south of Nieuwpoort on the Belgian coast, across Flanders Fields into the centre of Northern France before moving eastwards — and it was known as the Western Front. The phrase was popularized by a poem, "In Flanders Fields" (reference to the M1911 Pistol's In Flanders Fields skin), by Canadian Lieutenant-Colonel John McCrae which was inspired by his service during the Second Battle of Ypres.

Canadian skin for Artillery Truck (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_combat_vehicles_of_World_War_I): This is a list of combat vehicles of World War I, including conceptual, experimental, prototype, training and production vehicles. The vehicles in this list were either used in combat, produced or designed during the First World War. Armoured cars and trucks: Most of the armoured cars of the war were produced by building armoured bodywork over commercial large car and truck chassis. Austria-Hungary: -Junovicz P.A.1 (reference to the Artillery Truck's Junovicz skin), Canada: -Armoured Autocar. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armoured_Autocar The Armoured Autocar was a Canadian armoured car used as a mobile machine gun nest during the First World War. The Armoured Autocar was developed by Major Raymond Brutinel, who immigrated to Canada from France. Returning to Canada, Brutinel directed the design of the armoured bodies that would be mounted on the truck chassis. The end result was an open topped armoured box with an angled front plate and drop sides. The machine guns were pedestal mounted, capable of firing over the sides of the vehicle, and also able to be dismounted for ground use. The Armoured Autocar weighed 3 tons, had a crew of 8 and had a maximum speed of 40 km/h (25 mph) on roads; its offroad capabilities were limited. The Armoured Autocars were to prove their worth in the German spring offensive (reference to the MP18's The Kaiserschlacht skin) in 1918. While Brutinel had envisioned the unit spearheading an advance through the enemy lines, they were to ultimately excel in the defensive role by utilizing their firepower and mobility. Unfortunately, the open tops of the cars left their crews vulnerable. The one surviving example of the Armoured Autocar is held by the Canadian War Museum in Ottawa, Ontario. The example is armed with Vickers machine guns.

Junovicz skin for Artillery Truck (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Junovicz_P.A.1): The Junovicz P.A.1 (Pancél Auto 1) was an armored car of Austria-Hungary, designed by Hauptmann Junovicz. Five were built. First Lieutenant Engineer Rudolf Junovicz decided that what was needed was a universal armored body that could fit on multiple truck chassis, leading to five improvised designs built upon 3-ton truck bodies (3ton Subventionslastautos). The P.A.1 featured riveted armor, 7mm thick at the front, and 5mm thick on both sides. Overall weight was at least 4 tons. It was powered by a 40 HP, 12L Fiat engine. The radiator was protected by an armored plate that could be raised to keep from overheating when not in combat. A single headlight was mounted on the front of the hood. Access was via a rear door, two hatches on the sides, and two on the roof. Crew consisted of 5 men: driver, commander, two gunners and a loader. It was armed with two Schwarzlose 1907/12 machine guns, one facing forward and the other fitted to one of the four ports on the sides as appropriate. 6,000 rounds of 8mm ammunition were carried. Unfortunately there is little information regarding operational history of these vehicles other than one in particular. One vehicle was deployed in Serbia, and later transferred to the Isonzo Front (reference to the Automatico M1918's Isonzo skin) in 1915. In 1916 it was sent to the Eastern Front, where it was used for three patrols but did not engage with any enemy forces. In 1918 it was transferred to the 6th Army in Udine, Italy. On June 1, 1918, the K.u.K. Panzerautozug 1 (Armored Car Platoon 1) was formed, and the P.A.1 was attached to it. https://tanks-encyclopedia.com/junovicz/ Before the war, Lieutenant Junovicz was an officer with the 70th Infantry Regiment, based in Zagreb (present day capital of Croatia). Thanks to his expertise in automotive technology, he was soon appointed Automotive Officer of the 13th Corps. After the outbreak of war in 1914, he was attached to the workshops of the Hungarian State Railway in Resiczabánya [present day Reșița, Romania], also known as Resicai Állami Vas és Gépgyárban [Eng. Reșița State Iron and Machinery Factory], and placed in command of the repair department. They were tasked to repair both damaged and captured vehicles. However, given that the Junovicz was a state-approved vehicle, the plans must have been accepted only after the Romfell armored car (reference to the Battlefield 1's Romfell Armored Car) was inspected in August 1915, as before, the Army was firmly against the concept of armored vehicles which were seen as a waste of perfectly capable trucks. The available sources either give 1915 or 1916 as the date of actual construction, but it is known that production was already underway in the summer of 1915.

Panzerwagen skin for Artillery Truck (https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panzerwagen): Als Panzerwagen wurden ursprünglich gepanzerte Automobile, die Vorläufer der militärischen Panzer, bezeichnet. Umgangssprachlich wird dieser Begriff sowohl für militärische als auch für zivile gepanzerte Fahrzeuge verwendet. Da es keine exakte Definition gibt, ist die Begriffsverwendung nicht eindeutig. Gepanzerte Wagen waren bereits in der Antike und im Mittelalter bekannt. 1902 stellte Frederick Richard Simms einen motorisierten Panzerwagen vor, der als Motor War Car bekannt wurde. 1903 folgte der Austro-Daimler Panzerwagen. Danach wurden in Deutschland auch Panzerwagen gebaut: -Daimler DZVR 21 Die Basis bildete die Artillerie-Kraftzugmaschine Krupp-Daimler 100 PS KD 1 aus dem Ersten Weltkrieg. https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Austro-Daimler_Panzerwagen Der Austro-Daimler-Panzerwagen von Austro-Daimler gilt als typprägend für die Klasse der Anfang des 20. Jahrhunderts entstandenen Panzerwagen. Die Bauart des allradgetriebenen gepanzerten Fahrzeuges, das mit einem um 360 Grad drehbaren Geschützturm ausgerüstet war, wurde später von mehreren Herstellern für Polizei- und Militäraufträge gefertigt. Das Fahrzeug hat sich bei den Kaisermanövern 1906 überraschend gut bewährt. Gesteuert wurde es von Heinrich Schönfeldt, dem späteren Rennfahrer, Kfz-Ingenieur und ab 1916 Leiter des Kaiserlichen Automobilwesens. Jedoch als der laute Motor gestartet wurde, scheute das Pferd des Chefs des Generalstabs des österreichisch-ungarischen Heeres, Friedrich von Beck-Rzikowsky. Kaiser Franz Joseph I. (reference to the Frommer Stop Pistol's The Emperor skin) lehnte daraufhin den Panzerwagen als für militärische Zwecke unbrauchbar ab. Das Konzept des Panzerwagens von Austro-Daimler wurde im Ersten Weltkrieg für einige Militärfahrzeuge genutzt.

Kurzemiesk skin for Artillery Truck (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garford-Putilov_Armoured_Car): Garford-Putilov armoured cars were an armoured fighting vehicle produced in Russia during the First World War era. They were built on the chassis of Garford Motor Truck Co. lorries imported from the United States. During its production from 1915 to 1916 the Putilov factory produced 48 of these armoured cars which were used during the First World War and the Russian Civil War. It is not clear how Garfords fell into the hands of the Latvians. The captured Garford was quickly included in the German Freikorps (reference to the Assault Truck's Freikorps skin) and used in battle against its former owners on the approach to Riga. Further information about the Garford diverges, according to some reports the armoured car was sent to Germany where it was used against the rebellious Spartacus League and finally was dismantled for scrap. According to other data (supported by photographs) after the defeat of the Western Volunteer army in November 1919 all of the Freikorps's armoured vehicles, including the former "Lacplesis", (reference to the Assault Truck's Lacplesis skin) went to the Latvians. The Garford continued to bear German markings for some time and was then renamed to "Kurzemnieks". So during this time the Latvians possessed only one Garford which changed its name twice during 1919.

TwoTone skin for Artillery Truck: I think it's the same fictitious name as the Light Tank's "Two Tone" skin name (the two words are separate here).

Destroyer skins
Distinguished: Black Shark, Checker Dazzle, Stripe Dazzle

Checker Dazzle and Stripe Dazzle skins for Destroyer https://battlefield.fandom.com/wiki/Camouflage_(Codex_Entry) Optics also came into play. Camouflage was needed to defeat these newer kinds of weapons. It was also needed to create concealed positions to shoot from. The development of camouflage was ever-changing, ranging from psychedelic "dazzle camo" on naval ships and vessels to fake trees and fake dead cows providing excellent sniper positions. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dazzle_camouflage Dazzle camouflage, also known as razzle dazzle (in the U.S.) or dazzle painting, is a family of ship camouflage that was used extensively in World War I, and to a lesser extent in World War II and afterwards. Credited to the British marine artist Norman Wilkinson, though with a rejected prior claim by the zoologist John Graham Kerr, it consisted of complex patterns of geometric shapes in contrasting colours interrupting and intersecting each other. Unlike other forms of camouflage, the intention of dazzle is not to conceal but to make it difficult to estimate a target's range, speed, and heading. Norman Wilkinson explained in 1919 that he had intended dazzle primarily to mislead the enemy about a ship's course and so cause them to take up a poor firing position. Dazzle was adopted by the Admiralty in the UK, and then by the United States Navy. Each ship's dazzle pattern was unique to avoid making classes of ships instantly recognisable to the enemy. The result was that a profusion of dazzle schemes was tried, and the evidence for their success was, at best, mixed. In 1914, Kerr persuaded the First Lord of the Admiralty, Winston Churchill (reference to the C96 Pistol's Churchill skin), to adopt a form of military camouflage which he called "parti-colouring". However, following Churchill's departure from the Admiralty, the Royal Navy reverted to plain grey paint schemes, informing Kerr in July 1915 that "various trials had been undertaken and that the range of conditions of light and surroundings rendered it necessary to modify considerably any theory based upon the analogy of [the colours and patterns of] animals". At sea in 1917, heavy losses of merchant ships to Germany's unrestricted submarine warfare campaign led to new desire for camouflage. The marine painter Norman Wilkinson promoted a system of stripes and broken lines "to distort the external shape by violent colour contrasts" and confuse the enemy about the speed and dimensions of a ship. Dazzle's effectiveness was highly uncertain at the time of the First World War, but it was nonetheless adopted both in the UK and North America. In 1918, the Admiralty analysed shipping losses, but was unable to draw clear conclusions.

Black Shark skin for Destroyer: triple question mark (???). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Shark_(1912) HMS Shark, was an Acasta-class destroyer built in 1912 for the Royal Navy. Shark was sunk during the Battle of Jutland (reference to the Battle of Jutland skins) on the evening of 31 May 1916. Shark was laid down at Swan Hunter's Wallsend shipyard on 27 October 1911 and was launched on 30 July 1912. In 1913 the Admiralty decided to reclassify the Royal Navy's destroyers into alphabetical classes, with the Acasta class becoming the K class. New names were allocated to the ships of the K class, with the name Kestrel being reserved for Shark, but the ships were not renamed. Shark was completed in April 1913. On the outbreak of the First World War in August 1914, the 4th Flotilla, including Shark, became part of the Grand Fleet based at Scapa Flow in Orkney. During the Battle of Jutland, Shark was one of four destroyers from the 4th Flotilla assigned to cover the 3rd Battlecruiser Squadron. The other three destroyers escaped with little damage, but Shark was crippled by gunfire, having her fuel pipes and steering gear wrecked. The forecastle gun was completely blown away with most of its gun crew shortly before the captain, Commander Loftus Jones, declined an offer of assistance from the destroyer Acasta, as it would put Acasta in too much danger. Soon afterwards the aft 4-inch gun was also destroyed and the bridge wrecked. Jones and three seamen continued working the midship gun, engaging nearby German destroyers and leading to the sinking of V48. The German destroyers closed on the ship and returned heavy fire, during which Jones lost a leg. Shortly before 7 pm he ordered the ship to be abandoned and around thirty of the crew got onto the rafts. In total, 86 men out of a crew of 92 were killed. At 7 pm, the destroyer was sunk by a torpedo launched by the German torpedo boat S54 and which hit her abreast of the aft funnel. In March 1917, Jones was gazetted with a posthumous Victoria Cross. The wrecksite is designated as a protected place under the Protection of Military Remains Act 1986.

I just noticed that I forgot 3 skin names for Heavy Tank.
https://answers.ea.com/t5/Battlefield-1/Interesting-History-Behind-BF1-Weapon-Skin-Names/td-p/12351955/page/2

Heavy Tank skins
Other: Mephisto (Basic skin, everyone's got it), Faust and Wotan (You get these skins at Tanker class rank 10)

Mephisto skin for Heavy Tank https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mephisto_(tank) Mephisto is a World War I German tank, the only surviving example of an A7V. In April 1918, during a German attack at Villers-Bretonneux (reference to the Battle of Villers-Bretonneux skins) on the Western Front, it became stuck in a shell-hole and was abandoned by its crew. It was recovered by Allied troops about three months later and, after the war, taken to Australia as a trophy. Mephisto is housed at the Queensland Museum, in Brisbane, in the Anzac Legacy Gallery. It is not in running order. The vehicle was issued to the army in late December 1917 or early January 1918, and was given vehicle number 506. It was then taken to the German tank workshop near Charleroi (reference to the Selbstlader 1906's Charleroi skin), for minor repairs and repainting, and was re-issued in mid-April. Its new commander was Lieutenant Heinz Theunissen. By this time it had become fashionable to name A7Vs after figures from German history or mythology, and it is believed that Theunissen chose the name Mephisto, a demon from German folklore. The name was painted on the front and rear armour. A figure was also painted on the front armour depicting a red demon running off with part of a British tank under its arm. Meanwhile, the German high command was planning an attack on Villers-Bretonneux, hoping to capture the town and the hill to the north so that their artillery could dominate the important road and rail junction of Amiens, some 20 kilometres to the west. The battle and counter-attack: They were now some way behind the other tanks, so Theunissen set off in pursuit. However, soon after a shell landed immediately in front of the tank, creating a large crater. The tank pitched into it and became stuck. The crew had no option but to abandon the vehicle. A replica A7V named "Wotan" (reference to the Heavy Tank's Wotan skin) but modelled substantially on "Mephisto" was built in Germany in 1988, and is on display at the German Tank Museum in Munster. In popular culture: -Mephisto appears as a visual overhaul (skin) in the 2016 first-person shooter Battlefield 1.

Faust and Wotan skins for Heavy Tank (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A7V): A7V chassis listing. -Chassis number: 502/503 and Tank name: Faust, Kronprinz Wilhelm (reference to the Selbstlader M1916's Kronprinz skin), Wilhelm, Heiland. Possibly named König Wilhelm (reference to the Heavy Tanks's König Wilhelm skin) at one point. 502 became a Geländewagen ("cross-country vehicle"), and was not fitted with armour. After a defect of chassis 502 in March 1918, its structure was set to chassis 503 (503 suffered a cylinder head crack in April 1918). Gifted in October 1918 and taken by the British who scrapped it locally. -Chassis number: 563 and Tank name: Wotan. Scrapped by the Allies in 1919; a replica A7V was built in the late 1980s, based largely on Mephisto but named "Wotan". It is now in the Deutsches Panzermuseum in Munster, Germany.

I summarized what there were not yet in this topic:
Assault Tank
Attack Plane
Bomber
"Camouflage" special skins
Fighter
Landship
"Royal" special skin
"Veteran" special skins

The skin names of these weapons have already occurred in this topic:
12G Automatic
1903 Hammerless
Airship
Annihilator
Artillery Truck
Assault Truck
Auto Revolver
Autoloading 8
Automatico M1918
BAR M1918
Bodeo 1889
Bull Dog Revolver
C93
C96
Carcano M91
Cei-Rigotti
Chauchat
"default" special skins
Destroyer
Farquhar-Hill
Fedorov Avtomat
Frommer Stop
Gasser M1870
General Liu Rifle
Gewehr 98
Gewehr M.95
Heavy Bomber
Heavy Tank
Hellriegel 1915
Howdah Pistol
Howell Automatic
Huot Automatic
"In the Name of the Tsar" special skins
Kolibri
lMG 08/18
Lebel Model 1886
Lewis Gun
Light Tank
M1897 Shotgun
M1903
M1907 SL
M1909 Benét-Mercié
M1911
M1917 Enfield
M1917 MG
M1917 Trench Carbine
Madsen MG
Mars Automatic Pistol
Martini-Henry
Maschinenpistole M1912/P.16
MG15 N.A.
Mle 1903
Model 10-A
Model 1900
Modello 1915
Mondragón
Mosin-Nagant M91
MP 18
Nagant Revolver
No. 3 Revolver
Obrez Pistol
P08
Parabellum MG 14/17
Perino Model 1908
Repetierpistole M1912
Revolver Mk VI
Ribeyrolles 1918
Ross MkIII
RSC 1917
RSC SMG
Russian 1895
Selbstlader 1906
Selbstlader M1916
Sjögren Inertial
SMG 08/18
SMLE MKIII
Taschenpistole M1914
"They Shall Not Pass" special skins
"Turning Tides" special skins
Type 38 Arisaka
Vetterli-Vitali M1870/87

Fighter skins
Distinguished: Black Falcon, Bumble Bee, Garnie, La Triple-Entente, Red Hawk, Yellow Circus
Other: Blue Skies (Basic skin, everyone's got it), Red Baron (You get this skin if you own the Deluxe Edition of the game), Night Fighter and Woodland Raider (You get these skins at Pilot class rank 10)

La Triple-Entente skin for Fighter (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triple_Entente): The Triple Entente (from French entente meaning "friendship, understanding, agreement") describes the informal understanding between the Russian Empire, the French Third Republic, and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. It was built upon the Franco-Russian Alliance of 1894, the Entente Cordiale of 1904 between Paris and London, and the Anglo-Russian Entente of 1907. It formed a powerful counterweight to the Triple Alliance of the German Empire, the Austro-Hungarian Empire, and the Kingdom of Italy. The Triple Entente, unlike the Triple Alliance or the Franco-Russian Alliance itself, was not an alliance of mutual defence. At the start of World War I in 1914, all three Triple Entente members entered it as Allied Powers against the Central Powers: Ottoman Turkey, Germany and Austria-Hungary. On September 4, 1914, the Triple Entente issued a declaration undertaking not to conclude a separate peace and only to demand terms of peace agreed between the three parties. Historians continue to debate the importance of the alliance system as one of the causes of World War I. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allies_of_World_War_I . The term "Allies" became more widely used than "Entente", although the United Kingdom, France, Russia, and Italy were also referred to as the Quadruple Entente and, together with Japan, as the Quintuple Entente. The colonies administered by the countries that fought for the Allies were also part of the Entente powers such as American Philippines, Belgian Congo, British India, French Algeria, and Japanese Korea. The United States joined near the end of the war in 1917 (the same year in which Russia withdrew from the conflict) as an "associated power" rather than an official ally. Other "associated members" included Serbia, Belgium, Montenegro, Asir, Nejd and Hasa, Portugal, Romania, Hejaz, Panama, Cuba, Greece, China, Siam, Brazil, Armenia, Luxembourg, Guatemala, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Haiti, Liberia, and Honduras. The treaties signed at the Paris Peace Conference recognized the United Kingdom, France, Italy, Japan, and the United States as "the Principal Allied and Associated Powers".

Red Baron skin for Fighter (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manfred_von_Richthofen): Manfred Albrecht Freiherr von Richthofen (2 May 1892 – 21 April 1918), known in English as Baron von Richthofen or the Red Baron, was a fighter pilot with the German Air Force during World War I. He is considered the ace-of-aces of the war, being officially credited with 80 air combat victories. Originally a cavalryman, Richthofen transferred to the Air Service in 1915, becoming one of the first members of fighter squadron Jagdstaffel 2 in 1916. He quickly distinguished himself as a fighter pilot, and during 1917 became the leader of Jasta 11. Later he led the larger fighter wing Jagdgeschwader I, better known as "The Flying Circus" or "Richthofen's Circus" (reference to the Fighter's Yellow Circus skin) because of the bright colours of its aircraft, and perhaps also because of the way the unit was transferred from one area of Entente air activity to another – moving like a travelling circus, and frequently setting up in tents on improvised airfields. By 1918, Richthofen was regarded as a national hero in Germany, and respected by his enemies. Richthofen was shot down and killed near Vaux-sur-Somme on 21 April 1918. There has been considerable discussion and debate regarding aspects of his career, especially the circumstances of his death. https://battlefield.fandom.com/wiki/DR._1_(Codex_Entry) DR. 1 is a Codex Entry featured in Battlefield 1. What's better than two wings? Obviously the answer is three wings. Those three wings carried legendary ace pilots such as Baron von Richthofen, known as the "Red baron" and legend ace pilot Werner Voss (reference to the P08 Pistol's Werner Voss skin).

Yellow Circus skin for Fighter https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jagdgeschwader_I_(World_War_I) Jagdgeschwader I (JG I) of World War I, was a fighter wing of the German Luftstreitkräfte, comprising four Jastas (fighter squadrons). The first unit of its type formed under that classification, JG I was formed on 24 June 1917, with Manfred von Richthofen (reference to the Fighter's Red Baron skin) as commanding officer, by combining Jastas 4, 6, 10 and 11. JG I became known as "The Flying Circus" (German: Der Fliegende Zirkus) or "Richthofen's Circus" because of the bright colours of its aircraft, and perhaps also because of the way the unit was transferred from one area of Allied air activity to another – moving like a travelling circus in trains, and frequently setting up in tents on improvised airfields. The Geschwader moved again on 19 July, 1918 to Soissons, claiming its 500th victory on 25 July. Yet another move followed on 10 August, to the 2nd Army front west of Saint-Quentin. JG I's then top scorer, 53-kill Leutnant Erich Loewenhardt (reference to the Mondragon's Löwenhardt skin), was killed in an air collision on this day. Having been subjected to intensive operations over the Amiens battle in August 1918, by mid-September an exhausted JG I was withdrawn from the British part of the front, having lost all four Jasta commanders by the end of August; Lowenhardt of Jasta 10 was killed, Jasta 6's Co Lt. Paul Wenzel and Lothar von Richthofen of Jasta 11 both wounded and hospitalised, and Lt. Ernst Udet (Jasta 4) exhausted and sent on leave. Thereafter until the end of the war shortages of fuel and spares, increasing Allied numerical air superiority and continual retreats in the face of Allied ground advances meant JG I struggled to emulate earlier successes. From June 1917 until November 1918, JG I claimed 644 Allied aircraft destroyed, while losing 52 pilots killed in action and 67 wounded.

Night Fighter skin for Fighter (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Night_fighter): A night fighter (also known as all-weather fighter or all-weather interceptor for a period of time after the Second World War) is a fighter aircraft adapted for use at night or in other times of bad visibility. Night fighters began to be used in World War I and included types that were specifically modified to operate at night. At the start of the First World War, most combatants had little capability of flying at night, and little need to do so. The only targets that could be attacked with any possibility of being hit in limited visibility would be cities, an unthinkable target at the time. Things changed on 22 September and 8 October 1914, when the Royal Naval Air Service (reference to the Farquhar-Hill's The RNAS skin) bombed the production line and hangars of the Zeppelin facilities in Cologne and Düsseldorf. As early as 1915, a number of B.E.2c aircraft (the infamous "Fokker Fodder") were modified into the first night fighters. After lack of success while using darts and small incendiary bombs to attack Zeppelins from above, ultimately a Lewis gun loaded with novel incendiary ammunition, was mounted at an angle of 45° to fire upwards, to attack the enemy from below. After over a year of night Zeppelin raids, on the night of 2–3 September 1916, a BE2c flown by Captain William Leefe Robinson downed the SL 11, the first German airship to be shot down over Britain. Because of airships' limitations, the Luftstreitkräfte began to introduce long-range heavy bombers, starting with the Gotha G.IV aircraft that gradually took over the offensive. While their early daylight raids in May 1917 were able to easily evade the weak defenses of London, the strengthening of the home defence fighter force led to the Germans switching to night raids from 3 September 1917. To counter night attacks, Sopwith Camel day fighters were deployed in the night fighter role.

Garnie skin for Fighter (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garnet_Malley): Garnet Francis Malley (2 November 1892 – 20 May 1961) was an Australian fighter ace of World War I, credited with six aerial victories. Born in Sydney, Malley first saw service in World War I as an artilleryman with the Australian Imperial Force. He transferred to the Australian Flying Corps in 1917, and the following year flew Sopwith Camels with No. 4 Squadron on the Western Front. Malley was awarded the Military Cross for his achievements in combat, and his subsequent work as a flying instructor in England earned him the Air Force Cross. In March 1916, he was posted to the Western Front in France, and joined his unit in May. The 1st Brigade took part in the Battles of Pozières (reference to the Madsen MG's Pozières skin) and Mouquet Farm in July and August 1916. Malley transferred to the Australian Flying Corps (AFC) as a mechanic in April 1917, before undertaking flying instruction at the Oxford University air school. Equipped with Sopwith Camel fighters, No. 4 Squadron deployed to Bruay, France, in December 1917, and commenced operations on 9 January 1918. That same day Malley, nicknamed "Garnie" (or "George", by No. 4 Squadron's leading ace, Harry Cobby), was promoted lieutenant. On 16 March, he achieved his first aerial victory, sending a fighter belonging to Manfred von Richthofen's (reference to the Fighter's Red Baron skin) Red Circus (reference to the Fighter's Yellow Circus skin) out of control above Annoeullin, near Douai. Early reports identified the German plane as an Albatros, but later sources record it as a Pfalz D.III. Malley claimed two Albatroses on 23 March 1918, during an attack on German positions in Vaulx-Vraucourt, near Bapaume (reference to the MG15 N.A's Bapaume skin). Three days later he was promoted captain and appointed a flight commander. His official tally was six German aircraft destroyed—four fighters, an observation balloon, and an unidentified observation plane—and he was wounded in action twice, by a bullet through the leg in March, and by shrapnel from anti-aircraft fire in May.

Black Falcon skin for Fighter (https://villains.fandom.com/wiki/Black_Falcon): The Black Falcon is a villainous German fighter pilot and the primary antagonist in the WWI aerial combat film Flyboys. The Black Falcon, whose alias was due to the all-black triplane with a black falcon insignia he flew, was one of the most feared and skilled German aces in World War I, and was known to show no mercy to his enemies, even when they were downed on the ground and unable to protect themselves. Trivia: -The Black Falcon seems to be the antithesis of the stereotypical World War I fighter pilot, known to be chivalrous (reference the Revolver MK VI's Chivalry skin) and honorable to downed or unarmed enemies, as exemplified by the Falcon's comrade, Wolfert. -The Black Falcon wasn't in fact a real-life pilot and was based on the real-life Manfred Von Richthofen (reference to the Fighter's Red Baron skin), best known as "The Red Baron".

Bumble Bee skin for Fighter: triple question mark (???). https://www.ncpedia.org/aviation/copters-and-gliders William Luther Paul was known in his hometown of Davis as Mr. Fixit. This talented handyman made his own laborsaving tools for every use imaginable. In 1903, around the time that the Wright brothers were testing their flyer, Paul was experimenting with his Bumble Bee, a compound helicopter. Powered by an engine that Paul had made from four motorcycle engines bolted together, the machine had two four-blade rotors on top for vertical lift and a pulling propeller for forward flight. Paul tested his helicopter in an open-ended barn that functioned as a wind tunnel. In 1907 the Bumble Bee lifted about five feet while tethered to the ground and carrying sixty pounds of sandbags. There were several eyewitnesses. Paul planned to test it with himself as the pilot, but after reading about a fatal plane crash, his wife begged him not to continue the experiments. Paul abandoned his project, without any tangible proof of its success. http://beaufortartist.blogspot.com/2014/09/william-luther-paul-1869-1946.html Raymond and Fannie Paul's second son WILLIAM LUTHER PAUL (1869‒1946), inventor and entrepreneur, was born in Davis Shore, Carteret County. Though Luther had little formal education (7th grade), he had “a drive and curiosity for all things mechanical.” Among many inventions, Luther built flying machine "Bumble Bee." In 1908, after an Orville Wright test flight crashed and killed the passenger, Paul's family convinced him to stop work on what may have been America's first helicopter.

Landship skins
Legendary: Bloodied (Super Rare), Bronzed (Super Rare), Two Tone Gold (Super Rare)
Distinguished: Dazzle, Factory Gray, French Livery, Japanese Style, Kubinka, Spray
Other: Beutepanzer Wagen (Basic skin, everyone's got it), Black Bess (Singleplayer reward), Flying Scotsman and M1917 USA (You get these skins at Tanker class rank 10)

M1917 USA skin for Landship https://battlefield.fandom.com/wiki/The_Mark_V_Tank_(Codex_Entry) The fifth generation of the British tank entered the war with better performance and thicker armor than its predecessors. 400 were built in 1918, and they saw action in several different battles - at the Battle of Hamel and the Battle of Amiens, where 288 of them fought alongside the British forces. The American 301st Heavy Tank Battalion was also equipped with a smaller number of Mark Vs trying to penetrate the heavily fortified Hindenburg line (reference to the MP18's Siegfriedstellung skin). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/301st_Heavy_Tank_Battalion_(United_States) The 301st Heavy Tank Battalion of the American Expeditionary Forces (AEF) was a Heavy Tank unit during World War I. Of the eight heavy battalions (the 301st to 308th) raised, only the 301st saw combat. The 301st was reorganized post-war into the 66th Infantry Regiment (Light Tanks), later to become the 66th Armor Regiment, the oldest armored regiment in the United States Army. Formation: The British agreed to provide 47 Mark V Tanks to the Americans but only if the unit was attached to the British Fourth Army. The 301st, equipped with British Mark V heavy tanks, suffered large casualties in the Battle of St. Quentin Canal on 29 September as part of the British 4th Tank Brigade, under the control of the Australian Corps. Some tanks were hit by shelling before the start line, while others were lost crossing an unreported British minefield. Of the 34 participating tanks, only 10 reached their objective. Of the crews of the 40 tanks of the 301st Battalion, 112 were casualties. The 301st then seized the village of Brancourt on 8 October, fought in the Battle of the Selle (reference to MP18's The Selle skin) on October 17, 1918. During the fighting, the Tanks were required to cross the Selle River a tributary of the Somme (reference to the Auto Revolver's Somme skin). Their four and final battle was the night attack on 22–23 October in the vicinity of the Sambre Canal. Nine Tanks from the 301st were assigned to the 1st British Division on German lines near Bazuel, south-east of Le Cateau (reference to the M1909 Benét-Mercié's Le Cateau skin).

Japanese Style skin for Landship (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tanks_in_the_Japanese_Army): This article deals with the history and development of tanks of the Japanese Army from their first use after World War I, into the interwar period, during World War II, the Cold War and modern era. Post World War I tank designs. After World War I ended, many European countries attempted to mechanize their cavalry. The Japanese cavalry experimented with a variety of armored cars with limited success. These wheeled armored cars were not suitable for most operations in Manchuria, due to the poor road conditions and severe winter climate. Japan's army (like the US, French, British and Russian armies) tried various methods to integrate modern armor into their traditional horse cavalry formations. The Imperial Japanese Army obtained a variety of models from foreign sources as Japan did not have any indigenous tank production capability at that time. These models included one British Heavy Mk IV and six Medium Mark A Whippets, along with thirteen French Renault FTs (later designated Ko-Gata Sensha or "Type A Tank"). The Mk IV tank was purchased in October 1918 while the Whippets and Renaults were acquired in 1919. https://sensha-manual.blogspot.com/2016/11/japans-first-tank.html Japan thus realized they needed to modernize with the rest of the world, and in 1917, the Imperial Japanese Military Motor Vehicle Investigation Committee dispatched Captain Mizutani Yoshiho to the United Kingdom to purchase a Mark.IV Female tank for research in Japan. Thus, Japan’s first tank would arrive in Yokohama port on October 24, 1918. Japan had also purchased 22 French Renault FT-17 and 4 British Whippet tanks, which were imported to Japan in 1920.

Kubinka skin for Landship (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_V_tank): The British Mark V tank was an upgraded version of the Mark IV tank. The tank was improved in several aspects over the Mark IV, chiefly the new steering system, transmission and 150 bhp engine, but it fell short in other areas, particularly its insufficient ventilation leading to carbon monoxide poisoning for the crew. Various versions were fitted with a variety of armament including 6-pounder guns and machine guns. It was first deployed in July 1918 on the Western Front at the Battle of Hamel; then at the Battle of Amiens, and on the Hindenburg Line (reference to the MP18's Siegfriedstellung skin) during the closing months of World War I. During the Allied intervention in the Russian Civil War on the White Russian side, four Mark Vs were delivered to Archangelsk, four to Tallinn, Estonia, and around 70 were delivered to Novorossiysk in southern Russia. The survivors were captured and used by the Red Army. Surviving vehicles: Eleven Mark V tanks survived. The majority are in Russia or Ukraine and are survivors of the tanks sent there to aid the White forces during the Russian Civil War. -A Mark V Composite is at the Kubinka Tank Museum, Russia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kubinka_Tank_Museum The Kubinka Tank Museum (Центральный музей бронетанкового вооружения и техники - Tsentral'nyy Muzey Bronetankovogo Vooruzheniya I Tekhniki -Central Museum of Armored Arms and Technology) is a large military museum in Kubinka, Odintsovsky District, Moscow Oblast, Russia where tanks, armoured fighting vehicles (AFVs) and their relevant information are displayed and showcased. The museum consists of open-air and indoor permanent exhibitions of many famous tanks and armored vehicles from throughout the 20th and 21st centuries (between 1917 and the present day).

Beutepanzer Wagen skin for Landship https://battlefield.fandom.com/wiki/Beutepanzers_(Codex_Entry) German tank detachments used captured French and British tanks in combination with advancing infantry. But without the capacity to resupply or repair them effectively in the field, once the "Beutepanzer" were knocked out or had broken down, their crews usually abandoned them. The use of the cumbersome, slow-moving tanks was never really popular with German High Command, because they contradicted the quick, aggressive tactics of the German attacks. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beutepanzer Beutepanzer (German, lit. 'Captured Tank') is the German designation for a captured armored fighting vehicle. The Germans used Beutepanzers to gain insight into enemy technology and to augment their own armored forces. During World War I, the Germans had many Beutepanzers in their arsenal, far exceeding the production of their own tanks. Beutepanzers were given a German national cross and new camouflage. By the end of the war, a total of 170 Beutepanzers were still in running condition with 35 reported to be battle ready. In comparison, over a third of the 20 A7V tanks built by Germany had been destroyed or captured by then. Most Beutepanzers were British Mk IVs, but also a small amount of Whippet tanks and various types of French tanks were captured too. The Germans first captured Mk IVs during and after the Battle of Cambrai (1917). They were further modified including the replacement of their guns. They first saw action in March 1918, during Operation Michael and later during the Hundred Days Offensive.

Black Bess skin for Landship https://battlefield.fandom.com/wiki/Through_Mud_and_Blood Through Mud and Blood is one of the chapters featured in singleplayer campaign of Battlefield 1.
Taking place late in the war, the player assumes the role of Daniel Edwards, a British recruit joining the crew of a Mark V Landship named Black Bess as their new tank driver. New to the war and inexperienced in driving the unreliable vehicle, Edwards is given a trial by fire with his first mission: punch through the German line and reach Cambrai with a broken tank and a crew that has no trust in him. "Smash through enemy lines in the MK.V Tank, Black Bess." — In-game Description.

Flying Scotsman skin for Landship (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_heavy_tanks_of_the_First_World_War): Mark II. There is a single more or less complete surviving Mark II, F53: The Flying Scotsman, at the Bovington Tank Museum (see below). This tank still has battle damage sustained at the Battle of Arras (reference to the Lewis Gun's Arras skin) in April 1917. This vehicle was originally a Male, had been rebuilt as a supply vehicle, was restored and for a time displayed as a Mark I with a Female barbette on the right side, and was later shown as a Mark II. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Tank_Museum The Tank Museum (previously The Bovington Tank Museum) is a collection of armoured fighting vehicles at Bovington Camp in Dorset, South West England. The collection traces the history of the tank. With almost 300 vehicles on exhibition from 26 countries it is the largest collection of tanks and the third largest collection of armoured vehicles in the world. The writer Rudyard Kipling visited Bovington in 1923 and, after viewing the damaged tanks that had been salvaged at the end of the First World War, recommended a museum should be set up. Accordingly, a shed was established to house the collection but was not opened to the general public until 1947.

Dazzle skin for Landship (https://tankmuseum.org/article/paint-and-camouflage-in-wwi/): These weren’t the only camouflage patterns applied to tanks. In the spring of 1917 the artist Ernest Tudor-Hart devised a scheme that used the ‘dazzle’ principle. This used a range of colours and shapes that wouldn’t necessarily hide the tank but rather confuse the Germans as to its direction and speed. Hopefully this would make it harder to hit. His system also used netting to cover the roof and tracks, which, it was hoped, would make the tank harder to spot from the air.

Assault Tank skins
Legendary: Blue Dazzle (Super Rare), French Two Tone (Super Rare), Metallic Chamond (Super Rare)
Distinguished: Assaut Nocturne, Chantecoq, Char d'Assaut, Ciel Bleu, Dazzle, Fantomas, Fleur d'Amour, Saumur
Other: Couleur d'Usine (Basic skin, everyone who owns They Shall Not Pass has got it)

Saumur and Fleur d'Amour skins for Assault Tank https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint-Chamond_(tank) The Saint-Chamond was the second French tank to enter service during the First World War, with 400 manufactured from April 1917 to July 1918. Although not a tank by a strict definition of a heavily armoured turreted vehicle, it is generally accepted and described as such in accounts of early tank development. It takes its name from the commune of Saint-Chamond where its manufacturers Compagnie des forges et aciéries de la marine et d'Homécourt (FAMH) were based. The last Saint-Chamond tank remaining in existence, an improved mid-1918 model, alongside other French tanks of World War I (Schneider CA1 and Renault FT), is preserved at the Musée des Blindés (reference to the Light Tank's Blindés skin) at Saumur. It had survived, together with a Schneider CA1 tank of the same vintage, at the Aberdeen Proving Grounds Ordnance Museum in Maryland, US, and was donated by the U.S. to the French government in 1987. Between 2015 and 2017 it was restored to running condition and repainted in a World War I camouflage scheme, at a cost of €120,000. It took part in various displays throughout 2017 to mark the centenary of the first use of tanks by the French army. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mus%C3%A9e_des_Blind%C3%A9s The Musée des Blindés ("Museum of Armoured Vehicles") or Musée Général Estienne is a tank museum located in the Loire Valley of France, in the town of Saumur. It is now one of the world's largest tank museums. Four French vehicles are presented, some still in running condition: Schneider CA1, Saint-Chamond, Renault FT and a Renault truck. The museum was renamed after General Jean Baptiste Eugène Estienne, the creator of the French tank arm. https://www.chars-francais.net/2015/index.php/157-classement-individuel/saint-chamond/1909-62770 62770 FLEUR D'AMOUR. Le 62670 appartenait au Groupe AS42 du Groupement XIII. Il a été endommagé à l'avant par obus le 19 juillet 1918, dans les combats du secteur de Saint Rémy Blanzy. Transféré aux Etats-Unis pour exposition le 27 juillet 1919, il est conservé à Aberdeen. En 1987 il est rapatrié en France et restauré au Musée des Blindés (reference to the Light Tank's Blindés skin) de Saumur (reference to the Assault Tank's Saumur skin).

Char d'Assaut skin for Assault Tank (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tank): Whilst several experimental machines were investigated in France, it was a colonel of artillery, J.B.E. Estienne, who directly approached the Commander-in-Chief with detailed plans for a tank on caterpillar tracks, in late 1915. The result was two largely unsatisfactory types of tank, 400 each of the Schneider and Saint-Chamond, both based on the Holt Tractor. The term "tank" is used throughout the English speaking world, but other countries use different terminology. In France, the second country to use tanks in battle, the word tank or tanque was adopted initially, but was then, largely at the insistence of Colonel J.B.E. Estienne, rejected in favour of char d'assaut ("assault vehicle") or simply char ("vehicle"). In Hungarian the tank is called harckocsi (combat wagon), albeit tank is also common.

Fantomas skin for Assault Tank (https://www.chars-francais.net/2015/index.php/157-classement-individuel/saint-chamond/1840-62458): 62458 FANTOMAS. Char engagé le 23 octobre 1917 sur le Moulin de Laffaux. Chef de char: Capitaine Balland (blessé et remplacé par le Sous-Lieutenant Péan). Char engagé le 25 octobre 1917. Chef de char: Lieutenant Hainneville (en remplacement du Sous-Lieutenant Péan). Engagé dans l'attaque sur Pinon (Aisne), en appui du 32e R.I., il déchenille 2 fois, après un tir de l'artillerie allemande, endommageant chenille et chariot avant du train de roulement gauche. FANTOMAS détruira plusieurs mitrailleuses au canon avant d'être mis en panne sur la route allant de Chavignon à Pinon. En décembre 1917, avec la réorganisation des Groupes en 3 Batteries de 4 chars, le n° 458 deviendra le 4e char de la même Batterie et il sera alors commandé par le Maréchal des Logis Lenoir. Le 26 janvier 1918, le char est versé au 40e Groupe comme char d'instruction. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fant%C3%B4mas Fantômas is a fictional character created by French writers Marcel Allain (1885–1969) and Pierre Souvestre (1874–1914). One of the most popular characters in the history of French crime fiction, Fantômas was created in 1911 and appeared in a total of 32 volumes written by the two collaborators, then a subsequent 11 volumes written by Allain alone after Souvestre's death. The character was also the basis of various film, television, and comic book adaptations. In the history of crime fiction, he represents a transition from Gothic novel villains of the 19th century to modern-day serial killers and supervillains. The Fantômas novels and the subsequent films were highly regarded by the French avant-garde of the day, particularly by the surrealists. Blaise Cendrars called the series "the modern Aeneid"; Guillaume Apollinaire (reference to the RSC SMG's Apollinaire skin) said that "from the imaginative standpoint Fantômas is one of the richest works that exist".

Chantecoq skin for Assault Tank (https://www.chars-francais.net/2015/index.php/157-classement-individuel/saint-chamond/1845-62473): 62473 CHANTECOQ. Chef de char: Sous-Lieutenant Dufour. Deuxième char de la 2e Batterie, ce char était commandé par le Sous-Lieutenant Dufour dans les combats de Laffaux de 1917. Engagé le 23 octobre 1917 dans le secteur de la carrière de Fruty.
Le 1er décembre 1917 il devient le char du Maréchal des Logis Maignan. Le 26 janvier 1918, le char est versé au 40e Groupe comme char d'instruction. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chantecoq Chantecoq is a commune in the Loiret department in north-central France. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chantecoq_(film) Chantecoq A.K.A. L'espionne de Guillaume (Wilhelm's Spy, reference to Gewehr 98's The Kaiser skin) is a 1916 French spy film directed by Henri Pouctal, starring Claude Mérelle, Gaston Michel and Julien Clément. It is about an amateur detective unmasking a group of German spies in France on the eve of World War I. The scenario of the film is based on the novel L'espionne de Guillaume by Arthur Bernède. The film was shot in France during the second year of World War I, during the Battle of Verdun (reference to the M1909 Benét-Mercié's Verdun skin). The location of the action is Bar le Duc was highly symbolic given that Verdun was nearly surrounded by the Germans and the only road connecting it to the rest of France was the road to Bar le Duc, which was the place where supplies and men were concentrated before being sent to the front. According to Richard Abel, Chantecoq was one of the most popular film detectives during the war.

Ciel Bleu skin for Assault Tank (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sky_blue): Sky blue is a shade of light blue comparable to that of a clear daytime sky. French sky blue: At right is displayed the colour French sky blue, which is the tone of sky blue that is called sky blue (bleu ciel) in the Pourpre.com colour list, a colour list widely popular in France.

I found another reference to the "Le Chat Noir" skin name (Chat Noir means "Black Cat" in French).
"Le Chat Noir" skin's counterpart is the "Loup Garou" skin (Loup Garou means "Werewolf" in French).
"Le Chat Noir" and "Loup Garou" are Legendary skins for the French RSC SMG weapon and both are French Saint-Chamond tank names.

Le Chat Noir skin for RSC SMG (https://www.chars-francais.net/2015/index.php/157-classement-individuel/saint-chamond/2449-62730): SAINT-CHAMOND 62730 LE CHAT NOIR. Char du Groupement AS n° XIII. Char d'Echelon du Groupe AS 42, détruit sur le plateau de Monnes, le 18 juillet 1918.

Loup Garou skin for RSC SMG (https://www.chars-francais.net/2015/index.php/157-classement-individuel/saint-chamond/1860-62523): SAINT-CHAMOND 62523 LOUP GAROU. Affecté au Groupe AS34 le 12 avril 1917. Char du Groupement AS n° XI - Char engagé en juin 1918 dans les combats de Méry (secteur de Saint Maur). Engagé le 18 juillet 1918 dans le secteur de Missy-au-Bois. Chef de char: Maréchal des Logis Marboeuf.

If I counted correctly, there are a total of 311 Codex entries in the Battlefield 1 game.
The Weapons: 123 + The Vehicles: 40 + The Tactics: 25 + The War: 105 + The World: 18 = Total 311 Codex Entry
my srceenshot:

I will collect the skin names / references in the Codex descriptions.
Here is the my list of Codex entries in alphabetical order:

I found two more skin names that refer to Battlefield 1's map locations / flags.

Capello skin for Cei-Rigotti https://battlefield.fandom.com/wiki/Caporetto#Capello_Grove Caporetto is a map featured in the Battlefield 1: Apocalypse expansion. Conquest Assault flags: -Capello Grove, ... Capello Grove is an artillery firebase, built in two defensive lines, occupying the riverside farmland of the map's northernmost point. The fortifications here are more robust than anywhere else on the map, featuring wide, timber-lined trenches topped with barbed wire entanglements and scrap wood dug in as makeshift barricades. The forward line, parallel to the viaduct and rail line, is outside the capture zone but offers strong overwatch positions against those approaching from the high ground to the south, and contains an array of stationary weapons including heavy artillery. The rear line is more expansive, accommodating more heavy guns and piles of spent shell casings, and represents the final Italian stronghold west of the river. Both of these defensive lines are vulnerable to flanking by troops skirting the water's edge to the northeast. Trivia. Similarly to the objectives on River Somme, certain flags have indirect references about the Battle of Caporetto: Flag E (Capello Grove) refers to Luigi Capello, the Italian general who commanded (among others) the troops active along the Isonzo front.

Moltke skin for MG15 n.A. https://battlefield.fandom.com/wiki/Rupture#Moltke_Trench Rupture is a map featured in the Battlefield 1: They Shall Not Pass expansion. Domination objectives: -Moltke Trench, ... Moltke Trench: The artillery pit, located on the southeast edge of the boundaries. The capture zone only concerns the southern position, with the similar fortification directly adjacent left outside the radius.

The Care Package and Lucifer skins for M1911

After the release of the BF1 game, at the end of October 2016, Dice sent such Care packages to Battlefield 1 Youtubers. Contents of the package: -WW1 newspaper (August 5 1914, United Kingdom declaration of war upon Germany), -letter from home to the soldier, -English tea, -chocolate, -tobacco / cigarette (reference to the Lucifer skin for M1911, Lucifer - used to refer to a match and was taken from a popular match brand in those times), ... We can also see a ribbon in Jackfrags's video (maybe future in-game info?, ribbons were first introduced in the Community Test Environment and were formally introduced to the base game on February 14th, 2017 in the Winter Update.)

Battlefield 1 World War 1 Unboxing by Jackfrags:

4k DICE Edition BF1 Collectors and WW1 Care Package Unboxing by ShadowSix

I found an interesting historical reference in Jackfrags unboxing video from 2016.

Sedd El Bahr is a Codex Entry featured in Battlefield 1. It is unlocked by killing ten enemies with melee attacks in the chapter Be Safe in the singleplayer mission The Runner.
https://battlefield.fandom.com/wiki/Sedd_El_Bahr_(Codex_Entry)
House-to-house fighting in Gallipoli
Stories tell about the Irish troops from the Dublin and Munster Fusiliers who in those first hours of the Gallipoli campaign were ordered to assault the castle and the village of Sedd el Bahr. After 24 hours of house-to-house fighting these heroic troops had made themselves masters of the village.

Royal Munster Fusiliers
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_Munster_Fusiliers
The Royal Munster Fusiliers was a line infantry regiment of the British Army from 1881 to 1922. One of eight Irish regiments raised largely in Ireland, it had its home depot in Tralee and served as the county regiment for Cork, Clare, Limerick and Kerry. The regiment fought with distinction throughout the Great War and won three Victoria Crosses by the conflict's conclusion in 1918. Following establishment of the independent Irish Free State in 1922, the five regiments that had their traditional recruiting grounds in the counties of the new state were disbanded and the Royal Munster Fusiliers ceased to be as a regiment on 31 July 1922. 1915: Gallipoli and the Second Battle of Ypres. On 26 April they took fort Sedd-el-Bahr overlooking the bay, charging and taking the village behind and held off several Turkish counterattacks. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sedd_el_Bahr  Sedd el Bahr (Turkish: Seddülbahir, Ottoman Turkish: سد البحر, meaning "Walls of the Sea") is a village in the Eceabat District, Çanakkale Province, Turkey. It is located at Cape Helles on the Gallipoli peninsula in Turkey. The village lies east of the cape, on the shore of the Dardanelles. It was the site of V Beach, the landing zone for two Irish battalions, including one from the SS River Clyde, on 25 April 1915 during the Gallipoli Campaign in World War I.

@UshioNoa13_ 

Unfortunately, even understanding the English language is a problem for me (I'm not a language genius). But i think you are right.

Yin and yang (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yin_and_yang)
Modern usage: Yin is the black side, and yang is the white side. The relationship between yin and yang is often described in terms of sunlight playing over a mountain and a valley. Yin (literally the 'shady place' or 'north slope') is the dark area occluded by the mountain's bulk, while yang (literally the "sunny place' or "south slope") is the brightly lit portion.

my video, The Yang skin (it's really white) for General Liu Rifle and Black and White skin for Attack Plane:

While reading the BF1 codex entries today I realized that I hit the Frantz skin.
It's tricky because the Frantz skin for M1907 SL is referenced in the Elite M1909 Benet Mercie Codex Entry.

my version:
Frantz skin for M1907 SL (https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Frantz): Joseph Frantz, né le 7 août 1890 à Beaujeu (Rhône) et mort le 12 septembre 1979 à Paris1, est un aviateur français de la Première Guerre mondiale, célèbre pour avoir participé au premier combat aérien victorieux de l’histoire. L’année suivante, toujours sur avion Voisin, Frantz descendit un second appareil. Il met ensuite ses qualités d'ingénieur et de pilote d'essai au service de la firme Voisin et met au point douze prototypes d'avions dont le biplan quadrimoteur Voisin de 37 mètres d'envergure. https://earlyaviators.com/efrantz.htm October 5, 1914, Sergeant Joseph Frantz (born in 1890, died in Paris in 1979) and his mechanic Louis Quénault (dates unknown), were attached to flotilla V 24. Flying a Voisin Type 3 biplane (reference to the M1907 SL's Voisin skin), they fired on a German Aviatik with a Hotchkiss machine gun. It was being piloted by Sergeant Wilhelm Schlichting with Lieutenant Fritz von Zangen as his observer. They were engaged in a reconnaisance mission close to Jonchéry on Vesle. After they exhausted the ammunition for the machine gun, they found themselves being fired upon by the German observer with his rifle. Sergeant Quénault responded with his own rifle and one of the shots hit the pilot. The plane, out of control, crashed to the earth and was destroyed. This event marked the first confirmed air victory of the First World War, and indeed in History at the same time.
There had been occasional exchanges of shots between the pilots of planes during the first weeks of the conflict, but Frantz and Quénault are credited with being the first aviators to shoot down an enemy plane.

The Elite M1907 SL is a Codex Entry featured in Battlefield 1.
https://battlefield.fandom.com/wiki/Elite_M1907_SL_(Codex_Entry)
Early in the war, before machine guns were mounted to aircraft, airmen would bring self-loading rifles into planes, balloons and airships, and the M1907 and its sibling were some of the most numerous in this role. Already when the war broke out in 1914, the French authorities requisitioned existing self-loading rifles from gun manufacturers, including M1907's and issued these to French aircraft from August. The need for semi-automatic rifles grew, and between 1915 and 1918, France purchased 3,300 M1907's from the US manufacturer, and a few hundred M1910's - which is the rifle the famous pilot Roland Garros is said to have carried. The British and Russian Empires also purchased a few hundred M1907's and M1910's early in the war, the British issuing them to the Royal Flying Corps. The M1907 rifles intended for aircraft were fitted with extended 15- or 20-round magazines and a casing collector bag.

The Elite M1909 Benet Mercie is a Codex Entry featured in Battlefield 1.
https://battlefield.fandom.com/wiki/Elite_M1909_Benet_Mercie_(Codex_Entry)
The M1909 would however continue to be used in armored cars, airships and British and French tanks. The Belgians had equipped units of bicycle cavalry with the M1909, which were used with devastating effect against the German cavalry in August 1914. It was also deployed as an airplane weapon, and on 5 October 1914 the M1909 was used by French airmen Frantz and Quenault to score the first aerial combat victory in history.

I collected the skin references from the transcript of the Beyond The Marne operation (Soissons and Rupture maps)
https://battlefield.fandom.com/wiki/Beyond_The_Marne/Transcript

EXCERPT
By July 1918 the German army had total control of the Soissons-Château-Thierry (reference to the M1897 Shotgun's Château-Thierry skin) roads. These were vital lifelines for the German soldiers based in the Marne salient (reference to the Model 10-A's The Rock of the Marne skin). Fearing an offensive in this region, the French planned to force the Germans out of this area. They would make use of one this war's most brilliant new weapons: tanks.

SOISSONS - FRENCH REPUBLIC - INTRODUCTION
French Soldier 1: (in French) As we ate, we saw Schneiders, St Chamonds (half reference to the Assault Tank's Metallic Chamond super-rare skin? 🙂 ) and FT tanks rolling up the hill.
French Soldier 5: (in French) They say that General Foch (reference to the M1909 Benét-Mercié's The Foch skin) has promised us peace in August. I say it is not in the least likely to come about, but I admire his determination. We soldiers talk of war lasting two years more.

SOISSONS - FRENCH REPUBLIC - BRIEFING - EAST OF SOISSONS 1918
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Soissons_(1918)
https://battlefield.fandom.com/wiki/Soissons
French Officer: Commander Foch (reference to the M1909 Benét-Mercié's The Foch skin) has given us the go. Our tanks will move swiftly across these fields to secure the German defenses in Chaudun (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaudun Chaudun Village objective in BF1), then continue up Soissons road to take the Chateau de Pernant ( https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ch%C3%A2teau_de_Pernant Pernant Chateau objective in BF1 ). Once secured we will quickly move on to this airfield on the road to the ammo depot by Vierzy (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vierzy Vierzy Depot objective in BF1). The railroad connects to Soissons and will allow us to push the Germans back over the Aisne river (next Rupture map's location is the Aisne River, France).

SOISSONS - GERMAN EMPIRE - ​SECOND BATTALION DEFEATED
German Officer: Victory is again ours! And though they are weak now, they will come one last time! Hold these defenses men! For the Kaiser (reference to the Gewehr 98's The Kaiser skin)!

INTERMISSION
Narrator/Announcer: After the Germans lost Soissons, they retreated back to where they had launched the great Spring Offensive of 1918 (reference to the MP18's The Kaiserschlacht skin), at the abandoned battlefields by the Aisne-Vesle rivers (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vesle). The French were now in the ascendancy, the summer was coming to an end, and so was the war.

RUPTURE - FRENCH REPUBLIC - BRIEFING - FISMES 1918
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_campaigns_in_World_War_I Aisne-Marne, 18 July – 6 August 1918
https://battlefield.fandom.com/wiki/Rupture
French Officer: The Germans have dug into their old defensive positions on the trench line at Hill 60 (Côte 60 Trenches objective in BF1) near Bazoches (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bazoches-sur-Vesles Bazoches Station objective in BF1). We need to secure them before we can cross the Aisne river and attack their new trenches on the Notre Dame Ridge Line (Notre Dame Ridge objective in BF1). After this we must launch an offensive along the railway track to secure Fismes (reference to the Model 1900's Fismes skin). This will force the Germans to retreat out of this region once and for all. Make no mistake, this is the end for them.

RUPTURE - GERMAN EMPIRE - FIRST BATTALION DEFEATED
German Officer: A well-deserved victory soldiers! These poilu (reference to the Lebel Model 1886's Le Poilu skin) are no match for our elite forces. Now stand strong! For they will come again!

It is possible that the Archduke skin for Hellriegel 1915 is also tricky and my version is not the correct, complete one.
my version, The Archduke skin for Hellriegel 1915 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archduke_Franz_Ferdinand_of_Austria): Archduke Franz Ferdinand Carl Ludwig Joseph Maria of Austria (18 December 1863 – 28 June 1914) was the heir presumptive to the throne of Austria-Hungary. His assassination in Sarajevo was the most immediate cause of World War I.

The following historical fact can be read on the loading screen, which confirms my version:
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. 
my screenshot:

I collected the skin references from the transcript of the Brusilov Offensive operation (Galicia and Brusilov Keep maps) today
https://battlefield.fandom.com/wiki/Brusilov_Offensive/Transcript

Here is the new Archduke reference
BRUSILOV KEEP - AUSTRO-HUNGARIAN EMPIRE - SECOND BATTALION DEFEATED transcript
Austro-Hungarian Officer: Kolomea remains ours! By order of the emperor and supreme commander Archduke Friedrich (reference to Hellriegel 1915's The Archduke skin), I address to you my felicitations and congratulations on your exemplary conduct. Now, prepare to defend once more!

my modified version, The Archduke skin for Hellriegel 1915: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archduke_Friedrich,_Duke_of_Teschen Archduke Friedrich, Duke of Teschen (Friedrich Maria Albrecht Wilhelm Karl; 4 June 1856 – 30 December 1936) was a member of the House of Habsburg (reference to Repetierpistole M1912's The Habsburg skin) and the supreme commander of the Austro-Hungarian Army during World War I. Commander-in-chief of the Austrian Landwehr (militia) and army inspector, he became, after the murder of the heir to the throne, Archduke Franz Ferdinand, inspector-general of the Austro-Hungarian Army. On 11 July 1914 Friedrich was appointed supreme commander of the Austro-Hungarian Army by Emperor Franz Joseph I (reference to the Frommer Stop pistol's The Emperor skin). He thought it his duty to accept this heavy responsibility, but, modestly underestimating his own powers, left the actual exercise of the command to his chief-of-staff, Franz Graf Conrad von Hötzendorf (reference to the Repetierpistole M1912's Hötzendorf skin). In the performance of ceremonial duties, and as mediator for the settlement of the conflicting demands of the military, civil and allied elements, his services were undeniable. He was promoted to the rank of Generalfeldmarschall on 8 December 1914. In February 1917 Emperor Charles (reference to the Frommer Stop pistol's The Emperor skin) himself took over the supreme command; the Archduke, although the Emperor's representative, no longer appeared in the foreground.

the additional skin references in this "Brusilov Offensive operation" transcript
EXCERPT
In 1916 the Eastern Front is locked in a stalemate. After several failed and expensive campaigns, the Russians were unwilling to attack, while the Austro-Hungarians were content to hold the line. Germany battled the Allies in France and Belgium, but the Allies needed to attack the Central Powers on both fronts. So the under-resourced Russian Army was pressed to find new methods to break down the superior Hapsburg forces (Habsburg, with 'b', "The name of the dynasty is sometimes (mis)spelled in English publications as Hapsburg?" and reference to Repetierpistole M1912's The Habsburg skin) that had long resisted them.

GALICIA - RUSSIAN EMPIRE - INTRODUCTION
Russian Soldier 1: (in Russian) We are digging our trenches far out into no-man's land, some just 70 meters from their defenses. General Brusilov (reference to the Model 8 Autoloading's Brusilov skin) has told us that surprise is more deadly than the gun.

https://battlefield.fandom.com/wiki/Galicia
GALICIA - RUSSIAN EMPIRE - BRIEFING - GALICIA 1916 (reference to the Gewehr M.95's Galicia skin)
Russian Officer: Soldiers! Orders from General Brusilov. Four objectives. First, the Galicia Fields must be taken. Following that success, we will drive towards the windmills and secure the Verehia Crossing (The Verehia River is a tributary of the Siret River in Romania and Verehia River is a BF1 objective). From here, we'll move across No Man's Land and meet their trenches head-on. Finally, we must capture Melnik Farm (Melnik Farm is a BF1 objective). It is time to make this valley Russian land once again. Be bold, and victory will be ours!

GALICIA - AUSTRO-HUNGARIAN EMPIRE - SECOND BATTALION DEFEATED
Austro-Hungarian Officer: We are victors here. As in Tannenberg ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Tannenberg and reference to the Madsen MG's Tannenberg skin), the Russians have been proven weak and inferior. They will come once more. When they do, they will be defeated.

INTERMISSION
Narrator/Announcer: With precise artillery attacks and methodical use of shock troops, the Brusilov Offensive managed to breach many sections of the Eastern Front. To avoid a total collapse of its armies and so the empire, it was vital for the Austro-Hungarians to hold up the Russian advance until German troops arrive from the west. Kolomea (location of the next map, Brusilov Keep) was to be where one of these decisive battles would take place.

https://battlefield.fandom.com/wiki/Brusilov_Keep
BRUSILOV KEEP - RUSSIAN EMPIRE - BRIEFING - BRUSILOV KEEP 1916
Russian Officer: Comrades! The Habsburg forces are taking up positions in Kolomea. To capture it, we must first secure the Eastern Line here. Then we move on to take the heavily defended Samara River (The Samara is a river in Ukraine, a left tributary of the Dnieper and Samara River is a BF1 objective). Once these areas are open to us, we must move through the town and attack the Chekhova Church (Chekhova Ruins is a BF1 objective). Our last assault will be to drive the enemy from the Kolomea Supply Line. Victory here will surely be the end of their entire army. Let us not fail. For the Tsar!

BRUSILOV KEEP - AUSTRO-HUNGARIAN EMPIRE - INTRODUCTION
Austro-Hungarian Soldier 2: (in German) We marched for twelve miles. All the while we thought of fighting the Russians again. It seemed like torture. General Hotzendorf (reference to the Repetierpistole M1912's Hötzendorf skin) cannot expect us to go on.

BRUSILOV KEEP - AUSTRO-HUNGARIAN EMPIRE - DEFEAT
Austro-Hungarian Officer: Soldiers, we have lost this battle, and I think, this war. We are on the verge of a military and national catastrophe. May the emperor (reference to the Frommer Stop pistol's The Emperor skin) save us.

CONCLUSION - RUSSIAN EMPIRE VICTORY
Narrator/Announcer: The 1916 Brusilov Offensive proved to be the worst crisis of World War I for Austria-Hungary, and the Triple Entente's (reference to the Fighter's La Triple-Entente skin) greatest victory. But it came at a tremendous loss of life for both sides. And without the promised support of Russia's other armies, much of the territory gained by Brusilov was lost to the Germans arriving from the west. It is a sad irony that in the end, it was a political collapse in Russia, not a military defeat, that would decide the outcome of this region's war.

Lilly skin for M1917 MG (???, triple question mark)

I recently read an interesting article about the first Hungarian female pilot.
Although I don't believe that there is a connection between the "Lilly" skin and Lilly Steinschneider.

Lilly skin for M1917 MG: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women_in_aviation Women in aviation. Women pilots were also formerly called "aviatrices" (singular "aviatrix"). The first woman passenger in an airplane was Mlle P. Van Pottelsberghe de la Poterie who flew with Henri Farman (reference to the Model 8 Autoloading's Farman skin) on several short flights at an airshow in Ghent, Belgium between May and June 1908. Lilly Steinschneider became the first female pilot in the Austro-Hungarian Empire on August 15, 1912. https://www.europeana.eu/en/blog/lilly-steinschneider-hungarys-first-female-pilot Lilly Steinschneider, Hungary's first female pilot. Lilly Steinschneider was born in Budapest in 1891, in the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy. To learn to fly she travelled to Wiener Neustadt, where the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy operated a famous pilot school. Lilly learned to fly on an Etrich Taube monoplane designed by Igo Etrich Austrian aircraft developer and flight pioneer. She took her pilot exam in August 1912. Her first public flight was in October 1912 in the Hungarian town Nagyvárad (today in Romania). She also participated in the International Flying Week in Aspern in 1913. Among the 24 aviators there were only two women, Lilly and Jeanne Pallier from France. During this contest she was forced to make an emergency landing due to a motor failure. The plane crashed but she escaped the accident unscathed. On the final day of the Flying Week, the French acrobat pilots Maurice Chevillard and Roland Garros made an aerobatic show. Chevillard flew with Lilly on board. Lilly’s dream to fly in front of an audience in her hometown Budapest came true in 1913. The Hungarian Aero Club organised the 'Aviation Day of Saint Stephen (reference to the Gasser M1870 Revolver's St Stephan skin)' on August 20 . This exceeded her expectations: she completed the required 2500-metre lap in 1 minute 27 secs and, with this, she won the speed contest. The outbreak of World War I ended civilian aviation, as well as Lilly’s short but all-the-more-valuable pilot career (1912-1914). Since Lilly dreaded the thought of being away from her beloved husband, she followed him to the Eastern front, where she served as a nurse and cared for typhoid patients.