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Battle of Empires : 1914-1918 is project meant to tell the untold story of one of the bloodiest war in the history of mankind - First World War. Based on engine of well known strategy game Men of War this project will take you through the whole war in 5 large-scale single-player and coop campaigns - you will experience deadly landings in the batlle of Gallipoli, famous battle at Verdun, first tanks attack and many more important events of that war. Project will be both singlplayer, and multiplayer.5 single campaigns are planned : 1) French 2) German 3) Russian 4) British 5) Bonus - missions for different countries (as bonus campaign in Men of War) In multiplayer there will be 5 countries - France, Britain, Russia, Germany and Austro-Hungary.

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Terkin
Terkin

nice! russian army strong!

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βéϯд
βéϯд

nice

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henrikja94
henrikja94

Awesome! cant wait to mow down those soldiers with my German machine guns and artillery ;D

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volchonok Author
volchonok

You will mainly mow down germans and austro-hungarian soldiers in russian campaign. In german campaign there will be only one mission against russians.
And please, don't start saying about russian human wave tactic - in ww1 all countries used that tactic. And by the way, the russians were first, who were able to brake whole defensive line of trenches - do you know about Brusilov's offensive in 1916 ? Whole austro-hungarian frontline collapsed, and if not the help of germans, A-H would be out of war.

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DobermannHUN
DobermannHUN

I readed somewhere that the mosin rifle was the best rifle in the WW1, and a funny story about it: The Hungarians used the Mannlicher rifle, which range was smaller than the mosin, and the russians built their trench line out from the range of a Mannlicher gun. One day the Hungarians captured a mosin rifle and started to test it. The same day the russians invited a high officer to the trench for a visit, the russian soldiers told the officer, that he is in safe, because the Hungarians cannot shoot as far as he is. The russian officer started to climb out of the trench and wave at the hungarians: "Shoot fuc..n Magyar bastards, you are nothing" shouted. The brave Hungarian sniper targeted the officer and for the first shoot killed him, the russians started to run and feel afraid of us..... the moral: Dont mess with the Hungarians... ;)

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Solistx
Solistx

Polska i Wegry, bratanki w krwi.

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DobermannHUN
DobermannHUN

Lengyel-Magyar két jó barát, együtt harcol, s issza borát! ;)

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Jkl22d
Jkl22d

JA!!! and besides mainly the austro-hungarian army had very poor leadership in the begining of the war -.- also wasnt the mosin made by sergi mosin and the ammuniton made by the Belgian nagant brothers?

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volchonok Author
volchonok

There few details borrowed from Nagant rifle for Mosin rifle, but nagant didnt produce ammunition as far as I know. Although the rifle itself was also produced in France and Usa.

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Attila1945
Attila1945

Good story, interesting and very instructive :)

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GamesAreFunOk
GamesAreFunOk

not

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DobermannHUN
DobermannHUN

Dear volchonok! Can I have a weird request? Could you make a christmas tree to the game editor, for the memory of those soldiers who forget the war for 2 days, to spend the holidays in peace together. ?

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DevilDog982
DevilDog982

Sure they broke the line ONCE, from there the lost and lost and lost some more, the russian army was a terrible paper tiger. Not only that but plauged with civil war. The Czar army had poor moral, until there fall to the provicional russian government, and finaly its backing out of the Great War entirely with the fall of the white army to the red army. No the russian were horrible, poorly trained, and more = to the austria-hungarians. SURE they had a few breakthroughs, but that is almost completely blocked out by the failure that the Russian Empire troops suffered. I mean the Germans werent even pushing russian, there goal was France and Britain, and the held the Russians off with barely a quarter of their army. I recamend watching Dr.Shavargo, it gives alot of info on how the Russian empire eventually backed out of the war. So, showing them in a vitory type campaign is like showing the Nazi's in a victory campaign, which is to say, they didnt have one.

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volchonok Author
volchonok

They had poor leadership, not low morale. Soldiers of Russian army fought bravely and there were many good commanders. But mainly the officers and generals were from aristocracy, knew little about the war and didn't want to fight. Also, czar Nikolai II wasn't good emperor too - it was said that he is good emperor for peaceful time, not for war. And about how russians fought - mainly everyone know about Tannenberg battle, where whole russian army surrendered. But, there were battles in which russian amry crushed german army. For example Battle of Gumbinnen in august 1914 - at the start of battle germans had 74000 troops, russians - 64000 and less artillery. Germans attacked, but failed to push back russian troops and they took heavy casualties. There is also interesting fact about battle -one german artillery battery drove to an open position to neutralize russian artillery. But russian artillery, which was in safe and hidden positions quickly destroyed that german artillery batery - germans even didn't have time to set up positions they were killed at the move.

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volchonok Author
volchonok

Continue -

One more battle - defence of Osowiec Fortress. Russians held of german attacks for 6 months - germans used all types of artillery including Big Berthas (which as you know helped to defeat belgian fortresses) - they shelled fortress with 400 000 shells. Germans had 40 battalions of infantry against 27 russian battalions. There were many infantry attacks, but they were all pushed back. Germans even used gas in august of 1915 - after gas attack germans launched attack with 14 battalions of infantry - while russians had only 3 companies and few cannons left after gas attack. But, they did not surrender. No - they went to counterattack. And their appearance after gas attack was so terrible that they were like moving dead. And scared germans run away loosing many soldiers in a panic to just few cannons(it was called "attack of dead"). Russians retreated from fortress only after it became useless to hold this positions - germans pushed back main forces and fortress was almost encircled. But before russians left fortress, the blow it up, so that germans coulndn't capture anything, but just ruins. This is how russians soldiers fought in a ww1.

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volchonok Author
volchonok

and last part of this huge reply -
So main problem was poor leadership, and they only needed good commanders . And you can see it in a Brusilov's offensive - excellent geneal, who planned offensive to smallest details, invented new tactics to overcome trench stalemate, and result - advance in a 120 km (!british troops advanced only for 5km at the battle of Somme in the same year, loosing 400 000 soldiers.who is paper tiger ?) with losses - 498 867 russian soldiers and 1 325 000 (almost three times more!) austro-hungarian and german losses. It was first time EVER in ww1 when the static frontline was broken. This is how russians fight when they have right commanders. By the way, did you know that french army in 1917 was almost at the same state as russian? There were many cases of mutinies in army, thousands of troops deserted - french army was incapable of fighting in that year, so brits were only one who fought that year (but again - bloodbath, now at Passchendaele ).
If not the ******* communists, supported by Germany, which sent them money(who wouldn't send money to revolutionaries in the enemy country ?) Russia could at least hold till the end of war, and if it could gather enough resources and overcome crisis of 1917, it could even counterattack at weaking Germany in 1918. Just imagine - Entnte forces attacking Germany from 2 sides - France, Britain and USA from west and Russia from east. Berlin could fall not in 1945, but already in 1918.

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MrGamerTrainer
MrGamerTrainer

im guessing you got a little ****** of :) good statement though and i agree

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Lucan946
Lucan946

@DevilDog: Poor morale my ***. If there is one thing that has never been true of Russia's armies, it's poor morale.

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don_durandal
don_durandal

Army morale is not something inherent to a nationality, but a result of its soldiers' and civilians' support for the war. Unlike in WW2, the average soldier in the Russian army had reasons to trust neither its own command nor the cause for which it was fighting.
In military studies one way to check how morale held during a conflict is to compare the prisoner/killed ratio, and at 1.4 that's rather damning (only the Austro-Hungarian come out worst.. by a lot with a ratio of 1.8).
That has nothing to do with bravery or resilience; the average Russian soldier never lacked either. However when whole units would rather constitute themselves prisoners than to die it does mean that morale is low.

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don_durandal
don_durandal

As a counterweight to what I wrote above this was not a constant throughout the war. Russian morale was pretty strong in 1914 despite dismal lackings in the officer corps; it saw an all time low in 1915 with the increased involvement of Germany on the Eastern Front, with a million prisoners being taken that year alone; it regained strength in 1916 with resolution of most of the army's equipment deficiencies, and the launch of the Brussilov Offensive; in 1917 however it collapsed irremediably, but mostly as a consequence (rather than a cause) of the Revolution.

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DevilDog982
DevilDog982

My main point in the whole reply was to state the fact that the Russian army was a 'paper tiger'. However as with Lucan, probably someone who gets his history from Call of Duty rather than books, its been taken in a different fashion. yes the russian fought well in the early stages of the war, but it was eclisped as the war went on. As the communists began to infiltrate the lower ranks of the Russian army and encourage men to leave the lines and desert, at that point the russian army wasnt a massive threat for the germans. And in reference to the comparison to the battle of Somme, Britain is a small island, with a large navy yes, but not a massive army, while the russians boasted one of the largest armies in the world. I was not impying the troops were cowards, but were poorly lead, and 1915 on, was pretty badly organized. This lead to more defeats than victories until the government fell into chaos with the Bolshevik Revoution. And indeed the Czar was a horrible military leader. So as don durandal said, they dont lack courage or bravery, their morale had just hit rock bottom, and discipline was crumbling due to poor officers. And again to reference an armies morale, the soviets have a history of poor morale due the organization of the russian military during its empire and communist era's. Look at the begining of Operation Barborosa, the invasion of afganistan so on... morale is not on the individual soldier, it is on the army, and the situations it been thrown in. so there, that is all I was implying.

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