This mod will immerse you in the civil war in Russia. It will present 24 missions, new participants of the conflict: Red, White, Ukrainians, Poles, basmaches and intervents. There will be a lot of new vehicles that took part in battles. There will be also multiplayer, with plenty of maps.
Freikorps
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Whats with the PPSh-41?
Its a MP18, I believe.
Yes, this is MP 18
That isn't what an MP18 looks like. It looks like this. Upload.wikimedia.org
Look at it closer. Kinda resembles it.
something with image perspective is making it look like PPSh-41.
German made WW1 9x19mm MP-18 with the rarer 32 round "snail" magazine :P
Wasn't that rare.
This is presumably near the end of the war.
Why does the soldiers got skulls on their helmets?
Judging from the available data, the tradition is to put the skull on the helmet is more from the German stormtroopers (Stosstruppe) First World War, the Baltic landsver units. Later, this tradition has passed and in Freikorps. On a par with the skull on the helmet pictured swastika, referred to as the Baltic cross.
The Totenkopf (Death's Head or simply skull and crossbones in German) has been in use in some Prussian/ German military units of their days since Frederick the Great. Its use isn't exactly unique, since lots of units from militaries from around the globe - regular and irregular, Revolutionary-era to modern day - have used and still use it. The biggest difference when it comes to Germany is that the symbol has become synonymous with the SS, Einsatzgruppen, and other more strongly Nazi-tied sections of the German military leading up to and during WWII, since they were pretty fond of it.
The Freikorps during the post-WWI time was kind of a mix; at times they acted as militia and peacekeepers, sometimes soldiers participating in nearby (former German Empire territory) conflicts, and many towards the end came to be absorbed into the Nazi party and its associated paramilitary factions.
In the era of Friedrich II, a Prussian unit used the Totenkopf ("5th Husaren Regiment" becoming later "Leibhusaren Regiment", a Garde unit). At the same time, in 1792, the "Hussards de la Mort" or "Death Hussars", having as symbol a skull and crossbones, were formed by French General Kellermann and participated to the Battle of Valmy.
Nearest, during WWI, a Prussian unit wore the same sybol : "Braunschweigisches Husaren-Regiment Nr. 17".
Cheers.
Is this still MOWAS2?
Freikorps were largely former soldiers and militiamen who fought for and against the German state and must importantly the Empire. They were most known in the modern history books as the people who helped destroy the communist rebellions in the various parts of post-WW1 Germany.