The Great War is a modification for Company of Heroes meant to bring the war two decades earlier. This mod focuses on the later years of the First World War. Currently the two teams will be the British Expeditionary Force against the German Empire, however with time the team will try and bring some more nations in, such as France and Austria-Hungary. This mod will focus or realism but keep the game balanced enough to make it enjoyable. Things to look for in the mod are the famous artillery strikes and the infamous gas attacks. Trenches will provide vital cover for infantry while tanks will roll over the battlefield and instil fear into the enemy troops.
A couple of preview pictures of the infantry models for our new WW1 faction: the French Army.
ahahaha nice Shoshat. An epic model of one of the worst guns of the war
Dat spelling. It's "chauchat."
I googled it and those were the first two videos I found:
... and what a surprise - the rifle works fine =)
It works fine for the collectors, theyre not dragging it through the mud.
didn't work fine for the allies who where deep down in muck
Likely because it was re-chambered. It only had problems when chambered in 8mm, when the Americans got a hold of it, it was rechambered to .30-60 and worked much better.
No, it's the other way round.
The version in .30-60 was a disaster that never worked. The Americans had to be resupplied with the original version in 8mm.
Details are just Awesome !!!
Will the Chauchat MG be as bad as the actual gun? I saw a video of a test-firing and it jammed after firing one shot xD.
There's only one video of it jamming and it's the one taken from Lock N' Load. It just so happens that R. Lee Ermey made it jam by preventing the weapon from going into full recoil, an error any French soldier learned not to make in basic training.
I've seen plenty of videos were it works just fine. It's just a question of the weapon being maintained and used correctly.
So I suppose the US soldiers were just given the Chauchats without being taught how to maintain them/use them properly and that's where it gets its reputation?
Stoppage on long recoil is just one of different problems, and the most easily remedied. It just illustrates how ill-prepared R. Lee Ermey was for talking about this weapon. Well he also forgot that the French supplied pretty much everything else to the US Army (artillery, planes, tanks, grenades, ..), some of which the best and most modern models of their time.
US soldiers were just as well trained as any other in the use of this weapon, and US Chauchat gunners get their fair share of praise in WW1 memoirs (see the actual written accounts of the Lost Battalion for instance, not the movie).
The ill-reputation comes mainly from the version in .30-06 which was completely inadequate.
It’s also because of the shoddy magazine; 1) the open side, while useful for knowing how much ammo was left, was a dirt magnet; 2) bent lips tended to cause feed problems. This was remedied in the field by putting a canva cover over the weapon when out of action and keeping special attention to the state of magazines (which were automatically discarded for any defect).
It also suffered from the comparison with the humble Lebel rifle whose rugged reliability allowed it to work even after dipped under mud. Chauchat gunners saw their maintenance workload pile up compared to ordinary rifleman.
The Chauchat was never a good weapon, but the advantage in firepower it gave compared to a rifle made it well worthwhile. It was also the only LMG that the already overstretched French weapon industry could mass-produce within a short time (using a simplified version of the only existing French prewar LMG prototype as blueprint).
There is a lot more to this weapon than just “lol it sucks!111”. Also the modDB comment format is not appropriate for lengthy intelligent conversations.
V.B grenade launcher on the lebel, love it!
i say : i like alots the face of the soldiers ^^ very nice.
What does still surprise me is that the US Marines that landed in France had their .30-06 Lewis Guns taken off them, and issued the abysmal .30-06 Chauchat. Apparently this was due to someone high up in whatever the US equivalent to the Army Ordinance Board having a serious personal issue with Colonel Isaac Lewis.
Didn't they have British Lewis guns too?
I'm not sure. I know there was a US Division outfitted with British Uniforms, SMLEs etc and put under British command. Whether they also had Lewis Guns and such I am not sure. I imagine so though, if they were organised and fought as a British Division would.
still waiting for the french army