Thread 64285843

You're a general in charge of an allied army on the western front in 1916. You have the knowledge of today but are still limited by the technology of the time. How do you break through?

>>64285843 (OP)
blankets

SEND. ANOTHER. WAVE.

>>64285843 (OP)
>How do you break through?
You don't. Simply wait until the germans attack you, kill them, wait until they do it again, repeat until germany is out of men, walk to berlin unopposed.

>>64285899
Unfortunately, your supreme allied commander Joseph Joffre (who is known to have a severe temper) doesn't know the meaning of the word wait

I recognize that with the tech and circumstances of the war as it exists, there isn't a meaningful tactical solution that we can implement to overcome the inherent limits of the infantry

https://youtu.be/gfYMSJXuQAc?si=

>>64285909
No worries, we'll simply get him to tour our wonderful sector and have an "infiltrated hun" take care of that problem.

>>64285843 (OP)
Take all the forces under command, and execute all western leaders to usher in a communist revolution that WW1 was created to suppress.

>>64285843 (OP)
Holt tractor based APCs. Cheaper than real tanks and able to get a dozen men to the next trench line without being machine gunned down.

>>64286131
>you are an allied general
>create the kaiserreich timeline anyways

There was no actual way to win other than what actually happened, which was one side starving and bleeding the other side out of men slightly faster than you were starved and bled out of men. The technology at the time was simply too undeveloped to break the trenchlines.

The top generals on both sides realized this was the situation as early as late 1915, which resulted in them being fired by the politicians and replaced with generals who promised more optimistic theories of victory.

>>64285843 (OP)
Manhattan project 30 years early.
>still limited by the technology of the time
I suppose it'll cost 5% of America's GDP then instead of 0.2%

>>64285843 (OP)
>logistics
introduce C-rations
>medical
tell them about penicillin
introduce the triage system
teach proper use of the tourniquet
>tanks
design Vickers MkVI type tankettes and StuH III type assault guns
>doctrine
introduce proper tank-infantry combined-arms tactics
form Commando units to conduct raids behind enemy lines
>artillery
introduce the creeping barrage tactic
expand the FOO system
teach all FDCs to use firing tables
>infantry weapons
retool for Stens and Owens
introduce base of fire and manoeuvre platoon tactics centred on the Lewis gun
>navy
design AP shells based on the Munroe effect
design and build modern carriers
>aircraft
institute formal pilot training; basically Top Gun
and teach the retards to use wing-mounted guns for fuck's sake

A LOT of the tactics we know today is the result of mistakes made in WW1 and early WW2 while attempting to discover what are the correct procedures and tactics for each situation. a lot of the above is simply using this hindsight to tell them "no you don't have to try options 1, 2, 3 and 4 to figure out what works and what doesn't, the solution is 3", and formal training

>>64285843 (OP)
Dig tunnels under enemy positions and fill them with explosives. No, I don't think that'll actually work. It's a delaying tactic while I invest in better tech like aircraft and tanks. Hell, I'd do dark, despicable things for an aircraft with a radio.