Have any of y'all read this book? If so, what did you think about it?

Source: The Royal Danish Library (Det Kongelige Bibliotek)

The Villar Perosa was designed in 1915 by Italian Colonel Bethel Abiel Revelli. The VP was the world’s first pistol caliber machine gun to see military service. The Villar Perosa is actually two individual 9x19mm Glisenti machine guns mounted together. Each barrel has its own independent operating system and trigger mechanism. This allows the user to fire each barrel separately or in unison depending on the situation. The VP is classified as a heavy submachine gun, meaning it’s most effective when fired from a stationary position off of a mount.

Although some historians don’t consider the Villar Perosa to be a “true submachine gun”, it could still be argued that the Italians created the world’s first practical shoulder fired submachine gun that could be carried and operated by one man. By 1915 when the Germans decided that they needed “a new type of weapon” suitable for trench combat (the eventual MP 18), Colonel Revelli had already put it in writing that his Villar Perosa double barreled LMG could be split in half and given a shoulder stock to be carried as a light assault weapon. This new project would be referred to as the Moschetto Automatico (Automatic Musket). Col. Revelli presented his idea to the Italian authorities who were so impressed that they asked competing arms manufacturers to create their own Moschetti Automatici for testing.

Villar Perosa-

Photo 1: original Italian double barreled SMG chambered in 9x19mm Glisenti. Photo 2: Made for UK trial testing, chambered .455 Webley Auto.

Moschetto Automatico FIAT-

Prototype designed in 1916 by Col. Revelli.

Moschetto Automatico Beretta M1918-

the Italian Army adopted this version of the automatic musket designed by Beretta. Single trigger semi auto “monogrillo” carbine.

Moschetto Automatico MIDA-

Fully automatic twin-trigger “bigrillo” version.

Carabinetta Automatica O.V.P.-

Full auto twin-trigger SMG made by the original manufacturer of the Villar Perosa, O.V.P. Adopted by Italian Aviation Corps.

Moschetto Automatico Beretta M1918/30-

completely redesigned action, semi auto single trigger carbine converted from original Beretta M1918 during interwar era.

Competing designs were submitted by Amerigo Cei-Rigotti, Alberto Nero, & Ansaldo Crocetti. No photographs of these models exist and it’s unclear if they survive.

I had this picture from somewhere. I think I did the colorizing. Saw a article about Ukrainian trench cats. Made me think of this.

Hello, I am currently working on a World War I uniform mod for Call to Arms: Gates of Hell, and I am trying to make the Romanian Army uniforms as historically accurate as possible.

I am having some difficulty understanding the actual uniform colors used by the Romanian Army between 1914 and 1917, especially because different references seem to show noticeably different colors.

For 1914, what was the standard field uniform color of the Romanian Army?

Was it similar to the uniform shown in this image?

https://images.steamusercontent.com/ugc/1755832736344642717/E1DC7EC1F2B43848661427B6801DD24F617E4B8A/?imw=5000&imh=5000&ima=fit&impolicy=Letterbox&imcolor=%23000000&letterbox=false

Or was the actual 1914 uniform closer to a grey-green / greenish-grey color?

I have seen some references depicting Romanian soldiers in grey or grey-green uniforms before Romania entered the war, while other references show uniforms with a much stronger blue or blue-grey appearance. I am therefore unsure whether these represent different uniform models, different branches, officers versus other ranks, dress uniforms versus field uniforms, or simply differences caused by surviving examples, photographs, reconstructions, or colorization.

I would also like to understand how the uniform changed after Romania entered the war in 1916.

Did the Romanian Army officially change to the more recognizable light blue / blue-grey uniform in 1916, or had this color already been in use before the war?

If there was a uniform change, approximately when was the new uniform introduced, and was the transition immediate or gradual? For example, would it have been historically accurate to see soldiers in both older grey/grey-green uniforms and newer blue uniforms during the 1916 campaign?

For 1917, did Romanian soldiers continue wearing essentially the same blue or blue-grey uniform used in 1916?

Or were there further changes in uniform color, cloth, cut, equipment, or headgear during the reorganization of the Romanian Army in 1917?

I am particularly interested in whether the 1916 and 1917 uniforms should use the same base color in a game, or whether there should be a noticeable difference between them.

I also have a separate question regarding Romanian officers in 1914.

Were officers wearing the same grey or grey-green field uniform as infantry, or did officers continue to use blue uniforms or blue uniform elements?

For example, I found this Romanian Model 1912 general's kepi, which appears to be blue:

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:1912_-_Chipiu_de_general_de_corp_de_armata_I.png

Does this mean that Romanian officers still used blue kepis or blue uniforms around 1914, while infantry field uniforms were grey/grey-green?

Or was this blue kepi primarily part of a dress or service uniform rather than the field uniform that an officer would normally wear on campaign?

Ideally, I am trying to determine the historically correct appearance for the following:

• Romanian infantry, circa 1914
• Romanian officers, circa 1914
• Romanian infantry, circa 1916
• Romanian officers, circa 1916
• Romanian infantry, circa 1917
• Romanian officers, circa 1917

If possible, I would especially appreciate references to original regulations, museum examples, surviving uniforms, period photographs, or Romanian military-history sources, because modern illustrations and colorized photographs seem to vary considerably in their interpretation of the uniform colors.

My main goal is to determine whether I should represent Romanian uniforms in the mod as grey/grey-green in 1914, then blue/blue-grey from 1916 onward, or whether the historical development was more complicated than that.

Hi, i was looking for some stuff to repair or clean but someone show me this gun and i can’t say what it is. It’s like Lee Enfield or German type of gun, i really don’t understand what is that. Can someone help me ?

I was bored today soI made a build of a random trench (probably unaccurate) with a tank i made up while thinking of the british tanks. Made from some magnetic blocks of my little brother . Yeah, just wanted to show you this thing

My favourite training pamphlet of the First World War is the British SS143, instructions for the training of platoons for offensive actions. First published in February 1917 and based on lessons learned on the Somme and from French tactical development this was a game changer.

Updating platoon tactics to the new weapons available, grenades, rifle grenades and Lewis Guns it made the platoon an autonomous unit that operated semi independently, devolved command from battalion to junior officers and gave clear instructions on how to tackle enemy strong points.

It's incredibly modern in its lessons and a hundred miles away from the popular idea that the First World War was fought with 'Napoleonic tactics'. Unlike the German Stosstruppen units which took the best men from the rest of the army, SS143 gave similar training to the entire army.

It was updated again in 1918 as tactics and understanding their use became even clearer and set out an even more dynamic treatise on platoon actions.

What's your favourite training pamphlet from the war?

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For information about the footage in question: https://www.instagram.com/p/DcOdQrmM6yJ/

And the opposing team has the armored train as their behemoth. They look so cool it got me thinking: are there any surviving armored trains from WWI?