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Curt: May I suggest 'Waltzing Matilda' as a title song/sound? To give it a real ww1-ish feeling 
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Thanks, chaps!
I hope it meets your expectations!
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Originally posted by Kobra
Curt: May I suggest 'Waltzing Matilda' as a title song/sound? To give it a real ww1-ish feeling
Um, why?
'Waltzing Matilda' is a song about a guy who kills himself to avoid being arrested by the police for stealing a sheep. While WW1 was about as sensible as that kind of behavior, it doesn't make the song appropriate IMO (nor is it a good choice for a national anthem, despite what an astonishingly large percentage of Australians think
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Hehe, I thought the troops during ww1 sang that song a lot. And I have another song in mind by the dubliners
. They have a song called waltzing matilda. It is an anti war song were they sing about australian soldiers during the galipolli battle in ww1. I find it a neat title song in this context.
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Waltzing matilda was suposedly sung by the australians in the great war as they marched to their death...Originally posted by Case
Um, why?
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Bah! Waltzing Matilda!
I'll give you a real WW1 song!
"It's a long way to Tipperary" (incidentally my home county) - the 'Smell Like Teen Spirit' for the WW1 generation!
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Sadly, Aussies contributed much more (several divisions) than the Irish (poor quality rebels, and 1 brigade to the British army)Comment
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I agree with our_man on colonial wars.
I'd also like to see more variation in infantry instead of so many airplanes(its WW1 afterall).
Btw fairline, don't you agree that the germans look a bit too similar to WW2 ones? Imo that little thing on their helmet should be focused on.Comment
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I for one love the airplanes that Curts included, they add to the sense that the old era of warfare is comming to an end. And now commanders must worry about fighting for controll of the skies......
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Considering also it isn't just WWI, it's the period after that as well. Personally, I'd have even more armored units in there since it isn't really a WWI scenario, right?
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I've seen figures showing that hundreds of thousands of Irishmen joined up/were conscripted. As Ireland was part of Britain at the time, the Irish soldiers would have served in British Divisions. There were a few 'Irish' divisions in the British Army (many British divisions were theoretically manned by people from particular regions), and I've never seen anything which sugests that these formations were particularly poor.Originally posted by GoPostal
Sadly, Aussies contributed much more (several divisions) than the Irish (poor quality rebels, and 1 brigade to the British army)
'It's a long way to Tipperary' gets my vote as the most appropriate song - it was hugely popular with soldiers from all nations (and is still a rather good song IMO )'Arguing with anonymous strangers on the internet is a sucker's game because they almost always turn out to be - or to be indistinguishable from - self-righteous sixteen year olds possessing infinite amounts of free time.'
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You mean Tipperary is an actual place?
All this time i thought it some fictional town or something."Military training has three purposes: 1)To save ourselves from becoming subjects to others, 2)to win for our own city a possition of leadership, exercised for the benefit of others and 3)to exercise the rule of a master over those who deserve to be treated as slaves."-Aristotle, The Politics, Book VII
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Third row, first icon. I think it is rather inapropiate for an era where strategic bombings never occured, wouldn't you say?"Military training has three purposes: 1)To save ourselves from becoming subjects to others, 2)to win for our own city a possition of leadership, exercised for the benefit of others and 3)to exercise the rule of a master over those who deserve to be treated as slaves."-Aristotle, The Politics, Book VII
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If you mean the helmet with the spike (the Pickelhaub (SP)) - they only wore that at the start of the war in 1914. The Germans adopted a steel helmet in 1915 from which the WW2 helmet was derived. The WW1 helmet was bigger, but of a similar shape.Originally posted by Jonash
Btw fairline, don't you agree that the germans look a bit too similar to WW2 ones? Imo that little thing on their helmet should be focused on.Comment
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It did occur: Zeppelins and later Gothas bombed London.Originally posted by Palaiologos
Third row, first icon. I think it is rather inapropiate for an era where strategic bombings never occured, wouldn't you say?Comment
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