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After a well-earned break, the writing desk once again turns into a war room.The mud, the thunder, and the ghosts of 1915 call us back. If you’ve been following the Trench saga from the first shots to Shadows of War, you know every...
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War leaves behind more than scars in the earth; it leaves echoes. Amid the thunder of artillery and the endless mud of the Western Front, countless soldiers spoke of things beyond explanation: ghostly apparitions, spectral warnings, and unseen presences that...
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In the annals of experimental military engineering, some ideas flicker briefly and fade, but a few leave a spark in the mind. One such design is the Simms Land Torpedo (sometimes written “Simm’s” or “Simms’”), a 1915 British proposal for an unmanned...
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In the early 20th century, militaries everywhere were experimenting with semi-automatic rifles to break free from the slow cadence of bolt action fire. Britain’s attempt along these lines was the Howell Automatic Rifle, a conversion of the venerable Lee-Enfield design. What Is the...
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History is littered with ambitious prototypes and sketches that aimed to bring naval firepower onto the battlefield. Among the most striking of these was the so-called “Earth Battleship” (Земной броненосец), a concept drawn up in the Russian Empire during the First World...
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