Well I was going to make a French retreat joke, but then I gave up, just like the French.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CApiU7kvgB8

Cool video, I learned a lot. Thanks.

Hey, I hope I didnt come off to salty or dickish there, man. You were just making a joke and I was being salty. Thanks for checking out and commenting on my pic friend.

No problem, I didn't know that youtube links could be hostile. XD

The french do have amazing tanks tho! Dat transmission! One forward gear. Six reverse. ;D

I thought of that same video!

Says the Americans who never won anything without massive aid of the whole rest of the world, and even suck in fighting primitive ill-armed arabian camel-herds X-D

And the French couldn't handle the Vietnamese either. What's your point?

The French were in a deep financial and moral low after they barely survived WW II.

my point is that France was the leading military power of Europe for many centuries and, amongst other things, responsible for the the success American Revolution. While Americans, always banging out the "French-are-cowards" jokes, never won anything without the whole world to their aid. American soldiers are such crybabies that they need enormous bombings with countless civil damage before they start moving, and even then they are unable to defeat low trained arabs. Something we did 1000 years ago and we had to wear buckets on our heads.

I'll admit the jokes are dumb, but really, there's nothing wrong with fighting alongside allies. We're not perfect, and I'll never say we are. But neither is France.

Of course not, never claimed that. Its just a rather naive and ignorant way of making fun of people who actually allowed ones existance and liberty...

It is. But not all of us think that. But as a someone who's into history, we do owe France a lot.

The whole life is a contest.

Our fries are far better then yours by the way, and your coffee is warm water with chemical flavour!

Came here hoping to not see a French retreat joke.

Was first comment.

Am sad.

Its alright mate, I like to reply with just Matt Eastons take on it from Schola Gladiatoria:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CApiU7kvgB8

Hehe :3

Also I don't know French WW1 uniforms toooo well (most of my time is spent shooting at them from a distance/clubbing them at night), but it looks pretty solid to me :3

Great care for detail! :)

Thank you! I appreciate it mate!

Actually I think the coats rather fancy, yet I am not too sure about the practical use...

One million points to Pelzigendore.

No really though this is awesome. I'm really fond of French uniforms from WWI, both the early and the late.

You should give the early one a go! You know, the one with the bright red trousers.

Thank you Jasperi! That means alot coming from you! I know you know your stuff from your gallery. ^^

And maybe soon! I like to keep my gallery quite varied, but I will if you really want to see it XD

Aww no love for the kepi, sweet drawing though

Kepi? more like "get hit in the head with shrapnel and die-I" seriously though I love those early war caps. I should make a picture of all the early war WWI stuff one day.

Had a feeling that guy was French even before I saw the title - their WWI helmet was pretty distinctive.

The French were A superpower in most of time periods you draw not THE superpower. I think you'll find we Brits were the most powerful Empire of the time. & it's a good thing too. We did alot of good throughout the world.

What I want to know is, why did Germany go through Belgium to get to France? Surely they knew we'd come in & fuck them up.

Also, why the heck did we & Russia fight alongside Serbia? They fucking started the war?

No, i do indeed mean THE superpower for most of the time periods I draw. France held military supremacy over all the other nations of Europe (including england) for a very long time. The frankish empire, The hundred years war, franco spainish war, 30 years war, right the way up through to the Napoleonic Wars where they pretty much kicked everyones ass 10 times over.

Germany made a decisive move to go through belgium, but with the triple entente powers being decided before the war i believe germany thought english entry was inevitable, wether they went through belgium or not, and i think thats an accurate statement.

And as for Serbia its pretty simple, Serbia was tied to Russia and so Russia joined the war. Previously treaties had been signed between france and Russia that if germany fought a war against Russia France would join. And then the rest of the entente powers joined behind france, all with pretty much the same underlying goal "weaken germany and austria" however obviously they fucked that up with war reparations, and only being saved by the graces of Russia in WWII (however likely nazi germany was doomed to fail, even if they won WWII)

Basically the OHL thought Britain would not dare/had no interest in joining the war. Wilhelm trusted in family relations and "equal blood" for too long.

Also the basic misconception that the Schlieffenplan is the only plan to win, its incredible though that under different circumstances, like the usa not joining the war. The German army would have had a chance to win WWI, at the time of a final offensive chit of the Reichswehr, the French Army had a mutiny of the same power you will later see in Germany, but US troops were able to fill the gap the french soldiers left, the war could have been won by Germany on several other occasions aswell, the command structure was more developed than in the other countries and soldiers overall had better equipment in the early years. Think about that the British did not even have Handgrenades early on and that the Germans had a lot more artillery pieces. In the End there were a lot of mistakes made by the OHL Chief of Staff Falkenhein, whos also been called "der ewige Zauderer", basically meaning the eternal Waverer as he never put up the guts to call a single offense and instead shipped soldiers into position without using them for an assault on other targets, wasting valuable time and Supplies that the germans did not have. Supply wise the Allies had a lot more to put up.

In the later phase of the war the French still used the stupid attack of l`attack a outrance (please dont kill me for mispelling) and pretty bad generals who did not adapt well to modern technology usage in the war.

The Treaty of Versaille was also only reluctanly signed because funnily enough there was even a plan for rejection in place and it was barely decided that the treaty is the only way to start building the nation again, otherwise the WWII would have lasted quite a lot longer with the easter conquered territories becoming a bastion especially as Supplies from the fertile land there started to slowly flow into the country, but with the massive revolt there was basically noone to fight anymore.

I was once told that going to war without the French is like going hunting without an accordion. But really tho, they don't get enough credit. 🇫🇷

I dont know why that made me laugh so hard, but it did. Thank you Stupidweasels x3

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ilrqzWb8Lcw 🍍🍍🍍

http://static.fjcdn.com/pictures/Im.....9c_1809172.jpg

Would this be an appropriate to make a French retreat joke?

Anthros and adrien helmets were made for each other. :)