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A german stormtrooper. he`s got a mace and he seems eager to "play ball". It was about time to do something WW1. Plus i allways wanted to include those improvised melee weapons. :D
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lololol.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trench_raiding_club
http://ww1history.suite101.com/arti.....ch_raiders_wwi
http://www.diggerhistory.info/pages...../enemy_ww1.htm
"This is an original example of a trench club obtained from a long-standing collection. The club is made from turned hardwood and pressed with hobnails. The head has been drilled out and filled with lead. There is no way to know if this is a German or Allied trench club. Contrary to popular myth, these clubs were not produced by individuals. They were produced in mass by units in the field utilizing regimental carpenters and welders etc to produce large amounts of the same pattern of club."
Essentially, once they are started making them, they streamlined and quickened the process through mass production using the rear line guys who weren't really doing much else. Also, try reading Storm of Steel by Ernst Junger, a private soldier who rose to Leutnant, and winner of the Pour le Merite, wounded well over a dozen times, and commander of a sturmkompanie of the 73rd Infantry Regiment. He lists in it the common gear that he and his men carried into combat as, on each of them:
1-2 pistols
4 percussion stick grenades
4 timed fuze stick grenades
10 egg grenades stuffed into their pockets
trench club
trench knife
shovel
Next time, pick your battles better mate, you're dealing with a world war 1 reenactor here, I make it part of my life to know these things down to the kinds of buttons they wore and the entries in their soldbuchs.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trench_raiding_club
http://ww1history.suite101.com/arti.....ch_raiders_wwi
http://www.diggerhistory.info/pages...../enemy_ww1.htm
"This is an original example of a trench club obtained from a long-standing collection. The club is made from turned hardwood and pressed with hobnails. The head has been drilled out and filled with lead. There is no way to know if this is a German or Allied trench club. Contrary to popular myth, these clubs were not produced by individuals. They were produced in mass by units in the field utilizing regimental carpenters and welders etc to produce large amounts of the same pattern of club."
Essentially, once they are started making them, they streamlined and quickened the process through mass production using the rear line guys who weren't really doing much else. Also, try reading Storm of Steel by Ernst Junger, a private soldier who rose to Leutnant, and winner of the Pour le Merite, wounded well over a dozen times, and commander of a sturmkompanie of the 73rd Infantry Regiment. He lists in it the common gear that he and his men carried into combat as, on each of them:
1-2 pistols
4 percussion stick grenades
4 timed fuze stick grenades
10 egg grenades stuffed into their pockets
trench club
trench knife
shovel
Next time, pick your battles better mate, you're dealing with a world war 1 reenactor here, I make it part of my life to know these things down to the kinds of buttons they wore and the entries in their soldbuchs.
In the trench battles of WWI. the soldiers used everything they could get in their hands. Using a rifle in a trench was very difficult, because they were much to long. So the soldiers used knifes, bajonets, handguns and one of the favourite weapons on both sides, the feeld-spade (I hope i´m spelling it correct ^^) with a good hit at an enemys neck a man was able to cut of his head.
So I think it´s possible that many soldiers used hand made weapons like maces.
So I think it´s possible that many soldiers used hand made weapons like maces.
On the Western Front such things were some kind of normal, both sides used such close combat weapons.
But if a german soldier got captured and had a Bajonet with a Saw blade at the backside, he got shot or worse. Because of that, the german front soldiers (in germany we call them Frontschweine) stopped using these these cruel weapons.
I think the same thing happened at austrian front too.
But if a german soldier got captured and had a Bajonet with a Saw blade at the backside, he got shot or worse. Because of that, the german front soldiers (in germany we call them Frontschweine) stopped using these these cruel weapons.
I think the same thing happened at austrian front too.
Great drawing! As a World War 1 German reenactor myself, its great to see someone actually draw a pretty accurate portrayal of the WW1 german stosstrupp :) One of the guys in our unit, the 23rd Infantry Regiment, even owns an original trench club just like that one.
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