I used to dominate with that one in BF1.1:25 I would just sit back and pound objectives and rack up the kills . That was one of my favorite things about BF1 along with mortars ,head chopping riding the horse and taking out tanks on the horse.
They're all rebuilt and restored. But I find it impressive that we were capable of building such things 100 years ago. The st chamonds petrol electric transmission sounds particularly interesting.
Germans: “Hurry! We can’t hold out much longer’” German tank moving at 2MPH: “Have no fear, Big Bruno is on ze way!” Tank commander inside of tank: “Heinrich! shift and proceed forward at maximum speed!” (German tank accelerates to 3MPH)
Imagine if they had the K wagen ? "Don't worry guys, we only need to send 4 or 5 30 tons convoys to bring the parts, 2 days to build it, and then it will reach you from the assembly site one week later !"
You can see all of the elements of a modern tank represented seperately in these vehicles. The superior mobility of the Tank Mk1 The superior gun of the St Chamond. The superior armour of the A7V. And the rotating turret of the (not pictured) Renault FT-17. Put them all together, you have a proper tank.
They were all rolling mass graves. 77% of the Schneider CA1 (not seen here) were destroyed. The records for british tanks that were knocked out were lost, but it was probably even higher, since the CA1 was much smaller and quicker.
@@roisanglier34 The Renault FT was because of its small size and faster speed. And its turret of course. The Saint Chammond was inferior to the Mark tank when it come to trenches warfare.
Fun fact about the A7V (the german tank), it was one of the fastest tanks in the war with a top speed of 12km per hour, in fact it was so fast that it often outran the infantry. Only 20 were ever made, ironically most of Germany's tanks were captured Entente tanks, mostly British which they had in total about 180. But the A7V, although few, was actually one of the best designed tanks in the war despite only being developed for about 3 months, it only had two major flaws, one flaw was that the driver, commander, and gunners couldn't see particularly well, in front of the tank there was about a 9 meter blindspot, and the gunners had a roughly 4 meter blindspot. The other flaw was that it couldn't cross trenches. It did best on flat hard ground and struggled in mud, but this was the standard for all tanks at the time and still is the standard to this day.
I disagree. What became the standard for all tank designs was the French Renault FT17. That design set the base for every tank afterwards. The A7V needed too many crew, was even more cramped than the British designs which were poor to begin with, and it's inability to cross unprepared ground made it next to useless in the period battlefield. Its gun has a limited traverse, so while the British designs were not ideal with the sponsons, the German design made its mobility a slave to the gun aim. Realistically, there were no very good designs of tank in WW1, apart from the FT17 which was so innovative, pretty much every tank from there after has followed the same basic plan.
@@fellforit I'd say the italian Fiat 2000 was the "best" design for the big boys, given that the FT is a small light tank. The engine was in a separate compartment from the crew, it had a 360° rotating turret mounting a 65mm cannon and it had arguably the thickest armor of its brothers from other countries. It had good infantry protection given it had machineguns all around it and both driver and commander had a very good visibility and for its weight of 40 slapping tons was quite good at 7.5 km/h. Its problem: it was a big boi, and we have tiny roads and even tinier mountain roads, so only 2 were made and we have absolutely no idea where we put them. If they weren't scrapped they're still one in some unknown spot in Tripoli (we have no idea where, when and how it disappeared) and Bologna (again, the last record from 1936 shows it was housed at the barracks of the 3rd mechanized infantry regiment in Bologna, MAYBE used as a monument, but effectively when we went looking for them nobody had any idea where it went and eventually everybody said "eh, let's forget about it")
surely the war is over before the tank gets to its destination, i believe the british tank had just over 100 bhp and 30 tons its basically the same as my bmw 518i bloody hell - french tank is pretty fast.
@@paulhunter123 the main problem of the saint chamond was the long gun planting on the ground, but still a very effective infantry tank, allowing big progress due to its ability to quickly dispose of mg nests and bunkers
