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Rising in the East (OOC)

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Take it like this. Unit A is wearing bright Blue. Unit B is wearing dull brown. They are both on the same side. But are going in from opposite sides they fire and smoke fills the air then they charge during the fighting due to bad visibility several members of Unit B are killed by Unit A. While Unit B upon seeing the bright Blue of Unit A does not fire.
 
Cavalry uniforms look to have been more varied. Cuirassiers white under their armor, dragoons either dark blue or black in some cases from pics...

We're just fancier I guess. :)

CommanderBlade said:
I would hate to be Gold helmet.
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Mitres were no longer grenadier uniform after the early 1800s, apart from that particular unit which was allowed to keep them on account of badassery.
 
Well I would say that the reason Calvary would be more varied would be because they would actually benefit from being hard to see in smoke and also because they are on a horse and charging the enemy. Why waste the dye on the uniform it's getting painted red one way or another.
 
CommanderBlade said:
It would hinder. The reason the British in this time period wore Scarlet red was because in the smoke after firing the smoke blinds everyone and friendly fire was common. So bright colors keep your troops from killing each other by mistake.
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CommanderBlade said:
Take it like this. Unit A is wearing bright Blue. Unit B is wearing dull brown. They are both on the same side. But are going in from opposite sides they fire and smoke fills the air then they charge during the fighting due to bad visibility several members of Unit B are killed by Unit A. While Unit B upon seeing the bright Blue of Unit A does not fire.
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What about light infantry/skirmishers though? Do they have to wear bright colors too?
 
UbeOne said:
What about light infantry/skirmishers though? Do they have to wear bright colors too?
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Again, depends on the army.

British riflemen wore dark green, Spanish and Portugeuse cazadors wore brown, but then so did some sections of their regular infantry. I think the Austrians wore white regardless.

Looks like Russian jagers wore the same color scheme, just with different stylings for the boots and trousers.
 
Honestly the bright colors was more for the Regular Line infantry. Light Infantry would be better of wearing darker colors due to hit and run tactics employed by them in this time period.
 
UbeOne said:
Meanwhile, it seems that mitrailleuses were a thing in real life:

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Yes. Yes they were. Gatling Guns may have stolen their fame and thunder, but it was the military machinegun (though relegated to the artillery branch) until the British had bought Hiram Maxim's then revolutionary (a water-cooled selfloading autogun will do that) Maxim machinegun.

@UbeOne unless we develop smokeless powder and Self-Loading Rifles with Doctrine to go with it as changes at the minimum, we can't use camoflauged uniforms.

Honestly, people in the early 1900s thought that volley fire was still a valid tactic even with bolt action rifles and machineguns in the TO&E! :o:o:o
 
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...It took time for military strategy to catch up with military technology, yes.
 
Like Clankers, but with four legs.

Four legs good, two legs bad!

:V
 
Ivan Reznov stood proudly in front of his Regiment and said "Men it is a great honor to be here with you today. We have served through some of the worst that the war had offered and here we stand. We stand at a moment in history that will change the world forever. I am said to say that our Regiment will not be in the first wave. But that does not matter. What matters is that our comrades bring honor and glory to the Empire. But we also must be ready to deploy at a moments notice. You men are some of the finest soldiers the Empire has to offer. You see unlike most Regiments we have suffered almost complete destruction at the hands of the British, Ottomans and others. We have each stared death in the face and said come at me. We stand together as brothers in arms. We are the Sixty-Seventh Rifle Regiment and we have Steel Spines. Now when are time comes to march into the new land I know you will do me proud and if the day shall come where we are all killed. Let's make sure that our last fight is one for the history books and that our names will live on forever in the halls of history. FOR THE MOTHERLAND, FOR THE TSAR, FOR THE GLORY OF THE EMPIRE, FOR THE REGIMENT." The entire Regiment yells the last part of the speech out to the heavens
 
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