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Post by Colonel James E. Ross on Apr 26, 2018 1:00:42 GMT
If you look at their news page here: ieasytech.com/en/News/Detail/2018-04-18.html, you can see that they talk about "French Grenadiers" and "Prussian Hussars", now this is just a theory but bare with me. I think they are not actually adding these and are just showing them off to throw us off. Because the french weren't known for grenadiers, the british were for god's sake they have a song for them. Also the prussians may be known for the hussars, but you know who at the same time was also known for hussars? The polish, and their Winged Hussars. I may be stretching this or taking it the wrong way but, it just doesn't seem right. In the past ET has had inaccuracies but mostly accurate. I doubt they'd put something this innaccurate in their game. |
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Post by Saltin on Apr 26, 2018 1:41:33 GMT
  Yeap, historical inaccuracies bother some but I think it can be a matter of interpretation and our historical views can be biased. Also most likely the great majority of the player base just want extra features and more flavor even if it means being in alternate reality scenarios. To address your point: Just about everyone can claim a link to grenadiers since they were widely used. The French certainly can too as they were the first to make them an official part of their armies. The word "grenadier" itself is French -I think-. Below is the wiki description: "The concept of throwing grenades may go back to the Ming China, when Chinese soldiers on the Great Wall were reported to be using this weapon. The earliest references to these grenade-throwing soldiers in Western armies come from Austria and Spain. References also appear in England during the English Civil War. However, it was King Louis XIV of France who made the grenadier an official type of soldier and company during his army reforms late in the 17th century.[2] According to René Chartrand, Lt. Col. Jean Martinet introduced the idea of having men detailed to throw grenades in the Régiment du Roi in 1667." Same with the hussards imo the Serbs could claim them as their own or the Hungarians or the Poles or just about half of central and Eastern Europe. |
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Post by The Light Bringer on Apr 26, 2018 20:43:16 GMT
If you look at their news page here:Â ieasytech.com/en/News/Detail/2018-04-18.html, you can see that they talk about "French Grenadiers" and "Prussian Hussars", now this is just a theory but bare with me. I think they are not actually adding these and are just showing them off to throw us off. Because the french weren't known for grenadiers, the british were for god's sake they have a song for them. Also the prussians may be known for the hussars, but you know who at the same time was also known for hussars? The polish, and their Winged Hussars. I may be stretching this or taking it the wrong way but, it just doesn't seem right. In the past ET has had inaccuracies but mostly accurate. I doubt they'd put something this innaccurate in their game. Best grenadiers came from Germany |
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Post by The Light Bringer on Apr 26, 2018 20:44:25 GMT
Yeap, historical inaccuracies bother some but I think it can be a matter of interpretation and our historical views can be biased. Also most likely the great majority of the player base just want extra features and more flavor even if it means being in alternate reality scenarios. To address your point: Just about everyone can claim a link to grenadiers since they were widely used. The French certainly can too as they were the first to make them an official part of their armies. The word "grenadier" itself is French -I think-. Below is the wiki description: "The concept of throwing grenades may go back to the Ming China, when Chinese soldiers on the Great Wall were reported to be using this weapon. The earliest references to these grenade-throwing soldiers in Western armies come from Austria and Spain. References also appear in England during the English Civil War. However, it was King Louis XIV of France who made the grenadier an official type of soldier and company during his army reforms late in the 17th century.[2] According to René Chartrand, Lt. Col. Jean Martinet introduced the idea of having men detailed to throw grenades in the Régiment du Roi in 1667." Same with the hussards imo the Serbs could claim them as their own or the Hungarians or the Poles or just about half of central and Eastern Europe. Grenadier is a mix with a french word and a german ending |
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Post by Tadamichi Kuribayashi on Apr 26, 2018 22:00:34 GMT
Also, if we were really being trolled, it would have been announced April 1st.
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Post by best75 on Apr 27, 2018 0:55:44 GMT
It also possibly could just be a mistranslation.
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Post by Wilhelm Ritter von Leeb on Apr 27, 2018 11:40:03 GMT
ET is not known for its historical accuracy. I don't think they are trolling us, they are just implementing whatever they saw first in Wikipedia. Prussia most likely got Hussars because of August von Mackensen and France got the Grenadiers because (as Saltin said) they were the first to use them as a seperate army unit. The British would probably have the Royal Guards anyway. |
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Post by vasiliy on Apr 28, 2018 14:19:22 GMT
ET is not known for its historical accuracy. I don't think they are trolling us, they are just implementing whatever they saw first in Wikipedia. Prussia most likely got Hussars because of August von Mackensen and France got the Grenadiers because (as Saltin said) they were the first to use them as a seperate army unit. The British would probably have the Royal Guards anyway. And Cossacks for Russia |
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Post by Aleksandr Vasilevsky on Apr 29, 2018 6:50:29 GMT
ET is not known for its historical accuracy. I don't think they are trolling us, they are just implementing whatever they saw first in Wikipedia. Prussia most likely got Hussars because of August von Mackensen and France got the Grenadiers because (as Saltin said) they were the first to use them as a seperate army unit. The British would probably have the Royal Guards anyway. And Cossacks for Russia And Preobrazhensky, Izmaylovsky, and Semenovsky Regiment for Russia too  |
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