Yes, I know, there there where not many women in the war, but it would be a nice feature to have women in the game, star wars can do it so why not bf?
During WW1 women had no rights.
Star wars is fiction. WW1 didn’t have many lady soliders and for the most part with the exception of I think 1 girl who led a platoon or squad I forget there where no combat units with a mix of men and women. Hell we (USA) still pretty much don’t do that. I’d just leave them out or stick them in campaign.
Aviator Eugenie Mikhailovna Shakhovskaya; (1889–1920) was the first woman to become a military pilot when she flew reconnaissance missions for the Czar in 1914.
On March 17th 1917 Loretta Perfectus Walsh (1896 – 1925) became the first American active-duty Navy woman, and the first woman allowed to serve in any of the United States armed forces other than as a nurse, when she enlisted in the US Naval Reserve. She subsequently became the first woman Navy petty officer when she was sworn in as Chief Yeoman. By the end of the War America had sworn in 11,274 female Yeomen to the Navy on the same status as men.
In 1917, in a last-ditch effort to inspire the mass of war-weary soldiers to continue fighting in World War, the Russian Provisional Government created fifteen formations of women-only ballalions. This included the 1st Russian Women’s Battalion of Death, commanded by Maria Bochkareva which were called into battle against the Germans during the Kerensky Offensive. The women performed well in combat, taking 200 prisoners and suffered few casualties.
Flora Sandes (1876–1955) enlisted as a St John Ambulance volunteer and was stationed in Serbia to assist the humanitarian crisis where she joined the Serbian Red Cross in Kragujevac. Separated from her unit during the retreat into Albania, she joined a Serbian regiment for safety. Here she took up the rifle and became the first woman to be commissioned as an officer in the Serbian army and the only British woman to officially enlist as a soldier in World War I. In 1916 she was promoted to corporal then sergeant, and was wounded by an enemy grenade during hand-to-hand combat during the Serbian advance on Bitola (Monastir). Awarded the King George Star (Serbia’s highest decoration), she was then promoted sergeant-major, and eventually reached the station of captain.
For those of you too lazy to click a link and read
Nonetheless these are few documented situations. Sure, 11,000 woman enlisted in the navy. Doesn’t mean there should be female ground soldiers in the trenches. And the biggest example you can give for a side that did do it seems to be Russia. Which we all know, do so out of desperation. Both in this War, and the next world war.
To me, it simply doesn’t seem wide spread enough to allow players to switch between the sexes for a match. Fitting with the time, it was mostly young men who would go to die for their country and later (excluding the Russian’s) send old men and boy’s who were barely teens to take their place, and also die.
If i can bash their face with a shovel or blow them away with a shotgun all the same ,then i would agree
If there is the slightest “softening” of the game because they are women,then NO
Make more sense in a modern era game but for the most part, women worked in factories while the men were away..
During WW2 women built ships planes tanks everything. Rosie the riveter they called them. We couldn’t have won the war without all the women who worked in the factories. Since it is a game and its not true to life, lets have women soldiers in the game.
inb4 someone points out this game is WW1, but still
My girlfriend who has a Sisters of Battle army for Warhammer 40k approves of this thread. XD
So let’s add child soliders to since I’m sure a few boys lied about there age.
this battle is still ongoing :lol:
Maybe they could have women be in the game to be nurses and there are places injured soldiers could go and heal up .
You know the game is not true to life, we would just like to have women soldiers in the game.
apparently we’re getting them as seen in the trailer
Yeah and I want kid soliders so Ik which soldier is my little brother.
Debatable point. Women had the right to vote in Canada in 1916.
Why are we comparing women to children?
Why not? They where both minorities when it came to combat. If you guys want women soliders why can’t I have kid soliders?