They started WW1 with the TOTALLY badarse helmets having a giant spike sticking out the top. The kind of shiat that sends shivers down your spine when you see it, that gives you nightmares. About half way through they shifted over the the helmets like they wore in WW2. You know, the ones without a scary spike, and that flared out towards the bottom. That is right, what most of you think of as Nazi helmets today the Germans actually used during a good part of WW1, if not most of it.
Anyways, I am pretty sure the switch to those helmets cost them the war. I can already hear you nerd guys saying stuff like, "oh, the new helmets gave better protection to the rear neck and ears", and "oh, a spike coming out of the helmets was so impractical because it could not be used functionally, and could hinder an infantryman's operations in the field and while raiding trenches, the spike could get caught on all sorts of stuff."
Yea, I dunno, maybe. But you know what else not having the spike did? Helped your enemy to NOT be shitting bricks at the sight of you. The spike put that extra scary edge on those German troopers, those mofos were not just troopers but CRAZY troopers with spikes coming out the tops of their helmets for no apparent reason, other than because THEY ARE FEROCIOUS AND CRAZY AS FUK. Lacking that fear/intimidation factor in the latter half of the war probably cost the German army the war.
Agree? Disagree (you'd be wrong)?
Anyways, I am pretty sure the switch to those helmets cost them the war. I can already hear you nerd guys saying stuff like, "oh, the new helmets gave better protection to the rear neck and ears", and "oh, a spike coming out of the helmets was so impractical because it could not be used functionally, and could hinder an infantryman's operations in the field and while raiding trenches, the spike could get caught on all sorts of stuff."
Yea, I dunno, maybe. But you know what else not having the spike did? Helped your enemy to NOT be shitting bricks at the sight of you. The spike put that extra scary edge on those German troopers, those mofos were not just troopers but CRAZY troopers with spikes coming out the tops of their helmets for no apparent reason, other than because THEY ARE FEROCIOUS AND CRAZY AS FUK. Lacking that fear/intimidation factor in the latter half of the war probably cost the German army the war.
Agree? Disagree (you'd be wrong)?