Why did camoflage only become common in WWI? It was possible to make standardized uniforms long before that, and surely everyone knew that being hard to see makes you hard to shoot.
>>65338772Smokelesss powder didn't become common until then. That's what let you shoot flatter rather than a rainbow arc after 200 yards. Before then keeping all of your guys together was more important for line infantry if you weren't a skirmisher so you could just march right up to them and beat through weight of fire. Although Khahkis could be considered semi camo in the Boer Wars in that interim period.
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>>65338772Until a few years before WW1 they didnn't think very much about aimed individual fire, and MGs were brand new.Also, the generals and marshals had grown up with the American Civill war, German War, Franco-Prussian War, Itaian wars etc.There is a reason al the old long-ass bolt action rifles have ladder sight that go out to 1 km or more. They were volley sights, so that a platoon could fire at an area and create a beaten zone.
>>65338779>That's what let you shoot flatter rather than a rainbow arc after 200 yards.and what let you shoot without immediately giving away your position with a big cloud of smoke, making the camo pointless (and saturating any battlefield with so much smoke that the camo becomes redundant anyway)I'll also point out that IFF would have been an issue: during the American Revolutionary War for instance, elements of both the loyalists and revolutionaries used green coats (it being the color that was easiest/cheapest to acquire in large quantities at the time, not unlike the bongs' original adoption of red), with accounts predictably describing them occasionally getting mistaken for a regiment of the other side
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>>65338772French soldiers showed up in their retarded flashy bright uniforms and got systematically mowed down by artillery. Then other nations were like ok this is stupid.
because people only got eyes in the 1900s
It must have been a challenge to issue brightly colored military uniforms prior to the late 19th century, when chemical dyes were developed.
Old school warfare is terrifying. "Let's all line up and shoot at eachother like gentlemen"America said fuck that. We learned to fight dirty like Injuns and FUCKED UP Peengland.
>>65338933Maxims had been in use since the 1880s.
