Which Infantry Unit was the Best of World War I in Commander the Great War?

Which Infantry Unit was the Best of World War I in Commander the Great War?
Hello friends, most of the people are waiting for the Commander the Great War to be releasing, but wanted to know which will be the best Infantry Unit in the World War I and most effective for their Country during the Great War? Is it the Stormtrooper or the ANZAC units, French Poilu, the American Doughboy or some other? Just wanted to know which the best is? Please tell me and let’s discuss about it. Thank you.

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12-03-2012
Chakradevroy
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Re: Which Infantry Unit was the Best of World War I in Commander the Great War?
Where I do not know much about the World War 1, I am eagerly waiting for the Commander the Great War. One thing which I am keep on hearing is that stormtrooper is been most of the powerful and also it is been the strongest among the all. Beside this do not know much about it. But I am daring that it will not be the Italians.

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12-03-2012
GaganGang
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Re: Which Infantry Unit was the Best of World War I in Commander the Great War?
Well the Italians have actually performed very much good in against to Austro-Hungary in World War I, certainly better than their performance in World War II would suggest think their heart was more in it, as Italy had a long history of conflict with Austria. Even also check the Austrian's advance and did a pretty good job of holding their own territory, like I think they had more of a vested interest in the aims of World War I, as opposed to Mussolini's "new Rome" of World War II.

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12-03-2012
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I believe that in the majority of times, it's a subject of motivation and leadership. In case of the Portuguese in World War I, there is that conception, that they were poor soldiers. Most were exaggerated rumors, but there was a truth beneath that. The Portuguese troops were not motivated to fight that war. It didn't make sense to them. I too hate this idea of the Italian being bad soldiers, because of World War 2 performance. The Italians really fought amazingly well in WORLD WAR 1. A lot of attention has been paid to the defeat at Caporetto, but whilst being a sharp defeat it was not a decisive one, and the Italians regrouped and eventually managed a highly successful offensive in October 1918. The front line always favored the Austrians, who held the high ground on peaks that were often over 9,000 feet high hardly a surprise that they were able to defend with fewer troops.

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12-03-2012
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Re: Which Infantry Unit was the Best of World War I in Commander the Great War?
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Originally Posted by MACALL
I believe that in the majority of times, it's a subject of motivation and leadership. In case of the Portuguese in World War I, there is that conception, that they were poor soldiers. Most were exaggerated rumors, but there was a truth beneath that. The Portuguese troops were not motivated to fight that war. It didn't make sense to them. I too hate this idea of the Italian being bad soldiers, because of World War 2 performance. The Italians really fought amazingly well in WORLD WAR 1. A lot of attention has been paid to the defeat at Caporetto, but whilst being a sharp defeat it was not a decisive one, and the Italians regrouped and eventually managed a highly successful offensive in October 1918. The front line always favored the Austrians, who held the high ground on peaks that were often over 9,000 feet high hardly a surprise that they were able to defend with fewer troops.
The legend of some kind of national awakening was put forward later by the fascists, but the interventionists in 1915 were a noisy and troublesome minority both in parliament and among the populace as a whole. Unfortunately, the Italian government, once the war was under way, yielded to this pressure group and began a grubby and dishonorable auction to see which side would offer them more, and in the end chose the Allies, who offered much more than the Central Powers could. Then the entry into the war was portrayed by the Italian government and press as some kind of new struggle for unredeemed lands, conveniently ignoring the fact that Corsica, Nice and Malta were also ethnically and culturally Italian.

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12-03-2012
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The war cost the lives of over 600000 Italian soldiers over 100000 of who died as prisoners in Austrian and German POW camps because the Italian government disgracefully refused to allow the delivery of food parcels from concerned relatives and the Red Cross. It's also worth mentioning that the discipline in the Italian army was brutal and even deliberately cruel, with summary executions carried out for the slightest sign of insubordination. The British Army was consistently the most effective in relation to its numbers, slightly ahead of both the French and German. The worst of the lot was the Portuguese expeditionary force.

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12-03-2012
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Re: Which Infantry Unit was the Best of World War I in Commander the Great War?
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The war cost the lives of over 600000 Italian soldiers over 100000 of who died as prisoners in Austrian and German POW camps because the Italian government disgracefully refused to allow the delivery of food parcels from concerned relatives and the Red Cross. It's also worth mentioning that the discipline in the Italian army was brutal and even deliberately cruel, with summary executions carried out for the slightest sign of insubordination. The British Army was consistently the most effective in relation to its numbers, slightly ahead of both the French and German. The worst of the lot was the Portuguese expeditionary force.
But if you notice with which conditions they were fighting probably you would not come in a rush stating which the worst was. Some historians don't do a proper research and don't check some sources. Well there were some of the conditions which lead to the La Lys defeat, such as some of the best officers with the war experience are been known as the Lisbon and also some because of political persecution or others as political favors and there was huge corruption. Well due to the lack of ships, which were promised by the British and due to which the troops were never replaced and couldn't go home on leave? And the moral of the Army was low, whole thing was so bad planned, that things like the daily ration that soldiers should eat failed.

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12-03-2012
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The conditions which you are telling are some of the few one, well having the others, well the day of the battle and it was the day that finally when the Portuguese troops would be surrendered by the British from the frontline. Even the flanks occupied by British troops retreated which were been letting the whole Portuguese Expeditionary Force to face the German attack which will be leading to involvement and subsequent annihilation. I really not knowing that anyone is stating it to be worst.

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13-03-2012
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Re: Which Infantry Unit was the Best of World War I in Commander the Great War?
I think, during strong attacks, French "indigenes" troops where maybe one of the best. German were fear them telling fantasy stories about them. They were also often the first sent in Forts attacks. They were also very goods "Bataillons de Chasseurs a Pieds BCP" often sent first before attacks to kills "mitrailleurs" and cut "barbelés"