There were far less vehicles in ww1 compared to ww2. Wouldn’t be that hard.
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If you count the plane and armored car in, it is easily 10+ vehicle for every faction.
Moreover, some ww2 weapon can also be used for cold war so I don’t really see why WW1 will be easier.
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Much less than the good war
How is much less than it any relevant? You still need a certain number of vehicles to make it interesting. Taking the cold war vehicles from War thunder will still be faster than making WW1 vehicles from scratch.
Okay I forgot war thunder existed lmao, yeah you’re right
@khtk395 - We are not talking an advancement into Post WW2 (like they sadly did with WT, which I personally disliked) but going a step back into a WW1 setting. I for one would find that to be more interesting than going forward (again).
There were actually quite a few armoured vehicles in operation during WW1, ranging from tanks to various lightly armoured cars and trucks over to self-propelled artillery and trains. Whats more some ordinary vehicles were often customized to turn them into some kind of armoured vehicle -(> lots of options for really cool special premium vehicles there I think). And, as mentioned above, we would definitely need horses and horse drawn equipment.
As far as aeroplanes go, there were quite a few different models in service for both the Entente as well as the Central Powers (probably more than many people realize), ranging from unarmed to armed mono-, bi- and triplanes used for various roles like recon, fighter and bomber.
So content-wise, in regards to the vehicles/planes/cannons/light weapons/melee weapons, there would be a lot of material for a WW1 enlisted.
Same goes for the infantry of all nations, as their gear and uniforms also changed over the course of the war to adapt to technology being introduced: Best example is the adoption of helmets. So for example the German Empire switched from their very iconic “Pickelhaube”, which were helmets mainly made of leather with brass fittings, to proper steel helmets in 1916. The latter were much better suited to the conditions faced by the infantry soldiers on the WW1 battlefields, offering a much better protection against shell fragments and shrapnel.
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The devs could just as well do more theme based events from time to time. WW1 event where you can unlock some BR1 event weapons for example.
True, but with a little bit of effort they could have a whole new mode dedicated to WW1 → especially since (to my knowledge) there is currently no other free to play squad based shooter that offers the WW1 game experience with all those gameplay features that Enlisted offers. Therefore I honestly think a WW1-Enlisted could potentially be a truly huge thing…
…after all WW1 offers a lot of different theatres of war, squad based combat (that is right up the alley of Enlisted), many options to put together a solid and fun as well as interesting technical progression (in regards to uniforms, equipment, weapons, vehicles, planes, long range ordonance (rolling barrage,…), lots of potential nations (not only the big Empires, but many smaller sub-nations as well), then there would be lots of potential for customisation of soldiers and uniforms, last but not least (from the money making perspective, since running servers etc. costs cash) lots of choices for premium vehicles, weapons, units and soldiers.
If they also add the option for players to repair/expand and to some extend maybe even build new trench systems in parts of the battlefield, plus maybe even allow mines and counter-minest to be dug… - …such new elements would be fun to have and promote teamplay and working together. Also: If you allow players to actually construct things like MG emplacements (but as in actually construct them, not just click and place these in the matter of seconds), we suddenly would have battlefields with changing danger spots, as you can never be sure where the enemy has put their MG nests within a trench system this round, etc.
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I wouldn’t be opposed to an Enlisted WW1, however with as much time and work as it would take DF to create, I would think they wouldn’t make it as an addon to Enlisted, but an entirely new game on it’s own. To do it right, DF would have to put in as much work as they did creating Enlisted with all new factions, maps, Planes, tanks, weapons ect. However whether it be an addon or new game, it would be cool, except I hate bolt action rifles. 
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I mean there is already plenty of WW1 junk in the game.
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@Luvs2spooge - I absolutely agree: To do it right, it would of course require work (as they would not be able to reuse WT assets in regards to vehicles/planes). That said, it would be a shame not to put in the effort, as the result would be potentially glorious and unique in the F2P game bracket due to its WW1 setting.
Some of the bolt-actions are indeed a bit cumbersome, but then again the mechanism is “simple” and works like a charm (look at the K98 that was still the main infantry weapon of the Germans in WW2). And some are quite fast actually: Take the Austro-Hungarian’s Steyr Mannlicher M1895 bolt-action rifle, with its straight-pull bolt action. Here you pull the bolt back and forth in two movements rather than the up-back-forward-down of conventional turn bolt rifles. It was renowned for combining relatively high rate of fire (around 20–25 rounds per minute) with reliability and sturdiness (in stress tests by the Austrians were able to fire ~ 50,000 rounds from the M1895 without any form of lubrication).
But there are other options too in regards to standard rifles - at least for the Entente: The Fusil Automatique Modèle 1917 (RSC M1917), which was a gas-operated, semi-automatic rifle that was formally adopted in May 1916 (though it took almost an entire year for it’s mass production to start) by the French.
Granted almost all of those big machine guns were unwieldy, but you also had the first machine pistol in WW1: The Steyr “Repetierpistole M1912/P16”. Beside that and the traditional revolvers you also had an large assortment of different semi-automatic pistols in service by many nations (iconic ones were of course the Mauser C96, the Colt M1911, the Luger P08 or the futuristic looking Roth–Steyr M1907).
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True, but you have to look at it from the business point of view, not ours. DF is in this strictly to make money, plain and simple. A WW1 addon would require all new maps, uniforms, tanks, planes and SOME weapons, as you said DF could reuse some from Enlisted. However, how much time and money would it cost DF to have their modelers create new maps, planes, tanks, faction’s weapons and kit?
Now, if they did all this work and released a new WW1 game, every player starts from ground zero. So people who want premium squads and game content have to pay for it, along with paying for their premium content on Enlisted. This is how they would recoup the money they spent making it. Everything they have added on in Enlisted is part of WW2, so they are only adding a weapon here or a premium squad there and really have only added a couple new maps so they don’t have near the money or time spent in updating it as opposed to creating a whole new war. 
Personally, I wouldn’t care which they did
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@Luvs2spooge - Agreed, seen from that perspective a separate, new Enlisted game, set during the WW1 would probably be the best option. I definitely would play
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I have to say the behaviour of the other players (on both teams) in the past few matches reminded me more of WW1 than WW2: Both storming forward on a more or less broad front, without any regards to cover, through heavy artillery bombardements and not even trying to outflank the enemy. Needless to say it was carnage.
Do not get me wrong it was kind of fun (to a degree), but it definitely reminded me once again that a WW1 setting would be perfect for how the game works (i.e. the available game mechanics) and how quite a few players actually play the game on a daily basis.
So in my humble opinion it would make sense not to push the game setting ever forward (like it has sadly been done in War Thunder) but take a few steps back and include a WW1 setting. Especially since there are zero (!) good free to play games out there that are set in this era and with already very fitting game mechanics in place and some weapon models already available (all the pre-WW1 guns) it would not be such a huge step.
TLDR - I still think that a WW1 Enlisted would be a great idea and a huge success.
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Thank you for your comment.
Great points.
Also Spanish Civil War (which had WW1 trench warfare as well as tanks and aircraft including some German, Italian, British and Soviet tech already in game)
Chaco War is another option though less well known.
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