TS Eiseihei-san no Senjou Nikki - Ch. 16.1

[BreadBunny]

yeah Rodri's finally making contact with the war he's been waiting for.

Sucks don't it.

 

[comwes907]

My guy Garback is having surgery with no anesthetics and he's having a smoke break

Touri: YOU'RE MISSING HALF YOUR LIVER
Sarge's fw:

 

[Bramia]

I hate depression bait comics, but this keeps dragging me on. Do have ideas as to why. Will need some time to sort those thoughts out though.

Thanks for the chapter, as always.

Not a whole lot to ponder about this time around. I can feel the disappointment of the squad commander when forced to retreat. Wonder if he'll go rogue if those above him suck too much at their job.

Without knowing the context, you can't say it's those above who suck at their job. If he does go rogue, it's more because of his stubborn and selfish personality. I'm willing to bet he'll die and not go rogue in this story though. MC needs a breakthrough and that usually happens with the death of the superior or with someone higher up selecting him and pushing him off the frontlines

 

[BOTFrosty]

man, was hoping that at least grey survived

 

[Sherlocke_d]

I hate depression bait comics, but this keeps dragging me on. Do have ideas as to why. Will need some time to sort those thoughts out though.

Thanks for the chapter, as always.

Not a whole lot to ponder about this time around. I can feel the disappointment of the squad commander when forced to retreat. Wonder if he'll go rogue if those above him suck too much at their job.

War is literally depression, I think that's kinda the point.

 

[Ghede]

Minus the healing magic, this is a pretty accurate retelling of WWI.

There were battles that lasted nearly a year fighting from trench to trench back and forth. Keep in mind, warfare before that point was basically "Stand in a line and shoot at the other guys, maybe some of your bullets will hit them" because the guns were just so shit, casualties were more manageable.

Shit, they still had CALVARY during WW1. People on horses! WITH SWORDS! They mostly died early in the war, they learned quickly or they lost quickly.

So they learned the only defense against bullets was a chunk of dirt or sandbags. So they dug trenches, and shot at anyone trying to get into the trench. So they sent people to die by score just to seize just another few feet of barren dirt poisoned by lead. So they fled to backup trenches, and dug trenches behind them, and counter charged to seize the trench they just abandoned. Over. and over. and over. and over.

The glory of war. Dying to seize ruined land that you just fled.

 

[Weenaru]

I knew his liver got shot from the WN, but the scene I imagined when I read that was NOT Garback just walking back as if nothing happened.

 

[Pandacyborg]

Every update of this manga is a mix of excitement and dread. Excitement because I find it a genuinely interesting story, and dread because I always wonder who’s gonna die next

 

[NARESH4444]

Minus the healing magic, this is a pretty accurate retelling of WWI.

There were battles that lasted nearly a year fighting from trench to trench back and forth. Keep in mind, warfare before that point was basically "Stand in a line and shoot at the other guys, maybe some of your bullets will hit them" because the guns were just so shit, casualties were more manageable.

Shit, they still had CALVARY during WW1. People on horses! WITH SWORDS! They mostly died early in the war, they learned quickly or they lost quickly.

So they learned the only defense against bullets was a chunk of dirt or sandbags. So they dug trenches, and shot at anyone trying to get into the trench. So they sent people to die by score just to seize just another few feet of barren dirt poisoned by lead. So they fled to backup trenches, and dug trenches behind them, and counter charged to seize the trench they just abandoned. Over. and over. and over. and over.

The glory of war. Dying to seize ruined land that you just fled.

You've skipped over everything that happened since Napolean entirely.

Before WWI,things like the Second Boer War(1899 to 1902)had already shown the more fluid infantry tactics that started with Napoelans' looser infantry formations that allowed smaller teams to quickly advance,flank,and take cover.

Hell,the Boer Kommandos were the ones who caused the English to have "commando" in their dictionary.

And WWI started like that,the beginning stages were fluid movements of troops,all looking for the breakthrough,and soon enough they started realising that machine guns,barbed wire,and artillery made open movement like that a terrible idea,so they started hunkering down in trenches,which is how the slog started.

Also,the kinds of rifles they had in WWI existed for some time before,the American Civil war already had repeating,cased ammuntion,and the Americans with their Krag–Jørgensens faced the Spanish Mauser rifles in 1898,so the guns were not barnyard only blasters.

Whilst cavalry still proved effective at taking advantage of openings to run amok,such as the Siege Of Kimberly,after that cavalry were basically a means to get troops into position for dismounted fighting.

For the British,of the 31 out of 32 cavalry regiments that saw combat,a grand total of 5600~ men perished(333 the most,80 the least for each regiment),which is peanuts compared to the regular infantry,whilst quite a number of their officers died after taking over infantry command duties.

As for trenches,once they figured it all out,they usually came in sets of three plus the connecting communication trenches,these were the frontline trench,the support trench,and the reserve trench.

The frontline trench was behind the barbed wire,and was usually retreated from after some time so that the enemy would be in the pre-sighted ranges of the support trench and the guns behind the reserve trench.

Determining how many you wanted in each and also having rotations for them was also key.

As for retaking a trench,it would flow through the communication trenches,and would be hand to hand combat once the two sides met in the same trench.

The main cost was always crossing the lands towards the frontline trenches under all the fire,aside from the vast numbers lost to disease and lack of supply,the No Mans' Land are the ones that Sabaton is referring so the price of a mile.

Also,no,not every combat mission was to take a trench,the Allied Powers did do raids where they would only drive the Central Powers out of their positions before retreating,and night time raiding of the trenches for more hand to hand occurred as well.

There's also the large German pull back after that one push so they could move to better prepared defensive positions,on purpose ceding land to make it harder to take further land.

WWI trenches may be important,but they're hardly the only aspect.

 

[Warpbeast]

 

[Sandmann1st]

War sucks

 

[letmereadmangas]

this manga is giving me depressions and war ptsd...

 

[ninjakai03]

FUUUUUUUCKKKK

 

[feha]

I hate depression bait comics, but this keeps dragging me on. Do have ideas as to why. Will need some time to sort those thoughts out though.

Thanks for the chapter, as always.

Not a whole lot to ponder about this time around. I can feel the disappointment of the squad commander when forced to retreat. Wonder if he'll go rogue if those above him suck too much at their job.

Eh, I thought this was a revenge-story like all others. Just a really long setup.
But hopefully that commander ends up dead soon (most likely directly after an attempted redemption-arc to make it be a supposedly sad thing, somehow).

 

[Yokubou]

It'd be too easy if Rodni just automatically align his views with the realities of war.

He's still needs to overcome the hardest stage, denial (cognitive dissonance).

 

[nomadicengi]

That cigarette is some kind of drug right? Doesn't that count as a painkiller or something?

That reminds me of something. I remember hearing opium was used extensively in WW1 so having an opioid cigar here would not be uncommon.

I do remember they carried a few phials on them back then. I don't think they ever continued it in WW2 thou.

 

[RanmaChaos]

 

[kingdudman]

Thanks for the chapter.

man this is sadge

 

[Grimmycoffee]

My guy Garback is having surgery with no anesthetics and he's having a smoke break

Didn't realize how big the gun was

 

[Epic_GamerXD]

I hate depression bait comics, but this keeps dragging me on. Do have ideas as to why. Will need some time to sort those thoughts out though.

Thanks for the chapter, as always.

Not a whole lot to ponder about this time around. I can feel the disappointment of the squad commander when forced to retreat. Wonder if he'll go rogue if those above him suck too much at their job.

have you played Battlefield 1 or COD:WAW? Yeah, War isn't a fun place... Not everyone survive including those you care about