i know

it was used to great extent in ww1, killing soldiers in their trenches quietly, except for the sounds of them hacking up their lungs

*and it wouldnt be hard for someone who wants to cause mayhem to have several gas bombs made and plant them in certain points in a city out if sight before activating them*

*me whos planning on mixing them in glass beer bottles and using them like molotovs if necessary*

hell even a small cluster could basically wipe out a large section of New York city

youd trap people inside multiple-story buildings and if it gets into the ventilation system, well not so good for the people on the upper floors

and just like that, we're all on a watchlist

and id say its something that is far worse than any nuclear bomb, because the blast is silent, the clouds are sometimes not visible to the naked eye, and itll stain pourus surfaces like concrete so itll stay for an even longer period of time

sulferic acid, make you lungs flacid

ammonia and bleach, forgot what that makes, but sucks to breathe

mix vinegar and Bleach however, you get chlorine gas

wait, ammonia and bleach makes mustard gas

i think

cholrine, one of the first three big chemical weaopns, mustard, cholrine, and sulferic

I thought it was Phosgene gas that was the last one, not sulfuric

it kills you by suffocating you over several days, leaving you to drown in your own fluids

sulferic acid is the og chem gas, it was actually used in the judean revolt (roughly 150 BCE)

roman and chem warfare

welp, learn something new every day i guess

the most sophisticated form of chemical/biological warfare id heard of from the time was flinging corpses at the enemy or poisoning wells

yeah kaffa much

despite the gas and machine guns and rifles, Artillery was the biggest killer in ww1, blasting soldiers apart, crushing them with debris from falling buildings, and burying them alive in artillery shelters

and this isn't even discussing the number of specialized artillery shell variants

one example of which are Lachrymal shells, which contained essentially tear gas

crack of the lighting splitting the ground, thunder is sounding artillery pounding

Wrath of the Nazis cast on Bastogne
Facing their forces alone!

WE! WE WILL RESIST AND BITE!

what song are we on

oh I messed that up

shite

damnit

why did my brain go there?

i dunno

and that's when the dead men were marching again . . .

"AND THE WINGED HUSSARS ARRIVED!"

poles fighting against religous extreemists back then and today

well technically it was the poles bailing out the austrians who were fighting ottoman janissaries but still

I got a set from sabaton that i bet even Astrovious wont get

"Know that peace comes at a high price
It may take a thousand lives
And a deep belief
Sacrifice of men"

and yes this is from sabaton

yeah, but it was also their historical enemy