The recently-announced next entry in the Battlefield franchise takes place in World War I. The common layman's assumption of World War I is of identical soldiers being de-individualized and shoved into a meat grinder - but what could or did soldiers do to customize their kit, gear, and tactics on a personal scale?
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On WWI trench warfare tactics.