when the character is killing people with a trench mace

Trench maces, clubs, spring coshes, pickaxe handles, and various other blunt instruments were indeed used in trench raiding on the Western Front, and the Italian Front as well. While soldiers likely wouldn't use them when going over the top in a major battle or offensive, they were indeed used.

airplanes dogfighting overhead, and they are crashing everywhere

They've taken some liberties here with the crashes, but otherwise aerial combat was quite heated, especially from 1916 onwards. 1916 really saw the birth of Air Superiority, as the French and British air services wrested control of the skies over Verdun and the Somme from the Germans. Aircraft were used for strafing, reconnaissance, artillery observation, and to pinpoint enemy movements, so they would certainly have had a presence over the battlefield.

Could you even expect to see a scene like this if you were part of a major battle, assaulting the trenches?

Aside from using trench clubs on the attack, and aircraft crashing right into your troops, the trailer does a fairly decent job of capturing the dynamics of a major WWI offensive. The Somme, for example, which began July 1st, 1916, was heavily monitored on it's first day and onwards by French and British aircraft.

I was impressed with the accuracy of the trailer in a technical sense - i.e. it looks to have considerable effort placed into making the equipment of roughly circa 1917 as accurate as possible (with the exceptions of some scenes featuring small-arms with side-mounted scopes - scopes were not general issue, and I have never seen a side-mounted scope on a sniper rifle before).

The two glaring inaccuracies with equipment are with the tanks (which are moving too quickly) and the mustard gas scene. Mustard gas was highly corrosive and burned the skin. It also contaminated clothing, trenches (sometimes for days) and equipment. Being impossible for infantry to defend against, artillery was often fired onto a cloud in an attempt to artificially spread it out - but realistically it was nearly unstoppable and dangerous to everyone in its way. Sometimes it could spread 15 miles behind the lines before the wind dispersed it. The soldier in the video would be running. He would be running very quickly.

The dogfights in the First World War could be very large indeed; Jasta, or German "circuses," could be 30 planes strong. Slow and maneuverable planes created tight fighting conditions, and coupled with numbers the fighting could be completely chaotic - to the point where many planes accidentally rammed each other during fighting. They would, however, be much higher in the sky (the three basic conditions of air fighting in the First World War were height, turn, and speed - combat sometimes devolved into planes spinning around each other, desperately clawing for height they could then use for speed.)

Unlike /u/DuxBelisarius, and with great respect, I would regard the use of improvised weapons in all kinds of assaults as period accurate. The only problem with the German in the opening is that the shape of his club seems more British - the Germans tended to prefer their trench shovels. There is a German billy-club of that shape in the collection of the In Flanders Fields Museum of Ypres in Belgium though, so I am giving it a solid pass.

As we have not seen any campaign or story elements, I will reserve judgement on its thematic accuracy, but the care which equipment is depicted is cause for cautious optimism.

What about Machine Guns, like Lewis Machine guns just being held and fired from the hip?

Also what about Female Bedouin Warriors? Doesn't seem accurate.

There's a scene where there's a tank moving forward in what seems to be a Middle Eastern desert. I already heard the tanks move too fast, but were there even tanks in the Middle East by either side?

What about the body armour that looks like it is from the middle age?

From the trailer: http://i.imgur.com/yLABHLs.png

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I just want to know what type of planes as in (Model Number), (Country of Manufacture) and (used by who).