Why was the Ulster Division so based?

natural selection, for centuries only the finest warriors could repel the irish barbarians

>>1523381
First post best post

>>1523381
kek

How are they based?

They just ran into the meat grinder like brainless cattle.

>>1523718
This.

WW1 was full of incompetent retards who thought a mass infantry assault right into machine guns and artillery barrages was "honourable" and therefore kept doing it

>>1523720
you are wrong

>>1523718
>>1523720

>le WW1 was just human waves being mown down by machineguns all day every day maymay

Kill yourself.

>>1523768
Nah it was people laying in trenches being blown to kingdom fuck by artillery

>>1523718
>the Ulster Division was the only division of X Corps to have achieved its objectives on the opening day of the battle.
that's how

I heard that one division (or whatever unit) was ordered by their officer to leave the trenches early before the agreed start time so they were crossing no-man's land while the artillery bombardment was still going on. This meant they were able to reach the german trench before they had a chance to re-setup once the barrage finished.
So their officer went off book and invented the creeping barrage?

>>1523838
Creeping barrage was used for the first time during 2nd Balkan war.

>>1523768
During an offensive, yes, this is what it was like. Lines of men being cut down by machine guns.

>>1523364

>doing the basic job tat it was assumed you'd be able to do and getting massacred makes you a badass

>>1523768

pretty much it was though, even the dudes in it said so

WW1 was fucking retarded in literally every aspect

>WW1 was retarded

Stop this meme. Seriously, it's fucking old and you are fucking stupid if you believe it.

>>1523768

what WAS it like anon?

>inb4 Italian/Austrian mountain warfare or Palestine or the oceans or any other special pleading

>>1523889

Mostly sitting around in a trench (probably not even front line) for like a week and then rotating out.

>>1523884

it was retarded though, in basically every aspect it was stupid and pointless and left Europe worse off

>>1523895

>go in trenches
>die from gas or artillery or diseases
>go over the top
>die from bullets
>go on leave
>get VD
>rinse, repeat

>>1523898

So are most things.

>>1523908

Did you get your information on WW1 from that video in black and white and the cow mooing?

>>1523911

>17 million people die in WW1
>"hurr it wasn't even that bad"

the fuck are you basing this idea that WW1 was some kind of dull affair with a low risk of getting wounded or killed where dudes sat around bored most of the time?

>>1523911
>Did you get your information on WW1 from that video in black and white and the cow mooing?

did you get yours from fucking BlackAdder or something?

>>1523919

Yes, because that is what it was. Like most wars. I didn't say it was that bad, but it wasn't as bad as everyone makes out.

>>1523927

Actual history? I've never seen BlackAdder.

The leading battalions (of the 36th (Ulster) Division) had been ordered out from the wood just before 7.30am and laid down near the German trenches ... At zero hour the British barrage lifted. Bugles blew the "Advance". Up sprang the Ulstermen and, without forming up in the waves adopted by other divisions, they rushed the German front line ..... By a combination of sensible tactics and Ulster dash, the prize that eluded so many, the capture of a long section of the German front line, had been accomplished.

>>1523927
Don't talk shit about Blackadder faggot

>"There was many who went over the top at the Somme who were Ulstermen, at least one, Sergeant Samuel Kelly of 9th Inniskillings wearing his Ulster Sash, while others wore orange ribbons"
>When some of his men wavered, one Company commander from the West Belfasts, Maj. George Gaffikin, took off his Orange Sash, held it high for his men to see and roared the traditional war-cry of the battle of the Boyne; " Come on, boys! No surrender!"

>>1523930
>Actual history
>"WW1 wasn't THAT bad"

basically every possible source backs up that WW1 was awful, pretty sure you are just being a contrarian faggot desu

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>>1523930
>because that is what it was. Like most wars.