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It's below that that we really get into the question of "which countries."
The Central Powers are easy enough to guess. It is basically going to be 90%+ or more Germany, Germany, Germany. Which fits history. There IS however some room for shifting or the like, especially since there were fairly significant (if few) Habsburg units on the Western Front (most notable at the start and end of the war), so you might have some Austro-Hungarians to play around.
It's with the Allies that we really open Pandora's box. The obvious, bare minimum would be Britain and France. However even those two are pretty diverse, since in addition to troops from the Metropolitan homeland of both countries you also have a significant amount of troops from the Colonies and Dominions, such as Canadians, Newfoundlanders (itself a rare one), Indians, and so on fighting under the British and Senegalese, Caribbean soldiers, and others under the French.
But also likely are the Belgians (who were the epicenter of the early attack and would remain the cockpit of much of the war), and the US. I also think there is a better-than-par chance of the Italians showing up, since they did serve in quite a few numbers on the Western Front starting mid war and were quite important in things like the final battles of the war in the West.
For the more exotic, there are the Portuguese, and maybe the not-so-Western of the Allies like the Russian Expeditionary Force.
So I would guess:
* British
* French
* Belgians
* US
* (Maybe?) Italians.
TL:DR, those didn't show up on the Western Front much. IIRC the Bulgarians did send a sizable number of their pilots to fly missions on the Western Front but that was basically it, while the Ottomans had their own multi front conflicts to face (and indeed got German and Habsburg support in places like Sinai), . The Habsburgs had a much more sizable footprint on the Western Front than many people realize, but it was still very much a series of footnotes.
Not really. It was the single most important of the factions on the Western Front, but it only ever came CLOSE to being 80% in the first year of the war, and after that its share dropped significantly (mostly due to the BEF being enlarged).
Not exactly true. The French in 1915 still held large % of the front until late 1915. French army had 3,6m active soldiers at the start of the war and by July 1916 2,23m.
I never claimed they didn't hold a large % of the front or that they didn't field a vast number of men, indeed I agree they were the single largest Western Allied force on the Western Front.
But after 1914 it was never anything like 80% of the troops.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DoZ3aKKpDvQ
From about 0:30-0:35, you can see American, British, and French flags at the bottom. That tells us those nations will be in the game, or at least their units will be and will get distinguished.
This gets reinforced by what you see from about 2:40-2:44, where you have more Allied flags
Not just the British, French, and Americans like what we saw earlier, but also
* Belgian,
* Australian (somewhat anachronistically; the Blue Ensign of Australia wasn't that common militarily yet),
and two red ensigns that I believe are Canada and India.
This seems to be confirmed in this video at about 2:45-2:50, which has an event about "Canadian Raiders" or "Canadian Infantry" and features one of the Red Ensigns in teh lower left.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7U1GSG1k2fA
So I'm pretty sure the number of confirmed nations we've seen in game can be seen as
1. Germany (No Duh),
2. Britain
3. France.
4. The US.
5. Belgium.
6. Canada.
7. India.
8. Australia (ANZACs?)
This is a good bunch and more than I had hoped for at least. But some conspicuous missing ones are
1. Italy (on the Western Allied side)
2. Portugal (Ditto)
3. Austria-Hungary (on the Central Side).
Fair indeed, and good points. Was just going off of what I saw.
The allies were under French high comman, yet it seems the games portrays the english to be in charge ? How come ?
No, not really.
Allied "High Command" only existed from mid 1918 onwards, as a result of reactions to the Kaiser's Battle.
And while its head Generalissimo Foch was French, that wasn't the Allies bowing down to kneel before the throne of the French and pledge vassalage. Foch was acting as Generalissimo in a newly created role integrated with but separate from the French military, sort of like Eisenhower in WWII.
I agree the iconography (especially in the unit discs) I do think overstates the British influence and understates that of the French, let alone the other Western Allies like the Americans, Belgians, and so forth. All the more jarring because we've only played late war battles, and indeed had the tutorial center around the newly arrived AEF.
Regarding your first point that's not my point, operationnal and tactical command of the allies was under the french, it doesnt mean anything in term of "vassalge" or else that's ludicrous. That was true before 1917 and even more so with Foch and 1918. Since the game include the Us, who only saw actions in this time frame again its weird to portray the allies to be representated by Mongomery/an english officer.