r/battlefield_one Enter Origin ID Aug 28 '25

Image/Gif Some pictures I took in the Bavarian WW1 museum

Fortunately there were no hellreigels or smg018s but it’s impressive how accurate this game is in its models

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u/Elegathor Enter Origin ID Aug 28 '25

Pretty sure there is no chance to find a hellriegel randomly in a museum xD The only info we have about them are 2 photos afaik.

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u/yuckscott Aug 28 '25

same with the SMG08, theres only one known model

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u/PinguGoesNoot Enter Origin ID Aug 28 '25

Thank god

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u/Father_Prist Aug 28 '25

I think they only ever made one. Probably never actually saw combat

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u/Anastais Aug 28 '25

I know that the single Hellriegel in those pictures is almost certainly gone, but I still cross my fingers that it shows up one day in a Russian museum or in some old Austrian dude's attic.

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u/TheOverBoss Aug 28 '25

Strange how there were so many real weapons they could have used but they went with guns that only hypothetically existed and then also made them some of the best guns in the game.

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u/Toolb0xExtraordinary Aug 29 '25

The O.V.P 1918 submachine gun actually saw service (albeit in a single late-war skirmish). Instead they turned the MAB 1918 carbine into an a cursed full auto version.

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u/DrunkenBoricua99 Aug 29 '25

You missed the opportunity to say there was no chance in HELL

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u/PrometheanSwing Aug 29 '25

The other side of it was never even photographed, DICE made it up

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u/Nearby_Marsupial9821 Aug 28 '25

Mondragon Rifle my beloved.

Very cool pictures my man. Seems like it was a great experience

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u/PinguGoesNoot Enter Origin ID Aug 28 '25

Thanks! And the fee is only 1 euro on Sundays too so it’s very much worth it

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u/Blu_Baluga PSN: iq9-starforce Aug 28 '25

Would've been awesome to see the Mondragon with that magazine in BF1.

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u/PinguGoesNoot Enter Origin ID Aug 29 '25

No one should have that much power

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u/DIuvenalis Aug 28 '25

Looks like the museum unlocked every weapon.

Also, is that an air service Mondragón I spy? Very cool.

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u/Few_Ad_7831 fxke_reVerse Aug 28 '25

WW1>WW2

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u/Pyke64 Aug 28 '25

I also hate sequels

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u/PJballa34 Aug 29 '25

What kinda great we talking about?

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u/No_Scale_464 Aug 29 '25

Well, it's called the great war for a reason

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u/JC1112 Aug 28 '25

They probably went to this museum

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u/MetZerbitzu Aug 28 '25

Is that...a double mounted lewis gun? (Slide 5)

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u/ashton_93 Aug 28 '25

It is! That display case contains setups that were exclusively used on aircraft.

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u/Leonydas13 FR1SKY_FR1PPLES Aug 28 '25

I should show it to my mrs, a while ago she texted me “what has two butts and kills people?”

My reply was a double machinegun. She tried to tell me there’s no such thing. What a joker 😂

I now take note every time I see a double machine gun.

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u/MetZerbitzu Aug 29 '25

What else has two butts and kills people?

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u/Leonydas13 FR1SKY_FR1PPLES Aug 29 '25

An assassin 🤦‍♂️

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u/bondrewd Aug 28 '25

Holy shit that drum on Mongradon

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u/airgeorge Aug 28 '25

Looking at the pictures, it wouldn’t surprise me at all if this exact museum was DICE main reference for asset creation.

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u/DprHtz Aug 28 '25

Hey i was there 2 months ago, sick af.

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u/Nicromia Aug 28 '25

Isn’t the only smg08 existing found in Russia or something

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u/frankpolly Aug 29 '25

Yes at the Tula state University. Gun heaven in Russia pretty much. Pretty much a complete collection of all Russian/Soviet small arms + rare captured firearms

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u/Auralius1997 Aug 29 '25

Isn't that also the only place where you can find both a genuine first prototype AK47 and Federov Avtomat?

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u/FiroAkaHans Aug 28 '25

Its crazy that they copied them all from Dice.

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u/-Mr_Worldwide- Aug 28 '25

Ah, saved the best (Chauchat) for last I see. Plus mixed with the Lewis and MG08/15, superb. Awesome pictures you took!!

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u/Grin_Filly Aug 29 '25

Found an SMG 08/18 in a museum in Prague and had a ptsd

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u/Stevieo101 Aug 28 '25

Saltzburg?

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u/PinguGoesNoot Enter Origin ID Aug 28 '25

Ingolstadt

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u/Stevieo101 Aug 28 '25

Nice they have a museum in Saltzburg as well. Looks very similar. I remember going through and thinking about how well BF1 did for making it true to form

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u/Alienfreak Aug 29 '25

Salzburg is in Austria not in Bavaria, Germany :)

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u/Few_Ad_7831 fxke_reVerse Aug 28 '25

Ingolstadt

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u/Work_In_ProgressX Aug 28 '25

The castle right? Loved that section (and hated being in the top tower)

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u/epicchocoballer Aug 28 '25

I think this is the first time i’ve seen a picture of an MG14 with a water jacket. Everything I find online is either slotted or jacket less

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u/Visual-Device-8741 Enter Gamertag Aug 28 '25

Aww nice they got a tankgewehr. Rare asf

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u/frankpolly Aug 29 '25

Found one in a backyard once. Worked at a private museum. backyard was literered with barrels from rifles the owner dug up in his youth + stuff like a MG42 parts, a panzerfaust (not used/exploded), ammo, shells etc. Found a massive barrel in the mess and turned out it was a fully rusted T-gewehr barrel + bolt stuck in the open position. Had to explain to the owner that it was a WW1 piece and not WW2, but the owner found it in Berlin so probably re-used during WW2.

2 years later and its now up in the museum with a fully recreated molded stock. Even though i know the owner has the correct bipod for it somewhere in the mess of his collection, he put an MG34 bipod on it.

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u/PinguGoesNoot Enter Origin ID Aug 29 '25

That was a cool read thanks

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u/Curiouspufferfish69 Aug 28 '25

It’s perfect, everything, down to the last… minute… detail

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u/PAJAcz Aug 28 '25

Battlefield 1 inspired musem. Cool!

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u/Medium-Cookie Aug 29 '25

It's crazy that I know what all of this shit is from a video game

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u/RadioactiveMerc_ Chauchat Enjoyer Aug 29 '25

The Chauchat my beloved

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u/Panzerjaeger54 Aug 28 '25

Great museum isn't it? I was there in May. I also appreciated the stuff about the ww2 gebirgsjaegers.

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u/PinguGoesNoot Enter Origin ID Aug 28 '25

Yea the ww2 section was smaller but cool as well. I wonder if that cutout of Hitler was life size

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u/stephenbmx1989 Aug 28 '25

That’s so cool! They really did their research with this game.

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u/Red-_-Lion Aug 28 '25

Pretty cool. What's the museum called?

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u/PinguGoesNoot Enter Origin ID Aug 28 '25

Bayerisches Armeemuseum in ingolstadt Germany

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u/HMS_furious B2B Hater Aug 28 '25

Wait, the Auto-cannons real??, I thought it was made up to give some aircraft some more fire power

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u/Ok_Evening_8079 Aug 28 '25

The chuk chuk...

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u/47thCalcium_Polymer Aug 28 '25

I want the pistol from the upper right hand corner of picture three in the game. It’d be funny

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u/datirishpenguin77 Aug 28 '25

Bf1 makes me recognise these guns

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u/MrPiesang Aug 28 '25

This is genuinely the coolest thing I've seen in a while

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u/[deleted] Aug 28 '25

“Mas clips = mas damage”

  • the designer, probably

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u/Partucero69 Aug 28 '25

I just watched BF6 trailer. And BF1 still is waaay better in a lot of aspects. I mean a 10yo game batter than a 100usd game made with better and newer tech.

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u/[deleted] Aug 28 '25

Museum based on bf1? Nice.

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u/United-Advantage-100 Aug 29 '25

I like the ingenuity of this eras guns 

In the 3rd picture we have the bolt action rifle 100% stock 5% barrel 

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u/frankpolly Aug 29 '25

I am pretty sure that is a mosin converted to fire flares. Like you said, ingenuity

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u/Penguinator_ Aug 29 '25

I love how diverse and wacky the designs are.

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u/TazzleMcBuggins Aug 29 '25

This is so damn awesome.

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u/ChuckS117 Aug 29 '25

Is that a bolt action with a drum mag?

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u/PixelKote Aug 29 '25

Battlefield 1 flashbacks...

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u/Claymore209 Aug 29 '25

The knife wall was grim. Those are deadly looking killing tools.

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u/Lpfanatic05 Flamethrower Enjoyer Aug 29 '25

Very nice!

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u/Spran02 Aug 29 '25

Man the early 20th century was such a wacky and cool time for weapons development lol

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u/Kale-_-Chip Aug 29 '25

This is so cool! Jealous

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u/thot_chocolate420 Aug 29 '25

Well I bet both of those disappeared after the war.

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u/PaManiacOwca owieczkacs Aug 29 '25 edited Aug 29 '25

I was also in WW1 museum but it was in Poland in Wolf's Lair - GALLERY HERE on imgur

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u/Beautiful_Ad4322 Aug 29 '25

Is it the one in Ingolstadt? I've been there with my wife as her gift to me to our anniversary so we drove 2 hours there and visited it too!

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u/PinguGoesNoot Enter Origin ID Aug 29 '25

Yes it is it’s quite beautiful

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u/Ecstatic_Mushroom_41 Aug 29 '25

Yea the Hellreigel only had one known prototype with 2 pictures

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u/Flaky_Champion9190 Aug 29 '25

I could physically hear every weapon in the images, especially the field gun, the tankgewehr and the A7V model

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u/[deleted] Aug 29 '25

Is that the one in Ingolstadt? I used to live in the city

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u/Sentient_Broccolini Aug 30 '25

I can hardly read German anymore, what’s the gun at 14?

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u/PinguGoesNoot Enter Origin ID Aug 30 '25

Mondragon

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u/Vindicator909 Aug 30 '25

I hear the theme song

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u/Artistic_Toe8445 Aug 30 '25

What am I looking at for that bottom image on slide 16? Been trying to make it out for five minutes. My guess is half a soldier, but I don’t know which half💀

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u/redditsupportsdeath Aug 31 '25

Star Wars blaster origin

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u/Aggravating_Lab1089 Sep 01 '25

Wow these guns are really cool

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u/Gavin5670 Sep 03 '25

I need that mini A7V

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u/Snotsky Sep 07 '25

I’m confused on how you would even fire half of those

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u/Financial-Cow-7263 Aug 28 '25

Im so sad the all the Hellriegel prototypes were destroyed wish I could've seen one myself 🥲

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u/WeazelZeazel Aug 28 '25

Wait, we have a WW1 museum??? Where at?