Project '31 in a nutshell:

U.S. never enters the Great War, as Germany never enacts unrestricted submarine warfare.

Italy sides with the Central Powers, forgoing defensive interpretation of the Triple Alliance. Russia still revolts, closing the Eastern front. The British 'side-show' campaigns end after the Dardanelles, freeing up troops for the Western Front.

Corrosive gasses, developed as the war progressed in time, require the moving parts of anything mechanical to have coil-heated water running near them, to keep them warm.

After several years of stalemate, the climate of Europe, primarily that of Eastern France and Belgium, deteriorate due to the sheer volume of steam flung into the air by the mechanical safety measures. It rains, and the water rising has gasses mingled with it, due to mass scale use of gasses (such as Phosgene). Masks are required, as well as rubber coverings, nearly year round, in all but the airtight shelters on the front.

The tank is a slow and cumbersome beast, and the climate of mud and scorched land make it so. No major breakthroughs. Stalemate.

The year is 1931, and in Europe it's a trial to be alive.

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So, yeah. Feasible-ish, lots of holes, but the whole point of the short is to show what hell a real war can be; massed artillery, massed machine gun fire, mass casualties. The short is designed to display what torment the human psyche, as well as the human body, has to go through in such a situation.

It is in the name of those many who fell, whether it gets completed or not. The Great War should never be forgotten.

As to personal bouts in this, my great grandfather was mortally wounded at Verdun, and died at home. His service to France earned him citizenship, as well as his family, down to me(being a dual citizen, et un citizen estranger).

As for design, given setting I did what I perceived made sense: wartime technological breakthroughs, wartime technological strains, and what such tech was circa civilized 1930. Lots of mixing.

Cheers.