Our battle reenactments take place within systems of opposing trenches complete with a crater-pocked No-man's-land. There are also belts of barbed wire, which are used to protect the sandbagged front line trenches and are punctuated by bunkers with functioning machine-guns in them. Behind the front line are supporting trenches and dugouts, where officers plan attacks and counterattacks as well as where the soldiers eat and rest.

The sights and sounds of battle are carefully reproduced by blank cartridges in the rifles and pyrotechnic devices that simulate grenades. Mortars fire rounds which fly through the air to land and detonate harmlessly. Other devices spew out colored smoke to imitate poison gas, and at night flares illuminate the landscape.

As members of IR63 our goal is to accurately portray the common infantryman in the Imperial German Army. We accomplish this by accurately recreating his appearance, as well as carefully researching and demonstrating the details of his life, duties and occasional pastimes at the front.

From the moment you arrive at an event you will be submerged in the Great War. From the clothing you wear, to the food you eat, to the trenches you fight in; nothing is out of place! WWI reenacting truly is: The reenactors reenactment!

As members of the IR63 we feel a source of pride in belonging to the oldest and one of the most authentic Central Powers units in the GWA. Our members have a special spirit of fellowship that binds each member to his Brothers-in-Arms and allows him to fully understand the true meaning of the German term "Kameradschaft!"