The Germans and Austro Hungarians were certainly seduced by their spiffy sophisticated symmetrical six sided stealthy sections for surreptitious surveillance and skirmishing. However, was this any more effective than speedier slapdash camouflage applied as splotched, squirted, squiggled, sprayed, scrambled, spotted, splattered, striped, serpentined, sponged, splashed, smeared, scrawled, scumbled, serrated, stippled, sprinkled, staggered, swirled, stencilled, spiraled, segmented, splintered, scattered, stained, streaked, shaded, spluttered, sprawled, shadowed, spattered, slopped, swished, scribbled, or speckled?