Comments by "buddermonger2000" (@buddermonger2000) on "The Armchair Historian" channel.

  1. Damn you. No more formations for you. Everything is played in square.
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  2. ​@lightningstrike5024 They did not have that much manpower. They may have spent that much dying, but they did not have that much on the Frontline at any time. The American army for context was 11 million strong alone. Both sides had roughly 6 million men at the front when they met in Germany, but while the Allies lost combined only about a million men (outside of the Indian famine which affected little of the main players) while the USSR lost 20 million people combined due to the German occupation. This also doesn't discuss the equipment difference of a fully mechanized force that the Russians never actually faced, and against the two largest air forces in the world, with a logistics chain so good they would later bypass a Russian blockade of Berlin.
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  3. It will!
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  4. Can't make Frontlines with hexagons. Bad for tactics. Was initially made for squares and octagons are squares with the corners cut off. Made for UI purposes.
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  5. Okay, I completely forgot the modem Iraqi army was reformed by the Americans and also largely independent. I understand it's a coalition battle, but it's Iraqi led, and that's super cool.
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  6. They even used the same intro animation
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  7. Fortunately, we're probably not at that point. Drones like that lack capability and the most prominent use of drones continues to be in recon at that level. Not to mention, that the EW defenses on there are still plenty able to keep that from happening as well. In any case, it's best to look at drones as the new machine gun. The battle space is forever changed and there's now nowhere to hide. Information's place in warfare is now magnified as at this point, if you can see it, you can probably kill it.
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  8. Yes.
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  9. I really don't get why the Allies losing "tens of thousands" is a problem when the soviets had lost hundreds of thousands. The Allies combined lost maybe a million? Soviets lost 20 million people total and somewhere between 6 million and 10 million dead soldiers. The Allies also still had reserves
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  10. So the workhorses of the Wehrmacht were the panzer 3, 4, and 5. Makes sense.
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  11.  Jormangandur83  every one they took
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  12. i also wonder if multiple comments on a single video by a single person have an effect
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  13. Yeah clearly they used effective RPM but with the BAR they used cyclic
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  14. Now this is going to be controversial
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  15. 0:20 Straight from call of duty world at war huh? Fitting Edit: 18:30 you used the soundtrack again huh?
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  16. The late war for the nazis was not a good time as they started to lose their veterans and the soviets started getting veterans killing nazi veterans. So the new recruits of the nazis stood little chance at that point.
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  17. There are no random crits. Extra damage comes as a guarantee for a flanking hit
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  18. Hmmm sounds like how I win battles in Fire and Maneuver
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  19. Can warrant its own video? Then by all means give us that video
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  20.  @architech02  why are they all air?
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  21. Should the game be successful upon full release, Fire and Manuever, his game on Victorian warfare, will add that war to the game
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  22. It would just be a sniper k98 which is equipped with a scope but more often a ZF-41 because they didn't have enough ZF-39s
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  23. So Austria-Hungary is the one that really wanted war
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  24. This is a pretty important event in the making of 21st century geopolitics
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  25. Hey buddy
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  26. This makes that video so much less impressive. It's not the Americans fighting a proper army so much as it's fighting the last weak divisions of a dying empire. And even then they mostly lose at long range. It's now more simply impressive that the Germans were still able to hold out so well rather Than the Americans were good enough to beat them. And that's Just so sad for the Americans. Their best is just barely better than the German's worst.
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  27. 12k
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  28. That was quick Griffin lol. Definitely the best choice of thumbnail.
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  29. 1:22 authentic Kar98k sounds oh damn
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  30. It really wasn't very common. The STG was a bit over 400k of production. MGs and K98s were in the millions.
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  31.  @henrikscania-r1z  Not in any significant number considering only 400k and the size of the Heer at the time which was still around... let's say roughly 4 million as a conservative estimate as they were getting crushed on both sides even though I'm fairly sure it was larger. That's about 10% who get one. Now take into account that many don't even get to be shipped to the front and also that the ones that do get lost as men die in combat. So you're looking at roughly 5% or less of the army equipped with these at any one time.
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