Comments by "Seven Proxies" (@sevenproxies4255) on "Military History not Visualized" channel.

  1. I can't say I know what the Italians thought of Rommel. But i'm sure many vigorous hand gestures were involved.
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  2. If you make a weaker tank look like a tiger, isn't that a small strategic benefit? It might fool enemy recon and make the enemy act in a different (hopefully desirable) way.
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  3. So on christmas morning during WWII... Getting coal in your stocking was a good thing?
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  4.  @hewlett-b3v : Meaning they brought the shermans from elsewhere, to fight weaker tanks that weren't tigers. So that the actual tigers can be deployed in an area where the shermans are not. In strategy it's often beneficial to make the enemy think you have certain weapons in a specific location that you do not, just as it's beneficial to make the enemy think you do not have certain weapons in an area which you do.
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  5. They should've turned the half-tracks into armored convertibles. :D Open topped for those breezy summer days. Armored top for when it's raining bullets and artillery.
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  6. "Stugs, Drugs and Rock n Roll" ;)
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  7. Das Boot (the film) is one of my alltime favourite films. And one that I feel more people should watch. Since the second world war, there has been this public precption that all german soldiers were evil bootlickers completely in agreement with Adolf Hitler, which was far from the truth. Das Boot presents a more nuanced and realistic picture, and really showcases the differences between regular german navymen and the "loyalist" party members. It shows that for good or ill, germans were human beings.
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  8. From a gameplay perspective, being a loader sounds kind of dull. Your entire gameplay experience will be "press F to load" :P
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  9. First rule of a panzer grenadier: "Try not to get squished under the tracks"
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  10. The important thing to know is which rank will land you behind a desk and keep you away from glorious field duty.
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  11. MrGuySnailz: They already are. At least small flying RC drones with cameras that helps infantry scout potentially hostile areas.
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  12. Hans... Get zie Raketenwerfer
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  13. In some situations, horses are prefarable to motorized vehicles though.
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  14. I'm not surprised tanks are vulnerable in transmission capabilities. It's a lot of weight for the engine and the transmission to haul around.
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  15. My impression was always that the Germans bit off more than they could chew.
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  16. I like torpedoes. I like scandals. So this should be good!
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  17. I've heard that the wehrmacht issued extra rations of sauerkraut to the troops. To this day, the outside world has yet to determine if this was intended to be a proverbial carrot or stick.
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  18.  @asahearts1  I think that was mostly a mistake on the Reddit volunteers though. They basically gave up their own positions through their ego-driven social media interaction rather than maintaining comms-discipline. Like with regular radio equipment. Anyone can listen in with the right skills and equipment, so no radio comms are completely safe from prying ears. But if you use radio comms with the correct procedures and doctrine, it will be hard for outsiders listening in to make good use of the intel.
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  19. The french go: "Whaddaya mean logistics? Surely we can win this battle of Agincourt by simply spamming the english with our massive heavy cavalry! Who cares if our crossbowmen weren't able to bring their shields or make sure that their crossbow strings are dry and in functioning order. Our knights will surely win the day!"
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  20. Genuine Norseman here. Some of my best friends are berserkers.
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  21. I love tanks. I love fighter jets. But at a height of 6'2, I know that serving in either would not be a comfortable experience. So if I went into service, my lot would be to be a big, scary footslogger, while my short king bro's man the tanks and the planes.
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  22.  @Schnittertm1  The problem is that quick time events are pretty much universally hated in video gaming and for good reason. And as to your other suggestions: the gameplay will just bottle down to doing the same key-combo over and over again. Probably not as thrilling as riding in a tank and loading the main gun in real life. So if they want to make a game to simulate real tank warfare, it would probably be better to simply stick to the commander acting as a "spotter", the gunner does the shooting with impaired vision and the driver does the driving but with impaired vision. So both driver and gunner have to communicate back and forth with the tank commander to get the most performance out of their tank.
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  23. I suppose this is also a reason why viking raiders really put the fear into the rest of Europe. Vikings rarely fought battles. They rarely committed armies to fighting battles. Instead they were expert raiders. They got in. Raided and then got out fast enough that no contemporary military force could muster an army fast enough to fight them in an open battle. Viking raiders therefore could strike at all the things necessary to keep and supply an army, without actually losing men to fighting actual armies.
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  24. Anyone else love the scenes in the tv-series "Black Sails" where the pirates (primarily using repurposed merchant vessels) try to take on the Spanish Urca De Lima (a proper man o' war)? I'm particularly fond of that scene because it really shows off the differences in combat capabilities between repurposed merchant ships and a purposebuilt navy ship. That broadside barrage from the Urca is downright scary!
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  25. I'm experiencing a bit of a memory lapse here... Did Germany field any carriers?
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  26. Did the germans infantry in Stalingrad have any kind of smoke grenades or flares and such? I'm thinking about the difficulties of coordinating tanks and infantry that hasn't trained with tanks. In a city, there will be buldings that infantry can capture and buildings that are far too reinforced with enemy occupants. So you'd want a way to mark those buildings so the tanks can open fire at them from a distance if possible. Deploying smoke or visible flares can be used as a marker if agreed upon with other units. Even if you can't directly communicate with the tank crews through radio, you can assist them by giving clear visual markers of targets to engage. But maybe they already did that?
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  27. Suddenly, I got very curious of what you sound like when speaking in Spanish.
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  28. The lady of my heart, only wears armoured skirts.
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  29. ​ @WangMingGe Had a funny moment attending a big airsoft game with about 2000 players from all over the world. Met up with some slavic fellows at a respawn zone, I think they were Russians but I can't be sure. So we were chatting for a bit and I mentioned that i was from Scandinavia. They just replied "Yes, we know" I asked them what gave it away and they said "You're like a full head taller than everybody else here" 😄
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  30. Determination is very important though. The U.S has lost a lot of wars lately due to lack of determination (Vietnam, Afghanistan etc.)
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  31. Ambassadors and negotiators = "tactical peace operatives" XD
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  32. Some initial thoughts, that may be adressed later in the video. The first one is that the taskforce sent to invade Ukraine does not seem numerous enough for the job. Figures I read was in the realm of 200.000 men, tasked with taking and occupying a country that is quite large and with a population in the tens of millions. Furthermore, it seems that the Russian government is unwilling to make a formal war declaration against Ukraine for propaganda purposes. Which ties their hands from deploying significant numbers of conscripts. So currently they are relying on a small number of career soldiers and hired mercenaries from the Wagner group. (Russian legislation stipulates that the full force of it's armed forces, conscripts included, can only be deployed during an actual war. Not during "special military operations") Maybe this would explain why they are having such a hard time being able to pacify Ukraine?
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  33. I don't think adrenaline can keep you going forever. There comes a point where you get so tired and exhausted that not only do you become sloppy, you essentially stop caring about your own survival. So I can see why some countries looked into developing performance enhancing drugs for the troops.
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  34. Remember, when driving a tank: you must ensure safety for the crew inside, so you can make the situation very unsafe for the enemy outside the tank.
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  35. I foresee power armoured infantry, commanding ground based drones armed with machineguns and grenade launchers.
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  36. What I found surprising in this is how smartphone usage ended up being a strategic benefit and reserve plan for Ukraines national defence. The Russians hoped that precision strikes against communication infrastructure would cripple Ukrainian comms entirely. But since it's 2022 and everyone has smartphones, and it's easier to back up the phone communications, they could cope with it.
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  37. So what you're saying is... When the japanese had to perform under actual combat conditions, it was a "shamefur dispray"?
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  38. Niels Vantilburg: Soldiers on all sides kill innocent people for no reason. That's the nature of war. The responsibility fall on leaders of countries who treat war way too lightly. The soldier is a trained, government sanctioned killer. Killing is what they do. The soldier is not an arbiter of moral right from wrong. The moment they start behaving like moral arbiters rather than what they were trained for, that's when they cease to function like soldiers are supposed to function.
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  39. So it's a tracked proto-ATV?
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  40. Hehe, in Sweden they strapped a recoilless cannon to a freaking Jeep for tank hunting purposes. XD The reasoning being: you don't need armor to fight tanks. You just need mobility and being able to spot the tank before it spots you. Plus it's cost effective and easier to field in great numbers.
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  41. The question is: do you really want a table if you don't need one? The inside of these vehicles are pretty cramped as it is.
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  42. I wonder, is it possible to find information about the amounts of raw materials necessary to produce a specific tank as well as the amount of raw materials that the country in question can/could produce for it's manufacture? I think you're onto something about criticising the use of "cost" in terms of money, due to the fact that the value of pure currency is unreliable during wartime. So taking a hard look at raw material input in production and raw material output of the country is infinitely more relevant than a pricetag. Basically, you need to look at the economy as if it was a game of Age of Empires rather than a game of money. :)
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  43. The principles in Starcraft are all right. What I hate about it is the micromanaging and the fast game speed. In real warfare you don't micromanage individual soldiers or tanks. You delegate instructions and let them deal with the problem.
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  44. Is there any war in history where the impact of logistics isn't huge? Personally, I doubt it.
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  45. INCREDIBILIS DEUS VULT: I really think the ending was good though. It's a grim and realistic reminder of what war is and was for millions of soldiers back then. You struggle through hardships together and save eachothers lives on multiple occasions, and just when they think they were going to return home safe and sound, they ended up getting killed by an enemy attack that they didn't anticipate. It had a great impact. Even if it didn't necessarily make you feel very good as a viewer. But then again, not all endings are supposed to make you feel good.
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  46. Snake Island just seems like a deathtrap for whomever holds it.
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  47. When the force isn't fully motorized or mechanized but use horses... Is it then Equestrianized? :)
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  48.  @DaSpineLessFish  I'd say both, actually. An army needs a determined nation behind it. There wasn't enough national determination behind the war in Vietnam or Afghanistan, and both ended up in a loss for the U.S. It will be exceedingly difficult to win a war without determined soldiers. But the same is true for not having a determined nation, since the army depends on the nation for material support.
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  49. Are there any tanks with semi-automatic main guns? Like using a magazine or hopper for several shells?
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  50. Niels Vantilburg: If the order to kill the entire village came from their superior officers then not only do they have the right to kill everyone in that village, they have a DUTY to do so. You clearly do not understand the role of a soldier or the concept of chain of command. Nor do you understand the philosophy behind the relationship between a soldier and the state. It is not the soldiers place to question or "choose" which orders to follow. Their duty is to obey orders to the letter.
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