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@KaiserPatrik 19 күн бұрын

My grandpa was a FUG driver in Hungarian People's Army

@Parisrenee373 Ай бұрын

For anyone who is just watching, the wargame ended due to scope creep. I was on blue team but it’s pretty clear from looking through both team’s products that red was going to blow us out of the water. It was like day and night difference between what they had planned and what we were still doing. I suggest next time umpires do a little bit of “balancing” but that’s kinda hard when no one really knows eachother

@sparkey6746 Ай бұрын

I've really enjoyed this, thank you.

@NoUsername-470 Ай бұрын

Hey are you factoring in weather to the wargame? im just curious.

@jackzhang8677 2 ай бұрын

0:39 3rd shock army lost its “shock” designation in the 1950s. It became the 3rd Red Banner combined arms army.

@Tekisasubakani 2 ай бұрын

Wehraboo's will tell you the German Army had a huge impact on EVERYTHING...except for the Holocaust.

@NarthilWhite 2 ай бұрын

Great video! Thank you for sharing. May I translate this video and repost to my Chinese community? Appreciate a lot.

@Tekisasubakani 2 ай бұрын

"West German forces are often forgotten..." *Forgets West German corp* :D Just kidding, really excited I just found this channel in time for this wargame!

@saltboi6374 2 ай бұрын

Will you have assistant referees/game masters?

@PosadasLeftFemur 2 ай бұрын

From one cold war militaria nerd to another, this is awesome.

@Cold_Warmaster 2 ай бұрын

Thank you.

@historyisawesome6399 2 ай бұрын

K question so what nesserliy is the lore is this assuming full wp mobilization like I mean divisions even cat C are at full strength troop redeployed from Chinese border etc (if we believe us estimates)between 13-20 million wp troops. partial mobilization like a soviet army size of like 7-8 million total Warsaw pact strength reaching nearly 10 million Or a quick blow were only category a maybe some soviet cat b units of the soviet and east German army's so like 700k-1.5 million wp troop I don't have discord so that's why I'm asking this here

@Cold_Warmaster 2 ай бұрын

@@historyisawesome6399 unexpected escalation. Only lasts 7 days so most reinforcements and mobilization don't have enough time to act.

@Saberjet1950 2 ай бұрын

the discord invite seems to be dead

@Cold_Warmaster 2 ай бұрын

Thank you, I've fixed it.

@stevedide9157 2 ай бұрын

I would like to join you to observe this wargame which seems splendid but unfortunately the link in the description lists it as expired...

@Cold_Warmaster 2 ай бұрын

Thank you, I've fixed it.

@tovarishchmartins4999 2 ай бұрын

Hey, the intro is back, nice:) I'm happry you were able to solve the issue, I think it it fits the videos very well.

@williamwimmer5473 2 ай бұрын

8:15 is just horrendously and painfully inaccurate. The US took substantially more aircraft losses in Vietnam/Southeast Asia than the Soviets lost in Afghanistan, and it's not even close. Losses of fixed wing aircraft were relatively rare in Afghanistan, the Soviets lost around 450 aircraft in the entire war, ~100 fixed wing and ~300 helicopters. US air losses were atrocious. The Century Series and F4 were especially hard hit, the US lost 650 F4 Phantoms, more than all aircraft the Soviets lost in Afghanistan. The F100 (200) and F105 (400 losses, of 800 built) were both retired early because of heavy attrition. Also, 400 A4 Skyhawks, 30 B-52s, nearly 100 AC-47/119/130/47 series gunships, and over 100 heavy strategic airlifters. And rotary wing losses were several orders of magnitude worse. 300 AH-1 Cobras, 250 heavy lift helicopters, and a staggering 3200 Hueys were lost.

@niki6853 Ай бұрын

Right on point

@kgb85MD 2 ай бұрын

those are not long ass names that is their battle paths what they were awarded in the path to victory in ww2 before they took Berlin

@ThatGuy-fq8cn 2 ай бұрын

hey, what is that "-y" after number is supposed to mean?

@arek314 2 ай бұрын

It's like st/rd/th in English

@ThatGuy-fq8cn 2 ай бұрын

@@arek314 I speak Russian. It is not. So author should just use English.

@arek314 2 ай бұрын

@@ThatGuy-fq8cn I though you meant OOB graphics

@ThatGuy-fq8cn 2 ай бұрын

@@arek314 yes, that is what I meant.

@lightypower3412 2 ай бұрын

@@ThatGuy-fq8cnwhat do you mean?!?! i had to check if you weren't gaslighting me, but no, cause i'm learrning R*ssian too. The y most probably stands for the ij or yj at the end of most numbers like "tret [EE] [II]" or "pyat [YH] [II]". Aalso sorri fur not haveing a propper cyrryllic kwyboard, if u knoww hovv to install it on an old samsung that'd help ;w;

@BobbyB1928 2 ай бұрын

Tank War Central Front by Zaloga says there were only 200 M60A3s in West Germany by the end of 88. More could have arrived with Regorger units.

@AlexNovakim 2 ай бұрын

A note on the romanian tank situation: from what I understand romania condemned the soviet invatson of czechoslovakia so as punishment the soviets stopped giving us military technology, that's why we were stuck with T55's and MIG21's

@Armageddon_71 2 ай бұрын

Im really looking forward to seeing how this will play out! 8th Guards looks like a pretty big threat. Fun fact: Even though it is spelled as Chemnitz, you do actually pronounce it Kemnitz, with a pretty hard K. The germans are at it again! XD

@Cold_Warmaster 2 ай бұрын

The command staff discord for any interested. discord.com/invite/zp6UU3Jc

@MM22966 2 ай бұрын

I miss using the NATO nomenclature for Soviet/Russian equipment. It kept things simple.

@lightypower3412 2 ай бұрын

Mm yes, today i will fail to distinguish between VSHORAD AND MRAD by putting them in the same cattegory oor between a recoilles rifle and a divisional level heavu atgm, like wtf, it's pointless!@

@ph_H01 2 ай бұрын

Niche channel, love it!

@hmg85 2 ай бұрын

Motor rifle divisions should doctrinally have SA-8 regiments as well as 1 motor rifle regiment with BMPs and one with BTRs. I don't question your resurch but find this discrepancy somewhat interesring plus warsaw pact armies nearly always had 5 divisions.

@d.graemer1627 2 ай бұрын

2 regiments with BTR, 1 with BMP 1 with tanks

@norwegianwiking 2 ай бұрын

Is there somewhere to source period maps to use?

@norwegianwiking 2 ай бұрын

Im guessing i know the website you're sourcing. Wonder if we can find the original CFE reporting to confirm, it has to be available somewhere.

@090giver090 2 ай бұрын

I have small thought regarding wargame mapping: Modern day Fulda Gap (and East Germany in general) road network shown at Google Maps is a bit more developed than it had been in late 80s. During my Internet roaming I found some 1:1000000 topographic maps of Central Europe dated back to 1972 maps.lib.utexas.edu/maps/onc/txu-pclmaps-oclc-8322829_e_2.jpg And 1:500000 maps of the Gap Area dated 1993 maps.lib.utexas.edu/maps/tpc/txu-pclmaps-oclc-22834566_e-2c.jpg That seem to be quite fitting for plotting units positions and movements.

@Slawa_Saporogez 2 ай бұрын

You spelling is correct even though you will naturally have accent.

@irongiant6112 2 ай бұрын

a historical source for the 3/8 and 4/8 issue is that they are in second brigade, there is only 1 cav squadron (cav tradition for battalion) per division at the time, housed in the 4th/aviation brigade, any battalions/squadrons with cavalry traditions can be assumed to fill maneuver roles, 1st cav division for example, is an armored division (at least, today it is), but every maneuver squadron has cav traditions, regardless of the units actual organization.

@felixhanisch4005 2 ай бұрын

Towards 27 GMRSDs locations: Halle (Saale) was its main garrison and all units were actually based there, in several different barracks throughout the city. The city had a large Red Army presence during the Cold War. Halle was/ still is several times larger than any of the other, much smaller Towns and villages on the list, safe for Leipzig (Halle had somewhere around 320.000 inhabitants at that point in time)

@felixhanisch4005 2 ай бұрын

also I belive 27th GMRD (and its predecessor 21 GMRD) never left East Germany after arriving in 1945

@blitzkriegfritz2779 2 ай бұрын

Alright I try to do it halfway phonetic for you, just pronounce it like you would pronounce it in English: Bokdan Tshellm Netzkee

@Sergpumpan 2 ай бұрын

Богдан Хмельницкий?

@blitzkriegfritz2779 2 ай бұрын

@@Sergpumpan exactly

@lightypower3412 2 ай бұрын

Where the fuck did the "tschelm" come from xd it's (k)hh m ye l n ii tz\ts k yh

@bmhh123 2 ай бұрын

I am happy you went into some detail with this, so often in my career gaming the Cold War people treat the Soviets as a less interesting anonymous bad guy.

@Cold_Warmaster 2 ай бұрын

@@bmhh123 which is a shame because the Soviet military was fascinating.

@andriusnesvarbu-o8d 2 ай бұрын

@Cold_Warmaster what was so fascinating about it? the only really fascinating thing about soviet army was how much resources it got and how incompetent and neglectful it was. and of course the amount of pollution it left. i lived near one of the western border airfields. after soviets left people were going to the airfield to dig a hole and the hole was full of jet fuel in a short time. The soil was literally full of jet fuel. not to mention various dangerous metals and oil products were simply thrown out next to the airfield for decades

@historyisawesome6399 2 ай бұрын

⁠@@andriusnesvarbu-o8dhow was it incomptent or neglectful?

@andriusnesvarbu-o8d 2 ай бұрын

@historyisawesome6399 its hard to describe in a few words. it was something so special that non soviet ppl simply cant understand how it would even be possible in a sane world. The whole military was so decayed everyone knew it was only paper army with unlimited human resources ready to be sacrificed. long story short too many things were fake. from the most common stuff up to the high tech stuff. nothing worked as it should have. every single time something was broken. so broken that any simple usage was complicated or impossible. low quality, not enough resources and capabilities to fix properly. i suggest to watch papersky to have a basic idea with examples. some of his videos are about soviet aviation and what a joke it was. btw aviation was top in resources in military. one of the best videos of soviets keeping one of their worst military planes in service just because it used vodka as a cooler and nobody even in top command didnt want to cut this opportunity for pilots and personnel to get free vodka. not only to drink but as a good for trade. everything u could theft from factory or military had an value and were traded for everything else stolen from factories and military. like vodka for theatre tickers or paint for nails or fabrics for motor oil and so on. too many things were impossible to buy in shops most of the time so they were stolen and traded between ppl who btw were extremely poor. and yes vodka was top level currancy like cigaretes in jail. everyone top priority was about how to make misrable life a little bit easier by stealing not about how to defend teritory

@TheReal_Mrlunk 2 ай бұрын

I mean, that's because they are.

@spamuraigranatabru1149 2 ай бұрын

BTR-60s following T-80s... I am a little preplexed myself, that and the lack of T-64s comes as a bit of a shock. I know the BTR-70s were not exactly blessed with favourable reliability or desirability but the 60s are an odd one.

@Cold_Warmaster 2 ай бұрын

@@spamuraigranatabru1149 a lot of units still had T-64s but it seems 8 guards army had been totally re-equipped.

@spamuraigranatabru1149 2 ай бұрын

@@Cold_Warmaster right, T-80s didn't filter through much till the T-80BV and T-80U. The initial sans suffix and 80Bs weren't fully seen as improvements and the ERA was thought to be too heavy for the 64s, after that got proven otherwise the 64AV and BV still were surprisingly strong in numbers.

@Cold_Warmaster 2 ай бұрын

Command Staff Discord: discord.com/invite/zp6UU3Jc Remember to behave.

@ElGringo21 2 ай бұрын

You should make a dedicated video promoting the discord, a lot of people don’t check the comments.

@Cold_Warmaster 2 ай бұрын

@@ElGringo21 There will be a dedicated video later, but I'll make a community post for now. Thanks for the advice.

@lucianaurelius2418 2 ай бұрын

Do you have a Discord I could join? I’d love to Command the Soviet VDV

@Cold_Warmaster 2 ай бұрын

You may have been just quicker off the draw than me.

@bmhh123 2 ай бұрын

I am very intrested to play this gagme on the Soviet side, how can I get involved?

@zacharymcgivern551 2 ай бұрын

Theoretically shouldn't the 82nd airborne appear as within 7 days 2 brigade's of the 82nd would be deploys In Europe(the entire division could be deployed within the timescale of the wargame of they were put on increased readiness)

@meitynajoan5553 3 ай бұрын

What about Czechoslovakian MLRS? It was widely exported and used in many conflict

@JS-gg3kh 3 ай бұрын

This video and channel is just bloody great for cold war history folks

@brettthistlewaite6736 3 ай бұрын

I was with 7th Corp from April 88 to June 90. Was with 3rd Infantry Division and primarily stationed in Schweinfurt. 2/30 and 5/15 Infantry . Our AO was between Coburg and Hof if anything ever went down. Was bizarre to be there especially when the wall fell.

@jerrywatt6813 3 ай бұрын

The us century series fighters would be a program because that the beginning of the truly fast movers thanks !

@albemonta8591 3 ай бұрын

Is it necessary to know the rules of FoT to participate?

@Cold_Warmaster 3 ай бұрын

@@albemonta8591 No. They form the base of the system I have built and are mostly on the backend, which I will handle. I am also working on rules documents for the command staff.

@jepkratz 3 ай бұрын

I served in 2nd Bgde, 3rd Armd Div (AD) stationed at Coleman Kaserne, Gelnhausen from Dec '86 to May '89. Early in '87 the two armored battalions, 1 Bn/33rd Armd Rgt and 3/33 Armd transitioned in name only to the 3rd Bn/8th Cav and 4/8 Cav respectively. We kept the same armored battalion TO&E which was the M1-IP with 105mm gun. In Dec that year we re-equiped to the M1A1 with the 120mm. Rumor was 3rd AD was to be rotated back to the States, and we were to become 1st Cav Div (33 Armd Rgt is a historical unit with 3AD, as 8th Cav Rgt is for 1st Cav Div,) but this never happened. Again, for all intents and purposes we remained Armor battalions, and never took on Cav squadron organization. Around mid 1988, the scout platoons of the Armd Bns received Bradleys as did the entire 1st Bn/48th Inf. The name transition 1/48 to 4th Bn/18th Inf occured after I left in May '89 but before all of 3AD was pulled out of Germany for Desert Storm. I can't provide documentation, but I lived it, and hope that helps clear up some of the questions re: unit names and equipment. Also, the Cav Bn stationed up in Buedingen still had M60s and were organized with the mixed platoons of 2 tanks, 2 M113s, and 1 M113 with the 120mm mortar until the transition to the M1A1 and Brads. I don't think they kept the mixed Armd Cav Plt org at that point.

@mikebelcher7244 3 ай бұрын

I was with 1st Bde 3Ad at Ayers Kaserne in Kirchgoens from 86 to 88. We were still fielding the M1A1 (105mm L7) at the time with 113s for the Inf bats although we were slated to receive the Brads at some unspecified date in the future. Plenty of M901s in the to&e which suited us fine as our AOR was the Eiterfeld Bowl through Bad Hersfeld region. We would deeply then wait for the 11th to get done with covering force operations then execute a passage of lines with us (what was left) and then it'd be our turn. Largest combat brigade in the whole Army at the time. Probably last a day...maybe, is what we thought.

@Mechanized85 3 ай бұрын

@@mikebelcher7244 well, M1A1 is using M256 120mm, only M1 or M1IP/IPM1 are using L7 and M68A1 105mm cannon.

@mikebelcher7244 3 ай бұрын

@@Mechanized85 then we must have been running stock M1s. I remember the discussions during our wargaming exercises about the adequacy of our 105s to defeat the T80s that we knew the 8th Guards Army units we were facing especially as the intell showed them deploying reactive armor on them as well. Ahhh well, we were going to do what we were going to do regardless.