A Historian Plays/Reacts to: Sniper Elite 5 - A WW2 Game Historical Breakdown

[@AnimarchyHistory]

One thing I love about doing these. Is I am proficient in mainly aviation but I do have a general knowledge of all aspects of WW2. But when I miss something or don’t know something. Doing this summons my fellow autists from other areas of research who can correct or point things out I missed. Learning is collaborative lads!

[@ltwinpwnhunterr7844]

At 36:51 the Stg-44 has a reflect scope

[@4T3hM4kr0n]

to be fair, G43 users were required by doctrine to charge the rifle Lee Enfield style with two stripper clips and only use the 1-2 mags there were givin as a last resort.

[@TheEDFLegacy]

Random question, did they have King Tigers in Normandy?

[@AnimarchyHistory]

@@TheEDFLegacy yes actually. But very few of them.

[@4T3hM4kr0n]

@@TheEDFLegacy yes

[@thatrandomfurball1872]

Has...anyone else considered the crews perspective in the king tiger? Like, you shoot and hit some random allied sniper with (presumably) a HE shell, and he just....stands there. Doesnt even flinch, he just stands there, aiming his rifle at you for a solid 10 seconds, mumbling to himself, before charging headfirst at you yelling "FIGHT ME COWARDS!" Guessing that's why they missed the second shot, poor Hans was probably losing his sh-t panicking.

[@Allstar-yl1ek]

"HANS! You fucking idiot, how do you miss an American less than 10m away!" "I Didn't Commandant, I swear! OH MINE GOTT, HE'S CHARGING US!" _Nazi Squealing Intensifies_

[@thatrandomfurball1872]

@@Allstar-yl1ek HANS, LOAD A NEW SHOT DUMBKOPF! QUICKLY, QUICKLY!

[@ProjectLeviathan]

Lmao

[@ste887]

Just to add to their confusion, the last thing they hear is someone changing a 1911 magazine to load some magical 45AcP, only to fart 20 rounds into the ass of the tank and blow it up, with a pistol, i know gameplay mechanic, homage to saving private Ryan etc, but its really funny to kill a tank with a 1911 or a welrod. though i stopped playing this a week after it released, maybe they patched out being able to kill tanks with AP pistol rounds. i lost interest in it and don't fancy buying pc game pass again to see.

[@CommissarMitch]

Avarage Cadian.

[@ilo3456]

I feel like the thing with the American Uniforms was more a matter of what they had to give priority to given that you'd spend most of the game looking at the Germans rather than the Americans, so they likely spent the bulk of their resources in researching and modelling the German kit, just the realities of game development most likely.

[@theriveracis5172]

I'd wager it's a modeling time restriction, myself. Rather than have a bunch of different uniforms modeled for Americans, they went with one that could more or less be used everywhere. Like you say, most folk aren't likely to look at them too much. So it'd probably work out for most folk. Still surprised they didn't at least separate an officer and a NCO uniform, though

[@ilo3456]

@@theriveracis5172 Yeah but at the end of the day game development is all about priorities, what is going to be worth more for the time we spend on it, if the Americans are only going to be in 1 missions there is not much point in doing more than 1 or even a handful of American uniforms, why spend so many resources in something that will not give as much return overall. At the end of the day you have to pay someone to make those models and texture work, and it takes time, which are both things that could be spent elsewhere like for example a German vehicle or to make the maps nicer and prettier to look at, or even spend that money doing more research into stuff that will be way more in the limelight.

[@Autobotmatt428]

@@ilo3456 You are correct but we must take the Pandemic into account and we don't know have that effected them. But you are right the uniforms are an issue. hears my rating Game play 10/10 for look 5/10, Historical accuracy 3/10

[@Autobotmatt428]

@@ilo3456 I think 4 did a better job

[@foldervtolvr]

It’s simple: If I want to be killing Nazis you better make them look like real Nazis!

[@rustyrussell2537]

It's actually a common misconception that box magazines for rifles were standard in ww2, yes there were belts for box magazines, most of the time soldiers used five around striper clips. The reason why they used clips instead of magazines was practically and economic. The ammo belts for G43 or SVT box magazines would most of the time let a single soldier carry four mags meaning that he only had forty rounds. However striper clips are not as big and bulky as magazines so you could put two or maybe even four five round clips in one pouch. And the ammo belt in the game has six pouches so it's possibility that soldier has maybe sixty or hundred and twenty rounds instead of forty. And now the economic reasons. Magazines are expensive so you can't just throw them away that would be waste of resources and they are big and heavy so putting that back in your belt adds unnecessary weight. Clips on the other hand are very cheap, you don't have to put them back in your belt, they are small and light, and no one's gonna go in a frenzy when you loose them. So it would be accurate for most standard infantrymen to not have a belt meant for box magazines.

[@olekzajac5948]

From what I know the doctrine for the Gew 43 use presumed using three magazines - one in the rifle and two spare, and carrying the rest of the ammo in in the stripper clips. That also changed, initially to two magazines and then to just one in the rifle, as the war went on and magazines became more scarce due to material shortages.

[@munanchoinc]

Typically they actually only remove the mag for cleaning. They usually only use clips.

[@Kohnbread19]

The k98 pouches could only hold 12 stripper clips, 60 rounds.

[@Kohnbread19]

@@rustyrussell2537 A soldat with a G43 would have been given 3 magazines, one for the rifle and two in G43 pouches worn on the left. The K98 pouch would have still been worn on the right, giving the soldier the same 60 rounds.

[@zhukie]

Was distinctly frowned upon to remove Enfield box magazine, on threat of a severe chewing-out from your favourite Noncom lol

[@johnemmert9012]

I believe the G43 was often issued with nothing more than stripper clips. The K98 pouches are acceptable given how few extra magazines were in circulation. In the same situation, I would have probably preferred to use stripper clips.

[@simonandsimbagaming]

I'm pretty sure the G43 was issued with one additional magazine, but that was intended for if the first one got damaged.

[@anthonyargent3964]

The G43 was issued with box magazines, but could be reloaded with stripper clips like an SKS if you ran out of filled magazines in battle. From wikipedia: "Soldiers armed with the weapon typically carried one standard stripper clip pouch and a Gewehr 43 pouch with two spare magazines." So you'd have your magazine in the rifle plus two filled ones in your pouch, and if you ran out mid-battle, you could either fill it from the top with stripper clips, or if there was a bit of downtime in the battle you could take a moment to fill up your spare mags. A lot of the semi-auto weapons of that era used stripper clips into a box magazine, or some equivalent. From the soviet SVT being able to accept mosin stripper mags, to the G41 being a fixed, non-detachable box mag filled with stripper clips, right up to AA guns like the Bofors and some machine guns like the French Hotchkiss using stripper clips to load for automatic fire. Even the Garand sort of fits this, being en-bloc clips instead of a magazine, and even the post-war Russian SKS used fixed box mags filled from the top with stripper clips.

[@christianwilson5956]

​@@simonandsimbagaming somewhere along these lines. it was intended primarily for the use of stripper clips. Similar to the lee Enfield the magazine can be removed but it's not something you want to be doing under stress. stripper clips are a far easier combat reload.

[@fallenicarus2685]

Karl would have 100% been told Calais. They wanted to minimize the amount of people who knew Normandy and actively tried to convince the Germans it would be in Calais

[@EnigmaEnginseer]

I always felt that games based on real events had a lot of potential to be super authentic while also being fun to play. After playing games like WaW and BF1 I believed we were taking steps in the right direction. By no means was it perfect but the future was looking bright, then BFV and Vanguard happened and brought me back to reality.

[@EnigmaEnginseer]

@Aveteran Player Definitely, what they did set the stage for game companies to take steps into a darker and grittier look at the world wars (and potentially other conflicts) while still being enjoyable as video games. BFV had it been a WW2 version of BF1 with some improvements to gameplay and better handling of expansion could have been amazing. It’s such a shame

[@plaguedoctorjamespainshe6009]

TBH one of the best and most accurate games about WW2 is Wolfenstein the New Order And that game is also so fucking fun

[@darkrai2007]

I was fine with BFV, showing off some of the lesser known aspects of ww2. However when they decided to go woke and then completely mutilate or warp certain stories to fit a political agenda it lost me. Nordlys a warped version of operation grouse, freshman and gunnerside that rips the hard work from those that actually partcipated. I'm not against showing womens contribution in WW2, hell they need more coverage, (nancy wake, jane kendeigh, susan ahn cuddy, every single rosie and night witch), but I don't like when real peoples work and sacrifice is warped so they could say they have female inclusion. How lazy do you need to be to not even look up any of the women that fought for their freedom.

[@Bruh-d]

BFV Has this weird thing where, If you ignore the Females and inaccurate Uniforms and get a lobby that doesn't use them, Plus disable hud and all that? It can be somewhat interesting and authentic, Of course that's rare sadly ;-;

[@Dinstyvmorsa8539]

You should try Hell let Loose out

[@yashkasheriff9325]

About the Tiger II - I do believe that they used Tiger II #104 for that one. Tiger 104 was a Tiger II with the 1. Kompanie of s.SS.Pz.Abt 101, which coincides neatly with the LSSAH Pak 36 you found there. That vehicle was knocked out by a 17-pdr, one of the first Tiger IIs to be lost and captured in France by the Commonwealth. Its engine is currently powering Tiger 131, the only working Tiger I in the world. Bit anachronistic for the 101 specifically to have received Tiger IIs by this date (June 11th), they would've gone back to get theirs after Totalize in August fucked up the entire battalion, but I definitely know one Tiger II company was working under Knispel for 21st Panzer. As of time of writing, 78 years ago, s.SS.Pz.Abt 101 should be recuperating after Shitmann lost his entire 2nd company at the Bocage, probably somewhere south of Hill 112.

[@vonmillardmanalastas7524]

Pretty sure Kurt wasn’t the s.H.Pz.Abt 503/503rd (Wehrmacht) Heavy Panzer Battalion’s commander, let alone the 21st Panzer Divison.

[@yashkasheriff9325]

@@vonmillardmanalastas7524 Sorry, probably should have been clearer. Knispel was part of the 503 Schwere when they were attached to 21st Panzer on the 1st of June 1944, they were there throughout June and July, got their 1st, 2nd, and 3rd companies demolished in fighting around Caen.

[@karloveliki5373]

How the fuck do you guys even know this information

[@vonmillardmanalastas7524]

@@karloveliki5373 Simple:Our interest in tanks and their history

[@militant-otaku9795]

53:00 - biggest inaccuracy is the airborne operation occurring simultaneously with the beach landings. Airborne went in the night before with most landings just after midnight. First gliders came in just before dawn with the second wave arriving just before sunset. I know; artistic license.

[@Jason32Bourne]

Correct me if I'm wrong, but weren't there reinforcement drops after the beaches were secure. Like D+2 or 3?

[@militant-otaku9795]

@@Jason32Bourne absolutely. But to me it looks like they're trying to portray the gliders coming in just as the beach landings were beginning. It's possible that they meant for the gliders to be coming in while the navy was providing off shore bombardment in support of the push inland.

[@militant-otaku9795]

41:59 - I believe the box on his back is actually the power source for the site. Also, I don't think it was IR (infrared) but rather light amplification.

[@Sedan57Chevy]

I really love these dives into game authenticity. This game is an excellent example of authenticity and most of all atmosphere never getting in the way of fun gameplay.

[@waltvonkeisel5610]

When you were looking at the Airborne at 55:21 they weren't actually called Sergeant First Class during the war, they were instead called Technical Sergeants, only changing the ranks name after the war

[@rolfagten857]

Those German trucks are straight out of 'Raiders of the Lost Ark' (1981) From Do you know that famous Mercedes-Benz truck from the chase.

[@christophlima7982]

50:00 The Heer (army) also got a small amount of paratroopers (Fallschirminfanteriekompanie). Those men became 1939 part of "Fallschirm-Jäger-Regiment 1" (Luftwaffe), but they were allowed to wear the Heer isignia and the Heer Paratrooper batch. There is a famous WWII picture of them at Fort Eben-Emael, showing them smoking with Luftwaffe paratroopers. (The guy on the left site with a cigarette in hie mouth)

[@Rybo-Senpai]

The level design for the Berghoff is quite good actually, exterior wise it's almost like the consulted Mark Felton on the design of the level.

[@christophlima7982]

10:00 that unit is the 293. Infanterie-Division! This unit existed till November 1943. The plate dosen't match to a Luftwaffe unit, because W= Wehrmacht, H=Heer(army). Correct would be WL on the plate.

[@Milk192]

Every time I see you accurately break down any historical aspect I imagine you surrounded by WW2 books in your desk at arm's reach 😂

[@MinistryOfMagic_DoM]

Honestly surprised you didn't comment on "how did those spot lights not see the sub?" It made a ton of noise surfacing, it's extremely close to the shore, they can clearly see if from their position if you watch the kill cams. I have no idea why anyone on that sub was shocked they got blown up.

[@trank9405]

The Vampir Jaeger at 41:15 has a Red October reference. He wants to live in America, specifically Montana, and his name is ‘Samuel Neul.’ In ‘Hunt For Red October’, the titular submarines XO (or Russian equivalent) wanted to go to live in Montana, marry a fat woman who would cook him rabbits, and own an RV. AND the actor who played him was Sam Neil!

[@TheDgamesD]

I’d love to see you cover some of the Sniper Elite 4 uniforms and such, especially the Italian uniforms in that game.

[@SaakeliSaatana]

They were not as accurate.

[@olekzajac5948]

That anechoic coating actually existed, it was named _Alberich_ (after a dwarf from the German mythology who was able to become invisible), it was first tested in 1940 on the U-11 submarine and later on the U-67 and captured Dutch UD-4 subs. The first sub using these tiles went into service on the 6th of October 1943, it was the U-480 (Type VIIC). At the end of May 1944 it was tested against the U-247 and U-999, both of which didn't have the coating. It was sent on three patrols to the very dangerous English Channel, but despite that it was able to sink four ships without being detected (it was sunk in 1945 by a mine).

[@antoniooliver7708]

22:00 “WHERE IS YOUR BATTLE BUDDY?! Where’s you battle buddy soldier?!? IF YOU HAD YOUR BATTLE BUDDY YOU MIGHT BE ALIVE RIGHT NOW!!” Music to my ears.

[@SnugCheetah36]

I would LOVE a playthrough of the Target Fuhrer mission. Who doesn't like killing the Austrian man?

[@maxparsons6605]

The Austrian man himself

[@ImmortalSilva]

@@maxparsons6605 Well hes the only one who did it

[@justsomerandombirdwithinte5896]

@@ImmortalSilva Obviously not, dora the explora played a major role.

[@Man77772]

@@justsomerandombirdwithinte5896how dare you forget curious George’s crucial part in the Italian campaign

[@YourPalKindred]

Would love to see more of this. There are more uniforms, vehicles, weapons, lots of stuff, even down to the signs, that I'm really interested in hearing your thoughts on Edit: also really glad that they didn't shy away from showing the swastika in full rather than hide it like a lot of shooters seem to do. I'm not a history buff but it seems like the signage and symbols is great

[@Kohnbread19]

The german kit, overall, is quite good albeit basic. The regular infantry is clearly based on a reenactor, as the gas mask can is identical to the modern reproduction cans. The tunic is an early war M36, with early war Litzen on the collar. The shirt is the mid-late war soft cotton it seems, which is a common reenactor-ism. The boots are well done, especially gamaschen with the low boots. You do have one mistake early in the video regarding low boots. They were not issued as a cost-saving measure, they were issued alongside the marching boots. Their frequency within units all depended on the unit itself. Some units were only issued lowboots and others just marching boots. The officer seems to be wearing the iron cross first class, second class ribbon and a knights cross on his neck... which is ambitious for a generic field officer. The Jaeger class is just a Fallschirmjaeger, which is also well done. The zeltbahn tents are also well done, along with the weaponry and german vehicles. The helmets are late war M42 helmets, which would have been an odd combination with an early war tunic. They have good k98 ammo pouches, but I was disappointed to not see any K43 pouches in the game. For vehicles and equipment markings, they just picked unit logos out of a bucket it seems. The anti-tank guns all seem to be the smaller 37mm, which was gone by 1944, and they have the logo of the 12th SS on them. US uniforms are quite rough. but alright. The story leaves much to be desired, but there are some comical oversights. Such as you liberate the town in Liberate, advancing North, only to have Sherman tanks move through the town to advance south... where you just killed like 100 people. 8/10 imo

[@strigon_1586]

Fun fact, the rubber coating for U-Boats in this game actually existed and was called 'Albreich'. It was applied mostly to Type VIIC/41 U-Boats, with a total of around 10, the main example being U-1105 which was captured by the British and used in post-war military trials before being transferred to the US for 'explosive testing', she was sunk once in 48' then again in 49' because I'm assuming we thought it was funny to blow up a U-Boat twice, she was raised from the sea floor and sunk the final time with a 250 pound MK 6 depth charge suspended 30 feet beneath her hull. U-1105, or at least the remains of her, were rediscovered on 29 June, 1985 by a team of support divers led by Uwe Lovas. In November 1994, U-1105 was designated Maryland's first historic shipwreck preserve and was a preserved dive site at a depth of 91 feet. Differential GPS: 38-08.09' N, 076-33.09'W.

[@hauptmannhk8805]

Very nice video man, I'm really glad you showed how well Rebellion have done their research on this game (and how they completely butchered basic things like the US uniforms!). I was really impressed by the attention to detail they had with the bunker interiors and the German military props laying around everywhere, they got correct ammo boxes and shell containers, warm food carriers, water carriers, radios, etc... Also the reason the vehicles, the German infantry uniforms and the aforementioned props look so great is that they were used Photogrammetry on actual items from private and public collections instead of modelling the big assets by hands and scanning cheap Hong-kong/Taiwan uniform reproductions like DICE and Sledgehammer did. With that said I wanted to point out: 9:30 That's not entirely unreasonable because soldiers issued with G43's didn't get many (if at all, in some late war instances) spare magazines in addition to the one on the rifle itself, so him carrying Kar98k pouches for the stripper clips is correct. 21:16 This is actually a standard issue tent quarter/poncho Zeltbahn, nothing experimental about this. 29:25 That's an Henschel 33, it's a really nice touch that they depicted something other than the Opel Blitz since the Germans had, like you said, a humongous variety of lorries. 41:40 Big man's got the Vampyr scope battery on his back, if you look at the gascan closely you can see wires coming out of it. 44:27 That's the 22cm K532 (f) of Batterie Dollmann on Guernsey, it's still on the island today!

[@riley2120]

I like this style a lot! I’d like to see more of it in the future. Keep up the hard work and great content!

[@DDayJayke]

I was thoroughly impressed with the amount of accuracy they put in the game. Although, a lot of soldiers not wearing helmets is concerning, they probably did it to diversify how the enemy soldiers look in a way, rather than them all being copy and pastes with the exception of the faces. But not seeing 50 paratroopers in the middle of Berlin on May of 1945 is quite a treat. Especially with how they did their best to make the entire game feel authentic to WW2, and not just copy CoD Vanguard. I beat the game and trust me; you won't be seeing transport planes filling in for bombers. You will see I-400s though, and they are beautiful.

[@devindalton4688]

It's mostly a gameplay thing, really. Helmetless soldiers are easier to land headshots on since you don't have to deal with potentially not penetrating their helmets. The game has armor piercing ammo as well for that exact purpose.

[@schnelletruppenreenacting1959]

I so noticed actually most uniforms are the early m36 variation with the bottle green collars and the plated/scalloped pockets. The black SS uniforms weren't used out in the field as well but honestly despite all the small flaws, I love how they put the effort. None of the uniforms were terrible, all were reasonably done well.

[@MrFlankSinatra]

Great video. A couple minor nitpicks - the fallschirmjaeger’s belt buckle should be Luftwaffe, not a Heer one - the ss uniform is completely wrong for the time period (it’s black which was phased out for grey when the war began), wearing an armband, and the eagle on the cap is the standard German army one

[@tramlink8544]

16:22 the doccument youre zooming on with the letters and numbers is part of an enigma machine decoding booklet. it tells you which tumblers to switch out and what setting to have depending ont he month and day of the month. its pretty neat

[@justgold4113]

If I'm not mistaken, Jonathan from the Royal Armouries helped with the weapon accuracy. Think I saw a vid on youtube about it. That guy is a stickler for accuracy for game weaponry. Rightly so too.

[@ChocolatePiazza]

I saw a video where he said he helped with other Sniper Elite games but not 5. He also said that with some of the guns that they tried to keep as much realism of the weapons while still making it playable and fun.

[@justgold4113]

@@ChocolatePiazza He's great. I hope he gets to work on a lot more stuff 👍

[@pgrapidz]

Loved the D-Day cut scene with like 15 Nelsons firing at the beaches at point blank range

[@Rossebma]

In the first uniform inspection I noticed that even the canteen is in line with the rest. It is the mit-cheap version with the smaller cup. Really nice 😊

[@matthewholehouse2718]

The Vampire Jager you found, after you brought up the picture of the vampire sight, I think that box on the Jager's back is meant to the one in the photograph, probably houses the battery for sight.

[@jonathanwhite5132]

That S-Boat is beautiful, also I think the periscope thing is mostly mostly likely as since they were operating at PD( periscope depths) so they were looking not only for enemy aircraft but vessels as well.

[@Isylon]

At 33:48 the French rifle seems to be an RSC 17 (or 18), a WW1 French semi-automatic rifle. Apparently was used by Vichy troops and Volksturm, I would say it must be a rare find for the Resistance.

[@zurdochileno3230]

Yeah, it would make more sense to see the Resistance using MAS-36 or even some old Lebel rifles

[@timingegg7723]

One thing I love about this game is the heavy use of accordions in the soundtrack

[@wessexdruid7598]

The one thing that jarred, for me, was the occasional pile of four-way Euro wooden pallets. (Apart from the submarine surfacing with its 'planes up.) BTW the trucks aren't Opels - Mercedes Benz LG3000s (6x4). EDIT - Not French trucks!

[@majorborngusfluunduch8694]

The submarine mistake is worse than you thought. The dive planes aren't stowed, what you're seeing are separate "fins" where the planes would be if they were stowed. The developers must have looked at a photo of the boat on the surface and didn't quite understand what they were looking at. They must've thought the dive planes were permanently deployed like on the U-Boats and they were just hidden under the water.

[@germanstormtrooper2298]

Oh hell yeah been waiting for this

[@ThogDontCare]

In the level where you inspected the kriegsmarine guy; there is those tall bunker like structures, on the top floor of the one closest to the submarine hanger there were thin chalkboards above the slits that you shoot out of. On them chalkboards were drawings of the landscape & the distance to the structures relative to the bunker slits

[@electricfenrir0239]

that Icon on the Kubelwagen was the Bear of Berlin, if that helps

[@wealthybone2990]

Wasn't expecting sniper elite I guess you'll play any ww type game? It's my first sniper elite aside from zombie army but I probably enjoyed the invading more than the main game but there's issues I have with it like the host can kick you out even though they have the invader option enabled like what's the point? Hope you tried the invading.

[@SaakeliSaatana]

You will only like the campaign if you like stealth games like hitman.

[@fernandomarques5166]

Hey pacman, I'd like to point out that the thing in the back of the german para you thought was a pionner kit is the power pack for the Vampir NV scope, it even looks exactly like the one on the photo you showed at 42:04 The gun at 45:13 is a Canon de 220L mle 1917 known in german service as the 22cm K532(f) U-boat is actually a Type VII you can see the widening of the deck forward of the conning tower where the 8.8cm deck gun should be, also note the side tank protruding out of the hull, having a Alberich tile coating I'd guess that should be U-480 which was a Type VII C, one of the famous wrecks of the channel due to its coating.

[@nick50107]

I dunno if you've noticed it in the multiplayer/invasion mode but one of the Axis skins you can use is of fallschirmjäger. Which I had a laugh about as iirc they're pretty much all but either normal infantry now or just gone thanks to the attempt of an airborne invasion of that one Island in Greece.

[@Hollywood113807]

The biggest gripe I had about historical accuracy was from mission one. 2 soldiers are talking about the mighty 88 and how it can destroy planes and tanks with equal ease and they are so fortunate to have them and then you turn the corner and they are standing next to a Flakvierling. And then later in the game you come across 88s so they are modeled and in the game and could have been used.

[@potatogun2845]

9:40 The Gewehr 43 also top loaded from the standard mauser 5 round stripper clips. The stripper clip pouches would be more common than the 43 magazine pouches. Would be interesting to know if Germans issued the G43 generally even received extra magazines for the rifle.

[@christophlima7982]

56:54 it's not a key, its a lockpick (in German Dietrich), because the first commanders name was Sepp Dietrich.

[@barm9919]

2:02 I CAN’T BELIEVE YOU MURDERED A MAN WHO WAS GIVING EVERYTHING HE OWNED TO A DOG SHELTER!

[@barm9919]

@Jason Flake he learns about it a few minutes later.

[@Gazzi79]

LOL I played SE 5 last night and a German who done lots for Charities back in Germany before the war so I left him off the hook by sneaking past him.

[@Vanyawwd]

If I accidentally killed a German soldier who was nice I would pick them up and put them in a field of flowers

[@counterfeit1148]

So the dog shelter gets his stuff sooner

[@futurevegan8617]

I’m about halfway through the video and they really should’ve paid you for this let’s play. Buying this tonight!

[@claytonimor34]

I'm pretty sure you're in Marseille at the beginning, since I don't know anywhere where the Normandy coast faces south. This would also explain that map of the Nice area and Vichy French propaganda you encountered in that armory and first bunker, respectively.

[@eliot2638]

Glad I stumbled on your channel, my grandfather is from Australia.

[@ReisskIaue]

The Kübelwagen is definitly not from Luftwaffe as the licence plate indicates. it starts with WH, meaning Wehrmacht Heer. A car of Luftwaffe would have a licence plate starting with WL (Wehrmacht Luftwaffe).

[@the_loyal_monarchist5280]

If you check the iron cross at 48:15, you can see that it us a 2nd class, not a first class. The ribbon resembles a triangular ribbon wich was used by Hungarians to wear the 2nd class of the iron cross and one of the small ribbon bars, the ine with the red-white-green is the ribbon colors for the hungarian officiers service medal

[@AnimarchyHistory]

The weird thing is he also has the second class through the button loop. Which is what's throwing me off.

[@the_loyal_monarchist5280]

@@AnimarchyHistory i checked it on pc, its not a triangular ribbon, its just the award with a ribbon. So he wears 2 2nd class awards.

[@AnimarchyHistory]

@@the_loyal_monarchist5280 Man's gucci

[@darksnakenerdmaster]

Please do a video like this for the previous two games. They are very much worth your time and modeled to a similar level of accuracy. The opening of 3 even starts in Tobruk.

[@matthewholehouse2718]

I know Sniper Elite is a WW2 franchise and has always been one, however I would love for Rebellion to do a Sniper Elite game set in a titular 'what if?' WW3 scenario (thinking late 70s/early to mid 80s). Karl Fairburne marries and becomes a father after the end of WW2, and said son goes on to become the cold war equivalent of what Karl was. Would love to see if Rebellion puts in the same research effort into a cold war setting as well.

[@Sedan57Chevy]

Seeing Karl end up in Korea would be very interesting. Imagine long range sniper duels across mountain ranges, maybe even do some more urban combat too.

[@plaguedoctorjamespainshe6009]

@Aveteran Player at this point I just want a Vietnam game with the vietnamese side aka the good guys side of the war

[@Smougda]

@@plaguedoctorjamespainshe6009 vietcong: red dawn

[@SaakeliSaatana]

Would be cool to play as a Viet Cong sniper against a US sniper.

[@lucaswallace7476]

42:00 the thing on his back is the NV sight's battery. Yes it's that big.

[@REMASTEREDAGAIN]

Man I missed SE4's enemy reactions when everytime they got hit in Xray cam and somehow SE5 enemy reaction to getting hit was removed, ragdoll somehow got downgraded unlike 3 and 4

[@MrLolx2u]

Why the mag pouches of the Kar98K for a Gewher 43 user makes sense as the standard doctrine for them is to just charge rounds into the mag using stripper clips rather than switching mags thus it makes sense for them to issue Gewher 43 rifles out to normal rifleman and let them keep their old webbing that fits stripper clips for the Kar98K. The truck could be a massive spin on the Citroen T45 heavy truck with just extra axle. That truck was indeed used alot by the Germans to supplement their losses on the Opel Blitz during their invasion of Poland, France and the USSR. That rifle you see on the resistance fighter's back at the forest hideout, that's the RSC 1917 also known as "Fusil Automatique Modele 1917". It's supposed to be one of the few semi-automatic rifles to be used on the Western Front during WWI and it did. It worked quite well for the complexity and massive of a joke of mismatched and mediocre weaponry for the French but that rifle worked rather well. HOWEVER, it's quite inaccurate for it to be appearing in the French Resistance's hands even. As the rifle wasn't made in massive numbers, just about 86,000 made till the end of WWI and quite alot that wasn't damaged during the Interwars were taken by the Germans when they conquered France thus it slightly made no sense that the Resistance were even using the rifle that's quite hard to maintain without a proper factory making parts and also cumbersome to move around with as it's seriously damn long as a rifle rather than the MAS-36 and even the captured Kar98K. What was even funnier is that the in-game model is the RSC 1918 which wouldn't even make sense for the Resistance to have it as only 4000 of them were made and there's no way that they landed in their hands with the Germans taking everything from Petain's army. If you're talking about Sniper Elite 4 when he's in the desert fighting Rommel then yes, the rifle MIGHT be seen there being used by the Legionnaires or something because the RSC 1918 saw action during the Rif Wars in Morocco. In mainland France? Hardly possible for the Resistance to even get their hands on it. The Fallschirmjager that you kill at the lab with the admirals had two error but you just mentioned one. The another error was his webbing. He was definitely carrying a StG-44 as shown on the ground but his webbing was wrong as his ammo pouch isn't a full magazine pouch but the standard Kar98K stripper clip pouches which won't work with the StG-44.

[@nickysimi9866]

The ausland spy skin had only a few inaccuracies I could see. And the fallschirmjäger one too. American uniforms in this game are an eyesore. The regular heer uniforms are early war cut though. Right colour, wrong cut. Majority of soldiers should be in the m43 cut maybe a few m35/m40 cut

[@SaakeliSaatana]

Are the blue uniforms accurate? And were the SD used as spies? Cause he has SD insignia on his arm.

[@nickysimi9866]

@@SaakeliSaatana the coloring is off, and I doubt they were used as spies, feel like that was more an abwehr or gestapo thing. And if they were spies, they sure as hell wouldn't be wearing a uniform. I thought the SD were just like internal security in occupied territories and what not. But the devs probably only used an SD uniform to further differentiate these guys from the heer infantry. I'd have just called the skin internal security or SD Sentry or something along those lines lol

[@Blazcowitz1943]

For those who have finished Sniper Elite 5's story, you might be interested to learn about some of the real life basis for the games plot involving U-boats. If you haven't yet then go do that first because the following link will contain spoilers kzbin.info/www/bejne/rXm4dImVeqmCfKs

[@panzeriiiausfj6305]

Why I like your videos is the way you break down everything I'm the same way

[@derekmensch3601]

Also for any Fellow U.S Marines Adolf Von Schell was the Author of Battlefield Leadership. And I highly recommend you read it if you are infantry for a fantastic insight into a lot of the logic behind Marine corps operations

[@cpt.jamming]

You reacted exactly as I did when that Kingtiger came out of the hedge row

[@crookedwookie8782]

If you really want to get a good look at the German uniforms, go into Invasion mode. You'll spawn as a German counter -sniper, and you can walk right up to them and examine their uniforms from all angles.

[@fireblast133]

one thing i will say 4 did far better was the AI. guys would notice a member of their squad has gone missing and go searching for him, for example. They'd notice someone getting domed even if they didn't hear the shot. They were more aware of their surroundings. Here, they're kinda, derped. also, i think we can forgive the player character having access to a suppressed 1911, given that he is a stealth operative. Though in past games his standard sidearm was a welrod.

[@4T3hM4kr0n]

oh how long have I waited for this!

[@ivanbarbancon8750]

At 26min, did I see correctly blue collar tabs ? The one for transports personnel ? If correct, they did an awesome research job !

[@Whydoiecenneedthis]

You should do a historical break down of fractured jaw from Cold War

[@Aragorn195]

So I googled forifications on Jersey. I believe the canon you couldn't identify is a French Canon de 155mm Grande Puissance Filloux (GPF) modèle 1917 from Battery Moltke. There is a photo on Wikipedia from 2013 and the paint job of it does look strange

[@Wampa29]

Man I just love this series.

[@arthurmorgan69420]

You should do a historical break down of Call of Duty WW2. Love the videos, keep em up.

[@MrChaosBones]

How I decided to watch this video at 1:30AM: "Hm, do I really wanna listen to Animarchy rant about misrepresented uniforms and provide like 4 different warfare history lectures for an hour?... Yes."

[@krypticpanda6670]

Would love to see more!

[@foldervtolvr]

You should react to Medal Of Honor: Above And Beyond. It has a ton of cool details as well as not censoring the “Spicy Pinwheel” or anything. It is an amazing experience and unlike so many games focuses on a somewhat normal soldier who was brought into the OSS after receiving the Medal of Honor in Tunisia.

[@przeciwskarpa]

Finaly, a new video

[@walnzell9328]

The boxes on the backs of the Vampir Jaegrs are the batteries for their vampir optics, which you can see in the real life photo.

[@walnzell9328]

7:12 I think the Luftwaffe outpost sign is an accident. I don't think there's any Falschirmjaegrs on this map, but there are anti-air artillery units in the area which I know the Luftwaffe had a lot of, especially late war. But all the troops here aren't in Luftwaffe ground unit uniforms. They all look like standard Heer with some looking like maybe Waffen-SS.

[@seegurke93]

29:35 nope its German, could be a Henschel truck from the early war. I have some models in my stash from ICM in 1:35 I will check: could be a Krupp L3H163, Henschel D 33 or Mercedes Benz LG3000 without the star on the hood ;)

[@ScarfaceGameReviews]

These games play a lot like the pulp movies of the 60s and 70s like Kelly’s Heroes and The Eagle Has Landed.

[@Blazcowitz1943]

13:17 "Let me look at that SS guy, he looks relatively good." All SS men look good when they are dead.

[@AnimarchyHistory]

You get it.

[@Blazcowitz1943]

@@AnimarchyHistory Thank you, sir.

[@plaguedoctorjamespainshe6009]

Giga based

[@evanm1337]

Double based Triple based Overbased Basedtacular Basedtrocity Basedamanjaro Basedtastrophe Basedpocalypse Basedionaire

[@theoneduckson2312]

Interesting fact about guernsey. The British and the Americans knew it was heavily fortified, so they bypassed it completely and just let the Germans starve until they surrendered.

[@bomberfox5232]

the insignia on the kubelwagen appears to be a Schwere Panzer Aubteilung 510 division though its usually got the bear's tongue out. They probably just removed the tongue

[@fdsdh1]

44:51 looks like 22 cm K 532(f), there are some surviving barrels in Jersey and Guernsey - it almost seems like they might have visited.

[@thevictoryoverhimself7298]

RE: 20:40 : Can confirm a .30-06 to the chest will kill you. America was in a period of really over-doing it as far as bullet size goes because they'd just come off of fighting locals in former spanish colonies who would take powerful stimulants before going into combat, so when they were shot with the .30-40 Kraig bullet it replaced they would still die, but they'd often live long enough to continue fighting for a few critical seconds or minutes. If you're hit with a .30-06 that is absolutely the end of your day. This was also the reason the .45ACP was adopted for sidearms and SMGs and not the more popular 9MM luger. When the M1911 and its rivals were being tested for adoption the only requirement from the government was "it must shoot this big bullet". As much as i love the M1911 the alternate history nerd in me would have loved to see a .45ACP luger that was also being trialed for the contract as its rival. (They're kind of a nightmare to maintain, so the soliders wouldnt have) This era of US gun design is very possibly the origin of the phrase "Stopping power".

[@PhilipCJames]

Interesting video. Didn't quite get the reference to Warspite (HMS WARSPITE?) when you were musing over the SCHNELLBOOT wall-poster you discovered. The graphic image, of a sinking warship beneath the e-boat and the torpedo, was lifted from a famous photograph of the pocket battleship KMS GRAF SPEE, shortly after she was scuttled in the Montevideo Roads (Check out the Wikipedia site for the image). Not quite sure why the Germans would use that image of the ignominious end of one of Nazi Germany's highest profile capital ships to illustrate the result of their own Kriegsmarines exploits, but I guess it's perhaps appropriate, given they did sink that ship themselves!

[@ThomasLover10852]

Okay I gotta point this out for the sake of the game. At 52:55 there’s a shot of a C-47 from the J8 Squadron with the letter on the tail reading B being shot down. The J8 B was the lead plane of the J8 Squadron, aka 92nd Squadron of the 439th Troop Carrier Group, which was in fact towing gliders into Normandy on June 6th, 1944 as well as dropping the 18 paratroopers they had onboard. This is what I find funny. Of all the planes they could have shown getting shot down they picked this one, whom I’ve met the Radio Operator who served onboard her and personally stated to me while they were shot at plenty of times they did not in fact crash and burn into the beaches of Normandy. Sorry game, can’t give ya this win. (Side Note: the J8 Squadron did lose 1 plane during on D-Day but definitely this one which sits a happy life in an aircraft collection in Florida.) Just as a minor side note as well, the J8 Squadron was tasked with dropping paratroopers and pulling gliders early in the morning of D-Day, specifically at around 6:00 in the morning under pitch black conditions, well before daybreak. I get it, it looks cinematic with the sun rising but not accurate. Sorry Sniper Elite. Edit: the J8 Squadron plane being shot down was in fact not the B as originally thought but rather is marked with an "E" which poses another interesting problem that as far as the records for the squadron are concerned there was never a plane given this designation going into Normandy.

[@kienschwartz7232]

You can check the Axis Invasion uniform screen to see the uniforms better

[@AnOldYoungPerson]

Rebellion Games actually did historical research for their games, down to the uniforms and the weapons the locations ect, that they use in their games. And in one of the most recent GameSpot's Jonathan Ferguson videos, Jonathan outright says that they did go to the Royal Armouries to look at real WW2 weaponry for Sniper elite, 4 & 5, to use for references and accurately model them in game. kzbin.info/www/bejne/rZvcdWWEpZJqjqc (Plus I mean the CEO of Rebellion Games Jason Kingsley is an an actual knight, no seriously he has an actual knighthood from the queen. And he does History TV on KZbin, it's fair to say that historical accuracy, in their games is extremely important.)

[@quandaledingle443]

Hilarious video mate!

[@Cohor101]

You could react to the guns, uniforms, and armor in Hell let Loose, its a decent game they got somethings right I belive, would be amazing to see you react to it. Keep up the good work love it.

[@LoneWolf051]

well the G43 was issued with only 2 magazines, troops were issued 12 standard k98 clips to feed their G43s, so the K98k ammo pouches were what most G43 troops were issued in the field. G43 mag pouches were rarely seen

[@Stars_51]

41:27 that is a red october refrence i always wanted to see montana

[@wbertie2604]

The G-43 could be reloaded with clips. The normal allocation was only three actual magazines, with extra ammunition to be loaded via clips. It's not impossible someone might not get any magazines other than the one in the rifle, although that would be a problem. Also possible is keeping the magazines issued safe in a more padded location to preserve them and using only clips to reload.

[@thegachawolf]

I have a question, when you first looked at the Heer and SS ge erald uniform cross breed, where did you find the Pixel image? I'm from a community that makes these types of images (Both for our own creative purposes and for historical things)

[@thegachawolf]

Timestamp: 36:24

[@pedropacino1994]

The sidearm holster is on the wrong side, I´m confused that nobody noticed

[@ahmadhadi177]

There's also posters featuring the Japanese.They're very prominent in Spy Academy,Festung Guernsey and Rubble And Ruin.

[@arandomamerican1514]

@8:05 the imprint of the boot suggests a commando sole, which is not entirely impossible but very unlikely.

[@militant-otaku9795]

04:50 - no comment about having the only double-action M1911 in history? 32:00 - and at this point the game developers suddenly went "Oh! We really should animate the 1911 being cocked!" 38:30 - and back to double action.

[@discozillah]

honestly, at 32:00 the gun was simply locked open due to no bullets being left so even that's wrong hahahaha

[@militant-otaku9795]

@@discozillah oops. Missed that.

[@discozillah]

@@militant-otaku9795 happens to the best of us!

[@EfftupSmith]

I was going to argue (using a WE Airsoft 1911A1 for comparison) that it is not double action, but is firing from and recocking when firing into the half cock position. But I have realised WE didn't model the hammer accurately. In game it must be DAO though.