An IRRITATED Historian Reacts to CoD: Vanguard's Stalingrad Sniper Mission

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Yeah guys, here we go. Call of Duty: Vanguard... We're back... You asked for it... and god I wish I wasn't. But at least its a sponsored video this time so hey, why not. This was originally supposed to be only thirty minutes long but they got so much wrong it went WAAAY longer. Pain... so much pain.
So turn off the Mr Beast drama and stop fawning over the Ahsoka trailer. Sit down and learn something about the historical errors that this game continues to make.
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[@AnimarchyHistory]

✅ Install Raid for Free Mobile and PC: clik.cc/VNobt and get a special starter pack with an Epic champion Knight Errant 🎉 Join the Dragon Egg Hunt here egghunt.plarium.com/ Yeah guys, here we go. Call of Duty: Vanguard... We're back... You asked for it... and god I wish I wasn't. But at least its a sponsored video this time so hey, why not. This was originally supposed to be only thirty minutes long but they got so much wrong it went WAAAY longer. Pain... so much pain. So turn off the Mr Beast drama and stop fawning over the Ahsoka trailer. Sit down and learn something about the historical errors that this game continues to make.

[@Edax_Royeaux]

If you want to lose the will to live, you can always watch USS Indianapolis: Men of Courage (2016). It's got Nick Cage, a nuclear bomb and man-eating sharks in it.

[@n.a.4292]

Nyees, suffer for our entertainment

[@tizi087]

No matter who you colaberate with pacman: i will watch it. Weebs and Plane guys have to stick together

[@lukakamberovic6486]

It still fake dude this sponsor

[@Autobotmatt428]

Hey I wanted Call of Duty 3 Polish Mission

[@kapkant6197]

The funny thing is, at this point I think Black Ops III had a more accurate representation of the Battle of Stalingrad than Vanguard at this point, and Black Ops III's lasted until 1945 with zombies, mechs, cyborgs and dragons.

[@ryszakowy]

and it still did a better job about it

[@kapkant6197]

​​@@ryszakowy BO3's let me rocket punch zombies which was the peak of human achievement, Vanguard's just makes me question how it's supposed to be the same universe as World at War and Modern Warfare.

[@omarmatouq3855]

I kinda wish Chris Kyle was still alive. To shoot the pathetic mess that is this game and sniper.

[@matthewramirez6896]

Black ops 3 wasnt stalingrad.... It was bastogne i believe.

[@omarmatouq3855]

@Matthew Ramirez he is prolly referring to Groad grovi (a map in zombies)

[@AirsoftAlfonse]

it blows my mind that they just didn't put a flash hider on one of the most iconic belt fed machine guns ever to have been made... LIKE WHY!? 😵

[@AnimarchyHistory]

Man I have no idea. It absolutely blows my mind given how iconic the flash hider is. That shapely cone of the fascist death dispenser is in more movies than just about any other except the MP-40

[@davitdavid7165]

I think it is because they made it into an attachment for the guns and then put a default model of the mg 42 in the cutscenes.

[@atalaitoktassadar4027]

What blows my mind even more is the Dual-drum (aircraft use only on bomber mounted MG 151 and later LW-Troops) and ofc the shoulder fire... wow

[@Autobotmatt428]

@@AnimarchyHistory You should do the British Para Mission the Paras even have B.A.Rs not even modeled correctly.

[@matthewcharles5867]

Not really surprising they couldn't even get a bren gun right.

[@shadowtrooper262]

Fun fact, the building Polina fought in is the Univermag. A department store that the German 6th Army used as their headquarters and is the area where the Germans surrendered in January 1943. That literally means Polina is fighting inside a German headquarters. The inaccuracy of this mission...

[@juhokuusisto9339]

About the German helmet with the skull. As far as I know, in WW2 Germans didn't paint skulls in front of their helmets. Freikorps did do that in 1919. And most, if not all, of the pics of skulls in WW2 stahlhelms are from Finnish Light Detatchment 4, that was part of the cavalry and skulls were part of cavalry emblem.

[@Getoffmycloud53]

Why bother to look for historical accuracy in the current mainstream FPS like Battlefield and Call of Duty? Realism doesn’t sell. Look at the more realistic FPS, they have relatively low player counts, most are struggling to survive. The average player does not want a realistic tactical they want Fortnite in WW2, with fun exotic customizable weapons and character skins. They would consider realism as boring, standard weapons and uniforms as a lack of imagination - been there done that, how many more WW2 games can you make repeating the same events etc. Well the result of that is Vanguard. A true corporate “develop by the tick box” game. There were some good games, even recently some came close to the originals, but still handicapped by the need to be innovative for the sake of innovation, inclusivity and last but not least propaganda.

[@juhokuusisto9339]

@@Getoffmycloud53 This is the campaing, not the multiplayer. In MP you can have more freedoms for the sake of fun, but you can make the campaing historically accurate. Also most of these studios advertise their games as "historicaly accurate". Multiplayer is the thing that most play, no? But I guess it is too much hard work to make campaing and MP with different skins and mechanics.

[@aoki6332]

@@Getoffmycloud53 historical accuracy does sell its just that game these days are mean for "modern audience" so they try to trigger the less amount of people at the cost of gamer and people that actually care

[@magniwalterbutnotwaltermag1479]

​@@aoki6332 wtf is this statement? Trigger less people? They added all the shit inaccuracues because they thought people wouldn't like going all bolt-action or semi-auto without attachments, they were going for the right audience with the completely wrong mindset in gameplay.

[@Khornecussion]

As my great great grandpa said about one of his friends having his head blown in half by a Nazi sniper. " One minute he's talking to me about his back hurting from the twisting motion we were constantly doing loading mortars, the next he's staring up at the sky with half his entire head missing. "

[@GUMMRUCHK]

Her entire character just feels like a box being check on some list to make sure the company's ESG score remains high.

[@sandwichninja]

Because that's exactly what it is.

[@GUMMRUCHK]

@@sandwichninja She reminds me of a character Dice put in BFV a young Norwegian girl who destroys a German facility, but it was worse because that facility was real and was destroyed by a real life commando team.

[@sandwichninja]

@@GUMMRUCHK This is a big reason I don't support these companies. Everything is "woke" propaganda. I prefer indie games now anyway and I find there's less BS in them.

[@FreyR_Kunn]

Wait till you find out female snipers were a thing in the Soviet army. Polina is inspired by Lyudmila Pavlichenko, the deadliest female sniper in history with about 300 confirmed kills. Women took part in WW2 my guy.

[@DevynTheIrishMan]

@@GUMMRUCHK her whole character is, “keel the nazi, thaet is plan”

[@davitdavid7165]

The trend down bolt handle being on all models is because in the game the mosin is a scoped sniper rifle by default and you can simply remove the scope and use irons, which does not change the rest of the gun. And the mg42 does nor have a booster because they made the mg42 have no muzzle by default and turned the booster into an attachment, which they forgot to ad. The cursed gunsmith is creeping itself into the campaign.

[@plaguedoctorjamespainshe6009]

I "like" how they can get away with an head blow off by an sniper in an M-rated game But they don't show it because is easier to slap an wound decal on the model than to actually make an different model showing the damage

[@GrumpyIan]

It always infuriated me that cod games after WaW never had such detail with gore when I was younger.

[@nikolajc7617]

A sniper, a wound, not an.

[@GrainOnTheGo]

@@GrumpyIan WWII had some pretty good detail, but that game is rarity in todays environment.

[@knowtheplan472]

VG has gore models in MP and ZM, idk why they didn’t just reuse those

[@defenestrationismyfavoriteword]

@@knowtheplan472 Gameplay models are usually lower fidelity than those used in cutscenes especially prerendered scenes

[@Lucasolvalou]

Getting history wrong and misrepresenting facts and timelines in media should be an actual crime gosh darnit.

[@michatomaszewski9388]

I mean Egypt is suing Netflix for their bullshit with Cleopatra so I guess it is thankfully

[@Krysnha]

We have a black cleopatra, a black juan do ark, a blac Aquiles, and i dont know if the proyect to put a black Julius Cesar work, lets not even metnion, the constant push for more representation in history, please come on, and in these f saga, the mission to dont remember that a mother and daugther taking down the heavy water installation to deprive the necesary to produce nuclear weapons, that was a group of dont remember the names but they were a group of men, and they put a girl saving her mom, lets not talk the cybor woman.

[@MrNajibrazak]

Being woke is more important than being factually accurate these days if you have noticed.

[@Krysnha]

@@Val-cb6hm Black Viking king in netflix vikings

[@Dunkopf]

​@Val NGL that might be hilarious because if I remember correctly Churchill was an absolute cunt and a huge racist

[@Tbt19-110]

Call of Duty Finest Hour had an awesome Stalingrad mission set. It started with crossing the Volga River, had you play as a female sniper, and ended with a great tank battle centered in Operation Uranus

[@Zaprozhan]

Hell yeah. Put the protagonist in the middle of the REAL crazy shit that happened, rather than make up new stuff that comes off as disrespectful.

[@reqschannel]

agreed. that game was very underrated and the first soviet mission was ridiculously good.

[@usadroopymeat1099]

Finally thanks for mentioning the game

[@usadroopymeat1099]

@@Zaprozhanbuddy haven’t you played the very first cod titles such as finest hour

[@usadroopymeat1099]

@@reqschannelyep they are all underrated because the people who made the franchise just doesn’t remaster the very first cod titles such a depressing sigh that it makes you want to🤦‍♂️

[@liamcorcoran8575]

I was waiting for the obligatory random shotgun to show up. Also that guy hunting from the back of the Storch is a mad lad.

[@foo-foocuddlypoops5694]

18:26 So in WW2 we've got the Soviets using their planes to drop vodka, the Americans using them to make ice cream and the British using them to cool beers. This right here is why we learn history.

[@aoki6332]

and they where the Luftwaffe making a clear sky

[@alexanderlewis8351]

@@_E_Pluribus_Unum_ i think it could be made just in the fuselage of a high alt bomber, cold enough

[@Whs7214]

Fun fact about the trench mag for the Gewehr 98/98K: it is pseudo detachable for cleaning purposes, but due to the layout of the magazine body, follower, and detent from the floorplate that locks it in place you’d have to use the tip of a cartridge any time you wanted to reload without using stripper clips, and as soon as you did the overpowered spring from the follower would ejaculate ammo everywhere the second it was removed from the gun. It does use a small cross key to pin the follower in place but as far as I’m aware isn’t modeled in game.

[@JingleJangle256]

The writing makes me want to vomit. From the Nazis calling her “Lady Nightingale” to the nonsense of her saving the Russian cause in Stalingrad, it’s all embarrassing garbage. Whoever wrote this game should be ashamed of themselves.

[@homesteadlegion4419]

Come on now dont be mean, its clearly written by the edgy 12 year old daughter of the lead designer after she watched enemies at the gate for research

[@jphil-mk8bw]

You only missed the TACTICAL FLASHLIGHTS fixed on the k98 bayonet lugs that the soldiers have in the apartment/factory thing

[@waltvonkeisel5610]

"Paulina changed the war for the Allies and the Soviet Union" My Bullshit alarm is ringing with such intensity that it is causing nearby glass and other items to shatter.

[@munanchoinc]

There is actually a manual of operations with the MG42 and how to hipfire it. You basically need to use a rifle strap on your arm and use the Bipod in the folded position as a pseudo foregrip. It looks uncomfortable as hell and woefully inaccurate but it's better than having nothing.

[@trenteaston3515]

Damn cool seeing you here, I love your channel. Audie Murphy used a hipfire MG42 at one point after he ran out of ammo, and you can see his technique himself in his movie To Hell And Back.

[@strikeforce1500]

Now I do wonder. How did the germans came to find out?. Surely it was in some desperate measure, but I want to think a German machine gunner was drunk, and was like 'Hanz,I bet I can use the Machinegewer as a rifle!'

[@koreancowboy42]

​@@strikeforce1500 nahh it's a literal option to use a rifle belt/strap on a machine gun. Check out generation wars a German movie that's similar to band of brothers. There's a scene where a German machine gunner using the MG 42 hip firing with the rifle straps.

[@rubberwoody]

Shame the MG42 can't single fire like the 34

[@wolfsruhm]

@@rubberwoody Ohhh but it can, with proper trigger discipline. Granted i am talking in experience of it's szuccessor, the MG-3 here, but if you have a good control over your fingers, you could single fire those things.

[@Darnian72]

I cant believe they are so arrogant to claim that one woman single-handedly inspired the entire soviet army to liberate Stalingrad and crush the remnants of the 6th army. This is an insult to history and activision should be ashamed of what they have done to COD with this crap.

[@homesteadlegion4419]

Its written like the soviet fan-fic of a 14 year old edge lord....

[@peterclarke7006]

I mean... If you're going to Call of fucking Duty for your accurate history information, something has gone VERY wrong with your education. I have a degree in History, and a particular interest in WW2 and the Cold War, but for all CodV's faults as a game, I just can't bring myself to hate their butchery of history, because it's a AAA arcade shooter. I might as well get upset about the treatment of Roman history in Asterix comics. 😂

[@nom3rcyinc.308]

You didn't play the older cod games and it shows

[@randot6675]

​@@peterclarke7006CoD has never been high on historical accuracy scores, but they've always had scores of respect for the historical material they were adapting. Vanguard is an insult to history not because of historical accuracy, but because it's tone and portrayal just sucks all around.

[@peterclarke7006]

@@randot6675 explain. We already know cod is an arcade shooter. We already know it and battlefield started deviating from the alleged historical script as they moved further away from single player campaigns and more into chasing that sweet, sweet multiplayer money. And yet you stupid cod fan boy berks are still getting upset about them becoming more like a brainless twitch shooter mobile game with every iteration, and then still also claiming that multiplayer is all that matters. You've done this to yourselves. And as a former World at War/European Assault/bad company 2 fan, I will never, ever forgive you.

[@Aercusnor]

FYI: I wouldn't think shoulder firing the MG42 would be very difficult, though you'd hold on to the bipod and certainly keep fingers well away from the barrel sheath. I've done it many times with the MG3, which is pretty much the same gun, and it doesn't weigh more than around 12kg with the ammo. It also doesn't take an incredible amount of practice to fire in 3-4 round burst, and with holding the bipod accuracy is decent in the 20-50m range as that's when you rely on 'point-and-shoot' . I would also assume the Germans picked larger guys for the larger guns, and I think pretty much any 180ish/80ish guy won't have any major difficulties in lifting 12kg. At the very end of my conscription we were granted a bit more freedom, and I was allowed to Rambo the close combat fire track with the MG3 and 1 barrels worth/200 rounds (my squad leader/'blood-quart' found the idea funny). The targets did have more holes than running the round with the AG3, though mostly due to twice the ammo...

[@Edax_Royeaux]

Doesn't 7.62×51mm NATO only have like half the power of 7.92×57mm Mauser due to it being an intermediate cartridge?

[@Aercusnor]

@@Edax_Royeaux I have no idea unfortunately.. Though the MG3 is belt fed, not magazine. My comment was mostly on the feasibility of shoulder firing the thing. When it comes to punching power, the lesson was "one sandbag to stop an AG round, two to stop an MG burst".

[@nullvoid3677]

@@Edax_Royeaux 7.62x51 is a battle rifle round full powder a slightly smaller 30-06 really.

[@Edax_Royeaux]

@@nullvoid3677 I see I mixed up the numbers on bullet energy, it says Mauser has about 4k j, NATO has 3.5k j.

[@juhokuusisto9339]

@@Edax_Royeaux If 762 NATO is intermediate, then 7,62x39 is a pistol round.

[@SVDassassin]

And Holy SHIT if you, lazerpig, and perun were on one video or even a podcast I would listen to it 10 times a day

[@AnimarchyHistory]

Well, Lazerpig and I ARE on a podcast my guy. Perun can't (yet) because of his work.

[@SVDassassin]

@@AnimarchyHistory listening to it now and its my favorite yet. And its length is BEEFY. I love it, the longer the better

[@Oggie389]

The german shoulder firing the MG 42 is a reenactor....you can even see the Mg belt is comprised of blanks and crimped near the top

[@PANCERNY87]

During the Polish-German armored maneuvers "Cross Attachment" I had the opportunity to get acquainted with the MG-3, a direct descendant of the MG-42. This was for entertainment, not tactical, but it is perfectly possible to shoot from a touchdown to the shoulder. The problem is with the rate of fire. Little chance for a good concentration of fire, unlike the PKM or UMG 2000 that we use in Poland.

[@Exilninja]

I was waiting for the AS-44 bit lmao, I remember chuckling out loud when I came across an experimental assault rifle that wasn't invented yet in the middle of Stalingrad. 😆

[@thyrampantpigeon]

53:16 was the furthest I got in this game before giving up and never touching it again, despite all of the stupid decisions the devs made before now, at this point enemies constantly came running up behind me out of no where, it really felt like they were trying to mimic multiplayer gameplay in singleplayer, like that guy that runs by the player at 54:48. This segment broke the camels back and why I don't buy Call of Duty anymore.

[@MLPIceberg]

That's it? Not the fact that Call of Duty stopped being about the "Call to Duty" and more of "Murder entire countries by yourself" simulator? Which also stopped being accurate during MW2... Kinda lost me back then.

[@Autobotmatt428]

By the end of the game I was like f it this is bad historical fiction with bs woke politics. I just played the last mission not caring then i never played the campaign again. I mean this was worse the Battlefield V story missions.

[@kakyointhemilfhunter4273]

​@@Autobotmatt428 Define woke and how this campaign was "woke"

[@gyorgyr.6554]

@@kakyointhemilfhunter4273 bruh, just watch the other campaigns, the game reeks of tokensim and making people racist ingame, while its historically known that those people (who are portrayed racist) in fact werent.... Its just a shit game with a clear political message (like the glamorization of the ussr, bleegh)

[@Talon3000]

That was an issue since CoD2 way back when. These games always kept spawning enemies in impossible numbers and locations until you hit trigger points.

[@ivanthemadvandal8435]

As someone who's shot melons with 7.92x57 Mauser can confirm can what he said about exit wounds

[@tetrisking8054]

Same lol

[@samwisethe5th112]

Hell, as someone whose shot melons with a .22 I can confirm lol.

[@Amogusrath]

As someone who shot nerf darts at targets, I can totally confirm :)

[@sachoune3416]

About the red collar tabs during the Stalingrad mission, it could be plausible. The 1943 uniform (the introduction of which was decided Jan 15th) hadn't been issued to everyone yet, so collar tabs were still used to show rank and branch (red being the color of infantry). By 1941 "low visibility" tabs were introduced, but never completely replaced the colored ones.

[@josephhelgersonjoseph6115]

I will point out that Polina is based off of Lyudmila Pavlichenko who didn't take part in the Battle of Stalingrad.

[@usadroopymeat1099]

That is true thank you respect the lady death

[@RPGCOMPANY]

The mosin PU example you posted isn’t a real one either. It has a hex receiver which the pu mosins were never built on! Good video keep it up!

[@DapperKitty]

One of my history teachers in High School, brought in a de-milled mg-42 in one class, and boy it that thing heavy. I tried to WaW it and aim down sights and was only able to do it for like a second.

[@juhokuusisto9339]

My history teacher brought a deactivated Suomi M31 for the class to play around.

[@McBlazington]

One of my history teachers brought in a T34. I could barely carry the thing so I have no idea how they could move those things around.

[@collinwood6573]

In my high school forensic science class the school resource officer brought a shotgun that was involved in a murder case from the 1890s

[@JohnSmith-mk5jt]

​@@McBlazington My teacher once brought in a decomissioned Fletcher Class destroyer for us to mess around with. I could only carry it for a second or two, it's very heavy.

[@calamitousenigma9052]

​@@JohnSmith-mk5jt My teacher once brought an intact Yamato-class battleship to class for show and tell. It was quite a hefty thing, could barely get it off the ground.

[@josephhelgersonjoseph6115]

Pacman, I would like for you to do a historical breakdown of the rest of Battlefield 1’s War Stories and perhaps even check out the multiplayer.

[@callum105]

id watch that

[@JohnSmith-mk5jt]

If I had to guess, it's probably a little bit more accurate than what was portrayed here, but still mostly wrong. No Battlefield or Call of Duty title has ever been historically "accurate", but Battlefield 1 and Call of Duty: World at War are both certainly more historically "authentic".

[@gokbay3057]

@@JohnSmith-mk5jt a big issue with Battlefield 1 is everyone and their dog having experimental sub-machine guns instead of the bolt action rifles they would have but otherwise it is historically pretty decent iirc.

[@JohnSmith-mk5jt]

@@gokbay3057 I think World War 1 games can have a little bit of leeway because making interesting gameplay that can also cater to casual history enthusiasts/gamers would be impossible with only bolt action rifles. World War 2 games don't have that constraint, so the standard is higher.

[@gokbay3057]

@@JohnSmith-mk5jt Yeah, I don't disagree that what Battlefield 1 did is fine artistic license because Bolt Action or MG emplacements only would be boring while WW2 Games can still have decent variety as well as accuracy at the se time.

[@Quillyik]

That DP27 is actually a dpm, which is anachronistic. The pistol grip is the giveaway. They cocked it up.

[@jeffcooper7258]

You're doing a video with Perun? Epic. Can't wait. With his dry humor and your sarcasm, yeah.

[@avroarchitect1793]

first the pig then the powerpoint man. Its gonna be a good summer.

[@alexbuckenham1663]

I like how everyone probably knows by now what 'powerpoint man' means :)

[@WalnutPlum5106]

I’m pretty sure Polina’s father was implied to be a Russian civil war veteran

[@josephsarra4320]

3 COD Vanguard missions left: Rats of Tobruk, Operation Tonga, & Phoenix.

[@Soren015]

The "partisan" sign in the intro makes a lot more sense in the historical reference photo you put up; it is all in plural. "We are partisans, and have shot at german soldiers." - that makes sense, when there's a whole row of people who've been summarily executed. It makes somewhat less sense for a single person, like in the cutscene.

[@Padre_416]

I like how COD WaW did their weapon modification system. They only allowed it in multiplayer mode so there could be a form of sandbox, but in the campaign everything was historically accurate.

[@DapperKitty]

The other call of Duty game your thinking of is Finest Hour. That level also featured Call of Duty's first female protagonist, and the first time a female was ever seen featured in Call of Duty.

[@usadroopymeat1099]

That is true thank you for mentioning it because i have that game

[@mattwordsworth9825]

Yeah and it accurately showed the Battle of Stalingrad unlike this piece of crap. It was hilarious seeing Germans running around with STG-44s and Gewehr 43s in 1942 Stalingrad

[@MLPIceberg]

And she's better than Paulina by a thousand miles...

[@usadroopymeat1099]

@@MLPIceberg really now

[@56bturn]

An interesting suggestion I heard about the Volkssturmgewehr is that it may have actually been more practical to just keep making StG-44s, if simplified, then to completely retool to make the VSG, especially since those ones used the same magazine and ammo, though the one in the game might've been one of VG1, 2 or 5 versions.

[@BufusTurbo92]

I know where they got the skull on the helmet idea: some Finnish units did paint skull on their helmets but they were on the literal opposite flank of the entire eastern front, lmao

[@misanthropicservitorofmars2116]

The factory map in Red Orchestra 2 was brutal. Much of the map could be covered by machine guns and snipers. Leaving the riflemen and assault troops to rush below or around the flanks to try and get to the points. That game was brutal. Felt too realistic. Basically pop your head up in a server with good players and you’re done. Loved that game.

[@DakotaofRaptors]

The AT rifles were beasts

[@Off-HandedBarrel]

The thing that gets me is, you could've had a lot more realistic weapons in the game that we would've been more forgiving for cheesing in. Like the ppd variants, the avs-36 through svt-40, the nagant revolver. Early geweher 41s. Mp-38s. Hell, even the mp 28. The plethora of tank and aircraft mgs that coulda been 'scavanged' from wrecks coulda been forgiven. There's plenty to pull from without just shitting on history.

[@eugeneoliveros5814]

Unexpected reference to Life of Boris, but a welcomed one

[@mariusionita266]

40:40 heck, one of COD 2's mission in the first part is fixing a telephone wire between some garrisons in Stalingrad. God how I'd wish they'd remade that game in modern graphics...

[@MLPIceberg]

Uh... no. Why? Can you really trust a company full of sexual predators and debaucherous weirdos (that also own subsidiaries that have since followed suit) to remake a game and not fuck it up to the extent they did when making Vanguard or WWII? No. Just... remaster it and release on modern conso- oh wait. It is on Xbox Series X. So just remaster it. Yeah.

[@usadroopymeat1099]

@@MLPIceberghow about remastered all of them from the very first cod the second and third cod united offensive finest hour big red one final fronts and finally roads to victory

[@Black.Templar_002]

for the 34-85s i think they just watched "Stalingrad" (1993) and saw that they had 34-85s (cuz that was all they could get at the time) and went: "yes, lets get those ones!"

[@Strejenoff]

On 12:35 a character cuts something from the deceased soldier's neck to identify him. I assume it's supposed to be a dogtag. But Soviets didn't use dog tags. RKKA had bakelite ID capsules, but they hadn't been meant to be worn on the neck. And even this for of body ID had been scrapped in the end of 1942

[@spyran5839]

It looked like he just wanted to detach the barbed wire from his neck.

[@roentgen571]

the bit about the Soviet quality control being sub par is real. It's notable enough that people collecting Mosin-Nagant rifles like to get both pre- and during-war models because you can see where corners were cut. The rifles are functional, but there are a lot of rough spots where the machining or woodwork isn't so smooth. It's the difference between a 1932 rifle where the factory had plenty of time to finish each rifle, or 1943 where they were literally trying to get them out the door as fast as possible because they were mobilizing conscripts so fast. The sanding doesn't need to be perfect, the lacquer finish can be too thick or too thin, the bolt and barrel can show the machining marks instead of being polished, etc. It'll still shoot Nazis, so out it goes.

[@aralanstradivari2841]

While I haven’t fired a K98, I have fired a Turkish Gewehr 98 with the only non-original part being the sling. (At least I think it was the Gewehr 98, although according to the serial number, it was made in 1949 in Turkey). It is to this day one of my favourite rifles to shoot, even if I rarely get to as the owner lives multiple states away. And in spite of packing a punch, it was also less energy intensive to operate the bolt (due to the help of gravity for cock-on-close) when I tried to fire faster. Plus I did take it apart to clean it, and it makes you appreciate the small things and complexities that make the rifle truly shine. Plus it’s just outright gorgeous. Also, I loved the video! Definitely subscribing for more amazing content!

[@terminal.man02]

Ok that sounds cool but does it even relate to the topic

[@plaguedoctorjamespainshe6009]

You didn't even noticed the DP-27 had an reflex sight on it didn't ya

[@ThatBisexualOverThere]

That is just how the rear sight block looks on a dp, it has the wings to pull on the release the mag

[@-PVL93-]

I'm beginning to think people that were charged in creation of this supposedly historical game don't actually give a damn or like history all that much. They were tasked with delivering bare fucking minimum since the last proper WW2 FPS across multiple theaters of operations (WHICH WAS OVER A DECADE PRIOR TO VANGUARD), and they couldn't even deliver on that by making so many mistakes or adding technology way earlier than it's created Don't get me started on CODWWII which focused solely on France/Normandy and is not what I'm looking for in a modern AAA first person shooter title. It's a massive bummer and shame that we lost Medal of Honor and Brothers in Arms. I mean there's Wolfenstein but it's alt history, and neither Postscriptum nor Hell Let Loose provide single player campaigns with high production value

[@MonGoliAnDeath9]

The binoculars are used due to their better FOV(Field of View) this will allow her to easily relocate the target from her scope based on the more detail she could pick up with the binoculars. Not only that it would also allow her to find more targets quicker and take better notes on their location so she can find them easier when she is on her scope

[@carthago201]

The tanks coming out of the Tractor factory went to supply depots first, as the ammunition was produced elsewhere. Was there ammo production in the city itself, I'm not sure.

[@laisphinto6372]

so the reason why steiner didnt counterattack is because he was busy saving the timeline

[@tranquile8046]

That wasn't actually a DP-27, that was a DPM

[@liesdamnlies3372]

"World-famous powerpoint man." I love how that really needs no clarification, we all know who that is. XD

[@FireFlanker1]

I love this series of going into a game and discussing its historical elements

[@TylerMcL3more]

10:35- as far as that particular “Skull on stahlhelm” situation is concerned: if I recall correctly, I’m pretty sure that that was actually a pretty common decoration that the Finns painted on their stahlhelms during the Winter War. It seems to occasionally be shown as another SS marking…(notably: in the movie “Come and See” one of the particularly notably bastardish Nazis is portrayed as having this marking on his helmet.) but historically that style was pretty exclusively Finnish if my research is correct.

[@at_omic8578]

In regards to handing the binocs to Polina, devils advocate here, in that case I think that was actually one thing that could have likely been smart had that situation happened, not because of better magnification, but because of WORSE magnification; binocs tend to have lower magnification iirc, much better for scouting a wide area

[@walnzell9328]

You'd think with Activision as a parent company for all the development teams for every single Call of Duty game (minus a few portable system spin-offs, possibly), they'd be able to use the research the teams of past installments did and use it in the latest historical game. But no. Parent companies nowadays don't support their subsidiaries or help them cooperate, they starve them until they make masterpieces out of toothpicks and expired gum and marshmallows.

[@jobanh7ify]

I don’t know why they decided to call her Lady Nightingale, Nightingale was British and served in the Crimean War as a nurse, you know, the war they fought against the russian empire. I get the character was intended to be a nurse, but, they didn’t had famous nurses in russia with a badass name? Same as the night witches? Don’t mind me, I just find that odd 😅 can’t wait the collaboration with the PowerPoint man 😂

[@usadroopymeat1099]

Not funny have some respect for lady death will you

[@badasscrusader]

@@usadroopymeat1099 no

[@usadroopymeat1099]

@@badasscrusader you must or else karma bites you in your buttocks I am not joking or kidding okay now can you please for everyone’s sake including your own give her an apology and we may forget and forgive all of this

[@badasscrusader]

@@usadroopymeat1099 no

[@usadroopymeat1099]

@@badasscrusader why are you keep saying no for no reason i am serious

[@МихаилЧерников-п2т]

Zhukov wasn’t in charge of Uranus. Vasilevsky, Eremenko and Rokossovsky were the main actors behind it

[@biffmuncher23]

That Steiner counterattack moment had me chuckling hard 😂

[@tomsonlarrson3318]

K98k is a beautiful weapon, felt great when I found one that has everything serial matched but the stock. The cycle catches a bit but thats to be expected on a 80+ year old rifle.

[@Ides_0f_March]

35:39 it have pistol grip which is DPM (late 1943 if not '44 gun) feature though tbf its more like a mix of models because og stock and no recoil spring above it. it also says "105 round pans" which it never had. what Im trying to say is what I wouldnt count it as a gun "without problems" haha

[@RTanna89]

Animarchy: they would have eaten the dogs by now. Me: how, there are still humans to eat.

[@emmaccode]

9:35 that is in fact, an MG-34. Probably even worse when it comes to being " shoulder able" though.

[@spygineer1076]

that ain't no 34, that's clearly a fucked up looking 42

[@polskisebek5151]

I'm not a fan of anime, I especially hate it when I see historical vehicles, weapons and what not turned into anime girls and at first I was thrown away by just looking at some of your video cover pictures. But I see you do justice to history and I like how you point out inaccuracies along explaining why they are wrong and how they should be shown to be accurate to real life events. Big respect for that man.

[@Giga_ShrekChad]

20:40 in Tuscany, where I live, there is (was) a village called Sant'anna di Stazzema. The entire population was killed by a Wehrmacht battalion and the village burned to the ground, all of this for the presumed presence of partisans in the near mountains. They killed 540 people, including 54 children and a 20 days old baby

[@koreancowboy42]

You'll never be capable of firing an MG 42 from the shoulders. It's firing very fast and if you lose control, oh boi... your commander is gonna kick your ass. You'll only ever fire from the hip or in a position to lay suppressing fire. You can fire it from the hip using rifle straps and holding the bipod collapsed together as a foregrip. It works, shown in the movie Generation wars.

[@vojtechvilim4844]

Soviets in didn't used shoulder marks from revolution to mid WW2 as they were viewed as relict of imperial times. Instead they used gorget patches in color of army branch so at 12:43 you can identify dead soldier as member of infantry by red color, aviation had blue, medical corp black etc. Those gorget patches should be on gimnasťorka (shirt) and over it he has tělogrejka (very warm jacket).

[@wolfthegreat87]

at 12:52 the uniform is a telogreika of some sort, neither model of telogreika had collar tabs

[@BigFalconar]

THANK YOU for giving credit to Mark Ivanir! Dude has been in damn near every game with a russian voice and he could carry any game with his experience and talent. Also he's of Ukrainian heritage so no doubt we'll hear him some more in the delayed Ukrainian developed titles coming up. My friends like to point out that his slavic accent sounds fake because they hear him in every game, and when I point out that he's Ukrainian they just shut up.

[@isaiahbejarano9454]

came to the comments just to find out lol, his voice is so recognizable to me as i’ve played the metro games many times

[@jamespocelinko104]

I had just finished reading the book The Plots Against Hitler by Danny Orbach so when you flashed that German general's name my first thought was "Hey, wasn't that guy part of the Valkyrie plot?"

[@bobBOB-ff4rd]

I know Mark Ivanir sounded familiar. I recognized him from call of duty 2 (the classic 2005 one) as the soviet soldier 10/10 voice acting

[@ethanluke6725]

I'm pretty sure Misha used a 1911 in that one cutscene

[@spysareamyth]

A lot of 1911s made thier way into russian use so its possible

[@runem5429]

Don't forget that MG42 guy moves the 13kg weapon as if it weighs 500grams, snap to shoulder and shoot, snap back down instantly..

[@MepzWorld]

He curses quite nicely in Russian: "Bozhe moy: my God" and "Suki: bitches".

[@MISTERX_5890]

I actually have a recommendation for the next review. Battlestations Pacific. I feel like it would be a good game to review

[@richardtouchstone5508]

Is that the one where you can kill the protagonist of a previous game in the Pearl Harbor level ?

[@totalwar1793]

@@richardtouchstone5508 Yup. I mean, the game isn’t the most historically inaccurate thing with the American campaign as long as you don’t use unlocks lol. However, the Japanese campaign is like… hoo boi

[@MISTERX_5890]

@@richardtouchstone5508 Battlestations pacific is a game where you take control of Japanese and American Naval/Air Forces. It has two campaigns. The More Historical realistic US campaign, and a Alternative history scenario with the Japanese campaign.

[@MISTERX_5890]

@@totalwar1793 the Japanese campaign is a alternative history type thing.

[@totalwar1793]

@@MISTERX_5890 Yeah that's true, but there are some weird things like many ships being commissioned before their actual date or airplanes being used before their actual dates. Good examples are all 4 Iowas being present at the Invasion of Hawaii, which is a 1943 mission, along with B-29 Superfortresses.

[@erwingup5420]

for the time of stalingrad, collar patches and very rough shoulder boards would both be seen but they would never appear on the special winter uniform jackets seen with towards the beginning of the mission. Additionally, they would have markings on them, not just be blank. Even the Penal battalions would not have blank markings, they would have everything, including the patch, removed till they "redeemed their honor and the honor of the Red Army"

[@U_Go_Boom]

why quotation marks?

[@erwingup5420]

It was a miss type but the point is that is what the penal battalions of the soviets offered. It was actually not intended for you to survive as a common soldier. If you were an officer, then you were expected to suffer before returning to some equally tough job. The return of the star and rank to them was considered their return to honorable red army

[@samexoldx]

Imagine making a ww2 game and then censoring it. What a pathetic franchise.

[@harmdallmeyer6449]

Well, you have to to sell it in all countries.

[@raven_1133]

10:35 Doesnt that MG-42 also have a MG-34 detachable dual drum magazine?

[@Zack_Wester]

37:52 im just shalking that up to There is a stg42 and a stg44 both on the outside are really close to each other. we make one of them and have the other stand in for the other. used to happen a lot in older WW2 games where the soviet would be running around whit PPSh-43/44 in 1941 instead of the correct PPSH-40/41 because the game had two mission in Russia one short at the start of 1941 and the bigger one towards the end of the game set in 1943/44. but the devs did not really have time to make two PPsh models so they made the 1943/44 model and stuck whit that (mostly because you would be seeing getting a lot more 44 then 41 ). the 41 campagn had really few smg for the soviet vs later when in classic cod style every 3 sodier had a smg.

[@Alte.Kameraden]

Don't expect anything good from Call of Duty or Battlefield to be honest. Heck even Valkyria Chronicles tells a more believable WWII Scenario than those games do anymore. Yes I'm saying that specifically to insult COD and BF. That being said the most believable WWII game I've ever played was Mobile Suit Gundam Zeonic Front for the Playstation 2... and again ya I do that for the sake of insulting WWII video games. That game however did emulate what it would of been like serving in a Heavy Tank Battalion in the German Army but in a Scifi Setting. Being the background story for Mobile Suit Gundam is a parody of WWII, so much of the same issues plagued the Zeons (Space Nazis) as they did the real life German Army. Yes a Franchise with Space Nazis yet made Space Nazis that were believable and technically the underdogs while also not glossing over the fact they're responsible for the deaths of in this case billions.

[@aarosundvall]

Silence weeb.

[@Alte.Kameraden]

@@aarosundvall Oh I'm not even joking. kzbin.info/www/bejne/gmLVk6CoZ5aJqNU < Speech given just before the final Mission on Zeonic Front. Just before the "Fake Battle of Berlin" so to speak. Right after this speech you get a final mission which is basically General Wenck's attempt to break out what remains of the 9th Army, well at least the same exact scenario. You're last mission is an offensive to rescue surrounded allies. So ironically I find it interesting that those who made the game did enough research to know the last German offensive of the war happened at such a late hour So emulated it into the game as the final mission. Of course on a smaller scale. They literally tricked you by giving a cutscene making you think the game was over and ending o a high note. Prior to this you were spending mission after mission doing fighting retreats, and small tactical victors. Watching as your side loses ground, day after day, even watching your soldiers being optimistic early in the game, starting to fall into despair later. It's a great way of contrasting that TRIUMPANT speech they gave literally minutes before. After all the dust settles, your unit retreats with what allies you were able to rescue. Find out over the radio that "Zeon" has surrendered. That Triumphant speech which gave them a last minute moral boost promising victory ends up being for not. Basically, no WWII game has been made on the German side and done such a scenario better than Zeonic Front did. I dare a WWII video game to make a game that out does this "FAKE" WWII game. They've failed every single time.

[@idontknowhowtonamemychannel]

What is most incorrect is lack of ambient battle sound. Near and distant.

[@shadowninja8011]

Not 20 seconds in and you can already feel the pain in his voice

[@aveteranplayer6403]

Is just one of those forgettable experiences of WW2. No WW2 game will ever surpass The Last Tiger or World at war.

[@obiwaankenobi4460]

The Last Tiger was pretty forgettable

[@joshv7449]

46:47 'bullet wound in the abdomen and is actively bleeding out' "what are you complaining about shut up" Loll

[@biglordchungus9794]

I'm here before the video has even uploaded but I can tell you this about to be hot

[@Darek_B52]

Little fun fact for you M8. The two arrow keys right under the K and L keys will move the video essentially frame by frame forwards and back. Just to help instead of the 5 or 10 second skip you did there.

[@rossmum]

8 minutes in and I can only imagine what hell awaits in this game, but before I give up on life and click play again - re: the helmet/ushanka thing. Common (though not universal) practice was to simply wear the helmet over the top of the ushanka, as the SSh-40 didn't really have much by way of a liner and was already fairly loose-fitting. This provided better protection than not wearing the helmet while also preventing the helmet freezing to your head. This practice continued with the later versions of the steel pot helmet as well, and can be seen now and then in photos taken of troops while on exercise in the 70s and 80s. Of course, that isn't what they've portrayed here, so lol lmao. What's really weird is that for all the shit they've already got wrong and the much more I'm expecting them to, at a glance, they appear to have got the correct 91/30 sniper variant. Most of the rifles in Stalingrad were part of what you could arguably call a panic batch, assembled after the top-mount PE and PEM rifles had finished production (because the SVT-40 was being banked on as the Next Big Thing, but proved to have issues with long range accuracy). 91/30 sniper production was hurriedly restarted in early '42 or so, and while the PU scope was adapted from the SVT with a new mount, in the time that took to hit the frontline a bunch of side-mount PEM rifles were rushed into production, and it's these you'll see virtually exclusively in the hands of snipers during the battle. PU rifles were nominally in service but don't seem to pop up until exceptionally late in the piece. It's so bizarre they'd get such an obscure deeplore detail right, when everything else is oh so very wrong. e/ the '1937' on the mount is probably a serial number that someone on the art team mistook for a year code, or they just added it themselves. The scopes were usually datemarked but the mounts weren't, and would simply be serialled.

[@rossmum]

...Actually while I'm here and sperging about helmets, Your CHINSTRAP is for your fucking CHIN. What to hold you helmet on and all. Your helmet will not protect you if you either lose it (and no, it *wasn't* yours to lose) or if it gets blown off by the first blast wave or piece of shrapnel to graze against it. The meme of chinstraps left unbuckled to dangle either side of your head is most likely Hollywood's doing (looks cool to normies) but I cannot for the life of me figure out who started the meme of them being done up over the front lip of the helmet. My best guess is someone spotted posed photos of US troops out of combat with their straps looped over the helmet (uncommon, and usually at the *back* rim rather than the front - and of course, never done in combat) and decided this looked cool, then contrived some logic as to the supposed advantages of not having your chinstrap done up. It is something I have never, ever seen any historical record of on the Soviet side (even in posed photos away from combat) and I don't believe I've ever seen the Germans attest to it either. Chinstraps are for goddamned chins.

[@TacticalGaming_]

21:20 the only reason height hand her his binos are the sun's glare on the sight compared to binos that rarely are effected

[@matthewramirez6896]

Fun fact animarchy: mark ivanir, who plays pavel in last light doesnt die. The canon ending is the good ending, and one of the key ways to get the good ending is to spare and save pavel from the hands of the damned when you fight him. He gets to survive!

[@MLPIceberg]

He never said Pavel dies in Metro Last light. Just that the VA voices characters that tend to (most of them) die off.

[@fogrepairshipakashi5834]

Of course Von Kluge would bring his fancy hunting shotgun with him to go aerial deer hunting.

[@laurihakala8600]

I think the problem with guns is that they just applied the same library of guns to the rotation and called it a day. In stead of making different lists or even personally placing right guns to soldiers who need to be coded anyway. I think the devs did not just care.

[@MLPIceberg]

Nailed that on the head. Kinda sad too, if you know this as well: The developers did go into museums that specialized in World War II. All they cared about was what looked cool and how they can twist it into something even "cooler". They ignored the tour guides telling about the history while discussing about what gun to add or ignore. That was the only section they really paid any attention to. Not vehicles, clothing, supplies or the year something happened in.

[@pilot1721]

The desert missions and finding a bunch of Charlton guns when the guns never left new Zealand

[@peytonthomas4338]

"Only room for one sniper in Stalingrad" So if there are other Russian snipers, will she kill them too?

[@russelljones3221]

pretty sure in vietnam troops would salute disliked officers to flag them for enemy snipers

[@StrakanDocrusReakal]

I can just imagine a small group of soviet soldiers patrolling, serching for any remaining germans and then they see a PO-2 fly overhead and then one of the soviet soldiers just witnesses his comrade get domed and killed by a vodka bottle that was dropped by the plane.

[@Fergusius]

Not to forget Serbs, Romani and so many other peoples who were seen as sub-humans too

[@AndreGamerSpecial]

Why is it always Russia, not the Soviet UNION? Why people undermine and forget, that others, not exclusively *Russians* also fought along?

[@aarosundvall]

You may want to ask the German and Soviet historiographers who wrote the book on the eastern front.

[@SRDPS2]

4:23 Bro literally connect spare track into hull 💀 I guess we got premium version of T-34 XD