Historian REACTS to World of Tanks and Warships

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Join us as a renowned WWII historian, Keith Harris takes a deep dive into the historical accuracy and strategy of the popular military games "World of Tanks" and "World of Warships." Our expert examines the tanks and ships featured in the games with a keen eye for detail, comparing them to their real-world counterparts.
World of Tanks "World of Tanks" is a tactical, team-based MMO that immerses players in the gritty realism of armored warfare. With a vast arsenal of historically accurate tanks from the early to mid-20th century, players engage in epic tank battles across varied terrains. The game emphasizes strategic gameplay, where positioning, angling, and knowledge of tank weak spots are key to outmaneuvering opponents and securing victory.
World of Warships "World of Warships" is a naval combat MMO allowing players to command a fleet of historic vessels. The game showcases naval strategy and firepower from the 20th century's greatest sea conflicts, from destroyers and cruisers to battleships and aircraft carriers. Players must navigate treacherous waters, coordinate with their teams, and utilize their ships' distinct capabilities to outwit the enemy fleet and dominate the high seas.
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WWII Historian REACTS to World of Tanks and World of Warships

[@Gamology]

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[@mikeymike1374]

World of tanks is shit

[@mikeymike1374]

Do war thunder

[@mikeymike1374]

War thunder

[@jabaited]

Calling WG's games historical is like calling history channel at 3AM reliable source of history.

[@iron_side5674]

The vehicles in their games that did exist are actually Historically accurate. In all three games. The Art/Design Department is basically the only thing honest about WG.

[@jabaited]

@@iron_side5674 just like History Channel putting the face of the Austrian painter on every thing, yeah, he's real but the narratives they're doing were absolutely not.

[@ABeastMadeOfSteel]

@@iron_side5674 Have you seen the guns that you can put on the default M4? Art is good yes, but even for actual stuff it's mostly wrong, remember how they had to redo a bunch of American DDs because they were not the right size?

[@QuackAttack]

OK, now do a reaction to War Thunder as well... I'm intrigued as to what Mr. Harris would have to say about that game

[@kevinyasutomi9790]

Even with all the leaks?

[@BlueRGuy]

​@@kevinyasutomi9790 Yes

[@ata_tr53]

13:17 [About the Bismarck’s main guns]: “They are deadly accurate” Meanwhile Bismarck and the other German BBs in WoWs: “Help i can’t hit the huge BB 5 km away from me🥺”

[@maltemejlstrup4746]

Eh Bismarck and Preussen are both pretty decent to me as far as main gun accuracy goes. Maybe RNG just shines upon me idk.

[@iron_side5674]

@@maltemejlstrup4746 Bismarck and above have pretty broad range of RNG, but ther Bismarck is the only one that is not consistent. I have legit missed a perfect Broadside SAlvo on a Baltimore. ALL OF THE SHELLS missed. At 50km range, they went over the deck and short into the water, not a single hit. But i have also won a Sniper Duell at 20km vs a Zao that wouldn´t leave me alone. So the Range of RNG is quite big, but it behaves MOST of the time and does well. With the Bismarck everything is possible. It is not as bad as the Old Carolina tho, the new version is much better.

[@bmyattuk]

The near-mythological aspect the Bismarck and the Yamato have taken on is hilarious. The Bismarck has one kill. One. And it was a fairly lucky shot.

[@Kreschavier]

"but the Bismarck and the Yamato were amazing!" The Bismark killed one singular ship with bad deck plating, before being beaten to a pulp by a british battlegroup *and* obsolete torpedo bombers. The Yamato didnt even get to shoot anything before it got ripped apart by several hundred bomber planes.

[@anoia7783]

​​​​@@Kreschavieryou do realize the bismark shells didnt go through deck armor right? The ships were too close to have that trajectory its believed few shells land short of Hood and pennetrated the armor under water watch oceanliners designs video on this battle its quite interesting

[@ShadowMoon878]

World of Tanks is not the most realistic tank game. It is quite arcadey. Maybe show him War Thunder instead. Btw, the Japanese Battleship Yamato is not named after Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto. It is named after the Emperor's Royal Family, the Yamato Clan.

[@bambusak_]

I think they show WoT and not War Thunder because the video is sponsored by Wargaming, but everyone knows War Thunder is better :)

[@fiiv3s]

Better is subjective and down to the type of game you are looking for. Personally hate the gameplay of WT (i have 1k hours in WT air tho)@@bambusak_

[@Jakaze_]

Can't you drift in war thunder?

[@Cesp43]

​@@Jakaze_technically yes if you go fast enough

[@naxxy00]

​@@Jakaze_ Yes, and you can even fly with a tank in WT.

[@Rodoet001]

Yamamoto never said that, or at least we have no evidence he ever said that. It was a line written for the end of the movie "Tora!Tora!Tora!" which depicted the begining of the Sino-American conflict in WW2. The writer behind the movie was even asked where he got the quote from and pretty much admited he made it up. It's a fantastic line, but it was never real.

[@TheOneManWhoBeatYou]

When did Johnny Knoxville become a historian?

[@michaelusswisconsin6002]

USS Iowa never served in Vietnam of the Gulf. Those were her sisters New Jersey, Missouri, and Wisconsin.

[@ttvt9921]

Under 1 hour here!

[@tsuaririndoku]

It’s Yamato. IJN Battleships does not named Battleship after Admirals. IJN Battleships named after their province or “State” in US Languages. Yamato has a name from Yamato Province. She is not Yamamoto. Historians should atleast makes the correct name. Yamato and Yamamoto are completely different meaning. Like how Americans call a Liquid, Gas. So a Background of this ship. Not much really, Yamato only knows for the World Largest Battleship in the world. Even till this day. No Nimitz Class is an Aircraft Carrier, No Oil Tanker is not a Battleship. Not every ship with a gun is automatically called “Battleship”. Dumbass Media. Anyway, Yamato, the world largest Battleship. She is the most heavily armed in terms of both armor and firepower. Those 9 46cm gun, AKA 18.1 inches for outdated people, is the largest gun ever put on a Ship. These Gun turrets have more overall weight than Fletcher Class Destroyers. She also has an armor up to 41cm at mid ship, AKA 16inches. Yamato sole design purpose is to be the Ultimate Super Battleship for IJN to face multiple Battleships at once. Although FDR might get a Bathtub for his Iowa. Yamato is a luxury Hotel for IJN. Not only food rations are very good on Yamato, she earned the nickname Hotel Yamato because how little actions she did during the war. As Japan fears to lose these 2 Super Weapons. Plus these ships consumed a lot of oil in the process. She only seen in the Battle twice. (Technically 3 if you count her as an HQ ship, in The Battle of Midway) Battle of the Philippine Seas and operation Ten-gō. Ten-gō is her final moment. Taking about 200 aircrafts to tore her apart within 2 hours. But she does proof as a force to be reckoned with. As her sister ship, Musashi takes ages to be sunk by Aircrafts. In theory she should able to pick a good fight up to 3 South Dakota Class Battleships.

[@Leon83858]

He isn't even talking about the realism of the games in the slightest, if he would, he'd say that almost everything in the game is bullshit, tanks have guns they never had, some of the tanks in the game never existed at all etc

[@michaelphilip1]

I like listening to professionals

[@YenSnipest]

I usualyl have these on as background noise, this was interesting as heck though, you should ask this man to come back again. I put my controller down.

[@Leon83858]

Maybe next time he talks less about what the vehicles in the game re' based on but more about the actual game and how accurate it is 🤣🤣

[@aboyloveships7492]

19:54 there a incacurate of the historian said “the Yamato was name after admiral Yamamoto” IJN Yamato was named after of a province *fun fact the word yamato is called “great harmony”

[@sschuster2180]

16:20 "Japanese Destroyer" 😂😂

[@Bamboodium]

I like this dude. Get him to react to warthunder

[@sigma.wr8]

more Keith! he is the best

[@mralsace1]

Some of the clips in WoWs they've got here looks terrific, they aren't even bothered to angle their armor, going broadside, etc etc... I'd be mad seeing my dudes just doing these things and being useless the whole time.

[@theleithalweapon]

For a moment I thought Sam Lake was a historian - uncanny resemblance!

[@sentro65]

Hello there!!

[@monsterbox1308]

You should’ve show him gameplay of CV and submarine I kinda wanna hear what he have to say about that 😂

[@joao_goncalves]

I just can not believe how bad the players are that played those battles. Please, if are showing these games to an expert do not show them amateur gameplay, AND give them some context as to what the game is about. It is fine to let them guess the first clips, but explain to them how the games are played, so that they can comment on how realist it is, beyond just the historical setting.

[@thomashko4033]

Great point. My eyes were bleeding when i watched that gameplay.

[@PrangersRus]

Yeah it was a waste for this historian. So many comments about the historical setting or assumptions made on it being a historical battle. Somebody needed to have told him that the concept of the game, like teams for example and that the battle setting is not related to actual battles that those particular tanks/ships would've fought in.

[@Ghostick]

much better if you change the gameplay eh ...

[@hachiroku2612]

19:01 yamamoto

[@75Ge-nesis]

THIS GUY IS NOT A HISTORIAN BUT A EX MILITARY GENERAL.

[@GJIGSAW610]

We need historians and veterans looming at hell let loose!

[@hierox4120]

For a moment I thought it was Stephen Colbert

[@remynisbet5264]

Bismarck sank in 1941 … so no it never saw battle in 1942 …

[@Demomanteamfortress]

It’s Johnny Knoxville

[@NOxSPLOOSHxPLANE]

Keep the stache

[@Eyeless_Camper]

While he seem to have good grasp on general history he seem to have very little to no knowledge on the actual tanks and ships that were shown of.

[@user-fv9mx6pq2e]

Warthunder: Crying in the Corner 😂

[@SkeletonLand368]

Hello!

[@VanatorD]

هلا

[@FloeticsPH]

Yall should make him react to Girls und Panzer too 🤣

[@americanman3745]

War thunder is much more accurate.

[@Fergusius]

How much did WarGaming pay this guy????

[@ZhangJack-wv9hv]

Do war thunder, I'd this channel reliable? I found this through a ad. He is also saying some non accurate info.

[@iron_side5674]

Not to harp on you or anything, but the Gameplay in this one is kinda horrible. Invokes the feeling of my insides being stroked with Sandpaper, at some points.

[@shirayukineps-l5956]

Let him react to war thunder please

[@christiantheissen7775]

Tora Tora Tora 😂

[@jobveldhuizen7089]

as a world of tanks player myself i can say that the game apart from the tank models is not even close to being historically accurate. war thunder is ways closer to being historically accurate. and there arent any machine guns in world of tanks either apart from the lowest tiers of tanks with their small caliber rapid fire guns.

[@XxC0RPS3MAK3RxX]

If war thunder so good go play it then before that premium runs out 🤡 planes look sick in it, but the rest is so mid. There's more emphasis and weight in World of either

[@ZhangJack-wv9hv]

For tanks, war thunder is way ways better

[@Peter-bakker]

Who was playing these battles? it looked really bad game play and honestly not even worth to show to the viewers.

[@jogrim4975]

should say what a pos cheat this game is russian crap

[@Mrgameoverbb]

So gay just get warthunder

[@Dumb-Comment]

War thunder > Wot

[@XxC0RPS3MAK3RxX]

Accurate name

[@Leon83858]

​@@XxC0RPS3MAK3RxX well he's right especially in terms of realism

[@XxC0RPS3MAK3RxX]

@@Leon83858 realism schmealism. Gaming isn't supposed to be as dull as real life.

[@MongoSolo]

Lou Reed??

[@schembri317]

War thunder you can feel the sluggishness of everything but i have fun playing The naval battles decent game progression is slow as shit but that is because they want you to buy fake currency for real currency

[@XxC0RPS3MAK3RxX]

Whoever is playing. For the love of god if you are broadside to a battleship, in a battleship like bismarck? USE AP SHELLS!!! HE SHELLS DO NOTHING UNLESS ITS A SMALLER CLASS SHIP. YW🎉 if I was in that amagi, whole enemy team would have rage quit. Ya nasty for making Japan look bad 😢😢