Historian Gets Mad at Call of Duty Vanguard | Bougainville 1943

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[@seanfernandolopez9139]

I agree with you about COD campaigns. I don't care what crazy 360 stuff they do on multiplayer, nut at least make the campaign "seem" realistic, story-wise, tactically, as well as thematically. I'm singleplayer guy on COD most of the time, and for sure people like me won't mind that, and multiplayer players possibly won't mind it making the campaign realistic since many of them don't finish or even touch the campaign.

[@seanfernandolopez9139]

20:01 I agree with you on that. I'm not sure if it's within the "rules of engagement" but what I recall is that you cannot use an enemy weapon, much less an enemy combat vehicle because it can cause confusion during a battle. I actually was shocked when I saw this clip.

[@StandoffHusky]

Lets be clear. They never will make same good game as WW2 but that first not like this. Am a right???

[@jamalthomas1724]

Just a heads up iraqi war isn’t the ONLY war that had “weapon dumps” it’s been done since WW1 and before. Second many different armies ask about their language because basic phrases “like do you speak Japanese “ doesn’t mean you speak English even Hispanics ask 😂

[@patriot17764th]

btw the japanese didnt have the type 100 in the battle too.

[@mo45327]

You are right, it's a Becker shotgun. Not only is it ludicrous that there is one in the Pacific, it would be almost impossible to find one used even by a German soldier since it was a civilian hunting weapon with only about 100 examples ever produced.

[@carkawalakhatulistiwa]

is very acurate

[@historylegends]

maybe that Japanese soldier studied in Germany before the war, bought the shotgun to hunt and brought it back to Japan hahaha

[@erichvondonitz5325]

@@historylegends Could be and that Japanese has a higher chance in getting punished by their officers for choosing a foreign gun over their Empire's Arisaka

[@girlpanzer9908]

@@erichvondonitz5325 Arisaka sucks tbh

[@erichvondonitz5325]

@@girlpanzer9908 true, underpowered bullets but they are pretty decent rifles for their time

[@rubyredproject7055]

What's worse about the "He doesn't know who the 93rd Infantry are" thing is that the pilots are U.S. Navy Pilots, while the 93rd Infantry was U.S. Army. Separate branches, completed separate MOS.

[@officerbarbrady8387]

Yeah. Do they expect a Navy pilot to know every infantry division in the US Army?

[@MrChickennugget360]

most people in the Army would not know about the 93rd ID since the Army was very tight lipped about units and deployments. Shit the Army had dozens of fake units that did not exist that were used solely in deception operations. being in the army even today would not require you know anything about other units- and that is especially true in WW2

[@drbulba]

@John ray well, i mean, you cant not admit that black people have helped in history, however both races have done their part in history

[@drbulba]

@John ray black people exist out the of the USA... Try looking somewhere in Africa and you'll get some interesting and REALLY important history out of there.

[@drbulba]

@John ray damn. cant believe you dont care about its history considering the birthplace of modern humans was around Ethiopia and Kenya, AFRICAN countries.

[@flack2998]

“A Sherman just tried to shoot at an aircraft” War Thunder tank pros: ya got a problem?

[@kusada3035]

Otto carius's gunner shot down a Soviet plane because he was annoyed, but that was a Tiger, not a sherman

[@kawaiidestruktor7809]

@@kusada3035 what does matter about it's a sherman or a tiger? no matter what is, it's just stupid to try to shoot down an aircraft with a tank gun lol

[@exoticdachoo007]

@@kawaiidestruktor7809 A tiger had a AA gun but still damn stupid lmao

[@kusada3035]

@@kawaiidestruktor7809 kek, touché

[@kawaiidestruktor7809]

@@exoticdachoo007 a tiger had a tank cannon not an AA XD

[@R005TERILLUSION]

An officer called out "Someone take out those RPG'S!!!" in the North Africa mission. The writers never heard of panzerschrecks or panzerfausts. The RPG-1 was in development by the Russians in 1944 but wasn't deployed during the war.

[@wavewasher3894]

I even say panzer thing it just sound cooler than RPG

[@timokohler6631]

@@wavewasher3894 Panzerschreck literally means Tank dread :D

[@wavewasher3894]

@@timokohler6631 ha don't say this to anyone but me

[@filmandfirearms]

Also, I'm pretty sure "RPG" as a term didn't enter common knowledge until Vietnam. Before that, they were just anti tank rockets. Most soldiers probably called them by whatever their own country's version of it was. So, Americans called them bazookas and Germans called them panzerfausts or panzerschrecks

[@whitezombie10]

He reviwed the mission and said it

[@Megaraptor18]

If you think that’s bad. The STG44 and the volkssturmgewehr is in every mission. Stalingrad, North Africa, and D Day missions have both weapons in them. STG44 I can forgive for D Day but not in missions set in 1942 and cannot forgive the volkssturmgewehr being in anything other than the battle of Berlin.

[@incredimixerchannelofficial]

Wasn't the STG 44 made in 1943? It kinda makes sense why they would be in the numa numa mission but not really since... y'know, japanese soldiers with german weaponry?

[@Megaraptor18]

@@incredimixerchannelofficial I think so but to my understanding spend most of 43 it was in trials under the name MP43 while they were trying to trick Hitler into allowing the rifle into service. Hitler at the time only wanted Sub Machine Guns and favored them over rifles. Due to most at the time being bolt action so he had a mental block on the rifle issue. Once he saw the then MP43 in live fire he allowed it to be developed further. It was first issued to Waffen-SS units at late 43. It wasn't until mid 44 you begin seeing German Army units get issued them. But regardless you can tell the devs did less than half ass it. They didn't even try.

[@EvilMonkey403]

@@Megaraptor18 Hitler was most likely hesitant on the stg because it used a unique round that wasn't the same as the bolt action rifles and German supply lines were stretched thin at the time, he eventually was convinced it was worth it

[@blodsteelangel]

@@EvilMonkey403 It has been stated that Hitler apparently said he didn’t like the weapon because it looks ugly When he first saw the design. That’s why at first he didn’t approve it.

[@blodsteelangel]

I see you notice that too about the volkssturmgewehr that piss my off so bad

[@tacticalfall4505]

I thought being on multiple different fronts like WaW would give us more immersion, not less

[@gabrielwojniusz1993]

Holy shit we have the same profile pic, also I agree with you

[@titan4110]

@@gabrielwojniusz1993 what the fuck

[@iLeGaCyyyyyyy]

@@gabrielwojniusz1993 😳😳

[@gabrielwojniusz1993]

Wtf what?

[@imgvillasrc1608]

Eh, we can give credit to vanguard had more fronts than WaW. But it means nothing if not done properly.

[@bingolos9063]

The Paper thin Japanese tank in the game from what i see in the footage is Japanese Type 95 Ha-Go Light tank. Its impossible for them to penetrate a Sherman

[@kanyewhite429]

Only from the sides

[@ngtianyuansonycss8505]

Wait, I don’t think its the Japanese tank doing,but the Japanese planes firing its 20mm cannons at the tank

[@sparrisguy6330]

@@kanyewhite429 no, the ha-go could no penetrate the Sherman from the side, the type 97 Shinhoto Chi ha medium tank was the only Japanese tank that could do so.

[@pyrothefriendlyarsonist9195]

The Japanese Tanks weren't very effective against American Tanks since they were light tanks They were effect in the Second Sino-Japanese War due to the CCP and Kuomintang had little to no tanks

[@huntclanhunt9697]

95s were actually destroyed by Vickers MGs, chambered in .303 Brit. That means in theory an M1 Rifle could destroyed one if you hit it right.

[@plasticchairguy6471]

This makes me love even more world at war

[@theson4569]

Same but the absurdly fast reloading and health regenerating tank in the tank mission was admittedly too ridiculous

[@dingoatemychild1]

@@theson4569 it's a game those are gameplay mechanics they legit have to be in the game

[@MikoyanGurevichMiG21]

The game was actually good and enjoyable that we ignore some oversights like Tiger IIs in Stalingrad

[@zyzor]

I wish they’d remaster that game

[@mightycrusader7053]

@@zyzor considering their current state , i don't

[@muhammadakhmalsabianag8870]

You have to do a COD Vanguard review in the Stalingrad mission, you can find a lot of funny things every minute

[@historylegends]

oh man, working on it as we speak

[@mrorlov2706]

Haha i didn't know they used to do parcouring back in the 40s in Soviet Union.

[@tonypeppermint5329]

Oh boy.

[@farellalfaronugroho4478]

Indo bang?

[@anuekacheh1920]

@@farellalfaronugroho4478 aku orang thailand bang

[@helix5441]

Vanguard manages to somehow spit on the legacy of veterans and the war itself, the multiplayer is just pitiful, and the zombies is the most hated in cod history, truly a terrible game

[@redseagaming7832]

Call of Duty once a great series that didn't care if they offended people are now afraid of a few Twitter users on Twitter if they actually portray WWII accurately

[@farhanrizkiahnafa7404]

@@redseagaming7832 The only thing I hate about CoD is the whole plot, it's always one-sided no matter the theme.

[@hugehoglilnuts2905]

Farhan Rizki Ahnafa I know what you mean, Cold War did a good job of not doing that for once it was a breath of fresh air. Hell they let you side with the Russians at the end if you want

[@solidsnakeshugecake]

The only people who like it are schizophrenic hallucinations

[@helix5441]

@@farhanrizkiahnafa7404 because their military shooters where you play as the badass good guys against overly evil bad guys, cold war only did what it did cause the soviet union was only indirectly an antagonist power

[@mo45327]

Those Shermans are awful. It's a small turret (not the appropriate T23 turret) with a 76 mm that is way too long... A tank like that did not exist in WW2

[@historylegends]

That's what I thought too, they looked so off

[@omargeseng3591]

they should put 75mm or 150mm that fit in the small turret

[@mikkel066h]

Almost looked like fireflies with their messed up turrets

[@mattizmushroom1466]

To put it more correct, a tank like that could not excist, the gun could not fit in that turret if Anyone wanted to actually use it

[@fajaral-fatih7025]

Exist, but not in 1942 but 1944 when europe campaign against Tiger tanks not Chi-Ha.

[@bewell4467]

I actually tried to watch this on another channel as straight game play and just couldn't get through 5 minutes. I'm African American and a former Marine infantryman who loves history, especially WW2 history and this is bungled so badly my hair was on fire. I agree with you on every point.

[@henrylopez7721]

Kill

[@ArcticWolf00Alpha0]

If you thought this was bad...wait until you see the Stalingrad mission...my goodness.

[@historylegends]

Oh god

[@Hownowkowtow]

The first thing I noticed was the Japanese soldier in the first scene holding his rifle at low ready which was not practiced until about 15 years ago, for shooting with body armor, modern carbines, and cqb. Also having the finger straight and off the trigger was not a common practice either, at least from the photos I've seen everybody had their finger on the trigger. For sure it's proper gun handling, but not correct for the era.

[@TTSilentDeath]

It’s a bad game but calm down with the nitpicks

[@siluda9255]

@@TTSilentDeath i swear to god this guys will complain about the genetic code of the japonese soldiers not being 100% similar to the actual soldiers that fought in the war and looking 0.000001% more like modern japanese than the old japonese our something

[@hellofellowhumans9353]

As if you know how each individual soldier practiced finger gun safety during WW2 cuz of a few pictures you saw.

[@civilrebel3743]

@@hellofellowhumans9353 I mean, trigger and muzzle discipline didn’t really exist back then

[@ReonMagnum]

@@hellofellowhumans9353 Very few people back then practiced the finger off the trigger method, which was popularized by Jeff Cooper in the 1980s. In olden times you'd see almost every armed man with their finger inside the trigger guard, including the famous inventor John Moses Browning.

[@Tanquista120]

Seeing the german STG44, and the MG42 gave me a seizure (didnt know about the shotgun though)

[@kusada3035]

Only 100+ Becker shotguns are made in the 20's until prod stopped in the 20's and seeing every German carried one instead of the original K98k gave me an aneurysm

[@rps215]

Even the Type 100 are very rare weapons, at least BF1942 was correct in giving the Japanese MP18 instead of Type 100 as they captured a lot of them from the Chinese. At least give them proper weapons, like the Type 3 and Type 92 HMG.

[@williammandang]

Seeing this review is actually more entertaining than watching the actual gameplay. Also big thanks for letting me know to not buying that crap. I can hardly tolerate games that disrespect or rewrite history

[@redseagaming7832]

I was looking forward to buying a Call of Duty game but after finding out they rewrote World War history I decide now I won't buy it

[@TheGitzserEvolution]

join us at hell let loose, campaign incoming

[@OparStanley1008]

Well said

[@roberine7241]

I would not call it rewritten. I would call it *very* badly researched and someone decided to slap a rewritten on it so they can point at that and use it as an excuse.

[@roberine7241]

@LOAN NGUYEN well they must have put some effort into it. they found those random weapons of which only like 1000 were produced and put them in everyones hands

[@mateodupetit4842]

They tried to integrate US minorities, like the african american unit or the pilot friend that seems to be mexican-descendant, which is great but they are not respecting history and that for me is unforgivable. Why german weapons on japanese hands? If japan didnt had an army issued shotgun then they shouldnt have one in the game, period. It reminds me of the movie Pearl Harbour with Ben Affleck, when the attack its about to begin that they show Cold war era destroyers and nuclear powered submarines. In ethier case, they should have hired a group of historians. They have the tech to create a truly immersive WWII shooter game, but they fail in the historic details that we as players love.

[@Luke-qr2yb]

It's a game mate. People don't respawn in real life either.

[@historylegends]

@@Luke-qr2yb but that game is set in a codified setting of World War 2, and there are rules to follow.

[@Kylo_ren518]

Well to be fair in pearl harbors case, not that many ww2 era ships, destroyers and submarines are available to be used in films and movies, and they didnt entirely wanna be dependent on using cgi or special effects whereas using practical effects has a greater weight to it, but I get what you mean it is jarring when you notice and cant unseen it.

[@kg7162]

For why Japanese in this game use german weapons and why German use weapons that don't exist or not even produce a the time were the mission is set is because of laziness they literally make one unit model and put random weapons to him change is skin and voila your Japanese soldiers with a stg44 and mg42

[@ft5821]

@@Kylo_ren518 so basically suffer from what the old ww2 movies that had tanks in them had?

[@murilogimenez1512]

I'm an expert in Pacific warfare, and I asked myself the same thing: what the hell are German guns doing in the Pacific, as I see it as a big fan of Pacific battles and operations. this screwed up with Vanguard, and look, I'm Brazilian

[@LethalShot3190]

No doubt I 100% agree with you about this nonsense they put into this game. It especially bothers me because my grandfather was a WW2 combat vet in the Pacific Theater. He fought in New Guinea, and on Luzon in the Philippines💯💯

[@rps215]

On the other side, I don't think we have ever seen those Carcano Type I rifles in games which should show up in the hands of Japanese navy units.

I will agree if Chinese Nationalist have German made firearms but the Japanese have one is very innacurate

[@worlds3061]

How the fuck being "Brazillian" has anything to do with your comment ?

[@blackrooster455]

@@worlds3061 I think he means waxed

[@Keichwoud357]

A thing that bugs me about WWII shooters in general is the depiction of the Type 100 submachine gun. Games typically depict it as "the standard Japanese SMG of the war". When in reality they were more of a specialised weapon, and less than ten thousand were made. The gun _was_ used, but by no means was it the Japanese counterpart to, say, the German MP40 or the Soviet PPSh-41. The Japanese in general did (and still do) not use submachine guns.

[@shuukenji6585]

Oh boy if you are peeved on the inaccuracies of type 100 submachine guns on vanguard wait till you see multiplayer mode the drum magazine arisaka..

[@jacaredosvudu1638]

@@shuukenji6585 the... the... the what?

[@jblazerndrowzy]

@@jacaredosvudu1638 I think it can even take 7.62 Russian ammo for… whatever reason. Oh yeah, and the BAR can be loaded with *.50 BMG.*

[@jacaredosvudu1638]

@@jblazerndrowzy i have acquired several levels of depression now

[@ernestw2474]

That's true. Type 100 smg isn't that common and Type 38 Arisaka rifle, Type 99 LMG, and Type 11 are common Japanese guns we see in Pacific. I guess the reason World at War decided to standardize that smg is because of game balancing or developers wonder if Japanese have SMG and they found it and decided to standardize them without researching its history or even if they did, they just to give them more power, thinking it's unfair that Japanese don't have that, but who knows.

[@homefront1999]

You brought up an issue I have with lots of shooters today. You are no longer the grunt. I remember a COD where you were a Soviet Soldier in Stalingrad. It felt like you're soldier was expendable. MW3 was really when shooters stopped with the grunt in the army and started focusing on the spec ops.

[@kj_heichou]

no, not like a grunt more like rambo you and 3 other guys liberate new york. you and 2 other guys take on an entire militia, you and 5 other guys take out an entire russian mine. you and one other guy fight through russia's best soldiers in urban combat where those russian soldiers are actually defending. I can go on and on.

[@kayas7574]

CoD 1 did that feeling really good in the first stalingrad mission, they only give you a single clip with 5 bullets and send you into the meat grinder, no weapon

[@Vchk1917]

@@kayas7574 Not accurate tho. Dude already debunked the "Red Army logistics failure" in this channel. Look for his "Enemy at Gates" video.

[@kayas7574]

@@Vchk1917 that is true but this was more about the grunt feeling he meant

[@Vchk1917]

@@kayas7574 I know, just wanted to give info about it, since we are talking about the period. By the way, old COD rules. Maybe not accurate but epic af, thanks to the "grunt feeling" you mentioned

[@valentintoledo3175]

Also the gun was that the pilot use was a type 100 which came out in late 1944 early 1945 as a “ last ditch gun”. Plus, they where really rare

[@luisfreites2387]

They were actually being deployed in 1942 in limited numbers

[@fajaral-fatih7025]

Yes, they were used few, but Japanese army used Arisaka for infantry and type 100 for assault companies.

[@dogwoodhillbilly]

That's the late war version of the Type 100, the Type 100 was in use since 1942 in smaller numbers being of higher quality and a slower fire rate. Just like many other weapons in the Japanese arsenal, once it got into about early 1944, guns like the Arisaka got downgraded and so did the Type 100, severely. The late war Type 100 was of lower quality but it had a higher fire rate.

[@rps215]

Japan also had a dislike for SMGs just like the British initially, until the Chinese show them how wrong that is. That's why their didn't optimize their production of SMGs. Still, it is a lot more likely to see captured SMGs like MP18, Thompson, Sten, and Owen in Japanese hands than German weapons.

[@zacharybrazeau9218]

@@dogwoodhillbilly the arisaka wasn’t downgraded “severely” even in the late war stages, all that was changed was the materials it was made with and the sights were simplified. If anything the rifle was easier to use and make. There’s also theories that of the Japanese used this version of the rifle from the start they would’ve been able to allocate resources to much more needed projects during the time.

[@dw3325]

I love how the flamethrower guy says you're dead weight and will slow them down, yet he gets stuck and you have slow down to save him

[@WisteriaDrake]

Also, he kicks the barbed wire post over to block your path directly before he gets stuck, and all this after being a complete asshole the whole time. Call of Duty Vanguard, why are you trying to make us ROOT for the supposedly racist character? If this is how the 93rd (in this universe) treats any random person, then I can totally understand why people would hate them.

[@StephonDodd]

Hey History Legends! Would you be interested in doing a video on the Call Of Duty 2 campaign? I think it would be interesting hearing what you have to say about a ACTUAL World War 2 fps game

[@historylegends]

I could actually, any mission in particular?

[@StephonDodd]

@@historylegends The mission called Comrad Sniper from the Russian campaign

[@g3tshotheett]

@@historylegends point du hoc

[@rainzu01]

@@historylegends I'll watch anything about cod 2

[@spectralassassin6030]

Also Cod 2 Big Red One would be a good fit.

[@abrams1408]

To all ww2 game designers out there the stg44 has the numbers 44 for a reason :)

[@declangaming24]

World at War has the STG introduced in the later Russian missions.

[@onekill31]

@@declangaming24 yes you are right. I noticed that I can only pick that weapon during the 1945 missions of Soviets.

[@JaxGreen]

Honestly I am Asian and I have to agree on something. People always say Germans are evil just because of one mustache guy the whole race has to suffer discrimination and also cod keeps using race for some stupid reason. I think the game should be more diverse and also make more German missions.

[@derth9230]

well all i can say i thought bfv was one the worst ww2 games

[@fajaral-fatih7025]

True Jax, not all Germans are Evil but choices, most of all.. Allies did exact same Crime Wars in WW2 the same as to retake their last area from earlier occupation in Africa and Asia.

[@Dripularstein]

@@derth9230 is still is

[@derth9230]

@@Dripularstein not compared to vanguard

[@Dripularstein]

@@derth9230 nah both are yuck. Bf1 did its job right to tell its story and multiplayer. Bf5 lost its feels and weapons feel like nerf guns (sound I mean) , ww2 its a cod game and it's devs like ea are cash grabbers and it's less made with effort

[@dancortes3062]

I have no idea why they chose to put the STG-44 and MG-42 in this mission. They should have just omitted the STG and replaced the MG-42 with a type 92 to keep it historically accurate. What makes me even more mad is that the Germans don't use any Japanese guns. If your going to seemingly go out of your way to make your game historically inaccurate, then at least be consistent.

[@jacaredosvudu1638]

Forgot the Type 11 in the train and the Type 100 in the Berlin mission?

[@KalenaRios69]

When you can’t be consistently inconsistent. Love it.

[@aweeeeh5255]

I was so right about this campaign. People were talking how it's alt history but the only alt history about it is the guns

[@historylegends]

"alt history" was just an excuse for mediocrity

[@rincontibio7664]

It's like Anne Boleyn mini series, heck is a nice series but don't try to sell them as historical ones, put the "Historic Fiction" tag and i can live on

[@sirbachelorboredmen1314]

Alt history should at least try to look historical

[@tonypeppermint5329]

@@rincontibio7664 That definitely would of helped a bit more.

[@Nunyabacknstrips]

The entire story is false

[@chrismath149]

Furthermore, the US Army rarely sent individual sections in battle but used the platoon as the base of their tactics in world war 2. Of course I am no historian and tactics might have differed in the pacific theater but I do find it strange that a group of six guys who are not in any special forces outfit is stumbling through the forest.

[@seanfernandolopez9139]

20:01 I agree with you on that. I'm not sure if it's within the "rules of engagement" but what I recall is that you cannot use an enemy weapon, much less an enemy combat vehicle because it can cause confusion during a battle. I actually was shocked when I saw this clip.

[@romaboo6218]

Bruh you think the allies and axis cared about that?

[@randombrit4504]

@@romaboo6218 Yes. The Gloster Meteor wasn't fielded over Germany, despite being combat capable, because of worries with AA gunners mistaking it for Me-262s. One of the biggest pains in the arses of Allied ground troops was *USAAF* fighter-bombers being gun-ho, misidentifying them, and giving them a first-hand recreation of the Falaise Pocket. Thus, the identification marks, black and white strips on wings, white stars on vehicles. Remember, radios are still not a piece of personal equipment. A squad lead would have a short-range, that goes to the platoon lead, who has a long-range, who goes to company command, who has to be hunched over a map somewhere figuring out where the hell his troops are. This setup would continue effectively until GPS guided warfare in the 1991 Gulf War. Being able to easily identify friend from foe quickly was absolutely pivotal. There are exceptions to every rule of course, but this was not something that could just be glossed over for the commanders setting the ROEs.

[@seanfernandolopez9139]

@@romaboo6218 They cared more about that than what you think. When you're in a firefight, you don't really see the enemy clearly, because you take cover, and panic/adrenaline pumps into your body. The reliable way to identify an enemy is their gun fire. The development of XM117 even solidifies that, as the MACVSOG requested an AR 15 that has a different sound than an ordinary M16, this is due to the fact that they were illegally operating in Laos and Cambodia, and they don't want the Commies to easily identify that US Troops are in the said country. Now in rare, desperate occasion, will a soldier pick an enemy weapon? Yes. But as mentioned, it's on rare and desperate occasions, and they can go to jail for doing that. One example of this is a few GI pick up AKMs when their M16 broke in the middle of combat. But remember, these are the same time when US military don't wear proper uniform and vandalizes their helmets. It happened then, never happened again. So if a soldier don't fear friendly fire, they would at least fear jail time. Generation Kill depicted this accurately, when they were slightly freaked out by a nearby AKM fire, just to learn that it was one of their Captains that was using an enemy AK, and they were royally pissed off about it.

[@seanfernandolopez9139]

@@randombrit4504 Finally, a sensible and educated dude. Thank you.

[@warmech11]

@@seanfernandolopez9139 It's not actually de-facto rules, as the military doesn't want you to use enemy equipment precisely because of that. However, it's not codified. Generation Kill, in fact, depicts it just as accurately as before- They get pissed off because some idiot's using an AK rather than a standard NATO weapon. (Un)Official policy is that you are permitted to use enemy weapons when required, mostly during firefights, but the second you get the chance to swap for anything NATO you use it. Even if it's a choice between an AKM or a M9, the military prefers you use the M9, but isn't willing to restrict it's soldiers in emergencies.

[@fuzzyhead878]

And this is why I still go back to replay the COD 2 campaign, because it was actually good. And weirdly enough I remember the characters from the Old COD games than the newer ones. I definitely preferred the implied storytelling of the older games rather than the forced melancholy biopic nonsense we’ve been getting the past few years.

[@destruction196]

@Hanrry Oliveira but for "Call Of Duty: United Offensive" there is a mod called "United Fronts", that mod is nice, it has more weapons, history, campaigns

[@MikMoen]

When I tried playing Battlefield V and saw their "interpretation" of History, I got a little miffed and returned it same day. The more I see of Vanguard I know it would've pissed me off.

[@warmech11]

I'm still miffed about Battlefield 5, as well, expecially the heavy water mission. Like... The SOE existed. They could have literally just went "This is the story of the SOE. This mission is fictional, but this is what the SOE did." And at that point? Creative freedom. Wanna blow up a bridge? SOE blew up bridges all the time. Mission goes south? Sure, one might not exist *right there*, but that's what the SOE did, and a suprisingly large proportion of women were in the SOE as soldiers, and many radio operators died. They could have told the story of the Auxilary Air Force (ATA), which had women ferrying aircraft to other locations. They could have had a story of Partisans, fighting against Nazi occupation. They could have told the story of a terrified wife/mother trying to protect her children and flee to safety. Instead of telling fictionalized, hollywood versions of real or semi-real stories, they just wrote fiction, and bad fiction at that.

[@MadChristoph]

A Historian and Rifle Expert would be great together on correcting COD

[@worlds3061]

Check out Gamespot video about an expert from "The Royal Army Museum" or something like that reviewing Vanguard's weapon, shit is hillarious

[@shadowtrooper262]

Im not sure if you have heard of the Japanese that attempted to import a tiger tank via U-boat but it seems like the COD universe the Japanese had time to import weapons instead of a Tiger i.

[@atrashlemon7735]

Next up on CoD: Ak-47 in 1917 Siegfried line during the hundred years war

[@skeetsvar162]

1:00 it's a perfectly legitimate question. He clearly only knows basic requests or questions in english. It's extremely common for soldiers to pick up basic words or phrases of the enemy. For example: "Hands up" "surrender" "yes" and "no" or the the extremely obvious and probably most common "do you speak my language?" And that's about the only thing I can defend in the game...the rest of the game is completely absurd.

[@jamalthomas1724]

I wanna commend you on the 93rd infantry. A lot of people don’t realize we helped in every war racism or not. And most weren’t forced. I have 2 people in my family one with scars to prove the war. It was hell from the stories.

[@redseagaming7832]

They are in the middle of a war and they're arguing over skin color while the Japanese are still in the jungle hunting them down sounds nuts if you ask me

[@shuhratkessikbayev8886]

I didn't expect anything out of it when I saw a Stuka with a B-2 model engine and precision bomber modification underneath the fuselage as well as a G-2 Panzerjäger kannon installation with airbrakes? As well as smaller bombs on the wings from the D variant.

[@ashby1672]

Cant devs just hire a guy like this?? Im so mad that we are constantly getting unauthentic WW2 shooters. This is going too far.

[@kurtwk]

The people telling everyone to “ relax” about the accuracy are the same people that will reference a video game pertaining to history. Right or wrong, most people just want to have fun and not work for any information. Spoon feed me my history my news my interest and my taste…. I’m just too busy overestimating my importance to worry about that shit.

[@__n_lupan__5333]

20:53 You should be grateful that the Sherman didn't manage to score a hit on that plane, it would be f* up. =)) And I am glad that you pointed out this spec ops stereotipe that games nowadays are trying to imply on large scale. It is oversaturated and by no means realistic.

[@sergeantwillyt8860]

5:52 “… probably tortured” you. Me “they look like they were captured like 2 hours ago”

[@rileyoakley7196]

Plenty of time to get a little torture in😂

[@aweeeeh5255]

They were tortured emotionally lmao

[@sergeantwillyt8860]

@@aweeeeh5255 yea that makes sense

[@mexicanbatman8157]

@@sergeantwillyt8860 that actually does...

[@chaseallanwicks3356]

This make me appreciate cod world at war even more than I did before this game came out.

[@Raul_Menendez]

World At War. Still the best Call Of Duty in WWII setting. The Reichstag battle is just perfect.

[@AceMontage]

although getting into it is annoying

[@exile2721]

The Sherman shooting the airplane I was rolling. He had ambition you gotta give him that lmao

[@WisteriaDrake]

He didn't show the bit that came before this, when the pilot was shot down. He actually opened his canopy to shoot at a Japanese Zero with his 1911. Ugh. This did occur in WW2... in Germany, in a Cessna scout aircraft, against another plane with no armaments. The pilot and copilot flew up beside it, opened the door, and took potshots with their handguns. One beaned the pilot and downed the plane.

[@juliovictormanuelschaeffer8370]

The MG42 and the Becker shotgun were the highlights of this mission for me.

[@georgelangley8444]

We gotta make this guys channel blow up. It’s so interesting

[@nokia.s3350]

00:55 Japanese people to American people: "Do you speak Japanese?" I showed this to my friend, and they laughed a lot because they know it's a totally crap questions. 😅

[@Noxta]

very satisfying to hear your rant. I need more!

[@isaacdepaula2103]

I like their modern finger discipline and weapons handling, a thing the US would develop only in the 80s and this guys were already there

[@WillieCuz]

The Japanese soldiers looked SO clean too. Like they had a spa in the jungle, also the flamethrower doesn't even sear their uniforms, no burn effect!

[@guillaume5307]

Good video. Maybe a suggestion would be to increase the audio from the video. When a scene is played its hard to hear the dialog and see the subtitles. But still great video!

[@stephenoliver1379]

Japanese soldier who asks "Do you speak Japanese" shows trigger discipline. That only became common in 70s. Don't remember it when shooting on British Army ranges in late 60s.

[@internetexplorer7143]

When I was doing this mission and I walked past the STG44, I had to backtrack a bit just to make sure I read it correctly

[@Seraphil1]

I'm a mix of peeved and confused at how recent WWII games involving the Pacific have been so adverse to depicting the Type 96 or it's improved version Type 99 LMG. BFV skipped it for the older Type 11 LMG and the more obscure Type 97 that was mostly mounted on tanks, and then this game just ridiculously uses the MG42 instead. I miss using the 99 in Red Orchestra 2...

[@declangaming24]

Call of duty world at War had the type 99 and in some of the japanese bunkers during the campaign they have Captured Winchester M1897 trench guns the main weapons the japanese use in the campaign are historically accurate Type 100 and Aristaka with and without bayonet type 99 vanguard STG 44 Type 38 artisaka MG42 Type 11 and beckers shotgun.

[@jordz6795]

So much potential to tell incredible World War II stories in Video Games, such a shame developers would rather half ass with Fan Fiction to score approval from the Woke Gaming Media. I would love to play an Axis or even Chinese Campaign, especially with the immersion of modern graphics.

[@fajaral-fatih7025]

Me too, Vote for Axis Campaign in theaters of Europe and Asia.

[@markusk1015]

I think it would be cool to play as Chinese during the Japanese invasion or even play as the Japanese

[@KurgzTheVerySmugBoi]

This is the history equivalent of feeding a experienced chef a microwaved meal

[@bwehhueh5135]

i'm only a casual history fan but this game gave me an aneurysm :p

[@Asterarchive89]

At 12:58 I think the Howard he were referencing was major Howard from cod WW2. Tell me if I am wrong?

[@jaredf2773]

I know they had a really good historical advisor onboard. The issue is that the game developers decided to go on what they thought was cool vs what was historical accurate. They are more to blame for how it all came out.

[@obiwankenobi579]

1:31 I am just one and a half minute in and I already love it! Subbed!

[@parallel-knight]

Man this is so sad just to think how amazing COD 5/WAW is compared to the latest COD….

[@island2622]

19:13 Correct I'm wrong but I think the shermans there are the British Sherman Firefly which was made in 1943 but again correct me if I am wrong did not fight on Bougainville with Australian or New Zealand troops but they could have put a 75 Sherman or even a Matilda

[@pyrowolf681]

As someone who’s becoming a gunsmith and is a gun nut seeing the guns and what you can do to them makes my soul die more than a criminal getting shot by a Fudd’s 45ACP

[@maemsy]

There were only about 100~ Becker Shotguns ever made and they were NEVER used in military combat, they were simply hunting shotguns as Germany (ironically) thought that shotguns were war crimes. These shotguns obviously never even left Germany as well

[@claymore484]

I remembered the ad about how they studied and took inspiration from modern conflicts for this game and all I’m thinking about is “shouldn’t you be studying 1930s-1940s conflicts?”

[@-MackAirsoft-]

At this point in the video I wouldnt be suprised to see a tiger tank

[@martonmedia1019]

20:52 I heard a story about a tiger which took down an Il-2 with it's 88mm cannon

[@grigss3027]

my personal theory is, they had a 8 man squad with a diffrent leader with washington as 2nd in command, but then a sniper killed their actuall leader in a night attack 90% of the way to the pilots.

[@Btfvt]

21:07 There actually was a case where a german Tiger shot down an Allied plane.

[@mcwildstyle9106]

5:38 it’s more in line of rank more than race. Keep in mind, Wade (our playable character in this mission) is a US Navy pilot and officer, specifically a Lieutenant (which is the equivalent of a Captain in the other branches of the US military) while Sgt Washington is…well that, a Sergeant and of lower rank then Wade But knowing that Sgt Washington is more of a experience infantry soldier, Wade and Hernandez have to follow HIS orders since Washington is more experienced in ground combat

[@MikMoen]

I don't think he'd be obligated to follow the Sergeant's orders because of like you said, rank, but he might at least defer to his judgement/opinion because of the situation.

[@rafiyumahmood2446]

Clearly, the overall tone of the mission just shows the conflict between Washington and Wade, is the fact that he’s white and seems to “have it easy”. Generally the tone of the entirety of the dialogue, including Washington calling Wade “white boy” in a derogatory fashion

[@CurtisClinton77]

exactly it's called "field rank"

[@DefJamGlycerine]

The brother of Howard in Vanguard is Howard from Call of Duty: WWII. You first meet him in "The Battle of The Bulge" mission. He is serving as a combat engineer in the 16th Regimental Combat Team of the 1ID or 1st Infantry Division after being transferred from an unknown unit.

[@raketenjagdpanzer2335]

19:12 Judging by the turrets of the shermans, they might have taken the models of some Firefly and passed them on as 76 shermans, witch is kinda hilarious because the Firefly was a BRITISH modification of the sherman to fit the 17 pounder...

[@trailjaeger]

I like your Raketen ;)

[@Joe-dc7vf]

“Shut ‘chor mouth white boia” pure comedy gold lol

[@kennethbowers2897]

The amount of soft-core racism towards whites in this mission alone is a reason why I made the smart decision to refund this garbage game.

[@tjgaming3247]

13:20 his brother is from another call of duty game, Call of Duty WW2

[@Corbin777]

just imagine being a ww2 veteran and fighting for dear life wacthing your fellow troops die and have trauma and then see a game company making battles that you fought in with unrealistic stuff and not true events AND futeristic stuff AND yet again shitty writing and battle scenes

[@AODGreyhound]

6:00 odd that you didnt notice but they forgot to add the chambering of a fresh round to the Type 100

[@therewillbeguitar8078]

I called it. I’ve given up on call of duty. The amount of times I’ve wasted my money for it to be completely illogical and unrealistically biased towards certain players, and not to mention take up all of my storage… too many to count.

[@myman1635]

Tip of the iceberg of the vanguard historical inaccuracies

[@Mr305miamivice]

I hear Ya Legend... Sadly many AAA Titles don't care about Historical accuracy and its hard to believe but the Devs or script writers just quickly google and pick the first hit or a summary barely read it and smack their own interpretation for the story. Idiots will play these games and actually believe it! Then comes all the modern cultural stigma and social problems forced into a game set in WWII or WWI Female combatants or racial topics. If they want to involve Woman in a WWII game then get actual stories that happened. Lady Death the sniper, Female French ,polish, Russian resistance fighters/ Female spies of many nations the list goes on. I'm looking at you dice! History was brutal, misogynistic and racist, so depict it how it was and not some ferry tale version of it. I'm not going to start with authenticity with weopons or vehicles => Royal armories' Ferguson has a lot to say about that! damn as well as HistoryLegends. I needed to vent.

[@The.Productions385]

13:25 I’m pretty sure Howard is referring to Howard from CoD WWII. Also can you do a video on those missions?

[@Rain-tf1yr]

i agree when you say that they should make large scale battles in campaigns it could be a reallly good to play through and it would be way more exciting

[@tanker102]

Also, the sherman at the end have the long barrel with the rounded turret... So they probably are sherman firefly, a British tank, in the Pacific

[@c3a118]

that plane scene is also just a copy of a black ops 1 mission

[@wulfengel]

I just love the Shermans ignoring a Japanese plane taking off, just because the player character is on it, holding an axis weapon. The tank commander's there wondering "what the he- ah its alright must be nothing"

[@saniaamirbaaz8850]

The type 100 was a very rare weapon it was used only part time in the Japanese army before it was not used. So the fact that almost every Japanese soldier had one is very unrealistic. Also when you think about it you could see no Arisakas.

[@parkerthomson7130]

The Becker shotgun was also a Extremely Rare Weapon as only 100 of them were made.

[@TheArcticFoxxo]

20:55 there have been multiple cases of tanks ranging over 20 tons taking out aircraft, and almost every modern MBT today has an anti aircraft shell

[@apgamer2]

Just recently found your content. Keep it up! Good stuff

[@mrpoetoe3609]

0:58 i honestly. if he understand English, i think he Can as translator than said do you speak Japanese

[@breadtoasted2269]

Thank you so much! Great work

[@J4nT3mpl4r]

"who wrote this shit?" Some of the most spiteful, hate filled people to ever exist made this game.

[@johnhernandez6554]

I thought the gameplay was fun but the damn inaccuracies pissed me off so much it made it hard to enjoy anything about it

[@flack2998]

I now will change mind of wanting COD vanguard. I thought it was historically accurate and I could feel what it was like to be a soldier in WW2

[@PolymurExcel]

Best just dust off your old copy of World at War. If you do wanna play a modern WW2 game, I heard Hell Let Loose was pretty good.

[@uncircumcisor7571]

Play World at War

[@derth9230]

@@PolymurExcel ww2 has a pretty good rep now since its updates and what not

[@dingoatemychild1]

@@PolymurExcel enlisted is also a accurate and fun ww2 game

[@royalsimp2038]

Post Scriptum too.

[@codymckernan3556]

I'm a reenactor and the worst thing is when a kid come up to me and says "this is just like cod WW2"

[@virgilio6349]

BFV: "We are so innacurate, we made up an entire operation based on a real one!" CoD: "Let me step up!"

[@harutogames9204]

So what ive noticed is game companies would rather suffer historical inaccuracy in order to stay afloat instead of earning the respect of a game story thats historically accurate and them losing 50% of their fan base over something minor

[@EukalyptusBonBon]

Well its more historicly accurate than star wars so I can't demand much

[@Carbozin]

Thank you for this man