'Mobile' Shields (WWI Weird Tech)

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There was a tendency to make big, strong and heavy shields that could protect a soldier’s entire body. It also had to be able to be moved around the battlefield. The only solution was to put wheels on them. These were to be known as mobile shields.
Their purpose was to provide cover to one or several soldiers that were advancing across the field or no-man's land. The idea of shields on wheels was actually born a few decades earlier, during the Cuban War, when US troops used the first movable shields.
The idea was adopted by the British and French armies and brought into service during WW1. Even though all designs included heavy steel plates that were capable of withstanding small arms fire, their use was questionable in reality.
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Some swat teams have access to modern mobile shields, but there’s a big difference between besieging a lone gunman in his house and fighting a full scale war.

[@mrgamerguy9104]

Welcome to the 1900s where anything was possible, even using your own brain matter as a gun.

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I find it funny how people came up with some weird stuff used in battle like these shield. It’s like “who’s coming up with these ideas?”

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The mobile shield was a weird tech, that was i like history

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There's also a difference between holding a big piece of bulletproof metal and scooting across the floor in a half sliced tracter

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@@CT--gu5ng at the same time if it wasn't for thinking/ ideas back then pretty good chance the tech of today would look different... Not all ideas are good ones and sometimes even with a good idea there are still ways that the earlier versions can be Improved... I even heard that the sticky plasma grenades in Halo were actually an idea that the Germans (maybe Germans can't remember which country was working on it) had in ww 2... But they were fragment Grenade's with some sort of glue on them... But unfortunately, or fortunately depending on how you look at it, they were to effective and there was problems with them sticking to and possibly killing the very person trying to use them... Definitely thinking that if there was special training for them and or they were designed different/ better it would definitely have increase the tactical efficiency of the infantry that had them at the time...

[@shaunbrender]

This is the wonder weapon Germany could have used to win the second World War. You just turn your infantry into tanks. It's genius!

[@Pokelemon3434]

battalion of these with panzerschreks sounds like a rather ridiculous force to me😂

[@Klipschrf35]

Wouldn't they be too slow and too thinly plated for the higher caliber rifles

[@Pokelemon3434]

@@Klipschrf35 idk it depends on if they modernized it for ww2 2inchs of titanium would have stopped just about everything that coulda been lobbed at it short of tanks and rockets

[@RYUZAKILL117]

I don’t think so, WWII was way more mobile than WWI, they could be easily flanked.

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WW1 was so weird, that awkwardness of the transition period between 19th century warfare and 20th century warfare led to all sorts of oddities like this as armies tried to adapt to the new paradigm

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Basicly wwl was a long siege. In siege warfare, many tactics had been known for centuries. But great age of sieges ended in late 17th century, so in 1914 a lot oft knowledge was forgotten, and siege warfare was for a long time no more important, so there had been for centuries no new ideas/ weapons. So no wonder, that in early stages of trench warfare, no modern light mortars existed , I have read, that a british officer noticed the large stock of small blackpowder muzzleloader mortars in a museum, and orderered this museum pieces to frontline. This museum pieces had been intended for the purpose, modern troops wanted, and in 1914 old soldiers still knew blackpowder.

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I like to call it the last medieval war.

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I cant imagine a more convenient target for a well thrown grenade...

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A trench?

[@TheCaptainSplatter]

Be somewhat safe with the British version.

[@alexanderrahl7034]

@@TheCaptainSplatter except your legs would look like hamburger meat lol

[@mohamedbaradji7504]

Tbf real life grenades don’t work as they do in video games. The shrapnel may not be able to pierce the shield.

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POV: When you switch your infantry to Tanks in Hoi4 but you're in negative stockpile for tanks

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Lmao

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Mark 1: Who are you? Mobile Shield: I’m you but tiny

[@indianajones4321]

It’s all fun and games until a wave of men go over the top with shields

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But if you manage to land just one shrapnel grenade behind them...

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And half of them get shredded by a single artillery shell

[@stevenbaer5999]

I have read and studied everything about World War 1 it's actually the most unusual war ever fought by man. Using the flamethrowers, chemical agents, planes, mobile shields, bow and arrows, the Angels of Mons, medieval weapons, flechettes from the sky, Big Bertha cannon, the Paris Gun, submarines, bio agents, trench warfare, and few other things as well.

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Don't forget undermining!

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Tanks and horses in the same war too right?

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And zeppelins

[@Moses_VII]

@@theoneandonlyrustyshaklefo6256 yes, and the horses were used in combat, not like WWII where they were only transport except in Poland

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@@Moses_VII Italy used them a little in North Africa, but they had terrible losses

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Imagine being German Soldier sitting in trench and seeing an French Soldier crawling in literal iron caterpillar

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@@randomapche7478 Why?

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wait BF1 still gets updates? I havent played that game since 2018. Probably the best battlefield that ever came out

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@@jackmemphis3203 Nah it's just a wee joke. But still, a lot of players play.

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If only...

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I miss battlefield 1

[@renzrafael6079]

Those moving shields should have been called "The crawlers", like your worse fears crawling towards you

[@renascitur7051]

@RTX El Risitas (aka El Risitas Fanboi) Yeah, I'd do that too while artillery was firing all around me and those autistic tanks firing at me. You're taking the setting too lightly. I must agree though, they are pretty retarded.

[@aroach7461]

@RTX El Risitas (aka El Risitas Fanboi) yeah history has taught us that our enemies sometimes come up with clever ways to use the environment around as tactics. Look at veitnam and afghanistan. The US can literally obliterate these countries, but when you're fighting on a foot level their best advantage is in numbers. It's like an infestation they always have more troops to send out idk where they get them but they'd keep doing it till ammunition is run dry.

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@RTX El Risitas (aka El Risitas Fanboi) also I forgot to mention. Don't try and be tough boy you've got nothing to prove. You're not gunna be running into a field with bullets flying from multiple directions. Cocky people die before they know it.

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Commanding Officer: Ight, so we need to take this trench, what should we use, tanks or infantry? Lieutenant: *Yes.*

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Imagine you are a soldier on sentry duty and you see a group of metal boxes inching towards you with legs sticking out the back

[@oldtimer4791]

*Grenade throwing, machine gun, and sniper fire intensifies*

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German: why is there a shield with wheels on it coming closer? Other Germans: OPEN FIRE!!!!! Gun fire and artillery fire intestines.

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I envision that scene from Monty Python's Quest for the Holy Grail where footage of Sir Lancelot charging the castle from far away is on repeat until the last second where he runs the two guards through.

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call in the artillery or Panzer Gewehr.

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It was officially classified as a "Stone Frigate", which is something I hadn't heard of before. Wikipedia page for Stone Frigate: en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stone_frigate

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@@KellingtonDorkswafer thank you for providing the link bro. It was a good read

[@TheQuyman]

I'm honestly surprised they haven't added this as a vehicle to World of Tanks

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Wait how are they gonna display the engine power?

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@@ilyaszaim6494 instead of horsepower it’s manpower

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@@goldenbucket5731 oh right yea..

[@Cam-im8io]

It would be too op

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@@Cam-im8io No it will be crushed when a tank falls on it lol

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Can you make a video about a strange story from WW1 where a German and Russian forces declared a temporary ceasefire and banded together to hunt down a man-eating wolves?

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That sure sound interesting

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Wartime Stories covered it, and did a decent job. Check them out.

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russian: can yall help us hunt down this giant wolf? german: nah. thats one of ours russian: !

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Seriously? That sounds crazier than the famous Christmas

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Imagine if Tanks obtain human legs and start walking towards you

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That's called Dreadnought or Imperial Knight

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That's called a Titan From Command & Conquer and Battlefield 2142

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Thats a mech

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that's called a Gundam

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They literally turn brave soldiers into a iron caterpillar

[@iberia169]

General: Wich unit is attacking?Tanks?Infantery? Soldier: A mix of them General:WTF

[@Tom-2142]

A mix of them would be attacking anyway, ranks and infantry are supposed to work together. A Tank assault alone is very dangerous for the tanks.

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@@Tom-2142 agreed

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Which”

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This is not a weird tech ITS A CURSED TECHH

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I remember when the animation on this channel was bulky and weird. You guys have advanced so much and should be proud of that

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2:28 Actually the earliest form of moving shield were made in Japan using logs or bamboo stacks to make a bulletproof wall

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Sorta but Russian streltsy also had wooden shield s so they could move and reload their arquesbuses under cover

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You can go back to medieval Europe with crosbowmen and archer with wooden shields and later bulletproof shields

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They meant in ww1, not overall history

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I really wonder why they stopped. It would be seriously useful in the modern day

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You have to respect the enginuity and the crude design of the engineers and soldiers

[@-Raylight]

_Reject industrial era, return to medieval_ So it's like tanks but only the front part? 😂

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It's like tanks but pedal powered and concentrates defense to the front. It never had a chance to be developed. . "😂"

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I love how at 1:36 (and forward) The sound of the rifles shooting is the same sound of the Halo Sniper shooting

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I got flashbacks from that

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If only Reach had had a battalion of German storm troopers

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Simple history's animation keeps getting better and better.

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It should. (And yes, their animations do keep getting better. The perspectives are still a bit wonky at times, but hey, it’s great, and far better than anything I could do)

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@@Classic-ip5dr yeah.

[@dave___]

WWI: hey, we have mobile shields! every warrior after 13th century BC: we have been using "mobile shields", we just call them "shields"..

[@x-blood93]

I see what you're getting at but I think the reason they called the mobile shields were because they were referring more to the sniper Shields which because of their cumbersome and heavy designs they couldn't really be moved thus making them static Shields where is these are pretty much the same concept however giving them some form of mobility thus making them "mobile Shields". Again I see what you're getting at but I just wanted to throw that out.

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WW1 Fun Fact: 12 million letters were delivered to the frontline every week. Even during times of war, it only took 2 days for a letter to be delivered from Britain to France. A purpose-built mail sorting office was created in Regent’s Park before the letters were sent to the trenches on the frontline. By the time the war ended, over two billion letters and 114 million parcels had been delivered to the trenches!

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“Mom can we have tanks?” Mom: “No we have tanks at home” *The tanks at home:*

[@lawrencemorris2261]

For the same cost, a bunch of mobile anti APAT barricades with AT rounds of their own would be able to destroy a tank while taking minimal losses.

[@Moses_VII]

@@lawrencemorris2261 yeah, well tanks don't exist specifically to destroy tanks. If that was the case, there would be no tanks. Tanks were invented to assault trenches.

[@FreedomFighterEx]

I can't fathom how the handheld shield would be much of a use consider majority of firearms during that time are bolt-action rifle.

[@oldmandoinghighkicksonlyin1368]

Would work with a tommy gun aka the trench broom.

[@joshuablair252]

@@oldmandoinghighkicksonlyin1368 Tommy gun wasnt around in ww1. There was alot of experimental stuff around but 99% of the time you wouldn't see any guns like that. At least for America lol I'm still learning myself

[@oldmandoinghighkicksonlyin1368]

@@joshuablair252 You're right, actually. The first crate showed up for use on the day the war ended: Nov 11, 1918

[@lawrencemorris2261]

If they had it on wheels, not only would they have something to hold on to to lower their frontal profile without falling over, it would increase the length of their stride and thereby make them faster. They could then take advantage of that shorter height and speed increase to add enough steel to completely defeat even the strongest of man portable gun rounds indefinitely. Besides if you have to make the sheet steel shield defeat level III+ rounds like 5.56 green tip at 2000+ fos then you could just add more men to push the extra weight as necessary.

[@Rapscallion2009]

Well, soldiers are trained to aim for the centre, so there's that. And it probably reduces your probability of being hit all other things being equal. But it does encumber the user somewhat, so Whether it's worth the sacrefice of speed, mobility, vision, fatigue and filling your hands for (can you carry this, use a rifle optimally at the same time?) is another matter. I can see it being useful if you're dashing from cover-to-cover but I can't see a man marching across no man's land, stumbling over the ruined ground, holding this up whilst aiming a rifle effectively at an enemy all conveniently arranged in front of him.

[@User-ii2qr]

Love the different perspectives, birds eye, first person, from the side, from the front etc.

[@vinceknowseverything]

7:15 RIP 🙏

[@Malamockq]

I'll also add that these shields would be useless against any high powered rifle. Elephant guns were used in WW1 to pierce the armor of WW1 tanks. These shields would have even thinner armor than early tanks, and could be penetrated by an elephant gun easily, especially when the armor isn't angled on the front.

[@southerncharity7928]

They were angled. The English one in this video even shows this.

[@Malamockq]

@@southerncharity7928 Do you even know how to read? You misunderstood me, I said that an elephant gun could penetrate the shield when the armor isn't angled on the front, I wasn't saying that none of them had angled armor. With that said, none of them were angled except the English shield is sort of angled, the rest aren't. But the angling isn't optimized to deflect bullets in the slightest.

[@southerncharity7928]

@@Malamockq don't get mad, boomer. You never even read it yourself. That's why U say it wasn't angled, then was, then wasn't lol what a joke.

[@Malamockq]

@@southerncharity7928 You're the one calling the shields angled when all but one aren't. But do continue to rage like a petulant child. The asperger's is strong with you.

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@@southerncharity7928 Learn how to read

[@nanab256]

Shield is too weak- add more thickness shield is too heavy-add engine need more firepower - add gun u just make a tank

[@Cacowninja]

Yep.

[@whatifgodisjustlegs3344]

These shields are pretty useless.Just make a tank.

[@Cacowninja]

@@whatifgodisjustlegs3344 Exactly, which is why the tank prevailed.

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Parry this you filthy casual

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Animations gets better every video

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The history of war technology, engineering and building is one of my favourite things in the world, I am quite certain.

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"What are you doing step-soldier?"

[@Tarik360]

Siege warfare is always complicated. The reason Sun Tzu advises to avoid fighting in such battles of you can help it.

[@evilstef]

Yes, thanks for this vid!! What a coincidence, I mentioned the mobile shield in your previous vid the kugelpanzer ball, but had no decent illustration/documentary link. So this is what I meant; the kugelpanzer ball was maybe an upgrade/amelioration of this shield.

[@jamesm783]

this sort of thing has actually been used since the medieval ages, possibly earlier. they just updated the materials from wood to metal, and the projectiles from arrows to bullets

[@neofulcrum5013]

Hey can you guys cover guerrilla warfare as you’ve covered other tactics?

[@NCRVeteranRanger]

I second this.

[@Moses_VII]

@@NCRVeteranRanger now we wait for them to say 'Motion carried' like Alien X

[@curraheewolf]

The only thing I saw, that none of them had protection on their flanks while using the shields.

[@lawrencemorris2261]

They did have protection. It's called turning their guns.

[@Rapscallion2009]

I can't imagine trying to wrestle that thing forwards across pitted, debris-strewn, cratered ground with bullets bouncing off it, hoping desperately that nobody gets a lucky rifle shot or artillery spot you. Then you get where you're going, chop the wire and probably have to drag the bloody thing back again whilst juggling a rifle, wire cutters and so on the whole time. To be honest it seems unlikely to me that the ground would be level, clear and even enough to advance with this thing in most places , even when a battle isn't being fought.

[@EmojiDE]

“Man shields are so good that you might defeat your enemy” -Sun Tzu, Art of war

[@richardroopnarine870]

Interesting armour concepts in an age where mass production and an efficient internal combustion engine were new to technology. The modern tank began as a 'land ship', for infantry support but in a few short years changed the way war was waged

[@Landsknecht25]

The positive aspects (protection) were simply outweighed by the negative aspects (sluggishness).

[@lawrencemorris2261]

It was actually due to lack of tactical formation and lack of strategically using coordinated manpower.

[@beatnik6806]

Dude the backrounds especially the towns are so good! Good job

[@user-Jay178]

Love your channel and the history you talk about.

[@miltoska9708]

"It was too heavy and unwieldy to move around" So why don't you strap an engine on it? "It left the sides, top and rear exposed" So why not make it all round "It's wheels kept getting stuck on the craters" So why not just replace them with tracks

[@Marinealver]

I'm surprised they didn't just build a series of Seige Towers.

[@peter4210]

I bet some wacko general though about it. I mean they did use sappers to undermine trenches

[@lawrencemorris2261]

Mobile single person barricades on the same as siege towers.

[@Most_Sane_Californian]

Hey simple history thanks love to here about this mostly ww1 thanks for posting when you can

[@Ro6entX]

I heard of these being used in past; I can’t remember what battle it was but I believe the soldier were also strapped in but during the said battle, think several had fallen into bomb craters with water, unable to get untied and end up drowning.

[@bjornsmith9431]

Germans shield snipers was safe till the big elephants hunter guns blow a hole into them.

[@Hamsteak]

War always creates a lot of interesting innovations 💡

[@drpretzel2086]

As someone who is working a tabletop skirmish game based on ww1 tech your videos are a great help

[@mightydrew1375]

Great content. Full of lots of information. Really enjoyed it

[@aziiu2404]

can u do a video were you talk about underrated ww2 moments and like 20 min long???

[@tbirum]

Even if you made it to the enemy's front line you would likely be too exhausted to fight. Can you imagine pushing a 100lb shield across a 200-meter field on your stomach?

[@walterbrunswick]

"oh well, my workout is done for today"

[@lawrencemorris2261]

You're using ranged weapons. why would that matter? Are you supposed to bat them with your guns? I thought all you needed to do was see them not getting close and personal with them.

[@tbirum]

@@lawrencemorris2261 OK, it is like this In WW1 there was this thing called "Trench Warfare" Imagine a Football field 200 yards long and YOUR troops are in your endzone which is dug 5 feet deep to protect your soldiers from enemy fire, NOW your enemy is in the other endzone also in a 5-foot deep trench to protect their soldiers from enemy fire. The Concept of a "Soldier's Mobile Shield" is to get your soldiers across those 200 yards that separate your soldiers from theirs in order to take them out and claim their trench as yours, that way you have PUSHED your enemies front line back, rinse and repeat until you have pushed your enemy back until there is nowhere left for them to retreat to. SO, you do not push your shield until you are 10 feet away from your enemies front line trench and then sit there shooting at them from 10 feet away the idea is to get hundreds of your soldiers to their front line trench and then start throwing bombs on them, or get into their trench and fight them with guns/knives whatever you can until their trench becomes yours. What finally ended "Trench Warfare" was Tanks, and having TANKS in mass numbers, these individual "soldier shields" were what they tried out until they developed large numbers of Tanks,,,,it did not really work out which is why WW1 Trench Warfare was so slow and costly in lives.

[@DefunctYompelvert]

they were built different back then Hundred Points emoji

[@WolxLure]

If you're ever in Georgia, Fort Benning's National Infantry Museum has some of the one man tanks on display and they're super neat.

[@Bkworm07]

I am glad you guys are doing another world war 1 stuff

[@scopeshadow4432]

Those so-called "Mobile" shields should have a microwave component to suffer heat exhaustion among the enemies

[@TheCopyNinja733]

@its fine I don’t trust a single link you send

[@randomapche7478]

@@TheCopyNinja733 Yes you shouldn't the link takes you to a weird vid

[@lawrencemorris2261]

They were an attempt at mobile Shields we are much more advanced designs today. the reason why they were so, it's because he's designers were thinking about defending against overhead fire. They use similarly inept designs today it such as curved and sloped armor.

[@terraflow__bryanburdo4547]

Put a 2-stroke engine and a bunch of machine guns on that British unit and you have a Bob Semple!

[@Usammityduzntafraidofanythin]

Sad to think that the tank was basically just an armored car, but replace wheels with treads. I bet somebody high up thought it was genius, which it sorta was, but it seems obvious now.

[@papahonk126]

Love the ww1 vids keep up the good work!

[@BadBomb555]

Interestingly enough, USSR did experiment with ski shields during WW2 in the Winter War. A sniper shield on skis or 5:37 type of large shields put on skis and sled shields dragged by tanks. The big bulky ski shields didn't work so well as expected, as Finns even had learned to exploit them by shooting ricochet shots off the icy ground to hit underneath the shield. The world's deadliest sniper, Simo Häyhä was also know to sometimes use a captured Soviet sniper shield on skis.

[@egongold3943]

Next up:" "The Iron-Man Costume" made from real iron really existed (WWI weird tech?) "

[@patrickstewart3446]

Sounds like Ned Kelly’s bullet proof suit. 😁

[@mohammadsyazwigeoffrey7325]

Ah yes. Another 'invention' that makes me question what era did they came from

[@maxgremer7638]

These videos are really really cool and interning and I know how much information you have to collect and then compress and then put it in to an video that’s not only informative but entertaining too but it would be interesting to get some more information of “the other” of both world wars… like what’s with Italy in the first WW or Bulgaria in both the first and the second WW…. For me it looks like even 90% of the people being interested in history and already dealt with the first WW for example doesn’t even know Bulgaria was an ally of the central powers… just to give one small example of one of the wars, I just mean it’d be interesting to see a little bit of these widely uncommon and unknown parts

[@MrAstralika]

And still YOU are focussing on Europe. Why not Japan?

[@squidnuget7813]

Mom can we get a tank Mom: no we have a tank at home The tank at home:

[@shitchops]

some parts of this episode remind me of south park for some reason.. heh good stuff

[@TakoyaKyono]

French: Oui oui! Our innovation is superior! We 'ave made le shield zat moves! We are le greatest! British: But what about putting an engine in it? French: SACRE BLEU!

[@sleeplesshollow4216]

These are the tanks Sgt Avery Johnson were referring to in that halo 2 bridge scene about why those Marines should be grateful to have the Scorpion tanks

[@332ndProductions]

You have to be one of the best WWI and WWII youtubers out there

[@NS-zi1xv]

1:14 to skip add

[@DrVadGun]

Isnt this just a tank with extra steps?

[@IsMcLovin]

Some of these ww1 inventions are so cool and creative

[@senint]

Huh. I’ve heard one story of Mobile shields having been still used during the early WWII. The story was related to that-one-famous-sniper in 1939-1940, and the Mobile shields were pretty much shrinked into single plate on sledges/skis (something similar to what maxim heavy machineguns had) according to a few photos I’ve seen of them.

[@tayfunemirdemirel8617]

That's true.In Winter War,Russian troops used this sort of contraptions to protect themselves from Simo Hayha,also known as 'The White Death'.

[@senint]

@@tayfunemirdemirel8617 Exactly ”that-one-famous-sniper” I was referring to 😆

[@TheBingoAstro]

I genuinely wanna know who was the guy who approved of this idea

[@connorshifflette6016]

Hey simple history can you cover the Nivelle offensive and the large scale french army munity that followed, thanks and i love watching your videos.

[@ge0arc244]

Sort of reminds me of a Shrimps Armor Plating, Hard Pointy like front and a Mobile wiggle backside for mobility! Built to Survive I'd say!

[@WOOKY27]

I played planet of zombies...there some speical zombies do come with such a tactic to advance lol! In reality something like this just aim at the legs will be done job!

[@thegreatorenge]

First

[@renzrafael6079]

You'd be laughing at them until those things shoot at you back, but slowly

[@jjtimmins1203]

Imagine the misery of being ordered to go out and attack the enemy in one of those death boxes

[@arkhammemery4712]

1:29 The war had so much innovation you can hear a Halo Reach sniper being fired

[@markduncan9937]

Every good idea starts with a crazy idea. Just imagine a motorized version. I could see a lot of these one man tanks driving around.

[@RiffSilverthe1andonly]

These would be very useful on the defensive to as you said fill in roads or just make more cover you don’t need to poke your head out to fire.

[@shanebzm8744]

You know is a good day when simple history uploads

[@Gunz_Men]

The country: whats the chepest tank? The store:the infantry tank The country:*il take enough for the whole army*

[@Klaygostopmotion]

I think that your channel is the best for history

[@oscarjohnson2130]

I read a story one time about a British tank in WW1 that got flipped upside down and stuck in no man's land with the crew trapped inside. For several days the Germans were trying to advance on the tank and the crew had to repel them while the British tried to bomb the tank with artillery to keep it out of enemy hands. In the end I'm pretty sure 8 of the 9 crew members escaped but I can't remember. It'd be cool if u guys did a video on that one day

[@orcakinggaming9388]

In the game Nobleman, a lot of your unit's can be upgraded with thick metal plate shields which really helps against machine guns and infantry. Sometimes even the blunderbuss.

[@Off_the_ooze]

Call of war is my fav game thanks simple history!

[@Rentedreaper25]

Can we get a tank? "No, we have a tank at home" *The Tank at home*

[@kaiserroll5379]

I remember these in an old tower defense game I played that was based in WWI. I didn't think these actually existed

[@starpilot101]

Thing is, this wasn't how the tank was invented. No one thought "lets add a motor to the mobile shield." No, it was a completely different development.

[@Malamockq]

No one claimed it did.