How French Partisans Won WW2 - Steel Division: Normandy 44

[@OttomanDrifter91]

i just read a passage by a canadian soldier served in ww2, goes like this; 'when a german plane flew over, canadians duck and cover. when a canadian plane flew over, germans duck and cover. when an american plane flew over, everyone duck and cover.'

[@Jablingus]

we americans are very trigger happy

[@molstad182]

the American ww2 airforce motto should be "yeah, we just blow stuff up and go with it"

[@josharmstrong8813]

American airforce summarised: *Collateral Damage the military branch*

[@andrewmoore7022]

Yeah the US Army Air Force wasn't exactly known for proper Target identification.

[@dj11o9er]

@@andrewmoore7022 or if we going literal, Army Air Corps. Odd name, it is

[@gargamel679]

Allied forces and Krauts: *fights each other in Normandy* The FFI: *Casually drives around in a civilian vechicle with FFI painted on it*

[@miguelrimando6378]

they're getting their baguettes and they want to look good doing it

[@pawe6473]

That's a French game, so it's the thing that French wants to belive... .

[@clesjikoandromas2061]

@@pawe6473 well because it happened in Paris

[@marc-antoinerave2572]

​@@pawe6473 There is nothing to "believe" since resistance is part of our history. The brother of my grandfather served in the FFL (12th Cuirassier Regiment. He enlisted at 17, in North Africa, fought in Normandy, Alsace and Germany. He was wounded twice by shrapnels: one grenade the other one mortar shell. On the other side of my family one of my grandmother's cousin was a radio for his local resistance network. A french gendarme did denounce him to the gestapo, he was arrested, beaten into a pulp and send to KZ Natzweiler-Struthof . He was what the germans called a Nacht und Nebel. Another member of my family was a resistant and has never been caught. So yeah, resistance happened. People have been creating resistance networks from the start of german occupation. Some of those networks have been dismantled by the german intelligence services (SD , Gestapo, Abwehr) and its members have been executed, tortured, deported. Those who survived kept figthing in France. Other joined England to enlist in the FFL and strike back, like during the battle of Bir Hakeim or in Russia with the Normandie-Niemen squadron. There was also collaborators: LVF, 33rd Waffen Grenadier Division of the SS Charlemagne (1st French) , french gestapo, french militia etc... Some chose to be patriots, other chose to turn their back on their country and other did nothing because they were scared shitless to end up like the people of Tulle or Oradour sur Glane. History is not as easy as some of you want it to be. In every occupied country there was resistance and collaboration. Somehow a lot of people keep on targeting french people just because they don't like them, there is no objectivity to this.

[@Nyghtking]

@@marc-antoinerave2572 One thing I heard was France surrendered because they knew they couldn't win and they knew what would happen if they resisted, by surrendering it bought them enough time to get some people out of there that otherwise would have been completely screwed while simultaneously allowing them to keep a little bit of their autonomy so they could rebuild and plan.

[@hasturtheunspeakableone9266]

Just ignoring that L.G. Pool's apparent nickname was "War Daddy", are we?

[@JayWT-10]

Lol that reference was awesome though #fury

[@nostradamusofgames5508]

@@JayWT-10 Fury sucks #Facts

[@JayWT-10]

@Patrickkatalenas whatever dude. That's your opinion not mine #yourfactssuckass

[@anthonysunseri1865]

I’m more amazed how no one knew that you had a KZbin account Him Who is not to to be Named.

[@ForelliBoy]

For a moment I thought that meant Daddy Warbucks

[@fabianmichaelgockner5988]

Rimmy, for your confusion at 3:09 I have a answer: During the world war two the germans captured hundreds of dozens of enemy tanks and and ammunition. And because they were low on steel they painted they symbol (the Symbol of the Wehrmacht) for knowing they allies that those tanks are friendlies and used them during the war. This tactic was being used in world war one too.

[@lionhartjohn1000]

Same with the PPSH, they captured a LOT of them from the Soviets, so they started using them. But they did rename them, I think.

[@mikeymikey4186]

German Sherman Or should I say... *Herman*

[@matchesburn]

By 1942, the Germans probably had more Soviet equipment than many of the Soviet units did. And they utilized them for the duration of the war. The Germans had absolutely zero qualms about capturing and utilizing enemy equipment. So long as there was enough to field and they could figure out how to field it, they did. Mainly because they had to because they needed anything they could get. Turns out going to war with Europe and the Soviets at the same time with an industry base that could be rivaled by Vermont was a bad idea. Who could've guessed?

[@singulo4806]

Must be A nightmare sorting out the ammo logistics

[@nekotheanarchist6250]

@american crusader kzbin.info/www/bejne/e2a0lIqNd52bra8 wrong they used dozens of t-34s and even upgraded them in small ways

[@Paveway-chan]

So the "The Jews '90" thing at around 3:00 is a refrence to Wargame: Red Dragon. In that game you had infantry units of the same name but with weapons from different periods, like US Riflemen with Colt LMGs and M72s on one hand and M60s and AT4s on the other, and the more advanced unit was called US Riflemen '90 because they had 1990s equipment

[@isaacwong1996]

Also Israel dlc exists

[@CoolKid-qk7tl]

Similarly, the anti-Semitic nature of the joke is a reference to Wargame: Red Dragons global chat

[@Paveway-chan]

@@CoolKid-qk7tl Oh for sure

[@n1thecaptain965]

Strange thing is, the 90's equipment, which should be better because it's more modern, is almost always worse than the 80's equipment of the same unit

[@Paveway-chan]

@@n1thecaptain965 I don't agree with that at all. '90 units will have AT weapons with higher accuracy and penetration, and shocktroops or better often go from a crappy LMG like an FN MAG to something great like the FN Minimi

[@plutarchvonpluto6439]

The FFI were Orks in disguise, looting every piece of equipment they find for their WAAAAGH!

[@jambondepays1969]

to be fair, the way the resistance built makeshift guns in garages and whatnot is very similar to ork engineering

[@robertd686]

2:35 Another story about friendly fire CAS, my grandpa was a GI during WW2 While his unit was sitting on a hill, a couple of P-38s came and strafed the hill. Now, he claims that the P-38s were captured... but I'm not sure if they were, or if it was a case of FF. Still, the more pressing concern for Grandad was the fact that he lost his glasses on that hill. That meant he would go without glasses for the rest of the war.

[@SNAFUD-DAY1944]

2:30 actually his nickname in the 3rd Armored Division was “War Daddy” which 70 odd years latter would be the name given to Brad Pitts character in the 2014 film Fury

[@plainplane7580]

I like when someone says something real edgy, and Rimmy makes that Jimmy Fallon laugh. Which makes me very concerned that Rimmy seems to be laughing real hard at war-crimes, because that's Valefisk's job smh.

[@bman7346]

@@zaikolebolsh5724 Life is a misteak

[@blademasterx1460]

You had us in the first run not gonna lie

[@alanwestmoreland6152]

Whittman: *I am ze best tanker alive* Lafayette: *hold my beef rations*

[@rogueleader7506]

Joe Ekins: hold my tea

[@wyattbequette3596]

Yeah so I clicked on your channel while petting my cat and what the fuck is crab fighting

[@lulzalfest]

Man Whittman wasn't even a good "ace" compared to all the other German tank aces. His only claim to fame is ambushing an unarmed British convoy then being wrekt by a Canadian firefly.. which wehraboo wankers still disbelieve and try to say he died from air rocket attack even though no allied air support was flying in the area at the time.

[@unaiestanconapelaez2526]

the rallies are ostrupen who deserted so they are actually rusian

[@awayfromkeyboard2465]

Unai estancona pelaez that’s why at 6:32 you can hear them speak Russian. Was also confused to hear that

[@thegeneralissimo470]

*Ukrainian, Polish, Baltic, Romanian, Hungarian.

[@cnlbenmc]

You can count on Ostruppen, No you really can!

[@arethmaran1279]

@@thegeneralissimo470 In addition to anti-communist Russians, yes.

[@DeePScharge]

@@thegeneralissimo470 They were trained in occupied Poland but the Poles didn't collaborate with germans and never formed a Polish legion, maybe a few individuals did join other legions. Ostrupen were mostly non-Russian USSR nations from Caucas and Midasia so Azerbaijani, Armenian, Cossacks, Tatars, Turks, Ukrainians, Georgians, Caucasian-Mohammedan Legion, Russian Liberation Army and Ukrainian Liberation Army (Main instigators of Wolynian genocide on Poles) etc.

[@polskipolak1129]

Rimmy when he starts killing stukas and German army with baguettes : *YOU JUST GOT VECTORED*

[@polskipolak1129]

Civilians? More like *ACCEPTABLE CASUALITIES*

[@jamesflynn6827]

More like a threat to our Oil erhhm i mean Freedom and our Values $$$

[@josephstalin7353]

unarmed combatants

[@theronnett]

Most of the community moved to Steel Division 2 or back to Wargame: Red Dragon.

[@ozzni1]

Alternative title: Rimmy loses his mind over the fact the French use german equipment

[@Wommyo]

7:29 - finally found the elusive Justicar that so many games speak of

[@thundersoul6795]

Before: "67 players? Hot damn, that's quite a few lobbies worth of people! Cool!" Now: "It's not exactly a popular game..."

[@DDragon501]

Rimmy the reason why this game isn’t as popular as it used to be is because it got a sequel and everyone is playing that. Still, love these games. I have over a hundred hours on Steel Division 44.

[@konstantinosnikolakakis8125]

7:08 Actually Rimmy, Wehrmacht Garrison Divisions were often equipped with captured weapons.

[@apuffofpink8484]

Why do French tanks have rear-view mirrors? To see the battle groun- Jk. Jk. The French actually did good apart from the high command

[@CoolKid-qk7tl]

They used them on the Maginot Line to see the Germans

[@rogueleader7506]

Lol, Leopard tanks have rear view mirrors not French

[@beurteilung713]

Haha funny French surrender joke. The French government may have surrendered, but the French people fought on both sides until the end of the war. The Partisans carried on the fight from the inside non-stop, and French collaborators fought for the Nazis until the end of the war, and in fact, the last SS brigade defending Hitler's bunker was brigade Charlemagne, a French Waffen SS volunteer division.

[@SpaceLandChanel]

Зверобой too bad the resistance fought each other more then the actual Germans

[@canicheenrage]

@@SpaceLandChanel Too bad people repeat utter rubbish without checking.

[@Destroyerofnations]

Leave it to Rimmy to bring a literal civilian car into the middle of a warzone

[@Okada_Caelun]

The French surrender in WWII was less cowards giving up as soon as the fight started and more: Germany: *declares war* France: "Is that how it's going to be? Alright then, shall we take this outside!" Germany: *picks up a chair and breaks it over France's head* Germany: "Inside will be fine."

[@Okada_Caelun]

France: "My word, what just happened... my head is spinning" Germany: "You are a Pro-Facist country and our ally." Vichy France: "I... am? I guess I am."

[@anonviewerciv]

Taxicab Troopers. (5:22) 0:52 8:55 DEMONETIZED. 10:28 That well-known British treat, Recce's Pieces.

[@sbh_tx]

Lafayette G. Pool is my spirit animal now

[@cnlbenmc]

Talk about a meme deck; the FFI basically has Milk Truck AA, Panzer IVs, Ostruppen turncoats, RAF support and some of Patton's 3rd Army to boot!

[@thanosattorneyatlaw4062]

Rimmy is the only person who can lead the French and not have them surrender to the enemy immediately

[@hammer1349]

I remember using one of those jeeps with the 2 twin mgs in COD 3, boy those were the days. Final run in that level would make Michael Bay impressed

[@dmitri5214]

Sometimes I can't tell if he's laughing or crying. Partially because I'd be crying during such moments.

[@wesleyfravel5149]

I really dislike the French Coward memes. They were really brave and fought as well as they could. It’s just that French High command would have been better manned by a bag of baguettes.

[@pigpig252]

Ok Frenchie

[@Glepno]

OK De Gaulle

[@Dita000]

Im guessing the reason why it started or why this cowardice thing was a big thing was mostly because the French had the most powerful army in the beginning of WW2 and yet were able to lose. (Instead of them blaming French high command they blame the entire French army instead but nonetheless take it with a grain of salt it is a joke after all and Im certain many people knew the reasons why the French fell)

[@Xukti]

@@Dita000 Nah, the meme was started by USA government after France refused to support operations in... was it Iraq? That's also when they tried renaming french fries to freedom fries and other stuff.

[@ilo3456]

Have you seen the trailer for the Post-Scriptum Expansion?

[@spicey4522]

1:48 is that the real Sam Greene from the hit SS13 server CM-13??

[@spartanbobby3980]

THE SAM GREENE????

[@MrKavlo]

omg the real one? bro omg bro

[@audili6991]

OH MY GOD!!! IS THAT THE SAM GREENE FROM SS13?!!! MOTHER OF GOD!!

[@theyexpectsomeone]

sign my ass cheeks bro.

[@BB-wl3wo]

It's SAM GREENE!!! damn he dont even come back to the hood no more he forgot all about us... :(..

[@zeshi3089]

This game (and SD2) are underrated gems!

[@jirikrajak]

Actually. All firearms of FFI in game are 100% accurate, French resistance steal weapons from Germans, and actually other countries supports them so they were available to get access of many firearms like PPsh for example. And yes, most camo pattern were german, that is briliant idea of course because Germans couldn't recongnize on first view. FFI were good as partisans, but not as frontline army.

[@WellBattle6]

As noted in the Steel Division wiki, FFI Rallies were composed of foreign SS troops (Ukrainians) who defected on mass to the FFI and became part of the Foreign Légion.

[@DefrostedChicken]

5:08 For anyone that doesn't know what this means: "Mozzie" is Australian slang for "Mosquito", meaning he's using Mosquitos (the planes, not the insects, presumably) armed with napalm

[@molstad182]

Ima give you a complement. Your channel makes me laugh about a topic of gaming that I love and I thank you for that: )

[@shaftoe195]

_"IT'S JUST A CAR!!!"_ *proceeds to laugh his ass off, like an idiot* (c) Rimmy, circa 1944

[@Oh_oh_its_Magic]

My favorite quotes in the video is the line is "the French Resistance got a bomb! how did they get their hands on a bomb?!" The way he said it cracks me up to this day.

[@tomaszskowronski1406]

0:30 That is actally a pretty clever Wargame/Steel Division joke For uninitiated there are units like Motostrielki '80 or Light Infantry '90 (number being the decade from which their equipent is pulled. AT4's instead of M72 LAW, etc) There's also the Israel DLC faction, which is slightly overpowered from all that eternal war Hence The Jews '90, suprisingly fighting for the Nazis.

[@cursednormie7854]

If you think the French divisions are the biggest meme check out the German ‘Paris’ division. you get conscripted prisoners in Phase A, Red Army defectors in Phase B, and you turn into 1st SS-Panzer in Phase C... all the while you get to field tons of carpet bombers and the Karl super mortar

[@AverytheCubanAmerican]

This seems legit, now I'm craving baguettes

[@joshuapalmer5628]

Me: bored as with the flu Me:decides to check youtube Me:sees rimmys new upload Me: 😊

[@kohlrabe1709]

I hope you'll take a look at Steel Divsion 2, some parts of it are just as wacky but.. an overall amazing upgrade. Want to take 6x Tiger I's in A Phase? Feel free!

[@RimmyDownunder]

That's part of the reason why Steel Div 2 is bad. But honestly that's a video on its own. The most obvious thing is the massive downgrade in UI, christ Steel Div 2 is ugly.

[@thekaiseriswiser4451]

If someone took 3 cards of Phase A tigers they are most likely screwed in other departments of their division

[@LHRStormKeeper]

Oh hey, talking about a birthday on my birthday. Had to go back and listen to that a second time because I was talking to a cousin about it being my birthday and I just hear Rimmy's voice in the other room going "Congratulations!"

[@masterninjamt6497]

L.G. Pool was just speed running a Medal of Honor

[@Klex7824]

Calliope is pronounced 'Cal-Eye-Oh-Pee'

[@rebellious_red7123]

At 1:58 who is the tanker that Rimmy mentions had more kills than Lafayette G. Pool?

[@turbowolf302]

Lafayette Pool and Audie Murphy. Two examples of why you don't mess with Texas.

[@nuzhmizafidi2037]

Congrat Rimmy for reaching 300K YYYYEEEEEEHHHHAAAAAA

[@killianasheart5175]

6:31 what were you humming? It sounded a bit like Vode An from republic commando

[@nicolaspeigne1429]

given the blue on blue numbers from tha A10, it seems this a long standing US tradition

[@alaybozan2634]

Who would win: Axis War Machine OR some baguette bois with frogmobiles

[@copcake4316]

0:46 Only Russian can Hear: ONE SUKA DOWN!

[@rossmcmahon2584]

Its not the best game, but its fun with friends. Just the over week in eecked out a tiny victory with the 3rd Armored against my buddy, who was running Pathers and some Tiger 1s in B phase... against my hordes of M4A1s. I can safely say spamming my 6 Thunderbolts all at ince on his Tiger IIs in C ogase really did win me that.

[@AlexWithington]

I'm literally doing the edges of the lawn with a shovel while watching this if that doesn't say how good this video is I don't know what does

[@StrainXv]

Love that Collin is in the game, he was a real person.

[@rnpola9408]

I'd love to see more of this

[@OrificeHorus]

-fifty seconds into the video- Ah, this is DEFINITELY a Rimmy video. *Quality Content, as always~*

[@johnathanmelancon4557]

Fun fact, german tank crews who used captured Shermans actually really liked the vehicle, and praised it for it's reliability, and easy repairability.

[@whyme943]

I like this game :(

[@BB-wl3wo]

oh my god is that sam greene??? from ss13??!?!

[@nikital.6523]

It kinda feels like they keep redoing RUSE over and over again with varyingly sub par results with these types of games. Too bad that AoA has more or less failed. At least we've got Wargame series to bloom.

[@minatoarisato3677]

This is 50% rimmy laughing and shouting "Its just a car!" And the other half is the other guys going "Wait, how the fuck does he have a 'insert op thing here' already?!"

[@walnzell9328]

I remember when Hitler sent that letter to Hitler. The Soviets were closing in, Hitler was compensating suicide, but wasn't sure yet. Then Patton's letter came in calling him a boomer. It was the straw that broke the camel's back.

[@dustinatkinson5744]

Was that the mighty jingles bringing our attention to the fact that Rimmy has a jagdpanzer

[@frzlunar4845]

L.G Pool favorite strategy was spearhead and he was always at the front line (The tip of Spear).

[@Boxerflier]

You wanna fucking go mate!? *loads Reese's bar into gun*

[@MrSarcasticGaming]

My favorite part of the US tank commander was that his nickname is "War Daddy"

[@Raipongai]

3:08 you put that thing back where it came from or so help me

[@command_unit7792]

"Burn Jews"-Rimmy who calls other person a racist 2019

[@luiskaiser5667]

"puppchen" is an 88mm rocket launcher

[@TheAwesomeFossum]

Holy shit, the wiki page you pulled up for lafayette G Pool, states he died in killeen texas. Thats like 20 mins from me lmao. Thats fort hood. Biggest army base in the us

[@lulzalfest]

You sure? Fort Bliss' base is practically a city and its firing range is nearly as large as Rhode Island.

[@Tractor204]

most decorated soldier of ww2 got bombed by friendly bombers

[@-Big_Big]

Yay! Rimmy, the channel Astartes been freed from the hacker! :D :D

[@gibhacker8121]

You should try Steel Division 2 for the full Soviet experience

[@vast_bluesky4160]

5:06 it's got something to do with bombs and the de havilland mosquito

[@omegaluliguess3238]

*When you realize that Lafayette's nickname is fucking war daddy*

[@Kaiimei]

Screw Doomsday Rounds, slugs are more than enough to compete with the big boys.

[@gabrielcamargo3010]

I almost brougth this game just Because it has Leo Major, the most badass canadian of WW2

[@ifyouwoooshmeyouhavesmallp7603]

As someone from the Netherlands i agree

[@damienspiers2140]

Yay the game has the Greyhound reconnaissance vehicle

[@SgtBagel1]

I’m pretty sure I was one of those people playing the game

[@alanhouk1427]

Yeah! Rim-daddy brings us moar! ....Wait...maybe thats the wrong nickname

[@TimParadox5]

Ever heard of bazooka charlie who strapped 6 bazookas to the wings of his recon plane?

[@gavinlinville9691]

HE'S FROM TEXAS!!

[@daniellxnder]

0:37 ah a man of garupan as well

[@NateFCO]

Rimmy ffs it's pronounced "kal-eye-oh-pee"

[@darthvaapad]

at 5:27 after watching this video half a dozen times I just realized that the church is blue.

[@lucasnadamas9317]

The new Hoi4 expansion about resistance or something like that looks pretty good

[@Scientist118]

Welp, that's a demonetized video.

[@elementalgamer0732]

@Rimmy, what the hell is a doomsday round? Is it like the flame rounds I've seen in other games?

[@POTUSJimmyCarter]

It's a mod that I think SovietWomble (maybe someone else idk) showed in one of their ArmA videos. It could knock down buildings.

[@raxzfr5758]

FFI is for "Force Française de l'intérieur"

[@robertlombardo8437]

When you chase all the surrender baguettes out of France and the only ones left are the guys who can make death with nothing but two MG42s and *a car!*

[@ineedanamebutidontknowagoo195]

6:30 Panzerlied intensified

[@FIRSTNAMELASTNAME-zt4kf]

How did the french get a bomb. Uuhhh an officer by the name of Hogan I believe sir.

[@privatechaos1742]

Steel division 2 vod when?

[@auramaster8763]

Civilians? I believe you mean “Acceptable Casualties”

[@mrpariah8060]

When he talked about Doomsday Rounds did he mean the video by Soviet Womble?

[@ussneworleans7490]

germans be like everybody gangster intill the bushes speak french

[@RobSlasherDJ98]

Oh yeah Lafayette g. Pool from Texas the legend

[@thegeneralmitch]

@7:41 your range is not codex compliant citizen....

[@Shadow_Fingered]

@Rimmy no one commented on the fact that Pool's nickname was Tank Daddy XD