Did not i need it until today

Need him & Al on hearts of iron 4 :D

@@K_-_-_-_K Dan Snow aswell

German WW2 5cm mortar shell: Shell Impact blast Kill-zone radius: 7 feet 7.732 inches German WW2 8cm mortar shell: Shell Impact blast Kill-zone radius: 10 feet 7.732inches German stick grenade: blast Kill-zone radius: 4 feet 2.394 inches

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German WW2 5cm mortar shell: Shell Impact blast Kill-zone radius: 7 feet 7.732 inches German WW2 8cm mortar shell: Shell Impact blast Kill-zone radius: 10 feet 7.732inches German stick grenade: blast Kill-zone radius: 4 feet 2.394 inches

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I mean it is a nice phone so…😅

There’s some neat historically accurate points in the game. The most impressive one being that they used the actual radio callsigns for the US 1st Infantry Division. When talking on the radio, they use the callsign “Dagwood White”, which tells us they are part of the 2nd Battalion, 16th Infantry Regiment.

Yes, better than vanguard which is shit

Unless you get to the online madness, of course. Madness being a key word, there, sadly. P.S. Many novels, movies, and games are pretty accurate in various ways, despite being fictional. This itself is not the barrier. It's more a question of (a) talent (designers); (b) agenda/purpose; and (c) gameplay. The moment they let you be 'female' in Call of the Duty is the moment they really gave up on reality. Actually, I think the latest ones let you be some kind of wolf, super non-binary or whatever, like Halo? I'd have to check. I remember COD4 being a great one back in 2008-2010 or so.

@@TheClassicWorld buddy, CoD: Finest Hour let you play as a female sniper in that game. CoD 3 featured a female resistance character. I’m not saying the Vanguard campaign is good, but this idea that women didn’t have a role in combat in WWII is just poisonous. The OSS and SOE recruited several women for clandestine operations, the USSR utilized female tankers and pilots, you had female resistance fighters in France, Italy, Poland, the Philippines, etc. Hell, some women in the last days of the war were even awarded the Iron Cross in Germany, with one being awarded to a woman who led held off a Russian armored counter attack with Panzerfausts fired by school children. Even in the noncombatant roles they faced, there were plenty of times women were under fire. From the UK’s women searchlight operators being targeted by German bombers during the Blitz, to the nurses under fire at the Anzio beachhead, many service women were killed during the war, all whilst trying to save the lives of the men fighting on the ground.

@@edm240b9 Well, I think there were some female resistance fighters (more so, spies, on both sides), but I meant as a general matter across the entire game. But, I did not know that about Finest Hour. I know that you could only play as male in COD4, MW2, and so forth. :)

Yes exactly 😂 "Defend yourself James!"

Hey Jon, I'm also a long term WHW listener. I would love to see him and AL play Hearts of Iron 4. It's a grand strategy game where you control a country from Strategic and Operational level. You really develop an appreciation of "If I spend shipping doing this then I have to sacrifice doing something else... and I have to protect them which means my navy has to be withdrawn from somewhere else... oh and is my expeditionary force adequately supplied?... etc" Can you imagine.

Brothers in Arms is one of the best books I have ever read.

@@alexperkins9990 100% that’s Al’s kind of game

MoH too, while they're at it.

Yeah that’s the best one for me

Paul Woodage from WWTV has done episodes on HLL and it’s almost spot on for geography, topography, weaponry etc

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It’s because it would be super boring to watch in a movie or a video game

I mean apart from the British commandos using the m1928 version early in the war

That variant was in use by the Marines the Pacific initially, and many squad leaders that had them didn't want to give them up as the war progressed unless they were forced to by mechanical failure, damage, or actual loss. While there was rarely no more than one drum magazine issued, it was favored as the 'first contact' magazine over the 30 round box magazine. But, it's a video game. The troops on the Atlantic wall weren't going to be using modified 9mm PPSh's, and in many cases for the assaulted areas contrary to what he says (He might be a historian but he's not infallible.) The primary positions on the Normandy section of the line were German manned. Though with inexperienced or less than (Physically fit) men. And there were there might have been emplacements with maxims, but even if not MG-42's they'd have been MG-34's, which were essentially just the heavier, milled precursor to the MG-42 which were falling out of favor and replaced where possible in active front line service due to weight more than anything else. All tanks were still fitted with MG-34's because the weight didn't matter and they could be pulled from the growing stockpile of 'surplus' 34's. Even in combat footage taken from D-Day the rates of fire on impacts in the water or sand do not correspond to a Maxim's fire rate which is basically half that of the 34/42.

You can. Just pick a historical interest and write a few books