Thank you very much for your reaction. You pointed out many things I had in mind when I animated this Video. Great job and great history knowledge 👍

“In war you learn your lessons, and they stay learned, but the tuition fees are high.” -Ernst Jünger(1895-1998), Author, Philosopher, Entomologist and WW1 Stormtrooper

I always remember the story of Rommel during WWI when he captured 9000 men at the Battle of Caporetto with just 150 men (of which only six died) in just two days. "The offensive, known as the Battle of Caporetto, began on 24 October 1917. Rommel's battalion, consisting of three rifle companies and a machine gun unit, was part of an attempt to take enemy positions on three mountains: Kolovrat, Matajur, and Stol. In two and a half days, from 25 to 27 October, Rommel and his 150 men captured 81 guns and 9,000 men (including 150 officers), at a loss of six dead and 30 wounded. Rommel achieved this remarkable success by taking advantage of the terrain to outflank the Italian forces, attacking from unexpected directions or behind enemy lines, and taking the initiative to attack when he had orders to the contrary. In one instance, the Italian forces, taken by surprise and believing that their lines had collapsed, surrendered after a brief firefight. In this battle, Rommel helped pioneer infiltration tactics, a new form of maneuver warfare just being adopted by German armies, and later by foreign armies and described by some as Blitzkrieg without tanks."

Well, actually its a Bergmann MP18 with a 50round 9mm drum magazine in the Video, and it actually saw combat in the very late WWI

I know the history. I've been studying military history for years. I didn't believe you could sit through an entire video without stopping it. Quality history lesson on top. You better stop, your nerd is showing.

One of my favourite songs of the new album, next to Dreadnought, Lady of the Dark and Valley of Death.. they have the best solos and so damn badass stories! You'll LOVE them! Thanks for the awesome reaction, can't wait for the next one! German here, btw, I knew the history of the Stormtroopers and the Star Wars stuff ;)

9:33 star wars stormtrooper weapon The E-11 was a BlasTech-manufactured blaster rifle used standardly by the Empire's stormtroopers. The weapon had a telescopic sight and fired red plasma. Adjustment controls were located behind the scope on the louvered barrel. Mounted in front of the Magnatomic Sticky Knob grip was the fused trigger. Some of the deadly blasters have been taken over by rebels. Backstage Like many weapons in the first films, this blaster rifle was made from a real weapon, the English Sterling submachine gun. MP34

I wish you would do a reaction to the rest of the album

I got so excited when this showed up in my notifications! Just an awesome song

Amazing song, amazing video and awesome history lesson 🤟

Great reaction and awsome video. My history teacher would have been excited if he had this video when he was teaching about stormtroopers.

Thank you dude for this video. Just saw them yesterday at Paris, France, and it was pretty awesome !!! This some was one of my favourites !!!

won't be in Houston for the sabaton show (seeing them two week's earler) but i will be in Houston for BAND-MAID so excited for that!

Thanks for a great reaction again. I am proud of you for not stopping.🤣🤣 Great that it's soon time for you to see them, I know Sabaton will get you pumped. Me, I am looking forward to next Saturday. Sabaton open air has then been on for a couple of days that I will not be able to attend, but on Saturday I will see both Sabaton and Amaranthe!🤟

Great explanations thank you

While the Germans were developing new shock troop infiltration tactics, the Allies were developing the tank and a machine was more easily replaced than a highly trained soldier as the Stormtrooper losses were very high.

If anyone has ever seen a gangster movie with say a Thompson sub machine gun, like alcapone and the like or even aliens, where a storm trooper would literally pop his head over the trench and could unload eighty rounds into a bunch of soldiers hiding or covering themselves to prevent them from getting gassed or blown to pieces, and sometimes these storm troopers would be given drugs and combat stims just to boost their combat lethality as well as their combat effectiveness, and imagine that, you as a common soldier sitting two trenches behind the front lines, sitting down having a mug of tea when a meter to your right you hear a clatter clatter of something only to tee six of your friends blow up ad their entrails and offel cover you, and as you wipe the blood and gore from your eyes you see a short little man wearing a gas mask pop up from the other side of your trench only to pull out a machine gun and starts unloading into you and everyone around you

I wanna say that when the flamethrowers were first introduced, many soldiers soon died after using it because of them being ill equipped. Their hands would practically melt slowly as the tube heated up. They also could catch fire themselves. Me personally, I hate the idea of flamethrowers because I have been burned before, and to have that sensation go all over you body just sounds horrifying to me. The pain that would come with it...just absolutely horrible. Do you guys know if they outlawed flamethrowers in war?

BROOO IM GOING TO THAT SAME CONCERT WITH MY CO-WORKER!

Awsome video as always from Sabaton. And your reaction was awsome aswell. Even though you did not stop the video to talk as we are used to…. I kind of missed that 😉, but the history lesson you gave us was awsome. 👍😀

I saw them (again) a few months back when they played outside of Gothenburg. They played at my church (not really religious) and where we hold our city council meetings. Just epic 😎

Well done with the history. The phrasing you use at times aren't the same I'd use - but that's just linguistic differences or differences of opinion. Great job OSN!

Honestly really reminds me of how Italy also Developed “Arditi” divisions

Thank you for being a reactor that knows the history, many don't bother to investigate.

Man, I saw them live in Romania on 25th of July, and it was epic, the hole fucking crowd went nuts, especially while singing Primo Victoria and Swedish Pegans

Waaa… can’t believe the animator added the huge piles of empty shells

I've got my ticket booked for the next leg of the Europe tour next year :-) April in Oslo.

It also helps to explain why the Germans grew to fear the US Marines during the end of WWI... They used Stormtrooper tactics in broad daylight and charged enmass with absolute disregard of casualties and most of them were under 25...

One of the first stormtroopers was actually one of the best blitzkrieg general which is rommel

9:33 MP18 or MP34. The MP18 was the first submachine gun to go into mass production. She became towards the end The MP18 was the first submachine gun to go into mass production. She became towards the end Production time: 1918 to 1920 developed by Theodor Bergmann and Hugo Schmeisser in the German Reich during the First World War and was delivered to the German front-line troops (mainly assault battalions) in 1918 under the designation MP18. By the end of the war, Theodor Bergmann Waffenbau had produced around 35,000 of these weapons. The MP18 was specially developed for trench warfare, since even a light machine gun like the MG 08/15 was too heavy and a rifle didn't have the necessary rate of fire. Unlike the light machine guns (Lewis Gun, Chauchat) used by most Allied forces towards the end of the war, the MP18, like the Italian M1918 Beretta, could be operated by one man and fired in well-aimed bursts while on the move. It was superior in every respect to the "Langen Pistole 08", which was often used on the German side for trench warfare. A weak point of the MP18 were the drum magazines initially used in the 08 pistol, they were very unwieldy and could only be loaded with special tools. The MP18, also known as the "trench sweeper", was one of the reasons why the Treaty of Versailles banned the German Reich from producing automatic weapons. After the First World War, the MP18 was equipment for the police and was used by them until 1945. A further development was the MP28, which differed only slightly from the MP18 and was designated MP28.II (Roman 2). For the MP18, the designation MP18.I (Roman 1) was applied retrospectively at this time star wars stormtrooper weapon The E-11 was a BlasTech-manufactured blaster rifle used standardly by the Empire's stormtroopers. The weapon had a telescopic sight and fired red plasma. Adjustment controls were located behind the scope on the louvered barrel. Mounted in front of the Magnatomic Sticky Knob grip was the fused trigger. Some of the deadly blasters have been taken over by rebels. Backstage Like many weapons in the first films, this blaster rifle was made from a real weapon, the English Sterling submachine gun. MP34

If you want to know more about german warfare WW1 read Stahlgewitter from Ernst Jünger. He was a soldier on WW1

just a correction, machine guns did not start the stalemate at all, artillery did, the by far and i mean by far major killer in ww1 and all wars since, and even before during the 1800s. People entrenched do to artillery not machineguns, machineguns already existed like the maxim which had already been in use for decades and decades before ww1, and it gave an advantage to whomever had them, but artillery was the major killer, even in the Sudan war, one hit dropped hundreds, and with the new and faster mechanisms of reloading and stabilizing artillery it made it a dominant force. Artillery plus lines of entrenchments and fortifications led to the stalemate, a prolonged siege, at least in the Western front and Italian Front while the Eastern front, Balkan front, Middle Eastern front and East African front are different stories, more wars of maneuver with the occasional entrenchment. in ww2 you have the katyusha, but the germans had the Nebelwerfers long before, and it was devastating to soviet troops, "hundreds of soldiers dead without any sign of wounds" the airblast was enough to kill alot of people without exterior injury which initially left the soviets shocked thinking the germans had a weapon that vacuumed the air, so much so any captured crew was immediatly shot, the germans started doing the same to katyusha crews. Also the "Blitzkrieg" which the Whermacht disliked that term and did not use it because it was not something new or different and it did not origniate from ww1 stormroopers, its much older, it was just standard old school Prussian tactics to them which it was, Schewrpunkt - "Spearpoint", focusing your elite troops on the enemies weak point.

Ya. I knew what the stormtroopers were before the song. But my wife was super confused because Sabaton does historical songs. What the stormtrooper is is in the name. When you think back to old terms or phrases, "storm the castle". A stormtrooper is a trooper that storms. And the reason they'd have their own name and not just be regular troopers would be that they're specially equipped or trained for storming. And their rise in WW I would've meant trench warfare. So the stormtrooper would've been those who're special for storming trenches.

Vader is basically Hagen von Tronje.the og black knight.

Very cool song and video

Thanks for the great reaction to a great video. And thanks for the history lesson. As a German, of course I already knew about the shock troops. However, not in the depth that I now have through the song and the research. It's really interesting how much changed in the way of warfare during the First World War. But I have to disagree with you on one point. I don't think many men need to convince their wives to go to a Sabaton concert. 😋 Statistics say that about 40% of concert-goers are women. (mentioned in the video for night witches pt. 2 on Sabaton history) in my case it will be the other way around, that i will persuade my husband to come with me. 😉

Awesome video

Sturmtruppen or Stoßtruppen were specialist soldiers of the German Army during WW1 or the Great War or the War to End All Wars (it didn't).

I wish you much fun at the Sabaton Concert. You will have! 🤘And i'm curious abut how you feel it

Ok I didn't know the trench raiders were called stormtroopers. I thought that started in WW2. I also didn't know they wore armor. You said bayonets, but truthfully a bayonet and rifle were often too long for tight trenches. Worth noting much of the role in US forces (everyone fought this way, the names for it were just different) was taken up by US Marines who were equipped with shotguns, which the Germans protested. Pershing was like you're ok with gas and machine guns but no shotguns? Right. Great reaction!

I missed the flamethrowers they were the first to use on a large scale. The first German tank (A7V) went into production just before the end of the war. They never reached the front. We are proud of you for not pausing the video. But there were no golden pants or anything like that ;-)

"I won't hold you all day." Checking time of video, yeah, I think I don't believe.

Im swedish

This one makes me want to play Battlefield 1 more than any other song ever. 😄

Stormtrooper were ultimate Special force... And their were good... Really good. Without plot armor Luke would be dead in seconds. The Stormtrooper are even better then the clone trooper.. But the Stormtroopers never got a chance to show themselves against enemies that don't have Plot armor... In the movies.. But the clones they had own series. I mean i grown up with Prequels but i love everything about Star wars besides some films... But i can see over nostalgia. I mean palpatine was probably the most intelligent person there is no way he would create a new Army that is weaker than the army before them.. It doesn't make sense

See you in Houston

Nah, THIS lady is going for Sabaton😉

so these guys were under 25, fast as hell and showed no mercy to the enemy. show this to the youth today. they don´t know what they are speaking.

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whats up!

I want to see you react to some of the fat electrician videos, since you are such a history buff

Ok, ok. We're proud of you. You didn't talk really at all during the song, which is impressive. And you didn't say anything was the Hood. Much better 👍 (well you didn't just saying)

Love the music video, only thing throwing me off is the lack of facial animation. Like the graphics in the video are amazing and all, but the faces look weird. "They're fueled by the fear in their enemies eyes" and my guy is laying there looking dead inside as if he has never experienced a single emotion in his life.