F-111 aardvark video where

father sus, where is our vark?

Haha, no. Fuck off with this crappy game. Hope you got paid big though. You deserve it.

how long is the code valid

Darn Code "Fire" would prefer something a bit more like "SS Great Eastern"

I was actually expecting him to say "... now an adult with the intelligence of an average child."

That describes ben shapiro perfectly

@@MrDmitriRavenoff same

Ah god dammit, I was a "gifted kid"

Ufff can relate to this too much

The British had not actually disguised the Carmania, that is a common myth.

Thats the funny thing about fiction, it needs to be believable. Unlike in reality where what makes sense doesn't matter.

@@owenstockwood5040 So it was standard for an ocean liner to have anti ship guns?

@@TheMegaOne1000 only Bri'ish ones

@@TheMegaOne1000 No, she had been fitted with them for the war, as she was being used as a Q-Ship. All but a couple were likely removed when she became a troopship, with the rest going at war's end.

Captain: *THESE FUCKERS!* Enraged, the Captain proceeded to pester both greatly.

Took a ton of balls though.

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@@Fighting_Fatigue_117 probably just more spam or scam posts. Have you not seen the totally real lazerpig posts asking people to dm him for investment opportunities?

@@BobbyGrant Investment opportunities you say? If I give you my bank account details, real name, date of birth, address and social security number could you pass them on to him for me? I'd do it myself but I'm not good with computer.

Maybe not as confused as the men on board those ships.

Would've been nice to see the brits lose for once.

@@chrisg5219 never underestimate the British ability to slap a bunch of guns on something and have it somehow work

@Sunnex does sound like wh40k Waagh energy, doesn't it.

@@dragonsword7370 But… the british are orks

How scandalous!

Terribly unfortunate

Is that an episode of Azur Lane?

A proper shootout

Staring daggers at each other. And also fine oceanliner cutlery.

I honestly feel bad for him. Imagine watching what was basically your home and your workplace be torn apart because it was made into a weapon of war. I’d go a little screwy too

I was waiting for him to ram and/or attempt a boarding action.

I am impressed at the realistic reenactment that LazerPig did. I mean you almost forget that those are models in a bathtub.

you could say his plan "went up in smoke"

@@mechamax7919 Damnit Carlos!

“The fault was not mine, sir. Cap Trafalgar must answer.” “Cap Trafalgar answered with her *life*! As you should have done if you had any sense of honour!“

TBF I think yanks call everyone who visited am army base once a vet basically. In my country you're only a veteran of you've been deployed

It’s amazing how every vet was a green beret, or in the 82nd airborne

@@MichaelJohnson-tw7dq Yeah, its super funny when a bulk fuel specialist or an admin clerk tries to pretend they were "in the shit" and within 30 seconds you can just tell "this guy never even left the country, let alone saw combat."

@@nonyabeeznuss304 I was a Combat Proctologist. I was always “in the shit”.

​@@MichaelJohnson-tw7dqI don't know if you're familiar with ex Navy Seal Don Shipley* - he investigates instances of alleged, (often confirmed) cases of stolen valour. Almost all of his investigations involve Special Forces claims, with the vast majority being Navy Seal claims. Even crazier is the proportion of guys claiming to be ex Seal Team Six. I suppose the thought process is, "I'm gonna lie so I might as well lie BIG". You'll often get the ones who can't just lie about being ex Navy Seals, they've also got to have served in other illustrious units or corps. *His channel was called Buds131, but after some issues with KZfaq he's had to relaunch under Don Shipley Former Buds131. The format usually involves a person, (wife, girlfriend, employer, associate, or potential business partner) getting in touch with Don Shipley asking if he could verify someone's claims to have been (usually) an ex Seal - he then looks into the claim before making contact with the guy making the claim. At this stage the subject will either keep digging and lying, or they'll come clean. If you've not seen it, it is very watchable - Don and his wife, Diane, are wonderful together and are extremely committed to stamping out stolen valour claims.

I read that wrong and thought you meant the crews all carried around fake moustaches and wigs or something, just in case..

@@b.elzebub9252 that would be much more entertaining

@@b.elzebub9252 "those cant possibly be Germans sir, look at their well groomed moustaches"

@@b.elzebub9252 in fairness to you, he did use the term "disguise kit" not in accordance with the players manual...

They even painted the name of the boat differently didn't they like. Penguin .

Well, they did toss butter knives at each other, does that count as a cutlass?

They even had a period-authentic mortar involved!

I like how only half way through the battle they both realized they aren't actually war ships and thus almost completely unarmored so they should fire any and all their guns they have since it would easily rip through each other with anti-air guns that would otherwise do nothing to cruisers and battleships.

@@raccoonking7566 it's not boarding the enemy ship tho

I was expecting the boarding at any moment....

Oceanliners are not cruise ships.

An Ocean Liner is like a Greyhound bus, it gets you from one place to another (relatively) quickly in varying degrees of comfort. The destination is the whole point. A Cruise Liner is a party bus, it is meant to be fun and comfortable. The voyage is the point, it might even end at the starting location. As such, an Ocean Liner can (and did/do) be/become a cruise ship, but a Cruise ship can't (unless it used to be one) be/become an Ocean Liner (too much difference in hull structure).

No those look like hotels.

I dont know which guns are primery (if i remember corectly that those ships had a LOT of calibers) and wow usualy uses one caliber as primery most of the times.

@@Isolder74 No, those look like crimes against aesthetics and naval architecture

@@weldonwin That depends which one.

@Jack Der Hauptmann💀 French BB line starts with the French Dreadnoughts. The only Pre-Dreadnought BB in the whole game is the Mikasa which is a Japanese premium

us navy was litteraly formed by pirates always loved that bit

@@mondaysinsanity8193 That is right defamation, that is! Most of the US Navy was formed from smugglers. Only the top brass were actual Pirates.

@@andrewtaylor940 ha lol

First maTe on both ships after the first hour: alright we will call it a draw! Captains: THE BLACK KNIGHT ALWAYS TRIUMPHS!!!!!!

@@andrewtaylor940 coughs in Atlantic slave trade

i can only imagine their communication before they have seen each other. "hello here trafalgar who is this?" "Yes here is trafalgor who are you?" "yes trafalgar, pls send your id" "here trafalgar pls send your id" and so on. the cpts had to be like " are this guys kidding me? :D

And

You're not alone! I was waiting for about 15 minutes to hear about Cunard vs White Star before realising it was never coming!!

Lol same

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@@NashmanNash unlock

Same here, mate, he made my day better too.

i wanna know why he has toy boats? am i missing out on a great hobby?

@@QWERTY-of8qh he's a grown ass pig, he can own what he wants, he earned that WoWS money goddammit

These days you're lucky if your teammates all press w at the start of the match.

Best advert I've seen in months! 🙂

World of warships wet here (i stoped playing it before 2 years). Game is punishing for new players and wets nowadays after that shitshow before 2 years (before game rewarded good players who got achivrments in battle with consumables that buff your ship for 5 to 15 % in each area), CVs are bigger cancer then before rework (before CVs were operated RTS style and now is noobfriendly press W and leftclick to kill anything instantly and AA on the ships was nerfed to the ground so there is no risk to the planes and also they regenerate planes during thr battle while before you needed to manage your plane loss per attack or you will be out of plane really quickly) and last SUBs (i dont want to talk about it).

hey hey people

I instinctively was expecting a notification that LazerPig advanced to the Feudal Age.

Agreed aaaaaaand agreed; straight serotonin from the first note, the pig giveth most generously

The poor guy was captured, court-martialled and shot for it by the Germans, which lead to the British Board of Trade issuing the first Merchant Navy officers uniform regulations to standardize the various company uniforms in use.

@@konstantinosnikolakakis8125 It showed flaws in the cruiser rules that the Germans avidly abused by justifying Submersible ship technicalities, It was still a Gentleman's war, following the rules, but like any game that follows rules, someone reads them and chases down technicalities to allow an alternative state of play. An armed merchantman was a pirate and third party combatant if it was'nt directly affiliated, and a Submarine could be attacked and forced to sink by a ship attempting a ram, fulfilling the quotent. From what I recall, the captain got five medals from the company he worked for at the time, for Bravery, since each attack, the Germans sent an angry letter declaring the event. They're in the National Railway Museum, York. (Or were)

@@Foremarkex I swear it just paints the Germans as the equivalent of the winey 8 year old calling something OP in a game while equally using something "OP", "shotguns are cruel" *says the people using chemical weapons*

It's always interesting to see the belligerent hate for nazi germany back bleed into discussions about ww1.

WW1 is strange because... basically everyone was? It was the "War to end all wars" in the very genuine sense that it resolved and wrapped up several previous conflicts in Europe. But each conflict ended with treaties and restrictions, which built up to the degree where... well, Britain goes to war because a guy buying a sammich shoot fancy hat man in a no-where land. Von Bismarck has this problem, and made the point, that the web of treaties was like a web that tied them all back, and tied them all together. Britain was a strange one in the war, since historically it had always had a closer tie to Germany than France, and had always been an arbiter of these treaties, There was the valid argument that if you could tie Britain up in enough knots of paperwork it would just step back out of the conflict. German ministers spent a lot of the war just... coming up with ways to try and get different groups to stop for a short time to give them an edge. They sent Lenin to Russia, funded revolts in the French Army, tried to make the Royal Navy more negotiable by trailing warships all over the globe and using destroyers to capture fishing boats in the north sea. And the whiney aspect was key, All these treaties were like a web and basically all sides were trying to pull all the different strings to force eachother to step back or stop. Submarines were a technicality in the Cruiser Rules. A loophole.

i can only imagine their communication before they have seen each other. "hello here trafalgar who is this?" "Yes here is trafalgor who are you?" "yes trafalgar, pls send your id" "here trafalgar pls send your id" and so on. the cpts had to be like " are this guys kidding me? :D

@@certaindeath7776 carmania*

Reader: This can't be real Reality: Doubt sure but don't say no chance Fantasy: For comparison, we are like astranged brothers.

@@pancho7647 It was an escort carrier that started with an S. I can't remember which it was and my Grandfather put the flag and purple heart into storage. He also doesn't have a cellphone so I can't just casually ask him.

@@Eatmydbzballs could it have been the USS Sangamon en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Sangamon_(CVE-26)#Kamikaze or the USS St. Lo en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_St._Lo#Kamikaze

@@pancho7647 more based on merchant hulls A converted merchant was a Merchant Aircraft Carrier or MAC

@@pancho7647 um Taffy 3 might want a word about being crap.

My grandad on my dad's side was deployed in Africa as an RAF pilot. His service consisted of a shitty ocean voyage, learning to fly, and then twiddling his thumbs until we won the war. If he ever fired a shot in anger, he took that fact to his grave.

It's a phrase he has used before in a video defending the crusader tank

Who is underrating it?

@@daminox me

The Q ships didn’t work well, the program got shut down…

@@scott_hunts Actually they were quite successful initially, but once the Germans twigged what was going on they stopped surfacing to use their deck gun and used torpedoes instead. At which point the program was, indeed, shut down.

@@gwtpictgwtpict4214 You could even say the program got sunk, if you so desired.

Well , since the other side "broke the rules" first, they'd have been idiots to keep sticking to them. That's why war crimes amongst other things are seen as another level of evil/idiocy: The moment you break them is the moment you aren't protected by them anymore.

@@gehtdichnixan9005 Frankly, what was and was not considered a war crime in WW1 is kind of bonkers. For example, flame throwers and poison gas? Perfectly okay as they are only supposed to drive the enemy out of their positions, not actually kill them and if they are killed, that's totally their fault for not moving. Using shotguns in combat? Nope, that's a warcrime because of the horrendous injuries caused by buckshot.

@@weldonwin But what is and isn't considered a war crime is still ridiculous. You're telling me Middle Eastern countries can't just give guns to children if the US is wrongfully coming for their cheeks?

That would make sense.

"Why are you sinking yourself?" "Surrender! You're holed below the waterline." "I know you are, but what am I?"

have you seen pre dreadnought french battleships?

the river armada in the prelude to the 3 kingdoms period in china has quite a few ships that are closer to floating fortresses. That is the closest example I can think off rn.

Hold my trough of wine*

May i suggest Animarchy?

@@knusern666 I think I've heard of him

You are not the only one.

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@@dominien6487 no you

I just hope they paid him in those LEGOs he wanted.

@@danielv5825 hell yeah!

Also watch Drach's videos on the subject.

@@FirstDagger Or The History Guy, who covered it a week or so later.

Well your name is the WW2 Nerd this occured in WW1

you're an ocean liner?

Not for the 51 people who died during that encounter and their relatives. But I guess it's more important some useless couch potatoes have a laugh.

@@miskatonic6210 understandable point. I just think the circumstances of the battle are funny, that’s all.

@@miskatonic6210I find your comment disguisting. Where i live potatoes feed many people and are known to have saved many people from starvation over the centuries and even not that distant past. Calling them useles is insulting to my culture and the ordeal that my close ones had to go through.

Drachinifel is hilarious telling that tale. But lazerpig... Now that would be a work of art.

Or Taffy 3, to start a whole series on madlad destroyers

kamchatka has joined the server.....ish

I wanna know if there are any insane tales of PT boats taking out an entire destroyer, imagining a bunch of adrenaline fueled patriots on a boat with only some machine guns and a couple of torpedos speeding towards a japanese destroyer with a vengence sounds hilariously badass to me.

@@thurin84 carp, now the chat is spammed with Japanese torpedo boats

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Justice for my boyyyy!!

lol

I wonder what his take on the 111B is. Frankly, I just don’t think “Carrier fighter” was really in the cards for it

For me it's exactly the opposite. AoE2 was my first "full" non-demo game and it blew my tiny middleschooler brain. I spent hours playing it, lost in the game world. I watched this video with a sheepish grin on my face. PS: Did you know that if you put the AoE2 disk in a CD player, it plays the whole soundtrack?

I thought it's from Rise of Nations

@@Volodimar its Age of Empires 2, at least on the begining of the video.

Well, yes, that's what happened once a couple German subs survived Q-ships. Nor did it help that regular merchantmen were told to ram u-boats they saw on the surface.

This is the sort of thing that makes Game theorists remember why they thought Game Theory was useful in the first place.

That's why anything that blurs the line between combatants and civilians is a war crime. It isn't morally wrong in it of itself, but it provides justification for war crimes.

well yes, that is exactly what happened when the German navy got the order for _unrestricted warfare_ , allowing u-boats to target ocean liners on sight. that's how we got to the sinking of _RMS Lusitania_

subs being overpowered is still true to this day, there is a reason nuclear submarines exist.

Actually, British Q Ships had a lot greater success than German Q Ships.

I’m guessing it’s the German R’s. They sound like harsh H’s.

I get what you're saying, some thing are legitimately OP tho.

@@saybrowt I'm sure. I just don't have the time to play games like I used to so I do alright but have fell into the "If I just get the thing that seems to be always kicking my ass" trap. Like with World of tanks. KV2's would just bitch slap me around no matter what I did. So I run to the Russian tech tree and grind up to a KV2. I was absolute trash with it. Miss my first shot then get wrecked while it reloaded for 2 hours a shot and trying to escape at 1 mph.

Ukraine 3: Inevitable Treehouse Pee

I'm just happy its not a raid shadow legends ad

Honestly, If he’s gonna talk about that, it might almost make more sense to wait until it’s about over. Which could take awhile at this point

The period was literally called the great peace

The joke is that between Napoleon and ww1 in Europe there was multiple wars: Greek war of independence Italian unification wars Crimean war Franco-Prussian war Austro-Prussian war Along with the death and disease that comes with them.

@@lastecho3130 I know, but I am simply stating, that it was one of the great peace of our time.

I actually heard a very old lady talk about her time as a radio operator in world war 2, and she litterally ended the story with "Well, and then the war was over so I had to go find another job..."

I mean you do have to ignore: The Crimean War The Franco-Austrian War The Austro-Prussian War The Franco-Prussian War The Anglo-Egyptian War The First Opium War The Second Opium War The First Boer War The Second Boer War Etc Etc Etc...

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@@dominien6487 shut

Naaah, I want a video about the Czechoslovak destroyer

A video on czehoslovakian navy would be cool

They use Russian T72s?

Especially given how many Russian players they used to have.

The game has been solely focused on recruiting new players. Most veterans of the game left years ago.

omg are you psychic

It would be better if a backstory talking about Q-ships, submarine warfare, and convoys had any relevance to this story. But it doesn't, because Q-ships wouldn't see their first action for another six months, convoys were rare for another two years, and submarines just weren't involved.

If I recall correctly there was a captain who mounted a rack of rockets to his submarine during WW2 and used them to bombard the Japanese mainland. Could be apocryphal mind.

@@purplefood1 that’s too cool to be true

@@LukSter18998 For your reading pleasure, en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Barb_(SS-220) the crew also raided the japanese mainland and blew up a train, in more regular matters she sank the carrier Unyo along with a mess of merchant ships. Her skipper did a hell of a job.

The reason we don't use those huge ass cannons and rifles anymore is, unfortunately, more mundane. They are not as effective as tomahawks. So basically, the death of the battleship was because of the DDG. You don't really need huge cannons when you can just launch a big ass missile at someone from several dozen nautical miles away. Today's defenses are also so damn good that, usually, if you don't completely and horrifically neglect your maintenance, undertrain your staff, force people to say your zombie of a ship is in good enough condition for warfare, and in general, give a damn about human life, you usually won't even take that missile. I don't even think we'll see railguns as they've basically fallen out of love for them in comparison to Hypersonic missiles. By the way, if you listen into to any wartime comms between ships and you hear them screaming "VAMPIRE! VAMPIRE!" That's the codename for an Anti-ship missile.