World War II: The Alien Front

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Tigerstar Part 2: • World War II: The Alie...
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World War II was the biggest war in human history, but what if it wasn't entirely human? Say, we added a big alien invasion to the mix. This is Harry Turtledove's World War series.
Music:
Symphonic Bossa Colors 5- Magnus Ringblom
Drops- Gunnar Johnsen
Invasion 2- Fredrik Ekstrom
Neon City 1- Gunnar Johnsen
For the Win 16- Hakan Erikson

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@EmperorTigerstar
@EmperorTigerstar 6 жыл бұрын
Part 2 will be on my channel on Wednesday!
@russellpope4421
@russellpope4421 6 жыл бұрын
8 hours ago wtf
@LocalCowgirlDez
@LocalCowgirlDez 6 жыл бұрын
EmperorTigerstar oh it’s a two parter? I’ll watch this later then
@trollman1296
@trollman1296 6 жыл бұрын
EmperorTigerstar who's going to narrate
@swagmoney9818
@swagmoney9818 6 жыл бұрын
EmperorTigerstar love you dad💓😍😍
@rickybizzaro3966
@rickybizzaro3966 6 жыл бұрын
EmperorTigerstar I’ll definitely be there!
@Knowledgia
@Knowledgia 6 жыл бұрын
God.. this video gives me goosebumbs
@autotainment3113
@autotainment3113 3 жыл бұрын
Oh hey
@autotainment3113
@autotainment3113 3 жыл бұрын
I like your vids
@housedawg-vw9zw
@housedawg-vw9zw 3 жыл бұрын
@Imperium Productions please shut up
@oumardiop1
@oumardiop1 3 жыл бұрын
@@housedawg-vw9zw wow thats not paticularily nice whatsoever
@Angelo-r-b
@Angelo-r-b 3 жыл бұрын
@@oumardiop1 well he said please so
@AsscrackistanMapping
@AsscrackistanMapping 6 жыл бұрын
If poland cannot into space, space will into poland.
@_vixencrisp_
@_vixencrisp_ 6 жыл бұрын
Asscrackistan-Mapping well done
@DesiDude297
@DesiDude297 6 жыл бұрын
Perfect
@maciek_k.cichon
@maciek_k.cichon 6 жыл бұрын
Daniel Tsiprun Well... (gets a bottle) I let you know.
@ScienceDrummer
@ScienceDrummer 6 жыл бұрын
Yes
@balkaneer9991
@balkaneer9991 6 жыл бұрын
yay
@benalor1973
@benalor1973 6 жыл бұрын
I laughed so hard when he said "the Germans! Yay!" KZfaq delstes. "Come on!".
@nicksucc9945
@nicksucc9945 6 жыл бұрын
benalor kurwa..
@ronjayrose9706
@ronjayrose9706 5 жыл бұрын
Same
@JustMe-cs9ku
@JustMe-cs9ku 5 жыл бұрын
Same man
@fatetestarossa2774
@fatetestarossa2774 4 жыл бұрын
SAME ajjajajajajjajajajjajajajjajaja
@protogenhorde8515
@protogenhorde8515 3 жыл бұрын
Same here man
@Godzilla00X
@Godzilla00X 6 жыл бұрын
The Chad WW2 Man vs The Virigin Race
@buddy5196
@buddy5196 3 жыл бұрын
WW2 Man - Fights with itself because they can't find anyone else to fight with - Is faster then The Race - Are great tacticians and can outsmart the race Race - Invades a less advanced planet and loses - Slower then the Imperium - Dummies
@Nugcon
@Nugcon 3 жыл бұрын
^^^
@piglin469
@piglin469 3 жыл бұрын
@@buddy5196 underated
@Goldrunner1169
@Goldrunner1169 3 жыл бұрын
I'm the race and I find this very offensive
@sentientmustache8360
@sentientmustache8360 3 жыл бұрын
@@buddy5196 Average race pleb: 1 meter tall Reptillian lookin ass Slow and idiotic Weak Average Human Warrior 1.5-2 meters tall (supersoldiers compared to those scrubs) Intensely handsome High IQ and insurmountable speed Strong enough to rip one of those iguana people in half with their bare hands
@TheOther19
@TheOther19 6 жыл бұрын
"Not even the Imperium is that slow".... That made me laugh
@leral_fusion17
@leral_fusion17 5 жыл бұрын
Evendur13 it’s nice to see someone talk about warhammer
@lt.x-02s-wyvern25
@lt.x-02s-wyvern25 5 жыл бұрын
Someone wrote a fanfiction if the Race came to Earth in 2026 in the Stargate universe called Contact of Races, which is quite enjoyable though you first have to read Contact at Kobol, which is Stargate x Battlestar Galactica
@protogenhorde8515
@protogenhorde8515 3 жыл бұрын
Same here
@elitemook4234
@elitemook4234 Жыл бұрын
@@lt.x-02s-wyvern25 Personally I prefer Worldwar; discovering the balance By: AlbertG.
@alexandermeinhardt4727
@alexandermeinhardt4727 6 жыл бұрын
There`s a really cool fan-fiction called "World War: War of Equals" that I would definitely recommend. It's an alternate version of the story in which The Race take a little while longer to get here and arrives in the early 2010's. Suffice to say, humanity stands a *much* better chance.
@thenewmisterwehrmacht893
@thenewmisterwehrmacht893 4 жыл бұрын
Alexander Meinhardt Unfortunately, it was cancelled and if the author wanted to restart it again, then it would fit in the current, late 2010s settings that focuses on constant division and polarization and other things....
@Someone-ej7kd
@Someone-ej7kd 4 жыл бұрын
You mean there's a what if scenario within a what if scenario?
@ProGremlinPlayer
@ProGremlinPlayer 3 жыл бұрын
Can I have a link to it?
@germman2050
@germman2050 2 жыл бұрын
Can I have the link good sir? It sounds interesting
@Venator-Class_Star_Destroyer
@Venator-Class_Star_Destroyer 2 жыл бұрын
USA : yo is that a alien im picking up? EU : it is! china russia look at this! russia and china : well thats cool! what they coming here for? USA : looks like fleet of warships Russia : lets nuke there warships and see if that works, i have some nukes hidden in my sattelites everyone except russia : .....im not even suprised..welp lets see if it works "explosions in space" the big 4 : yay we won! now than lets unify efforts and prepare for more aliens, this is gonna be so cool!
@petartoshkov2076
@petartoshkov2076 4 жыл бұрын
"The Aliens can rush in uncountable numbers" The Red Army: Amateurs
@rheinbewachen1211
@rheinbewachen1211 3 жыл бұрын
Soviet propaganda against aliens
@superdouble8834
@superdouble8834 Жыл бұрын
Soviet Union: hmm 200m people is not enough what do I do? India, china, south east Asia and Japan: well what do we say? Let’s remove law AND TORTURE THE HELL OUT OF ALIENS, NO LAWS, NO CRIME, NO ALIENS. Ussr: well thanks for assisting Germany: well, finally my gigantic tanks have a use and Poland can into pace after this. The snow and the trees: 🗿🗿🗿 British empire knowing they already colonise the aliens before they even exist: ah yes what a great day to have a cup of tea Switzerland still neutral even after the aliens capture earth except Switzerland: 😮
@Peter_Turbo4
@Peter_Turbo4 5 жыл бұрын
Aliens: "they're divided, ATTACK" Humanity: [unifies] Aliens: "uuh..." Humanity: *[Hell March Starts Playing]* Aliens: "Oh shit"
@ryanovski
@ryanovski 3 жыл бұрын
All Nation's National Anthems starts together creating an unusual music which freaks out the aliens.
@averagecustodes2562
@averagecustodes2562 3 жыл бұрын
I changed the comment so someone else could Write the original comment
@zikotarghi7190
@zikotarghi7190 3 жыл бұрын
@@averagecustodes2562 I litteraly just wanted to comment that, just imagine the doomslayer going solo into their planet killing everyone
@averagecustodes2562
@averagecustodes2562 3 жыл бұрын
@@zikotarghi7190 I will delete my comment of you want
@zikotarghi7190
@zikotarghi7190 3 жыл бұрын
@@averagecustodes2562 lol you seem like a cool guy, wanna kill aliens sometime ?
@et3747
@et3747 6 жыл бұрын
Now do “What If Australia Won The Great Emu War?”
@sciblastofficial9833
@sciblastofficial9833 6 жыл бұрын
et 37 It wouldn’t be heard of, and the victory would give Australia a bit of confidence before the upcoming Great War II Also there would no longer be emus
@scottieman2
@scottieman2 6 жыл бұрын
If they are a super power?
@PsychShrew
@PsychShrew 6 жыл бұрын
That's too unrealistic. Like, how would that story even be written? That would be like if a bunch of tiny islands off the Coast of Europe was the origin of the USA.
@pieniadz9156
@pieniadz9156 6 жыл бұрын
et 37 What if Australia-Hungary was formed?
@Pancakes26
@Pancakes26 6 жыл бұрын
et 37 "What if Humans and Emus Lived Peacefully"
@iliadnetfear2586
@iliadnetfear2586 4 жыл бұрын
Humans: "Ginger. A delicious spice for making dishes better." The Race: *Stoned.*
@OriginalPiMan
@OriginalPiMan 2 жыл бұрын
Not even. More like orgasmic.
@johnrafaelenriquez3897
@johnrafaelenriquez3897 6 жыл бұрын
Error at 3:40. Barbarossa happened in June 1941 and Midway in June 1942 (considering nothing in our timeline before the invasion changed)
@spaceman081447
@spaceman081447 3 жыл бұрын
@@andrewhoffman8427 RE: "Tosiev" The Race's name for Earth's star was Tosev and their name for Earth was Tosev 3.
@winged9247
@winged9247 6 жыл бұрын
A nuclear mine? Are you telling me they just randomly buried a nuke hoping it's triggered.
@lukebushby3908
@lukebushby3908 6 жыл бұрын
I know you have probably forgotten about this comment but i will enplane it anyway. It wasn't a traditional presure mine. It was a nuke that was hidden in the ground on a timer. The soviets pulled back so the race would move on top of the mine just as it was triggered.
@indahf.freztiyana824
@indahf.freztiyana824 5 жыл бұрын
Or it was deliberately triggered by Soviets after they were sure that the aliens already on it (or in it's blast radius, at least)...
@solorhypercane5041
@solorhypercane5041 5 жыл бұрын
Imagine the war ending and you forget you put it there
@buckplug2423
@buckplug2423 4 жыл бұрын
The whole Iron Curtain was supposed to be mined the fuck out. There were units in the Polish Army which job it was to fuckin dig up those mines.
@mrbisshie
@mrbisshie 4 жыл бұрын
I'm assuming the Soviets calculated how long it took the race to move from square a to square b. Placed a mine in a location, that the race was headed towards, and set a timer, then boom.
@HebaruSan
@HebaruSan 6 жыл бұрын
I think of the 1940s as technologically advanced. Guns, bombs, cars, tanks, planes, penicillin, and eventually nukes. Even on the pure science side you already have special and general relativity plus a lot of quantum mechanics, on top of the decades-old near-mastery of electromagnetism. By contrast consider that the hyped genius ancient Greeks fought with bronze shields, spears, short swords, and wooden boats.
@buckplug2423
@buckplug2423 4 жыл бұрын
We really just reap off what the 1940s started when it comes to warfare, aside from EW. Science went more into computers, transistors, the Internet and electricity as a whole after '45, so while militaristically speaking we didn't advance THAT much we certainly advanced scientifically.
@floridaball4896
@floridaball4896 4 жыл бұрын
You know they discovered alot of things we are only recently beginning to rediscover
@MisterSpinalzo
@MisterSpinalzo 4 жыл бұрын
and penises
@gatsbymaguire
@gatsbymaguire 3 жыл бұрын
@JT you have a good point sir.
@spaceman081447
@spaceman081447 2 жыл бұрын
@@buckplug2423 RE: ". . . while militaristically speaking we didn't advance THAT much . . ." Military Advances Since 1945 Automatic weapons Tanks Jet planes A-bombs and H-bombs Body armor Nuclear submarines Intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs) Antiaircraft missiles Radar and sonar Satellites Spacecraft Night vision goggles
@Mantelmannjoe
@Mantelmannjoe 6 жыл бұрын
To be precise: The Imperium actually went backwards with there level of thecnology from the time of the great crusade to the 41st millenium.
@icyknightmare4592
@icyknightmare4592 6 жыл бұрын
I was looking for something fun like this. You've convinced me to give it a shot, and I just got through the first two. Here's a few things I've noticed: 1. Somebody needs to weaponize Ginger. It would be the world's most interesting biological weapon. 2. The Race does actually have night vision. They do have thermal optics, but I'm not sure about visible light amplification. It's mentioned a few times in book 2 at the infantry scale. 3. The aliens' technology level seems to be around 1990s level in general (some exceptions of course). Everything they have is better than 1940s tech, but it's still mostly conventional. If it were any higher they would have things like active defense systems on combat vehicles, small scale UAVs, and laser point defenses for their ships and bases. We have those things in development now, but it's probably an artifact of the years these books were written in. 4. Surprisingly, The Race seems to have no concept of orbital bombardment other than dropping powerful nuclear weapons. Lighter precision fire from orbiting ships would utterly wreck any of their enemies' defensive lines and industrial capacity. After all, simple kinetic rods would cause plenty of devastation without all the nasty side effects of fission bombs.
@spaceman081447
@spaceman081447 2 жыл бұрын
@Icy Knightmare RE: "Somebody needs to weaponize Ginger. It would be the world's most interesting biological weapon." That happens in a later book - in the Colonization series.
@spark5558
@spark5558 2 жыл бұрын
Kinetic bombardment only works from orbit if you can decelerate out of orbit not like GI Joe which would just keep orbiting. It would be viable with railguns or even normal guns, missiles would do the trick. Also how does the race deal with 0g in orbit?
@thegamingallosaurus7281
@thegamingallosaurus7281 2 жыл бұрын
So uh if you want to know, there are another three books under the Colonisation Series, then a single book called Homeward Bound after the Colonisation series.
@spaceman081447
@spaceman081447 2 жыл бұрын
@@spark5558 RE: "Also how does the race deal with 0g in orbit?" The Race rotates at least certain parts of their starships to provide centrifugal artificial gravity.
@dillon4248
@dillon4248 6 жыл бұрын
Very interesting that in this scenario humans are a lot smarter than the aliens but the aliens have just had more time to develop technology
@christiandauz3742
@christiandauz3742 6 жыл бұрын
I think it is less intelligence and more determination and risk taking The Race doesn't have a equivalent to our Chernobyl or Global Warming There is always a Price for Power
@matthewschad6649
@matthewschad6649 6 жыл бұрын
First, Napolean gets frozen in Russia and lose there, then Hitler plans on going into russia (where they'll freeze and lose), and finally, the aliens get frozen in Russia and lose there. Lesson: Just don't attack Russia!
@thet-3432
@thet-3432 6 жыл бұрын
What if you are the mongols though?
@Ethan-yj8sv
@Ethan-yj8sv 6 жыл бұрын
Except the Mongols!
@FallingPicturesProductions
@FallingPicturesProductions 6 жыл бұрын
Or just attack Russia by coming through Mongolia and/or Alaska, starting just a bit before winter shows up. This way the Russians have to 1) Put in all of the draining effort and manpower to march their shit all the way across this vast barren land. By posting a 'base' of sorts in Russia's extreme outer territories, and doing it just before winter, or at least at the start of winter, the Russians themselves are subjected to a long and ardrous process of moving across the country akin to an invading force. This will stretch out their supply lines and tax the shit out of them, but they HAVE to move across during the winter because if not, they run the risk of... 2) A solid base of operations already being in place in Russia during the spring, serving as a ferry/entry point into the massive country for any other invading force, which can now cross Russia during the significantly less severe Spring/Summer. Plane technology of the 1940's would struggle massively at crossing all of Russia just to bomb or halt the advancement of foreign troops, so it would all become a battle of who has the better supply line and attack/defense/planning in general. If the invading force is capable of forcing back the Russians, then the Russians are now loosing ground in a war that will leave their Western Side overpopulated and on the verge of an economic collapse. You might not even have to cross the Ural Mountains, just let the Russians collapse themselves as they struggle just to effectively cross said mountains to kick you out. Granted, this is all with the mindset of a 1940's era Russia. And this wouldn't be a one-year kind of deal. For every bit of ground an invading force would make during Spring and Summer, they'd have to bust their chops fortifying it against both Russian forces AND the extreme Siberian cold of the Winter. I'd imagine a full-scale invasion of just Asian Russia (Everything between the far Eastern end all the way to the Ural Mountains) to take the better part of three years under good circumstances, because IT'S A FUCKING HUGE CHUNK OF LAND and it's not mapped out very well even by the Russians themselves. Not to mention that this couldn't work in today's world, because Nukes. Nuking a large chunk of land that isn't densely populated or heavily used for the country, with the intent of taking out these MASSIVE forces, and with all of the radioactive effects blowing further eastward/southward into political rivals...it's not exactly a net gain but it sure puts a giant check on any invading force. Even in this hypothetical invasion without nukes, it wouldn't work in today's world because the range and destructive capabilities of aircraft are much, MUCH greater then they were in the 1940's, which would further stall out any advances Westward and would turn an already long multi-year invasion into a crippling standstill, or even more extreme, a total push outward after bombing out key points in supply lines during the Autumn, which would isolate posts that are more central in Russia, and leaving them cut-off and vulnerable to any sort of offensive during Early Spring. And even this is all just under the assumption that the Siberian Winter becomes a total forced cease-fire on both sides, which I would guarantee is not happening. TL;DR - You could invade a 1940's Era Russia from the East/South and take just about everything up to the Ural Mountains without too much difficulty. You couldn't pull that shit off today.
@anasmohd3930
@anasmohd3930 6 жыл бұрын
wait for it.....the mongols........ horde cheers
@steventon7451
@steventon7451 6 жыл бұрын
No one attacks Russia except the mongols!!!
@ConradJD777
@ConradJD777 6 жыл бұрын
Do "What if Nazis used a smiley face instead of a Hakenkreuz"
@ColonelBragg
@ColonelBragg 6 жыл бұрын
I need a time travel machine ten minutes ago
@cocconoce
@cocconoce 6 жыл бұрын
@Jack the Gestapo Lol
@Violetenist
@Violetenist 5 жыл бұрын
:)
@KitKatHexe
@KitKatHexe 5 жыл бұрын
@@ColonelBragg you were supposed to say "I, Cato Sicarius, need a time machine so that I, Cato Sicarius, may use it!"
@siyacer
@siyacer 4 жыл бұрын
🙂
@s0larb0wl87
@s0larb0wl87 6 жыл бұрын
I read the series twice. It’s just soooooo good. Love the Turtledove bro. Best characters are Sam and Jager in my opinion. One last thing The Race does have night vision tech but not for their Air Force or tanks but only for their infantry.
@zoltantorok1189
@zoltantorok1189 6 жыл бұрын
I think in the first 3 books they say about Race's Night Vision at least 4-5 times and it really gets under my scales. Also, you know that Sam's last name is Jaeger, right? :)) Jaeger and Jaeger. (I know you meant Heinrich). P.S. For those who don't want spoilers, for the love of God, don't go through the Wikis. Also, I've listened to the Audio books. (and basically J and Y have the same pronunciation) But this was fun.
@lionhead123
@lionhead123 6 жыл бұрын
I liked Jens Larssen. Poor guy.
@unitednations774
@unitednations774 5 жыл бұрын
lionhead123 God bless his soul, he goes on a mission but when he comes back, his wife is married to another man. He does another mission but the team doesn’t agree to go to the mission site.
@Geckobane
@Geckobane 4 жыл бұрын
I absolutely LOVE that entire series
@kevinradtke3767
@kevinradtke3767 4 жыл бұрын
@@lionhead123 I wish he kept jens as a likeable guy, that would make the reader much more conflicted than him turning into an asshole
@swordchucks777
@swordchucks777 6 жыл бұрын
I hate to be that guy, but as a huge fan of the series, I have to correct you on one thing. The initial invasion of The Race occurs in Spring of 1942, so Operation Barbarossa has already taken place. In fact, a large German army (including Heinrich Jager) is trapped in Russia.
@badbeardbill9956
@badbeardbill9956 6 жыл бұрын
Yeah. There's even a seen where he's complaining about the new Russian tanks being too good. If I recall they even have parts where the characters explain how close to Moscow they were.
@icyknightmare4592
@icyknightmare4592 6 жыл бұрын
Our favorite German panzer man turned Red Air force mechanic had a line complaining about advancing so close to Moscow one year, and retreating toward it the next.
@ColonelBragg
@ColonelBragg 6 жыл бұрын
The first four books are amazing the rest not so much except homeward bound but i completely despise Sam Jaeger
@swordchucks777
@swordchucks777 6 жыл бұрын
I agree. Jens Larrsen did nothing wrong.
@ColonelBragg
@ColonelBragg 6 жыл бұрын
He really didn't he got completely fucked over in very way possible
@oz4087
@oz4087 6 жыл бұрын
Lets celebrate what unites us all! Xenophobia!
@ColonelBragg
@ColonelBragg 6 жыл бұрын
I Cato Sicarius Master of the Watch, Knight Champion of Macragge, Grand Duke of Talassar, and High Suzerain of Ultramar. Approve of this message
@Ajc-ni3xn
@Ajc-ni3xn 6 жыл бұрын
TheBunkerBuster 105 Wrong channel, dude.
@williamsledge3151
@williamsledge3151 6 жыл бұрын
@TheBunkerBuster 105 #humanityfirst
@Cityinlead
@Cityinlead 5 жыл бұрын
Wait
@eggman5586
@eggman5586 5 жыл бұрын
Stellaris
@yellowcrayonkid
@yellowcrayonkid 3 жыл бұрын
6:51 actually the race does have night vision tech. I seem to remember a certain Yi Ming receiving a pair of binoculars that “see in both dark and light”
@ChupacabraRex
@ChupacabraRex 2 ай бұрын
I know right? I think Ussmack and Nejas even talked about how they had a technology that let them see in the dark but their Commanders thought it risky and chose not to attack, so I think it's moreso being precautios (Because their strategists are just godawful) than a lack of technology.
@KvaGram
@KvaGram 4 жыл бұрын
7:40 As I recall from the books, the first German nuclear research facility were near Bremen. And it was a nuclear meltdown not an explosion that killed off that facility. Said nuclear fallout was so bad they were still cleaning it up in the sequel series (set in the 1960's).
@ChupacabraRex
@ChupacabraRex 2 ай бұрын
Yes, I think Avtar even mentioned that it id almost as much damage as their Nuke. Almost.
@terrancekeane6990
@terrancekeane6990 6 жыл бұрын
"When the fleet lord says we rule this world from space; we hissss! hissss! in the fleetlords face!" Yes! Thank you for finally giving my favourite series from the master of alternate History some love. I first read the Worldwar series as a kid and it is what made me fall in love with the genre. "May your toe claws tingle!"
@merrittanimation7721
@merrittanimation7721 6 жыл бұрын
The Poland ball references are hilarious
@monkofdarktimes
@monkofdarktimes 6 жыл бұрын
Merritt Animation kurwa
@hydrogenone6866
@hydrogenone6866 6 жыл бұрын
Merritt Animation, Poland seems to be the unlucky power in many cases.
@DotDotDotDashDashDashDotDotDot
@DotDotDotDashDashDashDotDotDot 6 жыл бұрын
KV-2 is stronk tenk! Aliens are no match for Stalinium armor, and powerful Stalin guided 152mm nuclear shell.
@cobaltfox1294
@cobaltfox1294 4 жыл бұрын
Thanks for making this video! It actually got me to go get the audiobooks and i have enjoyed them greatly!
@JustinY.
@JustinY. 6 жыл бұрын
*GERMAN ENGINEERING IS THE BEST IN THE WORLD*
@redbluesandmoons7478
@redbluesandmoons7478 6 жыл бұрын
*_Was That a JoJo Reference?_*
@trapadvisor2258
@trapadvisor2258 6 жыл бұрын
that's why you always see audis sat on the side of the road broken down
@niemand3637
@niemand3637 6 жыл бұрын
Justin Y. Y are you every where
@claudiocozzi4425
@claudiocozzi4425 6 жыл бұрын
Justin Y. *YOU FOOOOOL!*
@versus-7087
@versus-7087 6 жыл бұрын
Justin Y. And superior to aliens
@dejan3366
@dejan3366 6 жыл бұрын
Aliens forgot about the cold....like napoleon!
@imperatorodaenathus9329
@imperatorodaenathus9329 6 жыл бұрын
And Charles XII
@Seanthefox
@Seanthefox 6 жыл бұрын
Dejan Vezmar LOL
@GodSlayingBunny
@GodSlayingBunny 6 жыл бұрын
Martin Fawkes never happen in this book
@thepgawesomechannel5930
@thepgawesomechannel5930 6 жыл бұрын
I wish Napoleon won
@rockgod6180
@rockgod6180 6 жыл бұрын
Dejan Vezmar The cold didn't stop the Mongols
@jaygon8656
@jaygon8656 6 жыл бұрын
Do the aliens have their own warring nations/countries? How are they so unified? They seem like a very warlike species, the idea of them being fully united and (seemingly) completely homogeneous is a little absurd to me. Is it just because humanity is a young species, comparatively, so we haven't unified ourselves at that point in history?
@jaygon8656
@jaygon8656 6 жыл бұрын
@Brenden That's my question exactly. How exactly did they unify their planet? How, because I am wondering why the humans in this book's universe couldn't easily just do the same. And I don't understand how they could be nonviolent if they were literally planning on invading and subjugating the humans when they first discovered them in the 12th century.
@Solinimo
@Solinimo 6 жыл бұрын
This is pretty clear in the book, no nations, no division within the race. The only thing that I would have been curious about and annoyingly hasn't even been mentioned in four books is how long a lizard 's life is? We just never learn about it.
@lukebushby3908
@lukebushby3908 6 жыл бұрын
I have wanted to know this for so long. I have assumed it is a long time as it takes them at least 7 years to travel to earth (they travel 7 light years to earth at half the speed of light. Rember one of there light years would be half of one of ours.) 7 years is a long time for a creature with our life expectancy to give up. I can not rember if they sleep when travelling. If they do my point might not matter because they would not be worried about leaving behind family. I have looked it up and it turns out "Their lifespans tend to be longer than humans" but it is not clear by how much.
@Barabel22
@Barabel22 2 жыл бұрын
@@lukebushby3908 Their home planet is 24 light years away, not 7, and it took hundreds of years for both the conquest and colonial fleets to arrive.
@spaceman081447
@spaceman081447 2 жыл бұрын
@@Barabel22 RE: "Their home planet is 24 light-years away, not 7, and it took hundreds of yards for both the conquest and colonial fleets to arrive." Tau Ceti is the Race's home star, which is 12 light-years away. The Race's starships travel at 1/4 lightspeed (0.25c). Therefore a one-way journey from Tau Ceti II (the Race's homeworld) to Earth would take 48 Earth years. Cold sleep prevents members of the Race from aging during the trip.
@ronniswort3232
@ronniswort3232 6 жыл бұрын
"The Germans, yaaaaaaa- ah c'mon"
@GmodPlusWoW
@GmodPlusWoW 6 жыл бұрын
Another factor in the Race's poor military campaign is that they hail from a planet that's mostly land, without any large oceans, so they're a lot more adept at land wars but are pretty crap when it comes to naval gubbins. In fact, they don't make much headway in dealing with human shipping lanes or amphibious attacks. In addition, the Race's homeworld has very little in the way of oil deposits, so they know very little of it as a fuel source, to the point where they didn't consider petroleum refineries to be strategic targets until six months into the war. Presumably, the Race had previously invaded worlds that were more or less similar to their own, perhaps many of them being "hot eyeball" planets, tidally locked worlds that are in such close proximity to their stars that liquid water is most common around the terminator. ("cold eyeball" planets are far enough away that the sunny side is wet enough to have an ocean, while it's mostly rock and ice past the terminator) Also, fun fact about tidally-locked planets: day and night are not times, but instead they are regions. The sunny side is always lit by the sun, the dark side is always night, and the terminator is a land of perpetual twilight. For cultures living on such planets, it would be quite surprising to see a world like Earth where light, darkness and twilight are not regions, but indeed periods of time. Not to mention, such cultures would likely have some interesting mythologies revolving around the lands of light, darkness and twilight.
@MTTT1234
@MTTT1234 6 жыл бұрын
Was it really mentioend in the series that the two other planets the Race conquered were tidally locked? That is something totally new to me.
@matthewwilliams2093
@matthewwilliams2093 6 жыл бұрын
Tosev 3 (the Race's name for Earth) is actually only the third conquest that the Race has embarked on. And while tidally locked worlds sound cool, there are none in the Empire. Home (the Race's name for their own planet) is basically on the near side of the Goldilocks zone with a range of climate zones, just mostly hot and dry. Humans do eventually get there in the last book Turtledove has written in this universe.
@GmodPlusWoW
@GmodPlusWoW 6 жыл бұрын
Not really. But in theory hot eyeball planets would in theory have a large singular dry landmass on the sun-facing hemisphere, which would in theory shape a culture with very little naval experience and a higher chance of early unification due to not having oceans separating them from everyone else. It's more of a general theory than explicitly exclusive to Harry Turtledove's Worldwar. And considering that life in our universe is more likely to crop up in stable red dwarf systems, it's entirely possibly that the first alien culture humanity encounters may originate from a tide-locked eyeball planet. And as mentioned before, the fact that day and night would be like well-defined lands to them, planets with day-night cycles and axial tilts may seem like eldritch locations to them, where the land and sky change in the space of several hours. ...come to think of it, would the cultures of tide-locked worlds even HAVE the concept of days, if the skies don't change on a quantifiable level like they do on Earth? What would their perception of time even be, without the notion of day and night? If their planet had a moon with an orbit, they could probably divide time into weeks, and even if there was no moon to mark the passage of time, at least on the dark side and terminator they could possibly map out the months with the positions of stars. Also, an axial tilt may help define the world with seasons, but without a noticable axial tilt (and thus no easily definable seasons) it would take quite some doing to map out the months and decide when the year ends. Star charts may help if the world rolls on its side, but if it doesn't then the stars would probably just sit there and not change either.
@Panzerfan93
@Panzerfan93 6 жыл бұрын
Don't the lizards get addicted to ginger in this series?
@badbeardbill9956
@badbeardbill9956 6 жыл бұрын
Yes
@ColonelBragg
@ColonelBragg 6 жыл бұрын
yeap its like cocaine for them
@TalOfTheEast
@TalOfTheEast 6 жыл бұрын
I think Turtledove mentions this once or twice in the books. Or more accurately, once or twice per chapter.
@gukyhuna
@gukyhuna 6 жыл бұрын
What if there was a United Anglo Empire (UK,Australia,NZ,Canada,USA)
@narwhallegion8583
@narwhallegion8583 6 жыл бұрын
So British empire plus the USA?
@nxc1974
@nxc1974 5 жыл бұрын
It's called "5 eyes", and it's more a criminal cartel than an empire.
@spaceman081447
@spaceman081447 2 жыл бұрын
@Huna RE: "What if there was a United Anglo Empire (UK, Australia, NZ, Canada, USA)" Read "The Two Georges" also by Harry Turtledove. Reference: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Two_Georges
@RoyaCanadianInfantry
@RoyaCanadianInfantry 6 жыл бұрын
Cody, I've seen your alternate battle of Midway and wanted to ask a specific scenario. What if the Kyūjō incident had been successful and Japan didn't surrender forcing the Allies to annihilate the nation. This scenario is never explored realistically; all the while we have people bringing up an imaginary race to Tokyo etc. We need a realistic scenario were USSR just stops at Hokkaido to deny the Japanese their most important coal supplies while they shifting their focus into China and Korea while the Americans after the invasion of Kyushu island decide to follow USN and USAAF plan and just blockade the island while bombing to submission. Basically, how would Japan be like after the ' Great Dying ' since millions of civilians and soldiers would die. Military holdouts, empty Japan reclaimed by nature, new prime real estate for exile Koreans and Chinese? Too many scenarios
@roflmywaffles1313
@roflmywaffles1313 6 жыл бұрын
What if Jimmy stopped asking questions?
@sciblastofficial9833
@sciblastofficial9833 6 жыл бұрын
Rofl My Waffles Then he [Cody] would lose lots of inspiration
@hydrogenone6866
@hydrogenone6866 6 жыл бұрын
Things would be less bright.
@JustinY.
@JustinY. 6 жыл бұрын
*What if events in JoJo actually happened?*
@johnblunt6693
@johnblunt6693 6 жыл бұрын
Justin Y. My boy I can't get away from you
@michaelmendez59
@michaelmendez59 6 жыл бұрын
Hezekiah McDonald dude same he’s everywhere
@bruhicusmomentus3060
@bruhicusmomentus3060 6 жыл бұрын
ZA WARUDO, TOKI YO TOMARE!
@RinnosukeETQW
@RinnosukeETQW 6 жыл бұрын
OH MY GOD!
@claudiocozzi4425
@claudiocozzi4425 6 жыл бұрын
Justin Y. Germany would have won WW2 with their cyborgs, or maybe they would be stopped anyway by russian stand users
@humblegroundskeeper7495
@humblegroundskeeper7495 6 жыл бұрын
Literally bought the first book on audible after I finished this video thanks for putting me onto a new series to read was struggling to find one
@Weird_but_neat
@Weird_but_neat 6 жыл бұрын
This is literally the coolest heckin concept I’ve ever heard of
@salutic.7544
@salutic.7544 6 жыл бұрын
0:32 SENPAI NOTICED THE SKINHEAD DREW DURNIL!!!!!!!!
@thegardenofesim1174
@thegardenofesim1174 6 жыл бұрын
Common Zenoric top 10 anime crossovers cameo
@A_annoying_rodent
@A_annoying_rodent 6 жыл бұрын
Historical Review R.I.P paintbrush.
@et3747
@et3747 6 жыл бұрын
Still waiting on that Top 10 CIV 6 Milfs
@thedreadedsaltpacket6210
@thedreadedsaltpacket6210 6 жыл бұрын
i knew i saw that!
@Rafael_lmao
@Rafael_lmao 6 жыл бұрын
Man this is history
@veggiecunt3175
@veggiecunt3175 6 жыл бұрын
I could imagine Hitler raging in his office in this timeline.
@061342
@061342 6 жыл бұрын
Isaac Pola He does.
@NodDisciple1
@NodDisciple1 6 жыл бұрын
Isaac Pola Fegeleiiiinnnnn!!!!!!!!!
@King.Leonidas
@King.Leonidas 6 жыл бұрын
why would he? that humanity has another world crisis that he has to deal with including the jews?
@Mastaachef
@Mastaachef 6 жыл бұрын
HAHHAHA
@dairegraham6955
@dairegraham6955 6 жыл бұрын
Nein Nein Nein Nein Nein Nein!!
@therobokraken7595
@therobokraken7595 4 жыл бұрын
This one video is what caused me to buy the entire series this video is explaining as well as the entire southern victory series and Harry Turtledove becoming my absolute favorite author. In other words, Thank you Cody for introducing me to the best books I've ever read.
@johnrust592
@johnrust592 6 жыл бұрын
One of my all-time favorite novel series. Loved all four books. Turtledove is freakin' brilliant!
@ai-dooffical2907
@ai-dooffical2907 6 жыл бұрын
New netflix orginal series looks nice.
@hoboknight5349
@hoboknight5349 6 жыл бұрын
This would be a cool HOI 4 mod
@aidencampbell9120
@aidencampbell9120 6 жыл бұрын
Just go get the DLC for HOI IV, get the war of the worlds mod and fight some aliens that of course only start in the states cause merica'.
@ColonelBragg
@ColonelBragg 6 жыл бұрын
Ive actually wanted to attempt to make this mod but it would require totally reworking the game mechanics and making nukes destroy armies also think the frontline would need to function more like it does in the ww1 mod
@lefterboy123
@lefterboy123 6 жыл бұрын
I learned the series from you, and just finished the third one, it was actually really good!!! Thanks for the recommendation!
@jamesorthegreat9070
@jamesorthegreat9070 6 жыл бұрын
Best video yet man, please keep up the good work. You guys do a very good job with these videos.
@AlanCrossman
@AlanCrossman 6 жыл бұрын
This series will always have a special place in my heart as it was my introduction to alternate history literature in middle school. I consumed these books over the course of a week or two on my bus rides to and from school. Long live Turtledove!
@theastrogamer710
@theastrogamer710 6 жыл бұрын
Finally you covered my favorite series of Alternate history/Sci-fi books of all time!
@badbeardbill9956
@badbeardbill9956 6 жыл бұрын
I love the high aliens
@Jtwilight
@Jtwilight 6 жыл бұрын
This series was great!
@ColonelBragg
@ColonelBragg 6 жыл бұрын
One thing about this series that drove me insane was calling nuclear weapons "Explosive Metal Bombs" that and i HATED Sam Yeager that xeno loving traitor
@voided9593
@voided9593 7 күн бұрын
This one is my favorite Turtledove book so far
@stephenspears3206
@stephenspears3206 3 жыл бұрын
I've read the entire series, and loved the story. I hope you cover the Colonization Series and Homeward Bound book at the end of the series. Colonization is when a second fleet arrives carrying female Lizards. And Homeward Bound is when Humanity travels to the Lizards' home world. Then a second ship arrives, using an FTL drive to travel to Home.
@BasedCanadaMan
@BasedCanadaMan 6 жыл бұрын
Man I love how dramatically the quality of your content changed this is so awesome keep it up, over the years I've always looked forward to new videos!
@jacksonross5941
@jacksonross5941 6 жыл бұрын
What if Napoleon won the Battle of Waterloo?
@JoolzThePirate
@JoolzThePirate 5 жыл бұрын
Impossible, alternative history not impossible history
@ryanchapman3995
@ryanchapman3995 6 жыл бұрын
Yes! Thank you for doing this video! I was hoping you would when you did Harry Turtledove's last series
@ThomasTHEONEANDONLY
@ThomasTHEONEANDONLY 4 жыл бұрын
Franklin Delano Roosevelt: “We must fight the lizard-beasts.”
@thegalacticfanclub7049
@thegalacticfanclub7049 6 жыл бұрын
Dang Harry turtledove must be famous for his book 📚. I'm probably going to read them after the Last Command from Star Wars legends
@ColonelBragg
@ColonelBragg 6 жыл бұрын
these are actually only the first 4 books there are 8 books in total for this the colonization series and homeward bound where humans return the visit
@Mrsquiggley
@Mrsquiggley 6 жыл бұрын
As someone who’s read the books, RIP Australia.
@senorbaste7207
@senorbaste7207 6 жыл бұрын
I was expecting Nazi flying saucers >:((((((((((
@joshuas.169
@joshuas.169 6 жыл бұрын
Papi Shekel Cody couldn't put in a swastika as part of a historical emblem because KZfaq thinks it's 1984. They'd probably ban nazi flying saucers altogether.
@RIANDOA
@RIANDOA 3 жыл бұрын
This series of books was so good! Cool to see a video about them, good show :)
@Lucas-jm1cq
@Lucas-jm1cq 6 жыл бұрын
What if the Gallipoli campaign succeeded
@Firmus777
@Firmus777 6 жыл бұрын
You've covered a fictional anime world (Attack on Titan) and now alternate 1940s where the countries of the world are uniting their forces to fight aliens. Does this mean we could get a Strike Witches video in the future?
@burkesullivan9086
@burkesullivan9086 6 жыл бұрын
2 things. 1) What if Lewis and Clark found a Northwest Passage? 2) What if Lewis and Clark found what Thomas Jefferson predicted they'd find? That is: mountains of salt, a race of Welsh-speaking Indians and herds of woolly mammoths, giant ground sloths, and other megafauna.
@taiho5233
@taiho5233 6 жыл бұрын
Hey, thanks for sharing this book series with us, i just bought all 4 books on Amazon, ty! :D
@georgestefanou4250
@georgestefanou4250 4 жыл бұрын
I have just gotten 2 book 2 and would just like to thank you for showing me this book series
@aldairlara5582
@aldairlara5582 6 жыл бұрын
This sounds like the plot line from The Resistance games
@Stoplayers
@Stoplayers 6 жыл бұрын
Yey a Warhammer 40k refrence! :D
@pdholland
@pdholland 6 жыл бұрын
Agree his but he is comparing it to the flaws of a xenos abomination.
@cruz1816
@cruz1816 6 жыл бұрын
dark angels/space marines boi
@Stoplayers
@Stoplayers 6 жыл бұрын
Cruz Carrillo Salamanders for life
@ColonelBragg
@ColonelBragg 6 жыл бұрын
What about I Cato Sicarius the greatest of them all?!
@Stoplayers
@Stoplayers 6 жыл бұрын
Cato Sicarius you can stay in the warp...
@cymro5
@cymro5 6 жыл бұрын
Fantastic! Hardly anyone I know has read this series and always wondered what it would look like with the AHH and Emperor Tigerstar treatment!
@governm3nt697
@governm3nt697 3 жыл бұрын
Just finished the entire book series. I am obsessed with the scenario.
@ExplosionDaG
@ExplosionDaG 3 жыл бұрын
3:33 goddang you made me spill my pasta out my nose.
@Ozzy_2014
@Ozzy_2014 6 жыл бұрын
Will you cover the sequel series about what happens when the colonization fleet arrives in 20 years?
@abcd-xg5qo
@abcd-xg5qo 6 жыл бұрын
YOOOO I have been waiting for this for a ridiculous amount of time
@duke4366
@duke4366 4 жыл бұрын
Thanks Cody, I might borrow this book in the library or buy it online. Thanks for sharing.
@nnelg8139
@nnelg8139 6 жыл бұрын
Hey Cody, can you do "what if the Dust Bowl never recovered?"
@johnnyneptune2730
@johnnyneptune2730 3 жыл бұрын
I like that every history chanel knows each other
@cracklasco
@cracklasco 4 жыл бұрын
Ive been wanting to see an Alien tech concept like District 9 but with a full on war. Never knew this book existed. This is awesome!
@salokin3087
@salokin3087 6 жыл бұрын
So, the resistance series was just a rip off?
@mraj8372
@mraj8372 6 жыл бұрын
Glad im not the only one who thought of resistance.
@fulcrum2951
@fulcrum2951 6 жыл бұрын
Its an awesome rip off though
@lorenrosenhal6555
@lorenrosenhal6555 6 жыл бұрын
Salokin god how much I miss that game
@fulcrum2951
@fulcrum2951 6 жыл бұрын
A glorious game
@Cityinlead
@Cityinlead 6 жыл бұрын
Salokin oh shit how’d I not see that? Though I think the books came out before the games
@amanthatcantfly5125
@amanthatcantfly5125 6 жыл бұрын
Looks at the title... Thinks about Stellaris... EMPIRE OF MAN!
@jaboba69
@jaboba69 4 жыл бұрын
Turtledove's series is amazing
@charlieholmes3153
@charlieholmes3153 6 жыл бұрын
I love Harry Turtledove! It's been a while since I've read anything of his.
@placeholder6432
@placeholder6432 6 жыл бұрын
I love whenever you have Polandball in your videos! 😃 Keep up the good work!
@rlmckay
@rlmckay 6 жыл бұрын
Who else read the Harry Turtledove's books?
@Demiurge0000
@Demiurge0000 4 жыл бұрын
"They're working on it." Greatest line ever
@Arnal17
@Arnal17 6 жыл бұрын
Hey, i love your videos, specially the lore ones (WWZ, Attack on Titan, etc), so i have a request: could you do a video about the world in the movie Interstellar? Like, whats the plague that they talk about, the bombings on starving people and such. Thank you cody!
@moonlightfalling3130
@moonlightfalling3130 6 жыл бұрын
I love this intro
@joelgarcia1115
@joelgarcia1115 6 жыл бұрын
The lord has spoken to us again
@alfonsolatorre2628
@alfonsolatorre2628 3 жыл бұрын
i love the old 60's sci fi themed intro u did there
@izodfan
@izodfan 6 жыл бұрын
I've been waiting for this btw.
@davidsalazar50
@davidsalazar50 6 жыл бұрын
Never clicked so fast, and its a fucking colab. Sweet!
@justincider8207
@justincider8207 6 жыл бұрын
cody you should do a video about if xerxes managed to defeat the greeks how would the world have been would we all be a zorostrian or would rome not rise
@erone4760
@erone4760 6 жыл бұрын
actually Cody, operation Barbarossa already happened by the first book, but I would only know this because you introduced the series, so thank you
@thelordofthelostbraincells
@thelordofthelostbraincells 2 жыл бұрын
This is such a *COOL* CONCEPT!!
@TDenterpriser
@TDenterpriser 6 жыл бұрын
Do what if the nazis invented the atomic bomb in 1943
@zach-ul7et
@zach-ul7et 6 жыл бұрын
Liberty Prime yessssss
@obiwaankenobi4460
@obiwaankenobi4460 6 жыл бұрын
*BOOM* War over, Wolfenstein starts.
@kaldozin9757
@kaldozin9757 6 жыл бұрын
Augustus Mussolini Rip Moscow and London
@rwps3677
@rwps3677 4 жыл бұрын
Dann wäre dein Kommentar in deutsch verfasst.😜
@ducefascist7497
@ducefascist7497 3 жыл бұрын
The Russians enter Berlin in 1945 and the war ends as usual
@ethanrepublic
@ethanrepublic 6 жыл бұрын
where is my movie
@juliomanuel1885
@juliomanuel1885 6 жыл бұрын
Usecriticalthinking A video game would be better in my opinion
@beastieman4207
@beastieman4207 5 жыл бұрын
@@Fluffery k
@mrbisshie
@mrbisshie 4 жыл бұрын
@@juliomanuel1885 You'd have gaming journalist get angry over that, because the Axis wouldn't be considered the bad guys, and you'd have to work with them.
@JohnSmith-wx9wj
@JohnSmith-wx9wj 4 жыл бұрын
@@mrbisshie A lot of the book was about how filthy people felt working with the National Socialists. Still, I understand nuance is not a part of many people's vocabulary anymore.
@juanelorriaga2840
@juanelorriaga2840 5 жыл бұрын
Turtledove is amazing the first 4 books of “Worldwar” series were amazing.The next 3 “Colonaization” book were good too but the stand alone last one “Homeward Bound” was ok tried to tie up loose ends but I like the idea of the Humans going to the Race home world but I would have loved to see more done.Anyway great series those books I’m surprised no one has tried to make this a Show but it seems the aliens invasion movies and Shows seem to lose its steam just like the zombie craze drying up
@shgjghjkj
@shgjghjkj 6 жыл бұрын
I read this series awhile ago and loved it. Another advantage I noticed that humans had was that the race did not have energy based weapons. Making it more of a level playing field.
@michaelmendez59
@michaelmendez59 6 жыл бұрын
I like the Smile-stika (gotta get dat ad rev)
@A_annoying_rodent
@A_annoying_rodent 6 жыл бұрын
We deutsche can into anschluss alien lizards! Woohoo!
@jed8592
@jed8592 4 жыл бұрын
Just bought the first book for a dollar fifty at a thrift shop last week, I am loving it!
@whyyaskkwhyy
@whyyaskkwhyy 5 жыл бұрын
Currently reading the first book. So good! Trust me its totally worth reading even after watching this. Its great and still is incredibly interesting
@shmee123ful
@shmee123ful 6 жыл бұрын
Purge the foul xenos
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