The Chieftain. The worlds greatest used tank salesman.. :D I love these videos

The background music seems to finally be just right. :P You really notice how loud/repetitive it can be when watching a lot of old episodes.

Thanks again Nicholas, please keep up the good work. And please remember - we germans have no problems pronouncing things like "Doppelkupplungsgetriebe" und "Donaudampfschiffahrtsgesellschaft" but a simple "squirrel" drives us mad :-)

played WoT for years. Found you because of that, so it was sort of a reverse advert...Hope they keep you.

Yes ! My favorite WW2 TD ! The interior of the Jagdpanzer IV is not very well known - I hope this one still has authentic interior.

"I didn't choose the Jagd Life..." just doesn't have the same ring to it....

They're in a roll this year! So many episodes in quick succession, keep it up! Love it!

Bless this series! The best tank reviewing content on KZfaq. Right up there with The Tank Museum!

Those Outtakes ... I was laughing so hard, I would have laughed through the whole 17 takes XD

Finally! I've been waiting for a review on this TD since I first started watching these videos. Always been my favorite, I have a picture of my grandfather posing with a knocked out one from the war...

Yay! I’ve been waiting for this one. I’ve liked his recent picks of tanks for Inside the Hatch. Keep it up Chief!

The result when a Panzer IV and a Hetzer make love 😍😅 Its a awesome TD

The continued production of your videos is literally the only thing that is making me seriously reinstalling the game. Love the vids!

I didn’t choose the Stug life, the Stug life chose me.

Thanx! I've been waiting ages for this TD to be featured. One of my faves, if for no other reason than I'm a Jagdpanzer 2nd Edition player, lol. Trying to mount the Panther's 75L70 gun on a Panzer IV chassis was kinda stretching the engineering. But it did work well for what it was designed to do. Kill enemy AFVs. It got the nickname "Guderian's Duck" because being so nose-heavy, it tended to sort of waddle down the road. I wonder how long those forward road wheels lasted before needing replaced?

Installed and played this game because of your excellent videos. Keep them coming please :) And after so much time you've finally showed how this Pzkw IV suspension looks like - it's covered by road wheels from outside so that peek from under the tank chassis was needed :)

At last I'm seeing the Jagdpanzer IV Pak 39 L/48 that was produced until November then the production proceeded the Pak 42 L/70 variant. It is very interesting to see the 0-Serie preproduction vehicle, easily seen with the rounded sides at the front next to the early production variant coated with the zimmerit. For your info it is interesting that because the cannon PaK 39 was so low the muzzle break created too much dust betraying it's position so many crews removed the muzzle break. Looking forward to see the 2nd part and again you did a good job 👍👍

long-time World of Tanks player (since beta), and I love the Chieftain's Hatch... keep it going!

Outstanding Video and presentation.

Hurray for track tensioning! I hope you all noticed that at 12:43 they actually locked the track tensioning spanner to keep the Chieftain from trying it out!

Keep the videos going chief the info is helpful and seeing the real thing is vary cool.

I have indeed been playing the game 4 years on and off and that +these tank chats has cemented my dream of being a tanker

Nice One and Always Informative plus Interesting! Cheers

Its good to see that inside the cheftains hatch is back... i missed the series

Loyal player of many years, the chieftains hatch is what keeps me coming back.

About time you did this one

I'm downloading the game now. I tried it a while back and quit pretty quickly because I didn't understand it. Now, I'm going to try again. I understand it a tad better now thanks to Jingles, and his and your videos make me want to try again.

Great video!

Love the video, but can't really do much to help with the end. My wife and I have already been playing since 2012! I do love the content, and in this case particularly so since the JagPz IV is one of my overall favorite vehicles to play and I've 3 marked the thing (along with nearly every other tier 5, 6, 7, and some tier 8 Germans). Thanks for the great videos!

awesome.... i always liked the jagdpanzer 4 design!

Can’t wait to get inside that vehicle.

Once again thanks for the excellent insight. I love the honesty about your German. 🤣

Great bloopers video at the end.

Love the Vids! Great addition to the game Nicholas! your german is okay if you try your best haha. Gr from Holland!

Just past 30,000 games. Have been a zipperhead, all my life. Love the game, videos are always informative. So many tanks, so little time. Thanks Chieftain. Oh yeah, my grandkids are always saying they don't know what to get me for birthdays, etc. Tank models and WoT premium vehicles are always a good choice. Cheers, mate!! o7

I came here via the reverse. Discovered the game, and wanted to learn more about the damned tank that keeps knocking out my T34-85! Really enjoying the video. Hope to see more :)

to the person who finally turned the bloody background music down a notch...you have my eternal thanks, i love you!

Trockensumpfschmierung. XD Pretty cool Outtakes!!!

Another great job. Yes, the language can be a mouthful sometimes. Thanks Chief.

I love the Panzer IV, Jagdpanzer IV and Stug III

Greetings Chieftain. I love all your videos even watching every almost twice. And the really most important thing for me(and i think so for everyone else ) is that i am learning my favourite hobby: Tanks History. And thanks to you i have learned a lot. And now i am using this knowledge against my friends when we are playing World of Tonks. Speaking of which, that we are always calling our hate love. Well there are many Problems with the game: the RNG, Arty, wheeled vehicles and the Economy System just to tell a few things. We love to Play it and it makes even fun to play. But if in some matches, the arty always focus your tank and your RNG leaves you. Then you lose the desire to play the game any further I hope that you can follow with what i have written and i wish everyone else a good day and good hunting in WoT I'm a german so pls sorry if my english is not so good. (If probably anyone need a platoon , hit me up. With the new frontline, i am often online again, as long as my work permits. Just look at my nickname )

outstanding vid! hope you do the sdkfz 222 someday!

Very interesting great work

That awful moment when the Schweinfurt Raid comes back to haunt you . . .

And the Jagdpanzer IV was the inspiration for the Jagdpanzer Kanone of the Bundeswehr. (Which was then also used as Jagdpanzer Rakete later on ) . Unfortunatly for me , when it was my turn to do my Army duty the Jagdpanzer Kanone was phased out. I really wanted to be on it ....but he Leopard was not bad either :-)

You right with the muzzle brake,because the power of the gun is still there. And what power it was.

Great Video......

-Ive a photo in one of my reference books of a pretty ingenious battlefield upgrade modification to the Jagdpanzer IV's schurzen panels.... -A rail welded to the length of the vehicles casemate side plates/lower sponson's with all the schurzen hanging on a 1" round, steel "Curtain Rod" of sorts w/hole-punched brackets welded on the backside of the panels themselves. Somewhat, but not completely like a piano hinge. So if any work needed to be done on the front fuel tank filling-tracks-wheels-sprockets-idlers-bogie leaf springs, all ya had to do was lift & pivot the plates & rest them on the angled case-mate armor above. They may have even had safety latches @ the top to properly retain them IIRC?...Cool & effective mod none the less! -The case-mate angle is steep enough that I dont see them accidentally falling & ending the war early for some poor, unfortunate grease-monkey? Which, if said were to happen, might in fact be a blessing? -Considering the HORRORS those AMAZING recovery/repair company personnel faced when dealing with German AFV repairs!...;) -That particular mod most likely done when the crew had 2-3 days of downtime when large, more time consuming repairs & overhauls were being tackled n' accomplished by the PanzerWerkStattCo mechaniacs....

Already play, but the videos add to the experience

Awesome, just 3 days after I searched "jagdpanzer 4 chieftains hatch" and found nothig, you release this Clip about one of my favorite ww2 vehicles. Thanks a lot!

The panzer IV vehicles float my boat.

Great Video! And I play the game all the time.

The stug 3 is the one Whittman sharpened his teeth on. Low profile .excellent vehicles.

Played WoT for 5 years day in day out, it jumped the shark with the "wheeled" tanks. Always thought tracked vehicles came about as wheeled vehicles couldn't handle the terrain, but not in WoT. Used to have a Ferret armoured car when in the forces, trust me if you drove it like the "wheeled" tanks in WoT you would have broken bones, concussion and have turned turtle, farcically unrealistic so stopped playing. Keep up the very informative vids they are great.

Well done Chief

I've been playing on and off since April 2012. Sadlymy Graphics Card has been broken for quite some time now and I can't aford a new one so I can't play at the moment. Chieftains Hatch and Quickybaby are the things keeping me following the updates and keeping my interest up. In a few months I'll be joining in again.

Could have used the defunct mg port as a periscope port for a wide angle periscope since it does look like he could drive with his head out

Somehow I expected Mr Doyle popping out from one of the hatches.

Grandpa came across a platoon of these in August of 1944. His Churchill tank was destroyed quite easily.

I am not absolutely sure. But I had been told that the reason the shifted StuG production from the Pzkmpf III hull to Pzkmpf IV hull was because the factory that build the hull for Pzkmpf III was bombed and they really needed as much "tanks" as posibble to send to the front so they have to change the production to Pzkmpf hulls even the hulls was really needed to real tanks as the Pzkmpf IV H/J. I guess it also make sence since the Panther was suposely to change thee main tank from Pzkmpf IV to Panters so I guess thats why there were a lot of Pzkmpf IV hulls leftover to made them as StuGs ect.

ive always been curious about this vehicle

Look at all those nasty welds.

I loved the time wasting comment at the end of the video :D. Been playing this game for like 7 years

It would be nice to see some mobile command post vehicles or something on how the communication process went between the different organizations - like the US M577 I was in a Tank BN. in 75 that used it 4 different way, the Radioteletype was the most interesting

Pretty underrated TD

A few years ago they dug up a sturm it was upside down with winter tracks . Still combat loaded. Could the Chieftain do a podcast on this stug ,

A good and dear family friend was a Tiger I driver during the war...How cool would that have been?? WOW.

I love this videos 😁😊

Anyone else notice the Continental tires and Dunlop return rollers? Were those replacements or made under license?

Awesome 😎

Okay, fair is fair, the leaf springs are mental :o) I think the sliding action at the thin end is the damper?

After the jagdpanzer2 can you do the marder 3

Love the videos wot blitz player because of these and some time I'm going to get my own Xbox one so I can try wot console. Thank you for your work GG!!!

I already play WOT-Blitz, so forward that to the bean counters, cheers.

Are the prototype and production units the same height? Cheers!!

Will you do one on the Panzer IV/70?

Beautiful elegant vintage military works of art for an evil empire...the story these tanks tell would be ear splitting with an intensity that echoes through the ages.

Can make a video inside Jg.Panther II?

Ah yes, my Sunday ride. Nice indeed.

When the ad for the game is more fun than the game itself.

I'm kinda surprised at how short this armored vehicle is.

Love your german my dad is Swiss German I tried learning regular german no chance! Being Canadian born...

"Lift up the Schurzen" fnarr. Snort.

"Time waster?" kinda feeling bad being a paying customer now...

Finally more german ww2 tanks! Sweet.

I wonder why they didn't armor up the cooler sides and backside with thicker plates to also kinda solve the front-heavyness problem.

I would love to follow your link but I already play, not just WoT but also WoTB, and WoWS, and WoWSB

Yay!!

There is a free presentation going on about the mysteries of tank design, and the rest of the visitors are not even facing the right way...

Interesting a cupola was never designed for this vehicle but was featured on later model Stugs of the same production year

Hello. I have a question on how to repair transmission on this vehicle. Suppose the transmission(in front of the vehicle) needs to be taken out to be replaced with a new one. Is it possible to do without first removing the main gun?

Great work , what location is this at?

Please do a Tiger 2 Inside the Hatch

Wait - wouldn't the muzzle brake actually help reduce the visual firing signature seeing as the bottom of it is solid and would redirect muzzle gasses away from the ground (a la the A2 flashhider on an M4/M16)?

Little tidtit here: the implications of the nature of the weapon went beyond tactical use (which was a concern and obviously weighed in the consideration of the vehicle), but into the realm of the constant power struggles which were the common day-to-day reality of Nazi Germany. To the point: had the JgPzIV been labelled as a StuG, it'd been not only tactically deployed as such, it'd been crewed by artillery men, and it'd been under the absolute jurisdiction, administration and control of the Werhmacht artillery branch. The Panzerwaffe wouldn't have it that way no matter what - this fight had already happened years before when the fighting happened over the StuGIII and while the artillery got their way with that one, the leaders of the Panzerwaffe didn't take it lightly. As a junior service that during the pre-war years had to fight a very uphill struggle to remain as an semi-independent branch of the army when everyone was trying to get a hold on controlling the new weapon (infantry, cavalry and artillery being equally interested in having exclusive control over tanks), the Panzerwaffe had a strong sense of independence and, as usually happens to junior and/or newly created branches, a somewhat tangible complex of inferiority. In that scenario having an armored fighting vehicle taken away from their jurisdiction and being given to another branch was something they took very seriously. Guderian in particular was very active during the times of the StuGIII's inception arguing against the vehicle being crewed and controlled by the artillery, and (as with many other things) him not being exactly the most diplomatic personality, he took a crapload of flak for his insistence of putting that weapon under direct command of the Panzerwaffe instead. So, while there's little doubt that giving control of the Assault Guns to the artillery was the right one with the StuGIII, when this debate began all over again with the JgPzIV the Inspectorate of the Armored Troops (namely, Guderian), went full tilt about NOT having that one taken by the artillery aswell. Partly on very valid tactical reasons (the Panzerwaffe was severely outnumbered in numbers of tanks in all fronts already, while there were no lack of StuGIIIs, and having extra vehicles given to the panzer branch made a lot of sense), but mostly because Guderian would never allow for it for many reasons, a lot of them personal. And given that he had not only a direct line to the Führer, but his personal favor, it was a foregone conclussion this vehicle would end up being exactly what it ended up being. At any rate there was a StuGIV anyway too, so in the end the artillery also got their vehicles aswell, just in more limited numbers (around 1000 of those built by the wars' end against circa 2000 PzJgIV).

I would love to help you with the new account Chieftain. but have I have a 7-year badge.

This guy is so much more interesting than the war gaming Europe guy.

Does the test server work for u cuz for me it wont work :(

hmmm the story of the nuzzle brake is the first time i hear that... I know the L70 dont has it, but the L45 ? You are doing well on the German pronouncements!

You're in Munster, just have one of the locals say it!