Thanks everyone for sharing this around, means a great deal. RUclips these days probably doesn't look to kindly on this kind of content, so It's a real word of mouth game. Actually whilst I'm here, I'd like to take the opportunity to thank every single one of your for continuing to watch our stuff. It never ceases to amaze me, and I'm truly very grateful. Have a lovely week - Olly and Bill
gotta be honest m8, I'd quite literally NEVER heard of HoI4 OR your channel until a few days ago, but this must be 6th or so video I've watched already! I love how you incorporate true history references into the jokes despite HoI seemingly be a "build-your-own history" game and the props/costumes are ON POINT. Heck, the little details in the sound design are also impressive! Glad to see good humor with good quality. You guys are great actors, too! I know the whole "Brittish accent on a German character" is a running joke now, but the acting really sells it
That was the true purpose of Germany's wonder weapons. It prevented Irreplaceable engineers from being drafted, given a semi reliable Luger and trying to persuade the Soviets not to enter Germany
As the P.1000 Ratte ground inexorably eastward, the crew wondered whether they were getting closer to Moscow...or if continental drift was moving them further away...
You guys have resources? Me and my zero resources as Yemen (don't ask how I got there) are jealous. I don't even have factories to use those any of those zero resources.
Always great to see one of these pop up "The guns of a heavy cruiser" Ooo, was that burn intentional? Calling the fast battleship _Gneisenau_ just a 'heavy cruiser' to make fun of her relatively small bore main guns... Talk about hitting below the armor belt.
@@IgnoredAdviceProductions By name maybe. But by design most of them followed the "speed is armor" doctrine. A true battleship would be able to take damage and cause damage likewise. Have you seen Drafniels channel? He goes into deep with this.
@@molybdaen11 Fast battleships don't forego the armor though, but ok. Many treaty and post treaty battleships are better armored than their WW1 contemporaries. Your opinion on treaty and post-treaty battleships seems skewed.
"Designed" is a bad word. More than likely, it was some engineers memeing on Hitler's increasingly ridiculous wonder weapon demands. Like, "Bruh, look at this shit. It won't even move. Fifty bucks he wants it."
I have to say, this has to be one of your best written sketches. I don't think we ever had so many dark jokes. And ''See ya later ethnic hater'' had me laughing. Great job guys!
They should've just used Churchills. Nothing short of an is-2 could penetrate one and they would never get caught without infantry support because it couldn't outrun them. These videos are always entertaining thanks for taking the time to make them.
Pretty sure a: Panther Tiger 88mm flak 36/37/41 128mm flak 75mm PaK 40/41/42 128 PaK 44 King Tiger Jagdtiger Nashorn Sturer Emil Dicker Max Waffentrager Brumbar Jagdpanther Elephant Maus Sturmtiger Could easily penetrate the Churchill’s armour form battle distance without too many issues, also I’m counting only the German side because if we consider all possible weapons, including planes, from all belligerents the list would be way too long.
@@Charlietolemy They had a surprisingly bad Penetration capability due to their two-piece ammunition system. The IS-2 and its other variants with a 122mm gun were more used as support vehicles for infantry pushes, using High Explosive shells against fortifications and entrenched positions. Nothing really came of Anti-Armor capabilities until the 122mm D-25 came into service. The D-25 was used on Late-Production IS-2s, the IS-3, the ISU-122, and later the IS-8/T-10. The 130mm was the go-to AT gun for Russia in the late war however.
@@tanith117( for my origonal starwars battle front fans) The ratte: *drives 4 feet* The final drive: "although im leaving .........may the force be with you"
The fact that Squire and Bill can play different people in the same scene, but still be completely different people entirely speaks lengths of their acting abilities
"Show-time", these ads are a skit worth watching by themselves. Even the ads continue into the next video! That's dedication right there. I really enjoy your videos!
Actually, the sovjets experiemented with dogs as bombs. So far it worked, the dogs searched out the tanks and the bombs magnetic detonator worked too. Sadly they had no german tanks to train with, so the dogs searched for sovjet ones... The project was canceled.
According to some german reports and orders, these dogs actually worked sometimes. Tank crews were ordered to shoot any approaching dog because it was hard to spot if it has a bomb strapped on or not.
@@molybdaen11 they worked, but it wasn't really worth it considering possible friendly fire and the time it takes to train the dogs, compared to almost no results. During the entire battle of Kursk AT dogs only destroyed around 12 tanks(Zaloga, Steve. The Red Army of the Great Patriotic War, 1941-45. Oxford, UNITED KINGDOM: Osprey Publishing. 1989. pp. 43.)
By the gods Squire, you invoke my inner ancestral roots every time I watch one of your cheeky British humor skits. Love from an American YEEEEEEEEEHAAAAAAAAAAAAW ;)
History geek here: - The Ratte('s plan) is from 1942 summer. - Anti tank dogs were the soviets plan originally. They worked marvelously and destroyed nomerous T-34 tanks. (Yes their own.) - Cornershot firing weapons are still under development today. - The Me 163 Comet was the fastest and one of the most agile interceptor of the time, with a rate of climb value the couldn't be achieved even by most of the Korean War Jets. (Even early Vietnam.) - You need a tank ace? Otto Carius. He was nominated to be the leader of the first E-100 'squadron', and lived 'til 2015. - The Gneisenau was a Scharnhorst class battleship or battlecruiser and not a heavy cruiser.
Thanks for saving me the trouble. The Comet did have the problem that fuelling was dangerous and was only done directly before launch so reaction times weren't that good. And "landing" with fuel left wasn't recommended. Good thing it only had fuel for a few minutes. IIRC most of them were lost to either enemy ground attacks or technical failures. They were a cool concept but never had any great impact. The designation of the Scharnhorst is a bit difficult. It was intended to be a battleship with 38cm guns (some guns the Ratte was supposed to get) but only got 28cm guns which means that other navies regarded her as more of a battlecruiser. (That and her good speed.) And when it comes to stupid ideas the Monster tops the Ratte easily. I mean it's a Dora railway gun (remember 800mm gun) without the need for rails but horribly slow and would use up fuel like crazy. Both projects never went further than paper designs and sketches. The Nazis were crazy but not that crazy. We do have vehicles now that meet the dimensions of those vehicles like digging machines.
The Comet is pretty fast...at killing the pilot... To be fair, the things got a damn rocket engine, so its pretty different from cold war era jets. Also, the range of Comet was utter garbage, and once you’re out of fuel, you’re essentially left with a glider, that has got to « land » on skids, without damaging itself. Also, building an aircraft with a rocket engine might have worked if it wasn’t put into combat in the very late war, when Germany was desperately out of fuel and running out of resources. Add dodgy construction and poor quality control, and you’ve got a questionable aircraft that was too little to late, and could do nothing to help shift the tide of Germany’s non existent air supremacy in 1945. Anyway, don’t take this too seriously. Cheers!
The Scharnhorst-Class Warships don't really fit the definition of either Battleship or Battlecruiser. Their 11" guns straddled the line between 8" guns of Heavy Cruisers and the 14"-16" of proper Battleships. Yet they don't have the heavy guns of Battlecruisers, which were in line with Battleships, typically over 14" in size. Their max speed was more in line with Heavy Cruisers & Battlecruisers (over 30 knots) rather than Battleships (typically 30 knots and under). Yet their armor was ridiculously thick and strong for a Heavy Cruiser or Battlecruiser, up to 13.8" belt armor and 14" turret armor, which is more in light with proper battleships. The German classification for these oversized Heavy Cruisers was "Panzerschiff" (Armored Ship, similar to the older "Armored Cruiser" term for heavily armored Cruisers of the pre-Dreadnought era).
@@Nachtsider No I'm sure the not 40mm AA defenses strapped to the top, the lack of a good radar, and the lack of a proximity fuse would have no impact of the effectiveness of the AA on top of the tank. I DARE SAY WE MASS PRODUCE THEM TO STEM THE ALLIED BOMBING CAMPAIGN!
"What's Michael Wittmann doing these days?" "He's been, uh, very dismantled..." Oof, that joke hurt more than the Sherman tank shell that one-shotted his Tiger.
As a history teacher (and a time-to-time gamer) your videos are always a pleasure to watch. Your humour never fails to get a laugh from both me and my students as we pick out all of the references in each video. Keep up the fantastic work!
"Looking into it" "Strap our men to the bomb" "Causing quite a stir" "No more fuel so losses are down" Bro you cant have those back to back like that im dying
Also fitting as the last time Hitler was seen in public he was handing them out to some volksturm defenders - mostly old guys and kids that were deluded enough to think they could take the Red Army in a straight-up fight.
@@molybdaen11 - It is well known that Hitler have two Walther PPK as his personal side-arm. Hitlers personal body-guard who survived the war stated it in his memoirs as he enters Hitler's room one pistol is by the table in front of Eva Braun which she didn't use and one is by Hitler's hand.
3:38 I was watching this video and I was so happy that they mentioned the most famous tank ace (micheal Wittmann) I thought I would never hear that name again I’m so happyyyy
Wow. Your sketches have gone from good to great over this (wow, year or two of them?????). I can’t support with money, but I want you to know these really make my day. o7
The Me 163 (airplane on board) was powered by ROCKED and actually made the pilots look like a space crew (or blast furnace operator) but is still made and operated.
You can actually do a rollercoadter barrel. Mat from demolitian ranch tested that quite thoroughly. 180 degree turned Barrel was one of the simplest that worked.
last time i checked the soviets tried the antitank suicide dog... with desaster at that due to them being traind with Diesel tanks and the german tanks all had petrol engines so yeah... Doggo did a 180° into thier own lines and caused "red on red"
The British experimented with trained sea lions against U Boats. They tossed fish from the decks of submarines. Turns out the sea lions developed a preference for British submersibles ( no doubt after trying to get fish from a U Boat only to be told "Verpiss Haupt.")
Moustache man: Can you make the barrel turn 180°? - Yeah sure, we'll look into it! Moustache man with suicidal thoughts: Yeah me too, if all goes to plan...
@@sergeantsharkseant it’s not available in pvp games Only in Scenarios so… yeah At least it’s op as hell Also I’m talking about a mod so do agree without mods, it’s not in the game
I wish they'd built it cuz it'd have been a massive waste of resources that would have made the nazis lose faster and we'd have a really cool museum exhibit somewhere
You know I love the Axis' flair for naval terminology. Germany: "Gnisenau (A battleship) is a cruiser." Japan: *sinks an American destroyer* "We sank an American cruiser.
Ummm, about that steel, I'm afraid we made ball bearings out of most of it and sold it all to the Tommies and Yanks when you stopped paying in gold, also, why did some of the bullion have teeth in them? -Some Swedish diplomat probably...
Not only was the rocket interceptor explosive, the fuel was also corrosive and had to be contained in easily broken glass pipes! Many pilots were reduced to a soup like homogenate.
You know, I still think given enough resources and time, the nazi could've easily pull off the P.1000, not saying they should but they definetly could.
@@sergeantsharkseant Reminds me of some plans that at least partly went through to ransom out jews with trucks. Sure the Nazis might think they want them, but it's just more fuel burned.
@@UBFR exactly, and even if the landkreuzer had enough AA firepower to shoot down all allied bombers trying to go after it, there still would be nothing to stop the heavy artillery and anti-tank focusfire.
I've always wondered what the conversation must sound like between a prop company and someone looking for Nazi era uniforms. "No, no. It's for a video, I'm not a fan"
Thanks everyone for sharing this around, means a great deal. RUclips these days probably doesn't look to kindly on this kind of content, so It's a real word of mouth game. Actually whilst I'm here, I'd like to take the opportunity to thank every single one of your for continuing to watch our stuff. It never ceases to amaze me, and I'm truly very grateful. Have a lovely week - Olly and Bill
Have a wonderful week yourself, Sir.
Upload to Rumble. You will find much more welcome there.
Have a good week TOVARISCH squire!
You rival black adder in historic comedy
gotta be honest m8, I'd quite literally NEVER heard of HoI4 OR your channel until a few days ago, but this must be 6th or so video I've watched already! I love how you incorporate true history references into the jokes despite HoI seemingly be a "build-your-own history" game and the props/costumes are ON POINT. Heck, the little details in the sound design are also impressive! Glad to see good humor with good quality. You guys are great actors, too! I know the whole "Brittish accent on a German character" is a running joke now, but the acting really sells it
I love how he argued back about the realism of the tank when he was just trying to buy time away from the front. A true nitpicker to the very end.
I have a feeling most weapons designers in Germany during the war are doing that
To be fair, what better way to buy time? Like instead of relying him coming up with ideas, just say "but the way there is an issue with that."
I like how he just leaves at the end
That was the true purpose of Germany's wonder weapons.
It prevented Irreplaceable engineers from being drafted, given a semi reliable Luger and trying to persuade the Soviets not to enter Germany
And plus it was red army idea to but Bombardier on dogs now go learn history
“I have a bit of a loaded schedule”
Please. Stop now. I can’t handle this…😂
If you keep watching, we'll keep writing this krupp.
@@SquireComedy I will squire i will
Dont worry, he'll stop soon
@@stinkymonke3622 "please kill me"
"Sorry, only got one bullet"
As the P.1000 Ratte ground inexorably eastward, the crew wondered whether they were getting closer to Moscow...or if continental drift was moving them further away...
"Hey, Ivan, wasn't that building on different side of the street last winter?"
You do know Germany and Russia are on the same continental plate right?
@estadiofifa10lol 1 Yes a very poorly executed one.
@@antongonist8294 It was executed well, you just aren't very bright.
@@thepreacher7399 I am not very bright? But I am not the one who thinks the countries are on different plates.
"Could you make it go 180 degrees? "
"Alright, we'll look into it."
"Same, if all goes according to plan. "
best line
Best line of the whole skit. Fucking genius writing.
You know, I actually missed that one. One thing for it, watch the video again.
Missed that the first time :D
I missed that the first few times(every time until I saw this comment.).
"we've got no steel"
literally my hoi4 experience
Rubber for me. Gosh I love me those 109's.
You guys have resources?
Me and my zero resources as Yemen (don't ask how I got there) are jealous.
I don't even have factories to use those any of those zero resources.
@@AlreadyTakenTag At least nothing goes to waste.
Oil for me
@@AlreadyTakenTag bro, as yemen i had to invade saudi arabia JUST SO I COULD GET FUEL.
“Did you bring the petrol?”
Oh, so relatable
The 1940s edition of did you bring the sugar
We love an unintentionally topical joke.
We've all been there.
Well, yeah, we all have been there.. thing is that uk is there right now :D hardly any fuel to be found
I'm a Yank but I got the reference, lol. Good one.
„One ton for every year of the Reich!“
„I thought you wanted a heavy tank?“
Amazing.
12 tons a pretty good light tank
"The Bismark? What a load of Krupp that turned out to be." deserves a like for that pun alone.
Hahah!
Sometimes, I don't know if they're funny or utterly rubbish. In this case, it was both.
@@SquireComedy all the best ones are.
Loved that too. Very clever
How ironic, he actually turned out BETTER then the Ratte.
Lol imagine losing to a bunch of slow-ass outdated biplanes.
Always great to see one of these pop up
"The guns of a heavy cruiser"
Ooo, was that burn intentional? Calling the fast battleship _Gneisenau_ just a 'heavy cruiser' to make fun of her relatively small bore main guns...
Talk about hitting below the armor belt.
Haha, indeed. And nice.
Well, it was a battlecruiser. Designed more for speed then for armor.
There were very few true battleships in WW2.
@@molybdaen11 uh....wat? There were quite a few battleships, what are you talking about?
@@IgnoredAdviceProductions By name maybe.
But by design most of them followed the "speed is armor" doctrine.
A true battleship would be able to take damage and cause damage likewise.
Have you seen Drafniels channel? He goes into deep with this.
@@molybdaen11 Fast battleships don't forego the armor though, but ok. Many treaty and post treaty battleships are better armored than their WW1 contemporaries. Your opinion on treaty and post-treaty battleships seems skewed.
Amazing once again. The first 14 seconds had me laughing already
Thank you very much, that means a great bloody deal.
@@SquireComedy Your'e welcome!
"Designed" is a bad word. More than likely, it was some engineers memeing on Hitler's increasingly ridiculous wonder weapon demands. Like, "Bruh, look at this shit. It won't even move. Fifty bucks he wants it."
its engine had enough horsepower to move at 40 kph
It’s literally the equivalent of people making meme tanks in Sprocket.
That or inventing reasons not to get conscripted
@@VineFynn literally become an engineer without actually building a thing
@@Phantom-bh5ru yeah but the engine is probably very unreliable and second and most important the transmission
"Do you want an iron cross?"
Accurately depicts Germany just giving out iron cross' like lollipops to a kid at a doctor appointment.
Yeah, but look at the sheer number of Medals of Honor, Silver Stars and Bronze Stars we gave out in WW2.
@@shockwave6213 Quite frankly, every man who made the landing on D-Day deserves a Medal of Honor.
@@Aredel you're rather debasing the currency there.
"1 ton for every year of the Reich"
"I thought you said you wanted a heavy tank"
Better than all of comedy on Netflix
I see the Zippo tanks have arrived because he got majorly roasted
I thought you were trying to give them a compliment.
Squire your the best, your acting is incredibly good and the only RUclipsr to make even sponsors worth watching, keep up the great work
Thanks Klaus! Now...back to the front!
Mapman does great sponsor
the jokes per minuite are almost as high as the rounds per minuite on the incoming red army's PPSHs
You wait till our stockpile of puns runs dry. We'll be reduced to musket fire.
@@SquireComedy that’s still 2-3 per minute :D
And the one scared SS Machinegunner on the MG42.
That's a lot of jokes!
The "Blackadder Goes Forth" is strong in this one
Brilliant
“The front line is up the stairs”
That sounds like something I’d say during a Nerf Fight
I have to say, this has to be one of your best written sketches. I don't think we ever had so many dark jokes. And ''See ya later ethnic hater'' had me laughing. Great job guys!
Maus is a scary name tho😂
I don’t know, naming your tank after a small rodent doesn’t seem menacing…
How is this relevant to this comment exactly?
They should've just used Churchills. Nothing short of an is-2 could penetrate one and they would never get caught without infantry support because it couldn't outrun them.
These videos are always entertaining thanks for taking the time to make them.
Pretty sure a:
Panther
Tiger
88mm flak 36/37/41
128mm flak
75mm PaK 40/41/42
128 PaK 44
King Tiger
Jagdtiger
Nashorn
Sturer Emil
Dicker Max
Waffentrager
Brumbar
Jagdpanther
Elephant
Maus
Sturmtiger
Could easily penetrate the Churchill’s armour form battle distance without too many issues, also I’m counting only the German side because if we consider all possible weapons, including planes, from all belligerents the list would be way too long.
@@truekhmer7292 I'm suggesting that the Germans should have used them.
@@hi_-bz7wf won't the soviet 122mm just go straight through though?
The is-2, is-1, kv85, t-34 85, isu152 etc
@@Charlietolemy They had a surprisingly bad Penetration capability due to their two-piece ammunition system. The IS-2 and its other variants with a 122mm gun were more used as support vehicles for infantry pushes, using High Explosive shells against fortifications and entrenched positions. Nothing really came of Anti-Armor capabilities until the 122mm D-25 came into service. The D-25 was used on Late-Production IS-2s, the IS-3, the ISU-122, and later the IS-8/T-10. The 130mm was the go-to AT gun for Russia in the late war however.
@@Charlietolemy That's why I said nothing short of an is-2 could penetrate it. The 152mm could probably penetrate it too.
Germany makes mega tank
Allied artillery: "FIRST ONE TO LAND TEN HITS GETS 10 BUUUCKS!!!"
Allied air power: "WAIT I SAW IT FIRST I SAW IT FIRST"
P-47’s: MINE MINE MINE…
Allied Infantry: Wait for it... Wait for it... There! The Transmission broke, Charge!
@@tanith117( for my origonal starwars battle front fans)
The ratte: *drives 4 feet*
The final drive: "although im leaving
.........may the force be with you"
B-17G: BOMBS AWAY!
B-22 Superfortress with the Little Boy:
Oops! Wrong country!
Or was it... ?
The fact that Squire and Bill can play different people in the same scene, but still be completely different people entirely speaks lengths of their acting abilities
My favorite line was;
“Can you make it go 180*s?”
“Yea we’ll look into it.”
“Same, if all goes according to plan.”
Subtle yet hilarious 😂
Considering the sketch opened with him French kissing a PPK I don't think it's all that subtle...
Love the fact that Generation war is in the background. Hilarious skit as usual 😂!
Love the fact somebody got that.
Such a brilliant series.
Thank god im not the only one
THAT'S what was playing!? Fun bit of trivia, that.
"Show-time", these ads are a skit worth watching by themselves. Even the ads continue into the next video! That's dedication right there. I really enjoy your videos!
Thanks mate, that means a great deal.
My goodness you had some real gigglers in this one...
"can you make it go 180 degrees?"
"we'll look into it"
"same! If all goes to plan"
I could write village pantomimes at this rate.
@@SquireComedy OH NO YOU COULDN'T!
Can we just appreciate how the sponsor sketches are actually worth watching
Cheers for that, Scott.
@@SquireComedy appreciate it sir
World of Tanks should put the Ratte in the game for April Fools next year and have a massive battle between it and contemporary allied tank.
As well as the entire air force i suppose .
That would've been better than that WT E-100 event
Should be the target for an easy warthunder air mission
1 P1000 vs 3 KV6
Actually, the sovjets experiemented with dogs as bombs.
So far it worked, the dogs searched out the tanks and the bombs magnetic detonator worked too.
Sadly they had no german tanks to train with, so the dogs searched for sovjet ones...
The project was canceled.
I'll see your Soviet anti tank dogs and raise you American incendiary bats.
@@bthsr7113 🤣🤣 the hangers on fire.
According to some german reports and orders, these dogs actually worked sometimes. Tank crews were ordered to shoot any approaching dog because it was hard to spot if it has a bomb strapped on or not.
@@ДмитроПрищепа-д3я Really now? That's new.
I thought the only success with animals as weapons were the pigeons with hot coal on they tail.
@@molybdaen11 they worked, but it wasn't really worth it considering possible friendly fire and the time it takes to train the dogs, compared to almost no results. During the entire battle of Kursk AT dogs only destroyed around 12 tanks(Zaloga, Steve. The Red Army of the Great Patriotic War, 1941-45. Oxford, UNITED KINGDOM: Osprey Publishing. 1989. pp. 43.)
By the gods Squire, you invoke my inner ancestral roots every time I watch one of your cheeky British humor skits.
Love from an American
YEEEEEEEEEHAAAAAAAAAAAAW ;)
Haha, nice.
Thanks dude.
Literally shooting themselves in the foot with those new downward facing barrels… next level humor!
Hahah! Thanks dude!
@Squire Thank you for the quality content good sir! Keep up the excellent work as always! Cheers!
I get the joke, but it was used to shoot around corners
They were just beating around the bush, or shooting around it, that is.
History geek here:
- The Ratte('s plan) is from 1942 summer.
- Anti tank dogs were the soviets plan originally. They worked marvelously and destroyed nomerous T-34 tanks. (Yes their own.)
- Cornershot firing weapons are still under development today.
- The Me 163 Comet was the fastest and one of the most agile interceptor of the time, with a rate of climb value the couldn't be achieved even by most of the Korean War Jets. (Even early Vietnam.)
- You need a tank ace? Otto Carius. He was nominated to be the leader of the first E-100 'squadron', and lived 'til 2015.
- The Gneisenau was a Scharnhorst class battleship or battlecruiser and not a heavy cruiser.
There was also the scharnhorst-class cruiser consisting of Scharnhorst and Gneisenau cruisers
Thanks for saving me the trouble.
The Comet did have the problem that fuelling was dangerous and was only done directly before launch so reaction times weren't that good. And "landing" with fuel left wasn't recommended. Good thing it only had fuel for a few minutes. IIRC most of them were lost to either enemy ground attacks or technical failures. They were a cool concept but never had any great impact.
The designation of the Scharnhorst is a bit difficult. It was intended to be a battleship with 38cm guns (some guns the Ratte was supposed to get) but only got 28cm guns which means that other navies regarded her as more of a battlecruiser. (That and her good speed.)
And when it comes to stupid ideas the Monster tops the Ratte easily. I mean it's a Dora railway gun (remember 800mm gun) without the need for rails but horribly slow and would use up fuel like crazy.
Both projects never went further than paper designs and sketches. The Nazis were crazy but not that crazy.
We do have vehicles now that meet the dimensions of those vehicles like digging machines.
The Comet is pretty fast...at killing the pilot...
To be fair, the things got a damn rocket engine, so its pretty different from cold war era jets. Also, the range of Comet was utter garbage, and once you’re out of fuel, you’re essentially left with a glider, that has got to « land » on skids, without damaging itself. Also, building an aircraft with a rocket engine might have worked if it wasn’t put into combat in the very late war, when Germany was desperately out of fuel and running out of resources. Add dodgy construction and poor quality control, and you’ve got a questionable aircraft that was too little to late, and could do nothing to help shift the tide of Germany’s non existent air supremacy in 1945.
Anyway, don’t take this too seriously. Cheers!
The Scharnhorst-Class Warships don't really fit the definition of either Battleship or Battlecruiser. Their 11" guns straddled the line between 8" guns of Heavy Cruisers and the 14"-16" of proper Battleships.
Yet they don't have the heavy guns of Battlecruisers, which were in line with Battleships, typically over 14" in size.
Their max speed was more in line with Heavy Cruisers & Battlecruisers (over 30 knots) rather than Battleships (typically 30 knots and under).
Yet their armor was ridiculously thick and strong for a Heavy Cruiser or Battlecruiser, up to 13.8" belt armor and 14" turret armor, which is more in light with proper battleships.
The German classification for these oversized Heavy Cruisers was "Panzerschiff" (Armored Ship, similar to the older "Armored Cruiser" term for heavily armored Cruisers of the pre-Dreadnought era).
@@GreyWolfLeaderTW I guess we can say that she was planned as a battleship (with proper 380mm guns) and turned out to be something else.
Germany: So we're going to build the biggest scariest tanks the world will ever see
Also Germany: Lets name them after tiny rodents.
''alright we'll look into it''
''same, if all goes to plan''
that is so genius it took me a while.
Ah yes, the Ratte. We we're so close in getting a real land battleship!
*were
And yes. Prime target for atillery spotters and aircraft. :D
Allied artillery: FIRST ONE TO LAND TEN SHELLS ON THE BIG SLOW DUMB TARGETS GETS TEN BUUCKS!!!
@@Dreagostini Indeed. A squadron of rocket-armed Hawker Typhoons or P-47 Thunderbolts would have turned that thing into scrap metal.
@@Nachtsider I'd like that.
@@Nachtsider No I'm sure the not 40mm AA defenses strapped to the top, the lack of a good radar, and the lack of a proximity fuse would have no impact of the effectiveness of the AA on top of the tank. I DARE SAY WE MASS PRODUCE THEM TO STEM THE ALLIED BOMBING CAMPAIGN!
“Hans, we need better transmission!”
“More armor, you say?”
“Nien! better transmission!”
“Bigger kannon, you say?”
“Goddamnit Hans..”
“Oh! Battleship kannon!”
“Ja Hans….Ja.”
N i e n
Tankfish reference
I love how the red army soldier just accepts the pistol
Free ppk and honestly better than trying to find a mosin
Yeah, not checking for wristwatch or pocket watch destroyed all immersion.
"What's Michael Wittmann doing these days?"
"He's been, uh, very dismantled..."
Oof, that joke hurt more than the Sherman tank shell that one-shotted his Tiger.
Squire acting as a very skittish fritz had me guessing if they'd finally gotten a third person to act.
As a history teacher (and a time-to-time gamer) your videos are always a pleasure to watch. Your humour never fails to get a laugh from both me and my students as we pick out all of the references in each video. Keep up the fantastic work!
"Oh, the Bismarck! What a lot of KRUPP that turned out to be!" Man, i Laughed so hard listening to that! :D
This guy is such a great writer. Been reading "Mien Easy Time", an absolute page- turner.
ALl our dreams are for Squire to make a feature length historical comedy.
Like Life of Brian or some Mel Gibson movie!
Kickstarter project or what? :D
A historical comedy about the the German-Soviet conflict? Sign me up!
An inquisitive, muffled, _‘Come in?’_ Lolz.
Hard to talk with a big barrel in your mouth.
@@SquireComedy sure is, i have experience with these things
@@Jilve69 Easy lads. Easy.
Wouldn't that be a "muzzled" 'Come in?'
@@SquireComedy 7.65 is a large calibre? That... explains a lot about Adolf
"It's just up the stairs, first door to your left"
That exchange was glorious! Thank you guys for existing
Our pleasure!
These are getting better and better
Yeeeess
From the funny WT skits to proper Monty Python level. Lucky to have been there to witness it
I love the way they just hand random soldiers iron crosses when their nervous looking
The Anti-tank dogs where actually used by the Sovjets, and it turned out to be a blast for them.
They were hoisted up by their own petards LOL
- "A ton for every year of the Reich!"
- "I thought you said you wanted a heavy tank!"
The 'Allo Allo' reference was perfect to see. Good old Officer Crabtree
"Looking into it"
"Strap our men to the bomb"
"Causing quite a stir"
"No more fuel so losses are down"
Bro you cant have those back to back like that im dying
wow the amount of effort and writing that must have gone into this. Great result dough!
Thanks, Job. They can take hundreds of man hours, but It's a laugh. :)
Imagine having to drive that thing all the way to stalingrad just to have it completely break down 50 miles from the city and in 1946
The Iron Cross bit was hilarious to me, both as a consolation prize, and also demonstrating how common they became toward the end of the war.
Also a good way to cover up the fact that your cast is somewhat... limited.
Also fitting as the last time Hitler was seen in public he was handing them out to some volksturm defenders - mostly old guys and kids that were deluded enough to think they could take the Red Army in a straight-up fight.
@@wilberwhateley7569 alot of germans where forced esp the kids
"The enemy can't flank us If there are no roads to flank us on." genius level strats.
It hasn't even been a month since the last upload
Now the question is what thing replaced Squire and when
There's something wrong.
Fun fact that pistol is the Walther PPK, the same style of pistol Hitler used to kill himself with,
True story
They keep telling that, but is there any proof?
I guess it would not matter anymore :)
@@molybdaen11 Uh, He shot himself with a Walther PPK
@@molybdaen11 - It is well known that Hitler have two Walther PPK as his personal side-arm. Hitlers personal body-guard who survived the war stated it in his memoirs as he enters Hitler's room one pistol is by the table in front of Eva Braun which she didn't use and one is by Hitler's hand.
Did you….. did you say ‘what a load of Krupp that turned out to be!’ 😂😂😂
Love it!
6:20 "Woow... you're crazy...." "...what?"
The suddenly laxed delivery of the "what" really gets me here
Haha!
The muffled come in, perfection
3:38 I was watching this video and I was so happy that they mentioned the most famous tank ace (micheal Wittmann) I thought I would never hear that name again I’m so happyyyy
Wow. Your sketches have gone from good to great over this (wow, year or two of them?????). I can’t support with money, but I want you to know these really make my day. o7
Thanks for that Teslo!
The Me 163 (airplane on board) was powered by ROCKED and actually made the pilots look like a space crew (or blast furnace operator) but is still made and operated.
Woah! They designed a tank based off your mom dude. That's impressive
Oof
Never thought I would hear a German officer with a broad Norfolk accent.
Perfection as always. A bloody fine show I say.
Thanks dude!
this is one of my absolute favourite if not my absolute favourite Squire skit, it's so good
Brilliant as always xD
Thank you very much!
@@SquireComedy loving it where do you get the uniforms
@@SquireComedy just wondering
@@Auga-j6k Asking for a friend?
@@PetarJovanovic993 yeah
That little drawing of the Me-163 is perfect
Thank God I went to Uni to do art. Only took me the better part of an hour to get the basic shape recognisable.
That's how German tank program looks according to memories of German generals. Franz Halder would be proud :P.
You can actually do a rollercoadter barrel. Mat from demolitian ranch tested that quite thoroughly. 180 degree turned Barrel was one of the simplest that worked.
last time i checked the soviets tried the antitank suicide dog... with desaster at that due to them being traind with Diesel tanks and the german tanks all had petrol engines so yeah... Doggo did a 180° into thier own lines and caused "red on red"
Teach them for being so mean to dogs
The British experimented with trained sea lions against U Boats. They tossed fish from the decks of submarines. Turns out the sea lions developed a preference for British submersibles ( no doubt after trying to get fish from a U Boat only to be told "Verpiss Haupt.")
I love that “generation war” audio clip at 0:06
This channel makes the funniest history videos change my mind.
Moustache man: Can you make the barrel turn 180°?
- Yeah sure, we'll look into it!
Moustache man with suicidal thoughts: Yeah me too, if all goes to plan...
The best RUclipsr in the history of RUclips
Careful now
P-1000 "transmission brakes with one move"
Squire there is a mod on war thunder that has the landkruiser p.1000 ratte tank that you can play as
It’s really effective in battle
Mostly because Artillerie in the arguably meaning isn’t really in the game
@@sergeantsharkseant it’s not available in pvp games
Only in Scenarios so… yeah
At least it’s op as hell
Also I’m talking about a mod so do agree without mods, it’s not in the game
I wish they'd built it cuz it'd have been a massive waste of resources that would have made the nazis lose faster and we'd have a really cool museum exhibit somewhere
The jokes in this are wonderfully smart. Really amazing video!
Thanks mate, bloody glad you think so!
You know I love the Axis' flair for naval terminology.
Germany: "Gnisenau (A battleship) is a cruiser."
Japan: *sinks an American destroyer* "We sank an American cruiser.
"See you later, ethnic hater" broke me.
Yeah my favorite one
This will be me using the new tank designer in hoi4
Thank you for uploading, making Mondays more bearable :)
Thanks for watching mate, It's our pleasure.
This is easily the best and funniest video you guys have done so far. Well done on the constant improvement! Congratulations and keep it up! 😁
Did you really use a voiceline of the sergeant from Generation war (when they try to capture a soviet mg position) for your clip?…I AL LOVING IT
Yep. Great series, that.
one of the best things about Squire is that the sponsor "ads" are just as entertaining as the actual video.
Ummm, about that steel, I'm afraid we made ball bearings out of most of it and sold it all to the Tommies and Yanks when you stopped paying in gold, also, why did some of the bullion have teeth in them?
-Some Swedish diplomat probably...
I honestly preferred this world war 2 sketch over the gaming videos. Look forward to seeing more
Not only was the rocket interceptor explosive, the fuel was also corrosive and had to be contained in easily broken glass pipes! Many pilots were reduced to a soup like homogenate.
So many great puns in this. You guys keep coming up with the best stuff
You're incorrect. I am the worst tank.
Let me guess, you want your own video?
hah, don't drop your hopes. You remember "How British won the war"?
@@SquireComedy I was going to talk you into it, but yes, that's correct.
crazy how i just binged squire last night
0:11 what is it with germans and eating guns?
German engineers were playing Sprocket before Sprocket even existed
You know, I still think given enough resources and time, the nazi could've easily pull off the P.1000, not saying they should but they definetly could.
Well as the Nazis loosing is a good thing I guess they should
Have ?
@@sergeantsharkseant Reminds me of some plans that at least partly went through to ransom out jews with trucks. Sure the Nazis might think they want them, but it's just more fuel burned.
they could've, but why would they have?
@@scoobydoo313 it would also be a target practice for most allied bombers
@@UBFR exactly, and even if the landkreuzer had enough AA firepower to shoot down all allied bombers trying to go after it, there still would be nothing to stop the heavy artillery and anti-tank focusfire.
Real life often writes the best gags. One can look up that even the curved rifle barrel was a real proposal.
were do you get the uniforms from?
Cough, Patreon.
I've always wondered what the conversation must sound like between a prop company and someone looking for Nazi era uniforms.
"No, no. It's for a video, I'm not a fan"