Battle for the Airfield 2018, Part 2 

Wow, this re-enactment has everything, including underage Volkssturm

I never realised that both sides were so fat in WW2. And so middle aged, generally.

8:22 Don't blame him Chieftan....he's busy waiting for XXX Corps

I have been looking everywhere for a video of me in the "Brutal hand-to-hand" at 11:20. Thank you for posting this sir, you can see me (the German) stabbing down with the knife.

6:45 Oh look, it must be the Hitler Youth!

This looks so foolish.

"Would you like to fight in it?" *immediately, with ZERO hesitation* "No."

The reason for the lack of knowledge of the SCUD launcher is that there is no tracks to adjust the tension of.

There is a rather primitive German pun used here: "Nebelwerfer" mean litteraly "Fog-thrower". The spoonerism Webel nerfen is: Webel (or Weibel - depending on German dialect - Swiss-German is Weibel - Bern dialect is the only language to knowledge that does perfectly fine without vowels) is an abbrevation of "Feldwebel" or (approx.) corporal. Nerfen means getting on your nerves - or giving apprehension. Just a small WW2 popular linguistics.

"Hans, vere iz your rifle?" "Herr Leutnant, I..." "Oh Hans, not again... Well, I'm afraid there's no room in the Hanomag for you today."

me thinks the tommys' might be a bit over fed? just saying.

not a brain cell among them, all they had to do was run into the museum grab the t72 and win with a 20 year technological head start, just saying.

now i want to have kids and pick them up from school in a scud launcher with the soviet national anthem blaring thank you for the life goal.

The subtitled commentary is freakin' HILARIOUS! X-D

Daimler armoured car, I always see it in the background. Please do a inside the hatch on those Daimler SCs

overweight men fighting a leasurely ww2 battle :) Sorry but it's hilarious. P.S. wonder whether or not the rest of the world understands the MoT joke (loved it )

"MIEN GOTT" DAS TOMMIES HAVE A PIAT GUN! YA AND THAT ONE IS WEARING A SKIRT!.

For Sale; one lovingly maintained G/13-38T. Only destroyed once. Has two different idlers. Call Lindybeige, ask for the Hetzer

Regardless of your views on re-enactments, the kids at 06:40 must be having a ridiculously cool time!

Wow. This must have been later in the war. 8:13 Hitler Youth.

For real, why do events like these still do mock battles? Everyone refuses to die, its on an open field with people taking it not so serious. Its cool having it all drive around etc. But I always find them lackluster

American War re-enacting: We need more DAKKA!!!

I hope you do the T-72 this weekend.

Battle was as convincing as my favorite movie The Room. But still a better love story then Twilight

You can't do a school run on a SCUD launcher. A Vehicle that has the name "erector launcher". It'll offend to housewife's Not to mention the giant sex toy it carries on its back

seems like the Germans and some of the GIs are regular visitors to the Sams Club pizza court....

Wow war seems to be a lot more pedestrian than I remember! Awful amount of hip firing going on. I blame Call of Duty. But seriously what great fun, would love to take my boys to something like this.

Love the StuG IV III II comment

The Scud launcher is awesome, maybe there's an old Soviet soldier out there who could team up to help with an Inside the Hatch for it! There's something about them, vehicles with that posture are incredibly mean-looking, in the same sort of way certain furnaces are. It's hard to describe, but it's there; the artist for Mad Max: Fury Road originally based their designs for the heavy trucks on this series of truck. Comically, the Soviets also built a sedan on one of the launcher trucks, I'm not sure what it was used for but with winter the way it is in Russia I'm sure they found use.

These are some badly maintained guns over there. well , at least ze german tanks didn't shoot back. maybe it's just me, but that looked cringy as all hell...

"Oh no! The British brought Mad Jack Churchill on the bagpipes with them! All is lost!" - Intercepted and translated German radio traffic.

There is nothing im more exicted about than that t-72 inside the hatch

When The_Chieftain speaks only to my right ear xP

They need your experienced guidance Chieftain on the field! 😁

I recently changed my Avatar to a photo of a early T-72 , in hopes you would soon do a review. The photo in question got a lot of play in the late 1970s because it gave a clear image of many of the T-72's features. At the time most in the press praised the T-72, which in reality they knew very little about. And would go so far as to suggest that we should produce T-72s instead of M-1s. I recall one such "Well researched article attacking the drivers compartment after Congresswoman Pat Schroeder claimed that a person taller than 5ft would not fit inside the M-1s drivers compartment. I suspect no one showed her the latch to lower the seat. And for some reason the reporters had the impression that the M-60 had such tough tracks that it could just twirl around in place and dig itself in, while the inferior M-1 required bulldozers to accompany them to perform the same function. I suspect they mistook the fact that M-60s had a blade tank in every company but at the time we were still developing a blade attachment for the M-1. Either way, I'm looking forward to a honest assessment of our Cold War foe.

LMAO This is so much better as Fury 🤣 Well done Nicholas 👍 Greetings from Germany

Real quick, can you imagine how terrifying that'd actually be if you and and a few buddies in jeeps were chasing after some German trucks and you drove out into the middle of a skirmish between armored cars and what have you? Personally I'd shit myself. At least they had a tank to back them up!

In the beginning, when the chieftain talks in front of the T-72, the red sign at the ceiling in the top left made me think I had a notification from youtube. Talk about Pavlov ^^

aw i thought it was going to be fight for airfield in Ukraine when i seen the t72, bummer...

To quote Wild Bill Guarnere E Co 506 PIR, "Why would anyone want to reenact a German?"

Ah, the stomach battalions. *Funny thing about the reenactors/Sealed Knot etc in Brit, they all hate the Romans, 'cos unlike the Galloglass' or Saxon fyrd or Vikings, the portly middle-aged bankers of the legions kit costs a packet compared to old sack cloth & a kitchen knife.

That poor mg42 gunner, his gun kept jamming. It's almost like the 34 was superior..... Let the battle commence

Perfect opportunity for a PIAT with a subcaliber adaption, opportunity wasted. Good video, the 37mm AT gun with 30 caliber sub caliber adapter was cool too. The guy on the belt fed blank firing mg 42 in the tower knew how to handle her.

Full Perfomance battle scene of: - Sd.Kfz. 251/1 (Half-track Armored Personel Carrier) - M8 Greyhound (Reconnaisence Armored Vehicle/Infantry Armored Combat Vehicle) - Kubelwagen Typ 82 - 1/4 Ton 4x4 - Mausser Karabiner 98 Kruz - Pak Artillery - BMW R75 with Sidecar - Opel Blitz (Personel Carrier) - M5 Stuart - M1903 Rifle - M24 "Chaffe" - StuG. III Ausf. G (Sd.Kfz 142/1) - Jagdpanzer Hetzer 38 (t) (Sd.Kfz 138/2) - M1A1 "Thompson" - M18 "Hellcat" - M4A3E8 - M3A1 (Half-track Armored Personel Carrier)

Family RV with huge missile on the back in case some neighbour annoys you... Imagine driving along the road, and you see this monster behind you...

As a German half-track drives by, "It's a beautiful day for a drive in the country". ANYBODY ELSE'S COUNTRY! SOON TO BE OURS, HA HA HA.

5:10 11 minute of non-stop laughing from myself I did.

Nicolas, u want to know something? I have the World Of Tank's CD, from 2013 i belive. When i place the CD into my computer, i nit to wait about litarally 1day to finish updet. That a big oof for me.

20:09 Well, I guess that might have something to do with the following quotes: -Look at my beautiful weapon. -Anthrax warhead in place. -Shall I push the button? ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-2ULxOwBfsWc.html

Wow.. thank you for getting me REALLY funny looks in a swedish airport lounge.. 'Webels have been nerfed...' Pretty much snorted coke out of my nose laughing...

The SCUD-B wouldn't be as much fun to drive as Atomic Annie at the National Museum of Nuclear Science and History, but I don't think she's driveable. My dad drove the back tractor a few times.

Fear not, tubby yanks! The ice-cream van is here to help! Apologies for fat-shaming a nation, but... jeez. I’m still impressed at the dedication. Good on ya, people.

An ATF inspector knows about a Kalashnikov. An ATF inspector coming around the corner seeing THAT...knows that's not a kalashnikov.

For the US viewers, MOT is an annual vehicle road worthiness check in the UK for a vehicle to be permitted to use the public highway. MOT = ministry of transport.

As a 20 year wearer of tanker boots, if you have to walk for a living no, no NO!!! If the extent of your walking is running to the next tank after yours got scragged, fine. Any further you'd be better off barefoot. They do polish up good, though... But I don't think that that's a thing, these days...

So this happens EVERY year? Cool! Wonder how much blank ammunition gets expended.

Maybe the Armored Warfare people can sponsor the T-72 video? :P

4:56 man, your sense of humor never fails to amuse me XD

At the 20:09 mark we learn how a California family RV purchase became so delayed by the authorities that the teens left for college before Dad could take delivery.

I am not sure but it is possible that the other SCUD might be at Flying Heritage Combat & Armor Museum. Could be completely wrong but I don't remember seeing it there a year or two ago.

Wait, CIF will charge me if I leave this behind! 😂😂 Truer words have never been said...

The Chieftain rates the T-72 as comfortable as a Lexus. But how does it compare to a Mercedes-Benz?

Laugh if you will at the piper who shows up at about the 6:00 mark, but under British common law, the bagpipe is classified as an instrument of war.

I'd freakin love to hear Chieftain's opinion on the T-72!

The US Army did it better at the reenactments they used to hold on July 4th at Fort Knox. But hey, any reenactment is better than none. Hopefully they will up their game at the next one.

Commentary is golden. Keep it going.

link oil bolts... seems like grease would work better. you could just have grease fittings on each link.

Who is gonna police up all that brass?

6:47 yup must be later half of the war

Burt's nuts!! [charlie company 2ad [fwd]]

@6:00 is that Mad Jack Churchill I see?

Jeez, this so-called re-enacting is really f*cking pathetic!!!!

Some of those German reenactors had too many Luftwaffels

Bagpipes are indeed against any sort of convention - if you slap a piper on the back the pipe goes drops out of tune - and a bagpipe out of tune is about the worst sound ever pretending to be tonal.

Hmmm...I see some well-fed soldiers, army life doesn't look too bad. ;/

6:00 .....and amidst the firefight, there's, of course, a brit with his pipebag because it's 2OP 4 Yanks and Hanz 🤣🤣🤣

That mg42 doesn't like blanks.

cant wait to see the T72 video. Esp if you can take it out for a drive ;)

Well that was totally unanticipated. Thanks again!

Lots of heavy infantry in both sides. Even the Paras ...

Iz that a 30mm carriage?

Those are worthy causes to be raising funds for.

CIF will charge you even if you turn it in.

That skirmish sounded like ALOT of brass to police up.

So many overweight reenactors, lmao

Looks like a fun time. Wish they did this in Canada.

Noisy.

i was at the museum this past July it's a great place probably gonna go back wish i knew the next time The Chieftain was stopping buy

The budget for blanks must have been immense.

oof the audio is hard-panned to the right in the beginning

Attention. Webels have been Nerfed needs to go on a Tee-shirt.

Wait since when T-72s had DShKs? I thought they had NSVT machine guns on the turret.

with fish gill armour on the t72? did the crew have to manually set the deflector plates up or was there a button they could press from inside the tank to open then?

I guess i dont need sleep!

Yes Bagpipes are things against geneva conventions! The most humiliating and cruel instrument ever invented xD That guy with the trouble on the MG42 xD i NEVER had something like that happening to an MG3 :P Over all i have to say this Battle looks like something we come up in the german army when we do these so called "Days of the open Door" xD (Dynamic weapons show) It's very entertaining..... *cough*

Looks like these troops were well fed.

I always see reenactors struggling with MG-42's/34's in battles I always feel sorry for them having bought an iconic weapon and got all the blank ammo just to find that it cycles so poorly with blanks.

Always nerfing the arty

6.00: Miller, Blue Bonnet! Yes Sir... (friendly troops take cover at this point) 7.00: Crowd boos "MATCHMAKER SUCKS!"

For the battle sequence, you should have added B&W filter, speed-up the playback by 50% and add The Entertainer soundtrack. ;)