Inside the Chieftain's Hatch: Get Inside Jagdpanzer IV Pt.1 

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

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

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 :-)

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

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

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 RU-vid. Right up there with The Tank Museum!

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

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

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...

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?

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

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.

Outstanding Video and presentation.

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

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 👍👍

Nice One and Always Informative plus Interesting! Cheers

About time you did this one

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

Great video!

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

Great bloopers video at the end.

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

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

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.

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 )

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

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!

Trockensumpfschmierung. XD Pretty cool Outtakes!!!

Can’t wait to get inside that vehicle.

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 :)

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

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

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

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

Very interesting great work

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!

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

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!

outstanding vid! hope you do the sdkfz 222 someday!

I love the Panzer IV, Jagdpanzer IV and Stug III

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 :-)

Already play, but the videos add to the experience

Great Video......

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

-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....

The panzer IV vehicles float my boat.

Well done Chief

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

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

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 ,

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

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

Look at all those nasty welds.

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

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

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

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.

After the jagdpanzer2 can you do the marder 3

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.

I love this videos 😁😊

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

Awesome 😎

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

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)?

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

Pretty underrated TD

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?

Can make a video inside Jg.Panther II?

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

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

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

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!!!

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

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

Will you do one on the Panzer IV/70?

The rubber on the wheels are made by Continental tires, just like my lambretta scooter I had years ago. Only mine were whitewalls...

Please do a Tiger 2 Inside the Hatch

11:30 Hochleistungsmotor mit Trockensumpfschmierung und Magnetschnapperzündung?

Ah yes, my Sunday ride. Nice indeed.

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

Yay!!

Great work , what location is this at?

Why is the Prod. version not already in the game with a short 8.8?

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

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.

Ye Gads The welds on the prototype near the vision port are truly hideous. They're in such stark contrast to other welds with a decent weave cap that it makes me wonder what on earth was going on when they fabbed up the prototype. @4.20. Maybe not enough power to weld properly, inadequate materials, faulty equip?

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

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

I would love to visit the museum. Where is Munster? (There is an annoying habit of giving several towns or cities the same or similar names. I lived in one of 55 or 6 Oberhausens. Go figure.) Cheers, Kurt

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

Is there a way of using the code on PS4 to show support?

15:25 Gesundheit.

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...