Nebelwerfer Tactics

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Nebelwerfer Tactics of the German Army in World War 2. Note that "Nebelwerfer" literally means "Fog Thrower", a better translation would be rocket launcher. This video covers smoke tactics, high explosive tactics, tactics versus tanks and also tactics versus artillery. Additionally, we also look at a Nebelwerfer position layout.
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@MilitaryHistoryVisualized 3 года назад

We are currently working on a translation of the Sturmgewehr 44 Assault Platoon Tactics Manual from November 1944. Get your copy here: igg.me/at/sturmzug

@TheLastSterling1304 3 года назад

I'm not sure if you eventually found it, but regarding your confusing on the wurfarhmen 40 being in the pioneers yes they did have them mounted on 251 halftracks used in a similar role to the british avre. There were still nebelwerfer batteries using the same weapon though. Its much like how you can tell a what unit a stug is by its unit: platoon=panzers;battery=artillerie.

@bobjenkins2671 3 года назад

Hallo wie gets dir

@pickeljarsforhillary102 3 года назад

Who had the best rocket system in your opinion?

@Jon.A.Scholt 3 года назад

"Nebelwerfer" sounded like "Naval Warfare" and caused me to be very confused for the first 10-15 seconds....

@archosauropre-historico8708 3 года назад

Why this comment is 2weeks old, but the video only one day?

@thatsidewaysdud7623 3 года назад

Hate it when you have a Nebelwerfer lying around and you don’t know how to tactically use it.

@matthayward7889 3 года назад

Agreed. Nothing worse than not being able to werf your nebel.

@dandare2586 3 года назад

I wheeled out my nebelwerfer in front of my troublesome neighbour, that was my only tactic.......

@wraithwyvern528 3 года назад

I mean unless you have the rockets, a Nebelwerfer is just some angry tubes

@abntemplar82 3 года назад

@@dandare2586 did it work or did he bring out his Tiger?

@rustyshackleford8370 3 года назад

That's why I spent the extra money and bought a Katyusha launcher. The only downside is accuracy... I tried to shoot my neighbor's house but it was windy and I burned down the next city over instead🤷‍♂️

@randallreed9048 3 года назад

In 1978-79, I was designing my game "The Longest Day" as the head of R&D for the Avalon Hill Game Company. I had the luxury of spending many hours in the Captured German Documents section of the National Archives in Washington, DC. I was literally like a kid in the candy store, discovering many key documents that were the fruits of the extensive, detailed program of interrogations of German Generals and high-ranking staff officers after the end of the war. These translated reports were often accompanied by highly detailed drawings drawn by the Generals themselves. One of my significant finds was a report written by the General in charge of nebeltruppen during the Normandy Campaign in 1944. He detailed the organization and deployment of three nebelwerfer brigades attached to the 7th Armee / Armee Gruppe B. These were large formations consisting of three firing battalions per regiment, three regiments per brigade plus replacement and training batteries for a total of a minimum of 162 launchers behind the beaches in the first weeks of the invasion! This represented a large chunk of the throw-weight of artillery available to the 7th Armee. It could also explain the numerous persistent reports in letters and diaries from ordinary Allied soldiers decrying the fearful effects of German "screaming meemies," which were, in fact, nebelwerfers. This total of 162 launchers did not include the numerous Panzerwerfers and their batteries attached to divisional and corps-level organizations that are detailed in contemporaneous German TO&E diagrams. Accompanying the translated documents were exquisitely drawn diagrams created by the General in charge of nebeltruppen in his own highly precise hand. And yes, his diagrams showed numerous antitank guns, sections, and platoons attached to the battalions, presumably for self-defense purposes. They also showed a considerable number of 20mm flak guns to defend against Allied fighter-bombers. My impression is that these variations from published TO&E were quite common in the German Army in France and regularly included the attachment of underutilized equipment (particularly the depots full of fairly well-maintained captured French, Belgian, and British weaponry and vehicles.) The Germans in France wasted nothing.

@mil-collector_enby2250 3 года назад

It’s possible that the French soldiers that legged it after seeing large clouds of a smoke screen launched at them... were French WW1 veterans that still had vivid memories of chemical weapons gas attacks. And so seeing something that looks like a cloud from artillery being launched at you could easily be mistaken for chemical gas and thus the desire to run would be strong.

@ptonpc 3 года назад

That's what I was thinking. Even if they were not veterans, I would expect the soldiers would have been expecting gas to be used as in WW1.

@arkadeepkundu4729 3 года назад

The French: _Hon! Hon! Hon!_ *Gets some nebel werfed at them* _Non! Non! Non!_

@jed-henrywitkowski6470 3 года назад

@@arkadeepkundu4729 Lol.

@haakonsteinsvaag 3 года назад

@Tranhoang Long most likly because of the horrific experiences of gass attacks in WW1. They knew that once one side start using gass, the other side will follow. In other words, both sides thought gass attacks as to terrible to use or used against themselves.

@mikhailiagacesa3406 3 года назад

@Tranhoang Long Hitler was personally gassed in the Great War, and the Allies had access to larger stocks of the stuff than the Germans. Goering said the reason Germany didn't use it was because they couldn't supply their horses w/ masks, like they did in the 1st WW, due to production and logistical problems.

@LewisRenovation 3 года назад

This video came out just in time since my wife wants a Nebelwerfer implacement in our back yard

@looinrims 3 года назад

Nebelwerfer tactics: “do you see that building, Hanz?” “Ja” “Then you understand the problem, solve it”

@ThePfistara 3 года назад

- Pulls out some Sturmtiger -

@AlvinREDDELTA 3 года назад

make me laugh dude ALES KHARL

@DEIMIKK 3 года назад

Literally my boss behind my back: "What are you listening to?" Me: "How to setup a rocketartillerybattery...." "Oh..." 😂👌

@DEIMIKK 3 года назад

@ I'll be sure to do that. We could benefit from certain... Hmmm how should I put this.... Nebelzone in some points of production 🤔

@largol33t1 3 года назад

I would have said "I'm learning to werfer a nebel." 😁

@Anastunsia 3 года назад

"Currently we have a Kraut-funding campaign going" Please tell me i'm not the only one that heard it

@yngveahlenback320 3 года назад

I jumped in my chair when I heard it!

@tomislavtosic992 3 года назад

Wait, he didnt say that?

@EdMcF1 3 года назад

He's Austrian, so he's not a Kraut.

@windwalker5765 3 года назад

Lol didn't want to be the first to comment...

@Warentester 3 года назад

@@EdMcF1 Debatable. They voluntarily joined.

@WildBillCox13 3 года назад

As my garden gnomes are currently at war with the frogs in nearby Swamphaven this video was of particular interest. I will advise my gnome friends to mobilize their Nebelwerfers by attaching their trailers to neighborhood kittens. Thus fulfilling the words of the great poet who said: "The fog comes in on little cat feet."

@garydouglass3597 3 года назад

owch. I'm going to steal that and submit it to Better Gnomes and Gardens.

@XLHeavyD999 3 года назад

Rofl... those damned Gnomes always invade my garden and stalk my cats.

@jed-henrywitkowski6470 3 года назад

It has been three days. I trust, your Gnomes have found success in the war. All the best.

@jed-henrywitkowski6470 3 года назад

@@garydouglass3597 Lol.

@johngalt6929 3 года назад

That is totally heavy man.

@michaelmorley9363 3 года назад

My father was an infantryman in the U.S. 7th Armored Division in 1944 and '45. He told me that they called the Nebelwerfers "Screamin' Mimis" because of the noise they made, and that the sound was more terrifying than the shellbursts.

@ralphe5842 3 года назад

Michael Morley my father called them the same thing he was in he 84th infantry

@DirtyHairy1 3 года назад

Please note that the allies dubbed this device as FART - Fog applying Rocket Thrower.

@pekka1900 3 года назад

Verdammte Engländer..

@jed-henrywitkowski6470 3 года назад

Lol.

@stevenbaer5999 3 года назад

I am a German Bavarian decent person and I always love those German rockets, Nebelwerfer. They had a great terrible sound effects which the Americans called them Screaming Meemies. It was actually a cross between a shriek and a cry. Causing it to have a great psychological impact. We Germans always invented the best weapons in our history.

@wiggumesquilax9480 3 года назад

I'd already started digging my Nebelwerfer position, looks like I have to start over. It's the field fortifications all over again.. Thanks, MHV.

@user-im1fo6rx2k 3 года назад

Ive never been to war, but from training i can say that smoke is the single most important weapon in the offense, because it covers friendly infantry crossing open ground from effective enemy fire thus allowing to close in without unnecessery casualties. And smoke is also somewhat usefull in the defence, when you need to get the hell out of your position, but theres not much cover around the said position

@wraithwyvern528 3 года назад

Smoke works both ways and care must be taken to screen friendly assault units and keep the enemy from being able to suppress them while giving support units unobstructed views of enemy positions and can still attack and suppress them. Defensively smoke can be used to mask an enemy support weapon that is suppressing your defenses and as you said in a retreating maneuver. Unlike most weapons, wind and weather need to be carefully noted before deploying smoke even in a small scale. In my opinion, smoke is most useful for covering retreats and masking enemy support weapons while your own weapons move in to eliminate them when the smoke clears.

@abntemplar82 3 года назад

maybe 50 years ago. but all ifvs and mbts today have thermal imaging making a smoke screen less effective to say the very least. of course if all you are fighting is old school soviet crap, it will work just fine. But an enemy with any modern or modernized weapons, all it will really do is give away your position.

@user-im1fo6rx2k 3 года назад

@@abntemplar82 Well, i have no idea about any truely technologically advanced army, but what I know is all APC's and IFV's in the russian army have NVD. Less than 20% have any resemblance of thermal, same can be said for some older tanks stockpiled in large quantities in reserves. Hell, russia still has a stockpiled of T34, T44 which can still be put back into action in case of a total war. Its not sayang about infantry that Will definately get blinded which even provided their vehicle is still capable of firing, still redices the overall fire capabilities of the defenders. Having only vehicles firing is still less firepower than having both vehicles and accompaning infantry firing.

@user-im1fo6rx2k 3 года назад

@@wraithwyvern528 well, blinging enemy heavy wrapons and forvard observers doesn't take as much smoke as in the offense, because you need to blinda a comparatively small area while in the offense you need to deploy smoke both along the entire frontier (as close to the enemy as possible) and along the flanks of the attack, thus preventing enemy adjacent units from effective flanking fire, while still providing clear frontal view for friendly neighbouring units. Of course covering the flanks is only possible under favorable wind conditions.

@abntemplar82 3 года назад

@@user-im1fo6rx2k NVGs just magnify ambient light. Thermals detect heat sources. that is why smoke is useless against them. it gives comfort to those charging, and your comments prove this, but if you ever get the chance to use Thermals, you will understand that smoke does not hide work to protect you from detection vrs. thermals. further i find it hard to believe in todays world that the Russian army has only 20% of its armored vehicles equipped with thermals. thermals are a staple to the Nato and US allies. But i will concede the fact that you as a Russian soldier have more knowledge on that than i. be safe my friend. i pray your time in the military is peaceful, and that our nations never square off. of course if our democrats have their way we would already be at war with Russia. stupid is as stupid does, I guess.

@matthewlee8667 3 года назад

Now I can set up a Nebelwerfer in my garden to ward off rabbits and mice

@billbolton 3 года назад

Thanks, unfortunately my garden isn't big enough, considering annexing the neighbors'.

@Arbiter099 3 года назад

You need that living space, naturally.

@scratchy996 3 года назад

You do what you have to do, in order to protect the oppressed garden gnome minority in your neighbors' gardens.

@3er24t4g1 3 года назад

Es ist ein nebelwerfer Es warferen nebels

@user-xq5og9lt8p 3 года назад

Ich hatten dieses Wirtz erwarten

@neieduardodepaula4556 3 года назад

How many nebels has it werfen?

@3er24t4g1 3 года назад

@@neieduardodepaula4556 sechs

@POTATOEH81 3 года назад

I like how I know what you said even though I don't speak a lick of german This is a nebel werfer It werf's nebels

@neieduardodepaula4556 3 года назад

@@3er24t4g1 Gut

@Tobascodagama 3 года назад

When you see a patch of ground that has been insufficiently nebelled, point your nebelwerfer at it.

@Ralphieboy 3 года назад

To find out the parts that need it, you employ nebel-gazers

@GenScinmore 3 года назад

Lmao "Nebelwerfer garden"

@jryder8874 3 года назад

Hell yeah, just as school ends

@michelstadt 3 года назад

Good day...a Freudian slip perhaps,"Krautfunding"...."Crowdfunding").?hehheh

@rezabagherian3331 3 года назад

Ur time In school is the best time literally When you enter the university the real game begins Imagine waking up 3Am and having to study Data Structures Even roosters sleep 3 in the morning

@davidreeding9176 3 года назад

My favorite time of the day is when it is time to talk about nebelwerfer tactics

@silverinternational101 3 года назад

Kraut-funding, that's funny 😁

@RocketGurney 3 года назад

Before watching the video, I'd assume that it has to do with the delicate art of werfing nebels.

@MagnusVictor2015 3 года назад

3:30 Given how recent the memories in France were of gas warfare in WW1, one wonders if some French soldiers in 1940 saw the Germans launching lots of 'smoke' at them and simply figured that the Nazis had broken out the chemical weapons.

@danielrupe8052 3 года назад

The Germans did not have this weapon until they invaded the Soviet Union. The Germans encountered the Stalin's organ. The Germans copied it and renamed it the nebelwerfer.

@HawkFire74 2 года назад

@@danielrupe8052 Uhhh, no? Most of the Nebelwerfer varients were developed before Barbarossa, even the iconic 6 barrel configurations were in development and started reaching troops before it began.

@Isoroku21 3 года назад

This video reminded me of something I read in a book while back. During operation "Barbarossa" germans field-tested early version of fuel-air explosive using Nebelwerfer. In response to that soviets over loudspeakers threatened to use chemical weapons if used again.

@seanmatto2258 Год назад

I heard of that too

@Grahf0 3 года назад

Me: *upon seeing "Nebelwerfer"* Is THAT what Princess Leia called Han?

@matarikitamaiti3493 3 года назад

Unpolished rusty nebelwerfer or something like that

@HighwayMule 3 года назад

I think it's worth to add that these were also used as an enormously effective terror weapon in urban combat. During the Warsaw Uprising the German units used them for massed bombardment of civilian quarters. The people called the Werfers the 'cow' or 'the wardrobe' due to the terrifying, prolonged creaking- or whining-like sounds they produced during the firing of a volley.

@AtholAnderson 3 года назад

In regards to the Moral effect. I wonder how much of that was the opposition (especially early war) thinking it may be a WW1 type gas attack?

@OmarSlloum 3 года назад

After a week or so in service it would lose that effect anyway as Germany didn't use gas shells anymore, so the Allies probably wouldn't mistake it for anything else

@michaelmorley9363 3 года назад

According to my father, the noise was the worst thing about them.

@abntemplar82 3 года назад

spot on there i'm sure. the horrors of the gas attacks were big news for decades after WW1 and even after WW2. proof of this is that chemical weapons weren't made illegal till the 1954 Hague conventions on the rules of war. side note Geneva conventions only designate the status of (uniformed vr non uniformed combatants as an example) and the required treatment of POWs.

@pilferedserenity1570 3 года назад

Partly true. The smoke, even if it is not gas or white phosphorous, is still going to be unpleasant to be in. And unlike if there are conventional shells raining down, you can't even see the enemy to shoot nor know where they are, so it might seem rather pointless remaining in the smoke.

@erichelvie8524 3 года назад

I just finished restoring a Nebelwerfer model when this video came up.

@MrKersey 3 года назад

Was that an old 1/35 Esci/Italeri Nebelwerfer?

@kev_sen 3 года назад

Nebelwerfers and Mortars were amongst the deadliest weapons of the entire war and don't receive as much attention as they should for how effective they were . They could not be easily silenced and could fire away from concealed positions which were impossible to locate from the air or from traditional counter battery measures. The problem was so severe that the Allies brought a team of research scientists and deployed 100 anti-aircraft radar batteries to try and deal with the German 81mm&105mm Mortars and Nebelwerfers in Western Europe.

@jamesharmer9293 3 года назад

Always good to know how to set up your Nebelwerfers !!

@tankspritze 3 года назад

For all those who has no idea about the name " Nebelwerfer": This has nothing to do with fog. The man who invented this kind of weapon was Rudolf Nebel, an engeneer who participated in WWI and who made first experiments with rockets. The German army used later his name to design this kind of weapon. Another type of rocket launcher was called "DO-Werfer or Dornberg Werfer" this was less or mor the same weapon, but mounted on a halftruck and the name come from the engeener who created this weapon "Karl Dornberger" It was typical for the german army to call weapons like the person who invented it.

@MilitaryHistoryVisualized 3 года назад

every book I read notes that this is wrong. Especially since it makes little sense to name a complete arm after the inventor, this was done with no other arm and additionally as outlined, their job was to deploy smoke. you mean the Panzerwerfer?

@antiantifa886 3 года назад

This is one I’ve been waiting for!👍🏻

@RalphReagan 3 года назад

In war games I always used them against infantry trying to flank.

@gweiloxiu9862 3 года назад

"Screaming mimi"....Stuka zu Fuss. These things were terror weapons and more. I am not young and have been fortunate enough to know some American WWII vets who served in the European Theater. The Nebelwerfer is something mentioned by name as one of the most hated of things they had to fight against. Thanks for the video.

@lknanml 3 года назад

I want to dig out Company of Heroes because of this video. Awesome work!

@paoloviti6156 3 года назад

Very interesting video regarding the Nebelwerfer tatics. I knew that they were quite effective but you have not mentioned that there was never enough of them and was hampered by the ever increasing chronic shortage of fuel....

@BigboiiTone 3 года назад

Yes I watched the corresponding video, it made this video much better although it's good on its own merit.

@Willy_Tepes 3 года назад

Smoke screens are very effective even today as most imaging systems cannot see through it. I can imagine being fortified in some dense urban area and you can see nothing, you know nothing of how the battle is going, you can't see your comrades or leaders, all you hear is tanks rolling down the street, gunfire and explosions. I think this tactic is still effective if combined with jamming of communications. Send some small and agile drones in to create panic, they can fly predetermined paths and thus are not vulnerable to jamming. You can even employ the Stuka effect with drones if you have a nice smoke screen to amplify the chaos of it. Yeah I know, I have a twisted imagination. They should have hired me years ago or given me some funding. Seeing that there is a war brewing, I will get to try out my ideas ;)

@beertruk2429 3 года назад

"I hope you learnt something new about Nebelwerfer Tactics and how to set up a proper Nebelwefer position in your garden, if you fancy that." Bloody good idea. Those bloody uni students and their loud pissups in the house down the road. Who said that the Germans don't have a sense of humour? To be honest I did learn something. I was always under the impression that they fired only HE. I didn know that they were used for smoke.

@RichardBoisvert 3 года назад

Thanks for confirming nebelwerfers have the high soft attack

@searpaintball 3 года назад

Thank you for another informative and entertaining video! If I may suggest a topic, I would love learn more about Panzerjäger I. I'm aware of its disadvantages, although it had been a definite step up from a static AT gun. I would like more about how it was supposed to be employed, what were its combat capabilities and how well was the 4,7 cm gun working. I would also be interested whether there are any mentions of field improvements - for instance adding a simple observation slits on both sites of the shield. Or perhaps a periscope installed.

@MilitaryHistoryVisualized 3 года назад

there are various vehicle videos upcoming, but the Panzerjäger I is not on the list, mainly since I don't had access to one yet. (Not sure if there even survivors)

@habu027 3 года назад

...it is not required... Whew! I was going to have to stop the video immediately. But really, I love this guy.

@johnnypopulus5521 3 года назад

I use all these tactics both in the videos, medium tank company manual & when I get assault unit manual, that one too in all of my war video games. Now I just need to now individual tactics for MMG on placement, use & repositioning after firing so I can apply that too.

@saltyyf1802 3 года назад

French soldier sees germans launching smoke: *"Hey I've seen this one before!"*

@jahrazzjahrazz8858 3 года назад

6:29 could have been translated slightly better, I think the original text meant "It is often advantageuou to *only prepare* fire against these targets, to ambush them at crucial stages of the battle". So basically to get ready to take them out beforehand, but dont pull the trigger until it is too late for the enemy to react and replace their plans

@kaiserjager2338 3 года назад

Finally, a video much more useful than Lessons in Online classes

@CrazyBomber22 3 года назад

One day I'll have a garden. And on that day, preparations will begin...

@bigtfromdc1 3 года назад

I like the guidelines on when to use it...basically if you have some ammo use it!

@johnjriggsarchery2457 3 года назад

It's worth watching just to hear you say nebelwerfer.

@reverserestorations26 2 года назад

I now know how to pronounce "nebelwerfer" thank you. English speaking people generally pronounce it neh- bull-wer-fur

@kryts27 3 года назад

The Nebelwerfer batteries were often (according to field manuals) deployed in earthworks, like artillery, but unlike artillery they did not have the range or accuracy. I can see the need for the earthworks defences as these batteries needed to be closer to the front line, so were more vulnerable to counter-fire. The only thing I will state in support of rocket batteries in any army of that period (in comparison to artillery) is that the rockets could fire multiple shells from any unit at a rapid rate, since up to a dozen rockets were loaded and fired simultaneously, whereas the artillery could only fire one shell from one gun. In effect, the Nebelwerfer could fire a mass of high explosive & smoke canisters, inaccurately at fairly short range.

@karlgerat2731 3 года назад

Thanks, now I’m ready for the 4th of july!

@KorporalNoobs 3 года назад

**minor translation issue** 4:48 "wirkt vorhangartig" was translated as "looks like". I would argue that, because it is about usage, the word "wirkt" is probably to be read as "acts like", which would describe the effect as well as the appearance.

@spot1401 3 года назад

To this day, fog lights are mandatory on german cars. just saying

@ldmitruk 3 года назад

I could have sworn you said "Kruat funding campaign."

@amaladiguna8873 3 года назад

Super interesting video, especially about the effect it had on tanks. While on the subject though, how effective would modern HE artillery (tube or rocket) be when used on tank formations?

@rikulappi9664 3 года назад

I recall that in the 80' a rule of thumb was that if a 152mm/155mm artillery round exploded closer than 5 meters from a MBT it was likely to effectively damage the tank, possibly disabling it more or less permanently. Naturally only sides and rear of an MBT were at risk. Frontal armour required a direct hit. I guess this is valid today. A WWII tank would had normally been destroyed.

@brianjohnson5272 3 года назад

I can think why some during the battle for France was impactful. It was the fear of a gas attack. With the horror stories from dad and grandpa of it I would be freaking out at a nebelwerfer attack with smoke.

@obfuscated3090 2 года назад

The basic launcher design could work nicely today for Javelin among others and need weigh little since those weapons are quite lightweight. A manually revolving rack would make installation and removal of Javelin tubes quick and easy while leaving one weapon in battery ready to shoot. That solves the (severe) rate of fire limitation of Javelin and would make individually designating targets then firing a simultaneous barrage practical and convenient though that would require ability to integrate multiple designators (easy enough for LockMart). Instead of being killed by approaching formations while desperately reloading, missileers could kill them simultaneously with terrifying effect.

@derpatrizier 3 года назад

I have read that the Nebelwerfer was named after an engeneer Ing. Nebel to disguise their offensive nature from the treaty of Versailles.

@MilitaryHistoryVisualized 3 года назад

partially true, the name was a disguise for the chemical troops, then again the troops also had the mission to deploy smoke, which also makes sense since gas and smoke behave rather similar. Yet, they were not named after the engineer Nebel, he claimed it in his memoirs, yet he dates that back to WW1 for rockets fired from aircraft. Yet, if you consider that the first Nebelwerfer of the Wehrmacht were actually large mortars this makes little sense, similarly, the various other rockets produced and used were also not called "Nebelwerfer". Also veterans of the Nebeltruppe particularly point out that they were not named after the engineer.

@TokayGekko 3 года назад

Will you do another round of the "You had me at..." Sturmtiger t-shirt?

@MilitaryHistoryVisualized 3 года назад

There will be something soon...

@TokayGekko 3 года назад

@@MilitaryHistoryVisualized Yey!

@ming9630 3 года назад

I truly like your videos with English and German text side-by-side. If you could read the German text, that will be better. Especially for presenting German materials from the source, your reading brings more realistic feeling like how these manuals were being read by soldiers back in WW2. Otherwise, it's like an Allied interpretation of the German manual. But this is already great anyway. Thanks a lot!

@MilitaryHistoryVisualized 3 года назад

in my early videos I also read the German, but it discontinued it, since it didn't provide much value and made the videos unnecessarily longer.

@ming9630 3 года назад

@@MilitaryHistoryVisualized I think the greatest value is your presentation of German weapons and technical term in GERMAN. It has the authentic and realistic feeling. Since you already have the German and English text, reading the text from German manual will add more dramatized effects. Since there are not many of those texts, the video content is well balanced with English (maybe 95%) and some German (maybe 5%).

@ming9630 3 года назад

@@MilitaryHistoryVisualized In your video about flak tower you read both German and English text. You read German first (and quickly) and then English. Maybe you could read English first (in the speed like you normally do, no change), but read German second, in the same speed like you read English (not trying to finish quickly), do you think that will be better?

@MilitaryHistoryVisualized 3 года назад

Not gonna change that. I don't think the two language narration added much.

@ming9630 3 года назад

@@MilitaryHistoryVisualized No problem. I was just saying that there is great value when you read the terms of weapons and technical terms in German. Your channel is the only one that does that. I have not seen similar channels for presenting other countries such as Russia or Japan in the way you present Germany in WW2. But it's up to you to decide.

@crowsbridge 3 года назад

I love the sound they make

@charleswade2514 3 года назад

Class is on session. Taking notes

@robertcurran2765 3 года назад

Awesome! Now I'm all set to werf some nebels!

@ew3612 3 года назад

Why would they prepare positions with trenches before firing the nebelwerfer? I was under the impression that they had to move as soon as they fired due to counter-battery. Also that their positions were so easy to find due to the trails of smoke leading right to them.

@GeographyCzar 3 года назад

Finally! Now I know how to put mine to proper use.

@Masada1911 3 года назад

It werfs nebels

@bookranter3488 3 года назад

Love the channel! Could you do one about German NCOs? I have always heard great things about their quality as combatants and leaders of troops, respect within their army and prestige abroad when compared with their foreign counterparts

@Seriona1 3 года назад

I mean typically in any military regardless of shape, the NCO are effectives.

@MilitaryHistoryVisualized 3 года назад

Might happen at one point. I think I have some sources, but few.

@501Mobius 3 года назад

Any information on the accuracy would be helpful.

@brianreddeman951 3 года назад

Well that dashes my hopes of setting up a battery in my yard...

@petersouthernboy6327 3 года назад

The Katyusha was quite effective on the Eastern Front and was feared by the Germans.

@janhaanstra2245 3 года назад

3:02 Kraut-funding 😆 Still, keep up the good work 👍

@Sacto1654 3 года назад

The biggest problem with the Nebelwerfer was the smoke trail it left behind, which made them easy to spot for counter-battery fire from artillery guns.

@paulhammersley4562 3 года назад

every time you say "Nebelwerfer" i cant stop giggling,

@esbennrum3657 3 года назад

Krautfunding....thats awesome

@kevincalhoun9653 3 года назад

I want to ask about if in your translation, what you defined as (surprised), might be also defined as Suppresoin ?

@milossojic291 3 года назад

Your work is great ! Would it be possible/feasible to have audio in German as well? Given that your first language is German and your explanations are fantastic, your videos would be phenomenal source for learning German language and of course German speaking audience could enjoy them even more. Thanks (you may reply in German as well)

@MilitaryHistoryVisualized 3 года назад

thanks, not feasible: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-x3p4dUFB_vU.html

@milossojic291 3 года назад

@@MilitaryHistoryVisualized thank you and now I understand challenges that you have to face. Keep up the good work and I apologize for asking redundant questions. Stay safe !

@HistoryBoy 3 года назад

Almost first! Bet it’s a quality video! 👍🏻

@JaketheCultist 3 года назад

I know this is random, long time listener to your channel, but can you possibly do a video on Albert Speer's, "economic miracle?"

@whitephillip6997 3 года назад

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@thepruh1151 3 года назад

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@wraithwyvern528 3 года назад

With how much effort the devs put into Assault Squad 2, it's a miracle it hasn't died 5 years ago.

@whitephillip6997 3 года назад

@@wraithwyvern528 that's true, the modders are only reason it wasn't forgotten month after release

@whitephillip6997 3 года назад

@Eric Fapton I looked for Gates Of Hell on the steam store & couldn't find it... is it released yet? Thanks!

@andysatrioajie7886 3 года назад

is it possible to fire mixed amunition for example 1,3,5 use fog and 2,4,6 use HE?

@jrd33 3 года назад

The HE and smoke projectiles had different weights so I doubt the flight characteristics would be identical. Probably easier to have some wefers in the battery firing HE and the others smoke. I doubt you'd ever fire a single werfer alone due to the poor accuracy.

@benquinney2 3 года назад

You never knew where it would show up

@t.swallgren9204 3 года назад

So what really was the destruction power of rocket launchers ammo compared to field artillery? Do we have to focus more the weight of warhead or whole weight of rocket? At least Soviet Katjusha was relatively inaccurate compared to results of well trained field artillery unit fired targets.

@daswordofgork9823 3 года назад

One of my favorite units in Company of Heroes.

@pirobot668beta 3 года назад

Hint: rockets have propellant at the end where the fire comes out, and the payload is at the end of the rocket that hits the target first. One slip in editing is understandable, but you showed us this error several times.

@MilitaryHistoryVisualized 3 года назад

hint watch the first video, since this was the design for a particular reason. > but you showed us this error several times. more you like you are unable to pay proper attention.

@Tijgert 3 года назад

Kraut funding? I bet I'm the first one to note that ;)

@CasperInkyMagoo 3 года назад

Are the tags for the “propellant” and “payload” on the nebelwerfer diagram reversed? It seems odd that the payload would be in the rear...

@gabrielefordinisonni5264 3 года назад

I think it's an error, since most of the time it's the propellent to be marked with parallel oblique lines

@MilitaryHistoryVisualized 3 года назад

No see the first video

@abntemplar82 3 года назад

so you want to put your ammo out ahead of your firing position? i think that is a bit on the severely stupid side and for obvious reasons i don't or shouldn't have to list.

@CasperInkyMagoo 3 года назад

abntemplar82 thanks for that. Extremely helpful and kindly worded!

@steveweidig5373 3 года назад

@@abntemplar82 the nozzles are also practically on the side of the rocket. The intention was probably to explode while still being somewhat above ground, thus covering a larger area with shrapnels, increasing it's efficacy against soldiers and unarmored targets.

@davidmarsden9800 3 года назад

Thanks, may come in handy in case of a no deal Brexit.

@steeljawX 3 года назад

I'm just spitball'n on this because I wasn't there and I've never come under niebelwerfer fire, but I'd imagine the smoke round demoralization factor also came down to the realization of, "Hey, this smoke/gas (I'm not sure, I'm panicking right now) round landed 5 meters away from me. If they load an HE round next. . . . " I'm hoping that's clear. It's a very disorienting and very clever warning shot of sorts. It's kinda like how in the heat of battle, any German tank with a big gun, turret, and a slightly boxy hull is a Tiger I; when the majority of the time it was either a Pzkw III or IV. A large round has landed near you that is pouring out smoke that may or may not be immediately harmful to you. What's stopping anyone from the next one being a bit more reactive? They clearly can hit you whether or not they know it. Paraphrasing Mr. Miyagi, "The best way to avoid being exploded by a niebelwerfer HE round is to not be within its range." The Allies didn't know much about the niebelwerfer at the time, so anything within a niebelwerfer's best range was probably considered a danger zone.

@talknight2 3 года назад

HoI4 gang, do you use rocket artillery/rocket truck artillery in your divisions?

@owenthomas-clay6152 3 года назад

one question, at 7:30 a "surprise fire" is mentioned on targets that are moving through a chokepoint, and I don't know if I'm misinterpreting it but why does it sound like the chokepoint should be fired on before and while the target is moving through, and that somehow this ensures the "surprise" of the fire, surely the target moving through the point that has just been fired on would not be then surprised by the "switch to fire effect" part? That inclusion into the wording makes me think that the terrain fire and the target fire are happening in the same engagement, I don't know if this is my bad interpretation or I'm just not understanding what the manual is saying. anyone able to explain it a little better?

@wolf310ii 3 года назад

Its meant to fire a few shots at the choke point befor the enemy arrives the battlefield, not when the enemy is already there and going to the chokepoint, so all guns can hit the chokepoint on the first try when the enemy is in the chokepoint

@dr.johannesmunch891 3 года назад

I'd love to See a comparison between the Nebelwerfer and the Katjuscha-truck

@rodento3220 5 месяцев назад

Is it still possible to get the book in English in any form? (Please say yes... please say yes)

@helliswar 3 года назад

Most underrated weapon

@mididoctors 3 года назад

What time is it kids ...time for house . No time for nebelwerfer tactics

@whiskeyinthejar24 3 года назад

My 3 year old daughter wants a tank shaped cubby house in our back yard. (With a lemon tree on top???) Ambitious project, very tempting though. Maybe minus the lemon tree. Perhaps a lemon werfer. Hmmmm. (Not really, lemon launchers are illegal in Australia)

@matshagglund3550 3 года назад

I checked lately statistics of both German and Soviet artillery munition expenditure from 1942-1944. And now forget all those claims how much more ammo Soviet produced than Germany because actually the Germans outproduced Soviet U with high marginal (50% more artillery ammo tons in 1944). Red Army always had more artillery pieces but it was relatively light. Germans also were better feeding their outnumbered artillery pieces as this example proved: www.dupuyinstitute.org/blog/2018/10/24/german-versus-soviet-artillery-at-kursk/