Hahaha... , i see an plane aveable (bad english) and i choose heavy bomber (○°○)"yes , yes , i can see the kills when in the end of the round" " No survivers " (○-○) (The rocket gun AA comes in game) 😭
I really get annoyed when BF1 fans say "why are they so slow? I thought they were faster!" BF1 has taught them that WWI weren't slow as a tortoise I wish in the campaign they showed a message in the tank mission that they were extremely slow
The long, overhanging chassis on the St. Chamond seems like a massive design flaw when you consider the kind of terrain it would have to cross. That's just asking to get wedged in a trench, whereas the Mk. IV's track design seems to have had the mud and trenches of the Western Front specifically in mind. Considering the French were obviously very familiar with the conditions in France and Belgium, how did that not occur to them straight away?
nah, the Saint-Chamond chassis is new built, the idea for the overhanging front was that it would push the barbed wire down so it would not jam the tracks same idea on the Schneider CA1, the chassis was also used in the CD2 prime mover realistically, all it did was make the tanks easier to get stuck, and they got stuck a lot, and that is before considering all the other problems, like the CA1 couldn't fire at targets directly at it's front, the petro-electric transmission of the Saint-Chamond would suffer from reliability issues and the CA1 sprockets were made of soft steel and wore down really fast, the clutch material was leather and also wore down a incredible speeds
the most use french tanks for assault was the Renault FT, not the St Chamond who was more use as mobile artillery .The chassis was a copy from a Holt Caterpillar tractor, called "tracteur a"
I have never been to a tank fest before and i really want to go to one but when they are on im a school and when im at school i go to hull so i cant go
"Fleur d´Amour" a somewhat strange name for the St.Chamond French tank with a 75 mm protruding from its front. A good machine. The problem was the tactics, the way of using tanks. It doesn´work well in small numbers at the pace of infantry on foot.
it worked well to break the stalemate of the trench warfare in WWII but when you get machines like those and try to oppose a movement war with high concentration of enemy armor with infantry support tanks sprinkled all along the front line, that's when you start running into probelms
Nor did it's design lend itself to trench warfare. With the pronounced overhang in the front and rear it would bog down in the first trench it tried to cross. Then be destroyed by artillery.
it was very successful when used as a self propelled gun in support of other tanks as opposed to an assault unit in it's own right as it could keep up with the division much more easily than horse drawn guns and the issues with crossing broken ground were much more easily handled. In late 1918 once the Renault FTs were available in large numbers this was how they were used with the FT's being the spearhead and the St Chamond's being a mobile artillery platform. If the 1919 offensives had taken place it is likely with the large scale use of these vehicles in the support role history would judge them allot kinder and they would probably be remembered as the what they really were one of the worlds first successful SPG In many ways its a pity they didn't use it in that role more but then again hindsight is a wonderfull thing and in the pressure of the war the French army were forced to use them in an unsuitable role due to the lack of alternatives.
It's actually a bit of a pain when they play music over the sound system; RU-vid hit me with copyright strikes. It's why part of the video is silent. The Hymn probably wasn't distinct enough and slipped through.
The only surviving real one has for decades been on display in my home town . There it has sat still in the museum . Wonderful to see the replica moving .
ballz deep69 yes that is very true. I remember in a special on the movies how they said they wanted the machines to have a "familiar" look to them but at the same time a futuristic look as well. Even the guns in Star Wars were based off of real guns
круто, когда то была книга у меня, танки первой мировой,я всех их знаю и здесь вижу в реальности! А Марк стоит у нас в городе как памятник, каждый день хожу рядом. Но если честно, танка с черными крестами сам лично подорвал бы из гранатомета, не жалея его как памятник прошлого
Blame RU-vid. The speaker system was playing various tracks including Hymn To The Fallen. RU-vid hit me with copyright strikes even for a ten second tinny tannoy clip. The only way to get the clip loaded was to take out the sound completely for the flagged sections.
Ya there were 10 built 9 were detonated to prevent capture by the nazies but 1 failed and was captured and then subsequently lost after the invasion of Berlin and was most likely scraped by the soviets but it might still exist somewhere
In WW2, tank for tank, the French tanks could match the German panzers. My understanding is that the French didn't adapt to the new tactics and thought of tanks as infantry support and spread them thinly across their infantry corps rather than concentrating them the way the Germans did.
