The Joys of Researching Tanks. 

Always happy to watch the full ad on a long Chieftain video

"Since this video was made, the priorities in game design and balance may have changed." lol *shouts internally*

T95, Epic kemp of bush.

Another 40min lecture by the Chieftain? Awesome.

Fascinating to see all that goes on behind the scenes! Color me impressed.

My copy of "Can Openers" just arrived yesterday, and I have greatly enjoyed reading it. Thanks for all you have done, and keep up the good work.

"wargaming wants you, to buy more bundles"

I'm 4 minutes in and already laughing at the NapkinWaffe, this is gonna be a good one.

Watching these videos while modelling, I find a lot of relatable points. In particular, the contradictory nature or patchiness of sources when recreating things that are hard to find or don't exist any more.

Glad you had the qualifier in there about the operator manuals. don't know about then but in the 90's I was an instructor at Ft Gordon, we had new equipment coming out. We were given copies of the proposed Technical Manual to review, and promptly found all sorts of errors between what the manual said and what existed in the equipment. Dimensions, weights, all sorts of things. We wrote detailed critiques which were promptly ignored ... hope things were better back then.

Really miss new content, but a repost of missed content is definitely better than none.

I'm gonna make an unpopular statement, and stress the importance of archived information like effects of mold on 2.5 ton trucks in the Pacific theater for the long term storage and readiness of equipment, like the storing of equipment in Norway or other locations in the event of large scale war. Not interesting or relevant to war gaming, but interesting and relevant to real world.

"Wargaming wants you" Mom, they've finally lost it.

These are the best Chieftan videos. Love it :D

Intereview was from a couple of years ago, making reference to the book Can Openers, which finally got published last year (2017.) How time flies.

"Mild Violence" Are long talks violent nowadays?

When you started talking about the napkinwaffe I was just about to comment on the rather dubious historical accuracy of the japanese heavy tanks. But then again you are right, I can't prove you wrong.

We need an "Inside the Chieftain's hatch: M4A3 76W HVSS" video.......

Great vid, I'd like to see more up to date things like that.

Illuminating and enjoyable. thanks!!

Excellent presentation, thanks!

Awesome explanation. ❤️❤️❤️❤️ the presentation. So true.

Thanks Chief, always enjoy listening to you talk, wish I could get a job as a Library technician at the archives , would be able to help out cataloguing their.

this lecture is very important because it showa the mechanisms of how WG implementED into the game. I posted and forced it among our Russian community and gave a tranlsated version. one of my fellows Yuri Pasholok accepted it. I wish WG act more like Mr Moran said. I wish Mr Moran beat Murazor endly up. thx

Oh, I subscribed to you specifically and not World of Tanks because Im only interested in your stuff and not patch info and dev blogs and such. Im guessing a lot of other people did the same thing.

Gets to the bit about upcoming WoT changes: "Wow, this is an old video."

Thanks for pointing me out where that bookstore was in the original video. It's a terrible shop for my wallet, but love to visit whenever I'm in Brussels.

Can you do an inside the hatch at the Perola tank museum in Finland?

When your playing War Thunder while listening to the nicest WoT ad ever :P

My first detail at A/2-1Cav/2AD was to hump the excess 20mm barrels for the M114s to be disposed of. The M114s were already gone and replaced by M151 MUTTS. As a Sheridan crewman, I was depressed.

I once spent three days at the Bovington archives researching Churchill tanks. Absolutely fascinating, but trying to find specific information was a a bit of a pain.

Wonderful speech!

The thing is, Wargaming has introduced the main battle tank 70 in WoT, all information is available, for example, that the tank reaches about 60 kmh with 1500 hp, so really really fast, BUT he only reaches 50 kmh has only 800 hp and reaches the 55 kmh once every 5 battles. In short, all the information was there, but it makes the tank worse even though it is underbalanced, but why...

Flying in UH-1s over many Army bases it was always a surprise to see just what hides amongst the bushes. Anyone going out of Ft. Campbell KY headed out directly over CV Bastogne ever spot those 2 Mopar wing cars? Light blue and a white one if I remember right. Hidden from the road in the middle of the corn field.

@The_Chieftain big fan from Texas keep up the hard work!. Also are you, or anyone from wargaming ever going to do an inside the hatch/tank on the su100y?

At a high level , the accuracy detail of the game is great whilst balancing the fun requirement. It also shows the development of the tank very well. So when they need to buff/Neff a tank, they find evidence.

Karl ? Chaffee racing, now that was tons of fun

Have you shared your notes on each boxes contents with the national archives?

Nicholas, thanks for posting your video, great stuff. I have a few questions: 1. I came across of some of whole bunch of your bootlegged videos in other language of you reviewing WWII fighters like P-51, P-38 and ect. Can you point me in a detection of where you have them. I tried to poke around this channel with "no joy"... 2. I do have interest in WWII aviation as much as in tanks, but for the life of me I can't find CREDIBLE statistics on Causalities and Victories, or perhaps sorties flown of WWII broken down by countries and aircraft type. For Example I know that P-51 shut down around 5000 German aircraft, while for a loss of 3000 P-51, and ect. It is interesting for me to compare where was more German fighter losses in the Easter front or Western front, in perspective of how many Soviets aircraft losses. The reason is that lately a lots of Russians trying to diminish Allies contribution into defeating Hitler in WWII prior operation Overlord.(I know, its not a novel debate, but never the less very interesting subject). BTW any input from anybody greatly appreciated. Thank you!

The_Cheftain Can you post a link to the picture of the T95 that you describe in: 10:58 Im really curious and cant find it :

2:20 It's in the game as a frech tank called the Revalisé

“The problem with doing this in public is that it takes away a lot of your latitude” I’ll bet!! 😂

A video with Chieftain? the longer the better!

The Tank had learned the first lesson of not being seen. Not standing up.

Time index 24:50. Is the Chieftain tank going to be made available to PC players in the US and EU? Thanks.

A inside the chieftains hatch on the t95 would be awesome

next time you might want to show the slides a bit longer. maybe you could have you talking in the corner and the rest could be the slide

this is an awesome video, the T-95 found in a bush you mentioned was actually a T-28 no? found in 1974 if i'm not mistaken

Awesome camouflage on the T-95

Can we get a modern version of this video with up to date priorities on things? 🤔

Would you mind linking that thread? I felt like my 5 minutes of solid laughing just imagining it wasn't enough :D

If I may ask. What is the name of the bookstore you mentioned?

Interesting video as always, but I can't say that it has aged well considering the recent additions to the game.

Just chilling on the porch with a cigar watching The Chieftain. Hard life.

How are yall doing today?? :DD

Does the archive require that people that access the data provide information of what was in the box for future historians to use.

Quick question: Why are some hatches designed so small and tight?

Have you ever visited any of militarry archives in Balkans? There are good sources for tanks being produced after the ww2 and some rely amazing stuf about reasoning for creating some specifications.

for anyone wanting to see the pic of the t95 he is talking about: forum.worldoftanks.com/index.php?/topic/344994-t28s-combat-deployment/

Just as i pick up 'Hutchinsons pictorial history of war' 18 volumes for this very reason.The New Ryefield panther with interior with options for 4 variants,doesnt show examples of what theyll look like though..I suppose ill have to blindly follow the instructions or explore the joy of researching tanks....The joy of.....where do i remember that from?

With your records of what/where's in the archives is that a personal/wargaming thing or is that data that getting passed back to the archivists and other historians?

Of all tank simulators I've played only two: 1) old 1980s "Abrams Tank" (I guess, that was the name), it's pretty much unplayable now, as the speed of the game was tight not to the timer, but to the clock speed of the processor, imagine the difference of speed of 286 processor and modern multicore CPU - when you try to traverse a turret, it spins like a propeller on a helicopter. Thus the only was is to use special software to emulate old PC or throttle your processor several hundreds of times down in speed. 2) T-72 "Balkans on Fire" Anyway, even there games were sort of arcades, still games, I'm not a big fan or real simulators.

They built 2 T28's. They got a bit further on them than paper.

Dat Masters of Orion joke. If it's any consolation, I laughed.

Sounds like T-95 was best tank destroyer in existence, by an extremely large margin. It kemp bush for 27 years and nobody could spot it !

I will say, seeing the comments you made about the Japanese heavies and their armor being "not Maus levels", then thinking about their armor now...its hilarious!

Poor Chieftan, that Masters of Orion joke was funny.

All I want to know is where do I get that banner!?!?!?

Chief, Arnold was a tank driver in the Austrian Army and has purchased the tank he drove. It's reportedly derivable. Arnold!!!!

T95...that driver knows how to Bush camp like a boss!

Where was the book store in Belgium? , just asking.

The_Chieftain is great! Shared to my Facebook wall.

We need an Inside the Chieftain's Hatch for the M1 Abrams

"And then we have scraping the barrel" Ah yes, tovarisch! You have found the Soviet Sekret Archive of Super Secret, Secret Tank!

I could care less about world of tanks, but I like your content in particular

I've got a for you Nicolas if the devs don't implement tank that they don't have any info on, then what's up with the mercenary tanks? Bdecause I've neve of The Machiche tank

what's the gun depression made me think of the LT-432

I can agree with the fun to a game... World of tanks is more of a fun arcade shooter than full on simulation. Moving over to War Thunder, I learnt that the hard way. In world of tanks, traverse speeds as well as track speeds are all enhanced so you can rush in at speed and play it almost like an FPS. Moving over to realistic battles in War Thunder though and I spent the first several hours of gameplay dying a lot. Rush in in world of tanks and you can often win. Rush in with War Thunder and its likely that you get sniped from over a kilometer away as unlike world of tanks where enemies can be hidden only a hundred or so meters away until they're detected, with war thunder, it's pure line of sight. Doesn't matter if the tank is 3 kilometers away... If there is no intervening terrain, you will be seen. All that in mind, War thunder is a nice in-between game between the arcade of World of Tanks and the pure simulation of Steel Beasts.

I wanna see the archive info on the wt auf e100...

Has anyone bothered to try and organize and/or file the archives? Like every time they bring somebody a box that has not been checked out in a long time, they respectfully ask you to record subject matter of the items you find? Like you get a new box and as you rummage through it you have a little note card so you can record for the archivist that Box 23A has a post test report for the M3 37mm, the specs for an M1 helmet, a detailed nutrition breakdown for a D-ration chocolate bar and a requisition form from the supply officer of the 4th ID asking for more pencils. Has anyone tried doing anything like that?

Wait? Masters of Orion? When does that video come out.

10:30 "This is Mister T-95 of Fort Belvoir, Virginia. Mister T-95, will you stand up please." *pause* "Mister T-95 has learnt the first lesson of not being seen; not to stand up. However, he has chosen a very obvious piece of cover" *boom* ... *BOOM* ... "CUT! Will someone go get Mister Nisbit, let's get this bloody scene done..."

Anyone have a link to the picture of the T95 as it was found?

when will the chieftain do a study on the Pacific amtracks?

Can someone tell me the name of that book store? I'd love to go there!

I do not play this particular game, but very much love how this Major (retired) has so accurately identified so many of the so-called "grognards"...the self-proclaimed "experts" who have never been closer to a battlefield environment than the dark environs of an air conditioned movie house. Have been involved in wargaming since 1960, in one form or another, and have helped research for many games, by some great people who did not know where to look. Have learned so much from this series in the "Chieftain's Hatch".. Thank you so much. (2/503rd, Ranger, U.S.Army...Info analyst.)etc, blah,blah,blah.

Why were the questions cut out?

It took me 40 minutes to find out I already watch this years ago. fucc

So, did that book of yours come out?

Showing the actual presentation slides for only a second, somewhat intresting choise. I guess showing the presenter pointing at the big screen is much more informative :D

i had an "encyclopedia of german tanks and armor vehicles" that was published in late 50s early 60s? it was written in english with german titles on the photographs. i bought it late 60s very early 70s but it included Everything the germans built, designed or proposed during the war. i believe there was a proposed Porsche design of a concept T-34 copy.

i get my information from a guy who does tank/ammo research, handy guy

I've always noticed The Chieftain makes mention of the Archives. Does he mean the National Archives? Or they have an in-house thing going on, I'd really like access to it and do research on my own.

And the bell button has been clicked :)

I get this feeling you guys will just casually drop one of the mild steel prototypes of the MBT-70 that will either be German or American depending on the gun you cram on to the damn thing since pretty sure your info raiders already have 100% crunch on that lumpy tank

nice one m8

Man this video is older than the tanks he researches

Thanks mate now im gonna get steel beasts

It would be great if you created a Finding Aid based on your research.

Chieftain mk.2 coming into the game? i thought the mk.6 is already in console