Tank platoons
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Published 2016-11-11
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Soon, I shall be doing a video about infantry companies.
That coincidence in the end-plate? Just a coincidence.
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All Comments (21)
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Contrary to current tank simulators, contemporary radio chatter did not include the phrases: "git gud", "cyka blyat" and "goldnoob, uninstall game"
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"The 75mm is firing, and the 37mm is firing but traversing round the wrong way. The Browning has jammed. I am saying ‘driver advance’ on the A set and the driver, who cannot hear me, is reversing and as I look out of the top of the turret and see 12 enemy tanks 50 yards away someone hands me a cheese sandwich." Lt. Ken Giles, British M3 Grant tank commander
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Great video, sir. Now would you kindly upload it again but this time to the B- set.
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Any other man wearing a helmet in his disheveled room playing with toy tanks I would be skeptical of. Lindy, genius.
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Although I am not au fait with the process for the Brits in WW2, as a tank platoon leader, my transmitter was set to the platoon net, and my platoon sergeant was set to the company net. He would be responsible for the reports to higher, while I was responsible for the control of the platoon, the thinking being that you can't really do both things at the same time. Indeed, inside the tank, I went a stage further: I instructed my driver to listen on one net only, the loader the other net, while the gunner and myself had both on. If traffic was coming over both nets at the same time and the messages could not be made out, I could then inquire of the appropriate crewman the message I had missed.
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That was the past. Now, a tank platoon is made of one tank, one healer and one DPS
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It's interesting to learn about this know. When I was younger and competed in gaming tournaments, I implemented a similar system of voice-comm discipline without being aware of the precedence. While most teams put everyone on the same channel, I split my team into 3 squads of 3-4 players. Each squad had their own channel, while squad leaders had a separate key to talk to all channels. We set up our team so that individuals would gravitate towards the squad leaders, who could micromanage their own members, while also containing the moments of rage and frustration so that it wouldn't block out the whole team's comms.
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Four tanks was usual when I was a tankie during the 70's in the Australian Army. We were able to operate in pairs, one pair moving and the other pair covering their move. Unfortunately, the government of the day decided we were wearing our tanks out too fast and so they mothballed a quarter of them. That left us with only three tanks per troop and the need to develop new tactics to cope with the change. The loader/operator had a third function, at least in the Australian Army, so say the most important of all. He made the brews and cooked or rather heated the crews food. ;)
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More vids on military organization!
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Too bad a katana could easily slice through an entire tank platoon... silly western inventions
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fun fact : the french high command realised a little bit late that shooting with live shells in the somua s35 (not training shells) would kill the radio system bc it was just under the shell ejection system
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Would you make a video about medieval peasent uprisings in films vs reality and/or pitchforks?
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Unfinished models? Appallingly unprofessional.Go back and do it again Lloyd.
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Thank you Lindybeige. My Year 5 class are going to be watching your infantry platoon video next week as part of their 'Home Guard' training in their WWII topic. I am sure they will be interested in this too!
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Just for the British unit impaired, the 17 pounder was equivalent to the 75mm on the StuG III (In the Antitank role) and the Firefly was an M4 Sherman, with a muzzle adapter (1:20 You can see it in the model) to raise the Velocity for tank killing.
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Tanker: definition: 3-5 crewmembers struggling to become one organism. As a retired tanker, I fully enjoyed this vid. Well done.
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You should do one on the organisation of naval squadrons, how many ships a commodore and various levels of admiral could command, depending on class/speed of ships
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French tanks used flags? That explains a lot.
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Great video, as always. Would you mind doing a video on what European pubs were like throughout history? I always think about it when we have our stereotypical bars/inns when we do role-playing games.
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"Okay driver, stop now." "Stop now, driver." "Driver we're are getting too close!" "Driver? Driver for goodness sake, Why don't- driver!" S T O P N O W !
