Out of all of the historical inaccuracies in this game, I think the fact that an American soldier is fighting using a British Lee Enfield Rifle is what does it for me lol
@@mynamejeff8401 I mean one of the missions is to escort bombers bombing residential areas but I guess it's only a war crime when the allies aren't involved
I kinda realise that COD's impression of the Battle of the Buldge is always the Americans able to hold the line from a thousand Germans. Reality is often disappointing.
@@Infamouschef_ yes, that would be for later parts. There are were quite a large number of US POWs during the Battle of the Buldge since they were unprepared for the surpirse attack.
At lot of the battle of the bulge focuses almost exclusively on the 101st airborne trapped in the middle. A lot of the combat going on during that time related to the 101st was forest combat. Troops hiding in trenches of fox holes simply waiting for the overwhelming amount of Germans coming their way. It sucks but the Battle of the Bulge is often characterized but the actions and combat of few while the rest of the combat is often overlooked
Just to add a little more context, The battle of the 101st Airborne is known as the Siege of Bastogne. The numbers while shaky are estimated to be about 11k Americans fighting against 54k Germans with causalities mostly being unknown
They were, especially in this scene where on the Battle of the Bulge the Allied air force were grounded because of the bad weather. So those P-47 was coming straight from the Developer's wet dreams.
Historical inaccuracies aside, Pierson is by far the worst character. He wouldn't be so bad if he had ANY redeeming qualities. He exists just to be an asshole. The explanation as to why Pierson is such an ass doesn't make him any less hate-able. He finally becomes decent after a drunken fight with Red. That's it. There is no development. And the squad mates are beyond forgettable. They're watered down iterations of the squad from Call of Duty 2 Big Red One.
7:47 This exchange, however, I find kind of funny. An eye-tie, a Jew, and a [N word] argue with each other over cooperating with each other because of race while an enemy that sees them all as lesser wants them all dead.
I still believe this could have been a phenomenal COD game if it was written by people who didn't just watch a bunch of WW2 movies and use every cliche in the book and nothing else, and it was a longer campaign with another story arc in a different theater like how the old COD WW2 games had it where you were jumping all over the place. And didn't give in to PC culture with all that nonsense.
I’ve been into WW2 quit a bit ever since I was a little kid and they did an amazing job on graphics and cut scenes, but I just wish they would be a more accurate with the history behind it and all the small things too. They didn’t have fires because they didn’t want to give away their position and get a artillery barrage on top them just small stuff like that I wish they would have paid more attention too. It has a lot of potential for sure honestly.
I showed this to my grandpa and he told me that he was involved on that war too, one of his mate exploded to pieces and the story kept on going for an hour. Truly lovely
My Grandfather fought in the Adrennes Offensive as a targetter in a tank for the 2nd Waffen SS Panzerdivision "Das Reich" A great man, 18 years old, fought untill the end when they had to retreat and got out without being captured. He then was moved to the eastern front in Czechoslovakia, where he got captured by Soviet forces and thrown into a prisoner of war camp. He "celebrated" his 19th birthday there and got released after a year when the war was over. I never met him since he died in '76 from leukemia. But since my dad is the best human being i ever met, he mustve been a great man and a loving father. I hope ill see him in heaven and finally get to meet him. God bless and RIP to everyone who died, no matter the side they were fighting on..
@@julianhernandez9646 Unlikely if you take into consideration where he fought. Also: most ss soldiers didnt commit any war crimes. A small handfull of "Einsatzgruppen" (Taskforces) with help from local militias commited 95% of those. If you would know history of the second world war, you would know that the SS had a couple of million conscripts over the war and there even were SS logistic and Medical troops. Aswell as scouting troops, engineers and so on. Work on your understanding of the conflict man, instead of hearing "SS" and immeadetly assuming that the person commited war crimes. Looks very uneducated.
@@capitaldcolon1795 ah yes, it wouldn't be a WW2 video without nazi apologist. The clean wehrmacht myth I can understand but a clean SS? Really? to quote wikipedia Murder of civilians in Yugoslavia During the invasion of Yugoslavia in April 1941, members of Das Reich committed crimes against the civilian population as well as Yugoslav prisoners of war in the area of Alibunar (Vojvodina, Serbia) where an estimated 200 people were murdered. 51 corpses were found in a mass grave in Alibunar's Serbian Orthodox Church's yard, as well as 54 others in the nearby settlement of Selište. The crimes were committed as a retaliation for the involvement of armed civilians during the fighting in the area and the murder of the regimental adjutant.[37] Murder of Jews in MinskEdit A support unit of the Das Reich division aided an SS extermination group in the slaughter of 920 Jews near Minsk in September 1941. [38] Tulle massacreEdit Main article: Tulle massacre After the Allied second front opened on 6 June 1944, all resistance groups joined "into the uprising". Part of Das Reich was ordered to attack strongholds of the rural guerrilla bands of French Resistance fighters as it moved to Normandy.[39] After a successful FTP offensive on 7 and 8 June 1944, Das Reich was ordered to the Tulle-Limoges area.[40] The arrival of Das Reich troops "rescued the beleaguered" army troops and ended the fighting in the city of Tulle.[40] On 9 June, in reprisal for the German losses, the SS hanged 99 men from the town and another 149 were deported back to Germany.[40] Oradour-sur-GlaneEdit Further information: Oradour-sur-Glane The division massacred 642 French civilians in the village of Oradour-sur-Glane on 10 June 1944 in the Limousin region. SS-Sturmbannführer Adolf Diekmann, commander of the I Battalion, 4th SS Panzergrenadier Regiment (Der Führer) that committed the massacre, claimed that it was a just retaliation due to partisan activity in nearby Tulle and the kidnapping of Sturmbannführer Helmut Kämpfe, commander of the III Battalion, although the German authorities had already executed ninety-nine people in the Tulle massacre, following the killing of some forty German soldiers in Tulle by the Maquis resistance movement. On 10 June, Diekmann's battalion sealed off Oradour-sur-Glane, and ordered all the townspeople to assemble in the village square, ostensibly to have their identity papers examined. All the women and children were locked in the church. The men were led to six barns and sheds. One of the six survivors of the massacre, Robert Hebras, described the killings as a deliberate act of mass murder. In 2013, he told the U.K. newspaper The Mirror that the SS intentionally burned men, women, and children after locking them in the church and spraying it with machine gun fire: It was simply an execution. There were a handful of Nazis in front of us, in their uniforms. They just raised their machine guns and started firing across us, at our legs to stop us getting out. They were strafing, not aiming. Men in front of me just started falling. I got caught by several bullets, but I survived because those in front of me got the full impact. I was so lucky. Four of us in the barn managed to get away because we remained completely still under piles of bodies. One man tried to get away before they had gone - he was shot dead. The SS were walking around and shooting anything that moved. They poured petrol on bodies and then set them alight."[41] Marcel Darthout's experience was similar. His testimony appears in historian Sara Farmer's 2000 book Martyred Village: Commemorating the 1944 Massacre at Oradour-sur-Glane:[42] We felt the bullets, which brought me down. I dove... everyone was on top of me. And they were still firing. And there was shouting. And crying. I had a friend who was lying on top of me and who was moaning. And then it was over. No more shots. And they came at us, stepping on us. And with a rifle they finished us off. They finished off my friend who was on top of me. I felt it when he died. Darthout and Hebras' eyewitness testimony was corroborated by other survivors of the massacre. One other survivor, Roger Godfrin, escaped from the school for refugees despite being shot at by SS soldiers. Only one woman, Marguerite Rouffanche, survived from the church. She later testified that at about five in the afternoon, two German soldiers placed a crate of explosives on the altar and attached a fuse to it. She and another women and her baby hid behind the sacristy; after the explosion they climbed on a stool and jumped out of a window three meters from the ground. A burst of machine gun fire hit all of them, but Rouffanche was able to crawl into the presbytery garden. The woman and infant were killed.[42] Diekmann was later killed in the battle of Normandy in 1944. On 12 January 1953, a military tribunal in Bordeaux, heard the case against the surviving sixty-five of the approximately two hundred SS soldiers who had been involved. Only twenty-one of them were present. Seven of them were Germans, but fourteen were Alsatians, (French nationals of Germanic culture). On 11 February, twenty defendants were found guilty, but were released after only a few months for lack of evidence. In December 2011 German police raided the homes of six former members of the division, all aged 85 or 86, to determine exactly what role the men had played that day.[43] SS-Brigadeführer Heinz Lammerding, who had given the orders for retaliation against the Resistance, died in 1971, following a successful business career in West Germany. The French government never obtained his extradition from the German authorities.[44]
this game ambience and looks are so well done, its a shame they got so many things wrong, like the could have made the entire game around the ardennes battle, but it had to jump from place to place killing all continuity, and that is the least of its problems, the uniforms the guns, everything looks so wrong
As a belgian i have to say 80 percent of this chapter doesnt look like the ardennes to rocky thats not how the forests around bastogne look there mostly Just flat forests with not much cover the holly part is around houffalize la roche and dinant then you will probably find many Rocks
I know right?! When I was in the Ardennes I didn't see any rocks or mountains of such soort... I think they mainly did it because it makes for better map design, instead of having flat ground with trees al in one line. Its still a shame tho :)
@@materhall4388 But still. because there a triple A game I expect them to do more research and visit the place itself. And could you please send me a link to one of the interviews your talking about because I can't find one where they say there where rocks and mountains?
@@gamingwithbmaster yes there are Rocks but if the forests dont have Rocks everywhere there mostly flat with Small slopes of water and Pine trees thats all but as you see in this chapter you see Rocks everywhere between there foxholes and trenches but the test of mostly looks ok
@@materhall4388 the ardennes forest is mostly Grass lands with forests in between them but there are some parts where there are high Hills like near houffalize la roche and dinant but in cod you see Rocks everywhere in the forests between there foxholes and trenches thats not how it looks near bastogne there mostly flat forests with some Small slopes Going trough not much and not much cover accept for the trees and by the looks it of there fighting around bastogne i think its mentioned in the game to so they are not in the area with much Hills there in the area with the low hilly part with many farms and countryside with Grasslands look near foy on google maps where 101st was stationed when they attacked the town you will see what i mean
Black soldiers did fight in the Battle of the Bulge but vast majority were assigned to service, artillery and Tank Destroyer units. One unit did fight as infantry out of necessity. Because of the scope of the German attack the use of black troops was essential and pivotal!
The Malmedy massacre is well known. The massacre of black troops by the SS at Wereth during the Bulge, far less so. There’s actually evidence that the War Department may have covered it up after it was discovered…
Lee-Enfield and no M1 Garand?! In the Ardennes!? Whaaaaaat!? I do not remember hearing about any British being surrounded…I know we were low on supplies, I’m sure there were some old 03’s but I guess it’s symbolic for “work with what you have”, no doubt he could’ve plucked it off a British soldier….. Amazing when you realize all they needed were some tough soldiers and as little supplies needed in the Ardennes, thanks to cracking Enigma, Mr Turing, thank you. Amazing the decisions made for games though.
considering its a scoped Lee, it could be simply that they were short of weapons for designated marksman and hence had a trade with rear American/British forces for anything that could fit the role, it's not like the 1st Inf was directly on the frontline during BoTB, it arrived eventually but in that mean time you could just assume that happened. Plust he literally has a Garand as his secondary weapon..
@@leonardospechtmartins4318 Is te expansion for the original COD. The campaing begins over an american patrol in The Bulge, then they go to a battle zone that looks exactly like the one in the vid. With the tanks and the planes destroying them. There's even a planes mission in the same COD, but with Brits. I think AFGuides already have upload the game, search it
My grandpa fought in the battle of the bulge. Was given 2 bronze stars and a purple heart for his actions. Told me a story about him and a few other men snuck behind german lines and killed some SS soldiers
Some of the lines in here are directly taken from band of brothers like the one with the lieutenant grabbing ammo and giving it away, literally the exact same scene in episode 5 of BoB crossroads when Easy Company and the rest of the 101st was headed for Bastogne
@@AFGuidesHD dont forget about the scope,it makes no sense,if have a scope over your bolt and you can't reload with clips,you usually put individual rounds in not a clip
Well I guess it is true that Nazis like throwing grenades In WAW (heart on the reich, sorry if I am mistaken on the name of the mission where we invaded the Reichstag), the Nazis almost never stop spamming grenades throw to us lol
3:59 Ah yes. The famous British Lee Enfield rifle lend lease to the Americans. So famous that it actually went over the fame cap and reverted back to the negatives. As if it never actually happened.
I may be late to this party but I want to say that the inclusion of Howard is spot on for the developers. Because I think Howard is part of the “5th platoons” which are mostly made up of black soldiers assigned to all white rifle companies. The units that employ these platoons are the 1st, 26th and 99th Infantry Divisions and the 12th and 14th Armored Divisions (but instead of platoons, the Armored Divisions used companies). Two medals of honors were given to the men of these units. Sgt Edward Carter Jr and a soldier from the 26th Division
in the dogfight I'm a little disappointed the destroyed planes just explode instead of spiraling towards the ground like they should when they're shot down usually
The enemies in this game are just big bullet sponges in German uniforms. They take more bullets than in the earliest Call of Duty games. You know, before locational damage modifiers were the norm? Then over in multiplayer you can get hit by a pebble and your head explodes.
I wish there were M36 Slugger Tank Destroyers were in this level... as the M36 Slugger is my favorite ww2 tank destroyer... Reliable an Simple design, good mobility as it could achieve 30mph speed an it had a 90mm Gun which was a very powerful Gun. Could rip into the German tanks real well... an they first arrived in Europe in September an 1st saw combat in October. An by December 25th, the Battle of the Bulge, their were several hundred M36's in Europe... and with the American an British Airforces an Artillery Superiority, M36 Slugger's had a higher survivability Rate then German tanks... the other tank Destroyers we an the British had were great too. Like the Sherman Firefly. But the M36 Slugger had a higher millimeter gun an better speed. Sherman Firefly jus had a 25 to 26 MPH speed... also the Battle of the Bulge is 1 of my Favorites. Really shows how truly powerful an well trained the American Military is. Yeah the germans were winning in the beginning of this fight but jus cause they caught us by surprise. After that, when we set up defenses an counter attacked an had support from the British an the others who were in the battle, we knocked the germans back real damn good. An of course our 2 excellent joint airforces when the weather cleared up was really crucial in screwing up the germans...
I get irritated by how he just don't refill his ammo when there's ammo stash, and keeping pistol when there are svt 40s and sub machineguns everywhere but still it's a good game footage
@Nathan Fabonan there is one. When Daniels is carrying the ammo box, you can just barely hear a soldier saying something like "Put me within a mile of a Mr. Hitler, war's over gents. We go home."
This is not the battle of the Bulge?? This is battle of the Hurtgen Forest in Germany. Battle of the Ardenne or battle of the Bulge happened in Belgium and Luxembourg in towns like Bastogne, Arlon, Clervaux, battle of the Hurtgen Forest happened in Nord Rhein Westfalen near Aachen towns like Düren, Hürtgen.
This is a good game,history innacurate but good so 10/10 gameplay,10/10 story but 5/10 acurracy but its a videogame and as long as i enjoy it imma play it
Story gets an 8/10 for me. They didn't explore the holocaust as much as promised. Also, the missions with the french resistance are just...painfully few. I would've loved to have seen the fall of paris, having to evade german patrols and fighting in guerrilla warfare. The attack on St Lo was a massive missed opportunity here. It would've looked amazing here, Operation Market Garden is relegated to MP, sadly and for whatever reason, the Kasserine Pass is alluded to but not playable (THAT would've been killer)
@@enanny0616 1: The commandant gets no character development, he's 1 dimensional 2: Daniels is a flat character and i mean FLAT. 3: Why should we care? Whoever wrote the characters did a crap job. 4. Everything is wrapped in a bow as if the racism and brutality never happened. Again, why should I give a $h!t?
It's not the only cold battle field. Fighting in Belgium or nearby is much better than fighting on some 'non-named ' Islands and sea in Pacific. I can't imagine if I were the pilot who got lost or shot down, just floating on the sea and waiting for my death. Some marines may be disappeared or even accidentally abandoned by the forces.
"There will come a day when all the lies will collapse under there own weight and the truth will triumph again" "My spirit shall rise from the grave and the world will know that I was right"
When they were sitting all super cold down in the foxholes, why not get heaps of pine branches and stuff to cover up with? Wouldve provided a LOT of insulation and warmth.
Out of all of the historical inaccuracies in this game, I think the fact that an American soldier is fighting using a British Lee Enfield Rifle is what does it for me lol
Vanguard's even worse... STGs in the Pacific, etc... I could excuse PPSh-41's being used by the Germans in Normandy but it's really bad now.
that and the slowest 30 cal browning iv ever seen in gaming
@@jackcogi9586 the m1919 is so glitched in this game.
like it couldnt have made its way into his possession somehow?
@@tyman7156 they could barely get american ammo for the battle of the bulge were the hell were they getting british rounds from
COD Vanguard made me appreciate this even more.
like seriously, it made this game look like a masterpiece
Easy Company is somewhere in the battle...
Which division ?
@@alexbatareanu5099 101st Airborne-506th regiment
Currahee!!!!!!!
@@MrSwitchblade327 fubar
HAYOOO SILVER!!!
I wish cod campaign would make you feel like an average joe soldier instead of this invincible super soldier.
And being able to play a German campaign for once.
@@donniro5962 if we were able to play as germans than we would be doing war crimes every mission so thats why they probably didnt do that
@@mynamejeff8401 not really
@@mynamejeff8401 I mean one of the missions is to escort bombers bombing residential areas but I guess it's only a war crime when the allies aren't involved
@@mynamejeff8401 as if allies didnt commit any warcrimes
The cutscenes were great in this game honestly.
A really good game also
better than vanguard in my opinion
It would work
I kinda realise that COD's impression of the Battle of the Buldge is always the Americans able to hold the line from a thousand Germans.
Reality is often disappointing.
media doesn't portray something close to the truth? imagine my shock
I’m sure the Americans actually had to fall back but the Germans were eventually held off. Kind of common sense.
@@Infamouschef_ yes, that would be for later parts.
There are were quite a large number of US POWs during the Battle of the Buldge since they were unprepared for the surpirse attack.
At lot of the battle of the bulge focuses almost exclusively on the 101st airborne trapped in the middle. A lot of the combat going on during that time related to the 101st was forest combat. Troops hiding in trenches of fox holes simply waiting for the overwhelming amount of Germans coming their way. It sucks but the Battle of the Bulge is often characterized but the actions and combat of few while the rest of the combat is often overlooked
Just to add a little more context, The battle of the 101st Airborne is known as the Siege of Bastogne. The numbers while shaky are estimated to be about 11k Americans fighting against 54k Germans with causalities mostly being unknown
I truly feel like the developers did literally no research when making this game.
They were, especially in this scene where on the Battle of the Bulge the Allied air force were grounded because of the bad weather. So those P-47 was coming straight from the Developer's wet dreams.
The fucking Lee enfields... oh my..
This is probably the worst world war 2 game ever created.
Historical inaccuracies aside, Pierson is by far the worst character. He wouldn't be so bad if he had ANY redeeming qualities. He exists just to be an asshole. The explanation as to why Pierson is such an ass doesn't make him any less hate-able.
He finally becomes decent after a drunken fight with Red. That's it. There is no development.
And the squad mates are beyond forgettable. They're watered down iterations of the squad from Call of Duty 2 Big Red One.
7:47 This exchange, however, I find kind of funny.
An eye-tie, a Jew, and a [N word] argue with each other over cooperating with each other because of race while an enemy that sees them all as lesser wants them all dead.
I still believe this could have been a phenomenal COD game if it was written by people who didn't just watch a bunch of WW2 movies and use every cliche in the book and nothing else, and it was a longer campaign with another story arc in a different theater like how the old COD WW2 games had it where you were jumping all over the place. And didn't give in to PC culture with all that nonsense.
True,and without that annoying scripted events.
spot on
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I’ve been into WW2 quit a bit ever since I was a little kid and they did an amazing job on graphics and cut scenes, but I just wish they would be a more accurate with the history behind it and all the small things too. They didn’t have fires because they didn’t want to give away their position and get a artillery barrage on top them just small stuff like that I wish they would have paid more attention too. It has a lot of potential for sure honestly.
They most certainly did have fires in the Ardennes...you don't know what you're talking about.
I was about 9 in 2012 when I met 1940 and I was still in primary by then. I’m 21 now and 1940 I’d still at my side 11 years on
@@nicolelawless9942tf you talking about
Gotta love the trigger discipline of that pilot escorting the bomber group.... I don't know who did more damage, 109s or one particular P47 :/
I showed this to my grandpa and he told me that he was involved on that war too, one of his mate exploded to pieces and the story kept on going for an hour.
Truly lovely
More like your grand-grandpa. I mean look at your name and proffile pic..
@@rodrigorott968 yes, my great grandpa was an ace pilot too, whatcha gonna do about it?
AceScarfGamer YT what a comeback HAHAHAHAHA
You're lying.
@@tireachan6178 wanna see his bayonet?
My Grandfather fought in the Adrennes Offensive as a targetter in a tank for the 2nd Waffen SS Panzerdivision "Das Reich"
A great man, 18 years old, fought untill the end when they had to retreat and got out without being captured. He then was moved to the eastern front in Czechoslovakia, where he got captured by Soviet forces and thrown into a prisoner of war camp. He "celebrated" his 19th birthday there and got released after a year when the war was over.
I never met him since he died in '76 from leukemia. But since my dad is the best human being i ever met, he mustve been a great man and a loving father. I hope ill see him in heaven and finally get to meet him.
God bless and RIP to everyone who died, no matter the side they were fighting on..
SS? Hope he didn’t commit any war crimes
@@julianhernandez9646 Unlikely if you take into consideration where he fought.
Also: most ss soldiers didnt commit any war crimes. A small handfull of "Einsatzgruppen" (Taskforces) with help from local militias commited 95% of those.
If you would know history of the second world war, you would know that the SS had a couple of million conscripts over the war and there even were SS logistic and Medical troops. Aswell as scouting troops, engineers and so on.
Work on your understanding of the conflict man, instead of hearing "SS" and immeadetly assuming that the person commited war crimes.
Looks very uneducated.
@@julianhernandez9646 Division "Das Reich" committed several warcrimes in France and The Netherlands. Look up 'Oradour-sur-Glane massacre'.
@@capitaldcolon1795 ah yes, it wouldn't be a WW2 video without nazi apologist. The clean wehrmacht myth I can understand but a clean SS? Really? to quote wikipedia
Murder of civilians in Yugoslavia
During the invasion of Yugoslavia in April 1941, members of Das Reich committed crimes against the civilian population as well as Yugoslav prisoners of war in the area of Alibunar (Vojvodina, Serbia) where an estimated 200 people were murdered. 51 corpses were found in a mass grave in Alibunar's Serbian Orthodox Church's yard, as well as 54 others in the nearby settlement of Selište. The crimes were committed as a retaliation for the involvement of armed civilians during the fighting in the area and the murder of the regimental adjutant.[37]
Murder of Jews in MinskEdit
A support unit of the Das Reich division aided an SS extermination group in the slaughter of 920 Jews near Minsk in September 1941. [38]
Tulle massacreEdit
Main article: Tulle massacre
After the Allied second front opened on 6 June 1944, all resistance groups joined "into the uprising". Part of Das Reich was ordered to attack strongholds of the rural guerrilla bands of French Resistance fighters as it moved to Normandy.[39] After a successful FTP offensive on 7 and 8 June 1944, Das Reich was ordered to the Tulle-Limoges area.[40] The arrival of Das Reich troops "rescued the beleaguered" army troops and ended the fighting in the city of Tulle.[40] On 9 June, in reprisal for the German losses, the SS hanged 99 men from the town and another 149 were deported back to Germany.[40]
Oradour-sur-GlaneEdit
Further information: Oradour-sur-Glane
The division massacred 642 French civilians in the village of Oradour-sur-Glane on 10 June 1944 in the Limousin region. SS-Sturmbannführer Adolf Diekmann, commander of the I Battalion, 4th SS Panzergrenadier Regiment (Der Führer) that committed the massacre, claimed that it was a just retaliation due to partisan activity in nearby Tulle and the kidnapping of Sturmbannführer Helmut Kämpfe, commander of the III Battalion, although the German authorities had already executed ninety-nine people in the Tulle massacre, following the killing of some forty German soldiers in Tulle by the Maquis resistance movement.
On 10 June, Diekmann's battalion sealed off Oradour-sur-Glane, and ordered all the townspeople to assemble in the village square, ostensibly to have their identity papers examined. All the women and children were locked in the church. The men were led to six barns and sheds. One of the six survivors of the massacre, Robert Hebras, described the killings as a deliberate act of mass murder. In 2013, he told the U.K. newspaper The Mirror that the SS intentionally burned men, women, and children after locking them in the church and spraying it with machine gun fire:
It was simply an execution. There were a handful of Nazis in front of us, in their uniforms. They just raised their machine guns and started firing across us, at our legs to stop us getting out. They were strafing, not aiming. Men in front of me just started falling. I got caught by several bullets, but I survived because those in front of me got the full impact. I was so lucky. Four of us in the barn managed to get away because we remained completely still under piles of bodies. One man tried to get away before they had gone - he was shot dead. The SS were walking around and shooting anything that moved. They poured petrol on bodies and then set them alight."[41]
Marcel Darthout's experience was similar. His testimony appears in historian Sara Farmer's 2000 book Martyred Village: Commemorating the 1944 Massacre at Oradour-sur-Glane:[42]
We felt the bullets, which brought me down. I dove... everyone was on top of me. And they were still firing. And there was shouting. And crying. I had a friend who was lying on top of me and who was moaning. And then it was over. No more shots. And they came at us, stepping on us. And with a rifle they finished us off. They finished off my friend who was on top of me. I felt it when he died.
Darthout and Hebras' eyewitness testimony was corroborated by other survivors of the massacre. One other survivor, Roger Godfrin, escaped from the school for refugees despite being shot at by SS soldiers. Only one woman, Marguerite Rouffanche, survived from the church. She later testified that at about five in the afternoon, two German soldiers placed a crate of explosives on the altar and attached a fuse to it. She and another women and her baby hid behind the sacristy; after the explosion they climbed on a stool and jumped out of a window three meters from the ground. A burst of machine gun fire hit all of them, but Rouffanche was able to crawl into the presbytery garden. The woman and infant were killed.[42]
Diekmann was later killed in the battle of Normandy in 1944. On 12 January 1953, a military tribunal in Bordeaux, heard the case against the surviving sixty-five of the approximately two hundred SS soldiers who had been involved. Only twenty-one of them were present. Seven of them were Germans, but fourteen were Alsatians, (French nationals of Germanic culture). On 11 February, twenty defendants were found guilty, but were released after only a few months for lack of evidence. In December 2011 German police raided the homes of six former members of the division, all aged 85 or 86, to determine exactly what role the men had played that day.[43] SS-Brigadeführer Heinz Lammerding, who had given the orders for retaliation against the Resistance, died in 1971, following a successful business career in West Germany. The French government never obtained his extradition from the German authorities.[44]
Also also Das Reich was a volunteer division. So none of that conscription bullcrap.
During the battle, if you look closely, you can see Captain Ronald Speirs carrying his Tommy and Balls of Steel past a tiger tank.
Zigarette?
It wouldn't be a AFGuides video without these two things:
Salty children who think you're trash.
And at least one death in a mission because why not?
lmao!
At the beginning of this clip where is the light discipline?! They would have been shelled for sure.
21:53 RIP soldier and that rage...
xx
*mag dumps Kraut*
FUCK!
this game ambience and looks are so well done, its a shame they got so many things wrong, like the could have made the entire game around the ardennes battle, but it had to jump from place to place killing all continuity, and that is the least of its problems, the uniforms the guns, everything looks so wrong
M1919 fire rate: 30mm auto-cannon lol
is cod, what did you expect xd
Where do you work?
lol
lOl
@@رعد-ز7خ unemployed at the moment
As a belgian i have to say 80 percent of this chapter doesnt look like the ardennes to rocky thats not how the forests around bastogne look there mostly Just flat forests with not much cover the holly part is around houffalize la roche and dinant then you will probably find many Rocks
I know right?! When I was in the Ardennes I didn't see any rocks or mountains of such soort... I think they mainly did it because it makes for better map design, instead of having flat ground with trees al in one line. Its still a shame tho :)
No it’s like that because watch interviewes of people that fought their
@@materhall4388 But still. because there a triple A game I expect them to do more research and visit the place itself.
And could you please send me a link to one of the interviews your talking about because I can't find one where they say there where rocks and mountains?
@@gamingwithbmaster yes there are Rocks but if the forests dont have Rocks everywhere there mostly flat with Small slopes of water and Pine trees thats all but as you see in this chapter you see Rocks everywhere between there foxholes and trenches but the test of mostly looks ok
@@materhall4388 the ardennes forest is mostly Grass lands with forests in between them but there are some parts where there are high Hills like near houffalize la roche and dinant but in cod you see Rocks everywhere in the forests between there foxholes and trenches thats not how it looks near bastogne there mostly flat forests with some Small slopes Going trough not much and not much cover accept for the trees and by the looks it of there fighting around bastogne i think its mentioned in the game to so they are not in the area with much Hills there in the area with the low hilly part with many farms and countryside with Grasslands look near foy on google maps where 101st was stationed when they attacked the town you will see what i mean
11:32 what a nice friendly fire
ten fucking b17 crewmates dead one engine dead and a huge fire yeah they aint surviving
"You're a Godsend lieutenant" Well I guess everybody likes a bit of Band of Brothers in their stuff.
@@farahahmedkarim377 Have you watched "Band of Brothers" and are you from Pakistan?
@@farahahmedkarim377 k
"You're a corporal now, goddammit. Start acting like one!" Gee, thanks for the rank praise.
Black soldiers did fight in the Battle of the Bulge but vast majority were assigned to service, artillery and Tank Destroyer units. One unit did fight as infantry out of necessity. Because of the scope of the German attack the use of black troops was essential and pivotal!
The Malmedy massacre is well known. The massacre of black troops by the SS at Wereth during the Bulge, far less so. There’s actually evidence that the War Department may have covered it up after it was discovered…
So glad someone's finally pointing this out instead of being hyper reactionary about them including ONE black soldier lol
That reloading sound puts smile on my face
36:33 Don't want to sound mean but... seriously?
i thought it was an ally lol
The stupid thing that could have happened in real life ...
Lol
Lee-Enfield and no M1 Garand?! In the Ardennes!? Whaaaaaat!? I do not remember hearing about any British being surrounded…I know we were low on supplies, I’m sure there were some old 03’s but I guess it’s symbolic for “work with what you have”, no doubt he could’ve plucked it off a British soldier….. Amazing when you realize all they needed were some tough soldiers and as little supplies needed in the Ardennes, thanks to cracking Enigma, Mr Turing, thank you. Amazing the decisions made for games though.
considering its a scoped Lee, it could be simply that they were short of weapons for designated marksman and hence had a trade with rear American/British forces for anything that could fit the role, it's not like the 1st Inf was directly on the frontline during BoTB, it arrived eventually but in that mean time you could just assume that happened. Plust he literally has a Garand as his secondary weapon..
@@koeh07 oh wow good notice. Yeah that is very true.
The dogfight was the best scene of this battle. However, my history teacher said that the game is inaccurate.
This battle looks so similar in gameplay and objectives to the one in COD United Offensive
N ver seen this cod United. How is It?
Well is the same battle, so yeah
@@leonardospechtmartins4318 Is te expansion for the original COD. The campaing begins over an american patrol in The Bulge, then they go to a battle zone that looks exactly like the one in the vid. With the tanks and the planes destroying them. There's even a planes mission in the same COD, but with Brits. I think AFGuides already have upload the game, search it
@@enzo6552 Yeah, but the things to do are so much similar, it's not bad but i just wanted to point it out
Leonardo Specht Martins the first call of duty ever made in 2003
My grandpa fought in the battle of the bulge. Was given 2 bronze stars and a purple heart for his actions. Told me a story about him and a few other men snuck behind german lines and killed some SS soldiers
How old are you m8?
Seems legit
@@Dbzmad34222 his lying
was your father one of the combat engineers that blew up the Stavelot bridge? cause that story seems very resembling..
The ping after popping the clip out while there's still ammo, does it for me.
Some of the lines in here are directly taken from band of brothers like the one with the lieutenant grabbing ammo and giving it away, literally the exact same scene in episode 5 of BoB crossroads when Easy Company and the rest of the 101st was headed for Bastogne
Both are world war 2
@@suryasishtalukdar210 good observation, how'd u figure it out?
8:46 Ouch! I felt that!
Ahahahah
"Say Auf Wiedershen to your nazi balls"
Did they use the same “Incoming” line that was used by Lipton in band of brothers?? Sounded similar to me but I could be wrong.
CoD: United Offensive Expansion is laughing hard about this mission.
United Offensive is by far my favorite CoD. Happy Penguin Foy 24/7 anyone?
That game(expansion) is the best WW2 game I have ever played.
Immersive and feels like in WW2.
@@ChuckS117 Tbh really good game but multiplayer is dead
My first shooter in PC!
@@memenest468 cod 1 ua 2 and 3 are all dead online. Original cod has 2 good active servers
4:22 cursed reload
IKR I hate how CoD WWII cut corners to balance out the game
can someone explain why it's cursed? i don't understand
@@leon-cg1rg the character loads the clip *through* the scope. IRL snipers had to load one bullet at a time
@@leon-cg1rg because it reloads 7 bullets with one clip
@@AFGuidesHD dont forget about the scope,it makes no sense,if have a scope over your bolt and you can't reload with clips,you usually put individual rounds in not a clip
I laughed when Aiello said "Move friz im driving!"
Fritz* lol
Watching this like a movie, its pretty good
Its funny how this man dies to grenades every episode 😂. But seriously man keep up the good work👍
Well I guess it is true that Nazis like throwing grenades
In WAW (heart on the reich, sorry if I am mistaken on the name of the mission where we invaded the Reichstag), the Nazis almost never stop spamming grenades throw to us lol
Hahahaa When he start to run with that ammo it was so UNREAL xD
Krauts: This is cold? You should see how we've been through in Stalingrad.
Red Army: Let's win in the winter!!
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3:59 Ah yes. The famous British Lee Enfield rifle lend lease to the Americans. So famous that it actually went over the fame cap and reverted back to the negatives. As if it never actually happened.
I find it weird since they already have Springfield rifles
You should know irl, that M1917 Enfield exists...
@@v12ts.gaming Yes. But this one is clearly the SMLE. Not the American Enfield.
@@walnzell9328 who knows it has extended mags that can hold 10 .30-06's After all, CODWWII was known by its inaccuracies in terms of weapons.
@@v12ts.gaming It's called the Lee Enfield. Right there in the lower right hand corner when Red pulls it up.
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He was shooting EVERYBODY on that dogfight, lol
I may be late to this party but I want to say that the inclusion of Howard is spot on for the developers. Because I think Howard is part of the “5th platoons” which are mostly made up of black soldiers assigned to all white rifle companies. The units that employ these platoons are the 1st, 26th and 99th Infantry Divisions and the 12th and 14th Armored Divisions (but instead of platoons, the Armored Divisions used companies). Two medals of honors were given to the men of these units. Sgt Edward Carter Jr and a soldier from the 26th Division
7:20 i love how he's try to find the soldiar that shouted for help
The British 30 corps helped stem the German advance but there hardly ever mentioned.
That reminded me the very first mission in CoD United Offensive. I think that the map blueprints are the same.
I completed this game many times on all levels “I’m the veteran 😎”
11:31 you lit up that bomber
23:42
question for you cpl.
how long has pierson been out of his god damn mind
XD
5:10 the garand pinging just to get to 69 ammo haha
This game does not have an option to mute the music. You have to go into program files and mute it manually. It is 2023 SH, GET IT TOGETHER!
in the dogfight I'm a little disappointed the destroyed planes just explode instead of spiraling towards the ground like they should when they're shot down usually
This battle was the most underrated battle in WWII
Nahh alot of people talk about this battle
The enemies in this game are just big bullet sponges in German uniforms. They take more bullets than in the earliest Call of Duty games. You know, before locational damage modifiers were the norm?
Then over in multiplayer you can get hit by a pebble and your head explodes.
This mission is mainly a remake from the Battle of The Bulge mission from Call of Duty United Offensive 2004.
Howard has a British accent? 😐
Oh and,
Stealth missions: *exist*
This guy: *haha gun go loud Brrrrrr*
I guess stealth is optional
Thats not a british accent
I wish there were M36 Slugger Tank Destroyers were in this level... as the M36 Slugger is my favorite ww2 tank destroyer... Reliable an Simple design, good mobility as it could achieve 30mph speed an it had a 90mm Gun which was a very powerful Gun. Could rip into the German tanks real well... an they first arrived in Europe in September an 1st saw combat in October. An by December 25th, the Battle of the Bulge, their were several hundred M36's in Europe... and with the American an British Airforces an Artillery Superiority, M36 Slugger's had a higher survivability Rate then German tanks... the other tank Destroyers we an the British had were great too. Like the Sherman Firefly. But the M36 Slugger had a higher millimeter gun an better speed. Sherman Firefly jus had a 25 to 26 MPH speed... also the Battle of the Bulge is 1 of my Favorites. Really shows how truly powerful an well trained the American Military is. Yeah the germans were winning in the beginning of this fight but jus cause they caught us by surprise. After that, when we set up defenses an counter attacked an had support from the British an the others who were in the battle, we knocked the germans back real damn good. An of course our 2 excellent joint airforces when the weather cleared up was really crucial in screwing up the germans...
spoken like a true AmericanXD
I get irritated by how he just don't refill his ammo when there's ammo stash, and keeping pistol when there are svt 40s and sub machineguns everywhere but still it's a good game footage
This game is a masterpiece compared to Vanguard.I want my money back!
Anyone notice the Saving Private Ryan reference?
I don't think there is.
@Nathan Fabonan there is one. When Daniels is carrying the ammo box, you can just barely hear a soldier saying something like "Put me within a mile of a Mr. Hitler, war's over gents. We go home."
**fires at Tiger**
YEAH!
**gets fired**
SHIT!
I really don’t think the germans had anywhere near that amount of fighter planes and jets at this time in the war. lol.
15:43 wtf I live in Giessen and it is hard to realize that they have destroyed the entire city for nothing...
I love and hate at the sametime by watching gameplays in youtube because I have a crap pc and terrible wifi
This is not the battle of the Bulge?? This is battle of the Hurtgen Forest in Germany. Battle of the Ardenne or battle of the Bulge happened in Belgium and Luxembourg in towns like Bastogne, Arlon, Clervaux, battle of the Hurtgen Forest happened in Nord Rhein Westfalen near Aachen towns like Düren, Hürtgen.
16:33 i think you're supposed to run?
And aim, boi. And aim
23:15
The Tank Is Just Looking At Daniels Saying GoodBye
Like those funny videos about BF1 tanks saying no, yo avoid getting killed or saying that they are not going to shoot xd
I feel good that they put this in the game, because my great grandfather fought in teh Buldge aswell
bet he wasn't black
This is a good game,history innacurate but good so 10/10 gameplay,10/10 story but 5/10 acurracy but its a videogame and as long as i enjoy it imma play it
Story gets an 8/10 for me. They didn't explore the holocaust as much as promised. Also, the missions with the french resistance are just...painfully few. I would've loved to have seen the fall of paris, having to evade german patrols and fighting in guerrilla warfare. The attack on St Lo was a massive missed opportunity here. It would've looked amazing here, Operation Market Garden is relegated to MP, sadly and for whatever reason, the Kasserine Pass is alluded to but not playable (THAT would've been killer)
i agree heavily with st lo but its a shame they did the 1st division so it entirely inaccurate it they did
American using a Lee Enfield. Fighters carrying bombs escorting B-17’s ????? Apparently the devs aren’t going for historical accuracy 🤦♂️
Some moments of this campaign were really good, and the cutscenes were amazing you gotta give em that. I hated the ending though
Why?
@@enanny0616 1: The commandant gets no character development, he's 1 dimensional
2: Daniels is a flat character and i mean FLAT.
3: Why should we care? Whoever wrote the characters did a crap job.
4. Everything is wrapped in a bow as if the racism and brutality never happened. Again, why should I give a $h!t?
Hell of a game ❤️
these poor guys thank GOD we had man with big balls
And I thought they wanted light discipline so that the Germans cant spot their position and shell the hell out of them.
Realism in this game is a French kiss
6:24 US Soldier: MOVE YOUR ASS
28:17 you just ignored that guy shouting for help
25:00 this boy just wanted some water peirson WHY!
hey man, he had plans that were necessary
Pierson is just one of those edgy guys of CoD. I mean, he carries a Thompson with a drum mag.
Daamm that dead body mashed into pieces by those tanks 😅
I am sure you are not supposed to be drunk while in combat
tell that to the demoman from TF2
@@farahahmedkarim377 lmao
@@f-35enjoyer59 damn, i actually forgot about him
A lot of the Soviet soldiers fought drunk
If only they reported Pierson to Ronald Speirs.
I guess this was winter weather of Belgium.. how cold it can get in a winter over there in Ardennes?.. its not just bullet you battle its the weather.
It's not the only cold battle field. Fighting in Belgium or nearby is much better than fighting on some 'non-named ' Islands and sea in Pacific. I can't imagine if I were the pilot who got lost or shot down, just floating on the sea and waiting for my death. Some marines may be disappeared or even accidentally abandoned by the forces.
Great game !!! 👍
So this is what my CoH 2 Ardennes campaign looks like in 1st person view.
You shooted your team's bomber!
Game is too arcady for me, especially the flight part. How hard is it to be accurate and still be a game.
Graphics getting more and more movie quality.
"There will come a day when all the lies will collapse under there own weight and the truth will triumph again"
"My spirit shall rise from the grave and the world will know that I was right"
I have the call of duty ww2 I play it a lot
When they were sitting all super cold down in the foxholes, why not get heaps of pine branches and stuff to cover up with? Wouldve provided a LOT of insulation and warmth.
The starting scene really made me sad😢😢😢😭😭
How about hogan's heroes game? Wouldn't that be nice?
Love that show. It’s goated
Turner was a good soldier and now he’s gone
AFGUIDES ESSE É UM BOM GAME PARABÉNS CARVALHO FEIRA DE SANTANA BAHIA
5:37 that line is gold.
Shut up
6:42 ah yeah all artillery drops near main character.
11:52 ah yeah fly through.
8:46, I saw that .... I saw that ..... cheeky shot .......
11:32 eyo man poor B-17 you killed