The first tank against tank combat in history took place on 24 April 1918 when three A7Vs (including chassis number 561, known as "Nixe") taking part in an attack with infantry incidentally met three Mark IVs (two female machine gun-armed tanks and one male with two 6-pounder guns) near Villers-Bretonneux. During the battle, tanks on both sides were damaged. According to the lead tank commander, Second Lieutenant Frank Mitchell, the female Mk IVs fell back after being damaged by armour-piercing bullets. They were unable to damage the A7Vs with their own machine guns. Mitchell then attacked the lead German tank, commanded by Second Lieutenant Wilhelm Biltz,[6] with the 6-pounders of his own tank and knocked it out. He hit it three times, and killed five of the crew when they bailed out. He then went on to rout some infantry with case shot. The two remaining A7Vs in turn withdrew. As Mitchell's tank withdrew from action, seven Whippet tanks also engaged the infantry. Four of these were knocked out in the battle, and it is unclear if any of them engaged the retreating German tanks. Mitchell's tank lost a track towards the end of the battle from a mortar shell and was abandoned. The damaged A7V limped back to the German lines, but eventually broke down.
Very good reply but just a few things you didnt mention. Also the Video gives the wrong impression, it has the tank firing on the move! It could hardly hit anything when it was moving, except air or mud as like a ship, the tank and gun was constantly moving and they did not have suspension. Once the female tanks had withdrawn Mitchell did a very brave and also dangerous thing and he stopped his tank, so that his gunners could give accurate fire. This meant they were a sitting duck for the German tank. The Germans missed and the two British gunners, now stationary fired disabling the German tank, frightened their tank would blow up, they evacuated and Mitchell's tank killed some of them as they were leaving. The two other A7Vs on seeing this retreated. That was not the end of the action though, not only did Mitchell frighten of the A7Vs but he also carried on for some hours, driving and firing up and down the front line at the German lines protecting the helpless female tanks and helping infantry advance, even at the risk of their own lives. His luck would run out though as eventually he lost a track, it was looking bleak when just then onto the battlefield came the new and much faster British "Whippet" tanks saving Mitchell and his crew. This would lead to Mitchell receiving the first-ever VC ( Victoria Cross) for the Royal Tank Regiment. Another little thing to add to the danger, is that often tanks carried extra fuel on the top of their tanks. Because of this practice many tankies died. When the fuel after being hit would flow into the cabin and catch fire, the crew would be burnt to death!! Lastly people often look at the little Renault tank and say "Ooo that's what a tank looks like not that lumbering rhomboid thing those Brits had!" Except when Tritton first envisaged his tank it was much like a modern tank it even had a turret. But like the little Renault it was ok on open ground but it was too fast for the infantry to keep up and could not cross 8ft trenches. So like the Little two man Renault it was absolutely useless to cross 8ft wide trenches. So Tritton and Wilson then went back to the drawing board and came up with a Rhomboid shape which was perfect for the 8ft wide trench ( by the end of WW1 those trenches would be 12ft wide) warfare that was being fought on the western front. One of its military requirements was that it must also be able to flatten the barbed wire for the infantry to cross. The video also wrongly states that the tank ran on "Caterpillar" tracks they were not Caterpillar but tracks again invented by Tritton and Maj Wilson which were more robust and actually stayed on which the imported tracks could not they broke and would sag making the tank lose it's tracks. "Ah the but at least the "Caterpillar" tracks were an American invention!" Some are saying right now. Unfortunately not, they were invented by David Roberts (1859, Chester - 22 April 1928, Grantham) was the Chief Engineer and managing director of Richard Hornsby & Sons in the early 1900s. His invention, the caterpillar track, was demonstrated to the army in 1907 He hoped the military could use them. But when the military weren't interested with no civilian use coming to mind they sold the patent to Holt In America. Who would then end up being Caterpillar. So where does the name caterpillar come from? When the tracked vehicle was being demonstrated to the Army by Roberts the soldiers watching said it looked like a caterpillar. Only a year after selling the patent to Holt, the British Army bought tracked vehicles from the Holt company. Why didn't the Army buy the Hornsby tracked vehicle? Well when it was being demonstrated a cavalry officer said that 8 horses could pull the load quicker... Couldn't you just slap him with the Stupid idiot stick?
One A7V "Mephisto" was sent to Brisbane, Australia. It was rusting away, recently repaired by the Queensland Railway Workshops, and at the moment is in the Australian War Memorial, Canberra. It's the only one left of about two dozen.
Sabaton brought me here "The spell has been broken A new way to wage war has come The future of warfare For all to be seen, 1918" "The new world approaches Villers-Bretonneux Mechanized warfare Breaking away, coming your way"
My grandfather joined the Motor Machine Gun(Heavy Section) in 1916,he had to obtain a reference from the editor of The Motorcycle magazine in Coventry..he was also a Coventrian.I obtained his service record,luck really as most ww1 records were destroyed in the blitz and also a fire ofTank Corp records after ww1.He initially went to Bisley under Colonel Swinton and then Elvedon Hall in Norfolk before going to France....he was demobed. in 1919 after serving in the Rhine Army....
Firstly, I'm not positive, but I think at the time Churchill had been disgraced and demoted for his failure in the Gallipoli Campaign by the tanks introduction. Secondly, you are right, it is odd considering the inspiration for the tanks were battleships, for them not to have turreted weapons. However, if my memory serves me correctly, the specifications for dimensions of the vehicle (Mostly for crossing trenches and similar terrain) left the tanks far to narrow to mount a turret as had been desired. So the sponsons were really an after thought.
Hey Duke! I spent time at the Imperial War Museum and they are correct at the A7v speed. The Damn thing was very slow and was more of a danger to the crew than to the enemy.
How'd you get such clear footage of this tank engagement? I didn't think colour video was invented back then. And wouldn't the cameraman have been killed? I call bullshit
lol I remember watching this one in history. We were like "The British fired. ... but missed. Then the Germans fired! ... buuut they missed too. And then the Brits fiiinally hit the Germans and they wet their pants so they decided to run. The end." xD
@@UFCKing209 15 years older now! Hahaha 😆 Seriously though, so I am at least older than 15; this comment was posted 12 years ago, and evidently I was already old enough then to comment about remembering a history lesson where the topic was WW1. Go figure. 😛 (That makes me sound so old actually... I'm not *that* old. Haha.)
This is completely inaccurate! Firstly, the A7V was not 'rushed' into production: the German High Command utterly failed to grasp the effectiveness of the tank, and put very little effort into the development of German tanks. Secondly, at the battle of Villars-Brettoneoux, there were 20 A7Vs deployed, of which three engaged the british tanks. Thirdly, the two Female tanks were heavily damaged before they withdrew, taking heavy fire from German armor-piercing bullets. Fourthly, the first A7V did not 'withdraw;' it was knocked out of action, and its crew escaped on foot under heavy fire.
German tanks in ww1 were shitty but their infantry were the best. Stormtrooper raided half the western front with great succes in 1918 but sadly german civillians started getting nervous about food and U.S came to mess things up
I thought there were 3 a7vs tanks facing one British mark 4 and I remembered the mark 4 destroyed one A7V and the two others moved backed and retreated
+Timothys Fraud! in reality yes their where 3 a7vs but their where 3 british tanks the a7vs managed to hit both female tanks and they retreated after being penned the lead mark 4 hit the lead a7v and killed 5 crew and they bailed the 2 other a7vs for whatever reason retreated
Timothys Fraud! but yeah its kinda odd that the 2 other a7vs retreated in the engagment but from what ive read they through their was more tanks or something
The first A7V was destroyed by Lieutenant Mitchell and his crew in the Mark IV Male; the A7V's destruction was confirmed by many witnesses, including its commander 2nd lt. Wilhelm Biltz. The other two A7V retreated when Mitchell's men fired on them; Mitchell's tank was not destroyed in the battle: an artillery shell broke one of the tracks, and the crew bailed out: none of them were killed, and the tank was later retrieved; check out Mitchell's account of the battle, "When Tank fought tank"
Not to mention that reatreat of A7V wasn't quite the end of first tank-to-tank battle. After few minutes, A7V become immobilised, but Mark IV "Male" was destroyed by more two German tanks. Villers-Bretonneux was liberated some time later.
Also not to mention that the French fought bravely at The Battle of Bir Hakeim, the French only had 3,703 men, while they were facing a Battalion of Italian forces , and Erwin Rommel the ELITE tank commander of the Afrika Korps, they held off both tank commanders for 2 weeks with no tanks, and just bazookas, and guess what NONE of them ran and guess, what due to this hold out by the French, the German invasion of Kasserine was held back for 2 weeks and allowed the americans to win in Kass.
No, there wasn't, the A7V could go 4 MPH. That's it. There where a total of 4 tanks on the first battle of armoured warfare, 3 British, 1 German, though this is inaccurate in the fact the British tanks where actually put out of service by the A7V, and that same tank would later go on to withstand an airstrike.
Unfortunately, there are many inaccuracies in this clip. All the CGI British tanks are "males"; there are no females. "Mary" and "Bobby" are actually opposite sides of a dummy built for a German film made in 1934 called "Stosstrupp 1917". The "British" soldiers are German extras. The A7V had a higher speed than the British on good ground, but poor trench-crossing ability. I've never come across any reference to the A7V having such a nickname.
+Pasu suel And its about honor and who can nourish there scaredness into something greater and your disrespectful to soldiers they dont ever do it for money they do it to defend people that refuse to defend them selves or cant and just defending there homes and protecting our countries and why would a mass of people not fight now that is very cowardish and then they shouldnt of joined the military if they werent ready to die for a cause or defend a cause
*Land ship the mark IV (or V idk) was actuallly called a land ship because it was just about as long as one and the barrels looked like cannons on a pirate ship
![[ ออกกอง ] วัยหนุ่ม 2544 โลกหลังลูกกรง..ทัวร์กองถ่ายหนังใน "คุกของจริง" | JUSTดูIT.](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/vB--aOkZCpw/mqdefault.jpg)
The first tank against tank combat in history took place on 24 April 1918 when three A7Vs (including chassis number 561, known as "Nixe") taking part in an attack with infantry incidentally met three Mark IVs (two female machine gun-armed tanks and one male with two 6-pounder guns) near Villers-Bretonneux. During the battle, tanks on both sides were damaged. According to the lead tank commander, Second Lieutenant Frank Mitchell, the female Mk IVs fell back after being damaged by armour-piercing bullets. They were unable to damage the A7Vs with their own machine guns. Mitchell then attacked the lead German tank, commanded by Second Lieutenant Wilhelm Biltz,[6] with the 6-pounders of his own tank and knocked it out. He hit it three times, and killed five of the crew when they bailed out. He then went on to rout some infantry with case shot. The two remaining A7Vs in turn withdrew. As Mitchell's tank withdrew from action, seven Whippet tanks also engaged the infantry. Four of these were knocked out in the battle, and it is unclear if any of them engaged the retreating German tanks. Mitchell's tank lost a track towards the end of the battle from a mortar shell and was abandoned. The damaged A7V limped back to the German lines, but eventually broke down.
Luke Phillips 0k
Luke I read the same detailed account in The New Excalibur - pleased someone got it right
Very good reply but just a few things you didnt mention.
Also the Video gives the wrong impression, it has the tank firing on the move!
It could hardly hit anything when it was moving, except air or mud as like a ship, the tank and gun was constantly moving and they did not have suspension.
Once the female tanks had withdrawn Mitchell did a very brave and also dangerous thing and he stopped his tank, so that his gunners could give accurate fire. This meant they were a sitting duck for the German tank. The Germans missed and the two British gunners, now stationary fired disabling the German tank, frightened their tank would blow up, they evacuated and Mitchell's tank killed some of them as they were leaving.
The two other A7Vs on seeing this retreated. That was not the end of the action though, not only did Mitchell frighten of the A7Vs but he also carried on for some hours, driving and firing up and down the front line at the German lines protecting the helpless female tanks and helping infantry advance, even at the risk of their own lives.
His luck would run out though as eventually he lost a track, it was looking bleak when just then onto the battlefield came the new and much faster British "Whippet" tanks saving Mitchell and his crew.
This would lead to Mitchell receiving the first-ever VC ( Victoria Cross) for the Royal Tank Regiment.
Another little thing to add to the danger, is that often tanks carried extra fuel on the top of their tanks. Because of this practice many tankies died. When the fuel after being hit would flow into the cabin and catch fire, the crew would be burnt to death!!
Lastly people often look at the little Renault tank and say "Ooo that's what a tank looks like not that lumbering rhomboid thing those Brits had!"
Except when Tritton first envisaged his tank it was much like a modern tank it even had a turret. But like the little Renault it was ok on open ground but it was too fast for the infantry to keep up and could not cross 8ft trenches.
So like the Little two man Renault it was absolutely useless to cross 8ft wide trenches.
So Tritton and Wilson then went back to the drawing board and came up with a Rhomboid shape which was perfect for the 8ft wide trench ( by the end of WW1 those trenches would be 12ft wide) warfare that was being fought on the western front.
One of its military requirements was that it must also be able to flatten the barbed wire for the infantry to cross.
The video also wrongly states that the tank ran on "Caterpillar" tracks they were not Caterpillar but tracks again invented by Tritton and Maj Wilson which were more robust and actually stayed on which the imported tracks could not they broke and would sag making the tank lose it's tracks.
"Ah the but at least the "Caterpillar" tracks were an American invention!"
Some are saying right now. Unfortunately not, they were invented by David Roberts (1859, Chester - 22 April 1928, Grantham) was the Chief Engineer and managing director of Richard Hornsby & Sons in the early 1900s. His invention, the caterpillar track, was demonstrated to the army in 1907
He hoped the military could use them. But when the military weren't interested with no civilian use coming to mind they sold the patent to Holt In America. Who would then end up being Caterpillar. So where does the name caterpillar come from?
When the tracked vehicle was being demonstrated to the Army by Roberts the soldiers watching said it looked like a caterpillar.
Only a year after selling the patent to Holt, the British Army bought tracked vehicles from the Holt company.
Why didn't the Army buy the Hornsby tracked vehicle?
Well when it was being demonstrated a cavalry officer said that 8 horses could pull the load quicker...
Couldn't you just slap him with the Stupid idiot stick?
Facts
Soren G no
1:58 -- when the medics ignore you in Battlefield 1.
Bruh it’s the same cut I stg lmao
Lol
Sooooo true 😂😂
The star wars type music makes this all the better.
Sir they passed through our defenses!
And here we see a Herd of land battleships with two females and a male.
facing off against there natural predators a pack of A7V's
the A7V was interrupting a British Tank Threesome >.
nice
😂😂😂
Lel
One A7V "Mephisto" was sent to Brisbane, Australia. It was rusting away, recently repaired by the Queensland Railway Workshops, and at the moment is in the Australian War Memorial, Canberra. It's the only one left of about two dozen.
Mephisto is the only original survivor. The others such as "Wotan" are replicas
Yes
pretty crazy how fast tech advanced from these crappy tanks to shermans tigers panthers etc in such a short time
70% people came here for Battlefied 1
20% people came here for history homework
10% people came here to killing some times
hey I'm here from simple history
Lol i came here from simple history cause of the video why were tanks cemented to the ground
Sabaton brought me here
"The spell has been broken
A new way to wage war has come
The future of warfare
For all to be seen, 1918"
"The new world approaches
Villers-Bretonneux
Mechanized warfare
Breaking away, coming your way"
Good I'm in the 10%
1% information for do a game
still better than COD: infinite dislikes.
lol
# rip cod
Una Pagnotta amen to that
cod?
@@SkyTHF call of duty
Britain: makes a tank
Everyone else: Mine
My grandfather joined the Motor Machine Gun(Heavy Section) in 1916,he had to obtain a reference from the editor of The Motorcycle magazine in Coventry..he was also a Coventrian.I obtained his service record,luck really as most ww1 records were destroyed in the blitz and also a fire ofTank Corp records after ww1.He initially went to Bisley under Colonel Swinton and then Elvedon Hall in Norfolk before going to France....he was demobed. in 1919 after serving in the Rhine Army....
the first tank battle must have looked like gaint gods fighting over the souls of the soldiers in the trenches
Mark: "Back in my day us tanks only had two genders. Now Abrams is telling me he identifies as an attack helicopter instead. Kids...."
HardcoreGator This comment is GOLD as fuck. because it is both a joke and historical accurate info
( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°) Haha thanks! I was pretty proud of that so I'm glad you liked it.
HardcoreGator Awesome
PanzerVI :”Yeah Uncle my kid had told me they identify them self as a cat...”
😂
Considering that Churchill was 1st Lord of the Admiralty and had battleships in mind, the lack of a turret seems odd.
Firstly, I'm not positive, but I think at the time Churchill had been disgraced and demoted for his failure in the Gallipoli Campaign by the tanks introduction. Secondly, you are right, it is odd considering the inspiration for the tanks were battleships, for them not to have turreted weapons. However, if my memory serves me correctly, the specifications for dimensions of the vehicle (Mostly for crossing trenches and similar terrain) left the tanks far to narrow to mount a turret as had been desired. So the sponsons were really an after thought.
The side cannons were added to be able to shoot into the trenches it crossed.
1:56 Look at that Deploy screen. XD
sonyviva308 get the hell out of here
Sorry, wrong game. I should be rushing B with my P90
sonyviva308 Nah mate kolibri c'mon
End my life
Lol, reminds me of The Kaisershlact Operation.
dang from 2008 this is an early one
Regardless of all the historical nitpicking in the comments--which is expected--this is a TERRIFIC film!
Hey Duke! I spent time at the Imperial War Museum and they are correct at the A7v speed. The Damn thing was very slow and was more of a danger to the crew than to the enemy.
"The 1st tank battle"
2 Roman Legionnaire in testudo formation crashes in a civil war
How'd you get such clear footage of this tank engagement? I didn't think colour video was invented back then. And wouldn't the cameraman have been killed? I call bullshit
Silver King it's not real. It's just a simulation
@@grannygumjob8290 you need to learn when someone is being sarcastic
Silver King u think that’s what grass looked like?
I dunno bro probably a time machine
@@quinnhawkes6060 one year late but that was color photographs, color footage was much later
It was actually 3 a7v tanks vs the British variants, not one.
More info on this? Am researching this event - do you have sources?
veri gewd efects
Vietnam Flashbacks
lol I remember watching this one in history. We were like "The British fired. ... but missed. Then the Germans fired! ... buuut they missed too. And then the Brits fiiinally hit the Germans and they wet their pants so they decided to run. The end." xD
Are you still on TH-cam?
@@UFCKing209 Interesting question - yes, yes I am. Why do you ask? 🙂
@@Dynamokr because you had this account over for over 15 years how old are you? Curious
@@UFCKing209 15 years older now! Hahaha 😆
Seriously though, so I am at least older than 15; this comment was posted 12 years ago, and evidently I was already old enough then to comment about remembering a history lesson where the topic was WW1. Go figure. 😛 (That makes me sound so old actually... I'm not *that* old. Haha.)
@@Dynamokr sorry for for taking long to reply but I’m curious did you follow your dreams you wanted to accomplish?
That was awesome my favorite tank of WW1 is the renale ft_17 tank!
question: Did the British tankers know that some German A7's existed, or was this tank battle a complete surprise for the Brit Tanks??
Lockbar I guess the tank was a surprise for the British tanks driver,besides the Germans built only 20 A7V in WW1 and seldom deployed.
Lockbar The British called the German tanks "The Moving Fortress."
They did know they exsisted because the A7V was used to get rid of enemy infantry troops and the infantry troops reported it to the commanders
I'm here from Lazerpig
Must have been hell inside those cans.
Reminds me of the first armoured navy battle in the 19th century where all they could do was bounce shells off each other.
there actually were 3 A7V Tanks are engaging the British tanks, one of them knocked out, and the female tanks were heavily damaged before stopping
nice material, colour was verry back then so its quite admirable they got this
This is completely inaccurate! Firstly, the A7V was not 'rushed' into production: the German High Command utterly failed to grasp the effectiveness of the tank, and put very little effort into the development of German tanks. Secondly, at the battle of Villars-Brettoneoux, there were 20 A7Vs deployed, of which three engaged the british tanks. Thirdly, the two Female tanks were heavily damaged before they withdrew, taking heavy fire from German armor-piercing bullets. Fourthly, the first A7V did not 'withdraw;' it was knocked out of action, and its crew escaped on foot under heavy fire.
British and French tanks in WW1 were superior to the A7Vs, of which less than 50 were ever even made!
freeaboo. if you did not notice, we are talking about ww1 not ww2
German tanks in ww1 were shitty but their infantry were the best. Stormtrooper raided half the western front with great succes in 1918 but sadly german civillians started getting nervous about food and U.S came to mess things up
John 1st/13th hey professor, when's the final?
lol dis started lots of tank battles XD
and even created a lot of video games
ha true, Battlefield 1
oscar Ruvalcaba I think he was talking about WOT and WT
actually tank battles are rare, its only when 2 or more tanks encounter another more tanks or so.
Those images look so terrifying.. can you imagine standing there in the frontline? Very sinister.. how do you guys see this images?
I thought there were 3 a7vs tanks facing one British mark 4 and I remembered the mark 4 destroyed one A7V and the two others moved backed and retreated
History is written by the winner so we will never know
+Timothys Fraud! in reality yes their where 3 a7vs but their where 3 british tanks the a7vs managed to hit both female tanks and they retreated after being penned
the lead mark 4 hit the lead a7v and killed 5 crew and they bailed
the 2 other a7vs for whatever reason retreated
+B25Pilot yeah
Timothys Fraud! but yeah its kinda odd that the 2 other a7vs retreated in the engagment but from what ive read they through their was more tanks or something
+B25Pilot oh
Lol i was expecting a more bigger scale fight but it was still fun to see the animations
The first A7V was destroyed by Lieutenant Mitchell and his crew in the Mark IV Male; the A7V's destruction was confirmed by many witnesses, including its commander 2nd lt. Wilhelm Biltz. The other two A7V retreated when Mitchell's men fired on them; Mitchell's tank was not destroyed in the battle: an artillery shell broke one of the tracks, and the crew bailed out: none of them were killed, and the tank was later retrieved; check out Mitchell's account of the battle, "When Tank fought tank"
Imagine being a solider and seeing a tank coming at you for the first time.
Talk about a WTF moment!
Not to mention that reatreat of A7V wasn't quite the end of first tank-to-tank battle. After few minutes, A7V become immobilised, but Mark IV "Male" was destroyed by more two German tanks. Villers-Bretonneux was liberated some time later.
2:05 that music gives me Star Wars vibes
them graphics though
this vid was brill thx for posting
I think this music has been made especially for this docu, don't think it is avaible on CD. I added a link in the video info.
I didn't make it more info in the video info. Buy it from amazon if you want ot see the whole show.
Nice documentary, although some mention of the earlier French Schneiders and St. Chamond tanks would have been nice.
this is somewhat both funny and well done great edit battlefield 1 everyone!!!.
James Reidtabo This is real. Battlefield 1 is based on the first world war. All those tanks are real
the side profile of these tanks look like an euglena
oh yeah i also visited the imperial war museum last summer it was cool there
A7V uses 57mm gun.
It wasn’t very effective..
Edit: Grammer
Good comment
This was the longest 9 min. off my life!!
This battle happened a few days before my birthday I feel special now :)
You should feel old
@@d1ssolv3r why ?
@@oriontheraptor8119 cause this happened over 100 years ago
@@d1ssolv3r oh well then guess I should go get my cane and old man beard
its been colored in they have a techniqu to do that now, you can get all the laurrel and hardy films in color for example
I like the nuclear explosions the two pounders make
The 1. tank was Russian Tsar Tank, also known as Netopyr ("a bat") from 1914
This was so funny but interesting, the music is so intense but the tanks look like wood lice hahah
true the the first tanks in ww1 only went 5 mph or little bit faster if its a renault ft-17
Didn't the Whippet go 8mph?
Yeah; they even had Hermaphrodite tanks, that were made in the field by switching sponsons, one from each tank.
The tank is love the tank is life
good but the a7v did not have a crew of 18 and it also was able to manage 12 kilometers an hour
Yes but the A7V was really heavy and had to traverse over many hills
Also not to mention that the French fought bravely at The Battle of Bir Hakeim, the French only had 3,703 men, while they were facing a Battalion of Italian forces , and Erwin Rommel the ELITE tank commander of the Afrika Korps, they held off both tank commanders for 2 weeks with no tanks, and just bazookas, and guess what NONE of them ran and guess, what due to this hold out by the French, the German invasion of Kasserine was held back for 2 weeks and allowed the americans to win in Kass.
Music during tank battle?
Actually the Reno didn’t have the first traversing turret the first civil war had the first traversing turret in the union armor clad the monitor
Did the A7V have warranty?
Its about honor and courage and not being a coward and being brave +Pasu suel
The A7V had a top road speed of 14 km an hour and an offroad speed of 8 not 4
Toll gemacht!
the slowest battle ever
From this video i finaly realized why it's called a "Trench coat".
FML
@KrptoSodium The W40K ones are actually inspired by the British ones, with GW being a British publisher and all. ;-)
i like the machine gun sound
No, there wasn't, the A7V could go 4 MPH. That's it. There where a total of 4 tanks on the first battle of armoured warfare, 3 British, 1 German, though this is inaccurate in the fact the British tanks where actually put out of service by the A7V, and that same tank would later go on to withstand an airstrike.
yes they did but this was colored in with modern technology i saw on a docu on sky
And 100 years later we now have mechs insead of tanks
WWI - the invention of the tank rush.
you've got to start somewhere
the first cars were slower than horses, a lot loader and infinitely more impractical
I gave 1000th like
LOL, I love how overdramatic the whole CGI recreation is. :-)
A7V' nickname was "mobile field kinchen"/
i have this boxset please tell me what disc it is!
Unfortunately, there are many inaccuracies in this clip. All the CGI British tanks are "males"; there are no females. "Mary" and "Bobby" are actually opposite sides of a dummy built for a German film made in 1934 called "Stosstrupp 1917". The "British" soldiers are German extras. The A7V had a higher speed than the British on good ground, but poor trench-crossing ability. I've never come across any reference to the A7V having such a nickname.
4 people rode in one of those tanks during WWI.
So the Germans were just like"fuck this shit" and left?
They got salty and came back with Tiger II's.
-then they broke down-
British inside the tanks: HOW ARE THEY NOT SCARED!
*inside the A7V*
Germans: FUCK WHERES THE FIRE COMING FROM!
+Pasu suel And its about honor and who can nourish there scaredness into something greater and your disrespectful to soldiers they dont ever do it for money they do it to defend people that refuse to defend them selves or cant and just defending there homes and protecting our countries and why would a mass of people not fight now that is very cowardish and then they shouldnt of joined the military if they werent ready to die for a cause or defend a cause
how did you made this film?
didn't those tanks get stuck in the mud usually?
that thing is really scary
Imagine using this tank in modern battle fields, lmao
Nice icon lol
This is the way! ;)
My family hails from Prussia, and later Germany, yes, but I created this picture for a roleplay group :3
3D models suck - brb fixing this
Well this is in 2008 so
Hey it was safer there than without tank :D
第一次世界大戦の映像なんてあるのか‼️
Monitor vs Merrimack.
so this is where the land raider was based off
*Land ship
the mark IV (or V idk) was actuallly called a land ship because it was just about as long as one and the barrels looked like cannons on a pirate ship
A dinosaur battle?
8:29 (People are still doin this in games -_-)
do you think that a renault f17 can destroy an a7V tank?
maybe considering it could propably circle the tank with its 360 degree rotating gun
but tanks in world war 1 was vunrebul to small arms fire,,, right?
Standing in the line of fire
32 leed the way
Coming over trench and wire
Moving through the endless gray
@RedSkeletonGhost 8 ball corner pocket
Damn those are some annoying sound effects..
Seth Mullins u really think so? I don't.