now that I played battlefield 1, and seen almost all your videos, I have a whole new respect towards that war and any war. nowadays I see that lots of politicians wish for war because of their fantasy of how battle is like but we as in the entire human race has yet to see a total war like ww1 & 2 and I wish we ever don't, ever!
thank you . another great show,In a country where most young people can't tell you even the most basic historical facts,like who we fought in the civil war, you are making the world a better place. .
A war game that captured the screaming, sobbing, wimpering, pleading for help of the agonised wounded, terrified and dying people and animals, would I think be unbearable. Lucky we do not capture the smell too. Love the channel and the way it keeps drawing us back to tragedy and humanity of a truly hellish time.
Lol. At first I was like,"what is he saying. Is that German? Wait no.. that is English..." I then restarted so I can understand what he was saying hahaha.
Interestingly enough thanks to the advancements in communications there has been a shift back to more of a top down command structure. This has been very true in places like Iraq and Afghanistan where the rules of engagement are very strict. A forward observer I served with told me he had to wait 45 minutes to get an illumination mission authorized. Turns out that the colonel, who was the only person on base to authorize it, was asleep with the door to his room locked and his cell phone turned off.
Brilliant answer -- the actual sounds of WW1 would be great hear. Lots of people dont know this, but all these films from WW1 are dubbed later, sometimes decades later, with sounds that somebody in a sound studio thinks the videos should sound like. This is because they didnt have useful portable audio recording back then. So to actually replicate the artillery sounds, we would have to fire the same weapons and have microphones near where the artillery shells land or explode. I am afraid this just will never happen, but if it did, it would give us a better idea of what the soldiers actually experienced.
Battlefield games are well known for their sound assets. If anybody could replicate the sounds of WW1, it would be the teams working on these games. Keep up the great work.
Great job Indy, Flo & all The Great War crew! 35 minutes since the video posted and already over 1K views. Great Out of the Trenches...I love these episodes almost as much as the weekly history videos. I never learned this much about WW1 in school (crappie American education) until college and even now I love all the insights and new info from the great detail and care you guys put into each show. Thank you and keep up the fantastic work.
love the show and loved you gave Dan Carlin a shout out. Blueprint for Armageddon sparked my interest in the first world War and led me to being hooked on your show. Hats off to the team for the great work. love the show and am always looking forward for the next episode.
Hi Indy, great episode, as always. My question for Out of the Trenches - How many people knew orders in advance? How long did it took to spread down the command chain? What common soldier knew about his objective in the battle?
Common soldiers didn't often know orders more than a few days in advance from what I've read and sometimes were surprised by sudden orders to move positions, particularly if the enemy had started a large offensive such as the German spring offensive of 1918. There simply wasn't time. Orders did sometimes leak to the common soldiers though, often from a particularly forthcoming officer friendly with his men and spread along the lines. Hope this helped
Question for out of the trenches! We know that draftees in the Vietnam war burned their draft cards to avoid the war. My question is, were there similar movements in the warring nations, and how did those wartime governments crack down on draft dodgers? Love the show, you guys do a fantastic job!
Totally kick-ass episode, especially the very interesting discussion on military command structure and enabling leadership initiative. I was very impressed at your insight.
Hey. How much weapons system break from uncorrect building? I know the there was large amount of ammo which use have problem from shell and solider which had stoppages in the weapons. Love the show, keep up the amazing work
Dear Chair of Wisdom and team, I realy like the show, especially out of the trenchs. I wondered what a chair has to do to earn a title such as The Chair of Wisdom? Sincerly, Watching Chair
Hey Indy - The game "Toy Soldiers" somewhat accomplishes what you mention at the end of the video here. Watching a WW1 battle landscape unfold from above. Sure, it's a game that presents WW1 model dioramas come to life to fight (which makes the game bearable and enjoyable as opposed to ghastly and morbid if the soldiers were flesh and blood) but with the excellent sound design in the game (whistles and bugles as well as weaponfire) and the fact that battlefields are gradually, organically turned from farmland or towns into a shellhole wasteland really makes it the "best" video game adaptation of WW1 I have ever seen. It just gives a really chilling and sad (condensed) view of how these battles changed a landscape. Please check it out sometime! (the game devs also mostly included straight up historical weapons and settings, as opposed to some other video games which whilst excellent tend to take a LOT of liberties in order to "sex it up")
Hey Indy, and all the wonderful crew/support network that keeps making this show a success. First off, thank you for putting in all the hard work on helping to bring back to life a war that faded into what it had over the years. Secondly, I have two questions for an Out Of The Trenches episode; 1) During the course of the show, you have mentioned the Shackleton expedition which set out in 1914 a few times. Will the show cover what happens to the crew upon their return to the world at war? If so, will if give a overview of the wartime actions of the general crew, or focus on figures such as Frank Hurley? I figured figures like Frank Hurley would get their own episode, but unsure on the rest. 2) This is point about my high school education, but when I was studying The Great War in high school a point that the syllabus (NSW, Australia) discussed was propaganda in the war. More directly, by the British during Battle of the Somme when the British government released a war film for the first time that showed what it was actually like on the front for the first time. Something that is meant to have proved to be a mistake, as the print showed dead bodies in the trenches, something unseen until that time by the British home front. In the 17 odd years since, I've never come across anything that discusses this film. Was it real? Or is this a falsehood of history? Thanks again everyone for the show! (Feel free to edit this question down if it does get asked on air so as to save time/the voice of Indy.)
Great videos,I started watching your vids in the summer of 2015.And I still obviously watch them,I hope you guys will not let your channel die when the war ended...Pls do WW2 after WW1....Just not in 30 years.
Hey Indy and team! I have a question for Out of the Trenches. My friend and I have i little argument on how many semi-automatic rifles were actually used in World War 1. I thought you guys would know due to how much research you do on the topic. Keep up the fantastic work! -Diego A.
Also been watching you since you launched the chan great work and I deeply hope that you will decide to do at least the war years for ww2 the amount of information you provide weekly is a boon as to many have no idea why or what either ww1 or ww2 are or about. all in all please Keep up the great work!
Question for Out of the Trenches: Hi Indy, absolutely loving this channel and learning a lot about Humanity's history in warfare. I've noticed you've given a lot of respect to the video gaming crowd, talking about Battlefield 1, Verdun and suchlike. Would you be willing to look at other games from the past that have incorporated World War 1 as its background, such as the 1990s games Wings and Red Baron, to Valiant Hearts: The Great War, and discuss how accurate or appropriate they are to the WW1 era (and if you cried at Valiant Heart's ending :-P) Looking forward to future episodes!
About the sounds of war in battlefield 1 : there are some videos out already, but not of large scale warfare (I think) BUT I have one interesting thing to tell you : the developer of battlefield 1, dice, is known for very very good sound design. So you can get your hopes up
I have a question for Out of the Trenches! As I'm sure you know, it's currently the 103rd installment of the Tour de France. I read somewhere that many Tour de France winners and participants fought and died in the trenches in WWI, but I was hoping for a little more information on this. Love the show, thanks, and keep up the great work!
There's an interesting parallel between Mission Tactics and the arguments that took place within the Royal Navy between those that favoured centralised control following a chain of command and those that favoured allowing commanders, lead by Vice-Admiral Tryon, to use their initiative. This is one of the subjects discussed in The Rules of the Game by Andrew Gordon.
Question for out of the trenches: Hi Indy and team, were there any famous poems/memoirs/journals from Austro-Hungarian and Russian soldiers? I've only ever heard of literature from the western front(Poilu, All Quiet, In Flanders Fields) Thanks and keep up the awesome work!
Hey Indy and crew, I'm not sure if this will be covered in some kind of special episode after the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk, but I was interested in what kind of plans Germany had for the territories it gained from Russia in 1917, and specifically Poland. I've heard of the concept of Mitteleuropa and the puppet states they wanted to create, but did the German Empire intend to annex territories directly into the Reich itself at that point in history? And if they did, did they intend to displace local populations with Germans? Love the show, and keep up the good work!
Aww. He mentioned Dan Carlin! Love that guy. For those that are unfamiliar with him. Dan Carlin does a superb podcast called "Hardcore History".He's done awesome series on the Mongols, the Eastern front of WW2, the Punic wars the fall of the Roman republic and a long series about WW1. He's that perfect mixture of great research and great story telling. Be warned though. His podcasts can get very, very heavy.
Hi Indy, I only recently started watching your videos and I'm a huge fan of the show - I watched all 250 of your videos in a couple of weeks! I have a question for Out of the Trenches: you often talk of soldiers capturing artillery pieces and machine guns during successful offensives. I was curious as to how they were put to use. Surely there would be issues with the different ammunition types and the training required to use a foreign army's equipment. Were they used along their own equipment? Kept in reserve or destroyed to deny them to the enemy? Many thanks guys, keep up the good work!
The balloon idea is pretty cool. Someone should design a program for something like HTC Vive or Oculus Rift that simply takes you over the battlefield so you can witness the sounds and sights of it. Great video, Indy!
You guys should really put the monitor (or camera or whatever) that has the questions on it closer to Indy, because half way through a longer question, he always ends up leaning forward because he seems to have issues reading it.
AYYY Verdun!.... the game not the battle.... well the game about the bettle... Question: What were the average life expectancies of solders during the war? British, French, German, Austrian, and Russian infantry? Did they vary from nation? Did pilots have a shorter life expectancy sorta like the helicopter pilots in Vietnam? Did sailors or colonial troops have a longer one? Love the shown! Started following it this past fall and it has been a highlight of my Thursdays ever since.
Hey Indy & crew, next time you're all together filming, when you go out for drinks please have one Köstritzer Schwarzbier for me. Haven't been able to have one in years but this is my favorite German beer. Danke schön! Prosit! [sorry that's all the German my grandfather ever taught me :-) ]
When it comes to sounds DICE does not disappoint. Battlefront might have failed as a game but nobody complained about the immersive sound effects of the game. So yeah, you'll get what you want in Battlefield 1, Indy. Shells exploding, bullets flying, buildings collapsing, the engine of tanks, the buzzing of aircraft, etc.
i have a question although im not sure if this has been asked before but: what defences could ships use to get at submarines? Could they use depth charges or had they not been invented at that time? keep up the amazing work
Indy, How did the major powers of the great war recruit new officers? Enlisted men could be conscripted but new officers must be trained? How and where was this done? Thanks, keep up the great work!
Greetings and Salutations Indy! You have mentioned defense in depth a few times now and I've begun to wonder if there are any plans in the works to do a "Deep Defense Special"? It is interesting to note that we summarize the Western Front as static, but the dominate defensive stratagem requires a degree of mobility to pull off. Thank you.
How about a review of Verdun sometime? I haven't played that game in a year, but when I left it, it was one of my favorite arcade style games. I think I was one of the first players- got the game for 16 dollars back when they only had four different loud-outs, and two different maps.
Hey great show. I was wondering, I was wondering if any Éireann (Irish) fought for the Germans, I heard there were about 50 or so but I don't know much about any Éireann (Irish) that fought with the Germans. Great show here Indy.
To follow up on your comment about the unheard sounds of war - I've read before that the movie equipment of the day was too primitive to use on an aircraft. Between the size of film reels, and the weight of the old cameras, that seems a reasonable statement. As such, how would you recommend getting an accurate view of the war in the air? Are any particular movies or memoirs you would suggest? Thank you for the great content.
So now that BF1 is out, have the sounds lived up to your hopes and dreams Indy? I for one love the audio work DICE and EA did with it, and personally think they made, audio wise that is, a perfect game in that respect. Especially how each different faction speaks their own respective languages One of my favorite parts is how you will be sitting in a trench (on the few maps that actually HAVE trench warfare) and waiting for the enemy, and you will hear small arms fire getting closer and closer then hear the enemy shouting in german, or turkish, italian, english, etc. Would be interested to know what you think of the game now that its been out for awhile.
Also, moments like when someone gets lit on fire, and you're on the "line" and just see someone running around looking like a blazing torch, screaming at the top of their lungs. That is a really chilling moment for sure. I am disappointed in a lot of aspects of the game, but I understand that DICE/EA wanted to make it more appealing to the masses, and lots of submachine guns and experimental weapons makes it far more interesting to the non history buffs.
There should be an episode on Russia during WWI much like the Mexico in WWI episode. Talk about the size of the Russian Army during the war and its history. I love this channel you're videos are amazing and you're doing great Indy!
I am not alternating history only putting a question out their simply out of pure interest since it's my country we are talking about. And history is a topic I just love to talk about!!.
Just because the Schlieffen Plan didn't succeed doesn't mean that Germany could not have won the war. I think they could very well have won the war if they had managed to forge some kind of breakthrough on the Western Front before Wilson decided to get involved.
America wasn't a major factor in Germany being defeated, more overkill than anything. Germany actually offered surrender months before the end of the war which was refused by the allies. Look up the German spring offensive though, it showed the tactic that nearly won Germany the war through clever tactics
Kira ! Which is why I do think that America's involvement went a long way in sealing the deal. The British and the French were also exhausted in 1918, and the knowledge that the Americans were sending people over must have steeled their resolve much like how it degraded that of Germany. The American troops that actually fought in the war played their part, but the knowledge that more were on the way played an even larger role in ending the war.
The Iron Historian American involvement was more overkill than anything. It did send the clear message that the Germans would be defeated no matter what, but Britain and France still had fighting power left, Germany had used up its reserves. It may have taken longer, but they still could have beaten Germany without America.
Hello Indy, Great show, keep up the amazing work! I was wondering you guys know of the videogame 'Verdun: 1914-1918'. With Battlefield 1 coming up, it might be a good way to give people info on the Great War since Battlefield 1 isn't out yet.
in their recent show with C&Rsenal they talked about playing and how Indy kept dying. I think they've also got videos breaking down the cut scenes on the channel as well. Looks like it will be a fun game to play but will be lacking in accuracy and timeline.
Hey Indy and crew! Big fan of the show. My question for Out of the Trenches is: I would love to hear about what was happening in Spain during the war, and also why the country was neutral. I figured that they would be on the side of the allies [aka France], and probably could have contributed greatly toward the allied war effort, especially on the Western Front. I mean even the small country of Romania joined the war eventually, and they helped to tie down many divisions of German and Austro-Hungarian troops, softening up the other theatres of battle. So my question is basically why did the Spainish stay out of the war? Thanks! And keep up the good work yo
What I meant was that Romania was far smaller nation [at the time] in compasiron to Spain, yet they joined the war. Spain could have aided either side and probably made a significant difference to the outcome of the war. My question is why did they stay out of it and what was the state of the country in general? Thanks!
Have they done British, French, German, Italian, Austro-Hungarian or Russian specials? I don't believe they will do a special on Romania as it did become a large contributor later in the war and there will be plenty of talk about the country later on.
What did the Hejaz Railway do during WW1! I have read that T. E. Lawrence Would derail trains on that line but not destroy the rail network. He wanted the Turks to spent time and resources on the track and allow the Arabs to slowly drain ottoman resources by derailing trains not the entire rail system. Love this show All you people are super Awesome!!!
Yes, your right about the magazine being missing, well spotted, I had noted that it was a Lewis gun, but I hadn't registered that the magazine was "missing" until you mentioned it. The photographer must have taken the picture at the time when the number two for the gun [soldier on left] was changing over the magazines, as the number one is ready to fire as soon as the new magazine is in place. You would think that the photographer would have taken the photo when the magazine was in place and possibly did, but why was that photo not used instead of the one with the missing magazine? Perhaps cordite smoke from the firing obscured much of the image and so the clearer photo was chosen by someone who didnt recognise that the magazine was missing?
dear folks at the great War I a have a question did the us of a send a lot of volunteers before they entered the war in know you talked about the pilots but what about on the ground. (love the show I whatched all of the main series 98 at the time in 2 days)
When they truly joined the war in full force, they sent around a million foot soldiers to the western front. Alongside that came millions of tonnes of food and supplies for the troops and war factories
Though a lot has changed, it is amazing how closely current US Army Doctrine small unit leader training follows the tactics and techniques developed from this era. Even when armor took the lead role, infantry and artillery tactics largely have remained the same. I don't think a German stormtrooper would feel out of place at Fort Benning(aside from the language).
HAHA! Success! After a month of on and off watching this show I've watched all that you have posted. Great show Indy and great team chapeau bas. But I have a question: have caves been used as defensive positions like trenches or storage facilities during the war? Thanks in advance and greetings from Lebanon!
It's like you mentioned, as storage or shelter,though most were unsuitable for storage as the conditions of are unheigenic. Mostly for defensive spots or shelter from bombardment
re sound. Artillery units set up acoustic location stations These used recording equipment and directional microphones, to locate enemy artillery units (working on the basis that sound IS directional). en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sound_ranging#World_War_I there was a documentary I saw a few years ago about the armistice, and the British have rolls of paper recording the sound volumes on when the guns fell silent. I wonder if that could be reverse engineered back into sound as the waves like just like the undulations in a vinyl record. That is possibly as close as you are going to get
on netflix there was a documentary where a lighter than air craft flew along no mans land following the armistice, the images and destruction was staggering
I have two questions for Out of the trenches: 1. American soldiers were (in)famous for using shotguns when they entered the war, but is is there any evidence of their use by other armies before the US sent troops to France? were sporting shotguns privately used on the Western front for example? 2. were there any provisions at all for left-handed soldiers in any of the armies? e.g. left-handed bolt action rifles. I am guessing the answer is a resounding no.
Ahoy Indy! My great great grandfather was take POW during the war and was still prisoner after the war ended. My question is why were soldiers kept prisoner after the war?
The cost of moving that many people around was immense, so at times they didn't bother for ages. Also, war reparations were important, so holding thousands of hostages was a good way to ensure payement.
Hi Indy and Friends,thank you for the great Series :) I have a question for out of the trenches.Is there a time back in WW1 that both sides were fighting in the middle of the No Man's land (Like Hand-to-Hand combat)? im dying for an answer here,thank you for the Show.
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I think Indy is finally starting to go crazy from being constantly stuck in World War 1. This is modern war.
I like to think he acts like its 1916 in his normal life as well
I would like to know how he ended up living in Sweden?:D
C-J sweeds always had a thing for germans in WW1
Similar culture
+Hamsaphina hahahaha
You know it really brings a smile to my face to see educators not dismiss video games as childish.
I demand that all further Out Of The Trenches episodes to be done with a German accent.
i second that notion
Me as well!
The jerry accent was spot on.
+SirSaladhead just need a spiky hat really. Every German wears them
A slightly camp German accent at that.
Yup definitely spit my coffee across the room
Whats up Vigilant Spectre!
I know right?!?
Call the guiness book of records
You all know what this show has taught me? That trench warfare should always be a last ditch effort.
Very funny
i see what you did there. i really dig it.
Punny you should say that, the armies were actually on the move until they couldn't any more.
Trench warfare is inhumane as a (w)hole.
The "movement" phase of WWI was so short, it barely deserves a mention. All sides got bogged down into a stalemate fairly soon in the war.
now that I played battlefield 1, and seen almost all your videos, I have a whole new respect towards that war and any war. nowadays I see that lots of politicians wish for war because of their fantasy of how battle is like but we as in the entire human race has yet to see a total war like ww1 & 2 and I wish we ever don't, ever!
Ohh, most politicians don't want war because THEY like it, they want war because the public or the weapon industry wants war.
thank you . another great show,In a country where most young people can't tell you even the most basic historical facts,like who we fought in the civil war,
you are making the world a better place. .
A war game that captured the screaming, sobbing, wimpering, pleading for help of the agonised wounded, terrified and dying people and animals, would I think be unbearable. Lucky we do not capture the smell too. Love the channel and the way it keeps drawing us back to tragedy and humanity of a truly hellish time.
Id still play that.
The cries and pleas of the dying in Rising Storm are heartbreaking. There's a TH-cam video with them.
Valiant Hearts The Great War
Shellshock 2 had a good capture of the horrors of the vietnam war, even if it when a little Hollywood
There's even a user made Immersion Mod that has even more terrifying dying noises and cries.
At the start Indy sounds like a posh sounding old German lady😂😂😂😂😂
I kept seeing Edna from The Incredibles...."No Capes!"
Lol. At first I was like,"what is he saying. Is that German? Wait no.. that is English..." I then restarted so I can understand what he was saying hahaha.
Interestingly enough thanks to the advancements in communications there has been a shift back to more of a top down command structure. This has been very true in places like Iraq and Afghanistan where the rules of engagement are very strict. A forward observer I served with told me he had to wait 45 minutes to get an illumination mission authorized. Turns out that the colonel, who was the only person on base to authorize it, was asleep with the door to his room locked and his cell phone turned off.
Brilliant answer -- the actual sounds of WW1 would be great hear. Lots of people dont know this, but all these films from WW1 are dubbed later, sometimes decades later, with sounds that somebody in a sound studio thinks the videos should sound like. This is because they didnt have useful portable audio recording back then. So to actually replicate the artillery sounds, we would have to fire the same weapons and have microphones near where the artillery shells land or explode. I am afraid this just will never happen, but if it did, it would give us a better idea of what the soldiers actually experienced.
Indie's face at 0:00 is hilarious. (I paused the video so I could come back to it in a little while, and noticed this jewel!)
Really appreciated the depth of Your answer to Nicola, and of course his question too!
Thanks for the good job!
As someone who got into the Battlefield 1 Alpha, I can absolutely tell you Battlefield 1 sounds amazing.
Battlefield games are well known for their sound assets. If anybody could replicate the sounds of WW1, it would be the teams working on these games.
Keep up the great work.
Nicola your Historiography question is a balm to the heart of this cynical History major.
Great job Indy, Flo & all The Great War crew! 35 minutes since the video posted and already over 1K views. Great Out of the Trenches...I love these episodes almost as much as the weekly history videos. I never learned this much about WW1 in school (crappie American education) until college and even now I love all the insights and new info from the great detail and care you guys put into each show. Thank you and keep up the fantastic work.
You open the Video and imediatlly get the feeling Indy is really likeing it, Great Vibes!
love the show and loved you gave Dan Carlin a shout out. Blueprint for Armageddon sparked my interest in the first world War and led me to being hooked on your show. Hats off to the team for the great work. love the show and am always looking forward for the next episode.
Blueprint is a great series, yes.
I just want to complement Indy on his very concise and but brief explanation of the history of mission orders.
Great question about tactics, and a superb response. Outstanding episode in an amazing series. Thanks Indy and crew.
Hi Indy, great episode, as always. My question for Out of the Trenches - How many people knew orders in advance? How long did it took to spread down the command chain? What common soldier knew about his objective in the battle?
Common soldiers didn't often know orders more than a few days in advance from what I've read and sometimes were surprised by sudden orders to move positions, particularly if the enemy had started a large offensive such as the German spring offensive of 1918. There simply wasn't time. Orders did sometimes leak to the common soldiers though, often from a particularly forthcoming officer friendly with his men and spread along the lines. Hope this helped
dice has alwys been awesome with sound design, especially in single player campaigns, so i think you'll be a very happy camper indy.
Question for out of the trenches! We know that draftees in the Vietnam war burned their draft cards to avoid the war. My question is, were there similar movements in the warring nations, and how did those wartime governments crack down on draft dodgers? Love the show, you guys do a fantastic job!
I love you're videos, very informative and entertaining. Also they go I to much more detail than the average documentaries.
Oh, the irony, of wanting all the sounds of Battle, when so many Vets would love nothing more than to forget them...
Totally kick-ass episode, especially the very interesting discussion on military command structure and enabling leadership initiative. I was very impressed at your insight.
the intros just keep geting better
Loving the random accents for the intro. keep it going! a new one every episode!
Well you're in luck Indy, DICE are extremely well known for their superb sound design in video games.
Hey Indy, do you think you guys could do a special on the land vehicles used throughout the war?
Cheers from Stockholm!
Dan carlin's hardcore history is one of the best podcasts available. His depth and perspective is excellent
Hey. How much weapons system break from uncorrect building? I know the there was large amount of ammo which use have problem from shell and solider which had stoppages in the weapons. Love the show, keep up the amazing work
Dear Chair of Wisdom and team,
I realy like the show, especially out of the trenchs. I wondered what a chair has to do to earn a title such as The Chair of Wisdom?
Sincerly,
Watching Chair
Love the intro Indy
Hey Indy - The game "Toy Soldiers" somewhat accomplishes what you mention at the end of the video here. Watching a WW1 battle landscape unfold from above. Sure, it's a game that presents WW1 model dioramas come to life to fight (which makes the game bearable and enjoyable as opposed to ghastly and morbid if the soldiers were flesh and blood) but with the excellent sound design in the game (whistles and bugles as well as weaponfire) and the fact that battlefields are gradually, organically turned from farmland or towns into a shellhole wasteland really makes it the "best" video game adaptation of WW1 I have ever seen. It just gives a really chilling and sad (condensed) view of how these battles changed a landscape. Please check it out sometime! (the game devs also mostly included straight up historical weapons and settings, as opposed to some other video games which whilst excellent tend to take a LOT of liberties in order to "sex it up")
Hey Indy, and all the wonderful crew/support network that keeps making this show a success. First off, thank you for putting in all the hard work on helping to bring back to life a war that faded into what it had over the years.
Secondly, I have two questions for an Out Of The Trenches episode;
1) During the course of the show, you have mentioned the Shackleton expedition which set out in 1914 a few times. Will the show cover what happens to the crew upon their return to the world at war? If so, will if give a overview of the wartime actions of the general crew, or focus on figures such as Frank Hurley? I figured figures like Frank Hurley would get their own episode, but unsure on the rest.
2) This is point about my high school education, but when I was studying The Great War in high school a point that the syllabus (NSW, Australia) discussed was propaganda in the war. More directly, by the British during Battle of the Somme when the British government released a war film for the first time that showed what it was actually like on the front for the first time. Something that is meant to have proved to be a mistake, as the print showed dead bodies in the trenches, something unseen until that time by the British home front. In the 17 odd years since, I've never come across anything that discusses this film. Was it real? Or is this a falsehood of history?
Thanks again everyone for the show!
(Feel free to edit this question down if it does get asked on air so as to save time/the voice of Indy.)
Great videos,I started watching your vids in the summer of 2015.And I still obviously watch them,I hope you guys will not let your channel die when the war ended...Pls do WW2 after WW1....Just not in 30 years.
www.reddit.com/r/TheGreatWarChannel/comments/4ksvy2/will_you_guys_ever_do_a_ww2_channel_our_official/
Hey Indy and team! I have a question for Out of the Trenches. My friend and I have i little argument on how many semi-automatic rifles were actually used in World War 1. I thought you guys would know due to how much research you do on the topic. Keep up the fantastic work! -Diego A.
Definitely think in 5 digit numbers here at best for certain weapons.
Loved the intro accent indy :D
Also been watching you since you launched the chan great work and I deeply hope that you will decide to do at least the war years for ww2 the amount of information you provide weekly is a boon as to many have no idea why or what either ww1 or ww2 are or about. all in all please Keep up the great work!
www.reddit.com/r/TheGreatWarChannel/comments/4ksvy2/will_you_guys_ever_do_a_ww2_channel_our_official/ - there is a good chance
Question for Out of the Trenches: Hi Indy, absolutely loving this channel and learning a lot about Humanity's history in warfare. I've noticed you've given a lot of respect to the video gaming crowd, talking about Battlefield 1, Verdun and suchlike. Would you be willing to look at other games from the past that have incorporated World War 1 as its background, such as the 1990s games Wings and Red Baron, to Valiant Hearts: The Great War, and discuss how accurate or appropriate they are to the WW1 era (and if you cried at Valiant Heart's ending :-P) Looking forward to future episodes!
About the sounds of war in battlefield 1 : there are some videos out already, but not of large scale warfare (I think)
BUT I have one interesting thing to tell you : the developer of battlefield 1, dice, is known for very very good sound design. So you can get your hopes up
As history fan, I prefer verdun to bf1, more realistic and very historically accurate.
Haven't played either but I have dubbed BF1 battlefield 1928. I agree that it isn't very historically accurate
(Getting BF1 Beta and have ps4 can't get Vurdun)
+CODE NAME_ALPHA BF1 doesn't even have France....
+CODE NAME_ALPHA Verdun will come out for ps4 on August (I guess the 9th)
I have a question for Out of the Trenches! As I'm sure you know, it's currently the 103rd installment of the Tour de France. I read somewhere that many Tour de France winners and participants fought and died in the trenches in WWI, but I was hoping for a little more information on this. Love the show, thanks, and keep up the great work!
I'm loving these hilarious intros Indy
Love your Dan Carlin shout out!
Been to bovington tank museum. I saw a mark IV replica move during tankfest. It was a lot slower that I thought it would be
There's an interesting parallel between Mission Tactics and the arguments that took place within the Royal Navy between those that favoured centralised control following a chain of command and those that favoured allowing commanders, lead by Vice-Admiral Tryon, to use their initiative. This is one of the subjects discussed in The Rules of the Game by Andrew Gordon.
Oh hey, it's Macklemore's german uncle xD
This channel puts The History Channel (American television) to shame. Keep up the great work! :]
Thanks.
Question for out of the trenches: Hi Indy and team, were there any famous poems/memoirs/journals from Austro-Hungarian and Russian soldiers? I've only ever heard of literature from the western front(Poilu, All Quiet, In Flanders Fields) Thanks and keep up the awesome work!
Love this show
Hey Indy and crew, I'm not sure if this will be covered in some kind of special episode after the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk, but I was interested in what kind of plans Germany had for the territories it gained from Russia in 1917, and specifically Poland. I've heard of the concept of Mitteleuropa and the puppet states they wanted to create, but did the German Empire intend to annex territories directly into the Reich itself at that point in history? And if they did, did they intend to displace local populations with Germans? Love the show, and keep up the good work!
Indy, Dan Carlin, and Lindy Beige are my favorite current historians.
Aww. He mentioned Dan Carlin! Love that guy. For those that are unfamiliar with him. Dan Carlin does a superb podcast called "Hardcore History".He's done awesome series on the Mongols, the Eastern front of WW2, the Punic wars the fall of the Roman republic and a long series about WW1. He's that perfect mixture of great research and great story telling. Be warned though. His podcasts can get very, very heavy.
Hi Indy, I only recently started watching your videos and I'm a huge fan of the show - I watched all 250 of your videos in a couple of weeks! I have a question for Out of the Trenches: you often talk of soldiers capturing artillery pieces and machine guns during successful offensives. I was curious as to how they were put to use. Surely there would be issues with the different ammunition types and the training required to use a foreign army's equipment. Were they used along their own equipment? Kept in reserve or destroyed to deny them to the enemy? Many thanks guys, keep up the good work!
The balloon idea is pretty cool. Someone should design a program for something like HTC Vive or Oculus Rift that simply takes you over the battlefield so you can witness the sounds and sights of it.
Great video, Indy!
That would be really cool, yes.
You should do the "Chair of Wisdom" intro in Swedish just once for your friends in Stockholm. Also, it would just be cool.
you should do the whole episode in that voice, indy
I laughed at the very first seconds of the video. Liked, reshared, subscribed!
I'm sorry, no way in hell you are expecting me to get through that intro without laughing. Fabulous work as always.
Indie so awesome!
You guys should really put the monitor (or camera or whatever) that has the questions on it closer to Indy, because half way through a longer question, he always ends up leaning forward because he seems to have issues reading it.
AYYY Verdun!.... the game not the battle.... well the game about the bettle...
Question: What were the average life expectancies of solders during the war? British, French, German, Austrian, and Russian infantry? Did they vary from nation? Did pilots have a shorter life expectancy sorta like the helicopter pilots in Vietnam? Did sailors or colonial troops have a longer one? Love the shown! Started following it this past fall and it has been a highlight of my Thursdays ever since.
Verdun is a great game!
Hey Indy & crew, next time you're all together filming, when you go out for drinks please have one Köstritzer Schwarzbier for me. Haven't been able to have one in years but this is my favorite German beer. Danke schön! Prosit! [sorry that's all the German my grandfather ever taught me :-) ]
When it comes to sounds DICE does not disappoint. Battlefront might have failed as a game but nobody complained about the immersive sound effects of the game. So yeah, you'll get what you want in Battlefield 1, Indy. Shells exploding, bullets flying, buildings collapsing, the engine of tanks, the buzzing of aircraft, etc.
i have a question although im not sure if this has been asked before but: what defences could ships use to get at submarines? Could they use depth charges or had they not been invented at that time?
keep up the amazing work
Indy,
How did the major powers of the great war recruit new officers? Enlisted men could be conscripted but new officers must be trained? How and where was this done?
Thanks, keep up the great work!
Greetings and Salutations Indy! You have mentioned defense in depth a few times now and I've begun to wonder if there are any plans in the works to do a "Deep Defense Special"? It is interesting to note that we summarize the Western Front as static, but the dominate defensive stratagem requires a degree of mobility to pull off. Thank you.
How about a review of Verdun sometime? I haven't played that game in a year, but when I left it, it was one of my favorite arcade style games. I think I was one of the first players- got the game for 16 dollars back when they only had four different loud-outs, and two different maps.
Hey great show. I was wondering, I was wondering if any Éireann (Irish) fought for the Germans, I heard there were about 50 or so but I don't know much about any Éireann (Irish) that fought with the Germans. Great show here Indy.
hey indy and crew i had a question about the Jabal kingdom. i know they had little to do but was curios about who the fought and what they did.
oh come on I was hoping you were going to do the whole episode with that voice. You need to do one. I'd love it!
To follow up on your comment about the unheard sounds of war - I've read before that the movie equipment of the day was too primitive to use on an aircraft. Between the size of film reels, and the weight of the old cameras, that seems a reasonable statement. As such, how would you recommend getting an accurate view of the war in the air? Are any particular movies or memoirs you would suggest? Thank you for the great content.
So now that BF1 is out, have the sounds lived up to your hopes and dreams Indy? I for one love the audio work DICE and EA did with it, and personally think they made, audio wise that is, a perfect game in that respect. Especially how each different faction speaks their own respective languages One of my favorite parts is how you will be sitting in a trench (on the few maps that actually HAVE trench warfare) and waiting for the enemy, and you will hear small arms fire getting closer and closer then hear the enemy shouting in german, or turkish, italian, english, etc.
Would be interested to know what you think of the game now that its been out for awhile.
Also, moments like when someone gets lit on fire, and you're on the "line" and just see someone running around looking like a blazing torch, screaming at the top of their lungs. That is a really chilling moment for sure. I am disappointed in a lot of aspects of the game, but I understand that DICE/EA wanted to make it more appealing to the masses, and lots of submachine guns and experimental weapons makes it far more interesting to the non history buffs.
Yes, the sound is great and the fact that they included some languages. They could have worked a bit more on the dialects, but that's nitpicking.
There should be an episode on Russia during WWI much like the Mexico in WWI episode. Talk about the size of the Russian Army during the war and its history. I love this channel you're videos are amazing and you're doing great Indy!
We absolutely will do that.
I am not alternating history only putting a question out their simply out of pure interest since it's my country we are talking about. And history is a topic I just love to talk about!!.
Watch the videos about the Schlieffen Plan and you will understand why this plan had no chance to succeed.
Just because the Schlieffen Plan didn't succeed doesn't mean that Germany could not have won the war. I think they could very well have won the war if they had managed to forge some kind of breakthrough on the Western Front before Wilson decided to get involved.
America wasn't a major factor in Germany being defeated, more overkill than anything. Germany actually offered surrender months before the end of the war which was refused by the allies. Look up the German spring offensive though, it showed the tactic that nearly won Germany the war through clever tactics
Kira ! Which is why I do think that America's involvement went a long way in sealing the deal. The British and the French were also exhausted in 1918, and the knowledge that the Americans were sending people over must have steeled their resolve much like how it degraded that of Germany. The American troops that actually fought in the war played their part, but the knowledge that more were on the way played an even larger role in ending the war.
The Iron Historian American involvement was more overkill than anything. It did send the clear message that the Germans would be defeated no matter what, but Britain and France still had fighting power left, Germany had used up its reserves. It may have taken longer, but they still could have beaten Germany without America.
Video games = Greatest form of Art and media
Hello Indy,
Great show, keep up the amazing work! I was wondering you guys know of the videogame 'Verdun: 1914-1918'. With Battlefield 1 coming up, it might be a good way to give people info on the Great War since Battlefield 1 isn't out yet.
in their recent show with C&Rsenal they talked about playing and how Indy kept dying. I think they've also got videos breaking down the cut scenes on the channel as well. Looks like it will be a fun game to play but will be lacking in accuracy and timeline.
Hey Indy and crew! Big fan of the show. My question for Out of the Trenches is:
I would love to hear about what was happening in Spain during the war, and also why the country was neutral. I figured that they would be on the side of the allies [aka France], and probably could have contributed greatly toward the allied war effort, especially on the Western Front. I mean even the small country of Romania joined the war eventually, and they helped to tie down many divisions of German and Austro-Hungarian troops, softening up the other theatres of battle. So my question is basically why did the Spainish stay out of the war? Thanks! And keep up the good work yo
+Etienne SA Romania is a small country?
What I meant was that Romania was far smaller nation [at the time] in compasiron to Spain, yet they joined the war. Spain could have aided either side and probably made a significant difference to the outcome of the war. My question is why did they stay out of it and what was the state of the country in general? Thanks!
I thought they already did a Spain special.
Have they done British, French, German, Italian, Austro-Hungarian or Russian specials? I don't believe they will do a special on Romania as it did become a large contributor later in the war and there will be plenty of talk about the country later on.
Company007 nope
Wow. Been living in Germany for 5 months now, for my exchange studies in university, and that german accent is VERY accurate hahaha.
What did the Hejaz Railway do during WW1! I have read that T. E. Lawrence Would derail trains on that line but not destroy the rail network. He wanted the Turks to spent time and resources on the track and allow the Arabs to slowly drain ottoman resources by derailing trains not the entire rail system. Love this show All you people are super Awesome!!!
Dat Intro was Best!
is it just me or is this probably the most liked channel on youtube?
Just noticed something interesting at the 0:11 mark of the intro. The picture shows a Lewis gunner without a mag for the gun.
Yes, your right about the magazine being missing, well spotted, I had noted that it was a Lewis gun, but I hadn't registered that the magazine was "missing" until you mentioned it. The photographer must have taken the picture at the time when the number two for the gun [soldier on left] was changing over the magazines, as the number one is ready to fire as soon as the new magazine is in place. You would think that the photographer would have taken the photo when the magazine was in place and possibly did, but why was that photo not used instead of the one with the missing magazine? Perhaps cordite smoke from the firing obscured much of the image and so the clearer photo was chosen by someone who didnt recognise that the magazine was missing?
I have missed a lot of episodes recently please can you do another recount
dear folks at the great War I a have a question did the us of a send a lot of volunteers before they entered the war in know you talked about the pilots but what about on the ground. (love the show I whatched all of the main series 98 at the time in 2 days)
When they truly joined the war in full force, they sent around a million foot soldiers to the western front. Alongside that came millions of tonnes of food and supplies for the troops and war factories
Though a lot has changed, it is amazing how closely current US Army Doctrine small unit leader training follows the tactics and techniques developed from this era. Even when armor took the lead role, infantry and artillery tactics largely have remained the same. I don't think a German stormtrooper would feel out of place at Fort Benning(aside from the language).
Would absolutely love Hill 60 in the battle of Ypres to be a map in Battlefield 1. Thumbs up maybe it can!
HAHA! Success! After a month of on and off watching this show I've watched all that you have posted. Great show Indy and great team chapeau bas. But I have a question: have caves been used as defensive positions like trenches or storage facilities during the war? Thanks in advance and greetings from Lebanon!
It's like you mentioned, as storage or shelter,though most were unsuitable for storage as the conditions of are unheigenic. Mostly for defensive spots or shelter from bombardment
ayeeeee that Verdun game shout out.
00:01 that was the best german accent i have lisent too
re sound.
Artillery units set up acoustic location stations These used recording equipment and directional microphones, to locate enemy artillery units (working on the basis that sound IS directional). en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sound_ranging#World_War_I
there was a documentary I saw a few years ago about the armistice, and the British have rolls of paper recording the sound volumes on when the guns fell silent. I wonder if that could be reverse engineered back into sound as the waves like just like the undulations in a vinyl record.
That is possibly as close as you are going to get
on netflix there was a documentary where a lighter than air craft flew along no mans land following the armistice, the images and destruction was staggering
I have two questions for Out of the trenches:
1. American soldiers were (in)famous for using shotguns when they entered the war, but is is there any evidence of their use by other armies before the US sent troops to France? were sporting shotguns privately used on the Western front for example?
2. were there any provisions at all for left-handed soldiers in any of the armies? e.g. left-handed bolt action rifles. I am guessing the answer is a resounding no.
Ahoy Indy! My great great grandfather was take POW during the war and was still prisoner after the war ended. My question is why were soldiers kept prisoner after the war?
He was kept prisoner for war reparations
The cost of moving that many people around was immense, so at times they didn't bother for ages. Also, war reparations were important, so holding thousands of hostages was a good way to ensure payement.
bravo
Question will you be doing WW2 to after you finish WW1 or are you not that insane. Keep up the good work
Hi Indy and Friends,thank you for the great Series :) I have a question for out of the trenches.Is there a time back in WW1 that both sides were fighting in the middle of the No Man's land (Like Hand-to-Hand combat)? im dying for an answer here,thank you for the Show.