nah this actually funner than any other hard crap mission like their land their ppl or burn em out its like playing death from above mission in ww2 since back then
@@samuel10125 that mission and downfall made me quit my veteran run for about a year until I finally picked it back up to get the final few achievements for the platinum trophy
"What the fuck are merchant ships doing with that much firepower?!" and "Take out those damn PT boats!" are two quotes that have been forever seared into my frontal lobe
Thought i would throw this here because it's surprising how many people miss it, but during this mission whenever you're in the bow turret, if you hold down the grenade key you can actually fire the 20mm cannons, they tear the merchant ships to pieces.
@@ChandranPrema123 Actually, not all of them. There was *at least* one with a nose-mounted (though fixed) 20mm cannon in service. I’d have to find a picture of it for you.
@Jack Der Hauptmann💀 same here, just bought the game recently except i map my grenade and equipment to my mouse 5 and 4 buttons, the mission always shows to press the key/button for those cannons, i always press that as well as the left click at the same time to be further be effective
Hi Anymarchy, want to know a fun brazilian anecdote about the Catalina? Brazil got it's first batch of PBYs from the US when we joined WW2, we actually sunk a Uboat with it when an absolute mad lad almost landed at the damn thing, the brazilian PBYs were really useful to closing up the south atlantic for german shipping and submarines. But after the war the brazilian airforce saw itself full of PBYs and came up with a really nice way to use them, the PBYs became the bridges that connected the Amazon to Brazil, they would land on the amazon river and deliver medicine, food, medical evacuation and so on, connecting many of previously uncontacted tribes of the amazon in to actual Brazil, and intensified the process of connect the Modern, urban and gigantic Brazil to those tiny tribes in the middle of the forrest, cause if you got a wide enough river and a crazy enough pilot, you just got yourself the first realiable way to constantly supplying the amazon. Keep in mind that there are no railways there (we tried but nature fought back, such a bitch), and barely any roads(to this day, again, nature fought back) so the PBY played a important role in unitying the brazilian indigenous population of the Amazon into the brazilian society. (Sorry for any english mistakes, I'm not a native.)
@@jblazerndrowzy Because most WW2 games are oriented towards the internal American market and don't feature any other countries besides USA and UK on some occasions, and the USSR to some extent which is still horribly misrepresented even in the best of games in the genre.
@@jblazerndrowzy I wish other countries had their fair representation in popular WW2 games. There were so many heroes on both sides, and so many fascinating stories that we are yet to be told. Only the HOI series make a serious attempt to show at least the true scale of WW2, but it is not an FPS that puts the player in the trenches.
Every time I see gameplay footage of this mission NOBODY uses the 20mm nose cannons. WHY??? At the beginning of the mission is is written on the center of the screen in bold to press G or MMB to fire them, yet everyone seems blind!
Even when I played this mission for the first time I used those 20mm cannons and they were obviously better than the .50 cal's, yet people seem to refuse to use them.
They're difficult to aim because they're like at the center of the plane to can't really aim it besides maybe a 30 or so degree of aiming but those sonsabitches packed a fucking punch I mean there's a reason why during one part of the mission you could take down a goddamn Merchant vessel with those
My favorite mission from World at War. The soundtrack and the intense action really made it memorable. Catalinas are a top aircraft for me as well. My favorite story is a PBY defying orders to not land in the open ocean and picking up 56 sailors from the USS Indianapolis by tying some of them to the wings. The Catalina stayed in the water until a destroyer escort came to pick them all up.
I always thought this mission was way cooler than the AC130 mission in COD4. Instead of bombing insurgents who don’t stand a chance, you’re flying a propeller plane against a conventional army and each hit you take makes your glass cannon of a plane more and more porous as the mission goes on. The first time you play this mission you’re not even sure if your guys(including the player character) are gonna live through it Also Zakhaev and Al Asad did nothing wrong
Visassess durable or not, they're not so powerful that it feels more like a firing squad than an actual fight like with the AC130. Your actually in real danger of being killed.
Kinda funny tho, considering the underside is full of holes. Although in that case, how resistant is the underside of the catalina in regards to potential bullet holes allowing water in the aircraft?
I was actually going to say that the PBY Catalina when it was first introduced it was designed to carry bombs but then the bomb capabilities was removed and replaced with the torpedoes and depth charges, just a fun fact for anyone who didnt know
@@Take-aim-and-reload... well it was a demand from the army Air Force and they replaced with a different bomber and i dont remember the designation of the aircraft that replaced it however the Catalina is still a really cool aircraft with some very good history behind it. Edit: small correction here when the US sent some Catalina's to the Soviet Union they asked for the original bomber variant which they did receive and from what I remember the Russian crews that flew those Catalina's they enjoyed the aircraft and the fire power it had which ya know 12.7 m2 machine guns are known for
@@slouchygames1923 This is the first time I heard about Catalinas ended up on Soviets' hands. Did the Soviets have the chance to use them in battles before the World War II ended?
@@Take-aim-and-reload... yes they did to some decent success they were affective against the Germans however there was also other aircraft sent the Soviets like the P40, P47, along with hurricane fighters and other aircraft mostly fighter bombers and the Soviets loved those aircraft from early ww2 all the way till the end of the war and several of the aircraft pilots either became ace pilots or came very close to becoming aces. Still there's alot of aircraft that made it to the Soviets along with the British and French so alot of the Catalina's made it into lend lease so they were used by many nations
this mission also has the absolute best soundtrack tied with Heart of the Reich, just constantly tense and climatic matching perfectly with the tone of the mission. Also youtube listing this as Vanguard is just insulting.
That mission on Veteran is the only reason why I consider the Soviet campaign to be harder than the American campaign. _"What's that? A Soviet soldier is approaching one of our Flak 88? Let's throw hundreds of grenades at him."_
@@giovannicervantes2053 Taiko drums no less, the composer was genius for adding them in as soon as the AA fire kicked up. Pretty sure they added a gong on the track too for the explosions but I could be wrong.
@@magatsu_man9711 yeah the gong kicks in when you touch down to the water and the zeros start coming in and the kamikaze pilots start attacking the ships
1:03 the floats are probably folded up to reduce drag here, you should also try playing the completely free project reality there's also a great channel called potential history that breaks down many battles ships and strategies over many wars
YOOOOOOOO Super Excited you decided to do this. One of the best missions on Call of Duty history in terms of atmosphere and gameplay. Reminded me of the Liberators Mission from Call of Duty Big Red One.
My grandfather was on the USS Tangiers at Guadalcanal, which was a seaplane tender. He had some incredible stories about his time there tending to the PBYs, he loved them. And it was a PBY that found him when his ship was sunk during the Battle off Samar.
Bit late to the party but just wanted to say thankyou! Totally share your love for the PBY, she was a beautiful workhorse. Loved them since I was a kid. Back then I lived in a town called Swanhill (Vic), down the road was Lake boga. It was a PBY training base in WW2 and had a sort of local museum there where I got to see them slowly piece together a plane from stuff scrounged/found/donated over the years. Loved seeing that old girl get put back together and it got me into learning about her history
Fun Fact: John Cruikshank VC is ....STILL ALIVE !! at the grand old age of 102 years old. He is the longest living VC winner ever and is the only WW2 VC winner who is still alive. What a dude
Yes I see so during this universe timeline, the crew of the USS Nimitz decided to stay in the 1940s during the final countdown incident!!! This explains everything!!
Great episode about the Catalina. :D Dornier 24s were quite remarcable too and I once read they rescued about 10000 pilots from the Channel. Without those, there would not be much Luftwaffe left to continue the fight and they rescued a lot of allied pilots as well. Maybe worth looking into some more?
I never knew you did breakdowns of this game, this is THE BEST CoD of all time! Definitely one of my favorite games of all time tied with Red Orchestra 2.
The Avro Lincoln and Shackleton are post war aircraft. As far as I know the RAF Coastal Command never used Lancasters. They did have B17's, B24's and Sunderland flying boats. The Royal Navy only had the Fleet Air Arm which operated carrier based aircraft.
When I was young, I remember always trying to keep the plane undamaged. It was very tasking to shoot everything that moved, but I successfully did it once (with exception of the tail's damage).
Some might of got pulled to another plane to fill the gap where a crewmen was killed. But I think it's the devs giving you a chance to see and do more in the mission. For a game it be a bit boring to be stuck on portside gun when half the shooting is in front or the other side of the plane.
Catalinas have always been my favorite and that music, easily one of the best WW2 missions in gaming. :') Are you gonna do the opening "Operation Aurora" from Battlefield: Bad Company 2? Not very realistic but I freakin love it!
When you mention the battle between Washington and Kirishima (and SoDak getting pounded in the background) and called it the last battleship-on-battleship conflict @9:20, I assume you meant that in the sense of a proper duel. Since there was one final action against battleships at the Battle of the Surigao Strait against the Fuso and Yamashiro and the old battlewagons of TF 77.2. While it was a glorified shooting gallery for the American Standards, its still the last time a battleship fired at another battleship.
The Catalina also picked up a lot of -aircrew- crew. After the sinking of the Indianapolis a Cat found the survivors, reported position by radio, landed on the water and stayed with them until rescue vessels arrived.
"At noon the fifth day, a Lockheed Ventura saw us, he swung in low and saw us. A young pilot, a lot younger than Mr Hooper here. He saw us and then three hours later a big fat PBY comes downs and starts to pick us up. You know, that was when I was most frightened, waiting for my turn. I'll never put on a lifejacket again." - Quint, Jaws.
@@Blazcowitz1943 The Lockheed Ventura radioed a nearby PBY which in turn radioed a nearby destroyer. The Ventura couldn't linger. The Catalina landed in 12 foot swells taking some damage and took aboard 56 sailors out of the water into her interior and onto her wing. She remained at the wreckage site until relieved by the first of 7 vessels, about midnight, which would come to pick up the survivors. The crew of the Catalina was taken off because of damage from landing and from impacts by launches taking off her cargo. She had been rendered unfit for flight. She was deliberately sunk prior to the departure of the first rescue boat (a destroyer).
I remember seeing a black cat in a museum when I was a kid. It was such an ugly plane, but pretty cool at the same time. I’m not sure it was a gun ship though.
~[12:17]Whistling Death, the F4U Corsair, got its name from the resonating airflows developed in the oil cooler, intercooler and turbocharger apertures in the wing roots. These effects occurred at higher speeds as when diving on Japanese positions. They were Japanese who gave the F4U the name "Whistling Death".
Such a good and fun mission, no real time limits, no confusing objectives Just straight up blasting the fuck out of boats and planes and the music/explosions just make it even better This and Blood and Iron were my fav missions in this game
The PBY Catalina, or how not to underestimate the power of the humble work horse ^^ Addendum: Maybe that was meant to be a little easteregg for the book/film, The Final Countdown, where a the Nimitz is time displaced right before Pearl Harbor ^^
The sum of all zeros: shoot down *45 Zeros. Easily the most difficult achievement/trophy to get in the game. Well, besides trying to beat this on Veteran. *Corrected by Dr Zero11
@@drzero1131 I'm just surprised that grenades didn't start flying towards the plane since its on rails. Just shows how long ago its been since I did veteran and this achievement.
With a correct timing between when to fire at the PT boats and when to rescue the sailors, it is still possible to beat the mission on Veteran without too many issues. What's difficult is when you're planning to rescue all six sailors on Veteran. That one requires a bit of a luck...
@@Take-aim-and-reload... I did it the other day on veteran, I got 4, best I've ever done was 7 somehow, which glitched out the end of mission messages because the part where the guy comments on how many you've rescued was silent
0:27 in the opening cinematic it shows two 20mm cannons in the hull below the front turret but I can't seem to find a variant that actually had them. There could easily be something I'm missing though so if anyone has any information that'd be great
The swedish navy was the ones who found bismark after it dissappeared then relayed that details to the britd who then used a catalina to find the bismark again and help sink the pride of the kreigsmarine
I can't wait to see content about real planes from Ash Arms. The game Ash Arms (アッシュアームズ) includes personification of WW2 planes and tanks. This game have many reference to WW2, some planes like Ju87 (who mentions Rudel and his crew: Erwin Hentschel, Ernst Gadermann, Rothmann, Ernst-August Niermann, Alfred Scharnowski), Me262, Bf110G, Fw190D have references to pilots (Bf110G from Ash Arms, according to victories making on her tail, belongs to Martin Becker, but has some reference to Heinz Schnaufer in her personality; Fw190D refers to Heinz Sachsenberg and Hubertus von Bonin etc). They even kept insignia of Staffel, tank divisions. Great gam that deserves your attention. Also I can recommend Milihime Taisen (ミリ姫大戦). This is game (now no longer in service) about genderswapped WW2 tank division commanders, military leaders, snipers and other soldiers. Speaking of Ash Arms, I can help with translating characters' quotes, finding historical references to pilots and in-game sprites of them.
Minor correction. The last battleship on battleship fight wasn't Washington verses Kirishima but the battle of Surigao strait. It was Pearl harbour survivors verses Fuso and Yamashiro and was very one sided.
Love this mission; best plane-related gameplay I have ever played in my life. Also, as a submarine and submarine history enthusiast, really appreciate your comments and mention on US submarines and US trade interdiction warfare in the Pacific. Though not as well-known and regarded as the Kriegsmarine submarines in the Atlantic, USN submarines pulled off equally, if not more, fabulous and brave fight in the Pacific against IJN warships and Japanese empire merchant ships. US submarine force in the pacific was truly the most successful submarine unit by far, which sunk 54% of the total ship tonnage (including merchant and warship) Japan lost throughout the entire war. Unlike German submarines, which basically needed to rely on their own against the US and Britain's consolidated anti-sub and escort efforts, American submarines had all the support they could get from Army coast watches, surface fleets, and aviation forces from all military branches (which definitely included these Catalina black cats, they were the eyes and ears of the submarines), etc. It was not the superior technology or numbers of the US submarines themselves, but the joint operations and efforts of all the US military branches and units that could participate in any way or form that resulted in the impressive successes the US submarine forces scored.
My favorite mission of WaW. Trying to get that second optional objective of shot down Zeros was the bane of my 15 year old existence lol So many allied sailors drowned because I was too busy trying to kill every plane I saw. The mission, presentation, sound design. It's just excellent. Those beating war drums are seared into my memory. The whole Nimitz thing...they're just map icons XD They're not trying to say Nimitz were around in WW2.
So, i went back to watch this video and at the end where you are talking about the nimitz class carriers, the cruisers with the carriers are Ticondaroga Class Cruisers judging by the look of it.
If you want to extent your Waifu talks to Aviation, there’s a game called Project Ceris that’ll Waifu-ing WW1/WW2 aircraft, it’s still unreleased and WIP but given your aircraft talks I assume you’ll enjoy looking into it.
Look up Nathan G. Gordon and his black cat Arkansas Traveler bureau #08139. He won the MoH for a rescue mission at Kavieng harbor. He landed repeatedly in high seas within range of enemy guns saving 15 A-20 aircrew in 4 rivet splitting landings. "Pacificwrecks" has a great article.
Helo Animarchy, do you happen to have a Discord server or something to talk about historical stuff? Including economics (may be the most controversial), but mostly I'd look at aviation, and the not so looked at minor theaters of war and the aircraft (Like Fokkers)
I hoped you would play this mission, when I heard how much you love aircraft. Honestly all of WAW is awesome. In my opinion the American campaign feels like it’s more story driven while the Russian campaign shows more camaraderie. Here’s why like in the video going through the American campaign and how they talked about how hellish it was makes it feel a tad more immersive especially if you have knowledge of the Island hopping campaign. A lot of Marines became recipients of the MOH because of this and the crazy things they did, so the fact that you feel like you are constantly outnumbered and it’s really up to you to do some crazy shit in order to help your squad is feels accurate. While the Russian campaign bar Vendetta do you feel like if you fuck up your gonna die as you had a shit ton of fellow Russians pushing with you backing you up. Yes the Marines deployed a lot of forces but the Japanese on every island outnumbered them and fortified. The only way the Marines won was when us was a 90% casualty rate of the Japanese forces with most of the Japanese soldiers being killed. Also, my dad looked at the aircraft carrier and was like no that’s accurate just by looking at the island. He was a Navy Corpsman and worked on aircraft carriers.
Most of the terrains in the American campaign are jungle-based, while the Soviets are urban-based. I heard that fighting in the jungle is thousand times worse than fighting in urban areas. Is it actually true or just an exaggeration, just asking?
@@Take-aim-and-reload... Never fun when someone is trying to kill you but considering having to sleep in a foxhole in a wooded area or bombed out building compared to sleeping in a tropical jungle muck (including all the bugs and diseases that come with it.) I think I'll take urban.
@@LIGHTNING278TH Then there's also the fact that you're fighting an incredibly fanatical enemy that more or less would not surrender, are willing to blow themselves up or use other crafty techniques to kill you rather than taken prisoner, break everything written by the Geneva conventions, and torture you to death if you are their prisoner. Yeah, I'll rather take on the Germans thank you.
The carrier they show is from the 1960s. However, several WW2 carriers were updated to the 1960s standard to use jet aircraft, so it's possible that the developers actually did use a WW2 carrier but in the wrong configuration.
At 9:22 you said Washington's engagement with kirishima at Guadalcanal was the last surface engagement of capital ships. That's not true the last battleship on battleship engagement was between the two fusos and the standard class Battleships (7 out of 8 iirc were survivors of pearl harbor) in the battle of the surigao strait 1944. And even before that the Battle of the north sea against HMS duke of York and scharnhorst had already taken place
Possibly one of the best and most stressing missions of WaW. Definitely shows that not even the PBYs and their crews had an easy time.
"Burn em out" is the mission after this I would argue is stressful as hell especially on VETERAN.
Blowtorch and Corkscrew was stressing for me
@@pyrothefriendlyarsonist9195 that made me rage quite on veteran.
nah this actually funner than any other hard crap mission like their land their ppl or burn em out
its like playing death from above mission in ww2 since back then
@@samuel10125 that mission and downfall made me quit my veteran run for about a year until I finally picked it back up to get the final few achievements for the platinum trophy
"What the fuck are merchant ships doing with that much firepower?!" and "Take out those damn PT boats!" are two quotes that have been forever seared into my frontal lobe
The latter will forever be in my mind, even beyond death
ZEROS 9 O'CLOCK HIGH!!
Can't forget "Take down as many of those damn planes as you can!"
We’ve gotta get below the flak I can’t line up a decent shot!
HARRINGTON
Thought i would throw this here because it's surprising how many people miss it, but during this mission whenever you're in the bow turret, if you hold down the grenade key you can actually fire the 20mm cannons, they tear the merchant ships to pieces.
I could have used this 10 years ago
And these were Experimental Variants
@@ChandranPrema123 Actually, not all of them. There was *at least* one with a nose-mounted (though fixed) 20mm cannon in service. I’d have to find a picture of it for you.
@Jack Der Hauptmann💀 same here, just bought the game recently except i map my grenade and equipment to my mouse 5 and 4 buttons, the mission always shows to press the key/button for those cannons, i always press that as well as the left click at the same time to be further be effective
@@BobbyBingo bruh it literally says it in the middle of the screen
WaW: You are in a flying boat. Here are your targets and here's some guns.
*Rip and tear*
*sympathy for the devil starts playing*
Hi Anymarchy, want to know a fun brazilian anecdote about the Catalina?
Brazil got it's first batch of PBYs from the US when we joined WW2, we actually sunk a Uboat with it when an absolute mad lad almost landed at the damn thing, the brazilian PBYs were really useful to closing up the south atlantic for german shipping and submarines.
But after the war the brazilian airforce saw itself full of PBYs and came up with a really nice way to use them, the PBYs became the bridges that connected the Amazon to Brazil, they would land on the amazon river and deliver medicine, food, medical evacuation and so on, connecting many of previously uncontacted tribes of the amazon in to actual Brazil, and intensified the process of connect the Modern, urban and gigantic Brazil to those tiny tribes in the middle of the forrest, cause if you got a wide enough river and a crazy enough pilot, you just got yourself the first realiable way to constantly supplying the amazon. Keep in mind that there are no railways there (we tried but nature fought back, such a bitch), and barely any roads(to this day, again, nature fought back) so the PBY played a important role in unitying the brazilian indigenous population of the Amazon into the brazilian society.
(Sorry for any english mistakes, I'm not a native.)
That's cool as fuck
Dude, why can’t we get shit like this in WW2 games? This sounds awesome
@@jblazerndrowzy Because most WW2 games are oriented towards the internal American market and don't feature any other countries besides USA and UK on some occasions, and the USSR to some extent which is still horribly misrepresented even in the best of games in the genre.
@@zaho87 Yeah I figured that out 11 months ago
@@jblazerndrowzy I wish other countries had their fair representation in popular WW2 games. There were so many heroes on both sides, and so many fascinating stories that we are yet to be told. Only the HOI series make a serious attempt to show at least the true scale of WW2, but it is not an FPS that puts the player in the trenches.
The music is litteraly. The calm. The build up. The storm. The aftermath. Repeat.
The soundtrack is so good for the level. It sounds like bullets impacting armor plating tied in with blaring alarms. This game's OST is so underrated.
Every time I see gameplay footage of this mission NOBODY uses the 20mm nose cannons. WHY??? At the beginning of the mission is is written on the center of the screen in bold to press G or MMB to fire them, yet everyone seems blind!
Even when I played this mission for the first time I used those 20mm cannons and they were obviously better than the .50 cal's, yet people seem to refuse to use them.
They're difficult to aim because they're like at the center of the plane to can't really aim it besides maybe a 30 or so degree of aiming but those sonsabitches packed a fucking punch I mean there's a reason why during one part of the mission you could take down a goddamn Merchant vessel with those
honestly i remember on the ps3 i strait up just didn't know. found out by accident.
When I first time played this game, I honestly thought that the machine gun was the 20mm. I didn’t know too much about guns back then.
Correction: Battle of Surigao Strait (During Leyte Gulf) was the last battleship-on-battleship engagement in naval history. You're off by two years.
My favorite mission from World at War. The soundtrack and the intense action really made it memorable. Catalinas are a top aircraft for me as well. My favorite story is a PBY defying orders to not land in the open ocean and picking up 56 sailors from the USS Indianapolis by tying some of them to the wings. The Catalina stayed in the water until a destroyer escort came to pick them all up.
I always thought this mission was way cooler than the AC130 mission in COD4. Instead of bombing insurgents who don’t stand a chance, you’re flying a propeller plane against a conventional army and each hit you take makes your glass cannon of a plane more and more porous as the mission goes on. The first time you play this mission you’re not even sure if your guys(including the player character) are gonna live through it
Also Zakhaev and Al Asad did nothing wrong
PBYs were not glass cannons. They were incredibly durable aircraft that served for many years
Visassess durable or not, they're not so powerful that it feels more like a firing squad than an actual fight like with the AC130. Your actually in real danger of being killed.
@@dylanhaugen3739 Yeah that's true. I wasn't so much as disagreeing with your overall point but specifically them being called glass cannons
@@visassess8607 oh yeah I just meant compared to the AC130 mission where you were just untouchable
@@S1deshowRob Yeah. but i think that was kinda the point of that mission to show how modern warfare works and how cold and methodical it could be.
The floats folds up when in flight and can tell it’s landing in water as the character seals the rear guns hatch otherwise it would flood
Kinda funny tho, considering the underside is full of holes. Although in that case, how resistant is the underside of the catalina in regards to potential bullet holes allowing water in the aircraft?
yup this is true and the cool part about it, folds to become the wing tips so you can't even notice it unless you are looking for it
I was actually going to say that the PBY Catalina when it was first introduced it was designed to carry bombs but then the bomb capabilities was removed and replaced with the torpedoes and depth charges, just a fun fact for anyone who didnt know
Why was it removed?
@@Take-aim-and-reload... well it was a demand from the army Air Force and they replaced with a different bomber and i dont remember the designation of the aircraft that replaced it however the Catalina is still a really cool aircraft with some very good history behind it.
Edit: small correction here when the US sent some Catalina's to the Soviet Union they asked for the original bomber variant which they did receive and from what I remember the Russian crews that flew those Catalina's they enjoyed the aircraft and the fire power it had which ya know 12.7 m2 machine guns are known for
@@slouchygames1923
This is the first time I heard about Catalinas ended up on Soviets' hands. Did the Soviets have the chance to use them in battles before the World War II ended?
@@Take-aim-and-reload... yes they did to some decent success they were affective against the Germans however there was also other aircraft sent the Soviets like the P40, P47, along with hurricane fighters and other aircraft mostly fighter bombers and the Soviets loved those aircraft from early ww2 all the way till the end of the war and several of the aircraft pilots either became ace pilots or came very close to becoming aces. Still there's alot of aircraft that made it to the Soviets along with the British and French so alot of the Catalina's made it into lend lease so they were used by many nations
this mission also has the absolute best soundtrack tied with Heart of the Reich, just constantly tense and climatic matching perfectly with the tone of the mission.
Also youtube listing this as Vanguard is just insulting.
That mission on Veteran is the only reason why I consider the Soviet campaign to be harder than the American campaign.
_"What's that? A Soviet soldier is approaching one of our Flak 88? Let's throw hundreds of grenades at him."_
The drums slap
@@giovannicervantes2053 Taiko drums no less, the composer was genius for adding them in as soon as the AA fire kicked up. Pretty sure they added a gong on the track too for the explosions but I could be wrong.
@@magatsu_man9711 yeah the gong kicks in when you touch down to the water and the zeros start coming in and the kamikaze pilots start attacking the ships
Iron and blood is the best COD song hands down
1:03 the floats are probably folded up to reduce drag here, you should also try playing the completely free project reality
there's also a great channel called potential history that breaks down many battles ships and strategies over many wars
The float were also raised to help the PBY roll.
Yeah the floats raise and lower like landing gear
God, I played this mission over and over again when I was in elementary school. The Catalina is my favourite plane because of this game.
Bro, your excitement for the history behind this aircraft is so infectious. Love it
YOOOOOOOO
Super Excited you decided to do this. One of the best missions on Call of Duty history in terms of atmosphere and gameplay. Reminded me of the Liberators Mission from Call of Duty Big Red One.
My grandfather was on the USS Tangiers at Guadalcanal, which was a seaplane tender. He had some incredible stories about his time there tending to the PBYs, he loved them. And it was a PBY that found him when his ship was sunk during the Battle off Samar.
One of my favorite cod missions, same with the bomber ones in the og games
Especially B17 from CoD UO
Bit late to the party but just wanted to say thankyou! Totally share your love for the PBY, she was a beautiful workhorse. Loved them since I was a kid. Back then I lived in a town called Swanhill (Vic), down the road was Lake boga. It was a PBY training base in WW2 and had a sort of local museum there where I got to see them slowly piece together a plane from stuff scrounged/found/donated over the years. Loved seeing that old girl get put back together and it got me into learning about her history
One historical inaccuracy is that the boy wasn’t armed with 20mm cannons in the front although it was though about
Fun Fact: John Cruikshank VC is ....STILL ALIVE !! at the grand old age of 102 years old. He is the longest living VC winner ever and is the only WW2 VC winner who is still alive. What a dude
You are making my dream come true by analyzing the shit out of this incredible ww2 game. I kinda wanna see you play zombies just as a dumb bonus
Agreed
Yes I see so during this universe timeline, the crew of the USS Nimitz decided to stay in the 1940s during the final countdown incident!!! This explains everything!!
Great episode about the Catalina. :D
Dornier 24s were quite remarcable too and I once read they rescued about 10000 pilots from the Channel. Without those, there would not be much Luftwaffe left to continue the fight and they rescued a lot of allied pilots as well. Maybe worth looking into some more?
I never knew you did breakdowns of this game, this is THE BEST CoD of all time! Definitely one of my favorite games of all time tied with Red Orchestra 2.
Ain’t going to lie WaW was awesome remember being young and now looking back how bad ass it was
And how they kept it more real by not having dumb ass skins and such seemed to care more
the music of this mission just punches you in the face. it's great.
The Avro Lincoln and Shackleton are post war aircraft. As far as I know the RAF Coastal Command never used Lancasters. They did have B17's, B24's and Sunderland flying boats. The Royal Navy only had the Fleet Air Arm which operated carrier based aircraft.
When I was young, I remember always trying to keep the plane undamaged. It was very tasking to shoot everything that moved, but I successfully did it once (with exception of the tail's damage).
Fucking what?
Wouldn’t there have been enough of a crew to man each gun or would they have had gunners man multiple guns like in this mission?
Some might of got pulled to another plane to fill the gap where a crewmen was killed.
But I think it's the devs giving you a chance to see and do more in the mission. For a game it be a bit boring to be stuck on portside gun when half the shooting is in front or the other side of the plane.
The exact same can be Said for B17 Bomber from CoD UO,B24 Liberator from CoD 2 BRO
@@unluckymonkey4382 bingo
Catalinas have always been my favorite and that music, easily one of the best WW2 missions in gaming. :') Are you gonna do the opening "Operation Aurora" from Battlefield: Bad Company 2? Not very realistic but I freakin love it!
Probably my favourite on-rails mission of all time, some of my favourite planes from WWll and favourite background music from WAW.
You likely have been told this but The PBY’s float can fold up. In any event have Great one.
When you mention the battle between Washington and Kirishima (and SoDak getting pounded in the background) and called it the last battleship-on-battleship conflict @9:20, I assume you meant that in the sense of a proper duel. Since there was one final action against battleships at the Battle of the Surigao Strait against the Fuso and Yamashiro and the old battlewagons of TF 77.2. While it was a glorified shooting gallery for the American Standards, its still the last time a battleship fired at another battleship.
Yeah, what he said
Wasn't Surigao Strait the most recent [and presumably last] time we saw one side "crossing the T" as well? Pretty sure that's the case.
The Catalina also picked up a lot of -aircrew- crew. After the sinking of the Indianapolis a Cat found the survivors, reported position by radio, landed on the water and stayed with them until rescue vessels arrived.
"At noon the fifth day, a Lockheed Ventura saw us, he swung in low and saw us. A young pilot, a lot younger than Mr Hooper here. He saw us and then three hours later a big fat PBY comes downs and starts to pick us up. You know, that was when I was most frightened, waiting for my turn. I'll never put on a lifejacket again." - Quint, Jaws.
@@Blazcowitz1943 The Lockheed Ventura radioed a nearby PBY which in turn radioed a nearby destroyer. The Ventura couldn't linger. The Catalina landed in 12 foot swells taking some damage and took aboard 56 sailors out of the water into her interior and onto her wing. She remained at the wreckage site until relieved by the first of 7 vessels, about midnight, which would come to pick up the survivors. The crew of the Catalina was taken off because of damage from landing and from impacts by launches taking off her cargo. She had been rendered unfit for flight. She was deliberately sunk prior to the departure of the first rescue boat (a destroyer).
My first copy of WaW was on the Wii, and it did not feature this mission. An absolute crime
A historical breakdown of the missions from *Battlestations Pacific someday perhaps* ?
I remember seeing a black cat in a museum when I was a kid. It was such an ugly plane, but pretty cool at the same time. I’m not sure it was a gun ship though.
Maritime patrol aircraft tend to be overlooked even though they had such an important role
I saw your Enterprise series. I loved it.
This level still fills me with anxiety. It always felt like I never saved enough of the men over board…
for anyone wondering the wing floats fold into the wings when in flight
The heck, not only you didn't use the cannons, you ignored the Zeros.
~[12:17]Whistling Death, the F4U Corsair, got its name from the resonating airflows developed in the oil cooler, intercooler and turbocharger apertures in the wing roots. These effects occurred at higher speeds as when diving on Japanese positions. They were Japanese who gave the F4U the name "Whistling Death".
Such a good and fun mission, no real time limits, no confusing objectives
Just straight up blasting the fuck out of boats and planes and the music/explosions just make it even better
This and Blood and Iron were my fav missions in this game
The PBY Catalina, or how not to underestimate the power of the humble work horse ^^
Addendum: Maybe that was meant to be a little easteregg for the book/film, The Final Countdown, where a the Nimitz is time displaced right before Pearl Harbor ^^
I’m glad I’m not the only one who saw the modern warships in the CGI bits before the switch to actual footage. I’ve always wondered why they did that.
The sum of all zeros: shoot down *45 Zeros.
Easily the most difficult achievement/trophy to get in the game. Well, besides trying to beat this on Veteran.
*Corrected by Dr Zero11
its shoot down 45 zeroes actually, and I always seem to beat that on the pc version of WaW, too bad it doesn't have achievements
@@drzero1131 I'm just surprised that grenades didn't start flying towards the plane since its on rails.
Just shows how long ago its been since I did veteran and this achievement.
With a correct timing between when to fire at the PT boats and when to rescue the sailors, it is still possible to beat the mission on Veteran without too many issues.
What's difficult is when you're planning to rescue all six sailors on Veteran. That one requires a bit of a luck...
@@Take-aim-and-reload... All fun and games until........... FOOKIN PT BOATS
@@Take-aim-and-reload... I did it the other day on veteran, I got 4, best I've ever done was 7 somehow, which glitched out the end of mission messages because the part where the guy comments on how many you've rescued was silent
Why tf does TH-cam consider this a Vanguard Video when this game is clearly WaW.
I want to own a pby someday. Is that kiefer sutherland by the way?
0:27 in the opening cinematic it shows two 20mm cannons in the hull below the front turret but I can't seem to find a variant that actually had them. There could easily be something I'm missing though so if anyone has any information that'd be great
*PBY 5a 418*
Not sure if you know, the wing pontoons, fold up when I’m flight, that’s probably why you didn’t see them in flight
even after all these years the music on this mission and the beat of the guns and the sirens in the background makes me grin ear to ear.
The swedish navy was the ones who found bismark after it dissappeared then relayed that details to the britd who then used a catalina to find the bismark again and help sink the pride of the kreigsmarine
I recommend you do a historical break down of Battlestations pacific
I can't wait to see content about real planes from Ash Arms.
The game Ash Arms (アッシュアームズ) includes personification of WW2 planes and tanks. This game have many reference to WW2, some planes like Ju87 (who mentions Rudel and his crew: Erwin Hentschel, Ernst Gadermann, Rothmann, Ernst-August Niermann, Alfred Scharnowski), Me262, Bf110G, Fw190D have references to pilots (Bf110G from Ash Arms, according to victories making on her tail, belongs to Martin Becker, but has some reference to Heinz Schnaufer in her personality; Fw190D refers to Heinz Sachsenberg and Hubertus von Bonin etc). They even kept insignia of Staffel, tank divisions. Great gam that deserves your attention. Also I can recommend Milihime Taisen (ミリ姫大戦). This is game (now no longer in service) about genderswapped WW2 tank division commanders, military leaders, snipers and other soldiers.
Speaking of Ash Arms, I can help with translating characters' quotes, finding historical references to pilots and in-game sprites of them.
God damn. This is making me want to play War Thunder again.
I live in southern California and there's a air museum in a place called Palm Springs that has a PBY Catalina as well as a bunch of other aircraft.
Minor correction. The last battleship on battleship fight wasn't Washington verses Kirishima but the battle of Surigao strait. It was Pearl harbour survivors verses Fuso and Yamashiro and was very one sided.
He's also forgetting Scharnhorst vs Duke of York at North Cape. The second to last.
Love this mission; best plane-related gameplay I have ever played in my life.
Also, as a submarine and submarine history enthusiast, really appreciate your comments and mention on US submarines and US trade interdiction warfare in the Pacific. Though not as well-known and regarded as the Kriegsmarine submarines in the Atlantic, USN submarines pulled off equally, if not more, fabulous and brave fight in the Pacific against IJN warships and Japanese empire merchant ships. US submarine force in the pacific was truly the most successful submarine unit by far, which sunk 54% of the total ship tonnage (including merchant and warship) Japan lost throughout the entire war. Unlike German submarines, which basically needed to rely on their own against the US and Britain's consolidated anti-sub and escort efforts, American submarines had all the support they could get from Army coast watches, surface fleets, and aviation forces from all military branches (which definitely included these Catalina black cats, they were the eyes and ears of the submarines), etc. It was not the superior technology or numbers of the US submarines themselves, but the joint operations and efforts of all the US military branches and units that could participate in any way or form that resulted in the impressive successes the US submarine forces scored.
Corsair and the Catalina are probably my two favorite aircraft from WWII. Absolute things of beauty they are.
Yo Animarchy, you need to play cod 2 and battle stations pacific! Would be really cool to hear you historical breakdowns of those games.
What's best about this mission: *the background music*
Represent, best song in the game hands down, absolutely fires me up
This is my favourite mission in WaW and the music for this mission is what sticks out to me the most it's awesome.
My favorite mission of WaW. Trying to get that second optional objective of shot down Zeros was the bane of my 15 year old existence lol So many allied sailors drowned because I was too busy trying to kill every plane I saw. The mission, presentation, sound design. It's just excellent. Those beating war drums are seared into my memory.
The whole Nimitz thing...they're just map icons XD They're not trying to say Nimitz were around in WW2.
ngl but even with the music on this misson still slaps till this day
So, i went back to watch this video and at the end where you are talking about the nimitz class carriers, the cruisers with the carriers are Ticondaroga Class Cruisers judging by the look of it.
2:33: I can only Imagine how he must have felt when he saw that monster of the seas.
Yes the Fleet Air Arm did have some PBY but it was mostly RAF costal Command
I got to climb into the belly of a restored PBY in 2018. A bit cramped in there so you probably couldn't run from turret to turret.
Fun fact: i had a relative who was part of the black sheep squadron
the music in it is iconic now! and this was back in the day when CoD was actually good. i miss those days.
I've heard "Whistling Death" hundreds of times but have never seen any hard source material for that claim.
If you want to extent your Waifu talks to Aviation, there’s a game called Project Ceris that’ll Waifu-ing WW1/WW2 aircraft, it’s still unreleased and WIP but given your aircraft talks I assume you’ll enjoy looking into it.
is there one for tanks?
You forgot about Ash Arms. It's about personificated WW2 aircraft and tanks. Much better.
@@annarumpelhardtii6017 it doesnt seem to be in english though
If it doesn't have the Catalina as a hard-working but elegant lady, I will riot. This aircraft was the personification of such things.
AC-130 Grand Father is so damn cool.
The PBY was truly ONE HELL of a CAT! Heck... even it's time as Fire Fighting craft post war was damn impressive!
This game is a timeless masterpiece, I will forever cherish it.
I remember living through this, you just had to be there
My War Thunder head was just saying “oil leak, water leak, fuel
Leak, gunner unconscious” lol
Look up Nathan G. Gordon and his black cat Arkansas Traveler bureau #08139. He won the MoH for a rescue mission at Kavieng harbor. He landed repeatedly in high seas within range of enemy guns saving 15 A-20 aircrew in 4 rivet splitting landings. "Pacificwrecks" has a great article.
Nice video. But. Didn’t use the 20mm cannons.
I am very happy to seeing this mission is based on there true missions at anytime
PTXD kicks in remembering you failed to help the swimming sailor to your Catalina because "THE FCKING PT BOATS SHOOT THEM!"
Someone has probably already pointed it out but the wing tip floats fold up to the tip during flight
PBY's are one of my fave air frames since I was a kid!
The wing floats on the cat are deployable, hence why they aren't visible at the start
You should make a playlist of these videos
Helo Animarchy, do you happen to have a Discord server or something to talk about historical stuff? Including economics (may be the most controversial), but mostly I'd look at aviation, and the not so looked at minor theaters of war and the aircraft (Like Fokkers)
Animarchy do you have any plan on covering I-13 in your "real ships of azure lane" series
She's kinda an interesting fellow if you ask me
I see you're a shikikan of culture as well
Black Cats ost lowkey slaps
Not only is she an amazing aircraft with amazing capabilities, she is also such a pretty plane too.
I hoped you would play this mission, when I heard how much you love aircraft.
Honestly all of WAW is awesome. In my opinion the American campaign feels like it’s more story driven while the Russian campaign shows more camaraderie. Here’s why like in the video going through the American campaign and how they talked about how hellish it was makes it feel a tad more immersive especially if you have knowledge of the Island hopping campaign. A lot of Marines became recipients of the MOH because of this and the crazy things they did, so the fact that you feel like you are constantly outnumbered and it’s really up to you to do some crazy shit in order to help your squad is feels accurate. While the Russian campaign bar Vendetta do you feel like if you fuck up your gonna die as you had a shit ton of fellow Russians pushing with you backing you up. Yes the Marines deployed a lot of forces but the Japanese on every island outnumbered them and fortified. The only way the Marines won was when us was a 90% casualty rate of the Japanese forces with most of the Japanese soldiers being killed.
Also, my dad looked at the aircraft carrier and was like no that’s accurate just by looking at the island. He was a Navy Corpsman and worked on aircraft carriers.
Most of the terrains in the American campaign are jungle-based, while the Soviets are urban-based.
I heard that fighting in the jungle is thousand times worse than fighting in urban areas. Is it actually true or just an exaggeration, just asking?
@@Take-aim-and-reload... Never fun when someone is trying to kill you but considering having to sleep in a foxhole in a wooded area or bombed out building compared to sleeping in a tropical jungle muck (including all the bugs and diseases that come with it.) I think I'll take urban.
@@LIGHTNING278TH Then there's also the fact that you're fighting an incredibly fanatical enemy that more or less would not surrender, are willing to blow themselves up or use other crafty techniques to kill you rather than taken prisoner, break everything written by the Geneva conventions, and torture you to death if you are their prisoner.
Yeah, I'll rather take on the Germans thank you.
The carrier they show is from the 1960s. However, several WW2 carriers were updated to the 1960s standard to use jet aircraft, so it's possible that the developers actually did use a WW2 carrier but in the wrong configuration.
Also, did you check out a channel called "greg's airplanes and automobiles"? I felt like you sourced the info of the catalina from him.
1:49 what wikipedia page is this?
The PBY certainly contributed the most in the Naval Theatres. It was great in multiple roles.
Hi, I am wondering if you would have a discord channel for random chat and questions?
It's what we've been waiting for
At 9:22 you said Washington's engagement with kirishima at Guadalcanal was the last surface engagement of capital ships. That's not true the last battleship on battleship engagement was between the two fusos and the standard class Battleships (7 out of 8 iirc were survivors of pearl harbor) in the battle of the surigao strait 1944. And even before that the Battle of the north sea against HMS duke of York and scharnhorst had already taken place