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Austrokrautfeed #2 - Friday Video Topics (Patreon)

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2016-08-24 01:13:59
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2026-06
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The upcoming video on Friday is German Infantry Tactics, which will include the following topics (changes are still possible):
  • The German Squad - Structure & Equipment, Roles & Responsibilities.
  • Formations - Close and Extended Order Formations
  • General Principles for Fire Fights
  • The Squad in Offensive Combat

Attachment: German Squad Structure and Equipment (Work in Progress) - Note in this case the Weapons are of the same scale, the equipment isn't.

Comments

Kara

Will you just focus on military tactics, strategies and organizations during WW2 or have you got any plans for videos which would summarize and discuss the right and wrong sides of various operations, such as Fall Blau, Bagration or Wacht am Rhein? I think we've seen only Barbarossa so far, and the Battle of France to a little extent.

Military History Visualized
>>2393343

well, so far I did very few or limited tactics videos, only the US Army Infantry Battalion, but that was extremely short and the Anti-Tank Company. Everything else: no tactics. Quite a lot of people actually asked for tactics. Organization, yeah, I did plenty. Strategies, I didn't cover at all, well maybe the Atlantic Strategy, but nothing in general. Yes, Operations and Battles are definitely are planned. And they usually will get several videos. Besides Barbarossa, I did 2 (or 3) on the Battle of Britain. One that covered a bit of Case Blue, one about the Battle of the Bulge. A Stalingrad Series is definitely planned. In short, I plan to cover every major battle and campaign of World War 2 and also major battles from other eras. Usually if you see a [NAME] it is a series or a potential series, e.g., [Waterloo], [Battle of the Bulge]. Originally I planned to cover the battle of Waterloo, but realized I didn't know enough about muskets etc. of that time, so I started reading and explained the basics of muskets combat in that era. The most likely operation for an upcoming video in the upcoming weeks is the Invasion of Poland.

Isabelle Chua

Are there separate tactics for Panzergrenadier squads as contrasted to infantry squads, or were they simply just mounted infantry? As an Armoured Infantry trooper of the Singapore Armed Forces I observe a very marked difference perhaps not in the basic drills of fire and movement and the like that we use, but in organization and equipment from the section (squad) level all the way up, mainly due to the space constraints of our Bionix IFV (soon to be replaced with something that looks far too similar to the Schutzenpanzer Marder). I'm interested to find out if the Panzergrenadiere were similarly separate from the regular infantry in this manner. Thanks :3

Military History Visualized
>>2401523

yes, my information is limited in that aspect, but one clear distinction was that regular infantry was not trained to fight together with armored vehicles like tanks and StuGs. Something I mentioned briefly in my StuG/Sturmartillerie video and also I remember a passage in some of Jentz's books were a member of the tank troops mentioned that the problem is that infantry doesn't understand the strength and weaknesses of armor, this was especially a problem in urban warfare. Furthermore, I read that a squad for a halftrack had 11 instead of 10 men if I remember correctly, but size changed a bit throughout the war. In terms of Panzergrenadier, the problem is also: an armored one or motorized one, as mentioned in my video about the Motorized Division 1940 vs. the Panzergrenadierdivision 1944 the problem was that there were basically no halftracks in the latter nor in the first one. Thus, Panzergrenadiers were often just motorized infantry. I think the total number of armored halftracks produced was around 15000 for the Germans. Hence the amount of "real" Panzergrenadiers was very limited. But at some point I probably will do a video on Panzergrenadiers and if enough material is available on their tactics. In terms of equipment, I don't know anything yet. Hope that helped a bit and thanks for your support.