Wacky War Tactics in a Nutshell
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- čas přidán 23. 06. 2021
- Military tactics have been tried and tweaked over the centuries to develop some pretty sound strategies, but every once in a while an individual with a more zany mind comes up with some rather peculiar plans. Join me as we take a stroll down history lane and reminisce on shenanigans past! We've got everything from lingerie clad pigeons to masquerading battleships, so sit back and enjoy the show!
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Oh also hi again! Yes, I'm back! I was finishing up my degree over the past like... wow it's been 9 months... Yeah sorry about that but I'm back! I'm going to try and upload more frequently now that I have time again, thanks for all of you who were patient with me and waited all this time, I still love making these videos! - Komedie
CORRECTION: As some have pointed out, Bob the Builder is in fact British, not American. Honestly when I was writing that line I didn't think to google Bob's nationality, my silly Americentric brain just assumed all the great things came from America. But Bob is a point for the Brits, you win this round, but just know I'm throwing out all my tea now.
Next time, be a dear and balance your volume. It's hard to enjoy your videos when they keep screaming every minute.
Trust me, my TV is already set at the volume that I want.
Glad to know your back at it
I love your content. Keep it up!!!
@@21mushroomcupcakes33 Could you be more specific about points where you thought audio was unbalanced? I appreciate the feedback!
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He's being a bitch mate don't worry
“You can prove them wrong any day now, dad” now has me in a laughably depressed emotion
I was like "WOW, the brutal self-own. Those are rare!"
Hit me right in the feels.
Still laughed though…
I hear that. I feel the same way, except I hope mine killed himself 😂
There is a crisis across the modern developed world of absentee fathers. Something that sadly is overlooked by practically every Modern Nation in western civilization
@@whalefall413 i can't imagine what else he put you guys through, but I'm glad y'all are at least safe, hope you guys are doing alright
To add to the homing pigeon bit: Homing Pigeons were actually used so much by both sides that they're still the most decorated species with the most military honors despite not being used anymore since WW2. Also both sides started breeding and training Peregrine Falcons to intercept enemy pigeons
It's adorable that both sides started handing out tiny medals to their pigeons.
That's cool as hell
@@Saurophaganax1931 I hear by, lieutenant pigeon, grant you the victorian cross for your honor and duty.
@@robbieaulia6462 hey just in case you dont know, because you might still be learning english, it's "hereby" not "hear by". Pronounced the same but spelled differently and has a different mean
I'm getting BF1 flashbacks.
There was also that time when the Soviets mined Finland during the Winter War. The bombs they used were triggered by radio on a certain chord. But the Finns didn't have sophisticated equipment to disarm bombs, so they played Sakkijjarven Polkka over and over, on as many fucking frequencies they could. It genuinely worked.
Imagine walking around a minefield with a fucking radio
I'm laughing imagining Soviets stationed in Finland going apeshit because every radio frequency is jammed with Finnish polka and nobody can talk to each other until all the mines they just laid have gone off. I'm sure that's not how it played out, but it's a hilarious image.
ofcourse it did, Säkkijärven polkka is a very good song, and also probably made the russian's ears bleed lol
Small correction? Additional note I guess?
Säkkijärven polkka didn't trigger the mines, but was used to interfere with the frequencies the Soviets used to detonate the mines. They did this continuously for 5 months until the batteries in the mines were sure to be depleted.
Sounds like the inspiration to "Mars Attacks!"
My granddad smuggled weapons for the resistance in Denmark. One day he went to pick up some in another town that he was going to hide in a violin case, when he was at the train station with his violin case a German officer stopped him to inspect the case and he had actually brought his violin so he took it out and played him a a song that the German enjoyed, then he went to pick up the weapons at the other town and had planned his trip so the same officer would be there when he got home. So when he left the train at the station that officer stopped the soldiers going to inspect him and told then that he already knew that he just had a violin in there, not knowing that my granddad was carrying SMG parts in the case.
Neat I read the entire thing and very sneaky he was.
Damn that's gangster, the Danish resistance was up against some terrible odds 🎻
Really good thing he didn’t want to hear another song
How did he get the violin back?
@@alkaholic4848 He carries in a gun case.
When the world needed him most, he returned
but not his dad
@@prototypeinheritance515 😩
Arthur?
Classic line👍😎🙏
Wait what?! Sam O’nella returned? Oh ohh ohhhh you meant blue jay. I guess it’ll do 😒
I like how you quoted Dieter F. Uchtdorf like people actually know who he is
Hahaha this is such a boss move
But those who do know who he is got hyped
I came to comment section to see if anyone else knew who he was. This is the second time I’ve seen a LDS leader quoted outside the context of the church (first time being James E Faust on criminal minds)
Is blue Jay LDS?
I too was hyped and confused
Hyped then confused.
A tale in my City (actually not to far from Rothenburg) says that when it got besieged in 1379 they were about to be starved out. But in a last desperate attempt they packed together all the dough they had, to bake things looking like a round W (maybe representing a ass to mock the besiegers). The citizens started throwing it at the enemy, laughing and taunting them while the obese Mayors wife showed the besiegers (I'm not kidding) her arse. The attackers were demoralized by that, as like intended they thought the city had tons of supplies, since they can just throw it at them, and left. So yeah it worked
so who was obese? the mayor or the wife?
@@vincenttt8289 the wife
Same tale in French city of Carcassonne. When besieged by Carolus Magnus army, the lady of the town ordered all the remaining wheat to be given to a pig, then sent the pig other the wall to the besiegers to mock their attempt to starve the city. The Emperor released the siege.
I roll to bluff the enemy army...
@@michealdrake3421 Nat 20!
The thing about the trained sealions: They still use them. Only now a'days its for hunting sea mines (as water-doges do not set off magnetic influence detonators), and using them as aquatic attack-dogs in defending harbors against hostile divers.
...
(And, yes, my avatar is a sealion critter. Which may or may not have anything to do with me knowing this bit of trivia)
The USA has employeed dolphins aswell for research purposes since they are as smart as humans but are much better swimmers, plus sharks seem to not lile dolphins for some reason. Might be because dolphins ejaculate with the force of a shotgun blast and will fuck almost anything while horny, but idk maybe sharks just don't lile dolphins.
@@Khajiidaro dolphins devised a brilliant method of ensuring sharks leave them alone by being absolute assholes to them any time they get the chance. They ram them with enough force to cause internal injuries.
That’s awesome, thanks for the fun fact
1:30 You forgot my favorite detail, the HMS Carmania was _also_ disguised as the Cap Trafalgar. So each showed up and basically went "huh". Also, each ship was only armed with relatively small guns, so their battle was something along the lines of two whales doing acrobatics in molasses.
It was confirmed to be false
@@cfgeneric7677 "It was confirmed"
Source: Trust me bro.
@@underthependulum3484 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SMS_Cap_Trafalgar
@williamerwin7094 Thanks, I can totally be cool with being wrong, I just like when people actually backup what they say.
@@underthependulum3484It's all good.
During WWII, some US military leaders proposed equipping bats with incendiary devices and letting them loose over Japanese cities, in the hopes that they would take shelter in wooden structures and cause fires. The thinking is that they would be more unpredictable than a typical bombing campaign and harder to defend against.
They also tested it as far as i know and it ended up being quite effective..
Wasn't used though, only tested
@@JohnSmith-oe5rx Burned down the entire testing facility, as I recollect.
Well, that's pretty much what Olga of Kiev is said to have done, to legendary effect
Odd story. Thanks. Never heard that
Mark my words...
the algorithm WILL bless this man
It's happening my friend
He did
Hi
Oh, it did.
Damn, was really hoping that you'd discuss the M1 anti-tank rock. Yes, the US wanted to hit tanks with rocks.
Excuse me ?
@@algirdas25pl31 The Americans tested out if a rock could be used to stop a tank by jamming it between the tread and the wheels of a tank. The studies concluded that no, anything small enough for a soldier to use was not going to be big enough and strong enough to do anything. This was before they got into WW2.
Although things like that were more effective against Japanese tanks. A water canteen could be used to jam the turret on some Japanese tanks.
@@ptonpc
And the Finns used to ram logs into the treads of Russian tanks during ww2. It worked surprisingly well!
@@hamstsorkxxor Agreed. From what I remember, it was more a case of the Americans saying "Can the rock thing work? Let's try it. Nope."
I'm sure The Chieftain did a segment about it on one of his Q&A videos.
@@ptonpc Japanese tanks did have free-floating turrets on them, which is why they were so easy to jam.
But rocks did ruin the tracks of churchills the first time they saw combat.
Dang this is a really good video man! Interesting, funny, high quality; you'll definitely go far if you keep it up I'm tellin ya
You should check out Sam o nella
One of my favourite wacky war tactics has to be Dazzle camouflage.
For those that don't know what Dazzle camo is a ship camouflage invented back in World War I by the British, which consists of painting a ship with optical illusions made of contrasting colors so it would be hard for the enemy to know the ship's range, speed, and heading.
Awesome vid btw, glad the king has returned
They hired artists to come to come up with new Dazzle camo schemes too. As weird as they were, they worked and were important in the development of modern camouflage.
I actually used to live next to a dude who had a Pigeon coop back in the 90's. Loved going over there and seeing the birbs. Got to go into his house one day and I seen his military stuff. Dude actually jumped into the field with a pigeon strapped to him. And he even still had a sock that had a hole cut in it and a little name tape sewn on. "Larry again". Every last one his pigeons were named Larry. Larry the fuckin' legend.
I have no clue how I got here but I’m already loving the content
Pop a squat, stay for a while ;)
Actually, the plan to train seagulls to point out periscopes worked okay!
They sailed dummy periscopes up and down the Firth of Forth (as I recall) with food attached. The seagulls learned that a periscope meant free lunch and swarmed in vast numbers each time. They didn’t stop when you removed the food, so from the shore you just watched for flocks of gulls diving the surface and you knew exactly where every enemy submarine was.
(However, they also came up with “indicator loops”: lengths of cable on the seabed which caused an induced current when a magnet (submarine) passed over, detected by a galvanometer ashore, so Edinburgh seagulls stopped getting free lunches and have been diving tourists with pokes of chips ever since.)
Blast it, so that's how the whole thing started!
wow!
Aah, Pavlov at work I see...
@@the_tactician9858
(I am not pretending expertise - which I don't have - but I suspect flight towards an expected food source would be seen as a voluntary behaviour, and that this would be operant rather than classical conditioning; maybe more Thorndike or Skinner than Pavlov?)
the dieter f. uchtdorf quote really killed me
The Uchdorf quote was the last thing I would have expected in a military tactics video. What a wacky world.
Ikr just totally out of the blue
All the LDS people going. WHAT'S HE DOING HERE?
I don't remember the murder part of Dieter F Uchtdorf's quote 🤣
You and what pigeons ???
Good comeback line to any insult.
I like how you acknowledge that art and war tactics are more similar than most people realize.
Sun Tzu didn't call it The Art of War for nothing ;)
2:30 I felt that
WOOHOO BLUEJAYS WEEKLY UPLOADS HAS STARTED!!!
Hahaha ya! Or like, monthly! haha! maybe yearly! Ha...
I absolutely lost it at "shit on the periscopes"
God, I have the mind of a grade schooler.
Or a British admiralty scientist.
You should have mentioned the first tabletop wargames held by a bunch of British girls that developed tactics that *actually* worked against U-boats. They literally were developing meta strategies to U-boat tactics and new technology. They're the WATU of the British Royal Navy.
Don't take this the wrong way, but with channels like yours I keep forgetting you exist. So when I see a video in my sub box my initial reaction is "what's this and how did it get here?", but then I see who made it and I get amped out of my mind. Haven't watched anything of yours since the last video but you get me all excited all the same when I do see it. Keep up the great quality :D
I’m happy because I see the potential of growth in your channel and it looks like you’ll have millions of subs if you keep it up
That’d be actually insane
Informative and hilarious. Came across the dumbest Russian voyage video an hour ago, and have already watched every other thing he has uploaded.
Can't wait to watch this channel grow.
History and stick figures, a simple video for a simple man
1:28 The jokes write themselves, but the delivery is everything
I have had a void in my heart ever since Salmonella Academy disappeared. This provides me with the energy I needed. Thank you. Subbed!
He's back. Love both channels!
When the Persian king, Cambyses II, invaded Ancient Egypt, he ordered his troops to carry cats. The Egyptians of course were afraid to hurt the cats and lost.
There are (modern) images of that cat hurling attack. Must have been bizarre
You really quoted Dieter Uchtdorf. Damn.
If I’m being honest, I just googled quotes on creativity and didn’t think much about who was saying the quote. Didn’t know he was kinda controversial tbh, shoulda done more research
How is he controversial?
@@jarvis8635 Religious leader.
@@BlueJayYT Dieter F. Uchtdorf isn't controversial in any bad way. He's just a Christian religious figure that encourages people to be charitable and kind to others like Jesus Christ was.
LDS leaders have a lot of other really good uplifting quotes too. They are good people.
Bob the Builder is British.
…shit you’re right, I didn’t know that. I just assumed he was American and didn’t think to check, thanks for pointing it out!
Is it weird that I could watch that Rambo movie?
Also, I still know this is you Sam O'Nella. The "going back to college, lolz, no uploads" thing is a dead giveaway.
5:09 never expected to laugh out loud on history video
Then you my friend should watch oversimplified
That pigeon lingerie gon make me act up 🥵
"You can prove them wrong any day DAD!"
Oof!
Just to add something about the Cap Trafalgar VS the Carmania, that both ships had been outfitted with guns as Merchant Raiders. Both of them had been outfitted with heavy guns, but obviously being passenger ships, had no armour. As a result, the fight between them was brutal in the extreme, with both ships just pounding away at one another with artillery and machine guns, causing horrific casualties and massive fires on both ships, which the surviving crew had no chance of putting out. Really, this was one of those fights where No One won in the end
WWII Britain: so we can magnetize the mine before sticking it to the German ship, but how will we delay the detonator?
-well, the peppermint lasts exactly 1 hour in water.
-We'll have to protect the arming device against water, a condom should do the trick."
And that's how the surrounding region ran out of candy and condoms. And some German ships were sunk by magnetic mines.
Condoms were used by COPPists (a group that became part of the SBS) to waterproof kit such as signalling torches used in convert beach surveys. The RAF were famous in their use of contraceptives; put them over aeroplane cannons as "protection" to ensure that Jerry gets a proper seeing to.
Condoms have been used by troops to keep their gear/equipment dry pretty much since they were mass produced.
1:38 TF2 Spy game-play in a nutshell
0:34
And so the 7th furry war was started.
I've been forced to pretty much go frame-by-frame of your videos to ensure I don't miss a single side-splitting detail of your fast paced hilarity (i.e. at 1:31, the teeth. Gotta love the teeth!!!). Thank you and keep rocking :D
I don’t know how or why but I learn so much from this
0:17 nice black plague reference.
Duuuuuude... The line "You can prove them wrong any day now, dad" hit hard... I hope it was just a joke.
YOU RELEASED IT!! I LOVE IT THANK YOU!!
4:10 I cannot even fathom the confusion the pigeons must have had during all this.
2:54 Mr. Pringles was a war veteran?
you've found my inspiration
@@BlueJayYT I love it
That's corporal Mr Pringle to you
Good things come to those who wait! I checked for new vids every other week for an eternity. Now it's finally happening!
I enjoy the bird themeing, specifically, cause im a bird myself
5:20 Gotta love how I'm in my ROTC classroom during lunch
I.. I can’t tell if this is a furry joke or making fun of the guy who had an ROTC uniform during lunch, either way it’s funny.
@@veryyes1607 Lol, its neither, I was actually in my ROTC classroom while we had lunch when that poped up, though... making fun of the Marines is always fun, so I'll go with making fun of the guy. (Air force is the best)
@@veryyes1607 Also, fun fact, today we're going to the Air Force Academy football game, I'll tell yall if anything interesting happens
Good for you, I could never join the military because I just can’t handle an authority figure yelling at me.
@@veryyes1607 Meh, ROTC isn't much about military, especially JROTC, most of them are pretty chill when it comes to yelling
Yes this channel will fill the gaping void in my subfeed left by SamONella quite nicely. Yes indeed.
I read in a psychology textbook once that a guy named skinner wanted to help the us military during world war 2, so he devised pigeon guided missiles: the pigeons sat in a sort of "command center", with gold electrodes on their beaks. A screen in front of them would show the outside of the ship. They were trained to recognize enemy vessels on the screen and peck at them, which would fire a missile when the electrode contacted the screen. They'd also occasionally receive a treat to reinforce the behavior.
wowie my brain much larger now!
Say hello to the new academy
I was expecting to hear the story about when they tried training pidgins to guide missiles.
If I remember correctly, it would have worked. Kinda became pointless when modern guided missiles were invented. Not to mention it required the birds to be on board. All that training for a suicide mission that PETA would have a field day with.
I suppose the video would be a lot longer if you covered all wacky war tactics. I just like that one.
But they developed this to something which remained useful! You reward with food a pigeon which pecks an orange dot shown on a clear bowl. Then you put it in an air sea rescue plane in a bubble window and it pecks when it sees an orange life raft. I think the RAF used this for ages.
1:55 relatable damn...
i learned so much
Loved that you drew the actual rothenburg ob der tauber town square. Great job blue Jay! 👍👍
I'm glad you liked it! I tried my best to do it justice
This channel is so good! I love a channel I can learn and laugh at the same time.
“We have come in the name of god! You are now saved” over a burning city with people dead in the streets describes religious militarization better than I ever could.
The inflatable tank battalion and parachuting mannequins used by the allies during WW2 was a good one.
I'm obsessed with the Oversimplified channel, but I've been caught up there for ages. Just found this channel, and you have very similar vibes....time to binge 😁
Channels like you are a beauty keep up the great work!
My favourite use of radio encryption in ww2 was North American First Nation soldiers speaking in their native dialect so nobody outside of the allies could understand them
He’s back wuuuuuuuuuu
Glad your back, you make great videos! I personally, don't mind if it's 6 months between uploads :) you do you my blue dude.
I came here from reddit, amazing channel, please don't give up and keep uploading, you have my sub.
Thank you!! I’m glad you enjoyed!
5:08 PERFECT comedic delivery
"We have come in the name of God, 🔥 you are now saved" 😭😂
I think the craziest (confirmed) war tactic I've heard of was a successful 1 man vs (small) army that sounds like something straight out of folklore: the governor of a moderate sized town in china successfully bluffed his way through an enemy army that showed up while their entire militia was off dealing with something else: he got word of it the night before and had solid reason to believe that surrender wasn't a workable option (army had a reputation) and decided that the best way he ha left to deal with the problem was to bluff, the next morning saw him begin his day by plopping himself down on top of the front gate first thing in the morning with his tea set and...I think it was a guzheng? (I might be mixing the real up with the fictional stuff that stemmed from it on the instrument in question) and playing music and taking tea all day while waiting for them to show up, when they eventually approached he didn't do anything in particular or make any sort of threatening gesture he just sat there calm as can be and continued playing music until they addressed him, he introduced himself all proper-like, invited the commander to pleasantries, and calmly told him to leave, he apparently either did an _excellent_ job selling the scene or something else had happened on the side of the invading army because having the only visible defender acting so utterly nonchalant about having a literal invading army ~10 paces from their front gate freaked the _hell_ out of the commander of said army and he called a retreat as fast as he could politely get through a formal "hello goodbye" sequence.
all the rest I can think of are interesting cases of particularly clever/crazy/bizzare ways of convincing opposing forces that they had way more people than they actually did and/or had reinforcements incoming...one of those might make it into the "wacky tactics" category since the as-far-as-they-knew _completely_ fictional reinforcements actually showed up down to the when, where, who, why, and even roughly right on how many.
Unfortunately, the story about the Empty Fort Strategy is probably fictional. In Chinese folklore, Zhuge Liang, the chancellor of the third-century state of Shu-Han, is said to have defended the city of Xicheng by bluffing just as you described, scaring Sima Yi, the enemy commander, to the point that he ordered a full retreat. Nevertheless, despite the fact that this display of genius was fictional, Zhuge Liang was a highly capable leader historically, and his name is still synonymous with intelligence in modern Chinese culture. As it stands, though, Sima Yi may have proved to be more successful than his foe, as his son conquered Shu-Han in 263, and his grandson would unite all of China under the Jin dynasty by 280.
@@stevencarnegie2800 that might be one of the folklore instances, as far as I know it became something of a meme to the point where it's honestly pretty hard to believe that the "confirmed" story isn't just a story someone recorded as having actually happened. I _did_ do a quick check that the factions involved at least existed back when I read this but I doubt I did more than that and it's been so long I can't even remember names.
...preeeeety sure I would have just outright assumed it was bullshit if the name was someone so common in folklore that I recognized the name from dynasty warriors though.
this particular telling was at the front gate of a small but well established town, one of those kinds of places that has been around forever but has no reason to grow past it's current size.
shennanigans as to whether or not a fortification has people in it are more a japanese thing as far as I know (not that I'm remotely an expert) at least in terms of stuff that actually happened: lots of convincing invaders a fort is full when it's on a skeleton crew or inviting a disastrous attack on an "understaffed" fort or just straight up letting them take it and setting the entire fortification on fire or flooding it.
5:25 I don’t think he will get shipped to Afghanistan any time soon
Underrated
0:13
Mongols during the 1346 siege of Caffa.
How has this channel not gained more attention? This is so good
I literally thought this video had at least a million views.
“You can prove them wrong any time now, dad” best. Line. Ever.
Peak humor, Peak information, Beak of bluebird
Worth the wait :)
I’m so glad you liked it!
I must say, your german voices in any of your vids just make me laugh everytime 😂
Man, I've been watching your videos and they are amazing! Like the humour and the intro's and the like. Quality of editing as well. All of it, basically! Go forth and beyond.
I just found your channel and i really love it, i hope you continue and your channel blows up!!
Definetly subbed
Too bad this channel doesn't have more subscribers (yet). Please don't stop making these! They're awesome!
My favorite tactic was back in Desert Storm, when the Iraqis built a series of trenches to try and bait the US Army into a battle of attrition. So what did we do? We took a bunch of armored bulldozers and literally drove right over them
2:52 I never knew Pringles dude was a veteran. Much respect.
I'm always shocked by how little subs this channel has
Been a while hasn't it
It's been a loonnnnnggg time... how have you been?
*cue portal 2 music*
“Will to live ……..” killed me 😭😂 2:30
Bro i died at the "paint the ocean" scene :)))))
I have the message
Me being a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, "Dieter F Uchtdorf, that sounds very familiar!" Haha, he is one of my favorite speakers.
I was like “MY MANS DIETER”
It's worth noting that not only did the Cap Trafalgar-disguised-as-Carmania meen the real Carmania, but IIRC it was disguised as the Cap Trafalger
3:00 best part. It starts out simple and dumb, then a little crazy and then very insane
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