James Langham

James Langham

Welcome to my channel that is primarily concerned with wargaming, role playing games (RPGs) and military history (with the odd random digression).

It is the home for the "Cold War Goes Hot," "British Officers Don't Duck," Alea Jacta Est," "Through Flanders, Portugal and Spain" and "News From Bree" series of videos of modern gaming, World War Two gaming, anciet and medieval gaming and black powder era gaming and fantasy gaming respectively.

If you would like to support me I now have a Patreon page - patreon.com/user?u=55486026&Link&

Stealing Tanks with the History Guy

Stealing Tanks with the History Guy

Traveller's Tales Vol 1: Review

Traveller's Tales Vol 1: Review

Tankfest opening 2024

Tankfest opening 2024

Tankfest 2024 - Cold War Tanks

Tankfest 2024 - Cold War Tanks

Cold War Museum visit

Cold War Museum visit

Roll to Victory

Roll to Victory

The Sten Gun

The Sten Gun

Bring up the PIAT!

Bring up the PIAT!

Tiger Day Spring 2024

Tiger Day Spring 2024

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  • @user-ic1wl5ni5g
    @user-ic1wl5ni5gКүн бұрын

    국가별 시기별 여러탱크 나오네

  • @jameslangham9854
    @jameslangham985418 сағат бұрын

    These are just a selection of their tanks, the collection is extensive.

  • @user-ic1wl5ni5g
    @user-ic1wl5ni5gКүн бұрын

    전차박물관 어디냐

  • @jameslangham9854
    @jameslangham985418 сағат бұрын

    It is in Bovington, Dorset, England. They also have an excellent KZread channel that is well worth following.

  • @telesniper2
    @telesniper24 күн бұрын

    Is that a battlefield obscurant vehicle, or did you just blow a head gasket???

  • @jameslangham9854
    @jameslangham98543 күн бұрын

    Lol, if you look carefully there are smoke grenades outside the vehicles being used for the red, white and blue effect

  • @geesusway70
    @geesusway704 күн бұрын

    Probably my favourite tank ever behind the T-55, incredibly versatile, ubiquitous, easy enough to maintain, abundance of spare parts and ammunition, it just works

  • @jameslangham9854
    @jameslangham98543 күн бұрын

    It certainly met the design criteria for a mobilization only tank to be produced in vast numbers. I would regard it's biggest weakness as the autoloader not for the speed (improved on later models) but for the reduction in crew making field maintenance harder (especially in command vehicles where the commander gets called away to meetings).

  • @dos_feratu
    @dos_feratu4 күн бұрын

    Outstanding! Looking forward to your discussions of the other four Poland Campaign modules. Keep 'em coming, please.

  • @jameslangham9854
    @jameslangham98544 күн бұрын

    Thank you, just waiting for them to arrive....

  • @defleshedbuttocks
    @defleshedbuttocks7 күн бұрын

    Delicious biscuits?

  • @jameslangham9854
    @jameslangham98546 күн бұрын

    They do feature a lot in our games ...

  • @dos_feratu
    @dos_feratu7 күн бұрын

    James, great video! Thanks! Also, I appreciated the Morrow Project reference. I always loved that game.

  • @jameslangham9854
    @jameslangham98547 күн бұрын

    Thank you

  • @PotanCZ
    @PotanCZ11 күн бұрын

    Wow, this looks like a great deal!

  • @jameslangham9854
    @jameslangham985411 күн бұрын

    That was my thought, it was one of those gambles that paid off

  • @joem1309
    @joem130911 күн бұрын

    Great video James, had no idea the Germans reclassified vehicles like that. Makes you question some of the other statistics right? Also, quick side note: Have you considered getting a lapel microphone for filming in public? I think it could reduce some of the background noise.

  • @jameslangham9854
    @jameslangham985411 күн бұрын

    Thank you, there's another coming on Whittmann regarding statistics. I do have a lapel mike but I hadn't planned on making this at Tankfest, it was a spur of the moment job after some reading at the hotel so the mike was at home.

  • @JJ-ft6jb
    @JJ-ft6jb12 күн бұрын

    Sounds pretty reasonable to do the stats like that to me, odd sounding tho.

  • @jameslangham9854
    @jameslangham985411 күн бұрын

    It would probably have helped if they had separate categories for built and rebuilt. Gave me material for a video though!

  • @123erta3
    @123erta312 күн бұрын

    Hey james, thought u did a great job! Perhaps it could be better if you do a voice over the next time? The background noise tends to drown out the content you want to share :)

  • @jameslangham9854
    @jameslangham985411 күн бұрын

    Thanks, I do plenty (mainly shorts) as voiceovers. Hard to get good footage for this with the crowds for that. Normally I would use a mic but this was a spur of the moment take when I didn't have it with me (inspired by reading in the hotel the night before).

  • @PatGilliland
    @PatGilliland13 күн бұрын

    These look great - I can't quite make out the name - can you provide it or the amazon link? Thanks

  • @jameslangham9854
    @jameslangham985411 күн бұрын

    Here you go TOYANDONA Truck Car Models: 10Pcs... www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B09Q6FH9Y9?ref=ppx_pop_mob_ap_share

  • @PatGilliland
    @PatGilliland11 күн бұрын

    @@jameslangham9854 Thanks mate!

  • @willemsma
    @willemsma13 күн бұрын

    Every cat was a tiger in the eyes of a GI

  • @jameslangham9854
    @jameslangham985411 күн бұрын

    Understandable as a Mk IV with spaced armour looks very like a Tiger at battle ranges (it's interesting that the excellent book Warriors for the Working Day records all German tanks as Tigers. Also worth noting that the Americans did not meet Tigers in Normandy until July...

  • @Questionablepainting
    @Questionablepainting13 күн бұрын

    Great video.

  • @jameslangham9854
    @jameslangham985411 күн бұрын

    Thank you

  • @googleyoutubeaccount
    @googleyoutubeaccount13 күн бұрын

    Could be great to put a little LED in there cor ambience!

  • @jameslangham9854
    @jameslangham985413 күн бұрын

    I'm not sure how well it would work following it out.

  • @googleyoutubeaccount
    @googleyoutubeaccount13 күн бұрын

    @@jameslangham9854 can get those little penny sized flat batteries and drill small hole into the base, they're also magnetic if you needed something to secure it to a base or diorama or game!

  • @Lego-Figure541
    @Lego-Figure54114 күн бұрын

    Cute tank🫠

  • @jameslangham9854
    @jameslangham985414 күн бұрын

    Cute but unnecessary

  • @anguineH
    @anguineH15 күн бұрын

    Nice

  • @jameslangham9854
    @jameslangham985414 күн бұрын

    Thanks or is it tanks? 😀

  • @Noobixm
    @Noobixm18 күн бұрын

    “Put it in sideways” “Cut a hole in the back and have it stick out the back”

  • @jameslangham9854
    @jameslangham985418 күн бұрын

    If it works... Lol

  • @Bartona333
    @Bartona33318 күн бұрын

    Cool

  • @jameslangham9854
    @jameslangham985418 күн бұрын

    Thanks

  • @CoolCraftCool
    @CoolCraftCool18 күн бұрын

    Wow they just went UP UP UP scale even battleships normaly fit in a hand? These are huge!

  • @jameslangham9854
    @jameslangham985418 күн бұрын

    I was VERY impressed

  • @pennydunwell7005
    @pennydunwell700519 күн бұрын

    I admire your enthusiasm

  • @jameslangham9854
    @jameslangham985418 күн бұрын

    He really is passionate (as are many reenactors)

  • @steventhornton4716
    @steventhornton471619 күн бұрын

    It comes out just under the gun pivot where it stuck fast I do hope it missed the crew

  • @jameslangham9854
    @jameslangham985419 күн бұрын

    I would guess that was from being a range target as the ones that went to France were all lost and the others never saw combat.

  • @steventhornton4716
    @steventhornton471619 күн бұрын

    It's a through and through looks like an anti tank rifle

  • @steventhornton4716
    @steventhornton471619 күн бұрын

    Just above the shovels head

  • @steventhornton4716
    @steventhornton471619 күн бұрын

    Theres a bullet hole in the left armor under the turret by the looks

  • @user-ss4ms7pk6g
    @user-ss4ms7pk6g20 күн бұрын

    sir that is not a good cam angle, we dont wanna see the m🌒🌙n every time u move aboard the starship, pls wear a 🧢 atleast, i mean im bald as well so i know its not very sexy...

  • @ELP2626
    @ELP262620 күн бұрын

    Jesus this looks like colourised WW2 footage 😬😂

  • @jameslangham9854
    @jameslangham985419 күн бұрын

    Lol, unfortunately it stopped a long way away and the zoom wasn't brilliant. There's some gi res footage to follow (as videos not shorts)

  • @lightningforesthd3446
    @lightningforesthd344623 күн бұрын

    Have you visited the museum before 2016?

  • @jameslangham9854
    @jameslangham985422 күн бұрын

    Around 1980 twice, once with my dad and once on a school trip.

  • @lightningforesthd3446
    @lightningforesthd344622 күн бұрын

    @@jameslangham9854 how different was it?

  • @jameslangham9854
    @jameslangham985422 күн бұрын

    Hard to remember, much more was outside, no VCC, and far less emphasis on people.

  • @lightningforesthd3446
    @lightningforesthd344620 күн бұрын

    @@jameslangham9854 so back before Easter this year I went to the tank museum and saw the Tommy in the trenches tour. The guide was explaining to us the experiences of what young soldiers had to go through. At the end of the tour he said that this exhibition was built in November 1998. I asked him if he could bring back the original audio to the trenches and I showed him some recordings but he said for me to move on. I also asked him if he could switch on the old blue headlights above. He said he won’t because it could be too dark and his younger grandson was too scared to walk through the trenches when he took him to see. However the tour guide did mention that one morning few months ago, his morning job was to open the door to the trenches and use a flashlight to find his way to the operating buttons to turn the audios on as well as the lights. After pulling the switch to turn the sounds on, an unusual noise started playing what seemed like a carriageway train charging through the area followed up with another audio playing of some injured men in the stretchers crying out “water, water!” He thought it was a ghost calling him to fetch some water. After the audio stopped playing, he never heard it again and was very confused because he had never heard this sound before after working in the museum for a couple of years. What could be the problem that activated that particular speaker? Why did it never play again? Could it be repaired and restored?

  • @lightningforesthd3446
    @lightningforesthd344619 күн бұрын

    @@jameslangham9854 so back before Easter this year I went to the tank museum and saw the Tommy in the trenches tour. The guide was explaining to us the experiences of what young soldiers had to go through. At the end of the tour he said that this exhibition was built in November 1998. I asked him if he could bring back the original audio to the trenches and I showed him some recordings but he said for me to move on. I also asked him if he could switch on the old blue headlights above. He said he won’t because it could be too dark and his younger grandson was too scared to walk through the trenches when he took him to see. However the tour guide did mention that one morning few months ago, his morning job was to open the door to the trenches and use a flashlight to find his way to the operating buttons to turn the audios on as well as the lights. After pulling the switch to turn the sounds on, an unusual noise started playing what seemed like a carriageway train charging through the area followed up with another audio playing of some injured men in the stretchers crying out “water, water!” He thought it was a ghost calling him to fetch some water. After the audio stopped playing, he never heard it again and was very confused because he had never heard this sound before after working in the museum for a couple of years. What could be the problem that activated that particular speaker? Why did it never play again? Could it be repaired and restored?

  • @lightningforesthd3446
    @lightningforesthd344623 күн бұрын

    Have you visited the museum before 2016?

  • @jameslangham9854
    @jameslangham985422 күн бұрын

    Around 1980 twice, once with my dad and once on a school trip.

  • @ironredcow6389
    @ironredcow638924 күн бұрын

    Lol such as a huge kit, where can i get 1 mate?

  • @jameslangham9854
    @jameslangham985423 күн бұрын

    eBay?

  • @mikeycraig8970
    @mikeycraig897024 күн бұрын

    Bovington has a lot of tanks, has quite a few rare ones too. The T72 will be rare soon if the Ukraine is anything to go by 😂

  • @scolic03
    @scolic0325 күн бұрын

    It's really enlightening to see the period correct gear, you understand that the perception we have of them is completely different from the historical reality.

  • @jameslangham9854
    @jameslangham985424 күн бұрын

    Reenactors have a lot to give in understanding history, I've found out a lot of interesting things from them..

  • @user-ve3gh5xg9q
    @user-ve3gh5xg9q25 күн бұрын

    🇬🇧 offi🍩cer 😊

  • @frankthompson6503
    @frankthompson650326 күн бұрын

    Radio operator gunner used this turret small seat gunner sat on

  • @frankthompson6503
    @frankthompson650326 күн бұрын

    This was 1976 yes they had big gun but many had gpmg machine gun

  • @jameslangham9854
    @jameslangham985426 күн бұрын

    Most sources say 13 converted but I did find a list of serial numbers that implied 16. Many of the remainder had a Peak turret for the GPMG replacing the pintel mount.

  • @matthewvanvliet9280
    @matthewvanvliet928026 күн бұрын

    Looks great mr hews

  • @jameslangham9854
    @jameslangham985426 күн бұрын

    Great to see it, I always planned to do a video on it when it was a gate guard but never got around to it.

  • @Usairborne1944
    @Usairborne194427 күн бұрын

    Nice 👍

  • @jameslangham9854
    @jameslangham985426 күн бұрын

    Glad you enjoyed

  • @liammitchell9900
    @liammitchell990027 күн бұрын

    Mr Hewes?

  • @jameslangham9854
    @jameslangham985426 күн бұрын

    Presumably the KZread tank commentator and restorer.

  • @paper2061
    @paper206128 күн бұрын

    Mythical pull

  • @jameslangham9854
    @jameslangham985426 күн бұрын

    ?

  • @BadgerBadgerBadger28
    @BadgerBadgerBadger2828 күн бұрын

    And just like that Poof! A barn appears

  • @jameslangham9854
    @jameslangham985428 күн бұрын

    And many years ahead of the Turtle Tanks.... Lol

  • @allgood6760
    @allgood676028 күн бұрын

    Thanks mate👍🇳🇿

  • @jameslangham9854
    @jameslangham985428 күн бұрын

    My pleasure!

  • @jameslangham9854
    @jameslangham985428 күн бұрын

    My pleasure!

  • @joseluishuanca2899
    @joseluishuanca2899Ай бұрын

    Haber que dispare.

  • @jameslangham9854
    @jameslangham9854Ай бұрын

    As a photographer or gunner? Lol

  • @walkaboutgamez2502
    @walkaboutgamez2502Ай бұрын

    It’s a great game I’m working non more aircraft for it . I can’t wait till Battle of Britain content for it comes out

  • @jameslangham9854
    @jameslangham9854Ай бұрын

    Ditto to both. I've put some extra bomber stats in the FB group

  • @mikeycraig8970
    @mikeycraig8970Ай бұрын

    Valiant's a different tank 😉

  • @jameslangham9854
    @jameslangham9854Ай бұрын

    That was me stumbling over the word variant! Ooops

  • @devoidoverlord1836
    @devoidoverlord1836Ай бұрын

    Probably will be seeing them in Ukraine lol

  • @jameslangham9854
    @jameslangham9854Ай бұрын

    Still in service and very useful, especially against drones.

  • @user-jj5ty2zg8m
    @user-jj5ty2zg8mАй бұрын

    Fake BMW R71 and not by far a R75

  • @jameslangham9854
    @jameslangham9854Ай бұрын

    I'm no expert and went on what I was told, could you enlighten me on how to spot the difference please?

  • @user-jj5ty2zg8m
    @user-jj5ty2zg8mАй бұрын

    @@jameslangham9854 just look up the pictures on Wikipedia. However, If you have the urge to learn also the details of the BMW R75, try to get you hands on this superbly informative book: Giovanni Bianchi Evolution during war years 1941-1944 BMW 750/275 (R75) From the Automotoclub Storico Italiano

  • @CenturionMkXIII
    @CenturionMkXIIIАй бұрын

    This tank is definitely overshadowed by the Centurion BARV which is in the Vehicle conservation centre

  • @iplaypavlovvr438
    @iplaypavlovvr438Ай бұрын

    Why is bro holding the sten like that bruh 💀 if u hold the magazine u get less recoil 😭

  • @jameslangham9854
    @jameslangham9854Ай бұрын

    The textbook is to hold there. Holding the magazine can induce stoppages (just like the Sterling that followed it).

  • @iplaypavlovvr438
    @iplaypavlovvr438Ай бұрын

    @@jameslangham9854 seriously bro 💀 it's literally a toob no shit it's gonna start jamming anyways 💀

  • @jameslangham9854
    @jameslangham9854Ай бұрын

    Probably not as bad as it's reputation, the biggest issue was the magazine, experienced users looked for the better made ones.