Panzerschreck Tactics: Up-Close and Personal

Published 2024-05-15
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This video covers German Panzerschreck Tactics and how they differed from Panzerfaust Tactics, additionally we also look at defensive positions, organization and general guidelines of employment.

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OKH / Panzeroffizier: Merkblatt 77/1: Richtlinien für den Einsatz von Panzer-Zerstörer-Bataillonen. 2. Januar 1944.

OKH / Panzeroffizier: Merkblatt 77/3: Der Panzerknacker. 13. Mai 1944.

Generalinspekteur der Panzertruppen / General der Panzerabwehr aller Waffen: Merkblatt 77/4: Richtlinien für die Panzernahkampf-Ausbildung. 22. Oktober 1944.

Merkblatt 77/2: 8,8 cm R-Panzerbüchse 54 (Ofenrohr) - Richtlinien für Ausbildung und Einsatz. Oberkommando des Heeres, Gen.St.d.H / Der Panzeroffizier: o. O. 1943.

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D 1864/2: 8,8 cm R Pz B 54 mit 8,8 cm R Pz B Gr 4322. Gebrauchsanleitung. 4. November 1943.

Rottman, Gordon L.: Panzerfaust und Panzerschreck.

00:00 Intro
00:21 Panzerschreck Basics
02:13 Differences Panzerfaust & Panzerschreck
04:53 Panzerschreck Section Tactics
05:21 Organization & Equipment
06:44 Defensive Position
09:35 Guidelines on Employment
11:28 Principles for Combat

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All Comments (21)
  • @bami2
    4:21 "It's so easy even a child can use it, and they do. "
  • "I KNOW IT'S TECHNICALLY IMPOSSIBLE TO FIRE A PANZERSCHRECK FROM AN ENCLOSED POSITION! Don't read the manual next time, and you won't worry so much." -Pgren CoH2
  • Last time I clicked on a video this early, Steiner was still organizing his counterattack.
  • @Vyleea
    Wether you fist or schreck your panzer, your panzer will feel violated :(
  • @ThePerfectRed
    I did not expect to learn anything new but.. "There was a winter and summer ammunition" - I never heard of this, thank you!
  • @nopenope8418
    I like that you used the game to show what you are explaining, this is a good visual aid and a good promotion at the same time!
  • @Bubbleztoo
    This. This is the kind of sponsorship I appreciate
  • @SuperLeosid
    Tactics videos are my favourite lol. Rushed so fast to click the notification I got.
  • @raxit1337
    As a Gates of Hell player, I'm a little disappointed that I can't dig proper trenches like that.
  • Wow, i thought Panzerschrecks were widespread regular infantry weapons like the panzerfausts. I really learned some new here, thank you. <3
  • @evoluxman9935
    Fairly nice way to mix the advertisement with the content, with the "real exemple of a panzershrek position" I'd say.
  • @ottofin3178
    The Men of War devs have been remaking their game for over dozen years now with little to no changes to the engine.
  • @DeusGladiorum
    At 2:03 you call this a “non-kinetic penetration”, but it absolutely is, since as you mentioned it isn’t thermal. It’s the kinetic energy of the rocket that doesn’t matter.
  • @Jansie_NL
    I feel like I missed something.. Why does "Disposable" have an icon of Soviet Womble above it?? xD
  • @isarrider4020
    Deep down in places you don't talk about at partys, you want the next video from MHV, you need the next video from MHV! We use words like Hetzer, StuG, Panzerschreck! I suggest that you leave a like or a comment! Either way, I dont give a damn!
  • @fridrekr7510
    Besides the Panzer-Zerstörer-Bataillon, there are also some infantry K.St.N. with RPzB at company or platoon level. The Panzergrenadierkompanie K.St.N.1114c (gp) from 1.11.1943 lists a Panzer-Zerstörer-Trupp at company level with 4 RPzB as well as one for every squad in the first three platoons, so 13 launchers in total. I don't know whether this was actually used, since it's a very well equipped and heavy formation, but you can also find earlier Panzergrenadier/Schützen company TOEs with anti-tank rifles at company level.
  • @vladimpaler3498
    I think you missed the requirement that the men have balls of stahl to sit there and let tanks roll up on them. I think I would be much less likely to soil myself in Men of War as opposed to actually being there. This does explain why Wehrmacht infantry divisions were able to resist armor division a lot more than we would think. You see this all the time on WW2 IRT or TIK History where the map shows an armored division crashing into an infantry division and you think the latter is going to be wiped out, yet ten seconds later the narrator is saying, "They lost 10 out of 12 tanks and retreated." Particularly later in the war when all the 88's were called back to Germany for anti-aircraft.