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“If you find yourself in a fair fight, your tactics suck.” John Steinbeck

Fun Fact: Gatling Guns are still legal to own in the US because they are not considered to be Automatic Weapons by the ATF. They're expensive though.

Germans: *Uses poison gas to inflict slow and painful death* Americans: *Brings out Shotguns* Germans: NEIN! ZIS IS NOT HOW YOU'RE SUPPOSED TO PLAY ZE GAME!

There's no such thing as an "overpowered gun" that is "used to cheat". In combat, you bring as much mechanical advantage, tactical advantage, violence of action, as you possibly can. The only fair fight is the one you lose.

"Just plain unfair" Has there ever been a war that's fair ?

The only ones who find a weapon unfair are usually the ones losing and would use it with out a second thought had they thought of it first

Very cool to include the Girardoni air rifle. I’m a huge air rifle enthousiast and the rifles that are built today are no joke. At that time it was really high tech. Today pre charged pneumatic rifles (PCP), like the girardoni, have around 2900PSI in the air reservoir. That having said, 80 shots on an 800PSI tank, with 46caliber round balls effectieve to 125 yards is astonishing. I have yet to see that in modern airguns. Usually at that range you could expect around 25 effective shots at 125 yards, that being a 9mm or 12.7mm pellet @ 3000 PSI

“There are two kinds of bayonet fighters; the quick and the dead”. Every Army Drill Sergeant.

Gatling: My creation will reduce the casualties of war. Human nature: yeah...about that

And of course no one mentions the other shotguns used in WW1, the Winchester Model 1912 and the Remington Model 10, both of which were also capable of slam fire.

Honorable mention: the 155mm Howitzer can be used as a direct fire death cannon if needed. Not sure if it was ever used in such a way but it's definitely something you absolutely do not want to be in the business end of.

Germany: No! You can’t use shotgun! It’s against the rules of warfare! America: I forgot the part where that’s my problem.

For anyone who'd like to know a little more: 1. Shotguns were effective in WW1 (at close ranges only, about 50 yards at most), but they were really prone to muck and mud (especially the 1897 since it had an externalized breechblock and a lot of openings). Also, the shells were made with paper, which made them have trouble feeding if they got wet since they swelled and jammed in the gun. Brass cartridges were rare and expensive-most did not make it to Europe in time. 2. Slam fire had a really limited use-you're dealing with higher recoil, and most trench guns had really tight cones (you're not peppering 5-6 guys with one large spray of buckshot, you're blasting one dude in particular with a tight spread), so usually you just used slam fire as an emergency or if you were firing at a grouped-up target. 3. Yes, the Allies did protest sawbacks, but sawbacks don't actually inflict further damage (and like SH notes, they were purely used as tools). Also, while the protests were partially why the Germans stopped using sawbacks, it was not the only reason-the actual saw became less useful since most soldiers either didn't need a saw or got a separate tool instead, plus sawbacks take more time to make, so they were withdrawn and many had their saws removed. 4. If you have a Gewehr 98 bayonet, you can tell if your bayonet was originally a sawback by looking at the back-if the back is straight and even the whole length, it was a straight edge the whole time. If the back has a dip and thins near the middle, it was originally a sawback but had the teeth ground off. 5. For anyone curious, the reason Thompson drum mags weren't used was because they're heavy, noisy, and awkward to carry and load compared to sticks. Some were used really early on by the British, but most were withdrawn. Also, Thompson magwells have cuts milled in the sides (the stick magazines go straight into the opening, the feed lips of the drums fit around and into the cuts). The Thompsons used by gangsters (the M1921 and M1921, with the famous foregrip) and the first military Thompson (the M1928A1) have these cuts, while the WWII Thompsons (the M1 and M1A1) don't. If you milled the cuts into the receiver of a WWII Thompson, you could use the drums."

" Humans are always creative when it comes to killing and making each other suffer but not so much in helping each other"

I CLAIM THIS COMMENT SECTION FOR THE GOD EMPEROR OF MANKIND!

I always chuckle when the topic of 'That's not FAIR' is used to describe the evolution of weaponry. War isn't 'Fair,' and only a Fool would try to engage in one that is.

Guns. Can't live with them. Can't live without them.

10:01 you know if this gun made it to large scale production we might not have ever fought a war. The opposing armies wacking off to each other would have erupted in laughter and terrible jokes.

I'm no firearm expert, but i had a friend who served in the DDR Military (not for the longest time, though.) who told me once "if you have an Uzi and a Granade and you want to sweep a room, just throw the Uzi in." I wonder if they really had such an light trigger that they could sometimes go off on their own. Maybe he spoke of the replicated Uzis.

1:25. My response. "Didn't you fuckers invent the flamethrower didn't you fuckers play with mustard gas first"

Those air rifles were insane and if they had done one thing, they could have been "unstoppable" imagine in garrison positions having them set for use with external feed. so on say, a wall, you plug a hose in and fire them that way. with that resivor being refusled by large steam engines. again same system would work on rail lines or even large wgons, where dismounted and dug in infantry fed off air lines from wagons... then when advancing attached their bottles.

13:26 I swear i lost it when the German soldier just kept going 😂😂😂

“If a bullet to the chest won’t stop you, my words will!” Winston Churchill

in old Croatian gun magazine Delta i read about Giordini air rifle used inNapoleonic war. there was a section of French artilery officers diary about them being shoot at by air rifles. loader was shot, and they thought he had a stroke ore a heart attack untill they noticed a blood stain on chest.they saved them self with luck after that.(run away).

The first bit on shotguns reminds me of how a few years ago I got called a "Motherfucker" in Hungarian after wiping the floor with the German team in a BF1 match while playing in the American team, to add to how fitting this was I was playing on European servers as an American... Most fitting moment of gamer rage ever

After finishing the video, I wanted to say I found this video slightly more enjoyable than the typical SH video- I'm unsure if it is due to the topic or the presentation, I noticed the extended coverage of each weapon. Excellent video, thank you.

The Lewis and Clark expedition west brought two Giodairni air rifles! They only used one at a time. They were by far the finest weapons on the expedition and invaluable as a huntung piece.

Can I just say that there is no such thing as fair fight thru history

German: *Uses flamethrowers and mustard gas* Americans: *Has shotguns* Germans: WHAT THE FU- *BOOM!*

There is no cheating in war when someone is trying to kill you. It's about survival.

I feel like I've watched these videos for years and I've never seen this dude's face until now.... Cheers to you and the team, bud. Love the years of content.

Germans: Use flamethrowers and chemical weapons Also Germans: Nein. You can’t use shotguns, they are dishonorable and cruel.

if you are fighting fair, you are not fighting hard enough

Whenever the Uzi is mentioned, I can't help thinking of the Terminator

I love that for the uzi, you added chuck Norris’ iconic scene for it

15:12 Gatling: nooo you cannot use it to cause suffeing! Soldiers: haha suffering go brrrrrt

The use of Chuck Norris, in battle, is a war crime.

The UZI submachine gun is also popular in video games, like Grand Theft Auto.

My Dad told me that if you are not cheating in combat, that means you are not serious about living. Dad was an infantryman during Korea.

Good to see the Girandoni air rifle getting some recognition.

The Gatling gun was no worse than grape or canister shot from cannons. It was lighter and faster, but no more devastating to opponents. It was fed with thirty to fifty round sticks or one hundred round cylinders. A good 16-18 pound Napoleon cannon with double canister could easily fire one hundred ball shot in less than a second.

Next thing you'll know, in the future we'll have laser/plasma blasters and Bolt guns

"...Capable of holding 6 12-gauge slugs, often containing double-aught buckshot." -Simple History, December 19, 2023.

Germans: "develop poison gas and flamethrowers"😊 Americans: "bring hunting shotguns"🫡 Germans: 😡😡

Sorry, but the statement: "Containing 6 12ga slugs, often containing 00 buckshot" is inaccurate. Shells either have slugs or buckshot, you don't have "slugs containing buckshot". A slug is a single solid projectile in a shell. Buckshot is multiple projectiles in a shell. The word "slug" and the word "shell" mean entirely different things, they're not interchangeable

The Gating Gun is a symbol of awesome! The Maxim was the gun used to conquer Africa. The Gatling was too heavy and bulky for much of Africa

Nothing is scarier in WW1 than a crazed marine armed with a shotgun with a short sword for a bayonet. Crossbows, however, are the perfect everyman's weapon of the medieval era. Simple to load, simple to fire, powerful when used in mass. A terrifying weapon in concept and in practice when massed enough against those armed with swords and pikes.

So, based on my research of the trench gun in WW1, the weapon often jammed, as paper cartridges were often used, and was prone to swelling up and jamming.

You should have mentioned the Meiji government of Japan’s use of the Gatling gun during the Satsuma rebellion. That’s straightaway where my mind goes when I think of the Gatling gun, especially in the context of one side of a conflict being strongly outgunned because of it

No such thing as "cheating" , "cruel" or "unfair" in War, LOL.

It’s only cheating when you are on the receiving end.

Imagine using a trench shotgun in ww1 and the german you just killed reports you for hacking💀💀💀

If you ain't cheating you ain't trying.

Other guns you could have added was the 2 American Civil War rifles the Spencer and Henry Repeaters. Also the Gatling gun originally used iron casings that had separately attached percussion caps like on a pistol/revolver, and a minie style bullet inserted into the casing, often in the same caliber as the rifle muskets issued to infantry; the metallic cartridge we know now was not modeled into the Gatling until prior to the Span.-Am. War in 1898. Also infamously, Custer of Little Bighorn infamy; had the chance to take a Gatling with him, but as it was the same as during the Civil War, it was cumbersome and heavy to move around so he forsaken the weapon. Trivia: The Dreyse Needle Rifle while for a time vastly advanced, had a flaw...While it had superior firepower the accuracy was lacking because of the bullet it used, the shape of the round was to some level ahead of its time but because of how it was made in the paper cartridge it had to sit in a type of cup, and with its diameter not perfectly engaging the rifling it compromised performance leading to poor long range power. Resulting in suffering from long distance fire but when they close in takes advantage of the futuristic idea of volume of fire at close range.

The 1897 fires “shells” that can contain slugs or 00 buckshot. A slug is an ammunition type. It’s a large singular projectile. Like a massive bullet.

For years, the Uzi was regarded as being the best SMG you could get your hands on, that is until H&K managed to one-up IMI with the invention of their MP5. Regardless, both guns are VERY sexy.

The concept of rotating barrels is still used today with the guns in some aircraft, such as the A-10, as it allows for a higher rate of fire than a single-barreled weapon.

Nobody going to talk about that German soldier going crazy at that guy with a bayonet, I mean like dude I think hes dead. 😂

''The Gyattling Gun''

During the second British Afghan war during one particular defence an officer of the Scots highlanders killed hundreds of enemy on the first day using his personal shotgun. His commanding officer banned him from using it on the second day as he deemed it "unfair" on the enemy! The position was eventually overun by the enemy but the officer his commander and a handful of men managed to escape to safety.

Thanks for the minute of gatling gun sound in the background. Real nice.

Shotguns in WW1 are vastly overemphasized. There weren't that many of them in the field, the paper shells weren't great in the mud, and they most definitely were not shooting grenades out of the air with them. The issued shell load was 00 buckshot, not birdshot.

I can't believe you didn't include the MG42 Machine gun in this video

There is no cheating in war just annoyances

Fun fact about the ahnihilator in H3VR. in the modded Zombies game mode (a fan ported and remade cod zombies game mode) The Pack-a-punched ahnihilator becomes "Utter Devastation"

I learned about the giradoni air rifle when my class and were studying about the louisiana purchase and the louis and clark expedition, very cool weapon ngl!

The Gatling Gun was not often actually used during the Civil War until the Siege of Petersburg where several were purchased personally by officers.

I actually shot a full auto uzi once. It was surprisingly easy to use. And a lot of fun to shoot.

When the guyswho were using the gas that makes you cough up your lungs get mad that you're using a stick that shoots more bullets in a wider area.

No mention of the Mk.19 Automatic Grenade Launcher? They cleared whole streets in Mogadishu. Facts.

i really love watching these kinds of content❤❤❤

Gatling guns against striking workers,...those were indeed different times. I miss them ;)

Come on y’all knew what you were doing @9:10 😂

So what was worse? Being able to lay down an impressive amount of firepower that would devastate your opponent OR getting captured by said opponent and being tortured to death as was their customs?

Slam fire shotgun is so based it made the Germans cry about banning them instead of realizing their skill issue. Gatling Gun is also very epic and very based too with the brrrr it brings.

The ww1 shotgun is super badass and you feel like doom

8:00 crossbow part is an understatement. Crossbow separated strength menial task of loading from shooting, so one experianced crosbowman, could have used 2 or 3 people to load many crossbows at once, which allowed one man to shoot both a lot of shots, and as he did not tire himself loading, he could do it though most of the battle. it also allowed use of bigger projectiles, above 250lbs that was the limit for bows. Second part that those 10 century old weapons, still penetrate even most modern armors. Bolt could one shot a horse, as well as it can kill against modern armor, that focuses fast and light vs heavy and slow crossbow bolt.

The galling gun is pretty horrific...think of the carnage and terror caused by that machine back in its day. Compared to everything else it must have been insanity

Of course there was gonna be a Trench Gun in the list of unfair guns.

Assasins creed unity gaurd="you know the rules!!!" Arno="NO MASTERBATEING ON THE BATTLEFEILD!!!!"as he swings his air rifle to hit the gaurd. I didnt think me thinking what arno said had to do with anything,i just changed street to battlefeild.

Speaking of the Uzi, Major Uziel Gal of the IDF requested that the weapon not be named after him, but said request was denied. Interestingly, while living in the US, he even helped with the design of the Ruger MP9 during the early 1980s, although only 1500 of these SMGs were ever produced, despite it being called the “improved Uzi.”

Fun fact: There is no cheating in war

Liberal in the year 900: Semi Fully Automatic crossbows must be banned!

What about that damn old Yankee rifle that was loaded on Sunday and shot all week long.

Germans: you can use shotguns USA: did I ask

The title is a false premise. It’s not cheating. The object of war is victory and as Churchill said, at all costs. And the Germans objected to the trench gun but were the first to use chemical weapons on the battlefield so….

A 1:14 twist rate in rifles was also super nasty causing the bullets to tumble an ca8se much more flesh damage

13:10 "Created unnecessary suffering" as the German belly stabs the dude caveman style 24 times. Priceless.

12:58 hahaha it took me some time to realise the German soldier in the back has a sausage on his helmet 😂

7:30 that would only be the big ones with a Wheel reload mechanism, the Arbalest. Some called those "Infantry ballistas". A regular crossbow would Pling right off of a armored knight.

A simple shotgun : *noo booooo too much cruelty boo violation* Deadly gas : *totally legal*

Bro I absolutely loved the black ops 1 reference with the First person pov with the uzi

"is that a serrated bayonet?" "....nooo...is that a shotgun??" "Nah." "Ok then, carry on"

please do a video on these (this is a copy and paste list for a few channels) units and tactics/evaluation of loadouts of troops (from different jobs (and other branches) like the 82 snd 101 airborne units or infantry tank units, (or when tanks were assigned a infantry unit like i think earlier war Russia then all tanks were formed into there own units wich meant the infantry no longer knew the true strength of there own tanks but alowed tank units to fight more efficiently) the tank doctrine of countries evaluation of tank veiw ports evaluation of tanks/armored vehicles of different countries evaluation of aircraft types of different countries, different between navil and army/air force fighters logistics units of the axes and allied powers in ww2 ww1 estern front tactics Russian Civil war tactics and strategies navil ship cross sections (all the rooms and how it all works) evaluation of types of ships or evaluation of navil warfare air craft carrier strike group formations exsamples (from different countries) ancient persan ships, ancient veneti ships (gauls that fought ceaser) ships used by genoa and the vernesain republic the vernesain republic government all sailing ships, (i know theres many on yt but some contradict each other and i think theres more left out) 2b9 vasilyok morter tactics used so far in the Ukraine war, better for squads to be 2 teams of 5 or 3 teams of 3, and probably the easiest, better to keep troops well feed or starved like an animal how dose age effect comsnders eg napoleon got older so took less risks, ancient urban warfare ww2 tactics in Asia, tactics in the Chinese age of warlords, (and Chinese civil war) tactics in the ruso jap war cold war navil tactics, Korean war tactics, strange tactics or unque battles from the American war of independence and America civil war how were 17th centry sailing ships build types of bombs lunched by drones comands given on sailing ships (like ease the sheets and get ready to chine, or slack n beases, basically things you hear movie capitns say) why did the nazis never return (or a video on best occupations) why did the Japanese empire fall, dont just say "America" like things like how there army and navy argued alot alot more on the Polynesians and māori, but please learn pronounceations if you do this

13:34 thats ridiculous, while those actually seems cruel, they enhance versatile like reducing weight abt 0.5 pounds but also faster when swing or draw it out after a thrust

Idk why, but i had a picture of you in my head and an image of what i thought you looked like based on your voice. I was way off 😂 Gteat video as always

"provided it didn't jam." So im guessing i should bring some bread and peanut butter...

Overpowered weapons and guns that are not only cheating in warfare, but a gamechanger in the course of history.

I like how people try to ban certain weapons of war that aren't really as op or should be that wanted to be banned, throughout history. Lol. it's war this stuff happens one side nah try to get and use better stuff to gain an edge