WW2 The Resource War - III: The Engines of War by Extra History

[BjornB]

Spoiler: You can check out the previous episodes here

 

[Hunterheimlicht]

Nice!

 

[Bhaal]

Excellent, loving these little vids.

 

[uishax]

Very interesting marketing strategy, I would have never thought of luring history students into HOI with such a sponsorship.

 

[Ownage]

I really enjoy these, I hope that more are to come!

 

[BoleslavLev]

That China flag though.

 

[wright1331]

I love these, very cool.... keep em comming

 

[AapoAlas]

That China flag though.

They want to keep it as simple as possible. A bit unfortunate but well... Can't be helped.

 

[Adige]

I dont know it is me or this one little bit boring.

 

[BurdenedWarrior]

Great vid! Keep em coming

 

[cmburns88]

Sorry but I don't see pseudo-history without fact checking as a good PR video. Nice idea from Paradox, but in my opinion, they should have gone with a true history teaching channel, like Crash Course or something like, not some dudes who tell stories more then history.

 

[farrenj]

Sorry but I don't see pseudo-history without fact checking as a good PR video. Nice idea from Paradox, but in my opinion, they should have gone with a true history teaching channel, like Crash Course or something like, not some dudes who tell stories more then history.

Try not to cut yourself on that edgy comment.

 

[KaiserNoncehelmIII]

Really good and interesting. I think you should advertise on alternate history forums if you aren't already, those people are perfect for grandstrategy.

 

[Fulmen]

Some of this guy's videos are interesting, but I'm not a big fan. The voice changing gives an insecure image of the narrator and I've seen more than one of his videos where he put in myths or blatant lies as historical facts, and actually got called out for it in the comments section.

EDIT: Partly emu'd by cmburns88

Sorry but I don't see pseudo-history without fact checking as a good PR video. Nice idea from Paradox, but in my opinion, they should have gone with a true history teaching channel, like Crash Course or something like, not some dudes who tell stories more then history.

@cmburns88 While Crash Course has made some very interesting videos (I mysef prefer them as well over Extra History), I found their WW2 videos a little poor in quality. The version of WW2 depicted by them was very much the traditional Western Allied view of the war, completely omitting important events such as the Winter War (and I don't say this just because I'm Finnish), with a special focus on mid- and late-war battles that the Western Allies won against Germany at a point in time when it was already clear that Germany had lost the war.

Good docus that I'd recommend:

• How Hitler Lost the War
• The Nordic War: The Battle for Finland's Independence 1939-45

Both can be found on YouTube.

 

[EnvyDemon]

Some of this guy's videos are interesting, but I'm not a big fan. The voice changing gives an insecure image of the narrator

Extra Credits started when Dan was in collage. Originally, he sped up his voice in order to meet the maximum time that his project allowed.

It stuck, and is constantly made fun of, and Extra Credits wouldn't be Extra Credits without his sped up voice.

Of course, he has done things without his voice sped up.

And it sounds weird plainly.

 

[Axe99]

Great little vid, look forward to the next one .

 

[Nicolas I]

Given that sometimes there's oversimplification or not 100% accurate, but that's normal as the goal is to draw the rough lines of history, not being a documentary.

 

[SaydaNeen]

awesome!

 

[stratigo]

Very interesting marketing strategy, I would have never thought of luring history students into HOI with such a sponsorship.

Extra history is more... interested amateur level history.

 

[BjornB]

I see these videos as a sample. If it makes just a few people grow an interest and pursue deeper knowledge it's well invested money in my opinion