EXTRA Extra History: The Battle of Kursk
Added 2016-02-13 05:20:39 +0000 UTCWe've teamed up with the folks at Wargaming to create an extra series of Extra History about World War II: The Battle of Kursk!
Starting on February 15, we'll have new episodes for you every other week. And yes, that's a Monday, not a Saturday: this series will not interrupt your regular Extra History show. Instead, you'll get two episodes every other week!
Although the Patreon rewards (like early access) won't apply to this bonus series, we'll post the new episodes here so they're easy for you to find. We're really looking forward to it and hope you enjoy this series as well!
Comments
Not bad, but I miss the focus on characters of the other Extra History episodes. You didn't even name Von Paulus or other people when you could, instead just calling them things like "the commander of the 6th army". There were a couple "weird" pictures, too, like the Operation Barbarossa map at 5:11 that seemed to show arrows going out from the Netherlands into Germany. It's an introductory episode, and a side project, I know, but it just seemed quite a bit more vague than the usual EH fare.
Øyvind Wallentinsen
2016-02-16 13:59:32 +0000 UTCAwesomesauce. How much would you need to be getting a month to hire enough artists, writers and editors to make biweekly episodes the standard?
Stephen
2016-02-15 14:52:06 +0000 UTCI figured as much. It gets hard to write about history when many of its participants are still around and may disagree. I had once upon a time considered nominating a series about The Troubles.
RMS Oceanic
2016-02-15 13:19:24 +0000 UTCI, personally, wouldn't object if all traditional advertisements were replaced with educational content! Even if it's not *our* educational content, that'd be a cool world to live in.
Extra History
2016-02-15 01:41:48 +0000 UTCWe would die. D:
Extra History
2016-02-15 01:40:58 +0000 UTCFair enough. We'll see what ames had to say then, once we get there. Still, should be interesting!
Nessf
2016-02-14 16:57:07 +0000 UTCTwo shows per week should be the new standard
2016-02-14 09:51:34 +0000 UTCInteresting decision, covering recent history. Looking forward to you tackling this!
Øyvind Wallentinsen
2016-02-13 22:31:43 +0000 UTCThey've been fun to work with! They gave us access to their archives, so we got some really cool tank pictures to use as references.
Extra History
2016-02-13 20:32:15 +0000 UTCLike RMS said, we only take topic suggestions from before the 1920s. We bent that once in a patron vote (Haile Selassie was on the list, but didn't win) and we're sort of dipping our toes into it here.
Extra History
2016-02-13 20:29:57 +0000 UTCIf the patrons ever vote for it, we will!
Extra History
2016-02-13 20:29:07 +0000 UTCSpeaking as someone who did not know about the Battle of Kursk before this series, and who's been learning about it as the episodes come in, I'm really looking forward to sharing these episodes with everyone else now!
Extra History
2016-02-13 20:28:49 +0000 UTCWe had to sit down and have a discussion about this one as a team. We'd talked about doing a post 1920s topic a while ago when we put Haile Selassie on the voting list, but he didn't win. And ultimately we decided that a few forays into World War II would be worth trying. However, I will say - and you will see this on Monday - that we did encounter the kind of thing we'd been worried about with this more recent history, where a lot of these events and people are still highly politicized and we had to make concessions in order to make this series work. James is making a separate video talking about exactly that, which we'll release in conjunction with the first episode on Monday, so I'll leave it to him as he does a much better job than I would talking about what those concessions were.
Extra History
2016-02-13 20:27:01 +0000 UTCYou see, this. This right here. THIS is how game companies need to spend their marketing budget. It's cheaper than banner ads and TV spots, it's informative, and it just kicks ass.
The Cayute
2016-02-13 19:53:47 +0000 UTCSponsorship, likely.
Luna
2016-02-13 18:57:14 +0000 UTCThis is gonna be awesome!
Robbie the Gnome
2016-02-13 18:46:22 +0000 UTCyay :D
Arturo Gutierrez
2016-02-13 16:26:10 +0000 UTCI'm certainly looking forward to even more EH! I do have to ask though: I thought you had a policy of not covering things more recent than about World War I. What changed your mind for this one?
Nessf
2016-02-13 10:25:28 +0000 UTCMuch like choosing the Punic Wars over the Campaigns of Caesar, this is a great choice. I think in most people's minds the Eastern Front is something like "Germany attacks Russia -> ??? -> Stalingrad -> ??? -> Red Army in Berlin", and Kursk is a great place to start filling that gap out, as the last time Germany takes the Strategic Initiative on the Eastern Front.
RMS Oceanic
2016-02-13 09:32:06 +0000 UTCThere's an unofficial rule not to go much further than 1920. It's not ironclad however.
RMS Oceanic
2016-02-13 09:28:07 +0000 UTCYou guys really need to do Czar Peter the Great the carpender Emperor.
James
2016-02-13 08:14:41 +0000 UTCCool to see EH expanding. Looking forward to seeing what the extra history series' extra history series is like.
Mask
2016-02-13 06:58:34 +0000 UTCI am merely amazed, that an episode involving ww2 didn`t come up sooner.
Thomb
2016-02-13 06:53:43 +0000 UTCAll, right!! I'm down for getting extra episodes that otherwise might not happen for a really long while, bring it!
2016-02-13 06:45:16 +0000 UTCLooking forward to it! Wargaming does some great stuff w/ its historical games, and Kursk is pivotal event often overshadowed by Stalingrad. Should be a blast :)
Brett
2016-02-13 05:42:00 +0000 UTCNiiiiice.
Hasan Mahmood
2016-02-13 05:41:08 +0000 UTC
