Historical goofs in COD:WW2

[Phil The Hammer]

There are several historical inaccuracies in COD: WW2, but what the hell; it's a vidgame!

First, in the map "Carentan: Winter", there was no fightintg there in the winter. The Germans occupied it in spring 1940: the Allies captured it in August 1944. My late dad was there, so I know.

Next, in the "Anthropoid" map, no one was killed when the Czech threw the bomb at Reinhard Heydruch's car. Heydrich died a week later in terrible agony, a much-deserved end of the man who'd come up with the "final solution" for those undesirable to the Nazis.

Naturally, a vidgame has to have some twists to make it interesting (Shooting down aircraft with a PANZERSHRECK?) but I hope no one believes all the "history" it presents, especially the attributes of the various weapons.

[Phil The Hammer]

As I'm a military vet, someone asked me about the historicity of the BLUNDERBUSS in WW2. My answer was, YES, that ancient firearm was indeed used right before WW2 officially started, when Italy invaded Ethiopia (Then called "Abyssinia".) The Ethiopians had very few modern weapons, & used everything from spears & arrows to smoothbore muzzle-loading muskets, many of them homemade.

They made blunderbusses from metal tubes & pipes, loading them with scrap metal. They did take out a few Italians with those promitive weapons, but the outcome was a foregone.conclusion, as we know. But YES, a few blunderbusses were used during WW2 by Ethiopians waging guerrilla warfare against their conquerors.