Italian invasion of British Somaliland (1940) | Call to Arms - Gates of Hell: Ostfront

Fun facts: Battle of British Somaliland is the only major battle in the entire war where Italian Army won without German support. The capture of Somaliland by the Italian also marked the only time in the world history where "The Horn of Africa" is occupy and colonized under a single European power. Unfortunately for them, such a historic feat would only last barely a month as the Nigerian, Indian and South African forces immediately launch a counterattack against it from the west and would keep on attacking until they finally drive them out of East Africa by the 1st of April 1941.

Lovely original content I haven’t seen any videos of the Invasion of Somaliland before, maybe you could do similar battles in Greece or Yugoslavia?

As much as i like this video ive constated a lot of unhistorical point at 1:41 there is a Semovente da 75/18 this Self-propelled Gun was only produced in 1942 to 1944 there also seems to have Semovente da 47/32 same this Self-propelled gun was only produced in 1942 to 1945 and as for the L6/40 tank he was mainly use in the latter stages of the North African campaign and finally the autocannone 100/17 was also only produced from 1941 to 1943 the two main tank that italy as used during the invasion of somalia was the M11/39 and the L3/35 tankettes but i get it for the M11/39 i dont even think that he is in the games even with mod also i understand that maybe you have done that to give more chance to italy to win but there is other way to do it like increase veterency of italy soldier compared to the british soldier. also i dont think somalian invasion was that mechanized because they mainly seems to have lost infantry men during this invasion if you are looking a the casualties and at the force that were present but yes italy did have some truck armoured cars and tank during the invasion but not that many most of there truck armoured cars and tank were send to north africa. if they would have the same equipment show in the video italy would have won the invasion in like less then 1 week haha for exemple there 2:44 and there 1:57 i do agree that this look epic but imo not really historically accurate. by looking at the photos of the invasion it's look like they were more on foot or on horse with some armoured cars and M11/39 with also some L3/35 tankettes. and with some truck. now please take that a constructive critic and not a bad critic my point was not to be mean. But despite this battle being so cool and cinematic hmm idk it disturbe me all those unhistorical thing. also around 70 % of the italian troops during east african campaign was from africa. otherwise continue your beautiful work man.

More Italian ww2 battles would be excellent

Awesome cinematic! Keep it up! 👍

Awesome Vid Bro:yt:

To be honest, haven't watched you in some time now. Wow 50K subs, congrats.

Pre-WWII battles in Abyssinia and in Spanish civil war was Nazi testing areas for new tactics and air strategy,my opinion. Africa suffered brutaly,entire cultures were wiped off the face of the earth. Alittle history = )

Im ganna sub now

hi there some new stuff on steam about Call to Arms - Gates of Hell: Scorched Earth

Hey just asking what sound mod did you use? Cause the gun sounds and voicelines are a bit different from Normal Valour mod..

Why is the Music a Mars by Holst rip off?

I had no idea you can get Italians.!!

Bruh can you make a "what if scenarios" of the two powerful axis countries in world war 2 the Japanese vs Germany?

Can we get this for patreon The map is super pretty

Do battle of Singapore next

We are very happy to be British somaliland

Japanese Invasion Thailand please.

The unique italian victory of the second wrld war

Please do: Battle of England RAF🇬🇧vs Luftwaffe German Invasion of Greece WW2 Soviet invasion of Budapest(Hungary)1944 Allied invasion of Italy 1943 German Invasion of Norway 1940