Your Favorite Period of Warfare

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  1. tobyfan96 Member

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    i would have to say roman or post Napoleonic age with the franco-prussian war and the crimean war
  2. slydessertfox Total War Branch Head

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    And Suvorov.
  3. GeneralofCarthage Well-Known Member

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    Like I said he's overated. You are really going to base your facts on a VIDEO GAME. That is very sad.
  4. slydessertfox Total War Branch Head

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    Who said I was basing my facts off of a video game. I just thought POM gave a nice summary of Suvorov here. I have read up on him and he was far from overrated. I will give you some links if you like.
  5. General Mosh Citystates Founder!

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    Suvorov had some pretty good tactics for sure.
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    Favorite's gotta be the age of industry (American Civil War-Vietnam).
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    So the entirety of history?
    If you had to live in just one period, which would you pick?
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    My favorite was World War One and probably the nineteenth century as a whole
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    WW1 was in the 20th century......
  12. Axnoter Member

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    oh i knew that ,i meant that wwi was my favorite and also the Nineteenth century wars were too

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    Middle-Ages and guerilla warfare in the 50s till 80s
  14. iPapaSmurf Member

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    Napoleonic wars, Napoleon was a military genious. It was a shame his hostility and aggression was his undoing, Sometimes I wonder, what if the emperor had won waterloo? I believe the Napoleonic wars where the best because of how massive and brutal these battles got. I am a long time admierer of Napoleon and too me he was what france always needed.
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    Become immortal and start off with the Babylonians and go traveling between China, India, Persia, and Europe.
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    WW1 charging across no man's land through barbed wire, land mines, musterd gas, and a hail of mechine gun fire and artillery with brutal hand to hand combat at the end truly epic.
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    Fall down in mud and drown in a puddle.
    Go permanently blind from mustard gas.
    Die of disease after your skin is ripped off by lice, rats or flies.
    Get trenchfoot.
    Get shellshock.
    Get some shrapnel lodged in your knee and die after hours.
    Get your foot caught in barbed wire and catch a horrific infection.
    Typhoid, cholera, typhus.
    Extreme cold or hot conditions.

    I don't know why you people suddenly find WW1 so glamorous.
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    It wasn't if anything it's one of the worst wars to fight in.
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    I like how he said he was "off balancing" the opposite like 17 times.

    You do not most everyone died of gas, disease, starvation, infection, or some other secondary thing. Most people didn't die of actual combat.

    Not to mention, how is picking and choosing which units will be wiped out to win the battle glamorous? Many times commanders would know exactly how many of their own soldiers they were throwing away in suicidal attacks but they did it anyway because they valued an unnecessary war over the lives of their own soldiers.

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