What was the dumbest tactical decision you've seen or read in movies, games, tv and books? For me it was the movie King Arthur, You have a wall. A huge, fortified wall. Outside the wall is a horde of Saxon barbarians howling for your blood. Obviously, the most intelligent tactic in this situation is to open the wall's gates and allow the barbarians to march in so you could face them in a fair fight with your poorly armed and outmanned forces. I can certainly see how Arthur became legendary. P.S. No real life examples please
Well, LotR is an obvious one. "Hey, let's walk to the other side of the world which is filled with enemies and such to throw this ring in a volcano. What? Going there on the giant fucking eagles? Fuck that, we'll walk!"
Well it was legit as they're fighting unconventionally. Standing their ground at walls would be a death sentence. For me it has to be Behind enemy line(s?) - worst movie ever made may I add - when hero runs in open field and there's a platoon of enemies shooting at this guy with assault rifles and APCs and this guy is not even trying to get to cover or dodge or anything. Yet no one hits him -.-''
I remember seeing some LotR master argue against this idea. Apparently there is supposed to be some reason why the eagles can't fly near Mordor. Plus you have the nazgul, even if they could fly to Mordor.
the Trojans in the movie Troy. They decided to place their armies outside of the city walls instead of having the Greeks besiege them.. then why did they have walls in the first place?
If you read the illiad, the Greeks weren't trained in seige warfare, the greeks believed in fighting outside in open field same as the trojans.
"We're going to build massive walls so no one can come in! We'll fight outside, though. Honour and stuff."
well if they could break the seige there and then it would be better for them. Being under siege for a long time isn't really an ideal situation.
That's true, but I think the Greeks greatly outnumbered them. If you're going to build giant walls, might as well use them. Archers, catapults etc. The Greeks themselves would've had problems with disease and supplies as well, maybe even more so than the Trojans. They were quite far from home, and sailing back and forth would take weeks. In ten years, both sides would've been severely weakened.
They had a early concept of currency, you think thy have the means to calculate the speed and needed force of momentum to carry a rock through the air? Just saying....
Economics and physics are two different concepts. Lacking the knowledge of one doesn't automatically exclude the other. Still, I forgot the Trojan War was far before the other and more familiar ancient history.
