Your Favorite Battles

[Chosen1]

Battle of Gazala. Erwin Rommel was outnumbered and had considerably less tanks, but he was still able to capture Tobruk and capture 35,000 South Africans. Rommel is the only chocolate chip cookie I can admire.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Gazala

edit: lol, it filtered N-A-Z-I into chocolate chip cookie.

[Prinz_Karl]

Battle of Gazala. Erwin Rommel was outnumbered and had considerably less tanks, but he was still able to capture Tobruk and capture 35,000 South Africans. Rommel is the only chocolate chip cookie I can admire.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Gazala

Erwin Rommel also wasn't the person you would call a national socialist and he wasn't member of the NSDAP. He was more like the unpolitically person who was serving as general and nothing more

[Sniger]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Svolder

[Ragni_Bross]

Agincourt, Pharsalus, Rocroi!

[Rhuarc91]

Battle of Iwo Jima or really any battles of the Pacific theatre I find to be rather interesting due to the nature of those battles. Also enjoy some battles from Vietnam Khe sahn and stuff like that

[Relit]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_El_Guettar

This is my favorite battle, was taught all about it during military school. Was the first major american battle in North Africa where it was shown that US forces could stand up to the more experienced German crews.

[War_Ferret]

I think they are all equally awesome.

It is always beautiful and glorious, when two brainwashed mobs are tricked into hating and killing each other with false pretenses, created by the rich and powerful, with the sole purpose of getting more rich and powerful in the process - until this day.

Not to mention the pain and suffering, the loss of the relatives and the hatred lasting for generations it creates. So sweet.

[Umbra]

Welp, as a Croat my predictable response will be http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siege_of_Szigetv%C3%A1r

Just seeing the odds, the result, and imagining Zrinjski charging out makes my little Croatian hart warm 

[Molly]

My favourite battle would probably be the Battle of Belgrad: Leshma vs Waradin... 

[Xant]

I think they are all equally awesome.

It is always beautiful and glorious, when two brainwashed mobs are tricked into hating and killing each other with false pretenses, created by the rich and powerful, with the sole purpose of getting more rich and powerful in the process - until this day.

Not to mention the pain and suffering, the loss of the relatives and the hatred lasting for generations it creates. So sweet.

Truly; the real glory was to be had at home, working fifteen hours a day on your field, having no money for medicine or anything but just enough food to scrape by; dying of disease at the age of twenty-five, having done nothing but farmed your whole life. Your sarcasm is well founded: who in their right mind would actually want to get away from their fields and slow starvation?

[War_Ferret]

Truly; the real glory was to be had at home, working fifteen hours a day on your field, having no money for medicine or anything but just enough food to scrape by; dying of disease at the age of twenty-five, having done nothing but farmed your whole life. Your sarcasm is well founded: who in their right mind would actually want to get away from their fields and slow starvation?

So, in order to escape medieval life, you go out, slaughter each other and hope to die as a pawn for your liege, chopped to pieces until death releases you from the pain?

Mmkay...

[Xant]

Yup.

"But, apart from killing people, you could die yourself. You could get killed in one of these futile wars."

"Yes, and I could live on, like a battery hen, in one of these futile cities. Filling in futile forms, paying futile taxes to enable futile politicians and state managers to fritter it away on electorally useful white elephants. I could earn a futile salary in a futile office and commute futilely on a train, morning and evening, until a futile retirement. I prefer to do it my way, live my way and die my way."

[War_Ferret]

If we were talking revolutions, rolling heads and stuff, ok.

But dying in an average war is only glorious, if you're stupid enough to believe the official story.
If you don't want to live, you don't have to go kill others. You can just slit your wrists and be done with it.

[Xant]

Dying isn't the goal.

[Osiris]

yes because people in medieval europe had the same thoughts culture and goals as you mr ferret ^^

Im sure they also had lots of choice when called to fight by their lords at the start.

The rising importance of foot troops, then, brought not only the opportunity but also the need to expand armies substantially. Then as early as the late 13th century, we can observe Edward I campaigning at the head of armies incorporating tens of thousands of paid archers and spearmen.. This represented a major change in approaches to recruitment, organization, and above all pay.[2]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infantry_in_the_Middle_Ages

i read in a book once probably historical fiction and totally a lie but it made sense and stuck with me why tend a field for £1 when i can stand behind a pike for £10 (clearly the money i made up) but you get my drift not to mention the propaganda and nationalism hell why did anyone fight ever ^^