War

[Cenna]

Pick your personal favorite battle. One that you perceive to be the best and most grand battle.

 

[M'ilord🎯]

Pick your personal favorite battle. One that you perceive to be the best and most grand battle.

In game wars?

 

[Isaacia]

Battle of Kursk, 1943

Largest tank battle in history

 

[NerdDragon]

Battle of Leyte Gulf - 1944

Remembered as largest naval battle ever fought 

 

[M'ilord🎯]

Aljubarrota battle 

August 14, 1385 we were outnumbered in every way possible


About 6,500 men:[1]

• 4,000 foot soldiers
  
• 1,700 lances
  
• 800 crossbowmen
  
• 100 English longbowmen
  

About 31,000 men:[1]

• 15,000 foot soldiers
  
• 6,000 lances
  
• 8,000 crossbowmen
  
• More than 2,000 French heavy knights
  
• 15 mortars
  

We won.

:ninja_turtle:

 

[Woot]

Battle of Leyte Gulf - 1944

Remembered as largest naval battle ever fought 

Leyte Gulf was the greatest naval battle of WW2 because both of these fucking abominations were sunk:

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But how about Jutland, in World War One? All the battleships and cruisers lined up and went pew pew pew at each other with 10,000 shells until some of them exploded, that was a proper naval battle

 

[Isaacia]

Leyte Gulf was the greatest naval battle of WW2 because both of these fucking abominations were sunk:

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But how about Jutland, in World War One? All the battleships and cruisers lined up and went pew pew pew at each other with 10,000 shells until some of them exploded, that was a proper naval battle

What ship is that? That sure isn't the Yamato or the Musashi

 

[Woot]

That one is the Fuso, and the Yamashiro is even worse. It melted camera film and blinded observers, but here's an artist's rendition:

 

[Isaacia]

That one is the Fuso, and the Yamashiro is even worse. It melted camera film and blinded observers, but here's an artist's rendition:

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I'm surprised those ships even got that far without capsizing.

 

[Rin]

Battle of Yarmouk:

Byzantine forces: 100,000–150,000 (modern estimates)

Arab forces: 15,000–20,000 (modern estimates)

Result:

At least 50,000 Romans killed.

3,000 Arabs killed

The battle caused the Arabs to annex the Levant, and the main territories of the Persians.

Khalid al-Walid marched all the way over from his campaign in Persia to do this battle. So he was kicking ass on the front doors of both superpowers at the same time. Right after this victory, Khalid was demoted, because Caliph Umar didn't want the victories to get to his head.

 

[Abdul]

 

[Lordship]

Thermopylae obviously

 

[Big Brother]

The Battle of Cannae:

The Battle of Cannae (/ˈkæni/ or /ˈkæneɪ/) was a major battle of the Second Punic War that took place on 2 August 216 BC in Apulia, in southeast Italy. The army of Carthage, under Hannibal, decisively defeated a larger army of the Roman Republic under the consuls Lucius Aemilius Paullus and Gaius Terentius Varro. It is regarded both as one of the greatest tactical feats in military history and as one of the worst defeats in Roman history.

Having recovered from their losses at Trebia (218 BC) and Lake Trasimene (217 BC), the Romans decided to engage Hannibal at Cannae, with roughly 86,000 Roman and allied troops. The Romans massed their heavy infantry in a deeper formation than usual, while Hannibal utilized the double-envelopment tactic. This was so successful that the Roman army was effectively destroyed as a fighting force. Following the defeat, Capua and several other Italian city-states defected from the Roman Republic to Carthage.

Theodore Ayrault Dodge wrote:


Few battles of ancient times are more marked by ability... than the battle of Cannae. The position was such as to place every advantage on Hannibal's side. The manner in which the far from perfect Hispanic and Gallic foot was advanced in a wedge in échelon... was first held there and then withdrawn step by step, until it had the reached the converse position... is a simple masterpiece of battle tactics. The advance at the proper moment of the African infantry, and its wheel right and left upon the flanks of the disordered and crowded Roman legionaries, is far beyond praise. The whole battle, from the Carthaginian standpoint, is a consummate piece of art, having no superior, few equal, examples in the history of war.

 

[NerdDragon]

That one is the Fuso, and the Yamashiro is even worse. It melted camera film and blinded observers, but here's an artist's rendition:

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whatarethoseeeee

 

[Patrick MacFarlane]

Battle of Britian in WW2. The bitterest stalemate for months and months. Hitler was on the verge of invasion (Operation Sealion or Seawolf or something in that vein). And the resolve of the British behind Churchill was amazing. First cruise missile warfare. air superiority fluctuating and being won over by the RAF. Amazing show. 

I am an alternative history nut and everytime I think about the BoB I get a little excited. If only Hitler had waited on the USSR. If only that two-thirds of his power had been in the West and in Afrika awaiting the Allies. Oh, how things could have changed! Still though, the BoB was a great show of force for both sides and in the end, the better nation was victorious. 

 

[Micchan]

This is hard to beat .