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Eastern Front / Favorite Battles...

« on: July 29, 2011, 09:45:15 PM »

of all time you like to read about. Just curious to see what intrigue's people here, alot of varied and diverse minds on this forum. I am reading a book about Imperial Chinese history, and had read an interesting thing about a battle that involved painting thousands of cattle and lighting their tails on fire; made me think about starting this thread.

What are your favorite battles?
What about those battles do you find interesting?
What things about the battle, make it different from others?

Post anything. Sieges, entire campaigns,naval, air, land, ancient, modern. Whatever.

Please list as many of possible if you wish.

To get things rolling, I'd like to hear your opinions if you have any, on a particular battle. Battle of Tours, 732. I once got into a debate with a guy who stated that this particular engagement, and the man behind the Frankish victory, Charles Martel, is responsible for saving all of Western Europe from the invading Muslim armies. I'm not to familiar with it, but I've read accounts on it being just that, but also others that say it was no more then an Muslim raiding army, seeing how far they could go.

Does this battle belong up their, with some of the fights the Greeks/Persians had before this time, or did the Muslim army really pose that much of threat (as much as Attila or Genghis for example)?

Also here's alittle list from myself.
*Battle of Kapyong. Heroic defense by Aussies and Canadian battalions against an entire Chinese division during Korean War.
*Battle of Chosin Reservoir. Hard fought US Marines, Army, British Royal Marines vs much superior Chinese force.   
*Battle of Thermopylae. Don't have to explain much. One of the first ancient battles I read as a child, which began my fascination with military history.
*Normandy Campaign, Stalingrad, Kursk. Shouldn't have to explain much here
*Battle of Grunwald, 1410. One of the biggest medieval battles ever between Kingdom of Poland/Lithuania against the Teutonic Order.

Added*Battle of Ortona. Small but fierce battle in Italy between Canadian 1st Infantry Division (Loyal Edmonton Regiment, PPCLI, and afew others) against the fierce 1st German Parachute Division.

Please post as many as you like. I'd like to see some stuff I've never read before.

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Off Topic / Norwegian Bombing/Shooting

« on: July 24, 2011, 08:16:52 PM »

Just like to offer my condolences. Been following the incident since it happened, and it's just such a massive tragedy for such a peaceful and beautiful country. I haven't had the time to search for any Norwegian members on this forum, but was their anyone effected here? I've gamed with and played against whole teams of Norwegian's over years and have always enjoyed talking to them.

What that man did was completely ridiculous. I see no sense in killing your own people or any people, for that matter, to make an ideological or religious point. I'm reading his manifesto at the moment, and just can't wrap my head around it. 1500 pages with his own personal views mixed with Wikipedia entries. Quite bizarre.

Please use this thread to offer your sympathies, and for Norwegian members to let us know your alright.

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Eastern Front / Favorite Military Leader...

« on: July 19, 2011, 05:26:32 AM »

of all time. From the Modern era to ages of antiquity. Please post who you find to be the most interesting military leader, or give us your top five. Also, please give us an example (such as a battle or whole war) where the person made his mark on military history.

No matter how much I read about military history and the people involved, two names always draw me back to study more. 

1. Genghis Khan; largest continuous land based empire. Who knows what might have happened to Europe if he didn't die. His military organization and the tactical ability of his units probably shook the Middle East and Eastern Europe/Russia much like the way the Germans did with their blitzkrieg. 

2. Hannibal Barca; Almost brought Rome to it's knees before it really even stood up. The Battle of Cannae, and the first documented usage of the double envelopment; 70,000 Roman Legionaries/Auxiliaries died in a few hours. His plundering of Roman territory, was a major cause for the Roman's to begin the process of becoming an Empire.     

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Eastern Front / Operation Unthinkable...

« on: July 04, 2011, 04:11:47 AM »

fortunately didn't happen, but the fact that the British considered it to be a military option at the time, and by chance enacted on it would have had disastrous consequences indeed. Europe would look completely different today. But alas it didn't.

I was curious to see what EF mod's armchair generals had to say on the matter. What possible outcomes could have happened if the British/Commonwealth forces (and most likely the Americans as well if they stopped relocating forces to the Pacific) attacked the Soviet Union after Germany was defeated?

Reason I bring it up is because afew times on the forums I've spotted posts about a "Cold War Mod" and it peaked my curiosity.

This isn't a thread about which ideology was best or anything. It's from an all military and strategic perspective. Also take into account that both Winston Churchill and General Patton shared the same views regarding the occupation of Europe, and possible conflict with the Soviet Union(reason I bring that up is because this Operation was considered by powerful people).

Also please try to limit the "fan boy" mentality, and look at this with an open mind.

For those who don't know about Operation Unthinkable;

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

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General Discussion / To the Dev's...

« on: January 21, 2010, 10:32:34 PM »

I've been basically lurking the forums/site for probably about 5-6 months ever since I heard about the mod. I've been playing COH off and on for about two years now, and its just one of the games I don't have the heart to uninstall.

Like many, I was disappointed by Relics release of TOV. Some cool things, but it didn't bring much to the table.

This mod has given me a lot more motivation to play the game now. I've only gone through one skirmish so far, and it was a VERY different style of play from what I'm use to. First time in awhile where I was actually excited and sweating from the action and I was only facing off against a normal computer :/

I'd like to personally thank the development team for all their dedication and hard work.

Even though Relic seems to be concentrating on DOW2 and its upcoming shooter, it's awesome to see people who love this game take things into their own hands. They should really consider opening a office in Europe (since most of the dev team is from there) and put you guys on the payroll to make further expansions or even help out with COH 2.

May sound like a dumb fans hopes and dreams, but you guys really deserve recognition.