Favorite Battles...

[GodlikeDennis]

Turtle ships are drastically OP in AOE, that's why I ask . That's a pretty cool victory. Like Thermopylae at sea.

[Chancellor]

Interestingly, turtle ships were designed by Admiral Yi Sun-sin, who was the same guy who lead the 13 Panokseon type ships to victory in the Battle of Myeongnyang that I mentioned.

The entire Korean navy was destroyed through the poor command of other idiot Korean admirals, except for those 12 ships plus his own, but before the battle this guy had the balls to say: "...I still have twelve battle ships...as long as I am alive, the enemy shall never be safe in the Western Sea."

Now that's epic.

[Cranialwizard]

Ballsy, but epic. Sounds like something out of a national epic poem or something.

Woah man, I gotta look into that shit.

[Otto Halfhand]

Turtle ships had a covered deck with Iron spikes protruding to repel boarders. These ships were fast highly maneuverable rams. Some say the Iron spikes were embedded in iron plates as well, effectively fireproofing the deck. This would qualify the Turtle ship as the first ironclad. What do you think?

[GodlikeDennis]

I would say proper ironclads used steam engines. So it'd be the first "armoured warship" but not necessarily a proper ironclad like those used in the American civil war etc.

[Vast enemy]

- Battle of Gaugamela, if you have not heard, this was the biggest battle in which Alexander the Great fought against the Persians. Basically, with superior tactics and military genius, Alexander managed to overcome and rout the persians, who had 200,000 men, compared to Alexander who had ONLY 50,000. Astonishing.

- Not really a single battle, but Army Group North's contribution on the eastern front. the Army group was only Army Group that actually achieved any of it's objectives ruled out in the plan for Operation Barbarossa. and it continued to hold out in Courland throught the interity of the war. at the very end, the army was still able to hold and still had a considerable force.

There are more favorites, but it is getting late where i am, and i have work tomorow hahaha

[Mad hatters in jeans]

- Battle of Gaugamela, if you have not heard, this was the biggest battle in which Alexander the Great fought against the Persians. Basically, with superior tactics and military genius, Alexander managed to overcome and rout the persians, who had 200,000 men, compared to Alexander who had ONLY 50,000. Astonishing.

- Not really a single battle, but Army Group North's contribution on the eastern front. the Army group was only Army Group that actually achieved any of it's objectives ruled out in the plan for Operation Barbarossa. and it continued to hold out in Courland throught the interity of the war. at the very end, the army was still able to hold and still had a considerable force.

There are more favorites, but it is getting late where i am, and i have work tomorow hahaha

didn't army group north get stuck sieging leningrad?

[The_Czar]

Sieging Leningrad was their task actually afaik

[Icebreaker125]

I have a few.
Battle of Myeongnyang - As this was absolutely crazy how Admiral  Yi-Sun-Sin won
Battle of Berlin -
Battle of Stalingrad
Battle of Thermopylae
Battle of Waterloo in 1815 was a turning point
The Battle of the Bulge

[SublimeSnugz]

Third Battle of Kharkov

This is in my opinion the finest battle of Eric Von Manstein. A against all odds battle, where even a german general Paul Hausser of the 3rd SS Panzer (Totenkopf) Division refused to follow hitlers orders "Hold Firm" (stay and fight till death) thereby avoiding the destruction of his panzer core unit and suffering the same fate as the 6th army at stalingrad. Shortly after they took back the city of Kharkov and the SS division restored its reputation again.

"However, it must be noted that after the German disaster at Stalingrad, where the Wehrmacht lost its largest and best equipped field army, von Manstein's achievement in stabilizing the front must rank as one of the greatest (if not the greatest) achievements of World War II. He had executed a successful withdrawal in the face of immense Soviet pressure, then launched a masterly counterattack that inflicted on the Soviets immense losses in men and material, destroying four armies. Most importantly, he re-established the front from Taganrog to Belgorod as a virtually straight defensive line and, at little cost, retook the fourth largest city in the Soviet Union, all this while his opponent possessed a huge numerical advantage."

[Pac-Fish]

I recently learned of a American battle (I know, yawn) but the statistics were impressive. Im not an expert on it

The Battle of New Orleans, 1815:

General Andrew Jackson was tasked with defending the Mississipi Delta from British invasion b/c if they controlled the Mississipi river they could attack the US all along the west. Jackson set up a blockade by sinking naval vessels in the shallow delta, forcing the British to spend time removing it. He also had troops hide out in the sides of the delta (b/c its a triangle after all) and when the british got to the blockade, the US troops hiding out closed in and the British were stuck. Just on the first day of fighting only 7 US soldiers were lost while the British lost 2000 troops (when I say lost I mean wouded + dead, this is what I was told). Its is typically regared as America's greatest victory, statistically wise.

[Cranialwizard]

I recently learned of a American battle (I know, yawn) but the statistics were impressive. Im not an expert on it

The Battle of New Orleans, 1815:

General Andrew Jackson was tasked with defending the Mississipi Delta from British invasion b/c if they controlled the Mississipi river they could attack the US all along the west. Jackson set up a blockade by sinking naval vessels in the shallow delta, forcing the British to spend time removing it. He also had troops hide out in the sides of the delta (b/c its a triangle after all) and when the british got to the blockade, the US troops hiding out closed in and the British were stuck. Just on the first day of fighting only 7 US soldiers were lost while the British lost 2000 troops (when I say lost I mean wouded + dead, this is what I was told). Its is typically regared as AMericas greatest victory, statistically wise.

Interestingly, this famed battle was fought after a treaty of peace was signed. Word didn't get back to America nor Britain yet.

[Pac-Fish]

I recently learned of a American battle (I know, yawn) but the statistics were impressive. Im not an expert on it

The Battle of New Orleans, 1815:

General Andrew Jackson was tasked with defending the Mississipi Delta from British invasion b/c if they controlled the Mississipi river they could attack the US all along the west. Jackson set up a blockade by sinking naval vessels in the shallow delta, forcing the British to spend time removing it. He also had troops hide out in the sides of the delta (b/c its a triangle after all) and when the british got to the blockade, the US troops hiding out closed in and the British were stuck. Just on the first day of fighting only 7 US soldiers were lost while the British lost 2000 troops (when I say lost I mean wouded + dead, this is what I was told). Its is typically regared as AMericas greatest victory, statistically wise.

Interestingly, this famed battle was fought after a treaty of peace was signed. Word didn't get back to America nor Britain yet.

Which probably makes it one of the most stupidest non sensical battles as well XD. I'd honestly like to know if this has ever happened another time in history

[Dann88]

Battle of Bach Dang river in 938.
A small time Chinese dynasty named Southern Han prepared an invasion to Annam/Jiaozhi(ancient name of Vietnam) to have more land.
After defeated the rebellion of a traitor, Ngô Quyền, the warlord of Annam at that time, prepared to defend the invasion. He choose the battle in the narrow part of the river's mouth (I mean part between the river and the sea), which have a very interesting characteristic. The height between the high tide and low tide is different alot. So he builded a lot of spikes in the bottom of the river, all of them had the height nearly the same of the high tide. With a fake rout, Annam's navy lured the Han's navy to the ambush. Han's navy mainly used big boats so the can carry both soldiers and supplies while the Annam is small boats to attack and burn the big one trapped in spikes. That's the real navy battle.
Here is the one I think is a great victory in American Revolutionary War: Battle of Cowpens.