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Top battle?

Battle of Jericho 2 1.57%
 
Normandy 14 11.02%
 
This is Sparta! 23 18.11%
 
War of the Roses 3 2.36%
 
Battle between Heaven and... 10 7.87%
 
Genesis vs. SNES 26 20.47%
 
Other ( possibly post below ) 5 3.94%
 
Rol vs Zero 3 2.36%
 
American Civil War, because America = World 19 14.96%
 
See reslutz 22 17.32%
 
Total:127
theprof00 on 29 October 2012
Mr Khan said:
theprof00 said:
Alexander the great and his macedonians. While Genghis did conquer more land, the land was all empty.
I would also say these should qualify:
The 1945 soviet military force
Napoleon's fusiliers
And of course the modern Chinese land army

However, military is getting smaller and smaller, replaced by more and more missiles and technological warfare.

The Macedonians conquered only the Middle East, while the Mongols took the Middle East, Eastern Europe, Central Asia, and North China.

Although as others have said, the British had their virtue. The difference with the British is that they tended to largely avoid major threats to their power, aside from Napoleon, Wilhelm II, and Hitler (and arguably Hitler and the Japanese did manage to off the British, just not to conquer them).

The time period makes a huge difference on the technologies available at the time.
If you're going to say a force from nearly a millennia in the future was greater because it conquered more land, then you should be reconsidering your position as America has obviously the greatest and largest and most victories in the most lands, with the fewest casualties (percentage wise).



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benao87 on 29 October 2012
theprof00 said:
Mr Khan said:
theprof00 said:
Alexander the great and his macedonians. While Genghis did conquer more land, the land was all empty.
I would also say these should qualify:
The 1945 soviet military force
Napoleon's fusiliers
And of course the modern Chinese land army

However, military is getting smaller and smaller, replaced by more and more missiles and technological warfare.

The Macedonians conquered only the Middle East, while the Mongols took the Middle East, Eastern Europe, Central Asia, and North China.

Although as others have said, the British had their virtue. The difference with the British is that they tended to largely avoid major threats to their power, aside from Napoleon, Wilhelm II, and Hitler (and arguably Hitler and the Japanese did manage to off the British, just not to conquer them).

The time period makes a huge difference on the technologies available at the time.
If you're going to say a force from nearly a millennia in the future was greater because it conquered more land, then you should be reconsidering your position as America has obviously the greatest and largest and most victories in the most lands, with the fewest casualties (percentage wise).

Quoted to show my support.

Alexander's era was almost 1500 years before Genghis Khan. Indeed these things are very hard to compare, but one can't just go by the extension of land. Heck, it's even hard to compare the extension of the Roman Empire and the Macedonian (under Alexander).



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DanneSandin on 30 October 2012

Talking about superior military forces we have to consider the current technology of the days, the military leader and the armies they fought.



I'm on Twitter @DanneSandin!

Furthermore, I think VGChartz should add a "Like"-button.

paulao on 30 October 2012

Patton WW2 Normandy



sethnintendo on 30 October 2012
spurgeonryan said:
paulao said:
Patton WW2 Normandy



I was never too impressed in school with some of the battles in WW2. But if Saving Private Ryan is accurate then I would agree that WW2 should be up there. I think WW2 showed a lot of strategy. Like Churchill just sitting back and letting London get bombed to keep the allies secret. Would the President have just sat back and watched his country get hit like that? Churchill was probably a much better man I think.

Not impressed by the battles of WW2?  Perhaps because they just talked about it and didn't show any footage. I can list a decent amount of epic WW2 battles off my head and there are still tons more.

Normandy, Battle of Kursk, Stalingrad, Battle of the Bulge, Battle of Britain, Midway, Battle of Guadalcanal, Iwo Jima, etc



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HulkWasRight on 30 October 2012

I've always liked the benign, Justice League feel of the Coalition of the Willing.



Panama on 30 October 2012

The industry still hasn't recovered. All the bad Sonic games over the last decade were a result of Sega's PTSD after the war.



yum123 on 01 November 2012

it was the reapers until they got owned by a kid



sethnintendo on 01 November 2012
spurgeonryan said:
sethnintendo said:
spurgeonryan said:
paulao said:
Patton WW2 Normandy



I was never too impressed in school with some of the battles in WW2. But if Saving Private Ryan is accurate then I would agree that WW2 should be up there. I think WW2 showed a lot of strategy. Like Churchill just sitting back and letting London get bombed to keep the allies secret. Would the President have just sat back and watched his country get hit like that? Churchill was probably a much better man I think.

Not impressed by the battles of WW2?  Perhaps because they just talked about it and didn't show any footage. I can list a decent amount of epic WW2 battles off my head and there are still tons more.

Normandy, Battle of Kursk, Stalingrad, Battle of the Bulge, Battle of Britain, Midway, Battle of Guadalcanal, Iwo Jima, etc


The Battles that interest me the most with WW2 are the ones that occured in Russia. Everything was so horrible up there. Soldiers dying because of the cold and Russians just never giving up no matter what! Hitler did not learn from history and made the same mistake that Napoleon made.

Well, the invasion worked decent at first then there were numerous errors/problems.  They did delay the invasion a little I believe which shortened the time to when winter came.  Once the Soviets started cranking out the T-34 it was pretty hard for the Germans to keep up with that kind of production even with superior tanks.  The Battle of Kursk showed this pretty well considering some Soviets were driving their T-34 straight onto the Tigers, etc to try and render them useless.  The Germans even got within about 12 or so miles from Moscow but they were pretty much exhausted by then (supply lines, equipment and vehicle failures, etc).  One of my favorite WW2 video footage was T-34s going down Red Square from the factories to the front lines.  Pretty much Russia is pretty damn hard to near impossible to conquer considering the millions of people, huge country, and harsh environments. 



CChaos on 01 November 2012

How about my favourite non-battle? I actually just remembered this one because a Cracked article reminded me of when I was reading books on Ancient Chinese wars and tactics (yeah, I read weird things, sue me).

Chuko Liang causes an army to retreat only because of a bluff.

Link Here

The man was pretty bad ass.