Must... resist... urge... to call them... the Belch... Because it can't be right.

Didn't you see the opening cutscenes in Resistance: Fall of Man? The Chimera took over all of Europe except Great Britain and thats why the first game was there. They probably took over Belgium quicker than Germany did in WWII.

I got to congratulate Belgium. Or either give them my prayers :P.
What about Egypt! I don't see any Chimeras there!

Ugh, I came in here expecting to see pics of hot Belgian Women in Uniform. Instead it's a thread talking about Resistance: The Fall of Man series of video games. I am so disappointed.

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i won't deny that those are the defeats that matter :)



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Well, I was talking about battles, not wars specifically, and in that case, the French apparently outrank them all. (Stephen Fry said so, therefore it must be true! :p)



Belgian got independent in 1830.
Flanders ;)

And we didn't "take" anything. On the other hand, the Dutch have to thank us for a large part of their Golden Age, since many influential and rich Flemish people fled this part of Europe after foreign invasion, and fled to Holland, with their money, influence and everything else, leading to an extreme beneficial period over there.



Probably :(



You bastards had skies though :p



A bit much to assume tbh.

We would basically be as artificial as the current borders of France or Germany. A common history but also with parts that clearly do not add up over the course of said history.

Belgium the way it exists now (our provinces) are not similar to the ones that existed earlier, meaning that dividing it the way you suggest would be rather cruel as cities like Antwerp and Ghent would belong to the northern region now, but would've been part of a different region somewhere down the history line, causing a different divide.

We have enough troubles as it is running this country NOW, let's not go there what would happen if we decided to cut it up :p




LOL @ zapatopi-site :D



1) something which basically every country did, and which took a heck of a lot more guts if you were already invaded by the Germans, I'd say.

2) Seriously, sometimes you need to stand up to someone or something. If we all followed your logic, then China, Russia, Canada and the US (and perhaps Denmark would be up there too, depending on whether you give them Greenland) would own the entire world just because they are bigger and shouldn't be attacked.

3) Let's not forget the multiple other assassination attempts towards Hitler. It's not as if only one tiny Swiss went to do so. Heck, even Tom Cruise did it!

You just go back to defending the Pope and we'll hold off the Germans again so that Britain can pull back its troops and regroup :p

OR MAYBE THE CHIMERA TOTALLY LEVELED BELGIUM, SO THERE'S NOTHING TO FIGHT OVER.

I have two theories:

1) The Netherlands nuked Belgium before the Chimerae (plural for Chimera in Latin) came there.

2) The Chimerae only want to kill 'humans'. Thus, Belgium wasn't on the list.

 

Ok, herebye my apologies for the above said. It's just a century-old prank-history between The Belgians and The Dutch. I couldn't resist it, it's in my blood .

Xen - you left Afghanistan and the cold war off of the Russian defeats list. And those were 2 that popped into my head in less then 2 seconds.

Belgiums not humans lol. Though you could be right

@ dgm ... Xen's history book might be as old as the early 1980's. Don't blame him.

Well, then they surely must've passed over the netherlands even faster, that country is about as flat as you can find'em :p

@ starcraftmaniac: touché :p (although the word chimera comes from Greek, not Latin. Nice Dutch try though :p )