Stamford Bridge - Ended Scandinavian ambitions in Britain
Hastings - Changed Britain
Waterloo - Finished off Napolean for good
El-Alamein - Reversal in the desert
The Schlieffen Plan - Brought Britain into WW1 (how different the world would be if the germans hadn't gone through Belgium ...

Koba wrote:

diddle wrote:i must say, our football team are going through a rather rough spot of shit, as are our cricket team, out rugby team, our tennis players.......

We're pretty good at dingy sailing...

And powerboating (or were, at least)

Gen. Lewis B. “Chesty” Puller
Gen. John A. Lejeune
Alexander “The Great”
Genghis Khan
Cpl Rodger W. Young
GySgt Dan Dailey
Vo Nguyen Giap
Gen. William "Billy" Mitchell
Adm. John Paul Jones
Col. David Hackworth
Sir Arthur Wellesley (aka the Duke of Wellington)
Col Francis Marion
Gen ...

Chess
Risk
Hnefatafl (thats not a typo)

GW
Lord of the Rings
Mordheim
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BFG
Warmaster
Formerly 40K, gave up when 3rd Ed came out and 4th failed to improve
Thinking about Legends of the Old West & Warmaster Historical (mmm, dark age)

Mongoose
Battlefield: Evolution
A Call to ...

In no particular order:

* US Civil War (removed secession as a possibility, forged modern US)
* English Civil War (modern army structure developed through NMA)
* WW I & II (ended the imperial age, for the main)
* Napoleaonic Wars (United seeral groups of states into nations, standardised many ...

Godwinson is heavily underrated - if the shieldwall hadn't broken to chase Normans (wether through indiscipline or a cunning ruse will always be a debate), then he'd probably have been the second English King to be known as the Great - after all, marching the length of the country, defeating an army ...

Possibly a daft question, but surely once a multi is busted, the account is locked, so just change the password immediately - yes it creates 24 hour delays, but could force deadbeating without writing any new programming immediately, and guarantees the nulti cant win any games.

Crusades are a very poor example, they were about land and wealth, and the "useful" outlet of the excess landless nobility - not faith - to the vast, vast majority.

Go look up the numbers of converts to both sides, mercenaries, and those who changed allegiance more than once. Religion played very ...

True, but I meant the resistance fighters

Ruben Cassar wrote:

RenegadePaddy wrote:French army didn't, French resistance did

To what are you referring here?

WWII

French army didn't, French resistance did

I should add that the loyalty of the French armies, the Code Napolean etc shows Napolean's abilities as one of historys greatest leaders, just not one of historys greatest Generals!

Well, the quote comes from the Peninsula campaign I believe, and I was referencing his whole career.

In my eyes, Napolean started brilliantly, but when his original methods were countered, proved unable to find a new way to win, and continued to use tactics that had been defeated time and again ...

I have a Question for you...

Who declared war on who to give official beginning on WWII?

Well the first to declare war was Japan on China in 1936 or 1934 I can't remember, then it was Germany on France.

Not true. Great Britain and France declared war on Germany after it invaded Poland on 3rd ...

I'd counter that he was fine until a counter was found to the column, after which, as Wellington put it, "They came on in the same old fashion, and we saw them off in the same old fashion" (paraphrasing, can't remember the exact quote). I should've added the word unneccessary to my original post.

Saladin
Robert E. Lee
Rommel
Lord Malborough
Suz-tzu


Napolean was not a great general - his inflexibility cost him an Empire, and the lives of hundreds of thousands of troops

First to address another post about the 5 minutes thingy..... God remains the same.... He does not change. So where fat used to describe being overweight, phat (language evolution) takes on a whole different meaning. But God does not evolve or change.

You havnt addressed the point at all ...

heres a quote on the two wars
Look at WW1- you started that! it was an unnecessary war, started by Britain because germany wanted an Empire which Britain, France and Russia had. You than dragged America into it. The whole bloody history of of the 20th centuary, including the nazi genocide starts ...

True, but you have to consider just how much a bible literalist has invested in his/her belief.

You have to question their education, as anyone with a knowledge of language can tell you where there are phrases proven by other contemporary works to be symbolic (probably a better word for it ...

Croatia

I chose the firing squad cause it's quick and relativly painless. You stand there with you eys closed and 10 people shoot you in the head. Hanging, you suffocate if you neck doesn't break, gas chamber, you just suffocate, and btownmeggy explained lethal injection, with the electric chair, you have ...

Cheesemore wrote:I don't even know how to pronounce that

Car-deeth, Cum-ree

In Gods country

EDIT: Bastard, that one was meant for edmundomcpot

Hey Paddy!

It was Oklahoma that had the firing squad kill the guy... Err, guy chose the firing squad...

He changed his mind at the last second, though... He was doing it on 'moral grounds'

Timothy McVey was gonna do the same thing, and for some reason the judge refused his request.

Really ...

Heh, true - then again, when it was frst invented the electric chair was touted as being a humane form of execution!



If you could choose anything, either CO2 poisoning (sleepy time) for a peaceful exit, or if you're a prankster, climb out of a tall building, wait for a crowd of morbid sods ...