Your Favorite Period of Warfare

yeah you make a good point on world war 2

Cold War-era. The Kalashnikov and the M-16 series are testiments of personal power, but the horror is still there. Plus, if the shit hits the fan, you can pull a 2012 out of your ass and nuke the world.

Ahh for me it's got to be World War 2, or modern warfare if you can call it that, because it had the bloodiest battles in history, and the sheer amount of technology that was put into the war. We managed to see how tank warfare played out on the field, since at the time of ww1, tanks were merely prototypes, and we didn't see them much.

I do like present day warfare, because i feel it's more tactical, and nobody is going to die for some supreme being i.e (King, Queen, Fuhrer, etc) but it's more for the soldiers job to keep their self's alive. Again, the technology used today is magnificent, but entremely powerful.

Indeed, no-one dies for their country these days, they just take a trip to Wooton-Bassett, do not pass Go, do not collect £200.
Until CoD Black Ops came out, I quite liked the Cold War - all the fancy helecopters and missiles and stuff, almost all invented by Nazis, lol. Plus they didn't blow up the entire planet in the end, which is always a bonus. One thing I don't like so much is soldiers in stupid vests (I mean Rambo/Vietnam style, not bullet vests), which is why I prefer the World Wars (like everyone else) as well as the 18th and 19th centuries. Their uniforms were pretty epic, but then we all know that from Napoleon: Total War

Victorian Era. American Civil War really proved that Napoleonic tactics were out of date. Little know fact: If you up the scale of the war to today's population 6 million Americans would have died.

Maybe the Vietnam war .The vietcong and nva defeated nato with old french weapons from the indochinese war and sharpened sticks!

Yes well that, and the fact that US forces weren't aloud to launch an invasion of NVietnam, we had to stay on the defensive. And we all know that staying on the defensive will never help you win.

What about the bombing of Cambodia was that justified?

Discussing morality and justification in warfare is so fucking useless.

Why not? I feel it needs to be discussed because USA like to go into wars without a simply justification, and the random bombing of Cambodia, millions of people dying in the aftermath of it.

War, by its very nature, is pretty much always unjustifiable and debating what is justified and/or moral in war is futile.

Napoleonic. I just love the different uniforms and style of warfare.

Medieval Period. It's quite a large period of history I know but it is incredibly interesting. I am particularly interested on the religious aspects from that time such as the rise of protestantism and the holy wars etc.

The laughable attempt by the Romans to conquer Scotland, particularly when the 9th Legion minced across the border in their mini-skirts and funny brush hats before no doubt being annihilated by the rampaging ginger hordes of Caledonia.

It must have been a brutal massacre, there would have been blood and flip-flops everywhere.

We still have those ginger hordes, and the flip-flops.

Only now they're known as neds... :lol:

Only now they're known as neds... :lol:[/quote:1q1evici]

The flip-flops were recycled into tracksuits.

Do you think those highland warriors wore Burberry kilts?

What? How the hell is that even relevant? I never said anything was justified, nor did I voice support for the war. I said that our mandate forbade our troops from invading northern Vietnam. Get a clue.

1600-1900
the most epic period in history