Your Favorite Period of Warfare

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  1. Toast Well-Known Member

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    300 years isn't exactly a period.
    Toast, Jul 28, 2011
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    Modern (1900>)
    D3adtrap, Jul 28, 2011
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  3. JayJayGT Well-Known Member

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    Well... my favourite period has to be Antiquity, preferably Roman, mainly because the battles are simply epic, though the scale isn't that of WWII... the scale of Roman warfare wasn't repeated that often during the Medieval period, plus there are some amazing accomplishments that most figures in Antiquity managed to pull off... it's just really exciting, for me... the battles, the people and the warfare all of it.
    JayJayGT, Jul 28, 2011
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  4. LampRevolt Well-Known Member

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    I love you. Say it again, in a more romantic way this time.

    My favourite period? Probably ancient, Roman era and around there. I don't know if I can describe it but the battles seemed so much more interesting back then. }

    Least favourite? Napoleonic. Its not that I dislike it I like all history but it lacks the chaos the intimidation and just the charm of mass violence that was present in ancient and medieval times, and isn't as fast paced an exciting as modern.
    LampRevolt, Jul 28, 2011
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  5. Big J Well-Known Member

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    Does anyone else find the phrase "My favorite period of warfare is..." creepy as hell? War is the greatest cause of human suffering and I find it off-putting to say which one is my favorite, like I gain some kind of personal glee from it. There are wars that INTEREST me the most.
    Big J, Jul 29, 2011
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  6. Karakoran Well-Known Member

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    Isn't the greatest cause like famine, or disease?

    Maybe like 3rd greatest cause of Human Suffering.
    Karakoran, Jul 29, 2011
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  7. slydessertfox Total War Branch Head

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    Im pretty sure over the history it is war
    slydessertfox, Jul 29, 2011
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  8. Karakoran Well-Known Member

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    People don't constantly die en mass from War. They do from disease and famine.
    Karakoran, Jul 29, 2011
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  9. Otto Von Bismark New Member

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    I have to say WWI it changed the way we fought war forever and its really is a forgotten war to alot of people, all people care about now is WWII o well at least some remember it.
    Otto Von Bismark, Jul 29, 2011
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  10. Toast Well-Known Member

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    Finally, somebody who agrees.
    Toast, Jul 29, 2011
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  11. Otto Von Bismark New Member

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    Toast huh thats a very "creative name" if you dont mind my saying so. Also i mean i really cant forget it i mean my great grandfather was in WWI and he died but he died defending Germany with his last breath.
    Otto Von Bismark, Jul 29, 2011
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  12. Achtung Kommunisten! Well-Known Member

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    I thought about it, and then said to myself; won't all the commies start whinging about imperialism and throwing men at machine guns and WWI is the most mindless slaughter etc
    Trench warfare can be quite cool though - trench gun, trench coat.... :)
    Achtung Kommunisten!, Jul 29, 2011
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  13. Maddog95 Well-Known Member

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    Cool? Probably. Glamorous? Far from.

    If you even want to stay semi-realistic to your source you can't even put half a smile on Trench Warfare.
    Maddog95, Jul 29, 2011
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  14. Achtung Kommunisten! Well-Known Member

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    Put it this way, trench gun and trench coat is most likely followed by trench foot
    Achtung Kommunisten!, Jul 30, 2011
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    Ancient Rome; from the Punic Wars to the fall of Byzantine!
    Recoil, Jul 30, 2011
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  16. slydessertfox Total War Branch Head

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    When there is war, there are always people dying en masse
    slydessertfox, Jul 30, 2011
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  17. MayorEmanuel Do not weep, for salvation is coming.

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    the gritty period of WW1 that i've read about through hemmingway only he could turn that hellhole into something artistic
    MayorEmanuel, Jul 30, 2011
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  18. freeman12 Well-Known Member

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    Personally my favorite periods were world war 1 medieval and victorian
    freeman12, Aug 5, 2011
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  19. LampRevolt Well-Known Member

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    Your just arguing with him out of principle that your both troubled 13 year olds. Look it up.
    LampRevolt, Aug 6, 2011
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  20. yuri2045 A Marines Biologist

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    People in WW2 didn't die en masse from disease and famine, most died from air bombardments the RAF did, Hitler created the V2 to bomb civilians, but most soldiers died in action.
    yuri2045, Aug 6, 2011
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