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Re: Favourite All Time Leader(s)
« Reply #150 on: April 29, 2013, 09:10:24 am »
Leonidas, a big part of the Greek army fled, he, quite some spartans and a small part of the greek army stood their ground and killed quite some Persians even though they got trapped because of a traitor that showed the Persions a secret route.

Did you honestly just use "300" as a valid historical source?

Not everyone is such an historical bad ass like you Tali, get over it! :P

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Re: Favourite All Time Leader(s)
« Reply #151 on: April 29, 2013, 09:15:46 am »
Leonidas, a big part of the Greek army fled, he, quite some spartans and a small part of the greek army stood their ground and killed quite some Persians even though they got trapped because of a traitor that showed the Persions a secret route.

Did you honestly just use "300" as a valid historical source?

Not everyone is such an historical bad ass like you Tali, get over it! :P

No, seriously, this is beyond dumb. Who can honestly think 300 has any but basic roots in history. It's like citing Lord of the Rings for medieval history class.

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Re: Favourite All Time Leader(s)
« Reply #152 on: April 29, 2013, 09:21:22 am »
Leonidas, a big part of the Greek army fled, he, quite some spartans and a small part of the greek army stood their ground and killed quite some Persians even though they got trapped because of a traitor that showed the Persions a secret route.

Did you honestly just use "300" as a valid historical source?

Not everyone is such an historical bad ass like you Tali, get over it! :P

No, seriously, this is beyond dumb. Who can honestly think 300 has any but basic roots in history. It's like citing Lord of the Rings for medieval history class.

It is not that far off...

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Re: Favourite All Time Leader(s)
« Reply #153 on: April 29, 2013, 09:27:08 am »
Leonidas, a big part of the Greek army fled, he, quite some spartans and a small part of the greek army stood their ground and killed quite some Persians even though they got trapped because of a traitor that showed the Persions a secret route.

Did you honestly just use "300" as a valid historical source?

Not everyone is such an historical bad ass like you Tali, get over it! :P

No, seriously, this is beyond dumb. Who can honestly think 300 has any but basic roots in history. It's like citing Lord of the Rings for medieval history class.

It is not that far off...

Well, it does contain Greeks fighting persians, and it does contain references to battles that took place. That's about it, really.

You can, as a rule, not trust the historical accuracy of a hollywood movie.

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Re: Favourite All Time Leader(s)
« Reply #154 on: April 29, 2013, 10:42:31 am »
Not just hollywood. Have you ever seen those Russian movies? They sure are 'intresting'.

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Re: Favourite All Time Leader(s)
« Reply #155 on: April 29, 2013, 11:00:57 am »
Not just hollywood. Have you ever seen those Russian movies? They sure are 'intresting'.

To be honest, some aspects of Soviet moviemaking industries were alot more accurate then their western counterparts. For example, all soviet movies either had to be realistic, or clearly fantasy.

So, for exampel, Soviet spy movies was alot more slower paced, and thus more realistic then the Bond movies.

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Re: Favourite All Time Leader(s)
« Reply #156 on: April 29, 2013, 11:17:09 am »
I'm more talking about the modern movies. Lancers balled, 1612, etc.

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Re: Favourite All Time Leader(s)
« Reply #157 on: April 29, 2013, 11:30:41 am »
I'm more talking about the modern movies. Lancers balled, 1612, etc.

Oh. Well, I can't, with a good conscience, say I watch many modern russian movies.

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Re: Favourite All Time Leader(s)
« Reply #158 on: April 29, 2013, 02:51:08 pm »
...1612...

That was a great movie. I loved it. I had watched it with a Russian friend of mine quite a few years ago. It was very heavily based on fantasy, but had some pretty good ties to the time.

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Re: Favourite All Time Leader(s)
« Reply #159 on: April 29, 2013, 03:37:47 pm »
While I agree it's a great movie with some nice action, historically it's la-di-da.

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Re: Favourite All Time Leader(s)
« Reply #160 on: April 30, 2013, 02:49:30 am »
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Re: Favourite All Time Leader(s)
« Reply #161 on: May 02, 2013, 10:26:56 pm »
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Re: Favourite All Time Leader(s)
« Reply #162 on: May 02, 2013, 10:49:33 pm »
Cunningham A.B.  -  British admiral from WW2 (Probably 3rd/2nd best admiral from the war)

Responsible for the first naval all aircraft attack in history (Very successful attack on Taranto in 1941, before Pearl Harbour) and the devestation of the Italian battle fleet at the Battle of Cape Matapan.



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Re: Favourite All Time Leader(s)
« Reply #163 on: May 03, 2013, 12:06:12 am »
Cunningham A.B.  -  British admiral from WW2 (Probably 3rd/2nd best admiral from the war)

Responsible for the first naval all aircraft attack in history (Very successful attack on Taranto in 1941, before Pearl Harbour) and the devestation of the Italian battle fleet at the Battle of Cape Matapan.



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HMS Rodney (Very famous battleship)
HMS Scorpion (Crappy destroyer)

Who was the best admiral then :D
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Re: Favourite All Time Leader(s)
« Reply #164 on: May 03, 2013, 09:50:08 pm »
Hmmmm that's difficult to say as he never faced Yamamto, Fletcher or Nimitz  :-\.

He was a revolutionary tactician though, so he might have won. The British fleet was also virtually unchallenged (When massed together  :P) until about 1943 when American industry kicked in. The British fleet was tremendous in size, but of course had poo aircraft carriers so who knows?
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