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Offline Nipplestockings

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Re: Which nations are the worst at fighting wars?
« Reply #270 on: August 23, 2015, 12:08:28 am »
You're a funny guy, Marceaux.

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Re: Which nations are the worst at fighting wars?
« Reply #271 on: August 23, 2015, 12:16:23 am »
Ok let me wreck you real quick...

You said french won due to numerical advantages. WRONG!

In nearly every battle of the Napoleonic wars especially the larger battles France was out manned.

You tried to argue that french generals/leaders were incompetent and only won due to a manpower advantage. (Which they didn't even have) WRONG!

Napoleon and his Marechals were some of the greatest generals to ever lead in battle. Marechal Lannes ALONE proves that to be fact.

You claimed french troops had poor drill.

Yet the french troops were more mobile then any other army in the entire world they also did this without using corporal punishment to keep discipline.

and i could go on and on but its not my job to give you a proper education. Also your regiment has nothing to do with your individual idiocy.
 

Congratulations, you missed every single one of my points. Local superiority on the battlefield is not what I'm talking about. The French had massive reserves that could be drawn from in the event of heavy casualties. Despite this advantage, they lost time and time again against Allied forces in the Penninsular war, and were defeated in Russia despite having one of the largest armies ever assembled up until that point. Never did I say that French leaders were incompetent, I only said that they relied heavily on their manpower for their tactics. In the Revolutionary wars, the French nearly always outnumbered their enemies. And I did not claim the French had poor drill, but I did say that there was nothing superior in their training to that of any other army of the period. Marshal Lannes was a brave man and a good leader, as were the rest of Napoleon's Marshals (for the most part) but this does not make them the fucking war gods that you seem to think they are.

tl:dr you're retarded and basically just repeated what Duuring said, demonstrating you don't know shit. You demonstrated your autism most clearly when you told me I was "disrespecting history"  :'(

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Re: Which nations are the worst at fighting wars?
« Reply #272 on: August 23, 2015, 12:29:53 am »
Ok lets look at manpower outside individual battles. France 800,000 at the height of the grand armee. Height of the coalition 1,000,000+. And you are trying to make general statements yet when it comes to individual points you have nothing.


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Re: Which nations are the worst at fighting wars?
« Reply #273 on: August 23, 2015, 12:31:54 am »
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Re: Which nations are the worst at fighting wars?
« Reply #274 on: August 23, 2015, 12:32:18 am »
In nearly every battle of the Napoleonic wars especially the larger battles France was out manned.
Napoleon and his Marechals were some of the greatest generals to ever lead in battle. Marechal Lannes ALONE proves that to be fact.
Yet the french troops were more mobile then any other army in the entire world they also did this without using corporal punishment to keep discipline.

If those arent general statements I dont know what are

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Re: Which nations are the worst at fighting wars?
« Reply #275 on: August 23, 2015, 12:32:42 am »
Better grab my popcorn. This gonna be good.



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Re: Which nations are the worst at fighting wars?
« Reply #276 on: August 23, 2015, 12:33:27 am »
Double post. Ban.

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Re: Which nations are the worst at fighting wars?
« Reply #277 on: August 23, 2015, 12:38:54 am »

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Re: Which nations are the worst at fighting wars?
« Reply #278 on: August 23, 2015, 10:21:36 am »
Top kek

Tbh I think Marceaux has the dickus longus here.
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Re: Which nations are the worst at fighting wars?
« Reply #279 on: August 23, 2015, 11:11:03 am »
The French had some of the most incredible leaders of the century, Napoleon for a start, Davout who equaled if not exceeded Napoleon's own military genius. Ney, Lannes, Soult, Massena, Suchet, Saint-Cyr, Berthier, Murat and many excellent generals.

Numbers were definitely NOT the reason France was so successful in the Napoleonic wars. As stated earlier it was they who revolutionized how war was fought.


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Re: Which nations are the worst at fighting wars?
« Reply #280 on: August 23, 2015, 04:40:19 pm »
Nationalism is a tasty thing, is it not?
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Re: Which nations are the worst at fighting wars?
« Reply #281 on: August 23, 2015, 05:46:25 pm »
Nationalism is a tasty thing, is it not?
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Re: Which nations are the worst at fighting wars?
« Reply #282 on: August 23, 2015, 10:57:09 pm »
We can clearly all agree on one thing. Britain is the best at war.

You know what they say?
The British lose every battle but the last.

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Re: Which nations are the worst at fighting wars?
« Reply #283 on: August 23, 2015, 11:00:08 pm »
usually with foreign aid once they realize Britannia doesn't rule the waves anymore.

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Re: Which nations are the worst at fighting wars?
« Reply #284 on: August 23, 2015, 11:09:45 pm »
There was corporal punishment in the French army. Maybe not officially, but there are pleeeeeeeeently of sources that confirm men were beaten as a punishment. Sometimes on the buttocks. With shoes.