Most infuential battles

Originally posted by DE Calvin
It was their original plan to fight on both sides.

Originally posted by Tptmanno1
No it wasn't
Their original blitzcreig (Spelled terribly wrong)
was to conquer all of Western Europe quickly, and make Allies with Russia and turn on them later. They also knew that it would take a long time for the Russian War machine to mobalize and they exploited this, this is why the Russians wanted the Allied invasion to start as soon as possible, as to open up a second front.
This is why Stalingrad and D-Day were so key, if either one of them failed, the Germans would have the power to devote all resorces to one front and possible win more ground, or whatever, that may be impossible to gague what would have happened.

D-day, Gettysburg , Somme (twice) and Waterloo in the recent past.

Originally posted by DE Calvin
Oops, I was thinking the Schleiflin Plan was in WWII, instead of WWI, my bad.

No, they got beat back in the battle of the Somme, then the thrench-war started.

I'm paraphrasing, and its been a while since I took History....
Overall concept is the same.

Originally posted by Morgoths_Wrath
The Battle of the Pelennor Fields! Good call.

And we can’t forget Battle of Endor!

hells yeah...battle of the bands...the battle between B.I.G. and Tupoc....well i would say the war of 1812, because for some reason history teachers neglect to inform us students that Britain actually invaded America again, and they succeded in burning down the white house and basicly whooping our asses. Unfortuanantly we can't say wars, so I'll go check my book to see the individual battles.

Originally posted by DE Calvin
This is another tester/pilot thread for the new History forum. Which battle9s0 where most influential to outcomes of wars, and in the long-run?

Suggestion (in regards to the possible History forum): Rather than asking questions which require maybe 3 worded answers, maybe you should invoke a little more debate/interest, like asking why people think each battle is influential and what made them influential and so on. If its just short answer threads, the forum wont survive 😬

Im trying to remember from the age of empires game.

Battle of horns of hattin. That battle really destroyed the whole crusades.

battle of Stalingrad is the most important of this century.

Adding: The battle for women's suffrage. That has led us down a dark road that we may never find our way out of

Originally posted by lord krondor
Adding: The battle for women's suffrage. That has led us down a dark road that we may never find our way out of

😕

I don't think that counts...we're talking about military battles

Vietnam: Ia Drang Valley, Ca Lu, Cu Chi, Danang, Tet Offensive, The Iron Triangle

Is anyone else on KMC the son or daughter of a Nam vet?

Originally posted by Mišt
Suggestion (in regards to the possible History forum): Rather than asking questions which require maybe 3 worded answers, maybe you should invoke a little more debate/interest, like asking why people think each battle is influential and what made them influential and so on. If its just short answer threads, the forum wont survive 😬

Originally posted by Hit_and_Miss
Congratulations! you have now provided an answer to the question asked... I've had to beat it out of you, but you have done it... Give yourself a pat on the back... 🙂

Ill rather give you a 'pat' on the face 😄

must...save...thread...somehow...

Originally posted by Blaxican_Jedi
must...save...thread...somehow...

Good luck! 😛

The Battle of Marathon

I don't know the name...

The Russian lines holding against the German incoming Blitzkreig and divided their lines across even waves in multiple parallel lines and each was weak and easy to breach...

The Russians would fight viciously and cause as much damage to the germans but they were persistent to break through the Russian lines, the broken rmenants fell back and joined the next line; doing the same and falling back with greater number to the next line, all the time weakening the german advance but they persisted as they never belived the Russians able to defeat their mighty blitzkreig.

After several rounds of broken lines and a the fianl line the Russians numbered so many and the heavily weakend German advance was so stretched in the merciless push into Russian territory that they had ignored couter-tactics against the now-invincible line of Russian patriots.

In my opinion this was the greatest tactic used against one of the most powerful openly offensive country in history, after this they were pushed so far back gradually that the Russians ended up flying the flag from the Berlin hall.

They organized peasants and patriots in a weakened deployment that turned out to be the most powerful land-based defensive tactic known.

Originally posted by Aliies
I don't know the name...

The Russian lines holding against the German incoming Blitzkreig and divided their lines across even waves in multiple parallel lines and each was weak and easy to breach...

The Russians would fight viciously and cause as much damage to the germans but they were persistent to break through the Russian lines, the broken rmenants fell back and joined the next line; doing the same and falling back with greater number to the next line, all the time weakening the german advance but they persisted as they never belived the Russians able to defeat their mighty blitzkreig.

After several rounds of broken lines and a the fianl line the Russians numbered so many and the heavily weakend German advance was so stretched in the merciless push into Russian territory that they had ignored couter-tactics against the now-invincible line of Russian patriots.

In my opinion this was the greatest tactic used against one of the most powerful openly offensive country in history, after this they were pushed so far back gradually that the Russians ended up flying the flag from the Berlin hall.

They organized peasants and patriots in a weakened deployment that turned out to be the most powerful land-based defensive tactic known.

it is the pure tactic developed under their most stressful time and with limited resorces that truly grants it as an epic in history.

It's all good and well that people know the names of these battles but you ask most who know the name of the Battle of Brittain they don't know what it really was...

The main reason i this and the one i described earlier is because I love aircraft of worldwar 2 and the fact that i am Half-Russian-Latvian and VERY proud.

And no it wasn't the battle of stalingrad; that was different but involved both sides.
It was a propaganda war at the time!

Must check my eyesight. I thought the thread said "Most Influential bottles" -

and my mind went straight on booze !