USH'S MATRIX GAME 2006 THIRD ASSIGNMENT- 'The Fortress'

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Just guesses...

2-Gaugamela
5-Borodino
6-Marne

Borodino and the Marne are absolutely correct.

My question about elephants?

Originally posted by Ushgarak
Borodino and the Marne are absolutely correct.

Sweet! I'll go to work on the others.

Elephants- Nope.

Battle of Granicus River?

Bingo!

Hey, isn`t this guy called Sennacherib? He was the King of Asyria that destroyed Babylon, right? So is the city in Diorama 1 Babylon?

Nope.

Let's see what we currently have:

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1. Unknown

2. Battle of the Granicus River, 334 BC- the first of Alexander the Great's showdowns with the Persians

3. Unknown

4. Battle of Bunker Hill, 1775- The first significant battle of the American Revolutionary War

5, Borodino, 1812- the final showdown between Napoleon and the Russians

6. The Marne, 1914- the German invasion of France in World War I, last of the mobile battles on the Western Front

Well, with the revelations of Borodino, the Marne, and the Granicus River, my original idea falls apart. Though for those interested, my thought was that the battles might all have been Pyrrhic victories.

However, the three just revealed do support the idea that all the dioramas are showing what could be considered major turning points in each battle's respective larger war.

Battles signifying new significant events in military history, or the end of an "era"?

Question, then (related to your personal knowledges between you)

Why Borodino and not Waterloo?

Why Granicus River and not Issus?

Why the Marne and not Verdun? Tannenburg? For a wide campaign, the failure of the Kaiserschlacht?

Why not Stalingrad? Agincourt? Normandy? Hastings? All highly decisive battles.

(one of those four COULD have been used, just to throw you off. In the end, there are only six slots, of course)

Looking again... Diorama 3, possibly a confrontation between Moorish and Spanish forces?

Interestingly enough, when trying to figure out number 6 I did come up with the Kaiserschlacht...

Close but no cigar. Clue- Spanish tend to be darker skinned also. Not as much, but I highlighted the not-at-all dark nature of the defenders.

The Franks, then? Possibly the Battle of Tours?

Or Poitiers. That is the one.

For those who don't know, long considered- and still debatable today- the most important battle of all time. The Moors fight the Franks, with very probably the matter of whether Europe would be Muslim or Christian in the balance.

Originally posted by Ushgarak
Indeed not.

And they might...

So did you confirm that there are no people looking Roman-like or Greek-like in Diorama 1 here?

A pity that it is not Babylon... still a city in ancient Mezapotamia may be likely?

Mythology, Bible etc. should not be taken into account?

You're in the right area. BUT. Diorama 1 has the twist, as it were, so don't beat yourself up.

Is the invading army Asyrian?

Yes.