Poll: Greatest Military Leader/Tactician of all time.
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Julius. How he conquered Gaul and that siege?? Masterful.
One of my favorite historical anecdotes - Livy tells the story of a later in life meeting between Hannibal and Scipio Africanus in Ephesus. Both agree Alexander is the greatest general of all time, sort of, while throwing plenty of shade and begrudging respect at each other.
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However neither were around for Caesar, who is the correct answer
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I don’t care whether it’s reliable or not. One of the greatest stories of the ancient world is that of Hannibal and Scipio Africanus meeting before the Battle of Zama in 202 BC, and their subsequent meeting in Ephesus years later when Hannibal was in exile under the protection of Antiochus III...
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However neither were around for Caesar, who is the correct answer
In this poll it’s Hannibal. All military leaders aspire to the brilliance that was Cannae.
Frederick the Great. Napoleon masterful in the beginning but relied too much on sledgehammer tactics towards the end.
Frederick the Great. Napoleon masterful in the beginning but relied too much on sledgehammer tactics towards the end.
Lee. Washington. Sherman. Grant. Patton. Jackson. Rommel.
Genghis Khan. Didn't his armies wipe out like 20% of the known human population? Pretty badass if true
Pretty sure our boy Joey B could wipe out humanity tonight if so inclined, doesn’t necessarily make him napoleon
Lord Nelson
Marlborough
Robert Lee and Frederick the Great are also up there.
From that list, Alexander.
Marlborough
Robert Lee and Frederick the Great are also up there.
From that list, Alexander.
First the sword, and then the penis... ( to rebuild the 20 percent he killed)
A solid case can be made for any of 'em.
However -- there's clearly but one indisputable answer as to what the greatest version of RISK is:
I'd like to watch Hannibal just try to march those elephants through my fortified Ocean of Storms, I'd show him what "Barca" really is.
Sherman? One of the worst tactial generals of all time? That Sherman?
The fact Nap got the French to fight and not surrender was an achievement all on its own.
Stonewall Jackson was pretty good. So was James Longstreet. But the best ever was probably Napoleon.
I heard a quote on Dan Carlin’s Wrath of the Khans Hardcore History podcast series that something like 1 in 50 males in China proper today are direct descendants of Ghenghis Khan.
That’s a lot of bangin.
Alexander would win this.
Queen Victoria was the greatest RISK player ever.
Queen Victoria was the greatest RISK player ever.
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From this list, Alexander the Great.
Reported the OP's post, though, due to its horrific lack of diversity. All caucasian.
Subutai is the real winner.
Reported the OP's post, though, due to its horrific lack of diversity. All caucasian.
Subutai is the real winner.
Unless you're the nazis. Then you get to write hundreds of books saying your cause wasn't that bad and all your failure was due to Hitler.
"Comrades who had participated in the Kursk battle have come to me with questions: Why has Marshal Zhukov distorted history in his memoirs, claiming credit for things he never did? He shouldn't be permitted to do that!"
Rovvososky
"Marshal Zhukov, having lost any sense of modesty and obsessed with personal ambition, considers that his services have been insufficiently appreciated. He, in conversations with subordinates, claims to have led all the major operations in the Great Patriotic War, even those in which he had not the slightest connection."-Stalin
The answer is Alexander and there is no debate to be had here.
Dude was even prophesied about in the Bible, as was the fact that the four generals replacing him would not combined be as strong as he was.
Napoleon - marched the Grande Armee into Russia where it promptly froze to death.
Dude was even prophesied about in the Bible, as was the fact that the four generals replacing him would not combined be as strong as he was.
Napoleon - marched the Grande Armee into Russia where it promptly froze to death.
Subutai was a Mongol general and the primary military strategist of Genghis Khan and Ögedei Khan. He directed more than 20 campaigns, during which he conquered or overran more territory than any other commander in history as part of the expansion of the Mongol Empire, the largest contiguous empire in human history.
He often gained victory by means of sophisticated strategies and routinely coordinated movements of armies that operated hundreds of kilometers apart from each other. Subutai is well known for the geographical diversity and success of his expeditions, which took him from central Asia to the Russian steppe and into Europe.
If Ögedei Khan hadn't died when he did, Subutai probably conquers most or all of Europe.
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Additionally, Zhukov enjoyed roughly 1/6 of US WW2 arms and material production 1942-45.
I think what happened was they got to Germany, and as they observed the locals, one general commented these men are much larger than ours to which his second in command responded, Sir, those are the women.
I think it's funny people put Sherman in here. The guy was one of the worst tactical generals during the civil war on either side. And was a mentally ill drunk. His most famous campaign he went to war against women and children and old men. Truly a tactial genuis.
Plus his personal DNA is floating around in millions of good looking Chinese women. He had yellow fever big time.
I go with Washington. He was the only one who of those mentioned who gave up his power voluntarily before the US Constitution existed. George 3 was astounded. What a statement of ultimate lasting power & vision. Cincinnatus was top notch too for similar reasons.
His semen was also almost as potent as Rowland's too.
Lee and Grant were impressive for sure. Grant at Vicksburg.
Forrest was the best General of the Civil War. He also killed my GGG Grandfather in hand to hand combat.
