Greatest Military Commander Before the Industrial Age

Started by jimmy olsen, September 06, 2016, 02:15:55 AM

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Who was the reatest Military Commander Before the Industrial Age?

Alexander the Great
6 (20%)
Hannibal
2 (6.7%)
Scipio Africanus
0 (0%)
Qin Shi Huang
0 (0%)
Chandragupta Maurya
0 (0%)
Julius Caesar
4 (13.3%)
Belisarius
1 (3.3%)
Khalid the Sword
0 (0%)
Subutai
3 (10%)
Tamerlane
0 (0%)
Yi Sun Shin
1 (3.3%)
Gustavus Adolphus
0 (0%)
Fredrick the Great
2 (6.7%)
Nelson
3 (10%)
Napoleon
8 (26.7%)

Total Members Voted: 29

Voting closed: July 26, 2017, 02:15:55 AM

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The Brain

#75
September 08, 2016, 03:37:47 PM
Hell is a place where Russia always happens.
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jimmy olsen

#76
September 09, 2016, 12:39:11 AM
Quote from: Monoriu on September 07, 2016, 03:02:50 AM
I doubt if Qin Shi Huang is a military commander.

Nominate a Chinese replacement then.  There has to be someone worthy of at least being on the list from there.

Also, trolling Wikipedia, this guy looks like a decent candidate.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nader_Shah
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Archy

#77
September 09, 2016, 05:32:43 AM
Quote from: The Brain on September 06, 2016, 12:13:49 PM
Andrea Doria was cooler than Nelson. YOUNG PEOPLE SUCK
Andrea Doria is that a pizza or pasta? :P

Zanza

#78
September 09, 2016, 11:00:22 AM
Quote from: jimmy olsen on September 09, 2016, 12:39:11 AM
Nominate a Chinese replacement then.  There has to be someone worthy of at least being on the list from there.
Sun Tzu

CountDeMoney

#79
September 09, 2016, 11:26:04 AM
Fuck that guy.  Hack.  Lin Biao, before he was suicided.

grumbler

#80
September 09, 2016, 12:01:22 PM
Quote from: Zanza on September 09, 2016, 11:00:22 AM
Quote from: jimmy olsen on September 09, 2016, 12:39:11 AM
Nominate a Chinese replacement then.  There has to be someone worthy of at least being on the list from there.
Sun Tzu

Sun Tzu and Hector are both up there,
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Bayraktar!

grumbler

#81
September 09, 2016, 12:06:27 PM
Quote from: CountDeMoney on September 09, 2016, 11:26:04 AM
Lin Biao, before he was suicided.
Probably the best choice of the unambiguously non-mythical Chinese military commanders.
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Bayraktar!

Martinus

#82
September 09, 2016, 12:37:10 PM
Quote from: The Brain on September 08, 2016, 03:37:47 PM
Hell is a place where Russia always happens.

Hell is other Russians.

CountDeMoney

#83
September 09, 2016, 12:43:25 PM
Quote from: grumbler on September 09, 2016, 12:06:27 PM
Quote from: CountDeMoney on September 09, 2016, 11:26:04 AM
Lin Biao, before he was suicided.
Probably the best choice of the unambiguously non-mythical Chinese military commanders.

Unlike the rest of them, we actually possess substantial photographic evidence.

Razgovory

#84
September 09, 2016, 01:44:07 PM
Quote from: Martinus on September 09, 2016, 12:37:10 PM
Quote from: The Brain on September 08, 2016, 03:37:47 PM
Hell is a place where Russia always happens.

Hell is other Russians.

Okay, that was a good one.
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jimmy olsen

#85
September 09, 2016, 09:24:00 PM
Quote from: Zanza on September 09, 2016, 11:00:22 AM
Quote from: jimmy olsen on September 09, 2016, 12:39:11 AM
Nominate a Chinese replacement then.  There has to be someone worthy of at least being on the list from there.
Sun Tzu
Should Calusewitz be on the list too?

The candidate should have won multiple major battles if not wars.
It is far better for the truth to tear my flesh to pieces, then for my soul to wander through darkness in eternal damnation.

Jet: So what kind of woman is she? What's Julia like?
Faye: Ordinary. The kind of beautiful, dangerous ordinary that you just can't leave alone.
Jet: I see.
Faye: Like an angel from the underworld. Or a devil from Paradise.
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Ed Anger

#86
September 09, 2016, 09:29:27 PM
Quote from: jimmy olsen on September 09, 2016, 09:24:00 PM
Quote from: Zanza on September 09, 2016, 11:00:22 AM
Quote from: jimmy olsen on September 09, 2016, 12:39:11 AM
Nominate a Chinese replacement then.  There has to be someone worthy of at least being on the list from there.
Sun Tzu
Should Calusewitz be on the list too?

The candidate should have won multiple major battles if not wars.

Quoted to immortalize the spelling error.
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celedhring

#87
September 11, 2016, 09:17:41 AM
Didn't Calusewitz fight in the Nalopeonic wars?

grumbler

#88
September 11, 2016, 09:23:21 AM
Quote from: celedhring on September 11, 2016, 09:17:41 AM
Didn't Calusewitz fight in the Nalopeonic wars?

I think he was a colonel in the Purssian army.
The future is all around us, waiting, in moments of transition, to be born in moments of revelation. No one knows the shape of that future or where it will take us. We know only that it is always born in pain.   -G'Kar

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Tonitrus

#89
September 11, 2016, 02:33:21 PM
Quote from: grumbler on September 11, 2016, 09:23:21 AM
Quote from: celedhring on September 11, 2016, 09:17:41 AM
Didn't Calusewitz fight in the Nalopeonic wars?

I think he was a colonel in the Purrssian army.

That was Clawswitz von Meowtke.
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