Pike & Shot or Line Infantry Better Against Traditional Fantasy Horde?

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Razgovory

#60
November 19, 2011, 10:19:42 PM
Quote from: jimmy olsen on November 19, 2011, 09:19:22 PM
Quote from: Razgovory on November 19, 2011, 07:35:48 PM
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Quote from: jimmy olsen on November 19, 2011, 03:49:02 PM
Trollocs are controlled by the Myrddraal and have lunched charges to the death that make the Somme offensive look plausible in comparison.

You really do have trouble telling fantasy from reality, don't you?

I missed that. :XD:
100,000 dead in half an hour > 60,000 Brits dead in a day.

The US did that with Tokyo.
I've given it serious thought. I must scorn the ways of my family, and seek a Japanese woman to yield me my progeny. He shall live in the lands of the east, and be well tutored in his sacred trust to weave the best traditions of Japan and the Sacred South together, until such time as he (or, indeed his house, which will periodically require infusion of both Southern and Japanese bloodlines of note) can deliver to the South it's independence, either in this world or in space.  -Lettow April of 2011

Raz is right. -MadImmortalMan March of 2017

Siege

#61
November 19, 2011, 10:25:12 PM
I'll go with line infantry. Bayonetts are nasty and quite capable.

A better scenario would be a modern infantry battalion against a monster horde.

My take is we can take odds of 1 of us per 1000 monsters.

So, let's round up our 800 strong infantry bat to 1000 to add some more combat support and supply, and it means we can take on 1,000,000 monsters.


"All men are created equal, then some become infantry."

"Those who beat their swords into plowshares will plow for those who don't."

"Laissez faire et laissez passer, le monde va de lui même!"

Siege

#62
November 19, 2011, 11:37:03 PM
Quote from: jimmy olsen on November 18, 2011, 06:44:40 PM
Quote from: Razgovory on November 18, 2011, 06:29:07 PM
Quote from: jimmy olsen on November 18, 2011, 06:16:13 PM
You really think that an army of men armed with bayonets are going to be able to hold their own in melee against nine foot monstrosities?
Also, Orcs are smaller the humans.

I always forget that about Orks. Changed them to Uruk Hai who are at least man sized. The rest of the creatures on that list are big though.



"All men are created equal, then some become infantry."

"Those who beat their swords into plowshares will plow for those who don't."

"Laissez faire et laissez passer, le monde va de lui même!"

Siege

#63
November 19, 2011, 11:38:59 PM


"All men are created equal, then some become infantry."

"Those who beat their swords into plowshares will plow for those who don't."

"Laissez faire et laissez passer, le monde va de lui même!"

Neil

#64
November 20, 2011, 01:14:19 AM
Quote from: Siege on November 19, 2011, 10:25:12 PM
I'll go with line infantry. Bayonetts are nasty and quite capable.

A better scenario would be a modern infantry battalion against a monster horde.

My take is we can take odds of 1 of us per 1000 monsters.

So, let's round up our 800 strong infantry bat to 1000 to add some more combat support and supply, and it means we can take on 1,000,000 monsters.
I wouldn't go that far.  You'd run out of ammo, and hand-to-hand you guys are pretty helpless against that sort of foe.
I do not hate you, nor do I love you, but you are made out of atoms which I can use for something else.

Razgovory

#65
November 20, 2011, 01:16:51 AM
Who ever taught Siege how to post pictures should be feeling really bad right now.
I've given it serious thought. I must scorn the ways of my family, and seek a Japanese woman to yield me my progeny. He shall live in the lands of the east, and be well tutored in his sacred trust to weave the best traditions of Japan and the Sacred South together, until such time as he (or, indeed his house, which will periodically require infusion of both Southern and Japanese bloodlines of note) can deliver to the South it's independence, either in this world or in space.  -Lettow April of 2011

Raz is right. -MadImmortalMan March of 2017

Barrister

#66
November 20, 2011, 01:49:41 AM
Quote from: Siege on November 19, 2011, 10:16:27 PM
Quote from: jimmy olsen on November 19, 2011, 04:10:11 PM
Quote from: Razgovory on November 19, 2011, 03:58:17 PM
The Soviets tried that.  Turns out that's an ineffective way to fight.
:lol: I can't disagree with you there.

If only Stalin had been able to get the human-ape hybrids he wanted!


He did. They are called slavs.

This is what I get for not making anti-semitic jokes on Languish. :rolleyes:
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Siege

#67
November 20, 2011, 03:52:09 AM
Quote from: Razgovory on November 20, 2011, 01:16:51 AM
Who ever taught Siege how to post pictures should be feeling really bad right now.

It was Yi.


"All men are created equal, then some become infantry."

"Those who beat their swords into plowshares will plow for those who don't."

"Laissez faire et laissez passer, le monde va de lui même!"

Siege

#68
November 20, 2011, 03:53:44 AM


"All men are created equal, then some become infantry."

"Those who beat their swords into plowshares will plow for those who don't."

"Laissez faire et laissez passer, le monde va de lui même!"

Slargos

#69
November 20, 2011, 04:10:33 AM
Quote from: Neil on November 19, 2011, 05:32:56 PM
Quote from: Slargos on November 19, 2011, 04:11:31 PM
Pike/musket combination ala the 1700 Carolean army. It's the only way to be sure.
Wasn't that army humiliated and destroyed by a horde?

nope.logistics destroyed it. the horde never won an engagement where the superior nature of the model was applicable.

Siege

#70
November 20, 2011, 06:24:20 AM
death ans the meaning of life.
I am never more alive than when iam taking my enemies' lifes. Wothless flies.
Death have tried to take my life many times, and I have laughed to her face, dare her to try, threatened to break every friggin bone in her body.
I deliver death and retribution upon America's enemies.

When I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, and I do this frequently, I fear no evil, for I am the meanest mothefucker in the valley.



"All men are created equal, then some become infantry."

"Those who beat their swords into plowshares will plow for those who don't."

"Laissez faire et laissez passer, le monde va de lui même!"

The Brain

#71
November 20, 2011, 06:38:50 AM
Like, totally.
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Siege

#72
November 20, 2011, 06:55:24 AM
Was Haiti the firt slav rebellion to be succesful enough too create a knew country?


"All men are created equal, then some become infantry."

"Those who beat their swords into plowshares will plow for those who don't."

"Laissez faire et laissez passer, le monde va de lui même!"

Siege

#73
November 20, 2011, 06:56:44 AM


"All men are created equal, then some become infantry."

"Those who beat their swords into plowshares will plow for those who don't."

"Laissez faire et laissez passer, le monde va de lui même!"

Siege

#74
November 20, 2011, 06:57:05 AM


"All men are created equal, then some become infantry."

"Those who beat their swords into plowshares will plow for those who don't."

"Laissez faire et laissez passer, le monde va de lui même!"
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