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Ok, heres one for all you battle hardened warriors :-

You have to pick 3 battles from any period in history you could hover over and watch without getting hurt in any way, Three rules :-

1/. Only one may involve the country you live in

2/. They must have been real battles i.e. not fictional

3/. You must state who they were between and why they interest you

My choices would be

1/. Clontarf where the Vikings were expelled from Ireland in 1014, the battle lasted an entire day near Dublin, Vikings always fascinated me as I live near the site of the first ever English raid. Now we all know how fierce the Vikings were and this was their heyday, the Irish must have been pissed off and quite cross lol.

2/. Agincourt (sorry Frenchi), 1415 where a vastly outnumbered, malnourished English army slaughtered a vastly superior French force, a lesson in tactics, brutality and over confidence by the French, this counts for my country, the ultimate battle for the longbow.

3/. Battle of the Teutoburg forest 9 ad, I admire the Romans as being possibly the finest fighting troops ever, however in this battle they were defeated by the Germanic tribes, the beginning of their end. This must have been a monumentous battle but as they lost historical accounts are almost non existent as to how, I could see what really happened.

ps I wanted an air and sea battle too Leyte ? Trafalgar, etc but these won, you could go on forever

 

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How about this,it is non fictional :I was there and finally won.

 

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The Battle for Crete, when the Australians and New Zealanders were pissed at being pulled out of North Africa, tossed into Greece, and evacuated to Crete. Only to face the airborne onslaught of the Luftwaffe. The Germans parachuted into a hornet nest of vengeful ANZAC troops that shot to kill.

Grant's battles with Lee after he took over as commander of the union army of the Potomac. He lost every battle all the way to Richmond, winning the war.

Kursk, who wouldn't want to witness the largest tank battle in history? :cheers:

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Shit forgot about Kursk, but I chose hand to hand combat over weaponry, bloodier but modern wars are well documented, not so those in the past, so I ignored bullets.

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1 hour ago, TheLastColdBeer said:

The Battle for Crete, when the Australians and New Zealanders were pissed at being pulled out of North Africa, tossed into Greece, and evacuated to Crete. Only to face the airborne onslaught of the Luftwaffe. The Germans parachuted into a hornet nest of vengeful ANZAC troops that shot to kill.

Grant's battles with Lee after he took over as commander of the union army of the Potomac. He lost every battle all the way to Richmond, winning the war.

Kursk, who wouldn't want to witness the largest tank battle in history? :cheers:

There was British troops at Crete too m8 lol, also 9000 Greek soldiers, a battle that was a total cock up for the allies.

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1. Thermopylae

2. Gettysburg 

3. Yorktown:  Secured the world's oldest continuously surviving democracy.  Thanks, France.

 

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46 minutes ago, Timmah! said:

1. Thermopylae

2. Gettysburg 

3. Yorktown:  Secured the world's oldest continuously surviving democracy.  Thanks, France.

 

Broke the rules two of your own?

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Ok...Battle of Stalingrad.

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Laughed at the comments after Yorktown, unfortunately true, we have few freedoms in Europe now.

Discounted Stalingrad because you'd have to hover round in the cold for weeks :lol:

I thought of Thermopylae too, and a few others

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If you want messy hand to hand, anything the Romans were involved in matches that criteria. Need I mention Hannibal?

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