ITT: battles where the bad guys won
>>939002
Fall of Constantinople
>>939004
t. Alexios
>>939002
>bad guys
>battle
Gtf back to Plebbit
>>939015
t. Mehmet
>>939017
t. Bagdan
>>939033
>t. Enrico
>>939041
t. Franz
Stalingrad.
Tours.
>>939044
t. Baldwin
>>939056
> ect
>>939056
ec tetera
>>939066
t. Ali
The fourth battle of the bands at Princeton high school was a travesty
What is the t. Short for?
>>940120
finnish meme word for "cordially" or something
t. /int/ pro
Battle of Zama
>>940120
What is the what?
t. Long for
>>940120
It is an abbreviation of finnish word "Terveisin", which translates "best regards" in english, or something similar.
The "troubles"
>>940143
Talk shit get hit
>>940170
Sorry, can't hear you over the sound of 70000 Roman casualties.
>>940216
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Third_Punic_War
>>940216
>Carthagians getting salty
Obligatory.
>>939002
why did Grouchy not come back instead of having a pointless skirmish while Waterloo happened?
>>940232
I feel bad that I laughed at this
Reminder that the carthagineans literally sacrificed babies to their gods by throwing them into a pit of fire.
>>940283
Stop reading those Rome Today tablets, its all pure Senate propaganda
>>939056
Constantinople
>>939002
Napoleon was not a Good Guy by the time it ended. He may have started a republican General, but he wasn't that by the end. Look up the Leclerc expedition, one of his generals planned to genocide 400,000 blacks in Haiti. Napoleon was not that bad, but he had planned to re-enslave Haiti, and he had given an order to do so to his generals.
Battle of culloden
Battle of the Frontiers
>>940224
>Roman
>wearing blue
wtf
>>940224
>third punic war
>war
>>942863
Roman marines wore blue
>>941401
>Culloden
>Wanting an absolute monarchy
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_al-Qaryatayn
>>941401
>Culloden
>Wanting a return to Divine right of Kings
>>942863
They wore whatever dye was the cheapest where they were raised.
>>943512
>Culloden
>There goes a damned italian coward
>>939002
Want's to talk about history
talks about the "bad guy"
grow up fgit
>>941371
Big deal, they were rising up and ruining the plantation production. They should have sat down, they were slaves and nothing more, they kept messing shit up and eventually payed for it. Incase you don't know the history of haiti, they ended up treating their own kind just as poorly after they regained what little freedom you can have on an island of unintelligent creatures as is possible.
Leclerc acted independent of Napoleon as well to ensure results so how does that make napoleon responsible for something everything was doing. India didn't stop until the mid 1900s.
>>939046
>fascism vs stalinism
It was impossible for the bad guys not to have won this one.
>>945825
>being this salty on a mongolian cartoon screencap posting board
Saratoga
The Battle of Vitkov Hill.
Literally the whole army of the HRE BTFO by Czech peasants.
You can't make this shit up.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1qcFCWF5eLE
>>946002
t. toryfag loyalist
>>939002
Al of them.
>t. amish
>>946002
Loyalist scum
>>946002
Go back to Canada, faggot.
>>942863
this isn't age of empires soldiers don't have to all wear the same color
The Normandy Invasion.
Alesia
>>946032
>The >H>R>E was such fucking trash that people in WAGONS could beat it
>>939046
is there a legend i can look at for this map?
>>946837
>HRE
>being beaten by little kids with ranged weapons, agricultural tools, and wagons
>Emperor Sigismund REEEs
>>939002
Random curiosity: Why didn't Napoleon advance his whole line at once, like how ancient battles were fought? When reading about Waterloo you hear about him sending up his left wing first, then sending a large portion to attack the center, then when that failed he sent a small but elite force to attack the left etc. It seemed more about streaming in a few pockets of a few thousand men to attack certain parts of the enemy line at certain times, rather than an ALL out advance/attack.
I'm assuming that this is representative of how most battles were fought at the time, but why? What is the advantage of spaced out smaller attacks on such a huge line? Genuinely curious.
Greater control over the battle. Its easier to get orders to the troops when it isn't an all out chaotic attack. That and it could provoke the enemy to attack when/where you want.
>>946032
JAN ZIZKA
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the siege of Troy
>>946032
>"H" "R" "E"
>good
pick one
>>946931
Generally speaking, the layout of Waterloo required it to a degree.
Napoleon needed to capture a couple of farms in front of the British line in order to safely advance up the hill.
They were also in part designed to probe British defenses for a weakness before committing to a final assault. In Napoleonic warfare, armies usually rout (and expose themselves to destruction) when a portion of the line is breached by enemy forces. Napoleon's usually strategy was to pummel his opponents center before sending in huge columns of troops to break through and rout the enemy force. The cavalry would then hit the flanks and roll up the lines, killing anyone not on a horse basically.
The problem with this at Waterloo was terrain based however. The British/Coalition army was at the top of a shallow hill. It had also rained the night before, making the gound very muddy. It took until almost noon before the French could move their artillery into place, and every time they fired the rounds stuck in the mud or hit the slope of the hill, while the British laid down behind the crest of the hill. Napoleon himself also fell asleep for most of the battle and Michel Ney was given command. Ney decided the only way to achieve a breakthrough was to break up the British formations on the center of the hill with Napoleon's cavalry rather than send slow moving infantry up the hill against British cannon. This actually worked somewhat effectively because they spiked a ton of British guns, and the French guns decimated the British square formations, but the French cavalry essentially stopped existing by the end.
The arrival of the Prussians at the end meant that Napoleon had to either win against the Brits or loose everything. He decided to gamble on a last ditch effort with his infantry on the weakened center, but had to divert critical man power to hold off the Prussians long enough to win.
TBC
Leipzig.
>>947705
The Brits drew in their flanks to the center and used the additional manpower to break the Old Guard, by which point the coalition forces and Prussians were able to launch a general counter-offensive to destroy what was left of Napoleon's forces.
Tl;dr, Wellington had the high ground
>>946793
>muh green champions vs blue war elephants
