Has there ever been a battle in history decided mainly by the fact that one side's soldiers were tougher (had more guts/were thicker skin/etc.) than the soldiers on the other side?
The emu wars.
>>30411346
most of them
>>30411346
It makes me think about days of yore and the battles our species once had with dinosaurs. We are Badass resilient motherfuckers (except straya)
>>30411642
Our species never lived at the same time as dinosaurs though anon
>>30411680
>~30 year old fat man with that davey havok-tier haircut, that try hard "muh viking heritage" shit beard, and a skinny puppy long sleeve
Cringe
>>30411703
If you think that ones bad
>>30411271
The Winter War.
Finns back then were a different sort of hard.
>>30411836
Except they still lost, so that doesn't really prove the point you were trying to make.
The Punic Wars are probably one of the better examples.
>>30411680
What are you talking about? The Earth is only 6000 years old. Dinosaurs and man did exist at the same.
>>30412107
>there's actually a huge number of people in the US believing this
>yfw
>>30412107
Is this you, anon?
>>30412147
>mfw my dad says he believes this
>mfw he was a corporate exec making 750-800k a year before he retired
I literally can't tell if he's memeing or not. Makes sense though, cause he came from a super religious family.
>>30412107
fucking hillarious
i always wondered tho, what happened to the dinosaurs?
>>30411271
Battle of Thermopylae?
I fucking hated that retarded 300 movie tho
>>30412262
They lost, they were decimated in fact, and the Persians were able to defeat Athens.. I don't know how the movie was able to make that look like a victory when it clearly showed them all dead at the end. It was also around 8-10,000 Greeks, not just the Spartan guard (most Spartan citizens were against Athens and for their old ally Persia, which is why the oligarchy wouldn't send their army in the first place) and even with that force they got rolled over completely within 2 days.
It was a romantic defeat though, or perhaps just a romanticised defeat..
>>30412193
>you will never have a dino battle buddy, who is dumb as rocks, but loyal as fuck.
Battle of Cannae maybe?
Hannibal did gamble on his weaker troops holding the line against the Roman in the middle so the stronger one could decimate the ennemy flanks.
>>30412394
>Not wanting a sexy female raptor battle buddy, smart as fuck and good in bed. Possibly able to to use funs?
Plebeian
>>30412026
but they didn't lose as hard as they could have
I think some of the Island hopping battles the Marines did had better kill ratio than Japs. Which is considering Japs were dug in and Marines on offensive.
Still you'll never know how many the Navy killed by shelling the beaches beforehand.
>>30411271
>What is the Eastern Front of the second world war
>>30411271
>>30414522
The Russians had more guts to spill and they used that advantage liberally throughout the war.
>>30416063
This. If the Russians had the exact same numbers as the Germans they would have lost.
Israels War of Independence comes to mind.
The Egyptian tanks were within shelling distance of Jerusalem when the tankers got freaked out, and abandoned their tanks.
>>30414522
That was less about guts and more about sheer numbers, Nam was the same, the reclaiming force got BTFO but wom.
also Hitler was retarded and wanted to dick up his army in a billion directions and refused defeat so he could lose the best of his army.
The German Arrogance was more the driving force than the force of nature that is trying to invade russia
Yeah, like massive zerg rushes on an already exhausted army fighting 2 fronts had anything to do with toughness.
The average russian conscript was probably pissing himself as he ran face first into MG-42's. Russians probably had way shittier morale too.
Battle of Yultong Pass
Chinese Army Division decided to stop attacking a surrounded Philippine Army Battalion and instead move past them and force the UN army to retreat. The Philippine force was an island in a sea of Chinese.
>>30412250
Died in the flood
>x people/army were tough
>"HURRR BUT DEY LOST DA WAR"
you people are such faggots
>>30417285
>The Red Army didn't understand tactics meme
When will this die?
>>30417424
But the Wehrmacht was never strong. They relied to heavily on their tactics, while ignoring strategy and logistic. They were just pampered children who steamrolled weak countries into submission. Once they faced a country that fought equally, they began to suffer
>>30412325
That battle has never really been used as an example of winning against the odds though. It's always been more of an example of fighting even when you know you can't win. That's what has captured peoples imaginations over the course of history, the idea of standing, fighting and dying when it's pretty much a guaranteed outcome.
Battle of the Bulge comes to mind.
>>30417486
why are they friendly wtf?
>>30417854
Probably before Barbarossa
>>30417486
This is not a meme.
The Red Army only won the war because American strategic bombers destroyed German industry to the point where they've ran out of bullets and then started to hide the evidence that in reality they've lost not some 20 millions of people but 120 billions of casualties.
>>30414413
>>30412579
>Battle of Cannae
Without a doubt the single most savage, bloody battle in history. 50k+ men killed almost to the man from dusk to dawn.
Siege of Jadotville, fucking Belgian fucks continuing to be their traitorous cunts
We still lost but killed 300 and wounded nearly 1000 with no losses, 5 wounded, all with no air support or water
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siege_of_Jadotville
>>30417497
this is bait, isnt it? it has to be.
Has there ever been an instance where two armies fought each other to near total exhaustion in terms of manpower?
>>30411703
Hey.... Carl and Ian are legitimate. Leave them alone anon.
>>30419591
If America didn't enter WW1 I'm sure the "fighting age" men would have been obliterated.
>>30411271
The Escape from the Chosin Reservoir maybe? Battle of St Vith too.
>>>11448447
Italy v Spain>
>>30419591
Yes. In the old East/Middle East that sort of thing happened quite a bit.
The kings were considered "holy" and would therefore be protected by the strongest, most-skillful fighters while everyone else served as fodder. Obviously, the skilled men of both sides could cut through the fodder rather easily until you've matched up most skillful vs. most skillful -- and then the real battle of attrition begins.
It's similar to chess -- how many chess games end with just two kings and one or two other pieces? Why? Because you can throw away all other pieces except the king and they're just captured pieces. You can still win. When the KING is divine, that's all that matters, all other men are disposable and can die as long as the king lives, so the meatgrinder would grind until he's dead -- leaving both sides down to just a few.
>>11448447
>>30414503
The Muhrines had ridiculous K/D ratios, like 5/1 or better. Casualty ratios weren't nearly as good.
>>30411680
>>30411755
Who are these autists?
Bunker hill
>>30417885
>120 billion
>>30417941
I suppose you can list every single UN peacekeeping failure then, Goma, Srebrenica, Rwanda, The Sinai kipnappings ect ect.
>>30417854
molotov ribbentrop pact
>>30411680
Komodo dragons.
Look up what size they used to be.
>people think murrican were heavily outnumbered in Vietnam
fact was,they were never more then 300k active north vietnamese combatant,and people forgot to factor in the south vietnamese in the equation,the only numerical superiority the vietnamese really had was in local engagements
>>30419591
in Verdun i guess,the italian front in WW1,most of the land battles in Russo-Japanese war
>>30417369
What about the aquatic dinosaurs?
