Who was the greatest single combatant to ever live?
>>419009
Audie Murphy
me
Guiscard
>>419009
Simo Häyhä, or Lille Nils.
>>419009
Nobody, because they all died.
>>419009
alberto barbarossa
Miyamoto Musashi for sword shit
Rooty tooty point n shooty finn for gun shit
>>419009
Rudel.
>>419009
Alberto Barbosa
>>419009
Me on the mic
>>419078
>>419053
>>419075
t. Alberto Barbosa
>>419009
William Marshall.
He could REMEMBER (when old as shit and on his death bed) Besting over 500 knights in tourneys.
This doesn't count the men he killed in battle, and he fought a few wars.
>>419009
Admiral Yi
Nigga beat the entire Jap navy with 13 sailboats
That viking on the bridge that killed fiddy men
He only died because his enemies cheated and stabbed him in the balls with a spear
>>419009
>You will never glance up at Richard the Lionheart after a battle against the Saracen, as he stands on a hill, lost in thoughs, cleaning his sword, his helmet removed, his brow covered in sweat and blood, arrows sticking out his plate armor, the sun reflected on all of him, and know that you will make it back home as long as you follow his lead.
>>419582
>You'll never see him get no-scoped by some sandnigger
He died like a bitch.
From the sheer "this dude got around" perspective:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yang_Kyoungjong
Achilles
This is literally the only correct answer
>>419100
This. He's known to history as "the greatest knight".
Cotton Hill
He killed fiddy men
>>419588
He died in France...
Hazrate Ali ibn talib , the lion of God.
>>419009
>>419009
Almost certainly an issue that is too clouded by tall tales and mythology to make any sort of judgement.
There is also the issue of comparisons. How do you compare a knight to a jet on jet fighter ace?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giora_Epstein
>>419009
Simo Häyhä
>>419009
Madara
>>419018
/thread
>>420202
I would actually argue that fighter aces are basically sky knights, to be honest family
ali ibn talib
Alberto Barbosa
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Churchill
Personal favourite.
Larry "fuck commies" Thorne
The german machine gunner, Heinrich Severloh on Omaha beach who was basically presented with wave after wave of tightly packed, immobile US soldiers and mowed them down in a huge turkey shoot until he had run out of ammunition and had had several MG42 barrells seize up, as well as a couple of rifles. He claims to have inflicted around 2000 casualties.
There's a fine line between warrior and machine tool operator.
>>420231
All he did was camp and take potshots, literally irrelevant
Cú Chulainn
>>420382
>one man
>responsible for 75 percent of all casualties on omaha
haha
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erich_Hartmann
>>420388
It takes skill to camp and take potshots for as long as he did, with what little equipment he had and how well he was known by the soviet troops.
>>419009
Alvin C. York
http://www.todayifoundout.com/index.php/2010/01/in-wwi-alvin-york-captured-132-german-soldiers-in-pretty-much-a-1-against-132-gunfight/
>>419385
Warrior, not commander
Greatest warrior AND military commander
Floyd Mayweather Jr.
Ἀχιλλεύς!
Based
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victoriano_Ram%C3%ADrez
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Marshal,_1st_Earl_of_Pembroke
The best Knight who ever lived. William Marshal
>>419541
>cheated
>in war
The answer is objectively Rudel
>Rudel flew 2,530 combat missions claiming a total of 2,000 targets destroyed; including 800 vehicles, 519 tanks, 150 artillery pieces, 70 landing craft, nine aircraft, four armored trains, several bridges, a destroyer, two cruisers, and the Soviet battleship Marat.
>>419601
This was a "See Also" link from your page. Fought in 13 different wars, from the Boer War to fighting under Pancho Villa to serving as a Colonel for the White Army in Russia
>>421181
That ain't Bubi
the terror of first world SJWs everywhere
> Not mentioning the man amongst men
>>420388
they literally sent out hunting parties and artillery strikes for him.
>>421700
I-IT'S, IT'S LU BU!!!!!!
Caligula
>>419100
I can "remember" doing a whole lot of shit too. Doesn't mean it actually happened.
I'm sure William Marshall was good at his job, but I'm pretty skeptical of any allegedly amazing historical figure whose only source for their accomplishments is their own recollections.
>LE FINNISH SNIPER MAN
He sat in a hole and sniped people. Sure he was badass but he literally had his victories walked to him.
There are records of people performing surgeries on themselves in the battle field and god knows how many died anonymously.
Musashi Miyamoto or Tadakatsu Honda for the East.
William Marshall for the west.
>>420178
Well, at least he died in his homeland
>>419582
>his plate armor
>>423379
Sniping isn't nearly as easy or as safe as you've convinced yourself it is.
>>421479
Topkek me laddie.
>>423379
real life guns aren't hitscan laser beams.
>control + f
>no guesclin
Really, niggers?
Bertrand du Guesclin
>>420367
This.
>>423029
LU BU'S COME TO DESTROY US!!!
>>419009
Donald Trump
>>423378
Marshall literally rose from a friendless knight with no horse and a damage shirt of mail to being regent of the kingdom of England by merit of his fighting skill.
Strength of character helped later-the man was smart, and universally trusted and respected, but he only got to the point of mattering in society by cleaning house in tournaments. Constantly.
>>419385
muh turtleships
can't believe nobody's mentioned hsiang yu yet. Lu Bu gets all the fame for being in novels and such, but ask literally any chinese person and they'll tell you that this dude takes the cake.
At the battle where he died, he heard that there was a bounty on his head. Through the fog of war, he saw an old friend, and said to him:
"I heard that the King of Han has placed a price of 1,000 gold on my head. Take it then, on account of our friendship."
And with those words, he slit his own throat.
>>420231
The reason Soviet got easily mowed by Fins was that the Soviets wore dark colored winter coats.
Pic related, guy killed more than Hayha. And I guess shooting down Germans were harder than troops who cannot into camouflage.
>no Janos Hunyadi
It's like you fags WANT all of Europe to get Turk'd.
>>419582
>You will never witness the epic rivalry of Richard and Saladin yourself
Why bother living?
>>419541
This
Except for the
>cheated
Nigga the only rule in war is don't lose
>>424864
nice getting fukt at varna, bro
