Which historical general are you?

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Originally Posted by Steppe Merc

Scipio? He was a slow, infantry bound dofus.

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:dizzy2: "Gah! Ack! Sputter!"

Ahem...

Well, he may have been an "infantry bound dofus" as you so eloquently put it, but that doofus chased/lured Hannibal out of Italy, diverted him from his main target, and across the sea and then opened a big fat can of Roman whoop ass on Hannibal and beat him on his own turf.

You can look at it ten ways from Sunday, but at the end of each and every way - Scipio beat Hannibal.

And you know why he beat him?

'Cause he gave a dose of this...

Shling!
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Beirut. Resistance is futile.I dont believe Steppe will respect any general who didnt have horse archers in his army. ~;)

Ah, but does RTW not say "Adversity, not good fortune, is the true measure of a general..."?

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Hannibal did the best with the troops provided .. and lost. hmm. Obviously didn't have JEDI KING'S BODYGUARD!1 :charge:

I am Grant...here me roar!!!

All the Grant-esque generals here, we should form a club

But I am the best Grant... ~D ~:cheers:

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Originally Posted by kagemusha

Beirut. Resistance is futile.I dont believe Steppe will respect any general who didnt have horse archers in his army. ~;)

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Not true, I respect ones with non horse archer cavalry that used cavalry properly. Like Hannibal, or William the Bastard or even Alexander. Romans did not use cavalry properly, IMHO, at least until the rise of Constantinople.
I can respect people like the Celts who, while being primarily infantry fighters, had pretty damn good cavalry for being Westerners.

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You can look at it ten ways from Sunday, but at the end of each and every way - Scipio beat Hannibal.

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Perhaps. But I still think Hannibal was far better, and I'd bet on him on against any Roman general, be it Caesar or Pompey or Scipio. But that's me. ~D

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Originally Posted by Steppe Merc

Scipio? He was a slow, infantry bound dofus.

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Well steppe , that is a good one ! ~;)

So I am the only Chief Sitting Bull?

And im the only King Fahd lol

Scipio
You scored 65 Wisdom, 82 Tactics, 58 Guts, and 65 Ruthlessness!

Airstrike the hospital.... and while you're there, hit the elementary school... oh, and the orphanage too.

Screw oil prices and the good guys! I say we kill them all and burn the oil!

You scored 72 Wisdom, 74 Tactics, 58 Guts, and 50 Ruthlessness!

You scored higher than 90% on Wisdom

You scored higher than 72% on Tactics

You scored higher than 49% on Guts

You scored higher than 58% on Ruthlessness

I took the test again, taking more time and answering with what I'd really do, not my first impulse. You guessed it:

Scipio
You scored 72 Wisdom, 87 Tactics, 55 Guts, and 63 Ruthlessness!
You're most simillar to Scipio in the fact that you're smart and ruthless. Scipio beat Hannibal by luring him back from Western Europe (where he was crushing legion after legion of Roman soldiers trying to gain support from local tribes) by laying seige to his home country of Carthage. Hannibal returned to defend his home and was defeated at the Battle of Zama. Ruthless, but it worked.

Scipio was the conqueror of Hannibal in the Punic Wars. He was the son of Publius Cornelius Scipio, and from a very early age he considered himself to have divine inspiration. He was with his father at the Ticino (218), and he survived Cannae (216). The young Scipio was elected (c.211) to the proconsulship in Spain. He conquered New Carthage (Cartagena) almost at once (209) and used the city as his own base; within several years he had conquered Spain. As consul in 205, Scipio wanted to invade Africa, but his jealous enemies in the senate granted him permission to go only as far as Sicily and gave him no army. He trained a volunteer army in Sicily. In 204 he received permission to go to Africa, where he joined his allies the Numidians and fought with success against the Carthaginians. In 202, Hannibal crossed to Africa and tried to make peace, but Scipio's demands were so extreme that war resulted; Scipio defeated Hannibal at Zama (202), returned home in triumph, and retired from public life. He was named Africanus after the country he conquered. His pride aggravated the hatred of his enemies, especially Cato the Elder , who accused the Scipio family of receiving bribes in the campaign against Antiochus III in which Scipio had accompanied (190) his brother. It was only through the influence of his son-in-law, Tiberius Sempronius Gracchus, that Scipio was saved from ruin. He retired into the country and ordered that his body might not be buried in his ungrateful city. Later he revealed his great magnanimity by his attempt to prevent the ruin of the exiled Hannibal by Rome.



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Oh my God. This is too... i dont even know the right word... ironic? scary? bad?

Adolf Hitler


You scored 63 Wisdom, 74 Tactics, 50 Guts, and 77 Ruthlessness!

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Hitler.... How many times did you have to take this test to get Hitler??? ......or are you really that evil? Anyway, you like Hitler, are a mindless bloodthirsty killer. You're smart, you know your military, and you are absolutely and completely evil. You mercilessly crush those who would oppose you, and even more who wouldn't dare. You're a genius, however, the trait you lack is guts. After the Soviet siege of Berlin, Hitler was found dead in his bunker after shooting his mistress and his dogs before turning the gun on himself.


My test tracked 4 variables How you compared to other people your age and gender:

You scored higher than 61% on Wisdom

You scored higher than 72% on Tactics

You scored higher than 22% on Guts

You scored higher than 97% on Ruthlessness

Eh.. I recently finished a book called "Hitler and his Generals".. actually its not really a book but a record of all the important military meetings from Stalingrad onward. Its really fascinating.

Anyway, Hitler did know the military quite well for his position. I doubt FDR, Stalin, or even Churchill - well maybe Churchill - had the same expertise.

Thats not to say Hitler would be a good general - but that wasnt his job. He did know the military though.

Chief Sitting Bull
You scored 58 Wisdom, 82 Tactics, 64 Guts, and 31 Ruthlessness!

Scipio. And I said to take out the ammunition dump.

[QUOTE=PanzerJager]Oh my God. This is too... i dont even know the right word... ironic? scary? bad?



[CENTER]Adolf Hitler


Ironic ? Hhhhmmmm ~;)

took test 2 times.
"Real life me" is Rommel. :bow:
"war game me" is Chingis. :charge:
Why so little tactic? ~:confused:

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Originally Posted by Gelatinous Cube

Why am I not surprised? :bow:

Odd that you got Hitler with those scores though. As far as I know, Hitler's tactical exploits are not well-recorded. He was an officer in the First World War, and nobody cared to record how well he did. And, well, your wisdom is surely too high for a hitler. Then again, people have trouble looking past the evil part of him (and with good reason!), and trying to see what made him tick.

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Hitler was not an officer in the First World War, he was a corporal. He was a messenger between the command posts, whcih was quite a dnagerous job.

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Originally Posted by Gelatinous Cube

*ducks* I thought a Corporal was an officer.

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Going off topic, I've heard it said that it is telling Hitler was not made an officer. Despite his intelligence, drive, leadership ability and proven bravery (he got an Iron Cross), it is as if his superiors thought something was not quite right with him.

The thing wrong with him was that he low-class Austrian. They didn't really take in such people to be officers in the German army.

Actually the critics of Scipio should read about his tactics at the Battle of Ilipa 206 BC. I just find his maneuvers in the battle rather beautiful, but still very simple. Anyways it's a nice battle to read about for inspiration when playing TW. To be honest I think Hannibal was a better general than Scipio, but Scipio was an excellent general too, although maybe not possessing the brilliance of Hannibal.

Nevermind...

I see a lot of Erwin Rommels here.
I got:

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Erwin Rommel

You scored 56 Wisdom, 70 Tactics, 46 Guts, and 39 Ruthlessness!

You're most comparable to German Field Marshall Erwin Rommel in the fact that you have very strong tactical skills and morales. However, Rommel lost in Africa despite the fact that his logicians had told him time and time again that the English were planning to shut off his supply lines. Rommel lost North Africa, because the English shut off his supply lines. The moral of this story... Listen to your logicians. And guard your damn supply lines! But that being said, Rommel was one of the greatest strategic and tactical minds of our day. Had he overrun Egypt (which was a definite possibility at the time), World War II may have turned out significantly differently then it did.
Erwin Rommel entered the army in 1910 and rose slowly through the ranks. In 1939, Adolf Hitler made him a general. Rommel brilliantly commanded an armored division in the attack (1940) on France. In Feb., 1941, he took the specially trained tank corps, the Afrika Korps, into Libya. For his successes there he was made field marshal and earned the name 뱓he desert fox.?In 1942 he pressed almost to Alexandria, Egypt, but was stalled by fierce British resistance and lack of supplies. A British offensive overwhelmed (Oct.-Nov., 1942) the German forces at Alamein (see North Africa, campaigns in ). Rommel was recalled to Germany before the Afrika Korps's final defeat. He was a commander in North France when the Allies invaded Normandy in June, 1944. Allied success led Rommel, who had lost his respect for Hitler, to agree to a plot to remove Hitler from office. Wounded in an air raid in July, he had just recovered when he was forced to take poison because of his part in the attempt on Hitler's life in July, 1944.

Other leaders like yourself include Patton and MacArthur.

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Originally Posted by PanzerJager

Oh my God. This is too... i dont even know the right word... ironic? scary? bad?

Adolf Hitler


You scored 63 Wisdom, 74 Tactics, 50 Guts, and 77 Ruthlessness!

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Hitler.... How many times did you have to take this test to get Hitler??? ......or are you really that evil? Anyway, you like Hitler, are a mindless bloodthirsty killer. You're smart, you know your military, and you are absolutely and completely evil. You mercilessly crush those who would oppose you, and even more who wouldn't dare. You're a genius, however, the trait you lack is guts. After the Soviet siege of Berlin, Hitler was found dead in his bunker after shooting his mistress and his dogs before turning the gun on himself.


My test tracked 4 variables How you compared to other people your age and gender:

You scored higher than 61% on Wisdom

You scored higher than 72% on Tactics

You scored higher than 22% on Guts

You scored higher than 97% on Ruthlessness

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Maybe Hitler didn't turn the gun on himself. Hmm...

Aw...Panz got the best result ~D ~D ~D jk

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Originally Posted by Kaiser of Arabia

Aw...Panz got the best result ~D ~D ~D jk

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What, you mean you don't think Charles De Gaulle is any good?

General Custer
You scored 40 Wisdom, 44 Tactics, 71 Guts, and 42 Ruthlessness!
You're reckless... a little like Custer. Make sure you know what you're up against before you charge into battle. But, that being said, Custer was one of the more successful generals of his day. He was a graduate of West Point and one of the more senior officers in the Union army. Custer had a distinguished career until his untimely demise at Little Bighorn.
In the comprehensive campaign against the Sioux planned in 1876, Custer's regiment was detailed to the column under the commanding general, Alfred H. Terry, that marched from Bismarck to the Yellowstone River. At the mouth of the Rosebud, Terry sent Custer forward to locate the enemy while he marched on to join the column under Gen. John Gibbon. Custer came upon the warrior encampment on the Little Bighorn on June 25 and decided to attack at once. He divided his regiment into three parts, sending two of them, under Major Marcus A. Reno and Capt. Frederick W. Benteen, to attack farther upstream, while he himself led the third (a little over 200 men) in a direct charge. Every one of them was killed in battle. Reno and Benteen were themselves kept on the defensive, and not until Terry's arrival was the extent of the tragedy known.

My test tracked 4 variables How you compared to other people your age and gender:

You scored higher than 1% on Wisdom

You scored higher than 9% on Tactics

You scored higher than 86% on Guts

You scored higher than 34% on Ruthlessness

So... does this mean that you're not wise ~D
actually you're like d*m :charge:

maybe not but I'm ceratinly a lot wiser then you, ashigaru-war4ever :P

:bow: anyway

ps anyone notice I have more guts then 84% of everyone?? :cool: