Your favourite culture in warfare

[Watchman]

Mongolian being coming form such as wild (natural) area, and the live style was mostly herding, kind of peaceful but show ability in war at the same time, while the Mongol army at the time was able to go on without eating for a day or two, plus they taken from Korea to Poland in around 25 years, hard bastards they truly were.

"Kind of peaceful" ?!?!

Vous must be joking, milord. The main reason the steppe nomads were always such hard cases in war was that they practiced raiding and mobile warfare against each other and everyone else in the vicinity with gusto, and as often as possible...

In just about all settled societies the warriors formed, at best, about half of the adult male populace (this in "tribal warrior" setups, the rest being slaves or just too poor to own decent arms; other systems netted smaller but often much more efficient proportions). Among the steppe nomads, virtually every adult male (barring slaves, specialized craftsmen etc.) could carry his weight as a horse-archer already well versed in the ways of hit-and-run combat.

As a side note, I've never particularly liked those "warrior aristocracy" setups. They always end up producing a bunch of arrogant, pretentious boobs living off the toil of the peasants.

[romeo_longsword]

Yup, thats what they were. Herding is what I would consider as a peaceful life style. They herd, and kick ass at the same time.

[BAD]

I was gonna say the mongols for all the above reasons people listed, then I thought about the humble British, from the "Battle of Agincourt" (pwn3d ) to the empire they forged in latter days. But alas no it was neither. Who then. Has to be the Vietnamese in the Vietnam War. I think no nation has won a war with such numbers, technology and weapons massed against them. They won through with back to basics tactics, sheer grit and determination.