Battle of Poltava - very nice video!

[KLAssurbanipal]

I have very nice pics with 18th century Russian Army:

Russian Infantry (Peter the Great's Army)



Pikemen:



Drummer:



Officer:



Fusiliers:

[Arthas Menethil]

Ah... yes. I have watched that video before. Sort of like The Patriot as mentioned earlier.

[ThePianist]

I recall several records mentioning various European commanders being infuriated by the Russian's tendancy to not surrender. Call it what you will, but I've always been amused by the accounts of Russians making bayonette charges on cavalry.

That is truly impressive. I never heard of bayonet charges on cavalry before. That is extremely brave, and a lot of admiration for the Pavlovsk Grenadiers. Could you post the name of the battle when this occurred?

[disamen]

Sweden lost this battle. But if Sweden won this battle Russia would be crushed. Because we won the other battles such as The Battle of Narva, the swedes was 10000 and the russians 40000 at that time. But Russians got better generals and stronger infantary. So at 1709 Sweden lost the battle of Poltava, that made Sweden weaker and weaker. But we got stronger after 80 years.

[disamen]

Sweden lost this battle. But if Sweden won this battle Russia would be crushed. Because we won the other battles such as The Battle of Narva, the swedes was 10000 and the russians 40000 at that time. But Russians got better generals and stronger infantary. So at 1709 Sweden lost the battle of Poltava, that made Sweden weaker and weaker. But we got stronger after 80 years.

i mean, the russians got better generals after the battle of such as narva, we won 2 great victorys more, but cant remember the names:P. but after the battles the russians got better generals, so sweden was suprised and lost this battle,

[Pinxit]

i mean, the russians got better generals after the battle of such as narva, we won 2 great victorys more, but cant remember the names:P. but after the battles the russians got better generals, so sweden was suprised and lost this battle,

I was under the impression that there was nothing about the Russian army that could compete with the Swedish army. Sweden had, at the time, one of the best armies in Europe. Small, but close to invincible.

The movie is an insult to Sweden. It shows Swedish soldiers raping, murdering women, burning villages, etc. Yeah, right. Im sure Sweden would have burned, and raped, and murdered, like any army, but the Russians beat us to it. Scorched earth. Destroyed their own land. Nothing of this is shown in the movie. And how come the Swedish army seems to be greater in number? Sweden had 10,000 troops against Peters 48,000. This movie is insulting. And the Swedes speak swedish very poorly with a russian accent.

[Martok]

Necro-posting in old threads is generally a no-no, especially when it wasn't really talking about the game in the first place. This thread should have been allowed to die a natural death.


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