Your favourite historical personality

[KarlXII]

Meh, evolutionary step from dutch pike/musket tactics, the real father of modern warfare is Frederique the Great of Prussia.

I'll just take it you didn't bother to read the post at all.

[Fragony]

I'll just take it you didn't bother to read the post at all.

Yes I did, combined arms isn't new either, I am not saying that he was a bad tactician, he just doesn't deserve all the credit he he recieves. He made the most out of what was at hand but he didn't revolutionize anything, just a minor step forward from the tactics of Maurice of Nassau, who's reforms were a major leap forward. It's called dutch tactics for a reason. The real father of modern warfare would be Maurice of Nassau then. But, Maurice of Naussau isn't the father of modern warfare either, the father of modern/progressive warfare happens to be Frederique the Great of Prussia, now that was a mobility-tiger.