Throughout History, What General Are You Most Like ? - Page 2

MrFun · September 17, 2003, 23:53

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Originally posted by MichaeltheGreat
Yeah, you'd need all the help you could get with a country with virtually unlimited manpower and supplies. Real generals make the best of what they are given.

There is nothing cowardly about a nation that refuses to fight a war with one hand behind its back -- in fact, the Union DID try that in the first couple of years.

Alexander's Horse · September 18, 2003, 00:08

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Originally posted by MichaeltheGreat
Real generals make the best of what they are given.

Hmmm, let me put that another way - its usually the generals on the losing side who have to come up with all the elegant manouevres

TimeTraveler · September 18, 2003, 02:01

I'd be the guy who relies on a huge, fast industry to begin forming an army once the war begins. I think FDR did something like that, but I'm not sure.

Saras · September 18, 2003, 02:07

I'm a naval guy. Can't beat me on the land if I sink all your transports, can you?

Alexander's Horse · September 18, 2003, 02:28

Actually I'm more like the little foreign office guy who hangs out with Allenby in Lawrence of Arabia and sells out the Arabs

Rufus T. Firefly · September 18, 2003, 03:13

Omar Bradley

I tend to get the job done well without calling much attention to myself, and I always put the people who work for me first.

Urban Ranger · September 18, 2003, 03:28

Either Mao or Sun Tsu.

Oerdin · September 18, 2003, 04:26

I think of myself as a U.S. Grant. He drank to much, wasn't necessarily the best at what he did, and he rubbed people the wrong way but he was tenacious and kept trying even after he'd failed several times. He succeeded through shear force of will and because he would do things which smarter men would refuse to do, but, in the end that's what made him great.

Oerdin · September 18, 2003, 04:29

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Originally posted by MichaeltheGreat
Though I greatly admire General Lee, I'm a Jackson man all the way.

So you're a religious fanatic who ends up being shot by his own men?

Of course if we're not talking about Stone Wall then you could always be Andy who was an uneducated, filandering, indian hater, who often had prostitutes visit him in the White House.

molly bloom · September 18, 2003, 04:57

Eugene of Savoy. For obvious reasons.

Tattila the Hun · September 18, 2003, 05:12

Erwin Rommel.

Can I be Admiral? If so, Admiral Piett.

Sikander · September 18, 2003, 05:15

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Originally posted by molly bloom
Eugene of Savoy. For obvious reasons.

What's obvious about Eugene of Savoy?

Felch · September 18, 2003, 06:17

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What's obvious about Eugene of Savoy?

Absolutely everything!

Can you believe Sikander doesn't know what's so obvious about Eugene of Savoy. I mean, do we have to draw him a diagram?

Oerdin · September 18, 2003, 06:32

Obviously he's obscure and unimportant so I immediately see the connection with molly bloom.

(I'm just kidding molly)

MikeH · September 18, 2003, 06:37

That Captain who's horse bolted during the charge of the light brigade. Not a general but there's no way I'd live to be a general.

Boris Godunov · September 18, 2003, 07:56

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Originally posted by Tattila the Hun
Can I be Admiral? If so, Admiral Piett.

A spineless yes-man backstabber who possesses no strategic initiative and gets done in by a freak accident?

SpencerH · September 18, 2003, 09:04

Orde Wingate

I'm a behind the lines kinda raider.

Edan · September 18, 2003, 09:50

General Hammond.

Drake Tungsten · September 18, 2003, 09:53

Geek alert.

GePap · September 18, 2003, 09:55

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Originally posted by molly bloom
Eugene of Savoy. For obvious reasons.

You must not be very popular in Turkey.

DAVOUT · September 18, 2003, 09:58

Now that you ask me to think about it, I would be ... DAVOUT.

TCO · September 18, 2003, 10:45

I see myself as a Moseby raider

MikeH · September 18, 2003, 10:48

:brwncard:

jolair · September 18, 2003, 11:29

General Vo Nguyen Giap

MrFun · September 18, 2003, 11:33

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Originally posted by Oerdin

So you're a religious fanatic who ends up being shot by his own men?

Of course if we're not talking about Stone Wall then you could always be Andy who was an uneducated, filandering, indian hater, who often had prostitutes visit him in the White House.

MichaeltheGreat · September 18, 2003, 11:43

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Originally posted by Oerdin

So you're a religious fanatic who ends up being shot by his own men?

Helping Yankees get closer to the Lord is a fine calling.

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Of course if we're not talking about Stone Wall then you could always be Andy who was an uneducated, filandering, indian hater, who often had prostitutes visit him in the White House.

The last six words there would seem most important - the rest is mere detail.

C0ckney · September 18, 2003, 12:10

afonso de alberquerque or perhaps for a navay man tome de sousa coutinho.

MrFun · September 18, 2003, 13:04

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Originally posted by MichaeltheGreat

Helping Yankees get closer to the Lord is a fine calling.

The last six words there would seem most important - the rest is mere detail.

Two things -- first, I'm assuming you meant the last seven words, not the last six words.

Second -- I don't think LTEC would look kindly on that last post of yours, if that is the case.

Ramo · September 18, 2003, 13:07

Nestor Makhno

Japher · September 18, 2003, 13:16

Who am I?

General George Armstrong Custer

Last in my class, headstrong, love my wife more than my job yet will do what it takes to perform to the best of my duties...