General Discussion

It has occurred to me that the majority of the posts on this forum are glaringly off topic. I find topics such as "AW Player of the Year", "atWar Times Network", or even something like "Afterwind Rules". I mean really? Even the mods are going off topic. All of this should be moved to the off topic forum. This thread is for on topic discussion of what the forum was clearly meant to be about. You may discuss generals on or off this game here.

I would discuss Napoleon Bonaparte, but unfortunately that topic was stolen by the off topic forum the moment the forum was created. Sooooo...

Do you guys upload pics for your gen? I was always happy with the yellow stars.

How long does your general usually last? In a world game I often put it in a giant inf stack only for it to be destroyed by a giant bomb stack on turns 10-20.

Finally, for avatar's viewing pleasure, one of the greatest generals in history:

General discussion in general discussion? What is this nonsense?

Kirjutas Utah, 06.01.2013 at 00:23

General discussion in general discussion? What is this nonsense?

Agreed

Lol, is this supposed to be a joke..or a troll to see how many people actually take this seriously?...
Or are you actually thinking that the general discussion forum is meant to be a forum where you discuss and talk about 'generals' in the game?

This is ridiculous.

Saladin :LOL:

Ridiculous

The greatest general of all generals.

Temujin (Genghis Khan)

Oooooooh now I get it.

Acquiesce, Genghis Khan wasn't much of a general actually, neither was Ogedei Khan. They were just harsh rulers that kept people in line very effectively.

The mastermind behind their extremely impressive military conquests was actually Subutai. He signed up as a teenager from a modest background and he would come to conquer 32 nations, win 65 major battles and overrun more territory than any other commander in history (usually annexing it).

He did all that while looking like this (like, seriously):


Subutai is generally acknowledged to rank with the great commanders in history, those being (by my estimation, in order) Alexander the Great, Khalid ibn al-Walid (responsible for Islam and the Arab World expanding massively), Hannibal, Frederick the Great (the loose cannon of the Seven Years War), Cyrus the Great (responsible for the Persian Empire, and even more brilliant as an administrator than commander), Scipio Africanus (suck it, rabid elephants were why Hannibal lost), Timur (AKA Tamerlane), Napoleon and Belisarius (Justinian I). I probably missed a few.

I'd put Subutai after Hannibal or Frederick. He was an innovator in tactics and also a great strategist (basically tactics = single battle, strategy = the whole war). Scipio and Belisarius were the best of strategists, but not always perfect or very innovative tacticians. Pyrrhus and Hannibal were famously terrible strategists, but excellent tacticians. Subutai was great in both aspects, and he really gave Europe a much-needed realisation that clunky knights had to go (the Hundred Years War would reinforce this). The reason Subutai doesn't get very high marks is because he usually had plenty of men to go around, even if he achieved impressive kill:death ratios in his battle. This wasn't the case with Alexander's Macedonians (just about all the way through) or Khalid's Umayyad Arabs (even by the battle of Yarmouk, after crushing the Sassanid Empire and others).

So yeah, Subutai was pretty awesome! Not the most awesome of them all. But very high up there.

I was just posting the first general that came into my head but thanks yobs! Today I learned.

Leonidas the Brave he lead 300 spartans again whole world and he won

Kirjutas Acquiesce, 06.01.2013 at 13:42

The greatest general of all generals.

Temujin (Genghis Khan)

Temujin's father died by being stabbed with a sword that had human feces on it. True story.