itt: badly draw a famous battle and we try to guess it.

>>2034297
Cannae

>>2034395
Lepanto

>>2034297
this could literally be any envelopment with cavalry and auxiliary

>>2034403
close senpai but nope

same combatant

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>>2034403
>>2034416
forgot pic

>>2034416
is it the one christians lost a few decades before that? cant remember the name

>>2034422
>decade

only fourty years apart

>>2034419
>allah akbar
>not allahu
triggered

>>2034444
quads confirm that is aht fsomeitmes when im alone i dont know if i can do the hopes about the dreamf or the future

>>2034430
Pretty sure a decade is ten years long.
Your'e maybe thinking of centuries?

>>2034297
Battle of arsuf?

>>2034494
i am retarded please hit my face

>>2034502
finno-kangdom counterratack in the second hyperwar

>>2034507
you will be redeemed if you correctly figure out my battle >>2034502

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>>2034297

such a terrible thread for several reasons but im going to go for it anyway but since i cant be asked to draw (one reason this thread is shit) just gonna use a wiki picture. just promise not to search it.

>>2034534
battle of issus

>>2034543

haha you fell for that bait. no.

>>2034534

btw specifically refers to bottom half. the bottom half is an innovation on traditional top half.

>>2034559

battle of issuses? The bait was that it is actually plural?

>>2034576

no. peon. this battle influenced the tactics of issus though.

>>2034585

okay, was it the battle that was inspired by issus? Can I get my prize now?

>>2034588

*influenced

>>2034534
the one where sparta get beat up by a bunch of faggots

>>2034534
Leuctra

>>2034613
>>2034598

looks like the big boys have joined the thread.

>>2034633
Epaminondas is one of the greatest commanders greece ever produced and his general lack of recognition is a tragedy

Everything Phillip and Alexander achieved built directly on Epaminondas' genius innovations

>>2034534
This is the exact moment in history when greek battle stopped being a ritualised shoving match and became actual warfare

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>>2034651
Sacking of Constantinople

>>2034711
Nope

If you want a hint, that army is a relieving force

>>2034711
The blitz

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6 million hours mspaint

>>2034715
Antioch?

>>2034721
Masada

>>2034721
Masada

>>2034725
No, think Europe

>>2034651
Vienna Siege by the ottomans

>>2034711
Battle of Britain

>>2034721
Alesia?

>>2034740
>Vienna Siege by the ottomans
Nope European on European violence, no sand people

>>2034419
whats this one?

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Fairly easy.

>>2034772
alesia

>>2034772
Alesia

>>2034772
Definitely not Alesia

>>2034736
orleans?

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I only have to post this and you'll know what battle.

>>2034772

literally saw this on another thread like 2 days ago, i know exactly what this is. people were arguing about a legion under caesar beating normans and this came up.

>>2034342
This

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>>2034772
Why is this battle so memetic?

>>2034910
Agincourt

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Guess this one!

>>2034894
Noperino, but close.

>>2034910
Crecy of course

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>>2034786
>>2034784
>>2034794
Right. Another easy one.

>>2034932

seriously guys this ones easy if you know whos in the picture!

>>2034794

Wrong, idiot mother fucker. It is Battle of Alesia.

>>2034950
Battle of the Trebbia

All of these are babby tier

>>2034965
try mine then. >>2034932

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>>2034932

The coming Race war; those who miscegenate will be first to hang on the day of the ropes.

>>2034669

You mean, how he performed the exact same trick that was already old news at Delium, over 50 years before his time?

He wasn't special in any way, shape, or form. He just took advantage of the fact that Boeotia was one of the few places in Greece not devastated by the Peloponesian war.

>>2034974

>race

warmer.

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>>2034965

Guess this one if you're so smart :)

>>2034980

Zoophilia?

>>2034688
That would be the Peloponnesian War in general. Also Leuctra was just a ctrl-c/ctrl-v of Delium.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Delium

>>2034987
Battle of Bunker Hill

>>2034965
Just testing the waters. Would be bad to start right away with something more obscure, tards will start flinging shit.

>>2034975

>He just took advantage of the fact that Boeotia was one of the few places in Greece not devastated by the Peloponesian war.

dude epaminondas was crucial for thebes success not just for that one battle.

we all know youre just trying to look smart.

>>2034651
If no one's going to get it, it's the Battle of Nancy

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>>2034995
holy shit , clue two but now its going to be too easy.

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>>2035009

Guess this one :)

>>2035022

One more clue please :(

>>2035011
>dude epaminondas was crucial for thebes success not just for that one battle.

Yeah, because he kept them pointed in the same direction, not because he was some transcendant tactical genius.

Political unity was always a problem in the Greek city state period.

>>2035016

>"orleans" "no, but close"


fuck no. terrible description.

>>2035009

Americans didn't advance on Bunker Hill. How could you guess wrong even if I drew a very generic battle??!!!?

>>2035023
Battle of Mount Gaurus

>>2035026

Its a BC. battle in europe.

>>2035028
epaminondas did nothing for greek political unity in the end.

>>2035036
Battle of Watling Street

>>2035030
Charles the Bold's forces captured Joan of Arc

It was within eight degrees of separation, also thread title

>>2035035

One more clue please :((

>>2035037

Well, true, but he did do quite a bit for Theban political unity.

>>2034975
>>2035005
Delium was just an exaggeration of standard hoplite battle where the right wing hits heavily and the left wing is weak

Epaminondas took the basic idea and used it to completely upend the hoplite system. By weighting the left wing and staggering the line he completely fucked the numerically superior and like higher quality spartans

Obviously he didnt invent the whole concept out of nothing but his implementation and innovation was miles more advanced than at delium

Plus, you know, the entire rest of his career

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>>2035039

>tfw live on watling street,

>>2035003
What the fuck is this shit? Gaugemela?

>>2035037
Yes he did, he weakened all of hellas and made it possible for Philip to conquer them all

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>>2035036

Battle between my inner dreams and hope of achieving worldwide social justice and socialism versus the crushing reality of oppressive Capitalist dystopia

>>2035047
Hydapses no?

>>2035047
>Gaugemela
Nope

>>2035065
Yes!
Battle of Hydaspes River

>>2035052

did nothing for the state of hellas. they werent unifeid.

>>2035022
Holy shit, this is marathon. no one gets this? bastards.

>>2035065
>>2035068
im not sure I would've guessed that

>>2035069
After philip they were

>>2035064

trafalgar

>>2035064
>>2035088

no I mean siege of port arthur lel your file name is a dead giveaway, noob :)

>>2035088

Correct, guess it was a bit easy

>>2035089

:^)

>>2035080

no because they didnt like being ruled, still squabbling states

>>2034965
guess mine then senpai >>2034419

>>2035096
No one likes being ruled, they were still ruled

>>2035045
>Epaminondas took the basic idea and used it to completely upend the hoplite system.


The entire hoplite system was "upended" by the significant contributions of lighter troops throughout the entire Peloponesian war which dictated that hoplite engagements would be few and far between, and cavalry started to come into its own. The Spartan attempts to hit Larium weren't frustrated by a hoplite battle. The failure of Athens to build its walls fast enough in Syracuse was due to raiding actions from Sicilian horsemen. Pylos saw a phalanx defeated without ever being engaged. And that's before you get to how the naval stuff was the dominant arm of the war.

Epaminondas's tactics, as were those of his adversaries, were a step backwards, not forwards, as polities were too poor to sustain large armies of lighter troops or engage in longer campaigns and had to fall back on the old hoplite quick decisive war model.

I do not understand the persistent cocksucking he gets here.

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Not enough good battles in this thread

>>2035099
prevesa?

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Here's a tough one... (But I'm too autistic for MSPaint.)

>>2035112
Well, epaminondas tactics lead directly to philip and then to alexander and alex's military was one of the most dominant of all time

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>>2035121
finally

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Preveza

>>2035128
Battle of Vermilion

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>>2035142
Holy shit, someone got it.

>>2035145
I just googled the numbers

>>2035112
reminds me of my school days.

epaminondas is a step forward because he still utilises the strength of a powerful phalanx in battle; you forget that it was, in the right conditions, the most effective fighting tactic for infantry and would continue to be for a long time. romans beat it out of flexibility but head to head on their terms and well defended, a phalanx is very difficult to fight and for some impossible with the sarissa,. plus most of the advantages you mention are more often than not (not always) in skirmishes than full out warfare. you also neglect the difference between skirmishing or raiding with light troops and ingenious use of tactics on a battle field which could utilise those troops in a certain way (along with the phalanx). epaminondas no doubt was a great general and used the resources he had very well. yes you are right about the use of light troops changing but epaminondas was still a force of his own and very important for thebes both militarily and politically. its also very easy to criticise tactics in hindsight and also just as easy to underestimate the amount of risk and dare involved in utilising novel tactics even if they were used in the battle of delium or somewhere maybe 50 years before... which is a long time and in no way means predictable.

>>2035116
rocroi? the spanish men reminds me of the tercio

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>>2035149
Knew I shouldn't have done that.

>>2035173
battle of warsaw

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what bout this

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this?

>>2035128
I really wish they either hadn't shown the "tactics" or had got someone with some knowledge of naval battles to help. As it was it came across as retards fighting mongs.

>>2035182
ignore the timestamp.

>>2035156
You'd make a poor general

>>2035187
>>2035182

hastings and battle of atlantic you cunts.

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Here's an ez one

>>2035243
gaugamela you peasent. now go back to preschool you scum.

>>2035243

should have left parmenion. not like he wouldnt have been murdered anyway later. persians could have redeemed themselves if not hungry for wealth and pussy

>>2035243
This is clearly Robin Hood defeating the Sultan of Agrabah at Clodden

>>2034669
>Everything Phillip and Alexander achieved built directly on Epaminondas' genius innovations
Funny, I didn't see a 15 foot long sarissa or 18 rank deep phalanx in the Sacred Band

>>2035023
Every AI total war battle

>>2035305
yeah i was emphasising that phalanx was a powerful formation afterwords too and use of sarissa is another useful variation.

im assuming you have nothing else if thats the only thing youre going to point out.

>>2034502
Zulu formation of their first cucking of the eternal anglo during the Anglo-Zulu war. This is the first battle when the Zulus successfully assumed the role of the bull to cuck Anglos. During the second battle with the Anglos, the Zulus tried to take the role of the bull literally and abandoned your pic related in favor of a bull horns, this is when they failed and a classic Russian Reversal happened where the Anglos ultimately cucked the Zulus, resulting in the end of the war.

>>2035315
>I was emphasizing
Then don't make overblown statements like "EVERYTHING Philip and Alexander achieved was built directly on Epaminondas", dumbass

>>2035036

9/11

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>>2035260
Parmenion did nothing wrong. If I get old as fuck I don't want to spend my time walking around with some hot-shit who uses me as bait every battle only to get charged with treason.

>>2035452
teutoburg forest?

>>2035452
Teutoberg

>>2035461
>>2035501

correct

can't think of any easily drawable ones

>>2035187
shrewsbury

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>>2034297
This will be a hard one

Protip, its not ww1

>>2035567
bunker hill

>>2035567
AJ's claim to fame...senpai
New Oryons'

>>2035597
>>2035598
Nope

>>2035133
Wasn't another Andrea Doria at Lepanto too?

>>2035567
Vicksburg?

>>2035637
Nope. Wrong continent

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>>2035637
>>2035598
>>2035597
Updated version to make it easier

>>2035654
e.t.?

>>2035682
nope

>>2036008
zama?

>>2035721
No idea, what era?

>>2035631
it was his son actually

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giovanni_Andrea_Doria

>>2036101
cable street

fucking commies

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Grey is walls
Brown is road
Black squares are attackers
Red lines are defenders

>>2035341
nancy

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>>2034297

>>2035721
Poltava?

>>2036097
Waterloo?

>>2036903
Aleutian Islands camaign

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>>2034297
Pretty Easy

>>2036988
Rorkes drift

>>2036991
Bingo, that lasted about as long as I though it would

>>2036919
Lake Trasimene?

>>2035654
San Juan Hill?

>>2036900
Neville's Cross?

>>2034534
Nice filename

>>2036995
mate I have no idea what the fuck I am looking at. It looks like a spear in the bottom left corner and perhaps the body of some dragon on the right? the rest just looks like scribbles made during a stroke.

>>2037122
Nope

Look at the weapons and the king for hints

>>2037016
Nope

>>2034651
The chinese one whe one chink tricked other chinks by appeearing on wall singing so the other chinks through it's an ambush and fleed?

>>2036478
Too hard?

>>2036036
>No idea, what era?
Modern.

>>2036814
You're too far east.

>>2036900
Flodden?

>>2036478
Rourke's Drift? I'm pretty sure that's one of the ones with brits v zulu

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I'm not sure if it's famous, but here you go.

>>2034297
The Battle of Sydney Harbor Bridge?

>>2034711
Dunkirk

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infantry cavalry immortals

>>2034444
checked.

>>2038469
Battle of Dara

>>2038469
Dara. Too easy.

>>2036903
Operation: Cottage

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Ah ah

forgot the last time they flew the oriflamme

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>>2038789

>>2036516
no one?

>>2038772
Agincourt. 2 ez.

>>2038116
yes you are correct

>>2035567
Is it something Japanese in the 16th century?

>>2035036
Stannis Baratheon's Siege of Winterfell as envisioned by D&D

>>2041201

Crécy.

>>2035036
Disproportional Borg civil war.

>>2041480
that easy?

>>2037812
Bingo

>>2038772
>>2039071
Where's the most important factor (the mud)?

>>2041503

Putting the titles of the commanders in the image made it easy.

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easy mode

>>2041523
Blenheim?
>>2041543
Hastings
>>2041588
Pyramids or mount tabor?

>>2041601
>mount tabor

Yep

>>2034297

Varna?

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>>2034772
Palestine and west bank