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ITT: Good commanders trapped in shit armies or navies. 2016-12-27 08:00:03 Post No. 2146095
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ITT: Good commanders trapped in shit armies or navies. 2016-12-27 08:00:03 Post No. 2146095
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ITT: Good commanders trapped in shit armies or navies.
Anonymous
2016-12-27 08:00:03
Post No. 2146095
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I'll start.
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>>2146095
ITT: Most overrated commanders.
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This guy actually won though.
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>>2146124
Imagine if Wellington was French.
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>>2146124
Overrated as fuck. Ney beat the dog shit out of him and the Prussians had to save him at Waterloo.
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>>2146131
More like military genius at the head of the world's best army of the era
There's a reason why only winter could defeat him
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He was commanding Italians, so technically, he was trapped in a shit army.
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>>2146150
t. wehraboo
His Italian troops were pretty bad but giving them impossible objectives doesn't make it any better.
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>>2146204
Yes, I. Big up the Lion.
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>>2146150
Technically army is a strong word for what the Italiand had.
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>>2146150
/thread
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This absolute madman
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>>2146150
Didn't he single handedly capture a division of Italians in the German intervention at Isonzo?
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Maybe not a shit army, but they really screwed the pooch at the end there by letting the commies take a slice.
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>>2146157
You got it backwards. We're not having a thread about shit commanders throwing away countless good soldiers.
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>>2147110
>Brits
>good soldiers
>ever
This meme needs to die
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>>2146885
To be fair he had a huge naval tech advantage, but he was totally nailed to a dead weight army and beurocracy.
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>>2147259
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>>2146885
His navy was way better than the Japanese retardation the japs called their navy.
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>>2147259
good choice, there are a ton of habsburg generals that always fly under the radar. archduke charles of austria is another great general that no one ever talks about
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>>2146124
This thread is about good commanders
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