Was he the greatest general ever?

>>76000849
wrong board but I will say no
go to >>>/his/ for more discussion

Yes actually
though what made him great maybe impossible for most since he did charge into battle and with the right use of arms, the macedonian heavy cav is the key to most of their victories

it was only later when the later greeks ditched combined arms they got cut down by roman tactics

>dude I'm gonna conquer the world lmao
>dies of sharting

>>76000849
He conquered land at an age where he'd be underage to shit post about it.

>>76000884
Fuck off, leave the interesting threads here

>>76000849
revengious and totalitarian as fuck
10/10 comander
live fast die young leave a good looking corpse

>>76000849
Alex was and fuckin arab?
Why world is so mad

>>76000849
Napoleon and Ceasar both LARPed as Alexander. Which settles it.

>>76001020
Caesar, most overrated general ever, panfrenchie propaganda ("we wuz stronk, so caesar was so good when conquered our land in a few time")

nah, caesar was a great tactician
pharsalus proved it
his battle prowess is obviously overshadowed due to his political ambitions

It's Ghengis and it's not even close

>>76000849
probably an exaggerated one tbqh.

>>76001137
Ghengis descendants did more work.

Considering he literally never lost, created a massive empire within a very short length of time, which, although splintered, had a lasting impact on the world, and that just about every general from caeser to napoleon wanted to be like him

Yeah, Alexander is the greatest.

Genghis, Atilla, Napoleon, Khalid ibn-Walid, Caesar, Hannibal

>>76001255
And Hitler.

>>76001291
How can a Russian say Hitler was a good general when he invaded Russia and fucked himself up

>>76001307
I need to be objective. Napoleon fucked himself up either.

>>76001347
not comparable, hitler just intervened
all the major offensives were planned by the okw

napoleon planned and executed his battles

>>76000849
Alex was 5'1", just imagine that, a mega-manlet form 2000 years ago was more successful than all of you cucks. Not only that he has confirmed to have killed a 7 foot tall Persian giant in single combat. Meanwhile /int/ complains about being 5'7"

>>76001376
or rather the okh

>>76001389
5'7

>>76001389
Was that short at the time?

>>76000849
Yeah the Macedonians had a lot of amazing generals.

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give me one reason why he's better than subutai

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>>76000849

>>76003810
Western-centric world view.

Alexander wouldn't even be the third best general in Genghis' army. Not even the top 10 out of Asia.

>>76000884
>muh /his/

Fuck off. He can post this shit here if he likes.

>>76004068
Suvorov was the true GOAT and the only people who unironically believe he isn't are people who don't know who he is. That's literally it.

>>76001067
he won over hannibal who came down from the alps with goddamn elephants.

>>76000849
Khalid ibn al walid was also very good

>>76000849
Epaminondas

Timur, from rags to riches. A cripple manages to successfully invade India which even Genghis couldn't, beat the Tatars in Central Asia, capture an Ottoman Sultan after crushing his army, exterminate the Crusaders in Izmir, cross the Caucasus in decimate the Georgians, and sack every city between North India and Western Anatolia. Sword of God he called himself.

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>>76000849
No, he was.

He was one of the first people to study the moon's effect on the tides and he fucking used it to block the enemies path.

He was also the one responsible for changing the Tordesilhas line further west so we'd get Brazil.

The greatest general is /balk/, it is not full of weeks or fags

>>76005756
>who came down from the alps with goddamn elephants.

And long vulnerable supply lines. Long supply lines always kill you in the end.

>>76004068
>>76005735
Barclay de Tolly > anyone else in that era in terms of strategic intelligence

>>76000849
He was the ultimate conqueror, but far from the best tactician
It was his ideological changes that brought forth most waves

>>76005756
it wasnt cesar who beat hannibal you dumb fuck, it was Flavio Gaio Insinna, who reportedly called him "a pathetic dwarf who i'd kick in the mouth"

>>76003810
this, alexander wasn't shit compared to subutai

Lmao no
He came so close to fucking loosing a battle for a shitty little fort against barbarians

>>76013006
>loosing

It's actually Khalid ibn al wait
It takes an especially good general to beat the combined force of both Persia and Byzantium

>>76013485
Fuggin autocorrect
*Khalid ibn al walid

>>76013485
shitskin

>>76013217
>>76013006
shitskin

>>76000849
Alexander was born into power and received the greatest education available at the time and lived a life of luxury from birth

Genghis Khan rose from the bottom as a mongol tribesman and managed to kill 10% of the population, he's an entirely self-made man and thus the greatest general

>>76013559
Buttmad

>>76013671
genghis khan was a subhuman you asian shitskin

>>76013694
muslim shitskin

>>76000849
I am greek

>>76013697
Pretty impressive for a subhuman to achieve so much

>>76013803
hit and run like a muslim shitskin

>>76005756
>>76010852
>Romans don't even know their own history

>>76013725
Russian rapebaby

>>76014426
I am a Greek you arab dog

>>76004068
Very good post

I am Greek

>>76004068
ugly subhuman

>>76014444
Turkish rapebaby
Also nice quads

>>76014559
you are a turkish rape baby
1/4 of your inferior population has turkish roots
whenever you see a human looking arab
it is a turkish rape baby

>>76000849
No, Jan Žižka was better

>>76014608
It is ok if Tunisia is 1/4 Turkish because they came here as immigrants in ottoman days and are muslim
You are Greek but you are 100% Turkish rapebaby

>>76000849
Hannibal was better

>>76014616
slavs are subhumans

>>76014616
Tell that to Hungary

>>76014444
>>76014426
T*rks are just m*slim gr**ks

>>76014731
Haha stay mad 1000% rapebaby
Greeks got raped for 500 years by based turks cuck boy

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>>76014696(Dead)

>>76014828
>>76014731
>>76014608
WE

>>76001067
>most overrated general ever
Alesia was fucking ingenious, go fuck yourself. He wasn't the best of all time but he's still one of the greatest of his era.

>>76014828
T.ultra rapebaby

>>76014891
AYOO HOL UP

>>76014904
you are the rape baby you arab subhuman
>>76014925
Greeks are still Greeks
you are just jealous because you are an asian subhuman

>>76014947
sperg

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no

>>76014947
Why are Greeks so delusional? Is it because all the turkish seven finally got to their heads?

>>76014990
Lad, I love napoopan, but even he lost.

>>76014968
shitskin

>>76015030
Ikibey is not Greek, he's a turk.

>>76015030
you are just a jelous arab shitskin

>>76015072
shitskin

>>76015101
And you are butthurt Greek rapebaby

>>76015101
Ikibey you even admitted yesterday you had brown skin.

>>76015042
So going 1-0 is better than the 51-4 of Napoleon

>>76015187
Alexander conquered Asia minor, Greece, Egypt, Persia, and India if his army didn't want to go home. It wasn't like he was a one hit wonder.

>>76015285
Not true. Greece was largely subdued by his father, the same one who created his army and tactics. Asian minor as conquered by him, but Egypt gave themselves up as soon as they heard Alexander was coming. Persia was conquered as well but lets not pretend that the already exhausted and depleted armies could have stood up to the hundreds of thousands of manpower in India. My point is not losing a battle isn't a requirement to be the best.

>>76015425
Post hand

>>76005756
Hannibal was around like 200 years before caesar was born

>>76015451

He can't. Congolese.

Stop replying to ikibey you retarded newfags.