Which war saw the most intense combat ever?

>>32137304
Probably WW1

>>32137342
Any particular battle, friend?

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>>32137304
The Great Emu War

>>32137304
100year war or anything with the Mongolians

>>32137342
I'd say this because of the technological advancements during it's time. Wars were usually fought by have waves of rifles charge at each other, but in WW1 the new weaponry blew people away.

>>32137304
The c-war-gi

I'll see myself out.

ww2 obviously. Duh.

>>32137346
Not that guy, but
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_the_Somme

>>32137304
WW2 eastern front. After Barbarossa failed and before the soviets got their shit really together it was basically a WW1 meat grinder.

For sheer man-to-man brutality the Second Punic War (Cannae in particular) was probably pretty intense.

>>32137450
>WW2 eastern front. After Barbarossa failed and before the soviets got their shit really together it was basically a WW1 meat grinder.

Mainly in Stalingrad, right?

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The war against the Angels.

>>32137417
>the new weaponry blew people away
I see what you did there

In recent times, the Iran-Iraq War. Imagine WWI style trench fighting and chemical warfare with child soldiers, Cold War tech (AK-47s, G3s, F-16s, T-62s...), charges through no-man's-land, and large scale bombing and shelling of civilian targets. Fucked up shit.

Winter war is probably up there

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Vietnam anyone?

>>32137304
Cannae or Verdun, probably. Or anything involving the Mongols.

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>>32137304
Angolans BTFO

>>32137523
That, but even on the rest of the front. People don't realize that after most of the elite German armor units got wrecked early in the invasion most of the fighting was between infantry units using essentially WWII tactics.

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>>32137304
THE SECOND AMERICAN REVOLUTION....the invisible one.

Emu Wars

>>32137304
Meme Wars 2015-2016. We lost a lot of good men.

>>32137570
I would support this, along with some of the major operations in WWI. The third battle of the Somme or Verdun. Just pure human death. First Persian Gulf War stands out because it was a 20th century war fought with 18th century tactics by people with 6th century beliefs and values.

Turns out Saddam was the good guy. Would would think?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mx3UPfzGeN4

>>32137304
WW1, years and years of men a hundred metres or so away from each other with endless artillery, no other war had the same sort of endless stagnation and always provided relief in the form of success or failure after campaigns of comparatively short time frames.

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>>32139621

stalingrad was the deadlist incident in human history.

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>>32137304
The War of Jerkin's Ear was obviously fought in the least amount of space.

>>32139655
Iran-Iraq, Eastern Front in WWII, the Boer Wars, some of the Indian Wars... The scale varies, but war never changes...

>>32137304

All wars are intense.

>>32137342
>>32137447

This. WW1 completely obsoleted and changed the nature of organized conflict in a way that had not happened since the dawn of civilization. It more or less ended the common perception that war was heroic and glorious and good for the long term vitality of a state.

It changed how most countries viewed war and ended the victorian era and firmly established the predominance of industrial might as the most important factor in war, a fact that would persist until the end of the cold war. Industrialization allowed warfare to occur at a scale that was unimaginable before, but the lack of widespread force multipliers and advanced infantry tactics meant that raw manpower was still the only way to achieve superiority.

>>32139648
I fucking love this song. Fucking Bruce can pound out and I just want to cream.

>Dodging shrapnel and barbed wire
>Running straight at cannon fire
>Running blind as I hold my breath
>Say a prayer symphony of death

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>>32137539
You have good taste friend-o

>>32139686
Most of the Eastern Front was conducted very differently than the sort of fighting that occurred through WW1, some of it was similar but it covered far more ground and included far more breakthroughs and mass captures of infantry and weaponry.

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

It particularly devastated Paraguay, which suffered catastrophic losses in population - almost 70% of its adult male population died, according to some counts - and was forced to cede territory to Argentina and Brazil. According to some estimates, Paraguay's pre-war population of 525,000 was reduced to 221,000 of which only 28,000 were men.[8]

>>32139768
USSR lost around a 15% to 25% of its population. Estimates of total deaths are in the tens of millions. Some are as high as 40 million or more dead. It was a hellscape. WWI was small, massive localized battles of attrition, while WWII was continent wide destruction.

>>32137304
In human history? WWI, Eastern Front of WWII, and the Punic Wars.

>>32139851
>USSR lost around a 15% to 25% of its population
And it lost a fuckload of them to environmental attrition and a lack of ability to supply it's people. It was massive in scale, it's the biggest war that's ever occurred, OP asked which was the most intense, not which was the largest in scale - WW1 soldiers saw unending combat longer than just about anyone else, at least in modern warfare.

>>32139894
Eh, their tour at the front was fairly short. Vietnam blows it out of the water. Soldiers spent less than half of their time at the front. `Nam, 220 days out of a years tour were spent in combat on average.

>>32137304
The American Civil War.

The veterans of Korea and WW2 that fought in the proper fights against the NVA said Vietnam was

I guess:

>everyone has a machine gun for all intents
>RPGs everywhere
>arty out the ass

>>32139827
>221,000 of which only 28,000 were men.
nothing left to do now but repopulate