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So did a lot of people. I'm not getting where you're coming from other than violating Godwin's law you violater you. The only thing I can respond with is this:
You are hereby sentenced to the ninth level of Heck:
-"Wait a minute.....who is that Frazz is talking to in the gallery? Hmmm something is going on here.....Oh.... it seems there is some dispute over video taping of some sort......Frazz is really upset now..........wait a minute......whats he go there.......is it? Can it be?....Frazz has just unleashed his hidden weiner dog from his mini bag, while quoting shakespeares "Let slip the dogs the war!!" GG
-"Don't mind Frazzled. He's just Dakka's crazy old dude locked in the attic. He's harmless. Mostly."
-TBone the Magnificent 1999-2014, Long Live the King!
..man, you think you know where these threads are kinda going and then BLAMMO.... from the leftfield. In the extreme.
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"the play's the thing wherein I'll catch the conscience of the king,
-"Wait a minute.....who is that Frazz is talking to in the gallery? Hmmm something is going on here.....Oh.... it seems there is some dispute over video taping of some sort......Frazz is really upset now..........wait a minute......whats he go there.......is it? Can it be?....Frazz has just unleashed his hidden weiner dog from his mini bag, while quoting shakespeares "Let slip the dogs the war!!" GG
-"Don't mind Frazzled. He's just Dakka's crazy old dude locked in the attic. He's harmless. Mostly."
-TBone the Magnificent 1999-2014, Long Live the King!
Yeah. He fought against Japan, and I think the Chinese Nationalists.
and I'm willing to bet Stalin was in the army at one point..
Hmm, maybe. I really wouldn't want to meet that guy on a battlefield.
Anuvver fing - when they do sumfing, they try to make it look like somfink else to confuse everybody. When one of them wants to lord it over the uvvers, 'e says "I'm very speshul so'z you gotta worship me", or "I know summink wot you lot don't know, so yer better lissen good". Da funny fing is, arf of 'em believe it and da over arf don't, so 'e 'as to hit 'em all anyway or run fer it.
Jack Churchill official qualifies as "badass". Anyone who can take down a sergeant at range with a long bow (and Im an archer so I know how hard that is) can be nothing less.
Also, leading your troops into battle, claymore in hand, absolutely wreaks of awesome.
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- St. Thomas Aquinas
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-Illeix
How about Bill Millin, the piper? Millin, aged 21, played "Hielan' Laddie" and "The Road to the Isles" as his comrades fell around him on Sword Beach. As German soldiers later attested, they did not target Millin because they believed him to be mad.
Mate, Scots are fething lunatics. In fact, so are the Welsh. And the Ulstermen. Plus, the Northern English are basically psychotic. I guess that's why Britain has historically been good at war - armies of frothing maniacs led by moustache-twirling, tea-sipping despots. Woot.
The guy had 505 confirmed sniper kills, around 200 more with a submachine gun, for a total in excess of 700 kills. And he did it in less than 100 days of fighting during the Winter War.
Don't forget Simo also did not use a scope for any of his shots!! Simo died recently living into his 80's. The only reason he didn't get more kills was because he was shot in the jaw and had to leave the combat zone.
Albatross wrote:Mate, Scots are fething lunatics. In fact, so are the Welsh. And the Ulstermen. Plus, the Northern English are basically psychotic. I guess that's why Britain has historically been good at war - armies of frothing maniacs led by moustache-twirling, tea-sipping despots. Woot.
Hmm... suddenly the theme for the Imperial Guard is abundantly clear.
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wiki wrote:Churchill was said to be unhappy with the abrupt end of the war, saying: "If it wasn't for those damn Yanks, we could have kept the war going another 10 years!"
Orkeosaurus wrote:Yeah. He fought against Japan, and I think the Chinese Nationalists.
The escape from the KMT and the Long March was a really well executed, and the guerilla wars against the Japanese and KMT were very effective considering the scarce resources he had at his disposal. He was actually a very effective guerilla leader.
His economic policies weren't really up to the same standard.
Hmm, maybe. I really wouldn't want to meet that guy on a battlefield.
No, Stalin wasn't in the military. As a member of the Bolsheviks he did engage in and coordinate lots of murders and bank robberies on behalf of the cause, but that was really terrorist activities, not really military, even in the loosest sense. Like most dictators, once in power he awarded himself high military honours, but they weren't representative of any service.
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Adam Smith, who must have been some kind of leftie or something.
sebster wrote:His economic policies weren't really up to the same standard.
Not really a shock....
DR:80+S(GT)G++M++B-I++Pwmhd05#+D+++A+++/sWD-R++T(Ot)DM+ How is it they live in such harmony - the billions of stars - when most men can barely go a minute without declaring war in their minds about someone they know.
- St. Thomas Aquinas
Warhammer 40K:
Alpha Legion - 15,000 pts For the Emperor!
WAAAGH! Skullhooka - 14,000 pts
Biel Tan Strikeforce - 11,000 pts
"The Eldar get no attention because the average male does not like confetti blasters, shimmer shields or sparkle lasers."
-Illeix
The guy had 505 confirmed sniper kills, around 200 more with a submachine gun, for a total in excess of 700 kills. And he did it in less than 100 days of fighting during the Winter War.
Well, he wasn't Western European, so he wasn't really human. Duh.
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DR:80+S(GT)G++M++B-I++Pwmhd05#+D+++A+++/sWD-R++T(Ot)DM+ How is it they live in such harmony - the billions of stars - when most men can barely go a minute without declaring war in their minds about someone they know.
- St. Thomas Aquinas
Warhammer 40K:
Alpha Legion - 15,000 pts For the Emperor!
WAAAGH! Skullhooka - 14,000 pts
Biel Tan Strikeforce - 11,000 pts
"The Eldar get no attention because the average male does not like confetti blasters, shimmer shields or sparkle lasers."
-Illeix
The guy had 505 confirmed sniper kills, around 200 more with a submachine gun, for a total in excess of 700 kills. And he did it in less than 100 days of fighting during the Winter War.
Well, he wasn't Western European, so he wasn't really human. Duh.
Congratulations, you win the "witch of the thread" award.
I think Carlos Hathcock's claim to fame was not just his number of kills, but the record for longest range kill, around 2 kilometers if memory serves (which it occassionally does).
The longest range recorded for a sniper kill currently stands at 2,430 meters (2,657 yd, or 1.51 miles), accomplished by Master Corporal Rob Furlong, a sniper from Newfoundland, Canada, in March 2002 during the war in Afghanistan. Furlong made this record-breaking kill while he was participating in Operation Anaconda. He was a member of the 3rd Battalion Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry (PPCLI). To make the kill, he used a .50 caliber BMG (12.7 mm) McMillan TAC-50 bolt-action rifle.[9] Utilizing a ballistic calculator, it is possible to reproduce the trajectory and time-in-flight of such a ranged shot. With a nominal muzzle velocity of 2,910 feet (890 m) per second for the .50 BMG M1022 Long Range Sniper[10] round, and an estimated ballistic coefficient of 1.05[11], such a shot fired at the estimated altitude of 9,000 feet (2,700 m) for the Shah-i-Kot Valley would have taken 3.92 seconds to reach the target, and drop 155.8 feet (47.5 m) during flight. Also note at such a long range, even a light breeze of 20 kilometres (12 mi) per hour would have blown the bullet off target by 20.8 feet (6.3 m).
Taken from Wikki.
Damn impressive shot if you ask me. Compensating for height and wind at that distance would have taken extreme skill and very fast mental calculation as I'm sure he didn't have hours to dwell over the logistics of it.
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Orkeosaurus wrote:I'm sure Hitler did a fine job in WW1, but a war hero that does not make, much less the "Most Amazing Soldier Ever".
In fact, it doesn't even make him the "Most Amazing Soldier Who Later Became a Dictator That Killed Tens of Millions", because Mao beats him.
With over 100 million confirmed kills, I wouldn't call him amazing... but he was one nasty mother sucker, especially for being a fat little Chinese man.
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Biel Tan Strikeforce - 11,000 pts
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