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So, what style of kablooie do you like?

I find the current era to be fascinating. We're on the cusp of "Industrial Age" and "Information Age" warfare and the classic rules are changing.

The US is more advanced into Info Age weapons and tactics than any other country...and recent results show it. I find my self wondering how far the transformation may go...how long before fully robotic weapons are deployed for instance.

Anything from when the Romans left to when Henry Tudor came to the throne. Battles were organised tactical games then. Never again will two armies face each other over a battle field waiting for the first move to be carried out.

Everything,except the Crusades.

An interesting period is that between the Napoleonic Wars and WW1.

I can't imagine what it must have been like back in the 17 & 1800s marching along in ranks in a bright colored uniform knowing the enemy is waiting for you and pointing their weapons at you about to open fire.  I saw this recently on the history channel in a documentary about the war of 1812.  These British soldiers got ripped to shreds and just marched into it!  They must have had a whole different outlook on warfare back in those days.

Jim

Those were the tactics in those days. The other side would have done the same thing when attacking. The Napoleonic era was a great one for warfare. With firing lines, cavalry and the likes. This whole era was erased with the invention of rifling as it ment that people could actually aim thier weapons at the enemy and not just point them in the general direction and hope to god you hit something.

i am a personal fan of the greek/roman and so on era. This is where true tactics began, there were some amazingly planned out battles during these times.

I think that I find the war in Vietnam the most interesting (other than WWII of course).  I don't really think it has anything to do with the war itself, but the fact that I have heard a lot of first hand stories and experiences from it.  My father fought in the war, and as a result it has always interested me.

i am a personal fan of the greek/roman and so on era. This is where true tactics began, there were some amazingly planned out battles during these times.

Of course. This is the time when Hannibal defeated a Roman army 10,000 strong with a force of 3000 lightly armed militia men. Quite possibly the most fantastic victory in history.

Roman/Greek, or ancient world.  This period lasted considerably longer than any of the others and included numerous wars while the other periods are confined to one war, and it's just really cool what these people, especially the Romans, could do with a lot of strong backs and only the most rudimentary knowledge of engineering.

My favorites:  anything that Julius Caesar wrote about himself and (this one is guaranteed to win a bar bet - who won the Phonecian Wars?) the Phonecian Wars, the second and third ones being eerily prescient of WW1 and WW2.

Of course. This is the time when Hannibal defeated a Roman army 10,000 strong with a force of 3000 lightly armed militia men. Quite possibly the most fantastic victory in history.

Teutoburg Woods?

Post WWII, particularly counter-insurgency campaigns such as Malaysia, Oman, Afghanistan (in the 80s) etc.

Teutoburg Woods?

I have no idea. I know how he fought the battle but I don't know the name of it. Funny thing, history...