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The Vietcon! Extremly good tactics, efficient and deadly.
on my 2nd place: the Germans at WWII but there Ideals where a big shame for all free humans.
my 3rd place: US Army. Huge mass and extremly good technologie.

after that all is only one Army still good as well, The British Army... very good mans and they are still good without any technologie.

sergeriver wrote:

Mekstizzle wrote:

sergeriver wrote:

The Mongol Empire of Genghis Khan.

Agreed, that was some crazy shit.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Mong … re_map.gif

.Gif'd, like the other guy with the conquest map thing.

The Legacy still exists today, what with alot of Muslims in Central/South Asia having the surname "Khan"

And it was all in like a century, none of that over 6000 years stuff.

It's hilarious to read about the SAS or the US army here, when Genghis Khan founded the largest Empire in history with his army.

Yep, considering then things were pretty evenly balanced between all nations, yet he still managed to do that, is pretty amazing. Funny though how it only practically lasted when he was alive, and that Mongolia nowadays is almost non-existent in world affairs. That's why alot of people don't remember it, it was in a short time even though so much shit happened.

Last edited by Mekstizzle (2007-07-05 05:58:29)

If the German army of WW2 would not have been limited by the population, they would have been the strongest military power ever.
But they got involved with too many nations and had a huge disadvantage in numbers.

G3|Genius wrote:

namsdrawkcaB wrote:

Personally I think the Perisan's. They were the nation which conqured the world for the longest. Before the romans they has something like nearly all of euope and 1/3 of asia.
Their army was like 1 million and the Romans were like 250,000-500,000 max. Not even i dont think.

Plus, they had those wicked elephants with 600 hitpoints each.  Build like 200 of those and you could level anyone.  In my experience, the Spaniards were the only ones who could beat the persians because they had those crazy monks on donkeys.  You could run around like mad, converting the elephants, and then you could win.

Age of Empires FTW!

Holololoo mother fucker!
You're on my side now!

sergeriver wrote:

History doesn't start in the 20th century.

You are right. But i dont think that all the criterians from this post could match with the historical armys... at this case that i have to select an army from the past than i have to select the Romans! They build up streets for there Armies and react very fast with a mass... i dont like massfighters...
if i have to select an fictive army i will select Rambo, the one man Army...

what i want to say is: in my previously post i  selected armys which are comparable ... since we have a/b/c Weapons war makes no fun!

Ok...I'll give this thread a kick.

The Canadian Army 1914-1918

( Stop laughing and get off the floor )



The First Corps was, in 1914, suppose to be nothing more then labor and support Units for the British Army.
Complaints from the government lead to them being put into the line.
One week before a German offensive.
The first using poison gas.
The Brits fell back. The French fell back. The Canadians attacked and stopped the German offensive cold.
The Somme was where the "Rolling Barrage" really got worked on and all four Divs got time in the line and
became fed up with the "British" way of doing things.
Arthur Curry takes over command of the 4 Divisions and demands they all be placed under ONE command.
The First Can Corps.
The first job given, attack and take a ridge the Brits lost 80,000 troops to, the French 100,000 to.
Vimy
Curry takes the troops out of the line and runs Corp size training on the attack. The first time this is done.
Issues maps down to the section level. The first time this is done.
Every man in the attack knows what is going on, what the objective's are, what the units around him are doing.
The first time this is done.
Troops are trained to use enemy weapons. From MG's to light arty. The first time..........
For the first time aircraft are used to correct arty fire, using one way wireless radio, to hit German arty,
counter fire arty and hit the trenches. ( The Germans called it the Week of Hell )
Vimy Ridge was the first attack of the Great War that went by the "Time Table" for the Allies.
Before the attack Curry had estimated three days for the ridge and one week to clear the area. He got it right.
10,000 killed and wounded, got that right to.
A French General hearing the Ridge had been taken replied, "Imposable" when told it was the Canadians said,
" The Canadians, ah, then it's possible".
Next the Nord Canal. Suicide said the High Command. Curry's plan cost 9,000 and did it in 2 days.
Passiondale. Hip deep mud and duck boards. Mud so deep men drowned in it. The one place Curry didn't want to attack.
11,000 killed wounded, taken in 8 days.


A country of, at the time,  a population of around 8-9 million people put 4 Divisions of troops in the field a small Navy
and Air Corps.

Started out as labor troops and ended up being classed, by the enemy, as elite troops.

Bertster7 wrote:

sergeriver wrote:

Mekstizzle wrote:

Agreed, that was some crazy shit.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Mong … re_map.gif

.Gif'd, like the other guy with the conquest map thing.

The Legacy still exists today, what with alot of Muslims in Central/South Asia having the surname "Khan"

And it was all in like a century, none of that over 6000 years stuff.

It's hilarious to read about the SAS or the US army here, when Genghis Khan founded the largest Empire in history with his army.

I think you'll find that was the British empire.

The largest contiguos empire was the Mongol.  The British Empire was spread all over the World while the Mongol was a contiguos empire.  Besides, in Km2 they were almost the same.

Persians, they had amazing tactics and methods for their time they tangled with the romans repeatedly and beat the crap out of them, i think at one point a single persian emporer managed to kill 3 roman emperors or consuls i think within 15 years. They never lost a major battle agains there oponents. The had really advanced methods like they created the armoured knight on horseback idea over a thousand years before it got started in europe and created things like the double recurve bow which only they had at that time. Amazing tactics for their time. big empire too, though not as big as some others mentioned.

sergeriver wrote:

Mekstizzle wrote:

Bertster7 wrote:

I think you'll find that was the British empire.

They didn't do it as fast or as militarily impressive as the Mongols though. Yeah it was the biggest though, serge got that big wrong.

Not at all, the British was in fact the largest empire with 36M km2 and the Mongol 33M, but the Mongol was a contiguos empire, and the British wasn't, hence the Mongol was the most powerful empire ever.  One contiguos border > colonies all around the world.

You didn't say most powerful though. You said largest.

sergeriver wrote:

Noobeater wrote:

Persians, they had amazing tactics and methods for their time they tangled with the romans repeatedly and beat the crap out of them, i think at one point a single persian emporer managed to kill 3 roman emperors or consuls i think within 15 years. They never lost a major battle agains there oponents. The had really advanced methods like they created the armoured knight on horseback idea over a thousand years before it got started in europe and created things like the double recurve bow which only they had at that time. Amazing tactics for their time. big empire too, though not as big as some others mentioned.

Alexander kicked their asses big time.

He did indeed. Darius got whooped.

So did Xerxes by the Greeks many years earlier.

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Cougar wrote:

Invaderzim wrote:

I reckon the current Chines army would give the US army a run for its money purley through strength in numbers, having an army that is the size of Australias ENTIRE population has to count for something.

Nah, just gives a broader target to nuke.

you know..i really dont think countries will use nukes in a war unless fired upon by a nuke....Leaders know that if one nuke goes....the other 8000 or so will aswell and end earth. They are only used at a kinda scare tactic i reckon.

China would defiantly give US a run for it money and in all honesty, win. 20 000 000 at arms.....thats allot of bullets and not to mention they are fairly well trained and equipped...they have J10s   oh noes!!!!

Bertster7 wrote:

sergeriver wrote:

Mekstizzle wrote:

They didn't do it as fast or as militarily impressive as the Mongols though. Yeah it was the biggest though, serge got that big wrong.

Not at all, the British was in fact the largest empire with 36M km2 and the Mongol 33M, but the Mongol was a contiguos empire, and the British wasn't, hence the Mongol was the most powerful empire ever.  One contiguos border > colonies all around the world.

You didn't say most powerful though. You said largest.

My bad, sorry.

Bertster7 wrote:

sergeriver wrote:

Noobeater wrote:

Persians, they had amazing tactics and methods for their time they tangled with the romans repeatedly and beat the crap out of them, i think at one point a single persian emporer managed to kill 3 roman emperors or consuls i think within 15 years. They never lost a major battle agains there oponents. The had really advanced methods like they created the armoured knight on horseback idea over a thousand years before it got started in europe and created things like the double recurve bow which only they had at that time. Amazing tactics for their time. big empire too, though not as big as some others mentioned.

Alexander kicked their asses big time.

He did indeed. Darius got whooped.

So did Xerxes by the Greeks many years earlier.

300 anyone?

True. but Alexander made the Persian empire fall.

Delta Force uses basically identical tactics and training as the British SAS so I'd say they were basically on par with each other. SEAL's are basically the US version of the SBS I think, though I don't know much of the SBS. You never really hear about them.

All I can say is I was proud to be British in 1982.

Even being outnumbered, 8000 miles away from resupply and structured command centres, no real amazing hardware to speak of to do the fighting instead of manpower, questioned by the rest of the world as to why we even bothered and amazed when we did it. More to the point, British forces went out and finished the Job, Over and done with, no army of occupation, no getting booted out by the locals, no dragged out conflict. In, Job done and finished.

British Paras and Marines, badly kitted out by the UK government, but when the shit his the fan, I know who I would call.  (No disrespect to the other battalions and services who all played  a very important role in the conflict)

Last edited by Chaos_nation (2007-07-05 08:46:24)