Why? Because that's my style, sir.Hakeswill did nothing wrong Edition
real nigga
>>61432385>True kino movie/seriesStarted watching it when Youtube decided to bombard me with videos of it
>>61432540yeah he was surprisingly based for a yankee poofter
>>61432385>Cheesy 80s guitar mixed with fife and drum intro plays>Small skirmish between the British and French>Sharpe flailing his sword around while Hagman gives cover fire>They win the skirmish>Messenger on horseback approaches>"Lieutenant/Captain/Major Sharpe, you are summoned to Lord Wellington's tent">"Bloody ell Patrick, what's 'e want now">Sharpe arrives in old Nosey's tent>His spymaster of the day is there>As is a weasel looking British officer or French lord>"Sharpe, this is Lord Fucksworth, who has a dangerous mission for you - you will be enormously outnumbered, deep behind enemy lines with no support, oh and Major Ducos is around so watch out for him>Lord Fuckworth insults him for being a poorfag but reluctantly accepts that this is Wellington's best man>"As ye like sir, Ah'll get it dun">Cut to Sharpe and Patrick discussing the mission>"It dun maek bloody sense Patrick, why do they need us to tek this castle/find this woman/get these supplies/uncover this plot">"Oh surely as the fields o' Ireland are green, sir, God has a plan for us, sir">A few battles happen on the way to the objective>Oh look it's an attractive young woman who keeps looking at Sharpe suggestively>They fuck>"Look Patrick! It's the thing we're here for!">"LOOK OUT SIR">Lord Fucksworth appears and betrays Sharpe>Ducos appears>"HON HON HON! Bamboozled you again my nemesis">"Bloody Ducos">Battle happens>Patrick goes "AAAAAAAAAHHHHHH BANG" with the 7 barrelled gun>Wellington arrives>"Well done Sharpe! You've done it again">Sharpe and his men march into the sunset>THERE'S FORTY SHILLINGS ON THE DRUM...FOR THOSE WHO VOLUNTEER TO COME...
>>61432718The "AHHHHH BANG" gets me every time
>>61432718lol its to accurate
>>61432918I don't get it, you want to lose your job so you drink more?
>>61432718This pasta is too fucking good, why even have a sharpe thread anymore?
The fault was not mine
based Sharpe thread
>>61432963>why even have a sharpe thread anymore?So someone can post it, retard.
>>61432963>whyTo simmersonpost, and posting Liz Hurley in regency era dresses
>>61433026Sharposting is the most fun when it's NOT in a Sharpe thread.>>61433038That's actually a good reason.
>>61433131Of course it's fun posting a Simmersonovitch in some unrelated thread of a Hakeswill out of nothing, but I can't think of a proper place to post the pasta outside of a Sharpe thread, except maybe if it's a "/k/ media" thread where some zoomer asks about it or somesuch.
>>61433140The traditional way to do it is to first simmersonpost and then post the pasta when a Sharpe discussion inevitably takes over the thread.That's my style sir.
What other shows give off the comfyness that sharpe does? It’s /k/ino
>>61433291Did any anon distinguish himself?
Just post Liz Hurley getting her tits out and we can all go home.
>>61433541Best I've got
>>61433326
This is the scene
unironically my favourite villain. you just love to hate the cunt
>>61433649Being an upper-class twit in the olde tymes must have been baller.Imagine getting chewed out not only by your superior, but who also happens to be the fucking DUKE OF WELLINGTON, and still thinking you are hot shit.Then again, it's probably mere foolishness, for Gibbons at least realized that dueling with Sharpe would have been a very bad call.
>tfw you will never be a rich fop bumbling and scheming through life why even live.
>>61432718And I’d watch another 100 hours worth of episodes if I could!
>>61432540Is slaves, cotton amd molasses still a viable investment strategy?
>>61433607Absolutely patrician my good man.
>>61432830Because of this pasta alone its now my favourite part of every episode
>>61432999The Major paints rather a different picture...
>that episode where sharpe steals fredrickson's girli felt thatbut at the same time, he shouldve made a move + she was a hoe and he shouldve been thankful
>>61434734Major Anon is merely a shitposter...
>>61434779True, but Sharpe is a cunt for it all the same.
>>61434690In the right areas of the world, yes
>>61434783Major Anon's trenchcoat barely buttons over a number of other mod roles, Sir Newfag.
>>61433721It was easier at the time because he was just Arthur Wellesley, the sixth child of an Irish noble and a bit of a cunt who made a lot of enemies. Though once he had his reputation he was one of those people who could control a room by glaring
>>61434779Fucking Sweet William was a homie but he should have known never to trust Sharpe alone with a woman. Especially book Sharpe who is a far bigger man slut that Sean Beans portrayal. Fuck in the books Sharpe sleeps with more women than the army raped at BADAJOZ!
>>61432385simmerson got btfo'd by mark antonyhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8_yJDbpYT0U
>>61433685
>>61432540The man was a true American through and through despite the uniform.
>>61435267
>>61434683I’m saving that
My girlfriend likes costume dramas and she also likes war films. I suggested she might like Sharpe, but pre-warned her that it was old, cheesy and cheap. She loved it and will often ask if we can watch an episode ( we're only half way though) and will even quite some of the cheesy lines at me every now and then.Shes a keeper, though she covered my eyes when liz hurley got her tits out
What happens to Tongue? He just disappears I assume they couldn't get the actor back?
>>61435764fucking kek
>>61435816>around 30 riflemen in the novels>5 guys in the seriesThe only reason I dislike Sharpe series.
>>61435816The fag who plays Harris and folk musician who plays Hagman have basically made the characters their entire lives
>>61435699>Speaking as a seasoned shitposter, I must say as how I don't hold with banning regular posters>My dear anon, you may be an oldfag, but you are still not a board regular. You do not know the /k/omrade, sir. He is a brute beast behind seven proxies. He needs the jannying!Eh, not my best, but you get the gist
>>61435963I know Harris actor wrote a book about it and hasn't been in anything since and still rides off it. Looking up John Tams who played Hagman, he seems to have done a fair bit with a separate music career. They got a solid decade and more of TV work out of Sharpe, which isn't bad for any actor really.
>>61433317I half-remember the Hornblower series was pretty good.Watched the series, then read the books nearly a decade later out of boredom and happening on a set of tatty books in a library.
>>61435963Sharpe is a bit like the Harry Potter series in that its a who's who of British actors, many of whom were playing bit roles before they got famous. Daniel Craig, James Purefoy, Mark Strong, >>61433607, Paul Bettany etc
>>61432718Thank you
>>61435728Yes, that's exactly what Simmerson said.
>>61432385heavy is good.heavy is reliable.
>>61436449Fit for a butcher in a charnel house, the books are fun
>>61432385Hakeswill's survival required baffling amounts of retardation. A guy like him would be murdered by his compatriots in a modern army, let alone a 19th century one. As for his vaunted ability to defy death, there's a pretty simple solution to that, you stab his face until his own mother couldn't recognize him and saw his throat down to the spine.He shouldn't have been shot, he should have been flogged to death by his subordinates.
>>61435805>she covered my eyes when liz hurley got her tits outoddly charming
>>61435805>there are gfs out there who will watch sharpe with you
>>61435816Some of the actors quit because filming in Ukraine was awful, the place was a third-world shithole back then.
>>61432928No, but golly this is so much fun with my friends! One more drink would really top off the the night, right?
>>61435728A Virginian, sir.
>>61435267God may damn them but I'm not inclined, Badajoz will punish them!
>>61436733Every battle some try. See how he stands to attention? Never disobeys an officer, do you Obadiah? They tried to hang him once and did not kill him.
Are the books worth a read?
>>61435764> and what a nice dress
>>61437282No, reading is for faggots
>>61437397There's clearly a Nock Gun in the OP picture, so go back to your gear/ar fag threads and then kys.
>>61437282Yes but they get kinda formulaic after a while.I recommend reading in chronological order since the release order is kinda fucky.
>>61437431you logic makes no sense. i think its you who needs to fuck off
>>61436733Hes a schemer and a killer, he can probably guess whose going to try and kill him and either get there first or position himself where it won't happen. He is also very lucky, which is why they say he can't be killed, but then so is Sharpe.
How did normal guys at the front actually survive these battles? Is the answer just that they didn't and expected to die?
>Do you know what makes a good Sharpe thread, sergeant?
>>61437335have you seen Billy Connolly's wife? she was a 10/10 in bongland back in the 80s. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8iPgOBoqsaQI'd let her be the revolutionary guard who detains me for anti-iranian activity.
>>61437804The ability to shoot three shitposts in a minute, sir.
>>61434829The fault was not mine, sir! Major Moot must answer!
>>61437903MAJOR MOOT ANSWERED WITH HIS OWNERSHIP!
>>61437727>How did normal guys at the front actually survive these battles?getting hit as line infantry wasn't super likely. They were disciplined enough they could put it out of their mind basically. Cavalry combat was a lot more personal and brutal but they could choose when and where to attack especially light cavalry units leading to accounts of hussar units refusing to engage each other during scouting or pitched battles until the battle was over at which point they'd chase after the fleeing enemy. Unless they were British because Britain used the cavalry as a place to offload all their least capable officers leading to all the many many times British cavalry was massive heroic because their officers accidentally led them into suicidal charges (Salamanca, Scots Greys at Waterloo, Charge of the Light Brigade whatever happened there etc. )
>>61438003Someone saved my shitty low effort sharpepost.
>>61438045I guess sahagún was a fluke then.
this is now a Hornblower thread
>>61438003I'm pretty sure Perun doesn't like the Brits. It's subtle things, like reading a list Britain is top of by going from the bottom up and stopping at second place. I'm still going to watch his content, I just got this feeling is all
>>61438088You're right, it's pretty low effort
>>61435805Wife. Her. Immediately.
>>61438090British cavalry was actually very good at the stabbing people part of their job (and the scouting part). Very good swordsmen and very deadly in a melee like Sahagun but they had terrible discipline and leadership to the point of fucking up basic commands like wheel about or recall in the heat of combat.
>>61437431>Nock Gun>seven .50 cal barrels>fired all at onceJesus H. Christ.
>>61438092Where can I watch this shit in USA?
God...Elizabeth Hurley was the most fuckable woman in the 90s.
>>61437397Frogposters need to be gassed. Any OP image with a Nock Volly Gun in it belongs on /k/, which you'd know about if you weren't a frogposting newfag.>>61438088It's good meme. Good memes don't need to be quality.>>61438221Very nice. Worthy of the colors.>>61438288Amazon Prime and BritBox probably have it. Been on and off on Netflix too.
>>61438207Already on it, marrying in June, been together 7 years
>>61438553Over the hills and far away
>>61438288probably youtubehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zZegw3Otpkc
>>61438092For anyone who liked the TV series, I highly recommend trying the books toofor one example, the duel in The Even Chance has a completely different outcome (and frankly I think it was worse off for the rewrite)
>>61438288>>61438330https://youtu.be/TfC6Nnv5e68?si=LQ27Sq2kWNO9Tt1QHere's a link to it on YouTube
>>61437970As (You) Should have if you had any sense of Based.
>>61438706Took her over many a hill
>>61438706RIP Lemmy
>>61439125headed down an endless roadaround the world for rock and roll
>>61439073post her asshole
>look guys I totally have a girlfriend and she likes a costume drama TV serial!I was happy for you early on in this thread but now it's just getting pathetic.
>>61439203I love this shithole sometimes
>>61439203>>61439304I'm suprised it took this long
>>61439073More pics of the dog pls. He looks a nice boy.
>>61439073100% English countryside. I think I even might know where.
>>61438045>Charge of the Light Brigade whatever happened thereIsn't the prevailing argument that they received and obeyed incorrect/malformed orders?
>>61438045>getting hit as line infantry wasn't super likelyLMAO look up Napoleonic Wars battles on wiki and the casualty lists are catastrophic. Plus if you were wounded you would very likely die of infection.
>>61439591Basically, the light brigade were sent orders from an officer on top of a hill who could see both canons to the front of the field and to the side. Where the light brigade was positioned they could only see the front facing canons. The officer sent an ensign to order them to charge the guns on the flank, but since they didn’t even know they were there the light brigade assumed they were just ordered to charge directly to the front
>>61432540Based Captain Leeroy.
>>61438045>Britain used the cavalry as a place to offload all their least capable officerswut? The cavalry was the arm of choice for the wealthiest, most influential officers to purchase commissions. The infantry were seen as plebs.
>>61438090thread song https://youtu.be/otXwm5Z-Lug?si=8aJ9KA6-zCNCA_Wo
>>61432718Based, Accurate and Girl-I-Left-Behind-Me-Pilled. https://youtu.be/v9Mc8MUiCCw?si=rV0YJuYtg_6lfZR5
>>61438092Hornblower was lame, just like the books.
>>61438215Basically a one-shot weapon in a big battle, once committed they were away and no recalling them for a second go. Brave amateurs.
>>61438288I wouldn't bother, it's pretty underwhelming. No good characters like Sharpe.
>>61439676shit take
>>61438088Checked. Such is greatness, Anon.
>>61437727one of the hardest things you learn about population dynamics, more men are born then women, those men who feel like they have no chance in life otherwise join the army. Lines would usually break apart when enough people died at once and cause a rout, if cav didn't destroy a fleeing unit a good part of the survivors would live. it doesn't take that many deaths at once to cause a rout. england was able to train more men better with the island defences and being able to choose their front, they'd be able to manuver and put down more shot before the enemy, so they'd usually take less casualties.
>>61439073She's fucking that dog.
>>61439649>wut? The cavalry was the arm of choice for the wealthiest, most influential officers to purchase commissions. The infantry were seen as plebs.I said capable not the richest. Young, fashionable, rich and foppish young "plunger" officers weren't the most capable officers. Generally speaking if you were ultra rich but actually smart/capable you'd join the Foot Guards (which you needed connections to buy into) who arguably were the most prestigious regiment in the British army and kind of still are. If you were rich but an idiot who just wanted a fancy uniform you'd join the hussars. Even after the Cardwell Reforms cavalry regiments had the lowest grade requirements at Sandhurst with the Guards having the highest requirement. Artillery officers had even higher education requirements iirc but they went to a different officer school.
>>61439841>regimentregiments
>>61436796>back thenlmao
>>61439841Engineers and artillery couldn't be purchased into. You had to go to the school.
>>61432718Bessed n redcoatpilled
>>61436449Sharpe's Bullet Dodger
>>61437870>Middle left is solid, but you know you have to pay far left's troll toll before you can get into that slutshole
>>61439662The entire album is good.
>>61439591>>61439638The charge of the Light Bridge wasn't actually the disaster it was made out to be, all the poems and stuff about it were based of the initial reports that were incorrect. When they initially reformed, loads of men were missing and reported as casualties, but they had in fact been out pursuing the Russians as they fell back and they didn't return for a few hours. The Victorians loved the story though so it got embellished over the years.
>>61437347Brainlet scum, reading is excellent (stimulates the imagination, too).>>61437347
>>61439538>>61439822It's a female dog
>>61439662I'm posting the entire album.https://youtu.be/QeAtpoZbyEE?si=lDKwQHirCOWy6Gvk
AAAAARRRR!
>>61440059I watched Sharpes Battle today after reading the copypasta and couldn't stop laughing when he does it repeatedly. Everytime I watch Sharpe I get the urge to buy a Musket just to fuck around with, saw a man at a clayground with one and the sound is terrific.
>>61437282Sharpe's Tiger was really good from memory but I'm a sucker for stuff set in colonial India.
>>61433607Honestly quite partial to this one-off tot.
>>61435805
>>61439649>purchase commissions>least capable officersYes.
>>61440171Imagine being French and having to live through the dog end of your women being hot
>>61439793>gender dynamics = expendable manPlease fuck off with this gender war nonsense
This is what /k/ used to be about.
>>61436976>>61437547See, you guys say this, but he gets got alone in a barn at one point. Would've been a fantastic opportunity to kill him.
>>61441397Sharpe wanted him to be executed by firing squad so all his victims would be vindicated, the bastard.
>>61440927If you try to put words in my mouth I will remove teeth from yours. The truth exists beyond any human emotions, Men fight in wars, therefore those who want them need men, they do this by offering societal advancement, There's no modern ideology involved, it's just the primal truth of humanity.
>>61440711Actual French women are still hot.>Verification not required
>>61441735You are a mong, and probably a pothead.
>>61441735>If you try to put words in my mouth I will remove teeth from yours.
>>61432385I'm on a Sharpe kick and I also just watched Barry Lyndon. What are some other King George III/IV era military kinos am I missing?
>>61442825HornblowerMaster and CommanderWaterlooThe DuellistsLast of the MohicansLongitudeBonus films that are 18th century but pre- George III are: >Culloden >Master of Ballentrae also later 19th c. but extremely based >Royal Flash>The Man Who Would Be King>Zulu>Four Feathers (70s version)>Charge of the Light Brigade >Young Winston
>>61443441Saved. Thanks bud.Looking at some screen caps from those movies and god damn Georgian England aesthetics were the peak
>>61442825Don't forget to read the Aubrey/Maturin series of books that Master & Commander was based off of. I at least suggest reading the first book since it was intended to be a one-off and is my favorite of the series.
>>61441397Yes that as stupid, they should have offed him then and there and Theresa might still be alive. I put it down to Sharpes shock and suprise, and also wanting to use his new power over him to get some revenge. But then he loses his command and Hakeswell gets in the ear of the new Captain.
>>61443673I just listened to a podcast series about Thomas Cochrane, utter mad lad who also inspired master and commander. His life reads like a work of fiction and you think he must be embellishing everything, but by all accounts it's true. His stratagey boiled down to be well trained and prepared, and simply going on the attack and being aggressive. Less capable captains didn't know what to do to counter him. He got given the smallest ship in the Royal Navy and captured more ships than anyone else
>>61443907>In 1810, Sir Francis Burdett, a member of parliament and political ally, had barricaded himself in his home at Piccadilly, London, resisting arrest by the House of Commons. Cochrane went to assist Burdett's defence of the house. His intended actions, similar to those he had used in the navy, would have led to numerous deaths amongst the arresting officers and at least partial destruction of Burdett's house, along with much of Piccadilly. On realising what Cochrane planned, Burdett and his allies took steps to end the siege.Honorary American.
>>61444040>Is hired by Chile to secure impedance >steals the most powerful ship in South America form the Spanish >takes a city and its surroundings forts with 300 men>secures Peruvian Independence as a side note while working for the Chilens>On the way home gets hired by Brazil and secures their independence Shame he pissed literally everyone off he dealt with
>>61444340Fucking phone posting auto correct
>>61432385The sharp series is unbelievable because there are British people running around with guns. I could understand it if they were American, but British men are all sissies nowadays. If it were historically accurate, it would have loads of Indians, niggers, and Asians in every major role per the bbc, so it's not even true.
>>61439241Emily Mortimer if oim nart mistaken>They fuck
>>61443907Can't believe his descendent went on to invent the warp drive.
>>61443907what is with the whitewashing revisionism. he was historically black
>>61432540One of the better secondary characters - Stuck to his principals and loyalty to the crown and lost his homeland as a result
>>61432718Major Munro and his bagpipes and 'send a regicide to guard a king' comments
>>61433038> Liz Hurleyand occasionally out of period dresses
>>61433649'my friends at horse guards' (one of which is Banastre Tarleton, supposedly the model for the psychotic english officer in The Patriot)
>>61435904TV series on a limited budget - why all the battles look like large bar fights
>>61436796The actor playing Wellesley in the Wellesley/Simmerson clip caught soumething very unpleasent while filming and decided that Sharpe was not his idea of fun anymore.
>>61432999>>61434734>>61434783>>61434829>>61437903>>61437970>>61438941That's good soldiering
>>61438092A midshipman.. in his twentiesNot quite as bad as the yank Hornblower film Gregory Peck in his forties
>>61439891Guess that payed off at Rorke's Drift
>>61443441Winston Churchill as a young cavalry officer taking part in putting the Mahdist uprising down at Omdurman
>>61443673the Bolitho series by Alexander Kent is an entertaining series if you are into age of sail stories
>>61444594The royal navy is the most egalitarian and inclusive service anon. It's current year (1797), you don't need to start as a midshipshota to have a worthwhile career. You can be even in your mid-30s when you become master's mate. Stop ageism.
>>61443907Statues, building and squares all over south america named after him
>>61444635most midshipmen went as 12 year olds, the only old midshipmen were either promoted form the forecastle or men who went in as boys and failed to ever pass the leuitenant's exam
>>61432718over the past two weeks i've watched the whole show for the first time, and this post/apparently copypasta is absolutely fucken spot-on>"good morning sharpe, even though i currently appear as if i'm on your side, i am sure to dick you over after the act II combat, and i SERIOUSLY DOUBT there'll be any comeuppance for me, ever">"good morning sharpe, i'll be your chick with tits for this episode, just LOOK how rockin' my tits are, that is, if you can see past my bedroom eyes">"good morning sharpe you low class swine, we won't see eye at first, but we'll find common ground partway through the episode and i'll earn your respect right before i die"> every moment when second in command patrick saves the day in the nick of time, bonus points for irish sass> every moment when nerdcunt harris discovers a plot-twist, bonus points for having to view that fucken head of hair in 1080pgreat show, wish i could watch it for the first time again and enjoy every second of its perfect blend of cheese and corn
>>61440059BLACK AS BOG!
>>61444731>bonus points for having to view that fucken head of hairFucking kek>Look Sharpe! Voltaire!!
Ok I am 30min into the first episode and god damn I didn't expect to get sucked into this by these magnitudes.
As much as I love the show I feel I should point out that Sharpe is the 18th century equivalent of a Tier 0 Glownigger Spec Op. The very first thing he is sent to do is save the leading Rothschild of the day from Napoleon (the Hitler of the Day). He was a badass, but he was also a (((glownigger))) trigger puller.
>>61445349Bastard!
>>61445349Literal "Marvel/Harry Potter/Star Wars real life politics comparison" tier post.Touch grass and then kys
>>61445261Ok 1st episode doneSimply lovely, I love how fucking cheesy this is.The rifle action is great.
>>61445349Hogan was the glownigger, Sharpe and the riflemen are supposed to be the equivalent of a special forces unit
>>61445747Ironically it's nonexistent budget gives it incredible SOUL
>>61445755Hogan was a Company Man. But Sharpe and his boys were the equivalent of Deltas who got requisitioned for wet work directly on behalf of Jewish bankers and their churls (like Nosey)
>>61445782Always that way. Limitation is the most important thing for all creative endeavors.
>>61439841>>61438045I know I'm late to the debateBut you're half right but mainly wrong. It was mainly British light cav that was problematic and the reason is as follows>its hard to move cavalry by shipsSo 99% of the fighting the Brits did prior to Nopey's European adventures was colonial fuck-fuck games across the world. Even by the early 1800's it was quite difficult to get just men across oceans without mass casualties en-route and supplying them on the other side was extremely difficult. Brits even had a campaign in HOLLAND fail because of supply issues (and they took like 30% casualties to disease alone). Hence, they tended to leave cavalry back in the UK and would only really send infantry and arty overseas for fuck-fuck games, usually raising local cav or raising cav in nearby colonies for these colonial operations. >hence why former colonies have a disproportionate number of historical cav units. So, if you're a rich lordling and you want to be inna military but you dont really want to dodge spears and malaria in Nigeria you join the cavalry, knowing full well you'll be safely in Albion for the duration of your career. Hence, lots of their cav units were shit because they were just a perma-garrisoned larp. THEN British military doctrine in conventional grand-battle was very "Roman" in that they were infantry-centric (because of above). So they didn't really know how to use cavalry, or rather, cavalry didn't really fit into their doctrine. The British army in the Napoleonic wars was basically a colonial army that was repurposed for a big conventional war, and it brought all those quirks with them. >Hence they were ahead of the curve with skirmishers because of the American wars
>>61445747It gets a lot better 1st episodes a little rough. Be prepared for actors to change or disappear though.
Sharpe: The Animation
>>61438092Meh, Aubrey-Maturin series mogs Hornblower and everyone knows it. O'Brian is Tolkien-tier while Forester just falls flat in terms of literary prose. It's obvious to anyone who reads both series.
>>61434690I would counsel putting 50% into Transatlantic Zeppelin, Amalgamated Spats, Congreve's lnflammable Powders and U.S. Hay
How does rifling work for something that's muzzle loaded?
>>61432385>>As soon as I saw a Sharpe thread I had to shitpost. That’s just my style sir.
>>61448353The same way it works for something breech-loaded
>>61448470but how does it grip the rifling if it's small enough to be loaded down the muzzle?
>>61443441>Last of the MohicansIt kills me that this movie isn't more widely acclaimed. I think it's easily one of the most American films ever made.Also I love that Daniel Day-Lewis became an actual frontiersman and lived off the land with his rifle to prepare for the role.
>>61448496it would be grabbed by the rifling during loading, with aid of a cloth patch, if using round balls. The Minie Ball was an elongated projectile with a cavity in the base, which allowed it to be loaded with greater ease, that expanded during combustion to grip the rifling.
>>61448519That was the last movie my grandma saw in theaters (she passed away in 2019). My uncle who was basically a mountain man type guy took her to see it. It was one of her favorite movies, she even had the VHS even though she never played videos.
>>61447381Nothing compares to the Aubrey-Maturin books.
>>61432385anglobros he's looking at us!
>>61438712>Chosen Men do bounding coverOn the one hand, that feels slightly anachronistic.On the other, it also feels like exactly the sort of thing that veteran/light/skirmisher infantry would do even back in the 1800s.Kinda wish I knew more about Napoleonic-era tactics so I could tell which.
>>61449246Caption says "The face at the window"
>>61448496>but how does it grip the rifling if it's small enough to be loaded down the muzzle?Patches. Rifles were around in Europe since the 16th century but until the mid-18th century and tihe introduction of the minie ball their usage in warfare was generally limited to specialists because rifles were more expensive to produce, slower to load and fire, had finer tolerances for ammunition and were employed in different ways and had a different training doctrine.>>61449413>On the other, it also feels like exactly the sort of thing that veteran/light/skirmisher infantry would do even back in the 1800s.Considerably earlier, in fact. The British learned the value of skirmishing during various 18th century colonial shenanigans (not least of which being the French and Indian Wars) and established the Royal Rifle Corps in 1756 along with hiring German riflemen whenever they could but it took their experience in the American Revolution to really hammer home the idea that this was something they should invest in more heavily; by the time of the Napoleonic Wars formation fighting was the exception to the rule for riflemen.
Any british bros know the story behind this picture?
>>61449662Colonel Fyfe took a photo with his aides
>>61449765just because they're black it doesn't mean they have aids
>>61449765>>61449662Maroons from slaver hunter from the caribbean In 1739–40, the British government in Jamaica recognized that it could not defeat the Maroons, so Trelawny offered them peace treaties instead.In exchange, they were asked to agree not to harbour newly self-liberated Africans ("runaways"), but rather to help catch them. This last clause in the treaty caused a split between the Maroons and the rest of the black population. Another provision of the agreement was that the Maroons would serve to protect the island from invaders.>The Jamaican Maroons of Moore Town, under the command of former Charles Town superintendent Alexander Fyfe, committed a number of atrocities and extrajudicial murders before they captured and arrested Bogle, and delivered him to the colonial authorities
>>61449842Fuck maroon slave hunters from the caribbean I meant
>>61449820oh you :3
>>61449820It’s just highly likely
>>61452387>hsv>syph>gon>chlaHe was talking about AIDS though, which is caused by HIV.
>>61452701And his point still stands
Friendly reminder that the real officers of the regency era were not incompetent and corrupt like Sharpe would have you believehttps://youtu.be/9XUBwtWqkKI?si=ZEjzQ-eKrtMsvCrahttps://youtu.be/eSrCnPG0NHM?si=48pB_k5np0wHq7G4
>>61438114Yeah I noticed that too. He was pretty scathing about the Astute which is a very good sub, all considered
>>61449662Just a dude with some bushes next to him, idk what else to tell you.
>>61453041I mean if you read the novels it's kind of an open secret that Wellington basically pawns off his shitty officers onto sharpe, knowing that they either reform into good officers, get forced to retire in disgrace, or get themselves killed. All of these outcomes are better than just being stuck with bad commanders.Sharpe is basically the great filter in Wellington's command. Meanwhile the other 99% of Wellingtons officer cadre are competent, but there's no drama there, so they aren't shown.
>>61453362That's pretty clear from the series as well, but its usually just a couple of lines here and there when Wellingtons talking to his spy master of the day. They do show competent officers too.
>>61453041>>61453362>>61453381The novels and the TV show are filled with good officers too. Lawford for example. In Sharpe's Company Windham is portrayed as aristocratic and slightly eccentric, but he's brave and compassionate too his only real problem being that he doesn't understand what Hakeswill is. Even Rymer is portrayed well, as being brave. Sharpe even grudgingly says to him that he'll call Rymer "sir" after the fight for the spades. Then there's Price who's a drunk outside battle but not during it and is well liked by the men.There's lots more examples as well
>>61453041Yeah, I don't have anything to add to the other anons, I just want to call you a retard.
>>61448519Hakeswell's Da' 'ad a role in't. You can see him arresting Hawkeye in the fort.
>wait all your young life for some nice nobleman to come and marry you>have instead Fr*nch come
>>61434779>Sweet Willie was true, and Sharpe was not. >Ey ol' el manequin good fren ey elpin me arse, best shag es fiance jus like ey ne'er wanted.
>>61445349>Glowie has to use his own title to insult others
>>61432718KINOINO
>>61432718Yeah and it's GREAT.
>>61436667>you can't handle my highest watt phased plasma rifle
>>61441735>t. gets winded walking up a flight of stairs
>>61440092You can legally own a musket in the UK without a section 1 or 2 firearms licence, it technically only becomes a firearm at the time of loading and shooting.
>>61435728BY GOD A VIRGINIAN SIR.
>>61455949Getting a shotgun license is so easy that you might as well do it anyway. I'm not buying a musket because I can't, it's because I've already got ten guns and csnt justify buying a musket that I'll use once or twice then not use for years.
>>61455822*highest wattage
>>61432540>calls out Sharpe for getting Lt Derry and other people killed so he could get an eagle and become captain>oh yeah well you owned slaves lmaowas this supposed to be written as a snappy comeback by Sharpe
>>61456690He's just salty about getting owned by a Virginian that has experience owning people
>>61456115I just really like section 58 guns because the cops don't need to inspect them, you can store them anywhere, sell and buy them easily etc.Bought a rusted hunting musket for a friend for his birthday as it was like £70 due to not being a famous military model.
>>61456690It's funny because Sharpe's son goes off to fight for the Confederacy.
>>61432718Based and Sharpilled
>>61439125He didn't want to live forever.
>>61441671That was like forced stupidity on the writers' parts, a guy who came from the bottom like Sharpe should know better. And dead is dead.
>>61444040And Burdett was an honorary Canadian, from the sound of it.
>>61443907You see the same thing in the animal kingdom with small prey animals finding a lot of success by simply chimping out on predators. As above, so below.
>>61433649Unironically, Leeroy in the back does great acting with just his eyes and looks.
>>61432718They don't make em like this anymore.
Right in the first episode they have a shifty jew dress like a woman.What did they mean by that?
>>61432928>I don't get it, you want to lose your job so you drink more?no, but one will turn into 4 more and before you know it, it's 5 am and you've gotta be at work soon
>>61456690The Bongs are pretty hypocritical and dishonest about their role in slavery as an industry. They're kinda the same way the Nips are about WW2, only while they'd rather pretend that war never happened, the British will loudly tell you about when they abolished slavery, instead. This slips into their popular fiction, as well.Also, any Irishmen or man with Irish friends in the 19th century might still have an elderly grudge to nurse on the topic of transportation. Even much earlier in history, you see people who take a very vociferous stance against chattel slavery, either because they encountered the sausage-making floor and were horrified, or because they themselves were slaves (usually of the dirkas), and it made them see the other side of things.
>>61448519I got my first promotion in basic to a metal cover of this and the Battlefield 1 version of the battlefield theme
>>61460276Kinda wish we got to see more of him. He was a bit of a dick, but it seemed like he and Sharpe would've had good interplay as characters.
>>61434690I'm feeling bearish on negroes.
>thread is still aliveVery nice, that's some damn good soldiering.
>>61438330AH BANG, goes Paddy with the big gun.
Just started rewatching from season one. This show makes me want to mess around with black powder rifles.
>>61463575watched it for the first time a year ago but sort of burned out after season 2. comfy 90s shit altogether, wish i'd gotten into it sooner tho. this way i'd have nostalgic attachment to it like i do to twin peaks, x-files, fresh prince and other sitcoms from back then
Is it streaming anywhere in it's entirety or do I need to pirate?
>>61463672It's on youtube
>>61463672it's on Britbox which I've got through Prime. Or just torrent it. I aim to get the DVD collection one day
>>61464466The whole legit series is on YouTube? Fucking A. >>61464531I bailed on Prime after Rangz, but you get a little letter opener with the bluray set. Pretty boss.
>>61464561https://www.blu-ray.com/movies/Sharpes-Classic-Collection-Blu-ray/53995/Consume.
>>61464580King George commands And we obey
>>61464561https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL__iLnGXzQufHdwe_InJ9wsIUtAhEY3cT
>>61449413Riflemen would always work in pairs, with one shooting while the other reloaded, and supporting each other during movement which could involve lots of little rushed forward and back. Plus it was standard light infantry doctrine (at least for the French) for one platoon of the light company to remain in line formation just behind the others who would advance in a skirmish line, so if a small force tried to rush them the line platoon could provide concentrated covering fire. They would either drive off the enemy or hold them while the rest of the company formed behind them, then they would bound back to either repeat the process or rejoin the main line
>it's all on Internet Archiveerry noise
Almost done with the first one. Sharpe's Rifles. The group is never shown to be exhibiting marksmanship at all at any point in the movie "They don't fire 'muskets.' the fire rifles. They don't miss miss. They are called 'Rop Men. '" The next scene of them firing has all of them hip firing and hitting nothing. Am I missing a joke?! Picrel
>>61466625All the Rothschild stuff is based as all get out though. It's convinced me to buy all of the Aubrey and Maturing books. I expect the rest of the movies to be better, and they better have Brian "Big John" Cox! I fucking love Brian Cox.
>>61466625>misunderstands "Chosen Men" "Rop Men" (?????)>expects gun autism from some low budget 90s bong showYer a lot a things, but not a bloody proper bastard.
>>61466645it's a great book series, tho it does kinda meander near the end and it never actually finishes. Will never forgive O'Brian for not at least writing an outline of how he wants the series finished
>>61466625It does get better the first episode is pretty rough around the edges. And it's a TV action drama its never accurate or really realistic. Best way to enjoy it is to watch one episode a week or so, it's not meant to be marathoned. It can be quite samey and you get bored if you watch it all the time.
>>61466625>Am I missing a joke?! No the first few episodes are just kind of bad and people pretend they aren't because of nostalgia.It does get better though. In fact it reaches the highest heights of low budged cheesy mid 90s television.
>>61432647here u go enjoy
>>61467970Jack hoists his Admiral's flag. That's an ending to me.
>>61468439>It does get better thoughexcept for that one episode with the crazy Spanish guys who considered themselves the heirs of the Incas or some similar crazy shit. Allegedly it was the episode that Sean Bean liked least too.
>>61443441Culloden, the first docudrama and first full length film directed by Peter Watkins.Shot in black and white with a local theater group, a damp field and somehow it totally holds up today.I watched it while visiting Scotland and even my girlfriend enjoyed it while visiting the area around Culloden. A year later he directed War Game, a docudrama about the effects of nuclear war on Britain which wins an academy award and inspired presidents to avoid nuclear war at all costs.Both highly reccommended.
>>61469048Woops forgot my picture.Watch it here:https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=-1TZq6DfKKA&pp=ygUIQ3VsbG9kZW4%3D
>>61459574>It's funny because Sharpe's son goes off to fight for the Confederacy.No, his son ends up being a frog (lmao) colonel that is sent there to act as a French military observer.
>>61468983Sharpes Gold, that's the one and it can be skipped. No direction on the storyline, pretty weak and dumb story and no decent battles or particularly good scenes. Cute girl but that's it.
>>>/tv/
>>61469293You can have /k/ media threads and this is one.
>>61468439fuck you, the second episode is great>>61467970>>61468983agreed
are the movies set in india worth watching? i remember a big indian bloke twists somebodies head off and that's about it
>>61469740>>61468439Sharpes Eagle is one of the most iconic episodes and its the 2nd one
LOL why is it such a big deal when they grab a flag? They should leave the flag in the middle undefended with riflemen columns on each side just shooting people trying rush the flag and grab it. Why didn't they think of that?
>>61460953The Irish can eat a bag of dicks because indenture is not slavery. If it were, every single apprentice would also have been a slave. Every complaint an Irishman has boils down to "I didn't get free shit". The slavery thing is particularly appealing because they're a bunch of white negroes.
>>61469753Not really. In the books the India parts are set before the Napoleonic Wars, and setting them after just turns the series into "the Search for More Money".
>>61433649Notice the copious use of "sir"? That's when irl Indians picked it up and still use today.
>>61473521Indians are inherently respectful unlike Americans.
>>61473053>NOOOOO IT'S ONLY SLAVERY WHEN IT'S BLACKS
>>61473581t. Never met an indian
>>61447501How's my confederated slave holdings?
I want to see three shitposts per minute from you, by sunset.Anyone who can't gets banned.
>>61473053Irish?!
>>61472173CTF wasn't invented until the 1990s, DUH
>>61460953By Jove, you will take those words back immediately, sir.
What would you do for an Eagle?
>>61477828Play new Bethesda games
It was a nice thread while it lasted, thank you /k/ompanyhttps://youtu.be/8Xi79uEDbag
Just got to the episode where Sharpe's wife runs off with his money and cucks him. I want to beat a hoe to death. Is it worth watching past here? This level of anger at a fictional character is not enjoyable.
>>61481310Yes
You think Berry and Gibbons were secretly homosex?They certainly gave off that vibe.
Okay, what the fuck is it with this timeline where the books were written by Bernard Cornwell?I swear on me mum that it has ALWAYS been Cromwell and never anything else.
>>61477828I'd let Liz Hurley kiss my peepee
>>61482450>timeline Yeah, that's what it is, not that you misread something and were never corrected. Now give me three timelines a minute or the french will rule the world!
[VIVE L'EMPEREUR chanting intensifies]
Watched it for the first time last nightThis is just perfect.
>>61482026Well I never, old boy>>61482758A gentleman and a scholar>>61477828I would not only let Liz Hurley (espeically prime Liz Hurley in period dress) kiss my peepee, but by jove I would have carnal relations with her in the proper missionary position while maintaining eye contact in order to secure a French Eagle for King and Country.
Very proper bastardly and Farthingdalepilled thread
>>61473521Indians have a rigid caste system so are comfortable with subservience.
>>61460953So the British are, at most, guilty of being no better then anyone else by taking part in the slave trade. And yet they WERE the ones to abolish and suppress it so do deserve credit. Most people regarded slavery as the natural way of things, it only gradually became unacceptable to westerners. Arabs, Africans and Jews are still doing it to this day.
>>61432385>Hakeswill did nothing wrongExcept for not dying when hanged. And all the other things he did wrong after that.
>>61485118And I take your mother was NOT a pox-ridden sow who sold herself to a toad?
There's forty shillings on the drum...
for those who volunteer to come
To 'list and fight the foe today
over the hills and far awayIt was a bloody good thread, lads.
>>61477828I'd join ol' bonny
>>61472173We may never know.
