Besides WWII, what was the most epic and crazy war of all time?
Crazy as in retarded is Ukraine.Crazy as in insanity on the battlefield, WWI.Epic, eh, not sure, taking out WWII is cheating.
>>64647014that one war in south america that killed almost the entire male population of one of the countries
Any of China's civil wars.
European colonialism.Its literaly at the level of Heroics you see in poem and Great epochs but real.Cortez moggs Alexander, Caesar and Napoleon.It was literaly heroics mixxed to a general leading from the front
>>64647039>massacre a few thousand unarmed civilians>this is supposed to be a heroic achievementreminder that Cortez and Pizarro had tens of thousands of allies behind each of them that wanted to see the Incas and Aztecs toppled, respectively, and that even with those allies accounted for diseases brought from Europe was the real grim reaper that destroyed those civilizations.
30 years war
>>64647014Probably the other world war mate. We did have two of em.
>>64647022Paraguay, and yeah great call
>>64647014Taiping Rebellion
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>>64647039>the level of Heroics you see in poem and Great epochs but real.I majored in Classical History and Latin in college 20 years ago. At that time there was some thought that as the events described by Homer had been related orally of possibly centuries before they were written down, some of the events described may have been less fantastical than many modern scholars believe. The idea was that some of the heroes, like Achilles, Ajax, etc... may have come from first encounters with bronze armed and armored warriors with Neolithic warriors. The technology gap wpuld have been enormous; a man wearing the Mycenean panoply would have been all but invulnerable to stone weapons and missiles, and his weapons would have been sharper, stronger, and deadlier. Achilles in particular may have been a representation of such a warrior, as a key component of his story was that he was invulnerable save for his heels, and the Mycenean panoply leaves the backs of the legs exposed as one of its few vulnerable points. A few well armed and armored warriors could realistically massacre and route a much larger force of Neolithic fighters, as was proven by Cortez et al.
>>64647312>31 yrs war > 30 yrs war
>>64647014That whole thing against that eye dude Sauron from Mordor. Fucking nuts!
30 years war was pretty nuttyprostestants and catholics were treating each other worse than when colonising people they thought were literal animals without souls
The American Civil War. >line battles with breech loaded weaponry and rifling>first machine gun>ironclad on ironclad combat>large-scale debut of trench warfare>aesthetic battlefields>iconic officers on both sides >insane cronyism led to certified retards getting entire corps and army commands>countless ill advised suicide charges>kino guerrilla warfare>real-life master & commander with the battle of cherbourg >kino uniforms>large-scale debut of trench warfare>certified SOVL
>>64648030>a key component of his story was that he was invulnerable save for his heelsStatius made that up.
>>64647014Probably taiping rebellion
>>64648221Statius may have made it up, or may have simply decided to use the version of the story in which Achilles was dipped into the cauldron while being held by his heels. There are several surviving versions of the story of Achilles' childhood with various explanations of his invulnerability (or lack thereof). Is some stories he is dipped, in others he is set on fire, in others he is spared all these by his father who realized his mother was crazy and would kill him trying to see if he was immortal/invulnerable. The story of Paris shooting Achilles in the heel/back of the calf is attested in black figure decorations of various clay vessels dating back to at least 5th century BC. Statius would have been aware of various versions of the Achilles myth, and likely picked or altered one that best suited his narrative. It is an overstatement to say that he made it up, considering that about 85-90 percent of all Classical literature is thought to now be lost, based on intertextual references and fragmentary remnants. Statius might have just pulled the whole thing out of his ass, but that would be very unlikely, since at the time he was writing in the late first century AD, it was very in vogue to include artistic and literary references to existing myths, highly regarded poets/writers of previous eras, and even popular contemporary authors that an erudite audience would notice and appreciate. A completely novel version of a hero's origin would not have been very well received by Roman audiences of that era.
>>64647292>>64648030If you faggots actually read anything on the Spanih conquests of the Americas, you'd quickly learn that they more often than not fought close quarters, and the Aztec/Incan/Whoever weapons were quite dangerous. The Spanish foot soldiers weren't armored like knights, and were, instead, quite skillful. The Aztecs and others learned quickly that to avoid gunfire, they had to close the distance, so even in the rare circumstances were the Spanish gunners ran out of ammo, each and every fight was finished "at the hilt" or "came down to the sword". They were braver men than you or I
>>64648366Yeah no shit they weren't armored like medieval knights you dumb fuck. No one thinks that. Conquistador foot soldiers wore steel cuirasses, steel helmets, and large round shields that were the source of their being called rodoleros after these shields. They also carried steel side swords, which were a predecessor of the rapier, but with a wider blade suitable for slashing as well as thrusting. About 75% of Hernan Cortez's troops were so equipped, the remainder being arquebusiers and halberdiers/pikemen. Like I said in my previous post, heavily armed and armored men with metal equipment (bronze or steel, makes little difference) wipe the floor when they fight Neolithic tribal warriors armed with stone clubs and wearing feathers for armor. It happened to the South American savages when the Spanish showed up, it happened to the Trojans when the Myceneans pushed their shit in.
>>64647014mongol invasions probably, medieval niggers were real niggas killing by hand like animals
>>64647032My personal favourite is the Taiping Rebellion. Crazy chinaman declares himself the brother of Jesus Christ and more people die than WWI.
>>64648445Honestly any war in China>murky origins of conflict>ridiculous combatant casualties>even more ridiculous civilian casualties>destruction of long standing dynasties
>>64650330A Chinese war without at least a few million deaths and acts of cannibalism is usually considered a dull affair.
Peloponesian War is kind of underrated, since it's what led to philosophy and supposedly was very brutal at the time.For a war that broke out 3,500 years ago there's a surprising amount of books about it.
>>64647014The austrialian emu war
>>64650330despite all the intense pro-china, shilling, i fully believe another chinese war of self-humiliation like this is inevitable, it's just in their blood, it won't even be due to some clever western exploit, the emperor will lose the mandate of heaven and they'll fall apart for no fucking reason again like they have a dozen times before.
>>64651259>emus > austraailiansLmao
>>64647014Epic: the Hundred Years warCrazy: the Second Congo warDishonorable mention: India vs. Pakistan right after independence.
