'AV ME PINT'AV ME FISH N CHICKS'AV ME MANCHESTA JERSEY'AV ME SHARPE SIMPLE AS
>>220175750Bloody bastid
>>220175750Is this entertaining? I've never seen a single film or television take on the Napoleonic Wars that was good.
>>220177473Very much so, production values are funny and historical accuracy dubious at times, but it's well acted and fun
Naturally when first sighting the Sharpe thread I gave the order to post, that's my style sir!
>>220177548Three posts a minute, sah!>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...
Sharpe is beautiful. It scratches the Napoleonic autist itch whilst also being hilarious seeing 15 Frenchmen fight 15 Redcoats somewhere in Spain (Turkey)
>>220177573Now that's kino
>>220175750Pike and Shot show never ever :(. We only got Sharpe because Brits think the Peninsular war was epic.
>>220179533Sharpe but focused on a band of scrappy mercenaries roaming europe going on adventures would be so based
>>220179659Maybe there was too much rape and boiling people in shit cauldrons to make for palatable TV.
>>220179713But god damn the engravings of battles are kino. Unfortunately we live in the CGI slop era and we'll never get battle scenes on the level of Waterloo ever again.
>>220175750>entire 1st movie is protecting a cross dressing R*thschild that funds the warReally makes you think
>>220179779>Unfortunately we live in the CGI slop era and we'll never get battle scenes on the level of Waterloo ever again.That's because there's no Soviet Union to give studios thousands of extras and cavalry stuntmen for battle scenes. If you liked the battles in Waterloo you'll probably like the ones in the Soviet War and Peace (1967) as well.
>>220177473Not really, it's cliched daytime cable for 90 iq unemployed norf FCs
For me it is Hagman.
Is this entire show just set in Napoleon's invasion of Spain?
>>220180302It starts from there. Some episodes happen in England, Waterloo and India.
>>220180302The latter parts are when they push into France, though he goes back to England for a few as well.They also filmed a few specials in India based on the prequel books, though set as sequels in the show.
O’ER THE HILLS AND O’ER THE MAIN
There should be a turn based tactics game á la XCOM on Sharpe. call it Sharpe's Tactics.
>>220179713I don't know, I think Game of Thrones normalized having rape and violence in premodern settings. That said, the protagonists also doing it might be a bit off putting for them so the protagonists would have to be weird moralfag mercenaries that don't do rape and pillaging.
>>220175750>yorkshireman>man u fanfuck off
>>220179885>Anon discovers what a "Fop" is
Are the books worth reading?
>>220179533>Brits think the Peninsular war was epicReally? I've never really seen anyone bring up the Penninsular war. It's always Waterloo or Austerlitz or Borodino or the retreat from Russia.Why do Brits care about the Portugal/Spain campaign so much? He'll, even Egypt is covered more often I think.
>>220181368I don't think we do, I think it was just cheaper to cover
WOMEN WITH LARGE BOSOMS IN TIGHT CORSETS>>220181351Bernard Cornwell so hell yeah. Would also suggest the Archers Tale trilogy.
>>220177473if you’re an autistic fag who gets upset about inaccuracies in stuff then definitely not. but if you actually enjoy television and film, absolutely yes.typing this out has me thinking it’s time for a rewatch. o’er the hills and far away I go bros
>>220179659They could make a show about William Marshall. He was a poor fag who rose up in society and fought in all kinds of battles around Europe and died in his 70s.There was also another knight who became a mercenary and went on all kinds of adventures, but I forgot his name. The one that got the iron hand.>>220179713Nah the elites don't want us to know that there were people in the past who lived great lives and didn't just die immediately from illness or in battle.
>>220181351Dunno about Sharpe but Cornwell's book on Waterloo is stellar.
>>220181479>He was a poor fag who rose up in society>William was born in 1146 or 1147, the second son of Anglo-Norman nobleman John Marshalkek
>>220181423>>220181489Thanks bros!
>>220181496>As a younger son of a minor nobleman, William had no lands or fortune to inherit and had to make his own way in life.Bitch.Sharpe didn't start off as a penniless begger either
is ireland full of swampland?why does every irishman get called a paddy bogtrotting bastard?
>mfw I've just passed selection to join the present day equivalent of sharpe's unit
>>220181591I think england and ireland are both pretty swampythere’s a meme that gets posted here sometimes with a quote from some historical account of someone exploring the area and seeing that he’d see people just sitting in swamps for hours at a time
>>220181591paddy fields are wetlands used for growing rice
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>>220180148>seething souf faggotLmao, lol. Northern Chads stay winning. Whitest part of the country
>>220175750I just read the first book. Fucking awesome. Just picked up the second.
>>220180148>>220182048>he doesn’t know the secret midlands technique of being too irrelevant to mock
>>220175750forgive me for sounding like a shill, but if you like sharpe you will probably enjoy the starbuck chronicles. it's written by the same guy who wrote sharpe but it's set during the american civil war
I recently discovered "black irish" was a real term used in those days because of a legend that Spaniard sailors from the Spanish Armada who washed up on the Irish coast interbreeded with Irishmen and created hiberno-moorish children.
>>220175750>Sharpe >manure fan retarded yank fuck. Bean is a Blades fan.
>>220181591Yh lots of bogs there. England certainly isn’t boggy. Some low-lying wetlands in the East but not ‘bogs’.
>>220185485That's because the Normans closed up the water ways that made all of East Anglia and Norfolk boggy. It used to be bandit country, only accessible by boat. Anglo Saxon rebels fucked the Normans there and they couldn't use their precious horses. They even allegedly had pagan witches moon them and curse obscenities at them whilst they stood on the other side of the alluvium.
>>220180148Sharpe is actually a Londoner, but eventually Cornwall re-wrote his background to give Sharpe a life in Yorkshire before joining the army (joined a Yorkshire regiment the 33rd). Also after the tv series started he basically avoided mentioning features of Sharpes appearance from the original book with contradicted with Sean Beans (eg hair colour)
>>220185570A lot of it was drained much later for use as farmland, not just the Normans fault,
>on first sighting the sharpe thread i ordered a post be made.>thats my style sir
>>220185610I'm amazed that when stonehenge was built, there was the same amount of agricultural land as there was in Britain in the 1940s. I don't think any other country except maybe the Netherlands has fucked its own landscape in such a way over the millennia.
>>220185485It's worth mentioning that industrialised agriculture really changed the geography of England, bogs were certainly more common back in ye olde days.
>>220182890The word "responsibibbibilities" still lingers in my head.
>>220185811The land was already changed before they invented the threshing machine. What the industrial revolution really fucked up was regional culture and dialect. Unfortunately, most cunts now sound the same. There was a time Northerners sounded like they were from a different country with a different language, very scandinavian.
>>220185728Lad, we haven't 'fucked' our land it's called cultivation. We have created Jerusalem on England's green and pleasant land.
>>220185979Love the agrarian wasteland aesthetic.
>>220185979No mate we totally fucked it. The Scottish Highlands used to be filled with pine forests, you know. Like something out of a Norwegian landscape. But some Scottish aristocrat tore them all down for stag hunting, and then all the wolves were killed so nothing naturally hunts the stag, so the stag blew up in population and ate every living green thing on the ground. So now the landscape is craggy rock with some tufts of green being nibbled by emasculated, starving deer. The luddites were absolutely right.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SjLBTHOnnVE
>>220177440https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tE8d-uGmIWk
JUST SO YOU MAY DANCE AND PRANCEAND MAKE HIGH COCKALORUM WHILE MEN DIE!? HORRIBLY!?
>>220186106>The Scottish Highlands used to be filled with pine forests, you knowThat was more than 5k years ago, and there are woodlands there now in the Highlands and regrow projects. We like the wilderness aesthetic.>>220186096Wasteland?
>>220185403 >>220175750>Beanwrong bean.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KMhZyviousA
>>220183197Anywhere south of Middlesbrough is the Midlands
>>220186403>Wasteland?Yes, Wasteland. A couple of quaint little houses isn't gonna make it not be a wasteland ecologically destroyed by centuries of farming.
>>220181368>Why do Brits care about the Portugal/Spain campaign so much?It suits the national mythos of Plucky Britannia Standing Alone(except the Portugee, but what use are they eh) Against The Malign Continentals. By the time you get into the later campaigns Napoleon is being deserted by more and more of his allies and conquests and while Britain remains a major player in the war, it loses that isolationist flavour that especially the English have a massive boner for. Same reason WW1 is much less "popular" than WW2, WW2 lets us wank on about Blitz Spirit and Standing Alone Against Hitler(Commonwealth? Never 'eard of it...) and how the yanks are a bunch of Johnny Come Latelys etc.Brits love thinking of themselves as plucky underdogs, especially at points in history when we were actually a global superpower with a huge empire that might otherwise prompt uncomfortable questions. Can't be the baddies if you're standing alone against Tyranny while the blahdy fornurs cower in the corner eh wot wot.
>>220185728Iran and Iraq used to have vast fertile farming plains. Used to...
Were the Dutch really that shit in the Battle of Waterloo?
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