Peeped "The Patriot" again last night on AMC...

[onedef92]

Great flick. And the best part? Every time they showed scenes with Joely Richardson, I immediately thought, "there's Sandy (and shit!)"

[Yerf Dog]

[Juggalo1]

Sandy?

[lspencer534]

Originally Posted by Juggalo1

Sandy?

Little Orphan Annie's dog.

[04 commemorative]

I see titties

[onedef92]

Originally Posted by 04 commemorative

I see titties

Those are nice, too.

[DJ_Critterus]

Battle of Cowpens, SC. Good flick. The final battle scene was fairly accurate as far as the tactics and the outcome went.

[onedef92]

Originally Posted by DJ_Critterus

Battle of Cowpens, SC. Good flick. The final battle scene was fairly accurate as far as the tactics and the outcome went.

I'm sure it took huge stones, but Napoleonic warfare looks like plumb suicide nowadays.

[DJ_Critterus]

Originally Posted by onedef92

I'm sure it took huge stones, but Napoleonic warfare looks like plumb suicide nowadays.

The reason for that warfare was because the weapons weren't extremely accurate. So, they formed up in rows and columns and all fired their muskets & rifles on command. This threw a huge wall of lead at the other side.

Seems kinda stupid but think about warfare before that. Both sides would still line up and shoot arrows (depending on the point in history) then they'd charge into hand to hand combat.

I see Napoleonic Warfare as pretty much the same thing with a different weapon with a little more range.

Oh, things started changing into what we see today with skirmishers, sharp shooters (today's snipers), and rifled breach loading weapons. We still tend to line up in formations on a traditional battlefield, but that's going to the wayside as urban warfare becomes the norm.

[onedef92]

Originally Posted by DJ_Critterus

The reason for that warfare was because the weapons weren't extremely accurate. So, they formed up in rows and columns and all fired their muskets & rifles on command. This threw a huge wall of lead at the other side.

Seems kinda stupid but think about warfare before that. Both sides would still line up and shoot arrows (depending on the point in history) then they'd charge into hand to hand combat.

I see Napoleonic Warfare as pretty much the same thing with a different weapon with a little more range.

Oh, things started changing into what we see today with skirmishers, sharp shooters (today's snipers), and rifled breach loading weapons. We still tend to line up in formations on a traditional battlefield, but that's going to the wayside as urban warfare becomes the norm.

Yup. Smooth bore muskets with round lead balls (and shit).

[DJ_Critterus]

Originally Posted by onedef92

Yup. Smooth bore muskets with round lead balls (and shit).

Well, even the rifled muskets with the expanding rounds that look like what we have now weren't extremely accurate.

Actually, if you look at battlefield archaelogy from our civil war, you'll see that most of the time shot was fired isntead of a single round. IT simply threw out more lead in hopes of taking out enemy formations more easily.

[ApexOversteer]

Don't forget Master And Commander and it's portrayal of Napoleonic naval warfare... which could be even more brutal, IMO...

Master and Commander Official Trailer HQ - YouTube

[DJ_Critterus]

Naval warfare in those days is something I wouldn't want. As the joke goes... "Bring me my brown pants."

[onedef92]

Great respect for those sailors. As well as the aviators of WWI who took to the skies in rickety, open canopy bi-planes and hacked at each other with machine guns.

[ApexOversteer]

What has always amazed me about how wars were fought at this point in history, and earlier, is the free and easy military use of children. In war young boys simply became another resource to use against the enemy.

[DJ_Critterus]

Originally Posted by ApexOversteer

What has always amazed me about how wars were fought at this point in history, and earlier, is the free and easy military use of children. In war young boys simply became another resource to use against the enemy.

Kony?

[NEVRL8T]

Originally Posted by onedef92

Great respect for those sailors. As well as the aviators of WWI who took to the skies in rickety, open canopy bi-planes and hacked at each other with machine guns.

My great grandpa fought around the Marne River, Saint-Mihiel and at Flanders Fields. During WWI, he saw his first airplane and tank in person.

[onedef92]

Originally Posted by NEVRL8T

My great grandpa fought around the Marne River, Saint-Mihiel and at Flanders Fields. During WWI, he saw his first airplane and tank in person.

Mechanized infantry vs. horses. Talk about a paradigm shift.

[ApexOversteer]

Originally Posted by DJ_Critterus

Kony?

What Kony does is different than the understood and accepted role of kids in the military that was common in centuries past.

It's closer to what Hitler did, at the end of WWII, bringing kids onto the battlefield because he has little else to draw upon.

[DJ_Critterus]

Originally Posted by ApexOversteer

What Kony does is different than the understood and accepted role of kids in the military that was common in centuries past.

It's closer to what Hitler did, at the end of WWII, bringing kids onto the battlefield because he has little else to draw upon.

Fully understood, but I couldn't resist a good Kony joke.