Favorite Generals or Commanders

Let's get ourselves started again...

In this thread, you simply post your favorite generals or commanders.  My list:

*Napoleon

*Mars Porsenna

*Hamilcar

*Vespasian

*Septimius Severus

*Julius Caesar

*Gauis Marius

*Hannibal

*Pyrrhus

*Alexander I the Molossi

*Agathocles

*Timoleon

*Brasidas

*Cleomenes I

*Xanthippus

*Pagondas

*Parmenio

*Gylippos

*Cleonymus

*Philip II

*Agesilaus II

*Louis Gabriel Suchet

*Louis Davout

*Antoine Charles Lasalle

*Jean Lannes

Edited by Lannes

Chinggis Khan

Subedei

Yi SUn Sin

Nelson

Willy T SHerman

Oda Nobunaga

Pianky

Tuthmosis III

George Patton

Saladin

 

Thats prolly just about the right order to for level of like-ness.

 

Cao Cao

Guan Yu

Zhang Liao

Lu Meng

Yue Fei

Edited by Liu Ce

Okay, this is the same list I made at Heaven games, with slight modifications.

Ancient (to 0)

Cyrus the Great
Alexander the Great
Hannibal Barca
Publius Cornelius Scipio
Gaius Julius Caesar

Shi Huangdi

 

0 to 500

Arminius
Titus
Trajan
Aurelian
Aetius

Attila the Hun

Alaric

 

500 to 1000

Belisarius
Clovis
Charlemagne
Charles Martel
Alfred the Great

1000-1500
William the Conqueror
Edward I of England
Edward III of England
Henry V of England

Genghis Khan

The Black Prince

Robert Bruce
Mehmet the Conqueror

1500-1800
Gustavus Adolphus
Frederick the Great
Duke of Marlborough

Prince Eugene

Turenne

Vauban
George Washington

1800-1900
Napoleon Bonaparte
Duke of Wellington
Robert E. Lee
U.S. Grant

James Longstreet
Helmut von Moltke the Elder

1900-2000
Brusilov
Georgi Zhukov
Erwin Rommel
George Patton
Manstein

Isoroku Yamamoto

General Giap

 

Chinggis Qa'an

Timur

Napoleon

Takeda Shingen

S�be'edai Ba'atur

Antoine Lasalle

Friedrich II (Prussia)

Alexander III (Makedon)

Surena

Mikhail Kutusov

Attila

Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck

Ramasses II

Jan II Sobiesk

Friedrich II (HRE)

Joachim Murat

Otto I

that's pretty much everyone...you will notice some focus on cavalry commanders..the list is not complete but I cannot now everyone (yet)

All of you forgot Mustafa Kemal Atat�rk

The topic is about favourite commanders ...

 

1) Huo Qu Bing

2) Tang Tai Zong

3) Mao Dun

4) Ban Chao

5) Nurhaci

6) Li Jing

7) Napoleon

8) To ba Tao

9) Mao ze Dong

10) Hannibal

No one mentioned Zhuge Liang. Is it because one considers him more of a tactician than a commander per se?

My favorites would have to be Robert E. Lee and Thomas Jackson.  Both were extraordinary men.  They were both outstanding military commanders, as well as good, noble people.  They gave their all for what they believed in, and no one can take that away.

"- Liu Bang

- Surena

- Tiry�ki Hasan Pasha

- G�zi Osm�n Pasha

- Skobelev

 

Rulers:

- Maodun Chanyu

- Istemi Yabghu

- Mugan Qaghan

- Qapghan Qaghan

- Bayan Chor Qaghan

- Sulu Qaghan

- Chinggis Kha'an

- Traianvs

- Zhao Wuling

- Han Wudi

- Tang Taizong"

 

 

Liu Bang is also a ruler more than general, he was a bad general, he once asked Zhang Liang how many troops he should lead, Zhang Liang said as little as possible, Tang Tai Zong on the other hand is a general of the highest ability, there are some warrior emperors who fight like general and others are rulers, rulers are those like Qin Shi Huang, Han Wu Di, Tang xuan Zong, and Qian Long, their conquests are done by their generals rather than themselves, warrior emperors include(not counting the kings of Zhou) Guan Wu Di, Liu Yuan(Xiongnu Han dynasty), Fu Jian, Toba Tao, Sui Wen ti, Tang Tai Zong, Zhao Guan Yin. Zhu Yuan Zhang, Yong Le and Kang Xi, out of these many aren't superb commanders, however Tang Tai Zong not only showed the most terrific battle records for emperors but for all generals as a whole, in the Battle of Fan Sui and An Shi Chen he defeated armies numberering 30 and 5 times its size, ranking up there with the feats of Han Xin, Xiang Yu, and many others.