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Topic: Famous Battles! -> Post Your Favourite Posted: 04-Feb-2007 at 14:45 |
OK. I think I shall vote for Kulikovo as I did last time - I am intent on getting this battle reviewed, and by Rider! This is subject to unlikely change, but for now, Kulikovo. I'll start putting together a plan, in case mine does get chosen.
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Posted: 04-Feb-2007 at 14:48 |
Originally posted by Knights
OK. I think I shall vote for Kulikovo as I did last time - I am intent on getting this battle reviewed, and by Rider! This is subject to unlikely change, but for now, Kulikovo. I'll start putting together a plan, in case mine does get chosen.
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Lol... I have it written you know... so the next time I log in after the final yes vote, it is up and for reading..
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Posted: 05-Feb-2007 at 06:20 |
Pekau,
this is not a usual thread about great battles. In here, each of us very briefly presents a story, and, if it is voted by the other forumers, it is enlarged.
If you would like to wirte about a batle, be kind and wait until all the votes are in. If your brief story (by brief story I mean 2 rows max) has the most votes, we will gladly read it and talk about it.
Until than, please don't post any more full-reviews.
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Posted: 05-Feb-2007 at 09:18 |
Nor should you copy these directly from Wikipedia. I am sure that that wasn't the point of this. Therefore, your post has been hidden from the view of all others, except you and all the moderators.
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Posted: 05-Feb-2007 at 12:15 |
Ok guys,
Let the battle-story proposals pour in !
So far, we have Rider's review of Kulikovo and Knight's story about Agincourt.
If my story will be voted, I'll be writing about the battle of Vaslui (Moldavia 1475), during which Stephen the Great faced the Ottoman army.
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Posted: 05-Feb-2007 at 13:37 |
I will once more pull my vote in favour of Knights's selection: Let it be Agincourt.
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Posted: 06-Feb-2007 at 00:01 |
I'm re-nominating Sekigahara again. :)
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Posted: 06-Feb-2007 at 01:55 |
Varna has also been one of my favourite battles...i never know why, it was a great loss to Poland and even greater one to the Balkans and Hungary. I think the tragedy of the battle attracts me to it, the young king being talked into a further battle and promised support that never came. I think I wrote about this battle before. not me acctually but a description form chronicles of jan dlugosz... I'll tryt o find them.
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Posted: 06-Feb-2007 at 02:07 |
http://www.allempires.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=6540&KW=&PID=121479#121479
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Posted: 06-Feb-2007 at 09:22 |
Well, I have also posted a description about the battle of Varna in the "Notable Hungarian battles" topic.
This reconstruction of events differs from one in this topic. So It might interest you.
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Posted: 06-Feb-2007 at 12:21 |
my vote goes to Kulikovo
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Posted: 06-Feb-2007 at 13:35 |
Then we have:
Kulikovo - 2 Agincourt - 1 vote Vaslui Sekigahara
I promise that if you take Sekigahara for the third vote, then I'll vote for it. Just now remembered where I knew it from.
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Posted: 06-Feb-2007 at 15:24 |
I'll vote for Vaslui. Interested in Peter and the Ottomans. It's a double winner...
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Posted: 06-Feb-2007 at 18:21 |
I vote for Kulikovo - an excellent example of a mongol defeat despite the numerical superiority of the mongol forces! (such examples are very rare as you would imagine) Plus single combats are really cool
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Posted: 06-Feb-2007 at 18:28 |
Looks like the votes stand at:
Kulikovo - 3
Agincourt - 1
Vaslui - 1
Sekigahara - 0
At this stage, we will be hearing from Rider on the Battle of Kulikovo.
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Posted: 07-Feb-2007 at 11:29 |
I know that Knights talked you into this Praetor!
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Posted: 08-Feb-2007 at 03:10 |
Good posts! Sorry, I've been busy with school. It'sprobably pointless at this point, but i'll cast my vote for Sekigahara to "even" out a bit towards the Asian side. It's not all about Europe, you know
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Posted: 08-Feb-2007 at 06:01 |
Originally posted by rider
I know that Knights talked you into this Praetor!
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Knights didn't talk me into this, however I did suggest it with someone else in mind
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Posted: 08-Feb-2007 at 14:12 |
Kulikovo - 3
Agincourt - 0 Vaslui - 1
Sekigahara - 2 Changed my vote to Sekigahara, couldn't resist.
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Posted: 08-Feb-2007 at 14:15 |
Sekigahara
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