World's Greatest Generals

• cmeptb

  2 Jun 06, 23:49

  Who do you think are the greatest generals?
  
  Here's my list:
  
  Hannibal Barca
  Scipio Africanus
  Erwin Rommel
  
• HENG@

  2 Jun 06, 23:58

  u left out the one who is now worshipped as a God.
• beavan

  3 Jun 06, 00:17

  Originally posted by HENG@:

  u left out the one who is now worshipped as a God.

  and who might that be?
• babymac13

  3 Jun 06, 00:21

  Originally posted by beavan:

  and who might that be?

  Guan Yu aka Guan Gong
• babymac13

  3 Jun 06, 00:25

  ...
• Texcoco II

  3 Jun 06, 00:25

  Originally posted by cmeptb:

  Who do you think are the greatest generals?
  
  Here's my list:
  
  Hannibal Barca
  Scipio Africanus
  Erwin Rommel
  

  Hey...why no Alexander the Great? Hannibal once said to Scipio Africanus that the greatest general he ever known was Alexander the great, the man who crushed every single army that appeared before him
• HENG@

  3 Jun 06, 00:27

  genghis khan also another one.
• beavan

  3 Jun 06, 00:35

  julius cesar?
• HENG@

  3 Jun 06, 00:37

  Originally posted by beavan:

  julius cesar?

  he was never a general. he was a consumate politician.
• coffeeortea

  3 Jun 06, 00:38

  ATILLA THE HAN.. ok no..
  
  definitely alexander...
  
  TOJO and HITLER are amazing too
• laurence82

  3 Jun 06, 00:43

  Han Yu and Xiang Yu during Chu-Han Contention
• |-|05|

  3 Jun 06, 01:03

  Originally posted by coffeeortea:

  ATILLA THE HAN.. ok no..
  
  definitely alexander...
  
  TOJO and HITLER are amazing too

  hitler was weird. sometimes good sometimes bad. I think he had more of a gut feeling then anythign else
• Gwangetto

  3 Jun 06, 01:04

  don't forget Flavius Aetius, the last of the Western Romans.
• |-|05|

  3 Jun 06, 06:09

  Not sure if he was given the rank or not but i strongly believe Bortha commander of the Boer forces in the Boer war deserves some mention.
  Beating the British army.
  
  Fleet Admiral Nelson was also pretty damn good. Ofcause he was an Admiral and not really a General.But he had no equal.
• Texcoco II

  3 Jun 06, 11:33

  Originally posted by |-|05|:

  hitler was weird. sometimes good sometimes bad. I think he had more of a gut feeling then anythign else

  Yeah, Hitler is so "Amazing" that he cause the Paulus's army to be wiped out in Stanlingrad
• gd4u

  3 Jun 06, 11:57

  Originally posted by Texcoco II:

  Hey...why no Alexander the Great? Hannibal once said to Scipio Africanus that the greatest general he ever known was Alexander the great, the man who crushed every single army that appeared before him

  but unfortunately, unable to crush a mozzie ...
  So, mozzie should be the greatest fighter ... opps, but this thread abt generals ...
  
  I think Cao Cao shld be on the list too, right ??
• cmeptb

  3 Jun 06, 22:57

  Hitler was nicknamed grofaz (grosse feldherr alles zeiten - greatest general of all time) by his own people but only in jest. He was lucky to have people like von Manstein, Guderian, Rommel working for him. If he hadn't interfered or made the mistake of opening the 2nd front, well...
• mhcampboy

  3 Jun 06, 23:00

  yamashita did ok i suppose...
• Shotgun

  3 Jun 06, 23:57

  I like General Tar Hun Kwai < Tank General,
  
  and Malcom "Ace" Granger < Air Force General.
  
  I think they are the world's Greatest generals, not forgetting BG LEE HL, and BG Yeo.
• Gordonator

  4 Jun 06, 00:05

  Lim Bo Seng.
• tankee1981

  4 Jun 06, 17:33

  I guess you guys miss out on Lee Hsien Loong...he is one of the fastest promoted generals in the world and now is the prime minister of the government of Singapore which in turn control the whole of SAF.
• LinYu

  4 Jun 06, 17:46

  Mao Tze Tung
  Jiang Kai Shak
• LinYu

  4 Jun 06, 17:46

  BG(Res) Lee Hsien Loong
• alexkusu

  4 Jun 06, 17:52

  on behalf of alexander, i thank u all
  
  anyway, how bout Napoleon?
  
  how bout Sun Tzu? Cao Cao? Liu Bei? do those count?
• ryangian

  4 Jun 06, 20:45

  Originally posted by LinYu:

  BG(Res) Lee Hsien Loong

  What si the (Res) for