My Favorite Member of The Union?

"Arch Duke Maxyenko, Shit Talk Extraordinaire" (arch-duke-maxyenko) 04/16/2015 at 21:06 • Filed to: None

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Funktheduck > Arch Duke Maxyenko, Shit Talk Extraordinaire 04/16/2015 at 21:07

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Booooo

DuckDraper > Arch Duke Maxyenko, Shit Talk Extraordinaire 04/16/2015 at 21:08

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Burnside

ly2v8-Brian > Arch Duke Maxyenko, Shit Talk Extraordinaire 04/16/2015 at 21:11

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Folks in Atlanta aren't fans of his.

turbojames > Arch Duke Maxyenko, Shit Talk Extraordinaire 04/16/2015 at 21:43

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My favorite (off topic is off topic is Oppositelock)

Arch Duke Maxyenko, Shit Talk Extraordinaire > turbojames 04/16/2015 at 21:47

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My Grandpa served under him.

Hated his fucking guts.

Steve in Manhattan > Arch Duke Maxyenko, Shit Talk Extraordinaire 04/16/2015 at 21:48

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"I hereby state, and mean all that I say, that I never have been and never will be a candidate for President; that if nominated by either party, I should peremptorily decline; and even if unanimously elected I should decline to serve."

turbojames > Arch Duke Maxyenko, Shit Talk Extraordinaire 04/16/2015 at 21:49

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"Old Blood and Guts? Yeah, his guts and our blood."

~pretty much everyone in the Third Army

I just read Killing Patton, learned how polarizing he was. It was love him or hate him.

JR1 > ly2v8-Brian 04/16/2015 at 21:51

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Folks in Atlanta shouldn't have tried to leave the Union in the first place. Silly Atlanta people

turbojames > Arch Duke Maxyenko, Shit Talk Extraordinaire 04/16/2015 at 21:57

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Maybe I should have used this man: Lieutenant Colonel Creighton Abrams- commander of Patton's legendary Fourth Amored Division: He fought in Africa and Europe, becoming known for his aggressive and thoroughly modern tank tactics, such as firing on the move, leading the charge to relieve Bastogne, and eventually becoming the highest ranking officer in the army during Vietnam.

ly2v8-Brian > JR1 04/16/2015 at 21:58

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This is true.

SidewaysOnDirt still misses Bowie > Arch Duke Maxyenko, Shit Talk Extraordinaire 04/17/2015 at 09:05

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Yep, he's my favorite too. He had the right idea.

ceanderson920 > ly2v8-Brian 04/17/2015 at 10:40

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so I am guessing Atlanta is the city he fucked up the most?

ly2v8-Brian > ceanderson920 04/17/2015 at 10:53

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yeah, burned a lot of it down. After evacuating civilians of course. Sherman's sweep across the Deep South was pretty decisive to the outcome of the American civil war.

ceanderson920 > ly2v8-Brian 04/17/2015 at 10:57

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I remember learning about Sherman's march but I kinda forgot about how much he fucked up Atlanta, I figured he just did that to every city as well as destroying the railroads. I am pretty sure the Germans did the same thing when they were retreating from the soviets in WWII. Using a "scorched earth" policy that was derived from Sherman's in the Civil War.

ly2v8-Brian > ceanderson920 04/17/2015 at 11:17

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This is war was important for European militaries. As in they sent observers. They learned important tactics like formation fighting is now obsolete, mechanized transport is extremely important, modern trench designs, as well as the fore mentioned scorched earth. Not to mention technology like ironclad steamships with rotating turrets, cartridge using small arms (repeaters), Gatling guns, and trains.

The civil war was the first 'modern war'.

ceanderson920 > ly2v8-Brian 04/17/2015 at 11:47

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Your right, in reality the south really couldn't match the north towards the middle/end of the war because the north had factories cranking out equipment as well as new immigrants that were went pretty much straight off the boat in NY to the battlefields of the south. The south was mainly agricultural and they didn't have the production value that the North had at the time. Thats another reason why the Allies won both WWI and WWII was because the Germans and their allies couldn't keep up with the production of equipment that the US and USSR was putting out. There are many other reason why the Axis lost but without the production of tanks, ammo, guns and so on everything as we know it could be very different.

R Saldana [|Oo|======|oO|] - BTC/ETH/LTC Prophet > JR1 04/17/2015 at 13:04

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....States should have the right to protect the interests of their citizens....

\shotsfired

\musketsloaded

R Saldana [|Oo|======|oO|] - BTC/ETH/LTC Prophet > ly2v8-Brian 04/17/2015 at 13:27

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"evacuated civilians first"

Another perk of being the winner, dictating history.....

That little nugget you may want to douse in ranch or whatever you dip things into to remove the burn .

R Saldana [|Oo|======|oO|] - BTC/ETH/LTC Prophet > ly2v8-Brian 04/17/2015 at 13:29

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CoD: Civil War

10/10 would play

R Saldana [|Oo|======|oO|] - BTC/ETH/LTC Prophet > ceanderson920 04/17/2015 at 13:30

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Too right mate, also the fact that many of the immigrants were sent to the frontlines sans weapons, intentionally drafted to wind down Southern supplies in battle.

R Saldana [|Oo|======|oO|] - BTC/ETH/LTC Prophet > Arch Duke Maxyenko, Shit Talk Extraordinaire 04/17/2015 at 13:40

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This 50-year-old-plus man personally engaged the enemy from the frontlines. He would sneak away from his staff at night to join raids into enemy controlled territories with the infantry battalions:

He is the modern day version of this man, who genuinely only gave one fuck. And that one fuck was all about killing the enemy, completely, and leaving no room for error. Politicians did not like him and that is why he never received "the medal"

ly2v8-Brian > R Saldana [|Oo|======|oO|] - BTC/ETH/LTC Prophet 04/17/2015 at 15:29

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I wasn't there so I can't verify.