Uesugi Kenshin  | 15 Apr 2010 6:08 a.m. PST |
I think I saw this poll done back in '07 or '08 so I figured it was time to drag it out again! No "wars" if possible, just your favorite 10 battles that you must wargame before you die (include them even if you have already played some or all of them). Include years too when known. Mine: St. Privat 1870 link
Mimigawa 1578 link
4th Kawanakajima 1561 link
Sekigahara 1600 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sekigahara
Grunwald 1410 link
Barnet 1471 link
Bannokburn 1314 link
Towton 1461 link
Bosworth 1485 link
Plancenoit 1815 link Phew. That was tougher than I thought. Interesting to see how my battles have changed in just a couple of years. And I have gamed none of them so far! Hoping to change that this year. I look forward to your choices! |
 Legion 4  | 15 Apr 2010 6:20 a.m. PST |
Well .. I'd personally like to add a twist to my choices, since I have studied and gamed a lot of Historical, I'd think picking 10 Historical Battles … But re-fight them with Sci-fi Forces, might be an interesting exercise … But I'd really, really have to think of my "TOP 10" !  |
| John the OFM | 15 Apr 2010 6:21 a.m. PST |
Lexington Concord. Battle for Henderson Field Arracourt Qarqar There are a few more, but I don't want to let my enemies get hold of the complete list. |
| Palafox | 15 Apr 2010 6:26 a.m. PST |
Waterloo 1815 Pegasus bridge 1944 |
| mad monkey 1 | 15 Apr 2010 6:29 a.m. PST |
Battle for the Backyard.
TMP link Throw a wasp nest in on the Weed's side and we got an upset. |
| Ben Ten | 15 Apr 2010 6:32 a.m. PST |
Crete 1941
Mons 1914
Vionville/Mars La Tour 1870
Waterloo 1815
Beda Fomm 1940
Sedan 1940
Kaiserschlacht 1918
Blenheim 1704
Jutland 1916
Meiktila 1945
Amongst others. The Russian Civil War holds a lot of interest for me but no particular battle. |
| Old Slow Trot | 15 Apr 2010 6:35 a.m. PST |
Some of the ones I have played;Shiloh 1862,Chickamauga 1863,Wagram 1809,a sideshow of D-Day 1944,1898 Manila Bay,Lepanto,a rescue mission in 1990's Bosnia,a 1918 Zeppelin raid over London,as well as a portion of Verdun 1916. Plus others. |
| Old Bear | 15 Apr 2010 6:56 a.m. PST |
Waterloo
Leipzig
Gettysburg
D Day
Hastings
Shiloh
Austerlitz
Blenheim
Marston Moor
Cannae
Pharsalus
Stalingrad |
| richarDISNEY | 15 Apr 2010 7:02 a.m. PST |
What? No Jenkin's Ear?
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| Mobius | 15 Apr 2010 7:12 a.m. PST |
Mars Armstrong spaceport 2065 with actual OOB.
Hasn't happened yet.
I'll wait. |
| kreoseus2 | 15 Apr 2010 7:12 a.m. PST |
Towton
clontarf
D-day
waterloo
pharsalus
marathon
granicus
khadesh |
| CmdrKiley | 15 Apr 2010 7:17 a.m. PST |
Battle of Yonkers! I need more zombie models! |
| ArchiducCharles | 15 Apr 2010 7:25 a.m. PST |
khadesh
Plataea
Breitenfeld 1631
Lützen 1632
Rocroi
Austerlitz
Aspern-Essling
Wagram
Leipzig
Waterloo |
| nedpatrick | 15 Apr 2010 7:56 a.m. PST |
The Battle at the Tannhauser Gate. I plan on doing this one once I get some Full Thrust ships. |
| flicking wargamer | 15 Apr 2010 8:14 a.m. PST |
Iwo Jima
Gettysburg
Fallujah
Market Garden
Germantown
Midway
Kursk
Stalingrad
Tobruk
Crete |
| leidang | 15 Apr 2010 8:14 a.m. PST |
Thermopolyae
Plataea
Isandlawana (Done)
Rourke's Drift (Done)
Leuthen (Done)
Austerlitz (Done)
Waterloo
Arnhem
Tarawa (Working on)
An Nasariyah |
| TodCreasey | 15 Apr 2010 8:14 a.m. PST |
Waterloo (done but I'll do it again)
Borodino
Varaville (Canadian paras on D Day)
Cryslers Farm (it's local)
Austerlitz (done)
Wagram (done)
Aspern-Essling(done)
Hattin(done) |
| mjkerner | 15 Apr 2010 8:19 a.m. PST |
What, no Alamo? No Camarone? |
| richarDISNEY | 15 Apr 2010 8:28 a.m. PST |
Helm's Deep?
Midway (using 1/300 planes…)?
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| GoodBye | 15 Apr 2010 8:31 a.m. PST |
Kadesh 1274BC
Seige of Troy 1200-800BC
Adrianople 378
Campus Mauriacus 451
Rocroi 1643
Saratoga 1777
Gettysburg 1863
Koniggratz 1866
Plevna 1877
Tannenberg 1914 |
| Good Bye | 15 Apr 2010 8:53 a.m. PST |
Can't keep my list down to just ten. Kursk 1943 (done twice)
Waterloo 1815 (done 3 times)
Leipzig – first day 1813 (done 3 times)
Trafalgar 1805 (done)
Lepanto 1571 (done)
Gravelines 1588 (done)
Zama 202 BC (done several times)
Phillipi 42 BC
Barnet 1471 (done)
Catalaunian Fields 451
Bedriacum 69
Tenochtitlan 1521
Lake Regillus 498 BC (done)
Plataea 479 BC Ask me again in a couple of years and there will be changes to this list. |
| Big Martin | 15 Apr 2010 8:56 a.m. PST |
Well I've done Barnet out of your original list – way back in the 70s. |
| Martin Rapier | 15 Apr 2010 9:00 a.m. PST |
Waterloo 1815 (done)
Market Garden 1944 (done)
Kursk 1943 (done in parts)
Stalingrad 1942/43 (tactical only)
Operation Goodwood 1944 (done)
Operation Crusader 1941 (done)
Koeniggratz 1866 (done)
Third Ypres 1917
Operation Bagration 1944 (done in parts)
Verdun 1916 looks like I haven't long to live…. |
| Frederick | 15 Apr 2010 9:25 a.m. PST |
Shiloh (done many times)
Waterloo (done in parts)
Leipzig (not yet)
Crusader 1941 (done)
Leuthen (done in parts)
Fulda Gap (done) (I know – never happened – but it could have)
Alamo (yet to be done)
Zama (yet to be done)
Rorkes Drift (done – but using the wrong army)
Kursk (yet to be done) |
| galvinm | 15 Apr 2010 9:37 a.m. PST |
Waterloo 1815
Gettysburg 1863
Trafalgar 1805
Zama 202 BC
Midway 1942
Austerlitz 1805
Matrathon
Alesia
Cannae
Ardennes 1944 All the other huge battles, like Borodino, Leipzeig, Sedan, Tannenberg, etc., etc., etc. |
| The Tin Dictator | 15 Apr 2010 9:45 a.m. PST |
No sense listing the ones I've already done.
So I'll only list the top ten I "still" need to do. Hooks Farm
Troy
Rorkes Drift
Balaclava
Arnhem
Bastogne
Guadalcanal
Waterloo
Leipzig
Borodino |
| Rich Bliss | 15 Apr 2010 10:02 a.m. PST |
Done:
Gettysburg
Liepzig
Waterloo
Gazala
Bulge To do
Pavia
Kolin
Maiwand
Saratoga
Chickamagua |
| Atomic Floozy | 15 Apr 2010 10:37 a.m. PST |
1st Adobe Walls (1864)
Palo Duro Canyon (1874)
Battle of the Red River (1874)
Lyman's Wagon Train (1874)
Blanco Canyon (1871)
Howard's Well (1871)
Turkey Springs (1878)
Beecher's Island (1868)
Lost Valley (1874)
Thompson Canyon (1876) I know that most of these are mere skirmishes compared to some of the really great battles, but I love the Southern Plains & the Southwest. |
| Daffy Doug | 15 Apr 2010 10:58 a.m. PST |
I've already gamed them all, most of them several-to-many times already…. |
| Martin Rapier | 15 Apr 2010 12:16 p.m. PST |
On reflection, listing the ones I've doen already is pointless, so a revised list of ones I've yet to do… Verdun 1916
Third Ypres 1917
Vitoria 1812
Zama
The Miracle of the Marne 1914
El Alamein 1942
Operation Epsom 1944
Gravelotte St Privat 1870
Yom Kippur War in Sinai 1973
Battle of the Jarama 1937 |
 BigRedBat  | 15 Apr 2010 12:22 p.m. PST |
I don't want do die so I refuse to name any battles! Simon |
| Flat Beer and Cold Pizza | 15 Apr 2010 2:40 p.m. PST |
Ist Marne
Chancellorsville
Poltava
Malplaquet
Zama
Sekigahara
The Granicus
The Kursk Offensive
Midway
Qadesh |
| Condottiere | 15 Apr 2010 2:47 p.m. PST |
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| Aloysius the Gaul | 15 Apr 2010 2:53 p.m. PST |
In no particular order: Waterloo
Borodino
Zama or Cannae
Guagamela or Issos
Kursk
Barbarossa
Gettysburg
Jutland
Trafalgar
Battle of Britain |
| christot | 15 Apr 2010 3:18 p.m. PST |
looking at Battles I have already done that have appeared in this list..
Waterloo
Borodino
Guagamela
Kursk
Barbarossa
Gettysburg
Vitoria 1812
Chickamagua
The Bulge
Rorkes Drift
Arnhem
Bastogne
Austerlitz 1805
Market Garden 1944
Kursk 1943
Stalingrad 1942/43
Goodwood
Wagram
Aspern-Essling
Crete 41
Pegasus bridge
D Day
Hastings I'd add
10 more corkers I've enjoyed (in no order)
Ligny
Eylau
Kharkov 42
Dneiper offensive 43
1940 Campaign
Fuentos D'onro
Quatre Bras
Dresden 1813
Arras 1940
1814 Campaign |
| donlowry | 15 Apr 2010 3:31 p.m. PST |
Most of those have already been fought. |
| Uesugi Kenshin | 15 Apr 2010 5:59 p.m. PST |
"Well I've done Barnet out of your original list – way back in the 70s."
Looks like its due to be gamed again Martin!
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| Prussian Glory | 15 Apr 2010 7:01 p.m. PST |
Well speaking Napoleonics only and a tough choice for the last 5. 1. Waterloo
2. Borodino
3. Liepzeig
4. Austerlitz
5. Wargram
6. Eylau
7. Talavara
8. Ligney
9. Freidland
10. Auerstadt |
| Patonius | 15 Apr 2010 9:22 p.m. PST |
Waterloo
Gettysburg
Rourke's Drift
Granicus
Eylau
Crete 1941
Borodino
Midway
Talavera
Blenheim |
| ge2002bill | 15 Apr 2010 9:25 p.m. PST |
Pegasus Bridge: June 6, 1944
Bill |
| Scorpio | 15 Apr 2010 9:55 p.m. PST |
* Battle of Hoth, 3 ABY
* Battle of Osgiliath
* Battle for Serenity Valley, Unification War
* The Roughnecks defending the unnamed outpost on Planet P
* Battle of Yonkers (good call, CmdrKiley)
* The battle to reclaim Chicago from Critical Maas and her followers (haven't done this one yet, but need to at some point.)
* The siege of Monte Cassino in the AE-WWII alternate timeline, when the German superscience troops were first deployed en masse. …and I will add three more later. |
| nebeltex | 15 Apr 2010 10:42 p.m. PST |
1. Alamo
2. Tarawa
3. Ardennes
4. Sidi Rezegh
5. Utah beach
6. Fort Phil Kearny
7. Smolensk
8. Yellow Tavern
9. Massacre point
10. Galveston |
| Captain Gideon | 15 Apr 2010 11:32 p.m. PST |
Okay here's my list- Waterloo 1815(French Won)
Trafalgar 1805(Franco-Spanish Won)
Tsushima 1905(Japanese Won)
Yellow Sea 1904(Russian Won)
Alamo 1836(Texans Won)
Savo Island 1942(Japanese Won)
Actium 31 BC(not done yet)
Midway 1942(not done yet)
Jutland 1916(not done yet)
4th Kawanakajima 1561(not done yet) Captain Gideon |
| Uesugi Kenshin | 16 Apr 2010 2:41 a.m. PST |
"Battle of Yonkers (good call, CmdrKiley)" Glad to see some SF picks in here. I was very close to posting "Battle for Terra" for 30K as my 10th choice! |
| valleyboy | 16 Apr 2010 2:51 a.m. PST |
Is this sort of like you'll die the moment you finish painting all your unpainted lead? Just to be safe I think I'd like to game more than 10 battles |
| Uesugi Kenshin | 16 Apr 2010 3:47 a.m. PST |
Lol. Cheers so far for the excellent response to this poll. |
| flicking wargamer | 16 Apr 2010 5:36 a.m. PST |
If I expand my list a little, I would add
Hue City
Mobile Bay
Fort Fisher |
| Edwulf | 17 Apr 2010 4:00 a.m. PST |
Me.. I'd like to do..
Salamanca
Vittoria
Busaco
Aspern Essling
Clontarf
Maserfield
Towton
Bosworth
2nd St Albans
Nevilles Cross |
| Uesugi Kenshin | 17 Apr 2010 4:59 a.m. PST |
Clontarf would definitely be in my top 15! |
| Edwulf | 17 Apr 2010 7:27 a.m. PST |
yeah. That and Maserfield, proper old school shieldwall warrior epics. |
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