| Mooseworks8 | 07 Nov 2010 12:25 p.m. PST |
Who are your candidates for best German commander? Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck
Erwin Rommel
Moltke the Elder
Charlemagne
Frederick the Great
Schlieffen |
| Nappy29388 | 07 Nov 2010 12:38 p.m. PST |
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| Cardinal Ximenez | 07 Nov 2010 3:37 p.m. PST |
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| Lentulus | 07 Nov 2010 4:43 p.m. PST |
From this list? Moltke the Elder Before 1870, what makes you German? If Charlemagne gets on the list, why not Prince Eugene? |
| Mooseworks8 | 07 Nov 2010 4:48 p.m. PST |
why not Prince Eugene? why not. Add to the list, I just named a few for starters. |
 enfant perdus  | 07 Nov 2010 5:40 p.m. PST |
Eugene was born and raised in France, although a Savoyard by ancestry. If our parameters for "German commander" include anyone who commanded an army largely composed of German speaking troops, you'll have some Swedes, Scots, Czechs, Italians, Hungarians, Netherlanders, Danes and possibly Frenchmen in the list. |
 miniMo | 07 Nov 2010 8:52 p.m. PST |
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| Agesilaus | 07 Nov 2010 10:18 p.m. PST |
All of the above and Blucher, Graf Spee, Galland and Otto Skorzeny? |
| average joe | 07 Nov 2010 10:34 p.m. PST |
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| quidveritas | 07 Nov 2010 10:47 p.m. PST |
Here we go again -- no criteria. How about Fredrick Barbarosa -- will return in Germany's hour of greatest need and crush their enemies. Sounds like a winner to me. |
| Lentulus | 08 Nov 2010 8:27 a.m. PST |
an army largely composed of German speaking troops Which is the fundamental problem with defining German before 1870. Would an Austrian commanding Hungarian-speaking troops in Imperial service qualify as German? Why not? Skorzeny was an Austrian, as far as that goes. If you called Blucher a German, he would probably say he was a Prussian; Call Frederick the Great a German and he would probably hit you – and curse you out in French. |
| Mooseworks8 | 08 Nov 2010 8:36 a.m. PST |
Ok, post 1870. Does that work better than simply Germanic? |
| HobbyGuy | 08 Nov 2010 1:34 p.m. PST |
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| DeanMoto | 08 Nov 2010 2:20 p.m. PST |
Fridolin von Senger und Etterlin |
| korsun0 | 08 Nov 2010 7:44 p.m. PST |
average joe beat me to it… how about erhard raus? |
| Muah ha ha | 09 Nov 2010 4:27 p.m. PST |
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goes to sea with the Terrain Mat.