"Best war cry" Topic

Not a motto, something yelled out in combat. For example:

"Fág an bealach" (clear the way) – Irish Brigade
"Nobiscum Deus" (God is with us) – late Roman
"Santiago y cierra, España" (St James and attack, Spain) – Medieval Spain
"Beer, beer, beer is good" – US Marines

"Fetcher la vache"

uSuthu!

'Cry God for England, Harry, and St George!'

Whoa Mohammed!

Oggy, oggy, oggy…..oi, oi, oi.

Wolverines!

Spoon!

Cymru fo am byth!

Rick

something yelled out in combat

Holy [expletive deleted]! I've been shot!

Remember the Alamo!
Remember Goliad!

"Hakkaa Paalle" (Cut them down) Finnish Battle cry. (But only because Wajo Joe beat me to the best ones)

"Not in the face!"

"Let's rock!"

Third vote for Spoon.

Run Away! Run Away!

King Arthur

"Aiiieeeeee!!!"

Those hapless frogmen from the Johnny Quest cartoon.

"Here, Verne. Hold my beer."

Leroy Jenkins!!!!

'Right Chaps! Over the top we g…'

Dakaa dakaa dakaa…

Rebel Yell by Billy Idiol!

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Baaa!Baaa! Baaa!
(Said to be called out by French troops assulting German trenches in WW1 just before the army mutinyed in 1917)

"ut,ut,ut" Old Aenglisc

The Maori Haka. Ritualistic, but it's awesome.

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Deus vult!

(Hey – it worked for the First Crusade)

Anything but a one!

I second the various Islander Haka's. I've seen plenty at the start of games and they can be very aggressive. So aggressive I've often wondered if any Haka's ended in a fist fight with the opposition who are expected to stand by and be subjected to this display.

Clan Cameron's "Chlanna nan con, thigibh a seo 's gheibh sibh feòil!" (Sons of the hounds, come here and get flesh!) is frankly a bit of a mouthful. It's a nice sentiment, but I hardly something I can see yelling whilst charging into battle.

"Ayo Gorkhali!" would be my choice.

"Ayo Gorkhali!" would be my choice.

Good call! Certainly put the fear of God into many a benighted and blasted soul just before they met their deserved end – Boches, Japanese Imperial Guards, Indonesian militamen, New Labour – truly the harbinger of doom!

God bless Joanna!

(For any mystified Jonathans out there, at a time when the UK's New Labour government was opening the gates to thousands of immigrants, a former Gurkha Victoria Cross winner who had 16 years service with the British Army was denied the right to live in the UK by the Minister for Immigration, on the grounds that he had not demonstrated sufficient 'links or committment to the UK'….

Joanna Lumley, a famous actor and daughter of a British Gurkha Rifles officer, managed for a brief moment to harness and focus the UK population's anger to force an apology from Prime Minister Gordon Brown, after which his spell over the British chattering classes seemed to disapate somewhat, leading to his electoral defear shortly thereafter…)

Three cheers.

"BLOOD FOR THE BLOOD GOD!"

"Anybody seen my chair?"

(Analyst war cry, beg your pardon)

Jai Mahakali, Ayo Gorkhali the Gurkhas are coming.Thirded

I have never to this day met a bad Gurkha and after hearing this battle cry would not like to be on the recieving end either.
unfortunately not been shown often but we are thankful for all their service.

"Venus Victrix!"

Rebel Yell by Billy Idiol!

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Did you mean Billy Idol or….Billy Idiot? Or both

From Brett-James _Ball of Fire: The Fifth Indian Division
in the Second World War_:

"At last light the Mahrattas set out with the utmost determination and vigour. Even in daylight, and without the burden of arms and equipment, hands and feet must be used to climb Pinnacle. Yet these sturdy men, fully accoutred for battle as they were, scrambled eagerly up the boulder-strewn slopes towards the summit and the enemy. 'B' Company, under Subadar Shirang Lawand, led the way. Behind toiled 'C' and 'D' Companies, led by J. d'Issa Boomgardt and Seymour. The Italians resisted stoutly, relying on hundreds of their little red bombs that they threw down on the Mahrattas. The combat raged. Amid the crash of bombs and shells and the crackling of machine-guns, the war-cry of the Mahrattas---'Shivaji ki jai!'---came, floating across the moonlit valley to where General Heath and Brigadier Messervy waited in the Battle Headquarters that had been established among rocks at the foot of Cameron Ridge."

That's a great war-cry, but wait!:

"The 2nd West Yorkshires, who had been brought forward ready to take advantage of any success gained by the 3/12th on Pimple, were quickly on the scene. Colonel Rodwell gathered his company and platoon officers and issued final orders. He drew attention to the spirited manner in which the Mahrattas had fought that night, undoubtedly urged on to white-heat passion by the utterance of their strange slogan, and he said, "We must have a war-cry. Can anyone suggest a suitable one?" A pause followed. At last a ranker platoon commander hesitantly murmured, "What about 'Fook, Fook,' sir?"

Shi'ai! Dorsai!

There's a Atlantean warcry but I can't hold my breath that long.

In space, no one can hear your warcry.

Gingerbread Man Haka!!!!

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Well, let's not forget the Hollywood Western where the Cavalry are riding along at the bottom of the ridge and All The Indians In The World suddenly appear lined up along the top.

The camera takes a tight shot of the War Chief as he suddenly delivers a passionate, thunderous cry of,
"YA-TA-HAY!!!"

To which, of course, the well meaning Pony Soldiers could have given the exact same words in reply, only in English.

Given that "YA-TA-HAY!" is Navajo for "Good Morning!"

However, that hasn't stopped the locals here in OKC from using this "battle cry" on every likely occasion for some 30 years now.

TVAG

"Here, Verne. Hold my beer."

No, John, I think you misunderstood the thread.

"Best War Cry," not "Famous Last Words."

TVAG

"Eat lead, flying monkey!" ranks right up there.

I'm also fond of "Spoon!" Note: Fans of "Gone with the Blastwave" should check out "Romantically Apocalyptic" romanticallyapocalyptic.com

My own outfit used "You're headed in the wrong direction!" and "We ain't goin', breeze!" to great effect.

LT

Geronimo!
Remember the Maine, to he## with Spain!

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Don't have a warcry but I love Joanna Lumley.

S P O O N

Smoke the mother !

Hokahey!

Urrah!

Ideally with few thousand mates each side of you, a horde of tanks and SUs in front and dozens of field, medium and heavy artillery pieces firing overhead.

"URRAH!"

Yes, but if you don't "trill" your "R's," it just doesn't work.

My Russian Wife uses it, and it's amazingly effective even as a solo.

But, multiply it by hundreds or thousands… I get goose bumps.

TVAG

"Ham and Jam!"