"Use a military quote to describe your tabletop generalship" Topic

For me, I think it is my opponent thinking this quote about me:

"never interfere with the enemy while he is in the process of making a mistake."

What a senseless waste of human life.

Nuts! (Me thinking about my tabletop generalship.)

Blood makes the grass grow.

"Fubar" and "Snafu".,.

We got the game on!
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"The man who has won more battles than he has fought"--whoops, no that was Fire Sign Theater.

"We have met the enemy and they are us." Oh, oh! That was from a comic strip.

Well, anyway, I always show up for the battle.

"A radish shall not stand in the way of victory."

General Barton Hamilton Steele,quoting Marshal Foch.

'The description "Napoleon of the West" applied to his ability to raise armies, and not to his generalship."

(Said of Santa Anna, but I seem to qualify some days.)

"His men follow him mostly out of curiosity"

Lead, follow or get out of the way!

"Nuts"

"Hard pressed on my right. My center is yielding. Impossible to maneuver. Situation excellent. I am attacking."
– Ferdinand Foch at the Battle of the Marne

Victory belongs to the most persevering

- Napoleon

They came on in the same old way etc…..

Never give up. Never surrender. (Of course, losing is OK!)

Nous sommes dans un pot a chamber. Et nous y serrons emerde!
French general just before a total hammering in the Franco Prussian war, story of my gaming.

'That's your plan, Ray? Get 'em?" Peter Venkman

"Hurrah boys, we got them"

Gen. Armstrong Custer

"They couldn't hit and elephant at this ra…."

"Snatched defeat from the jaws of victory"

For a disaster like the battle of Cannae, you need not only a genius like Hanibaal commanding one side, but an idiot like Varro commanding the other.

You'll have to guess which one's me !

C'est magnifique, mais ce n'est pas la guerre: c'est de la folie.

It is magnificent, but it is not war; it is madness.

"Here goes the last of the Brudenells"-Lord Cardigan.

Veni, vidi, victus sum.

"No one expects the attack without mercy…" & "We've caught them napping!…" Both from Custer, Little Big Man

"Nous marchons à un désastre." – Marechal Bazaine, 1870

It took a lot of mistakes to lose that battle – I made most of them (after Ewell)

"Damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead!"

Even in land-based games…

"You're a daisy if you do!" – Doc Holliday

"Il nous faut de l'audace, encore de l'audace, toujours de l'audace!"

Sotto voce: "What could possibly go wrong with that?"

"Merde"

General Cambronne, at Waterloo.

Therefore, a skilled commander seeks victory from the situation and does not demand it of his subordinates. (Sun Tsu)

One of my failings in multi player games…..!

"You magnificent bastard, I read your book! (I'm the guy whose book was read)

Either: "No plan survives first contact with the dice."

Or: "There is something wrong with our bloody dice today."

I came, I saw, I conquered. General, the enemy has us surrounded. The fools, they can't get away from us now.

Bashytubits beat me to it…

We've been looking for the enemy for some time now. We've finally found him. We're surrounded. That simplifies things.

Chesty Puller
Battle of Chosin Reservoir

"Your persistence surprises even me. You're going to give mercenaries a bad name." Belloq
(Raiders of the Lost Ark,1981)

"[at a supply depot somewhere in France]
Oddball: We see our role as essentially defensive in nature. While our armies are advancing so fast and everyone's knocking themselves out to be heroes, we are holding ourselves in reserve in case the Krauts mount a counteroffensive which threatens Paris… or maybe even New York. Then we can move in and stop them. But for 1.6 million dollars, we could become heroes for three days."
Kelly's Heroes

"Remember the Alamo"

Budget Rent-A-Van.

Hold them! Hoooooold them!!

"He couldn't lead a corporals guard across a ditch."

"Ruh-roh, Raggy!"

"Hard pounding this, gentlemen; let's see who will pound the longest."

('m not known for subtlety).

"I learned what one ought not to do, and that is always something"

- Wellington, as a colonel in the Low Countries.

When in doubt, attack!

It's not a military quote that I know of but it does personify my life quite well.

"No amount of planning replaces dumb
luck".

"We came, we saw, he died." (Cackle)
- October 20, 2011

Dan

"Run away! Run away!"