 Aurochs  | 04 Jul 2018 6:11 a.m. PST |
What is your favorite battle cry? I admit I don“t have one but I hope you can suggest one. |
| 4DJones | 04 Jul 2018 6:15 a.m. PST |
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| Buckeye AKA Darryl | 04 Jul 2018 6:21 a.m. PST |
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 Parzival | 04 Jul 2018 6:27 a.m. PST |
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| Irish Marine | 04 Jul 2018 6:29 a.m. PST |
Of course it's "Oorah" I've used it a few times myself. |
| KeithRK | 04 Jul 2018 6:33 a.m. PST |
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 Legion 4  | 04 Jul 2018 6:36 a.m. PST |
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| whill4 | 04 Jul 2018 6:36 a.m. PST |
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| Aethelflaeda was framed | 04 Jul 2018 6:39 a.m. PST |
"Pop a top!" from Rivets by Steve Jackson Games |
| Allen57 | 04 Jul 2018 6:53 a.m. PST |
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| cavcrazy | 04 Jul 2018 6:55 a.m. PST |
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| Winston Smith | 04 Jul 2018 7:13 a.m. PST |
My Gurkhas like "Kali!"
And my Sikhs go in with "Khalsa Ji!" |
| Winston Smith | 04 Jul 2018 7:14 a.m. PST |
My Yankee militia tried "No taxation without representation!" once.
Once. |
| 21eRegt | 04 Jul 2018 7:17 a.m. PST |
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 Flashman14 | 04 Jul 2018 7:17 a.m. PST |
I suppose Waaauughh should be in there or however GW Orcs spell it. Also uSuthu! The Romans thought this Zulu chant was so impressive they adopted it to use against the Gauls in Hollywood's "The Gladiator ". |
| TNE2300 | 04 Jul 2018 7:25 a.m. PST |
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| johnbear44 | 04 Jul 2018 7:36 a.m. PST |
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| Lascaris | 04 Jul 2018 7:37 a.m. PST |
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| Ragbones | 04 Jul 2018 7:39 a.m. PST |
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| warwell | 04 Jul 2018 7:41 a.m. PST |
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| Mollinary | 04 Jul 2018 7:41 a.m. PST |
Usuthu.
Actually it was the German tribes
using it against the Romans in Gladiator, but it was still a cool chant! |
Old Glory  | 04 Jul 2018 7:53 a.m. PST |
Yaka Yaka Yaka boji mawa!!!! |
Roderick Robertson  | 04 Jul 2018 7:57 a.m. PST |
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| Daithi the Black | 04 Jul 2018 8:15 a.m. PST |
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| PJ ONeill | 04 Jul 2018 8:38 a.m. PST |
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| skippy0001 | 04 Jul 2018 8:40 a.m. PST |
Barritus, which no one knows how it sounds like. |
 Saber6 | 04 Jul 2018 8:44 a.m. PST |
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| brass1 | 04 Jul 2018 8:47 a.m. PST |
"You crazy? We ain't goin' up there!"
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| HMS Exeter | 04 Jul 2018 8:55 a.m. PST |
Run away! I can't believe I got here first. |
| StCrispin | 04 Jul 2018 9:10 a.m. PST |
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| robert piepenbrink | 04 Jul 2018 9:21 a.m. PST |
Possibly YAAAH! but I do try to yell something appropriate to the army, so MANN-TO! (Hanoverian, meaning more or less "make it happen!") gets a lot of usage. And my usual query. Has anyone a notion what it sounded like when Hoplite armies "raised the paean" as they closed? |
| willthepiper | 04 Jul 2018 9:33 a.m. PST |
Baruk Khazād! Khazād ai-mźnu! But I also like to reflect my family heritage with the Clan McLaren battle cry "Creag an tuirc!" (the boar's rock) |
 The Virtual Armchair General | 04 Jul 2018 9:43 a.m. PST |
Got mine from an old Western where all the Indians in the world are on the hill crest, their noble Chief in full Hollywood regalia looks down on the column of Bluecoats below, and with a passionate roar he releases his Braves with the throaty call, "Ya-Ta-Hey!!!" Gawd, it sounded great! Then I learned "Ya-ta-hey" is Navajo for "Good Morning." Actually, it's become so ingrained, that when, for example, the nurse botches the venipuncture, or when I got a hypo into the palm of my hand recently, I involuntarily say "Ya-Ta-Hey!" as a stress reliever. But never in my Hollywood Chief's full regalia. TVAG |
| The Virtual Armchair General | 04 Jul 2018 9:47 a.m. PST |
Oh, Winston! Why do your Ghurka's cry "Kali!"? Their actual cry is "Aiyo-Gurkhali!" ("The Ghurkas are on you!"). You even hear poor Billy Fish deliver it as he charges to his death, kukri in hand, in "The Man Who Would Be King." |
| The Virtual Armchair General | 04 Jul 2018 9:50 a.m. PST |
Sorry, too many thoughts at once…. Another battle cry appropriate for all otherwise unspecified Native forces…"Whadeehoodee!," preferably given at the start of the full bore charge with everything you've got. Finally (?), I confess that I've always had a weakness for the sheer warrior poetry of… "Yo Mamma!" |
| Gunfreak | 04 Jul 2018 10:21 a.m. PST |
Yippee ki-yay mother er |
 miniMo | 04 Jul 2018 10:24 a.m. PST |
I hope this poll goes to best 5. +1 "Pop A Top!"
(see avatar) "Tally ho!" "Death to the fanatics!" "Allons y!" "Stop that pigeon!" |
| DisasterWargamer | 04 Jul 2018 10:55 a.m. PST |
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| USAFpilot | 04 Jul 2018 11:56 a.m. PST |
"Death to the fanatics!" has a certain irony to it. Lol |
| Mollinary | 04 Jul 2018 12:23 p.m. PST |
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 etotheipi | 04 Jul 2018 12:53 p.m. PST |
"Triple shares for the survivors!" … I play a lot of warlord roles. "Sontar HA!" … I'm short. "Shoot 'em in the back!" … Uncle Fester had a point. "Fair fight? What a horrible idea!" … Miyamoto Musashi has a point, too. "Rawr!" … I play a lot of dinosaurs, too. "Ape shall never kill ape." … to Hell with the rest of you. "Rock the Kasbah!" … I was a teenager when that song came out. "Better dead than Red." … I have relatives who lived that from the inside. "You'll take my life, but I'll take yours too." … Big fan of the Crimean War. |
| Cerdic | 04 Jul 2018 12:53 p.m. PST |
Oot, oot, oot, oot, oot, oot….. |
| ZULUPAUL | 04 Jul 2018 1:30 p.m. PST |
uSuthu can there be anything else from me? |
| Patrick R | 04 Jul 2018 1:51 p.m. PST |
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| Grimdark Future Fan | 04 Jul 2018 5:31 p.m. PST |
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 20thmaine | 04 Jul 2018 5:39 p.m. PST |
"I say you fellows – play up ! And play the game" |
| Parzival | 04 Jul 2018 8:13 p.m. PST |
From Turn Signals On a Land Raider, the battle cry of The Emperor's Pointy Sticks: "Poke 'em in the eye!" |
| mildbill | 04 Jul 2018 8:23 p.m. PST |
haka palli. Finns in the Thirty years war. 'hack them down' |
| Toaster | 04 Jul 2018 10:57 p.m. PST |
Ornamental Shrubbery! After a DnD oriental campaign in which a player got confused between Banzai and Bonsai. Robert |
| foxweasel | 05 Jul 2018 1:33 a.m. PST |
"Die rebel scum!!!" Good for various wars and galaxies. |
