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If you could witness any battle.

  • 28-08-2014 04:46PM
    #1
    Paperduel
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 13 ✭


    Which battle would you witness. Assuing you are effectively a ghost and could travel back in time.

    For me it would be the battle of Kursk, 1943.


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  • #2
    Delirium
    Moderators Posts: 52,294 ✭✭✭✭Delirium


    Helms Deep. :pac:

    If you can read this, you're too close!



  • #3
    eyescreamcone
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 2,562 ✭✭✭eyescreamcone


    Paperduel wrote: »
    Which battle would you witness. Assuing you are effectively a ghost and could travel back in time.

    For me it would be the battle of Kursk, 1943.

    Thermopalaye
    The Somme
    Iwo Jima
    Kilmichael


  • #4
    uch
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,035 ✭✭✭uch


    The Clone Wars

    22/25



  • #5
    Celly Smunt
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 9,463 ✭✭✭Celly Smunt


    A birds eye view of Stalingrad.


  • #6
    wp_rathead
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,114 ✭✭✭✭wp_rathead


    Why would anyone want to witness such human suffering?

    I'd be much to busy anyway as a ghost - talking to Physic Sally, making creaking sounds in dodgy reality TV shows etc.


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  • #7
    Philo Beddoe
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 560 ✭✭✭Philo Beddoe


    wprathead wrote: »
    Why would anyone want to witness such human suffering?

    Because...



  • #8
    markhogan
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 28 ✭markhogan


    Bruce Lee vs Chuck Norris


  • #9
    SEPT 23 1989
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 43,038 ✭✭✭✭SEPT 23 1989


    Normandy Invasion

    deck chair a few cans and a sun hat

    sit back and enjoy


  • #10
    pablomakaveli
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,752 ✭✭✭pablomakaveli


    Either Thermopylae or Cannae. Both fascinating battles.


  • #11
    ricero
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11,348 ✭✭✭✭ricero


    D-day landings


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  • #12
    DLMA23
    Closed Accounts Posts: 291 ✭✭DLMA23


    Battle of Clontarf, 1014

    Cajamarca, Spanish Conquest of Peru, 1532

    Yorktown, American Revolution, 1781

    Leipzig, Napoleonic Wars, 1813

    Antietam, American Civil War, 1862

    Stalingrad, World War II, 1942-43


  • #13
    Philo Beddoe
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 560 ✭✭✭Philo Beddoe


    Austerlitz.


  • #14
    Duggy747
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,295 ✭✭✭✭Duggy747


    Jesus Vs. The Velociraptor in The Temple of Doom.


  • #15
    House of Blaze
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 627 ✭✭✭House of Blaze


    The battle of Cannae from the second punic war.

    Hannibal's carthaginian army destroyed a far greater roman force in what is regarded both as one of the greatest tactical feats in military history and as one of the worst defeats in Roman history.

    Either that or the battle of Sekhigahara in Japan which set up the Tokugawa shogunate a dynasty which lasted for the next 200 odd years.

    (till tom cruise came along... ;) )


  • #16
    Ruu
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,622 ✭✭✭Ruu


    The Great Handbag duel of '89.


  • #17
    Un Croissant
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,052 ✭✭✭Un Croissant


    The Battle of Hogwarts.


  • #18
    Staplor
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,165 ✭✭✭Staplor


    Brady v Dunphy regarding Wengers floppy arms


  • #19
    JohnDee
    Closed Accounts Posts: 177 ✭✭JohnDee


    I'd like to see the Mongol hordes in action 13th century.
    Teutoburg Forest 9 AD
    Stamford Bridge 1066
    Guagamela c323 BC
    The Somme and
    The Irish Brigade in action at Fontenoy 1744
    Guess I'm going to be busy


  • #20
    djflawless
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,868 ✭✭✭djflawless


    ricero wrote: »
    D-day landings

    +1
    Would have loved to be somewhere along the beach watching it all


  • #21
    Owryan
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,024 ✭✭✭Owryan


    Cannae or Gettysburg


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  • #22
    Panthro
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,111 ✭✭✭✭Panthro


    Fiddy Cents and Mayweather.


  • #23
    wazky
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,516 ✭✭✭wazky


    The Battle of the Bulge.

    Well the one where those fat girls bate themselves into skinny jeans to be more specific.


  • #24
    saintsaltynuts
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,147 ✭✭✭saintsaltynuts


    Easter Rising 1916.


  • #25
    djflawless
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,868 ✭✭✭djflawless


    Panthro wrote: »
    Fiddy Cents and Mayweather.

    Are we allowed future battles??


  • #26
    Jimminy Mc Fukhead
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 305 ✭✭Jimminy Mc Fukhead


    Paperduel wrote: »
    For me it would be the battle of Kursk, 1943.

    I'd like to witness the look on the German faces when the
    (tipped off) Russians started shelling them at their start points.


  • #27
    Antar Bolaeisk
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,091 ✭✭✭Antar Bolaeisk


    World War III so I know where to hide.


  • #28
    Yogosan
    Closed Accounts Posts: 172 ✭✭Yogosan


    The Duffys vs the McCabes, 1938


  • #29
    smash
    Closed Accounts Posts: 34,808 ✭✭✭✭smash


    T-Rex vs anything really!


  • #30
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 32,956 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Ralph: What's a battle?
    Skinner: Hahahaha, lets go.
    Chalmers: Did that boy say what's a battle?
    Skinner: No he said What's that rattle, it's about the heating duct.
    Chalmers: Hmm, it sounded like battle.
    Skinner: I've had a cold, so--
    Chalmers: Oh so you hear r's as b's?


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  • #31
    Spring Onion
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,087 ✭✭✭Spring Onion


    Paperduel wrote: »
    Which battle would you witness. Assuing you are effectively a ghost and could travel back in time.

    For me it would be the battle of Kursk, 1943.

    I was thinking Kursk when I saw the subject line. Epic.


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