Conquer Club

If you would choose one of these Generals to be on your Doubles team which would it be.


1) Omar bradley aka the soldiers general (Recommended) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Omar_Bradley

Famous Quote
"If we continue to develop our technology without wisdom or prudence, our servant may prove to be our executioner."

Awards
Army Distinguished Service Medal
Navy Distinguished Service Medal
Silver Star
Legion of Merit
Bronze Star
Mexican Border Service
Knight Commander of the British Empire
Order of Polonia Restituta
Presidential Medal of Freedom
Order of Suvorov
Order of Kutuzov

2) Bernard montgomery aka Monty http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernard_Montgomery

Famous quote

"Air power is indivisible. If you split it up into compartments, you merely pull it to pieces and destroy its greatest asset, its flexibility."

Awards
KG (1946)[1]
GCB (1945)[2]
KCB (1942)[3]
CB (1940)[4]
DSO (1914)
MID (1915, 1917, 1917, 1918, 1919, 1939, 1943,[5] 1944[6])
Distinguished Service Medal (US) (1947)[7]
Legion of Merit (Chief Commander) (USA) (1943)[8]
Order of Victory (USSR) (1945)[9]
Croix de Guerre (France) (1919)[10]
Order of the Elephant (Denmark) (1945)[11]
Order of King George I, Grand Commander (Greece) (1944)[12]
Virtuti Militari V Class (Poland) (1944)[13]
Order of the White Lion, Grand Cross (Czech.) (1947)[14]
Grand Cordon of the Seal of Solomon (Ethiopia) (1949)[15]
Order of Leopold II, Grand Officer (Belgium) (1947)[16]
Order of St. Olav, Grand Cross (Norway) (1951)[1

3) George S Patton Aka old blood n guts. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_S._Patton

Famous quote

"A good plan violently executed now is better than a perfect plan executed next week."

Distinguished Service Cross (2)
Distinguished Service Medal (3)
Silver Star (2)
Legion of Merit
Bronze Star
Purple Heart
Order of the Bath
Order of the British Empire

Or finally.

Joseph stilwell. Aka Vinigar joe. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Stilwell

Famous quote

"Burma Deserves a general like macarthur , and some one who loves china, Unfortunately I can provide only one."

Awards

Distinguished Service Cross
Army Distinguished Service Medal (2)
Legion of Merit
Take your pick wisely! Some of these generals are nice guys , some are complete assholes , but they're all effected. For those who think I missed one, please tell me.

Before I end this, I want to add that this is specifically WWII generals.

Patton. He'll scare the other team shitless.

yep... it is official... the GD is officially dead...-the black jesus

Chariot of Fire ♥

My personal favorite is General Nuisance.

Don't forget about General Apathy!

General Mojo

I'd have to research their badminton skills before accepting any of them as a doubles partner.

Fldmrshl. Rhiley wrote:Take your pick wisely! Some of these generals are nice guys , some are complete assholes , but they're all effected. For those who think I missed one, please tell me.

You have miss hundreds. I do not know if Simón Bolívar was consider General but General José de San Martín is my voting!

General Discussion!
But anyway, regarding your poll, I hardly even know/care about these generals (obviously I've heard of them, vaguely, but still...) and I doubt they have anything to do with CC, so isn't this thread a candidate for SiB?

The General Lee

This the best you could come up with from WWII?

Of these four. Patton if you want to win...

jefjef wrote:This the best you could come up with from WWII?

Of these four. Patton if you want to win...

Take all the Generals from WW2, give them equal resources,,,
and Rommel would win every time... in more ways than one!

He's the one i would partner with...

Leehar wrote:General Discussion!
But anyway, regarding your poll, I hardly even know/care about these generals (obviously I've heard of them, vaguely, but still...) and I doubt they have anything to do with CC, so isn't this thread a candidate for SiB?

It's about who would partner up with you in a doubles battle - it relates to CC in that way. I say it's fine.

Robinette wrote:

jefjef wrote:This the best you could come up with from WWII?

Of these four. Patton if you want to win...

Take all the Generals from WW2, give them equal resources,,,
and Rommel would win every time... in more ways than one!

He's the one i would partner with...

But he isnt a choice though he was a great strategist and i too would partner with him if given the opportunity

What you should do is expand the poll to include not only American generals, but others as well. I'm a bit of a history buff, but I'm pretty sure that unless I was facing Wellington I would want to team up with Napolean.

Darwins_Bane wrote:What you should do is expand the poll to include not only American generals, but others as well. I'm a bit of a history buff, but I'm pretty sure that unless I was facing Wellington I would want to team up with Napolean.

As a history 'buff' I am sure you are fully cognisant of the fact that Montgomery was not American.

This is true, but there were a lot of very great generals around that aren't mentioned here was all I was trying point out.

Fruitcake wrote:

Darwins_Bane wrote:What you should do is expand the poll to include not only American generals, but others as well. I'm a bit of a history buff, but I'm pretty sure that unless I was facing Wellington I would want to team up with Napolean.

As a history 'buff' I am sure you are fully cognisant of the fact that Montgomery was not American.

He was American when he was successful. Otherwise he was English.

And Monty spanked Rommel at second Alamein, so I'd take him in a hearbeat.

I have another nomination: General Anesthesia.

danryan wrote: And Monty spanked Rommel at second Alamein, so I'd take him in a hearbeat.

it's amazing what double the men and double the tanks will do for the outcome of a battle...
The overcautious "Lord Montgomery of Alamein" was victorious, but not so easy with even forces...


Bytheway... General Anesthesia never complains about bad moves... so good choice there

Omar Bradley, because he would give one look to Patton and Patton would stop slapping around that poor Pfc tanker getting shells lobbed at him by far superior machines, stand at attention and follow orders. Then he would tell me what a great job Ive been doing.

Patton is overrated!

Peng Dehuai
Reason:
His role in the Hundred Regiments Offensive, the Chinese Civil War, and the Korean War.

Robinette wrote:

danryan wrote: And Monty spanked Rommel at second Alamein, so I'd take him in a hearbeat.

it's amazing what double the men and double the tanks will do for the outcome of a battle...
The overcautious "Lord Montgomery of Alamein" was victorious, but not so easy with even forces...


Bytheway... General Anesthesia never complains about bad moves... so good choice there

One reason Monty had double the men and double the tanks was his careful husbanding of his forces. He also lured Rommel into an over aggressive attack. The legitimate criticism of Monty has to do with his cautious pursuit of Rommel which allowed the Germans to regroup in Tunisia - whereas an aggressive pursuit could well have wrapped up the north African theater within a month of second Alamein.

Rommel's generalship has been so overinflated it's not even funny. He has had the best pr of any WW2 general - and although he was an excellent tactician (division level he was great) as an army general he was pretty poor.