If you had to take over the world, what country would you invade first?

[Synobun]

More French-bashing? They get a really bad rap because they caved so quickly in World War II. I'd love to see one of you approach a WWI French soldier in the trenches and call him a coward or a weakling though.

Or maybe one of Napoleon's soldiers.

Or maybe one of Jeanne d'Arc's soldiers.

Or one of Charlemagne's soldiers.

It's a meme man. I don't think many people actually think France is that bad in reality.

 

[Dachs]

hahaha I totally want to have an argument about why Bernard Bachrach's formula for the Carolingian army is stupid and wrong

but then I'd be talking to myself

 

[IdiotsOpposite]

It's a meme man. I don't think many people actually think France is that bad in reality.

Sometimes I wonder.

 

[Formaldehyde]

Canada. It's right next door, and they still don't suspect a thing.

Sometimes I wonder.

"Never ascribe to malice that which is adequately explained by incompetence". Napoleon Bonaparte

 

[Old Hippy]

and by the way , anyone wanting to take an early cheap shot at NZ , we got your back bro .

here an early cheap shot...


Link to video.

 

[del62]

Or one of Charlemagne's soldiers.

I am not sure that Charlemagne could be considered French

A better example would be to ask them to join the French Foreign Legion who really are tough nuts.

 

[MajKira]

USA as the most powerful country must be gotten first, others will follow more easily after USA controlled

 

[Catharsis]

Ecuador. Screw Ecuador!

 

[Traitorfish]

Russia, so that if I fail I can always claim I was just retroactively trolling H.J. Mackinder.

 

[Quackers]

Definitely conquer Ireland first. They are a rough lot and we can use their men to bolster our armies for the invasion of mainland Europe. We will begin with France and then move into Germany. Take out the Iberians and Scandinivians and then the rest of Europe will probably fall through fear, we can install a few Quackerist puppet figuremen. After a quick victory against the Russians we will fan out into the Eurasian steppes and re-Conquer India our rightful territory. I will eat curry everyday!

 

[mech654]

hahaha I totally want to have an argument about why Bernard Bachrach's formula for the Carolingian army is stupid and wrong

but then I'd be talking to myself

I would like to hear that.

 

[Ice_Tyrant]

Serbia FTW! So they can, in a few hundred years, brag and celebrate how they "heroically" lost and so they can claim that the collaborates were actually heroes who defended Serbia.

I lawl'd.

I guess for me Russia, but that's more of a quantity thing I suppose.

 

[sophie]

More French-bashing? They get a really bad rap because they caved so quickly in World War II. I'd love to see one of you approach a WWI French soldier in the trenches and call him a coward or a weakling though.

Or maybe one of Napoleon's soldiers.

Or maybe one of Jeanne d'Arc's soldiers.

Or one of Charlemagne's soldiers.

Those were some rather pitiful answers. In the whole of French history those were the best answers you could come up with? C'mon, you could do better than that!

Also I wouldn't mind hearing about Bernard Bachrach. Complaining about misguided historians is fun!

 

[IdiotsOpposite]

Those were some rather pitiful answers. In the whole of French history those were the best answers you could come up with? C'mon, you could do better than that!

Also I wouldn't mind hearing about Bernard Bachrach. Complaining about misguided historians is fun!

Oh come on. If I was really trying, the list would have been too long and too epic for us mere Americans to understand.

 

[Dachs]

Napoleon's not a bad example. Either the Great or the Third, really.

 

[IdiotsOpposite]

Napoleon's not a bad example. Either the Great or the Third, really.

Actually, I really should have brought up the armies of Louis XIII, as if I remember right, they gave the rest of Europe quite a scare. But my memories of European History are sketchy at best.

 

[Dachs]

You probably mean Louis XIV. Under Louis XIII, the French military was competent in the Thirty Years' War, but hardly cultivated the hard-ass reputation you're looking for. The Sun King's armies, on the other hand, were larger than any military force in Europe since the Roman Empire, and successfully supported war against most of Western and Central Europe for the better part of three decades.

 

[IdiotsOpposite]

You probably mean Louis XIV. Under Louis XIII, the French military was competent in the Thirty Years' War, but hardly cultivated the hard-ass reputation you're looking for. The Sun King's armies, on the other hand, were larger than any military force in Europe since the Roman Empire, and successfully supported war against most of Western and Central Europe for the better part of three decades.

Told you it was sketchy.

 

[sophie]

Napoleon's not a bad example. Either the Great or the Third, really.

It was a decent choice, but obvious.

 

[Dachs]

It was a decent choice, but obvious.

Don't be such a hipster. Both of them fit quite well.