Q of the Week - Time travel?

[Leon]

This weeks question is a bit more fun:

If you could go to any point in military history, where would you go and why?

[clibinarium]

If we go do we simply observe in a disembodied sense, or are we actually present? I don't want to start messing with the time space continuum.

[lentulus]

I'd head for the early 16th century, and find out exactly how the Swiss and landsknecht pike drills actually worked.  I would bring enough gold to hire a well paid bodyguard, and carry a concealed uzi and half a dozen hand grenades, because we are not talking boy scouts here..

[Hurley]

I would love to see a Gothic plate knight fight a late era Samurai. Think about the cool fights you could set up and it would be real not like the stupid show.

Hurley 

[Leon]

If we go do we simply observe in a disembodied sense, or are we actually present? I don't want to start messing with the time space continuum.

I'll leave that to your discretion, although you seem slightly more concerned than Lentulus, who's about to unleash automatic firearms on a load of men with pointy sticks...

[lentulus]

I'll leave that to your discretion, although you seem slightly more concerned than Lentulus, who's about to unleash automatic firearms on a load of men with pointy sticks...

Purely in self defense; and hopefully if needed none would prove ancestors.

[Steve J]

Maybe Agincourt or Crecy just to see how the longbow really performed. Being a field archer when I get the chance, I would find it fascinating.

[Leon]

Purely in self defense; and hopefully if needed none would prove ancestors.

[17-21l]

A Victorian 11th Hussar Officer. Bags of cash, a uniform that smart its got a Masters from Oxford, and a cracking set of whiskers to-boot. London society of course, non of that fighting malarky (dangerous stuff). No I would look the part -treat my men like the scum that they were, smoke charoots, drink Gin and play Billiards in the Guards and Cavalry club.  Evening/night activities would consist of womanising and more drinking- Ahhh what a life (oh no! we've declared war on Russia- that'll spoil things)!!

Obviously Im a big Flashman fan! ( he did go on to join the 17th Lancers although their uniform was not as 'dashing'

God save the Queen

[Patrick R]

Ancient battles.

How did Phalanxes work ? Was it a long drawn out clash or temporary charges and counter charges until one side broke ?

My guess is that the sheer butchery would probably be hard to bear.

[nikharwood]

I'd have to go tooled-up a la lentulus to be honest...and I can't pick one, so here's my Top Ten 

In no particular order:

- Troy
- Thermopylae
- Masada
- Gettysburg
- Balaclava
- Austerlitz
- Bastogne
- Yorktown
- Dien Bien Phu
- Naseby

And my Follow-on Five:

- Agincourt
- Ciudad Rodrigo
- Sedgemoor
- Trafalgar
- Stalingrad

[Leon]

Ancient battles.

How did Phalanxes work ? Was it a long drawn out clash or temporary charges and counter charges until one side broke ?

My guess is that the sheer butchery would probably be hard to bear.

I'd be tempted by something Ancient, it could be quite a spectacle.  Or maybe Waterloo, see if I can spot Boney.

[Leon]

I'd have to go tooled-up a la lentulus to be honest...and I can't pick one, so here's my Top Ten 

In no particular order:

- Troy
- Thermopylae
- Masada
- Gettysburg
- Balaclava
- Austerlitz
- Bastogne
- Yorktown
- Dien Bien Phu
- Naseby

And my Follow-on Five:

- Agincourt
- Ciudad Rodrigo
- Sedgemoor
- Trafalgar
- Stalingrad

any point

I was thinking slightly more singular, but never mind!

Where would you stand at Thermopylae, I can't see there being much room for observation?

[Ben Waterhouse]

A Victorian 11th Hussar Officer. Bags of cash, a uniform that smart its got a Masters from Oxford, and a cracking set of whiskers to-boot. London society of course, non of that fighting malarky (dangerous stuff). No I would look the part -treat my men like the scum that they were, smoke charoots, drink Gin and play Billiards in the Guards and Cavalry club.  Evening/night activities would consist of womanising and more drinking- Ahhh what a life (oh no! we've declared war on Russia- that'll spoil things)!!

Obviously Im a big Flashman fan! ( he did go on to join the 17th Lancers although their uniform was not as 'dashing'

God save the Queen

Oi. That's my fantasy 

[nikharwood]

Where would you stand at Thermopylae, I can't see there being much room for observation?

That's me there - behind / underneath the shields 

[Hurley]

Yupe that's all we need, some guy on the bayeux tapestry with a fanny pack and camcorder. One very cool thing might come of this time travel! Wargamers could get the extract colour on the guys uniform.  Hummm I wonder if Rommel will mind people nipping in to check his order of battle before he fights....anything. Every charge in history will be accompanied by camera flashes.   

[Last Hussar]

One very cool thing might come of this time travel! Wargamers could get the extract colour on the guys uniform.  Hummm I wonder if Rommel will mind people nipping in to check his order of battle before he fights....anything.   

That's just what you want, tourist telling historical figures they've got it wrong.

"You call that scarlet- Its not the right colour for the jacket, and every one knows the 11th were never on that hill"

[jchaos79]

Maybe I will travel to the island of Lesbos in the greek age... pleanty of semi naked females wearing only short tunics, no violence, good island weather...  with a bit of luck they would exactly look as pendraken amazonian rank of figures... I know there where no war there, but I will enjoy a lot my "time travel"

[Leon]

Maybe I will travel to the island of Lesbos in the greek age... pleanty of semi naked females wearing only short tunics, no violence, good island weather...  with a bit of luck they would exactly look as pendraken amazonian rank of figures... I know there where no war there, but I will enjoy a lot my "time travel"

Sounds good, but weren't they all lesbians?  Look but don't touch...

[jchaos79]

Sounds good, but weren't they all lesbians?  Look but don't touch...