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Post by Jean Lannes on Mar 12, 2016 8:17:36 GMT
Overrated generals eh? anyone heard Eisenhower? Best example of overrated He was a five-star general in the United States Army during World War II and served as Supreme Commander of the Allied Forces in Europe. He was responsible for planning and supervising the invasion of North Africa in Operation Torch in 1942–43 and the successful invasion of France and Germany in 1944–45 from the Western Front. In 1951, he became the first Supreme Commander of NATO. Wiki disagrees with you. Eisenhower was also a President of... the greatest country in the world! Military leader and rank=\=skill That's why Alexander in EW4 is completely over rated imo |
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Post by General Macarthur on Mar 13, 2016 1:03:51 GMT
Eisenhower is to OP. When WW2 he never fought in any wars like Patton or me. They chose Eisenhower because he was good in supplies and transportation stuff which is essential to secure a bridgehead fast enough to expand.
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Post by Desophaeus on Mar 13, 2016 1:15:33 GMT
Eisenhower is to OP. When WW2 he never fought in any wars like Patton or me. They chose Eisenhower because he was good in supplies and transportation stuff which is essential to secure a bridgehead fast enough to expand. Still that's a very good reason why he's so important. Your army would be dead without logistics. So so important to make sure your army is alive regardless even if you're a tactical genius or not. The dead army automatically loses, and the starving, soon-to-be dead army has extremely limited options to inflict tactics on the enemy. In fact there's a saying... "Amateurs discuss tactics, experts discuss logistics." Pretty much right there. One other funny thing about warfare throughout human history, roughly 90% of causalities in ALL wars put together can be attributed to logistics. I would say the top 3 in that category is: starvation, disease, or simply ill-equipped in battle thus leading to deaths and injuries. |
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Post by General Macarthur on Mar 13, 2016 1:18:10 GMT
Yeah especially if the Allies had quantity over quality compared to the Germans.
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Post by Desophaeus on Mar 13, 2016 1:18:43 GMT
Check out how WW1 came as a shock for the countries trying to keep up with the supplies. I read somewhere that around at that time they had underestimated the ammunition necessary to maintain a superior hold on a position with machine guns. Then later on... they overestimate that part but underestimate food and medical supplies.
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Post by General Macarthur on Mar 13, 2016 1:20:22 GMT
Yeah the French army went into mutiny after Verdun for miserable conditions.
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