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list some cool war quotes


found one from a movie about hannibal

"the romans are trained to fight in one way only, that makes them predictable
- we'll present them with the unexpected, and watch them fall apart"

There's a quote I heard. "Hannibal knew how to win a battle but he did not know how to win a war".


I got it from Rome Total War. [:D]

'Armies do not exist for peace; they exist solely for triumphant exertion in War.'

History is written by the victors. - WS

There are no extraordinary men... just extraordinary circumstances that ordinary men are forced to deal with. - WH

Colonel "Madman" Maddox - "Your guns! Ack, ack, ack, ack, ack!"

Oh... wait..[:)]

I got it from Rome Total War. [:D]

Rome Total Realism Mod... get that
(and if possible my micro mod that really fixes the ecomics and combat mechanics of the game.. lol.. as usual)


I made an aar for a little bit (chronicles of pontus)

The Bactrian Phalanx against the barbarian horde

Commander, you know how to add a mod to a steam account? I lost my disks years ago and got RTW off of steam the other day. Sucks not having a mod, the vanilla game is not playable anymore.

once i dropped my RTW discs and bought a steam account for it. result = forgot the steam account name and bought the discs again

must be getting old..

also couldn't install the RTR mod into the steam version, need the RTW gold discs.. those are the best

though they might be out of print by now

"War is regarded as nothing but the continuation of state policy with other means".

Karl Von Clausewitz

Don't know if it's word-for-word authentic, but I've always loved this one from the movie Patton:

"No b*****d ever won a war by dying for his country. He won it by making the other poor, dumb b*****d die for HIS country."

"We are going looking for trouble. I expect we'll find it". Captain Tennant - HMS Repulse - December 1941 [:(]

One of my favorites is from Eisenhower:
“In preparing for battle I have always found that plans are useless, but planning is indispensable.”

So true in this game as well! Many things change so you can't follow a plan to the letter, but the understanding gained from the process will allow you to adapt and develop new responses quickly!

Thanks, I will look around for the gold edition.

"The Italians only end a war on the side they have begun it when they change sides twice."
Napoleon

My sig!

"I don't know what the hell this 'logistics' is that Marshall is always talking about, but I want some of it" -- Fleet Admiral E. J. King

Friendly fire - isn't!

Murphys Laws of War.

"I think World War II just started" 1st Lt Rafe McCawley, United States Army Air Corps, December 7th 1941.

ORIGINAL: warspite1

"I think World War II just started" 1st Lt Rafe McCawley, United States Army Air Corps, December 7th 1941.

Dude, you got guts...