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Anonymous
Enjoy.
>> Anonymous
Whats that from? The Patriot? i thought it took the guys leg off in that movie and not the head or do i have the wrong movie
>> Anonymous
>>918063
that is the patriot sir.
>> Anonymous
Yeah, it's The Patriot. There might be a shot where a cannonball takes a guy's leg off but I've always loved that ridiculous head shot.
>> Anonymous
No you're right. It takes off the guys head then later rolls along and takes off some guy's leg.
>> Anonymous
Ok, i couldnt remember i havent seen it for quite a while so i thought it just took off a leg
>> Anonymous
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>> Anonymous
Awesomenessness!
>> Anonymous
>>918096
HOLY CRAP! ORIGINAL CONTENT?
>> Anonymous
Is that a French soldier or an American soldier getting blasted on? I might be able to use this in a cultural war thread...
>> Anonymous
It's an American soldier.
>> Anonymous
Why is there no lazer bein' fired!?!?!?!?
>> Anonymous
OH SHI-

Somebody with the skillz, shop Koffing on that cannonball.
>> Anonymous !ir0FRmG1cA
>>918096
sweet some new stuff
>> Anonymous
I never quite got how anyone thought standing in a line and getting shot was a good idea
>> Anonymous
>>918190
Worked for rocks, sticks, spears, horses, and arrows. Not so much with guns.

Thus, trenches.
>> Anonymous
>>918190

Actually, it was goddamn brilliant at the time.

Napoleonic French style = Roman-esque 'blocks' of men who marched forward like battering rams. Musketfire and cannister get absorbed by the first few rows, but the further back ones are protected, allowing you to minimize losses. Sure, a salvo will kill the first two or three rows of guys, but you have fifty rows of guys. Most armies broke and ran by the time they got through the third salvo or so and the French were still coming with more troops than could be seen. Solid shot would take out a column instead of a row, but really not much difference in the amount of damage. Tactically, it's an evolution of the phalanx, but with meat shields. Just use n00b conscripts as the first few ranks and you lose nothing of value.

The English used a long double-man line (like shown here). Much more vulnerable to breaking through, but it let them bring the maximum number of muskets on the enemy at once.

Also, you don't use solid shot against infantry at that range. That's just fucking stupid. You use cannister - Shrapnel had already made his discoveries by this point, solid shot is a dumb thing. You'd take out like four guys and it would roll away.
>> Anonymous
>>918228
this anon fought in such wars. he has serious tactical knowledge on this
>> sage
>>918228
French fag.
>> Anonymous
Bump for awesome
>> Anonymous
>>918228
Truth.

Also, left out: The weapons they're using are smooth bore, .70cal muskets, round shot. About as accurate as shit in the field. If you -don't- line up 75 guys and fire in double-rank volleys, you're not likely to hit shit.

Still, the smoothbores could load twice, maybe 4 times as fast as rifles, and were a hell of a lot easier to use effectively, AND let you mount a bayonet, which is where the REAL fighting was back in the day.

Still not as good as a longbow, in accuracy, range, or speed... but a fuckton easier to train on, and just as effective no matter how tired you are.
>> Anonymous
British people don't know shit about warfare, a whole fucking generation of British men was lost in WW1 because the stupid prime minister thought his soldiers where so tough, an could just march into machine gun fire in a big line.
>> Anonymous
>>918295
The men who tell this war's soldiers what to do, got their experience from the last war. Change the tech too fast and... yeah, mass slaughter.

Of course, I'm sure, at the time, 918295-anon could have totally reinvented warfare. Easy-peasy, in hindsight.
>> Anonymous
It's nice to see this gif has taught us so much.
>> Anonymous
>>918304
Thankfully tech changed again and the Tank was invented.
>> Anonymous
It's from Dodgeball: The Movie. That guy is "out".
>> Anonymous
Heh.
>> Anonymous
>>918327
I see wat u did thur

>.<
>> Anonymous
>>918324
the tank was invented long before WWI
>> Anonymous
Needs more FUCK YEAH SEAKING!
>> Anonymous
>>918513
lol no
>> Anonymous
>>918513
>>918521

I concur. No.
>> Anonymous
>>918513
Yet they experimented with armored bicycles instead?
Allies were using a lot of R&D across the trenches if mechanized armor was already in use.
>> Anonymous
Someone needs to gif the similar scene in Glory. Exploding head blood fountain.
>> Anonymous
>>918654
http://www.sunsea.com.tw/glory.htm
amidoinitright?
>> Anonymous
>>918295
You thought the British were bad? French Generals were notorious for having lavish banquets in their mansions while giving orders to rush the trenches. Not once had they set foot onto the battlefield.
>> Anonymous
>>918669
I didn't realize generals set foot on battlefields since the first century.
Here I was thinking the brits were sitting in their ugly ass parlors sipping tea and admiring their decorative pistols. And what the fuck was up with the decorative pistol fad?! How redneck can you get than lining your doorways with firearms?!