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Another choice straight out of the top drawer.

whenever you're back up this way I'm keen. my 64 is always plugged in. usually has ocarina of time in it, but would be down for mariokart battles whenever

Dudeeee it sounds like we really should have punched out a 64 session when I was in Newy.

Absolutely Fiend the double deck!

Battle of Hogwarts.

REDFERN BRAHHHH!

notorganic & ozboy is sounding good for July.

:lol:

Paulc vs Benjamin, Arthur, Paulbagz(Crobagz), and general Ashnak too i think.

But the best has to be Bitters vs Cheerleaders

Hard to say. Toss up between:
notorganic & girt
notorganic & afro

Got to admire the former's efforts. Maybe he can open up another front.....

Cronulla riots

Australia-hater :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: that's pathetic.

Forced german migration please do explain, as far as im aware all the germans wanted from WW1 was a bunch of territorial concessions.

I posted a list of the most important battles IMO, not the greatest victories. Never was a battle fought so close to Australia on Australian territory with a very real and what could of been an imminent threat. No matter how much you go on about how we helped the allies in WW1 and WW2 there was no imminent danger on Australia or australian territory if we lost those battles, that is why i chose it, if you don't like that than debate it in a polite way or fuck off.

dud dud dud dud.

Edit: After reading your other forum posts i just realised you're troll, you got me good.

Edited by aussie4ever4: 22/4/2013 05:54:54 PM

go and read some history books you dud. Japs were never planning to invade Australia, and the only time the army even remotely considered it a threat was in the first couple of months of 42, after which everyone breathed easy.

Germany winning WW2 and especially WW1 WAS however a real threat to Australia and our national sovereignty; PNG was originally German clay we got from them as loot after WW1, although I don't expect history illiterates and Australia-haters such as yourself to know that. If the Germans had won WW1 (which was a distinct possibility even in 1918, in which Australia played a critical role stopping as i mentioned before) then they woulda been knocking on our doorstep quicker than you could say Schnitzelburgen, and the very kindest we could've expected would've been forced German immigration and removal of our overseas markets; at worst, well maybe you should read up on what the meglomaniacs running Deutschland during this period had planned for their enemies when they won the war.

Seriously go read your own country's history for once in your life; you can name a zillion other lame battles from other countries but you probably couldn't even name our first battle of WW2

double deck is also up there.

donut & skyscraper can gtfo

Holy shit yes!

Beat me to it.

At the time Australia was very much under the THREAT of invasion, the allies got there arses kicked in the Pacific, singapore was gone, Malaya fell, phillipines fell, a proposal to invade Australia had already been made, maybe saved was the wrong choice of words but if Japan defeated us in Papua, an invasion of Australia or at least further isolation was very possible.

Its probably worth noting at the time New Guinea was an Australian territory, what other time did a war take place on Australian territory, Aboriginal battles?? so yeah i consider it quite significant compared to battles that took place on the other side of the world far away from our doorstep.



So hows about some real Aussie battles?

That's nice these all contributed to helping our allies on the other side of the world.



Edited by aussie4ever4: 21/4/2013 10:15:43 PM

Edited by aussie4ever4: 21/4/2013 10:20:40 PM

It just rages me because Australia never had a "we fought off the dreaded invaders" story and we've never needed one, yet some idiots for various reasons decided we had to have this trope in our national myth and made it so. The major reason is that all the other insane shit done in combat by Australians is too hardcore/imperialist/british/whatever to be PC enough for certain traitors of Australia whom we shall not name, but of course a "defence against outside aggressors" is something even the most PC of PCers that ever P'd and C'd can at least tolerate.

This is why Australia's war history as taught in schools etc has basically become Kokoda and Gallipoli (the latter of course utilised by those who hate Australia to show how very bad war is, how very bad Britain and the Empire was, and to play off WW1 generally as just a big clash of imperialism in which everyone was as bad as everyone else.

Are you for real? the PNG campaign was the most boring, uneventful and overall easy (by that i dont mean easy for the soldiers as those mountain jungles are the toughest fighting environment on the planet; I mean ease of the ultimate victory which was never in doubt) campaign we have ever fought. Initially the japs pushed us back because we had all our shit over fighting the real enemy and didn't give a fuck so all we had was shitty militia conscripts; as soon as the AIF got back the japs were fucking steamrolled. By mid 1942 Japanese troops there and everywhere else in the Pacific were starving and running low on everything; soon they were resorting to cannibalism. They were braver than anyone but ultimately not much of an opponent.

Also no one "saved" Australia; the Japs never intended to invade Australia because they realised in the planning stages such an invasion would be quite impossible with available resources. Shit by early 42, the earliest they could have invaded, we had a whole freaking armoured division fitted out with m3 grants ready and waiting to take them on; basically tiger tanks compared to the cardboard box tanks Japan was using. They had no chance.



So hows about some real Aussie battles?

Villers-Bretonneux, where Australian troops stopped the the German's massive 1918 offensive at the crucial point and then counter-attacked a greatly superior foe, in "perhaps the greatest individual feat of the war":

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2008-04-25/villers-bretonneux-remembers-decisive-battle-90/2415632
http://www.awm.gov.au/exhibitions/1918/battles/dernancourt.asp


Hamel, the "perfect battle" or "textbook battle", which became basically blueprint/example for Allied commanders to follow for the rest of the war, and for which Monash (guy with the sick moustache on the 100 dollar note you plebs) was friggin knighted on the field by the King for (first guy to be knighted on the field in 200 years), and for which the French President dropped everything and instantly went to congratulate the Australian troops personally for, choking up as he said to them:



http://www.greatwar.co.uk/somme/memorial-le-hamel.htm
http://www.awm.gov.au/exhibitions/1918/battles/hamel.asp
http://www.ww1westernfront.gov.au/battlefields/hamel-1918.html


Or maybe Amiens, the "black day of the German Army":

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Amiens_(1918)
http://www.awm.gov.au/exhibitions/1918/battles/amiens.asp


Or hows about Mont St Quentin, "sometimes regarded as the finest achievement of the AIF"?

http://www.awm.gov.au/exhibitions/1918/battles/mtstquentin.asp
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mont_Saint-Quentin_Australian_war_memorial


Or breaking the bloody Hindenburg line (often having to take charge of clueless American troops personally as they continually fucked up):

http://www.awm.gov.au/exhibitions/1918/battles/hindenburg.asp



That's just WW1. I haven't gone into the crazy shit from other wars like El Alamein (which was in fact primarily an infantry battle, Australians playing the most important part), Tobruk, Syria-Lebbo campaign, Muar, Maryang Sang, Binh Ba, etc etc etc...

- Anglo-Zanzbibar War
- Great Emu War

Wasps v Bees.

Battle of Istanbul, 2005

Australia:

New guinea campaign - Saved Australia from a japanese invasion.

Britian:

Battle of Brunanburh - A combined alliance of Scots, Britons and Vikings stopped West Saxons(England) from taking over the whole isles.

Battle of Hastings - Normandy took control of Britian and would create the Angevin Empire which lead to hundreds of years of conflict with the Kingdom of France.

Defeat of the Spanish Amarda - England remained Protestant as was the start of the downfall of Spain and the rise of Great Britian

Siege of Yorktown - The defeat of Cornwalis, the start of the most powerful nation today.

Battle of Waterloo - Defeat of Napoleon who at one point had control of much of Europe

Battle of Britian - Halted any German invasion of Britian

World war 2

El alamein - First Major battle the Axis lost, stopped Germany from reaching vital oil supplies.

Battle of Malta - Malta was the lifeline of Allies in North Africa.

Battle of Stalingrad - Halted German advance in eastern europe

Battle of Kursk - Germans lost all initiative after this, site of the largest tank battles in History and the battle that truly lost Germany the war.

Battle of Midway - Japan lost 4 aircraft carriers.

Others

Battle of Marathon - united greek city states defeated the superpower of its day the persian empire, would the west exist today?

Battle of Zama - Carthage defeated by Rome.

Conquest of Mecca - Muslims would defeat there biggest adversaries and take control of Arabia, the islamic Caliphates would expand to eventually rule from Spain to Pakistan.

Siege of Constantinople- final defeat of the byzantines, christianity lost its greatest city and foothold in the area.

Siege of Baghdad- This marked the end of the Islamic Golden Age at the hand of the mongols, as Notorganic said this set the world back centuries.

Siege of Vienna - Ottoman expansion in europe halted.

mariokart64 block fort

Battle of Hastings, end of story.

Though, notable mentions:

Napoleonic War
Crimean War
Stalingrad *William Wallace Scottish Legendddd*

Stalingrad.


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Pealanor Fields before the undead show up.

Blackwater was pretty damn awesome as well.

The Mongol sacking of Baghdad. Set the human race back centuries.

In London in 1906, Sir George Sydenham Clarke wrote, "The battle of Tsu-shima is by far the greatest and the most important naval event since Trafalgar."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Tsushima

Edited by Joffa: 21/4/2013 12:44:58 PM