If you were Mars, the God of War...

Mark Conley

Mark Conley

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If, for one day, you could be Mars, the God of War..with absolute power over all wars, all battles, all conflicts..Past Present, and Future..and it was within your power to change one outcome of a battle..anytime...anywhere

What would it be?

Would you allow Hannibal to win? How about Picketts Charge Busting the Line at Gettysburg, and over running Meades headquarters? Well stretch your imagination, and if you were Mars...what battle would you change?


If I was Mars...I would make the Commander at Pearl Harbor aware of the radar identification of the attacking Japanese force ...allowing him to be ready for them. Ships leaving the harbor, to get the Japanese fleet. Antiaircraft Guns manned and ready. And all my planes would be up in the air...waiting.

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I probably wouldn't change anything in the past, especially in WWII. I knowthat sounds harsh, but I mean we know that even though a lot of bad things happened during that period, the outcome was reasonebly well considering the alternitives. If you change that "detail" of that war, you could change the outcome of that war... for better or for worse.
 
I would change the outcome of the battle of Gettysburg... But thats just me being my Southern self :|. That one or Waterloo, always respected Napoleon as a leader and he had a bad day which cost him everything :|
 
IrishWizard said:
I would change the outcome of the battle of Gettysburg... But thats just me being my Southern self :|. That one or Waterloo, always respected Napoleon as a leader and he had a bad day which cost him everything :|
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Don't change Waterloo, then I'd have to speak French! It's a beautiful language, but I'm just not very good at it..... ;)
 
Man oh man.......

Honestly I wouldn't change anything........ Any change of any of those wars would have such a great impact on everything, ya know?

This makes me think about how my own life would be if certain war were different or never happened...... Hmmmm...... I wouldn't have been born, for one, considering my Mom and Dad met in Late 71 while my Dad was on Leave from Vietnam for 30 days.
 
I would change the outcome of the of the siege of Fort Sumter, possibly stalling or ending the rebellion. (IrishWizard-But thats just me being a northerner :lol: )

I would also have Osama Bin Laden killed in Afghanistan when the Soviets invaded
 
Think I would change the WW1 tactics. I think too many good men needlessly lost their life in that strange war.
 
Yeah, definitely. I would make the US win in Nam ( as Eric explained, though, that war was actually lost on the home front ).
I would the Bay of Pigs Op work, would definitely make Israel invade Khomeini's Iran back in 1979 and... is that three wishes only, or... :roll: ?
 
Yep, unfortunatelly we lost it on home front. From military standpoint, with attrition, we were deffinitely winning the war, but on home front we lost it..........................
 
changing battles

i would change chanchellorsville, the south would still of won and jackson would of survived that might of had a huge effect on gettysburg itself, considering i'm geographically from way down south (southern hemisphere) ;)

Bullecourt (10,000 dead) and fromelles (5,553 out of 6000 in a feint attack at night) in ww1 :?
 
I wouldn't change Pearl Harbor...it was the very suddenness of the attack that galvanized the American people and, more than any other factor, led to American entry into WWII. By turning Peal Harbor into a "normal" battle rather than a sneak attack, you delay the entry of America into the war and very likely change the outcome.

If I had to change a military battle, I would say probably either Balaclava or Little Big Horn.

In the former, I can see no strategic or even tactical reason for the 300 men of the Light Brigade to disdain the offer of allied support and charge against a force more than 10 times their size -- there is a difference between honor and stupidity.

The latter is changed by the simple expedient of making sure the 7th cavalry had proper ammunition. Most of the men in Custer's command were able to fire only one or two shots before their weapons jammed...somebody had saved money by exchanged their regulation rounds with ones of wrapped brass, which generally ruptured and welded itself to the breech after a couple of shots. Proper ammunition would have allowed many of them to hold out until Major Reno arrived with the rest of the 7th Cavalry. (George Custer probably would still have died -- he was apparently killed early in the fighting. But his brother Captain Tom Custer may very well have survived.)
 
Id have the Terrorists fight themselves to the death, and when it seems like a few will survive send in some Soldiers and Marines to finish them off. :D
 
Evening troops.

I'd go back to the Falklands conflict, 1982, and get Col 'H' Jones VC to duck, rather than getting slotted in the back by that Argie MG position. I feel that British military doctrine could've gone in a different direction if 'H' had survived. We use Manouvrism, which I think 'H' would've advocated, but I feel a more 'fire-power and aggression' doctrine may've evolved.

Failing that, I'd go back to Agincourt; not to change the result, 'cos we won. I'd just provide the Welsh Archers with mortars and grenade launchers - just to make the victory all the more decisive...! :biggun:
 
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