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[MightyPaladin]

Not quite a general, but *very* dwarven

[Rowanas]

Crazy Jack deserves an honourable mention to every one of my mates. Next time Remembrance Sunday comes around I'll actually take notice and stay silent for the minute in honour of him and him alone

[Helmaroc]

"He resumed his commission after Poland was invaded, and volunteered for the Commandos after fighting at Dunkirk. Churchill was not sure what Commando Duty entailed, but he signed up because it sounded dangerous"

[A_Fey_Dwarf]

Best general ever

[riffraffselbow]

...so I'll start one.



This is Field General Erwin Rommel, hardest motherfucker in Germany during WWII. Not only did he refuse to kill captured Jewish soldiers and civilians, he was allowed due to being such a fucking awesome general. Furthermore, he was not loyal to Der Fuhrer, but his country-hell, the only reason he didn't survive the war was because he tried to kill Hitler, and Hitler ordered him to kill himself-which he only did to spare his family the punishment they would have suffered had he refused.

He modernized tank and desert warfare, and his Afrika Korps were agreed by even the Allies to be pretty cool dudes.

So! Discuss some fuckin' Generals.

Illegal in Germany.

[Puzzlemaker]

...

Chuko Liang?

Ah thank you.  Turns out it was a harp-type thing, not a flute.  My bad.

[Blacken]

Illegal in Germany.

EVERYTHING'S illegal in Germany.

[Heron TSG]

http://www.badassoftheweek.com/roosevelt.html

Theodore Roosevelt was pretty kickass in the Spanish-American war.

[Osmosis Jones]

Kosciuszko.

He started out by tutoring, shagging and eloping with a noblemans daughter, ended having been instrumental in the US's war of independence, and a close friend of Thomas Jefferson. He was a trained engineer and a consumate general, as well as educated in fine arts, history etc.

He was opposed to race and class distinctions, emanciapated all slaves and serfs on his properties. He kicked Russia's arse so bad in the defense of Poland, and subsequent Polish uprising, that when the Russians finally captured him, the Tsar instead pardoned him in return for an oath of loyalty. Of course, Kosciuszko went to France and started planning for another uprising.

Hell, he's even had the tallest mountain in Australia named after him.

[chaoticag]

The Prophet Muhammed was a pretty good general.

His first military victory involved three hundred men against three thousand men, which isn't bad considering that he was a shepherd and a merchant before spreading Islam.

He also won a victory at one point, by having a trench dug. Not the first use of a trench in warfare, but a pretty early one. (It helped because building impromptu walls in deserts are almost impossible)

He also fought on the front lines most of the time, despite being over fourty.

[Lav]

Alexander Nevsky

He commanded a footed army against mounted invaders. Obviously the mounted combat for fortress troops was not yet implemented in that version.

He also fought on ice and managed to drown a lot of invaders. That's the first historical evidence of a magma-melting-ice-and-drowning-invaders trap. Unfortunately the engineering was still underdeveloped at that time, so a lot of invaders managed to evade the trap and had to be killed in melee.

[Tonjevic]

Was he the guy who killed himself in the movie Valkyrie?

Never seen the film, but could be. Rommel was basically forced to commit suicide (his family was threatened) after being implicated in the overthrow plot. As I recall, his death was reported as an accident: he was supposed to have died in a car crash.

Hell, he's even had the tallest mountain in Australia named after him.

Mind you, it's a pretty short mountain. Australia is a very flat continent.

[Osmosis Jones]

Hell, he's even had the tallest mountain in Australia named after him.

Mind you, it's a pretty short mountain. Australia is a very flat continent.

Shush you. It's the principle of the thing that matters, and it's still the tallest thing in any direction for about a quarter of the Earth's circumference.

[Heron TSG]

William Wallace did some pretty awesome schiltromming at Selkirk.

[smigenboger]

General "Snuggles" will become a general of notable strategy in my plans for a full animal defense fort. It will be a dog/cat farm and a full-scale wildlife capturing operation, with every wild animal being placed in a cage in front of the war dog cage, to see if you can stave off goblin ambushes with animals alone. General Snuggles will be a kitten placed in a look-out tower, overseeing the operating and plotting evil things...