The Battle of Hastings

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The Battle of Hastings Strelok 01/09/19 (Wed) 21:35:58 e85550 No.639284

What went wrong?

Strelok 01/09/19 (Wed) 21:55:29 442836 No.639290

>>639284

The bongs chased after frogs when they fell back instead of holding their high ground.

Strelok 01/09/19 (Wed) 21:59:57 da19a2 No.639293

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accidentally ran down the hill

Strelok 01/09/19 (Wed) 22:02:27 9c3947 No.639295

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>>639284

A large part of the problem was the force sent to beat Hardrada at Stamford bridge. Splitting your forces rarely ends well, and with the general casualty figures you saw in battle at the time that army would likely still have been at 90-95% strength after that battle. If those men could have been redeployed to Hastings faster than would have been possible at the time then the battle of Hastings would likely have gone the other way.

You have to hand it to William the Bastard, his plan to use the Norwegians as disposable distractions worked perfectly. If the English hadn't broke ranks and chased the retreating Normie forces as suggested in >>639290 then their odds would improve, but not nearly as much as if they had started with an extra ~ 10'000 infantry and 5000 cavalry.

The battle of Stamford Bridge did give us the tale of the last Bezerker though, which is both wonderfully romantic, metal, and a wonderful early example of English lateral thinking/perfidy.

Strelok 01/09/19 (Wed) 22:25:18 a9c598 No.639307

The professional army (read: badly supplied serf conscripts led by noblemen with no commanding expertise) of Bongland that was accustomed to war only as a formality, where battles are expected to end in rout, weren't prepared for real open field fighting and strategy as exhibited by the experienced Norman infantry. Normandy wasn't looking for a political or territorial dispute, they were there for land and resources. There wasn't much competition.

Strelok 01/09/19 (Wed) 22:30:21 91f401 No.639312

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>>639284

Godwinson should have waited longer before attacking the Normans. He would have been able to let his men rest from the march from Stamford and recruit more men.

However Willy was a smart frog and started burning villages in the south; he knew that any good would have to rush B down to fight him instantly. William was fighting against time with limited supplies and had to ensure a fast victory.

Anyways Hardrada would have made a much better king than William and may have delayed the inevitable end of the Viking era for another century or so. However William did end up becoming a great ancestor for almost all European royals.

Strelok 01/10/19 (Thu) 01:16:14 3894fc No.639383

>>639353

Reported for spamming.

Strelok 01/10/19 (Thu) 01:35:43 46d73d No.639408

>>639284

They had to fight a standing ground battle without:

-Someone else doing most of the fighting.

-Deceit.

-Treachery.

-Some crazy technological advancement or numerical advantage.

It was just a battle between similar forces, the kind Britain has consistently lost throughout history and learned to avoid like plague.

Strelok 01/10/19 (Thu) 01:38:08 6cc198 No.639410

>>639408

Actually, Haroldson got the terrain advantage, but he got baited to break formation and chase enemy, and thus got run down by cavalry.

Hastings is a classic example of tactical retreat.

Strelok 01/10/19 (Thu) 02:50:36 896ffd No.639438

>>639312

Yes, but at what cost? He literally introduced a certain demographic of this world to England, and with what an influence the soon-to-be empire would have on the world, it basically set course for the state of things today.

Strelok 01/10/19 (Thu) 03:57:15 5cf711 No.639450

>>639284

Harold got shot in the eye when he was about to win the battle.

Strelok 01/10/19 (Thu) 13:40:34 220c77 No.639504

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>>639408

>normans weren't deceitful, didn't use foreign soldiers, and didn't have better technology

Strelok 01/10/19 (Thu) 13:59:23 f847d0 No.639514

>>639504

He's a frog, they've spent the last thousand years trying to pretend they're not just very confused germans, willingly being used to start fratricidal wars, and continually fucking themselves over. At least now all that repressed anger might be enough for them to start finally revolting against their actual foes and kickstart the collapse of ZOG.

Strelok 01/10/19 (Thu) 15:41:11 2d87aa No.639549

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>>639284

Peasantry fyrds are stupid, or maybe King Harold simply got tired/thought the Normans had had enough. Either way, Normans are Franko-Nordic, so I don't care about "French"-relations in the royal monarchy. Also, nationalism did not exist for centuries and is not as good as worshiping monarchs; you fags do it with your celebs anyway, whether that be an actor or dictator or gunslinger.

Strelok 01/10/19 (Thu) 16:36:47 2e9d50 No.639575

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>>639408

>It was just a battle between similar forces, the kind Britain has consistently lost throughout history and learned to avoid like plague.

>Battle of Crecy

>Battle of Agincourt

How does it feel to consistently lose against numerically and qualitatively inferior forces, frog?

Strelok 01/10/19 (Thu) 16:42:16 58cef1 No.639577

>>639575

>ignoring all the times France had ratios of 100:1 in defensive scenarios

Strelok 01/22/19 (Tue) 12:12:33 3cd614 No.643204

>>639577

Propaganda

Strelok 01/22/19 (Tue) 15:02:16 b62c7c No.643248

>>639549

Learn history.

The "peasant fyrd" was winning until they got baited.

Strelok 01/22/19 (Tue) 16:49:06 1caaf8 No.643264

>>639575

>How does it feel to consistently lose against numerically and qualitatively inferior forces, frog?

Remind me who won the 100 years war again? Who got kicked out of Europe to be inbred retards on a monkey island?

Strelok 01/22/19 (Tue) 16:53:32 9c3947 No.643265

>>639408

>The Battle of Blenheim