Stalingrad. Normandy has absolutely nothing on Stalingrad. Normandy was a quick siege... Stalingrad saw soldiers and civilians alike resorting to cannibalism due to the lack of food.
Stalingrad. Normandy has absolutely nothing on Stalingrad. Normandy was a quick siege... Stalingrad saw soldiers and civilians alike resorting to cannibalism due to the lack of food.
Napoleonic Wars, advancing towards the enemy while they took their aim and unleashed a hell of lead unto you, yet the rest of the moronic bastards kept on marching towards the enemy. I would of probably tucked tail and ran my ass off, only to be shot by an ass of an officer who dosen't like cowards. And then he gets his legs blown off by a cannonball, while the enemy artillery starts concentrating their fire on the center towards the advancing army, men blown to bits and some killed by the metal fragments as they fall in agony. And then they get charged by Heavy Cavalry as their thunderous hoof beats shake the very ground and trample and crush the fleeing men as they try to save themselves.
Stalingrad. Normandy has absolutely nothing on Stalingrad. Normandy was a quick siege... Stalingrad saw soldiers and civilians alike resorting to cannibalism due to the lack of food.
foxhound_fox
From the stories my Grandfather told me about Stalingrad, I'd have to agree. I remember he told me he once had to eat a cat. Up until he passed he had recurring nightmares of that hell on earth.
I would think any battle before guns. I would much rather be shot or blown up than what they had to kill people with. Imagine being impaled by a bow or sword, axe, or burned with boiling oil :o
I would say in the Battle of Little Bighorn in one of thecompanies with Custer. Because IIRC everyone(or the vast majority)with Custer was killed in that battle
EDIT: Or inside the Alamo during the Battle of the Alamo
Are yall kidding? WWI gets looked over so much...... it was so much more gruesome than WWII. This is probably why most people don't talk about it. The battle of Somme in 1916 was... not good hah. 419,654 British and 204,253 French were killed, wounded, or taken prisoner and approx 200,000 germans. The caualties of the Germans alone out number the entire envading force at Normandy. Not to mention poisonous gases were used making even those who survived live in angony or shame from chemical burns and deformations.
Are yall kidding? WWI gets looked over so much...... it was so much more gruesome than WWII. This is probably why most people don't talk about it. The battle of Somme in 1916 was... not good hah. 419,654 British and 204,253 French were killed, wounded, or taken prisoner and approx 200,000 germans. The caualties of the Germans alone out number the entire envading force at Normandy. Not to mention poisonous gases were used making even those who survived live in angony or shame from chemical burns and deformations.
Smoke89
There's also the mud that would suck people in until they drowned :(
Are yall kidding? WWI gets looked over so much...... it was so much more gruesome than WWII. This is probably why most people don't talk about it. The battle of Somme in 1916 was... not good hah. 419,654 British and 204,253 French were killed, wounded, or taken prisoner and approx 200,000 germans. The caualties of the Germans alone out number the entire envading force at Normandy. Not to mention poisonous gases were used making even those who survived live in angony or shame from chemical burns and deformations.
markop2003
There's also the mud that would suck people in until they drowned :(
This too.... and it was the first battle with tanks I think.... trench warfare + tanks = massacre
Stalingrad. A lot of people say Normandy, but other than the terrible losses suffered on the american beaches at Omaha where things went pretty badly wrong it wasn't that awful a battle. Stalingrad was just too horrible for words. One in every three russian soldiers was given a weapon to fight with. When you start off that badly you know you're in for a crappy couple of weeks.
The sheer brutality of it dwarfs anything from the western front.
Engrish_Major
Nah. I've played COD: WaW, and the beaches looked nice. Couldn't have been too bad... [spoiler] just kidding, jeez! Leave me alone! [/spoiler]
Beaches would have looked much worse if Germany assigned more than a quarter of its forces to fight the British and American forces. Churchill said himself the best chance of winning the war is through the Red Army/ On the eastern front, there was no retreat or giving up, it was fight or death. Cowards were regularly executed, prisoners were forced to run through and clear mine fields.. they were literally fighting as if the future of the entire human species depended on it.
Stalingrad. A lot of people say Normandy, but other than the terrible losses suffered on the american beaches at Omaha where things went pretty badly wrong it wasn't that awful a battle. Stalingrad was just too horrible for words. One in every three russian soldiers was given a weapon to fight with. When you start off that badly you know you're in for a crappy couple of weeks.Ninja-Hippo
Pointe du Hoc was also pretty bad. The Rangers had to climb up on ropes to reach the germans on the top of cliffs. Climbing up a cliff in the face of enemy fire sounds scary as hell.
WWII was bad and yes alot of men died at Stalingrad, but alot of that was because the Russians were crazy aholes. Verdun, which is sometimes called the "Stalingrad of WWI" saw nearly 1,000,000 deaths to the horror that is trench warfare. The Germans killed thousands and thousands of the French with a 10-hour artillery barrage of gas and explosives. These men sat in ditches in wide open fields and got pummeled. There was nowhere to run or hide, they vomited their own intestines out of their bodies and watched as their friends faces were eaten away by the gas.
Well the invasion of Normandy is an obvious one but I would have been absolutly terrified if I was part of some milita during the Revolutinary War and had to stand in line and get shot at by the highly trained British Army. Just standing their hoping a bullet did not go through your head would have been just awful. What a dumb way to fight.
Napoleonic Wars, advancing towards the enemy while they took their aim and unleashed a hell of lead unto you, yet the rest of the moronic bastards kept on marching towards the enemy. I would of probably tucked tail and ran my ass off, only to be shot by an ass of an officer who dosen't like cowards. And then he gets his legs blown off by a cannonball, while the enemy artillery starts concentrating their fire on the center towards the advancing army, men blown to bits and some killed by the metal fragments as they fall in agony. And then they get charged by Heavy Cavalry as their thunderous hoof beats shake the very ground and trample and crush the fleeing men as they try to save themselves.
tzar3
^^THIS^^...Being a victim of some of the stupidest tactics ever.
Normandy is an obvious choice, and so would be Stalingrad, but something about the Vietnam war scares the **** out of me. When I looked on the description of the game Shellshock 2, I realized there's a lot of potential of mixing the war with a horror movie, because the war itself...I just don't know. I know something unspeakable happened there. I just can't put a finger on it.
Charging blinding on no man's land during WWI must of been extreme hell. Absolutely no cover while artillery and machine gun fire hit you and your comrades.
Not really a war but nothing in my opinion beats being a roman gladiator. Man how sick would that be, I would prolly even faint at the thought of fighting for my life that way.
I cant believe just how much some humans have suffered in the history of mankind, I mean the pshycological aspect of being forced into being a gladiator is just arrgggg!!:cry:
The opening at the Black Gate leading into the crumbling land of ash, Mordor, along with the last of Gondor and Rohans' forces for a final effort, in order to give Frodo one last chance at disposing the Ring once and for all. Or Stalingrad, I hear that was hell.
yea stalingrad had to be the worst.. hell the russians only had 1 gun for every 2 men, so they paired two men together and if you were the one without the gun you would follow him untill he died. and if you ran the officers would shoot you themselves. and not to mention the starvation.....
World War 1.. Drowning in mud, getting gunned down by machine gun as you rush trenches.. Or choking to death due to mustard gas.. Any of the big wars in earlier times with liberal use of firearms sucked too.. Not only the line battles, but due to the fact that if you get shot in something like the arm.. Which we think is not that serious by today's standards as a injury.. You will very least lose the arm.. And most commonly, be killed by infection.
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