worst strategic decision / mistake

[Winterwolf00]

worst strategic decision hmm? Do you mean other then the recent invasion of Iraq? Or the Vietnam War?

[Familyguy]

How about Hitler not pressing on to stomp the British at Dunkirk? Was there ever a reason to why he did not press on?

What would of happened if his generals had just gone ahead with an attack?

[Amman de Stazia]

I imagine that Hitler would have pretended it was his idea all along.  And Britain would have had 20 or 30 thousand fewer trained soldiers to watch RAF fighters hold off the Luftwaffe...

[Lueii]

Worst strategic move of all time.  Harleus rode accross Calradia to relieve me at Sargoth.  But he didn't guard the bridge and the Vaegirs cut him off, thus surrronding him and eliminating the entire Swadian army by piecemeal.  Picking each lord of one by one.  I, who had joined the sally saw that there was no chance of victory.  As the men I called my friends were butchered Ifell back with my few remaining men to Sargoth.  I left a hundred of my own men dead, some in covering my defeat.  The Swadian Army lost somewhere around two thousand men.  We held Sargoth for just long enough for Delinard to gather the few remaining Swadian lords and save the city.  The total casualities from both sides together were five thousand.  Mostly Swadians.

[Winterwolf00]

Worst strategic move of all time.  Harleus rode accross Calradia to relieve me at Sargoth.  But he didn't guard the bridge and the Vaegirs cut him off, thus surrronding him and eliminating the entire Swadian army by piecemeal.  Picking each lord of one by one.  I, who had joined the sally saw that there was no chance of victory.  As the men I called my friends were butchered Ifell back with my few remaining men to Sargoth.  I left a hundred of my own men dead, some in covering my defeat.  The Swadian Army lost somewhere around two thousand men.  We held Sargoth for just long enough for Delinard to gather the few remaining Swadian lords and save the city.  The total casualities from both sides together were five thousand.  Mostly Swadians.

Moral of this story? The AI has no sense of tactics.

[Lueii]

Worst strategic move of all time.  Harleus rode accross Calradia to relieve me at Sargoth.  But he didn't guard the bridge and the Vaegirs cut him off, thus surrronding him and eliminating the entire Swadian army by piecemeal.  Picking each lord of one by one.  I, who had joined the sally saw that there was no chance of victory.  As the men I called my friends were butchered Ifell back with my few remaining men to Sargoth.  I left a hundred of my own men dead, some in covering my defeat.  The Swadian Army lost somewhere around two thousand men.  We held Sargoth for just long enough for Delinard to gather the few remaining Swadian lords and save the city.  The total casualities from both sides together were five thousand.  Mostly Swadians.

Moral of this story? The AI for Harleus has no sense of tactics.

Fixed.  And actuallly the Vaegirs were quite clever in this instance.

[Winterwolf00]

Worst strategic move of all time.  Harleus rode accross Calradia to relieve me at Sargoth.  But he didn't guard the bridge and the Vaegirs cut him off, thus surrronding him and eliminating the entire Swadian army by piecemeal.  Picking each lord of one by one.  I, who had joined the sally saw that there was no chance of victory.  As the men I called my friends were butchered Ifell back with my few remaining men to Sargoth.  I left a hundred of my own men dead, some in covering my defeat.  The Swadian Army lost somewhere around two thousand men.  We held Sargoth for just long enough for Delinard to gather the few remaining Swadian lords and save the city.  The total casualities from both sides together were five thousand.  Mostly Swadians.

Moral of this story? The AI for Harleus has no sense of tactics.

Fixed.  And actuallly the Vaegirs were quite clever in this instance.

If only my khergit army showed as much sense.

[Oskatat]

German-japanese alliance in WW II

it didnt actually benefit either of them, but because of perl harbor, america could come off their semi non interference policy. If america (and canada, and australia and all their allies) hadnt joined the fight, d-day may never have happened,

and the alliance with japan was most likely to distract russia, but japan moved towards the isles and not the mainland, which defeated the third reich twice over by drawing in the USA and not dividing the USSR

[Lueii]

Worst strategic move of all time.  Harleus rode accross Calradia to relieve me at Sargoth.  But he didn't guard the bridge and the Vaegirs cut him off, thus surrronding him and eliminating the entire Swadian army by piecemeal.  Picking each lord of one by one.  I, who had joined the sally saw that there was no chance of victory.  As the men I called my friends were butchered Ifell back with my few remaining men to Sargoth.  I left a hundred of my own men dead, some in covering my defeat.  The Swadian Army lost somewhere around two thousand men.  We held Sargoth for just long enough for Delinard to gather the few remaining Swadian lords and save the city.  The total casualities from both sides together were five thousand.  Mostly Swadians.

Moral of this story? The AI for Harleus has no sense of tactics.

Fixed.  And actuallly the Vaegirs were quite clever in this instance.

If only my khergit army showed as much sense.

Khergits? Sense?

[Skot the Sanguine]

How about Hitler not pressing on to stomp the British at Dunkirk? Was there ever a reason to why he did not press on?

What would of happened if his generals had just gone ahead with an attack?

There were two reasons Dunkirk was handled the way it was.  First, Hermann Goering, the head of the Luftwaffe, said he could destroy them on the beaches with his forces (which were the best and most numerous of the time) with minimal losses.  Secondly (and perhaps most importantly), Hitler never wanted to fight the British.  He continuously hoped to strike a peace deal with them around this time.  If he utterly crushed the British on the beaches there would be absolutely no chance of peace with the British (from a political and population mentality standpoint).  Right until the Battle of Britain was roaring he still hoped for peace.

[Winterwolf00]

Worst strategic move of all time.  Harleus rode accross Calradia to relieve me at Sargoth.  But he didn't guard the bridge and the Vaegirs cut him off, thus surrronding him and eliminating the entire Swadian army by piecemeal.  Picking each lord of one by one.  I, who had joined the sally saw that there was no chance of victory.  As the men I called my friends were butchered Ifell back with my few remaining men to Sargoth.  I left a hundred of my own men dead, some in covering my defeat.  The Swadian Army lost somewhere around two thousand men.  We held Sargoth for just long enough for Delinard to gather the few remaining Swadian lords and save the city.  The total casualities from both sides together were five thousand.  Mostly Swadians.

Moral of this story? The AI for Harleus has no sense of tactics.

Fixed.  And actuallly the Vaegirs were quite clever in this instance.

If only my khergit army showed as much sense.

Khergits? Sense?

Ok lads we're going to circle around them and make them break their line so there easy pickings, *khergits charge head long* WAIT WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU DOING!? *Khergits slaughtered* Aw damnit.

[Tiberius Decimus Maximus]

German-japanese alliance in WW II

it didnt actually benefit either of them, but because of perl harbor, america could come off their semi non interference policy. If america (and canada, and australia and all their allies) hadnt joined the fight, d-day may never have happened,

and the alliance with japan was most likely to distract russia, but japan moved towards the isles and not the mainland, which defeated the third reich twice over by drawing in the USA and not dividing the USSR

Well it benefited the Japanese, which, looking back, was kind of a dick move on their part. They don't have to worry about the Soviets invading their holdings in Manchuria and Korea, and they could expand into the South with far less interference with the US.

[Lueii]

Worst strategic move of all time.  Harleus rode accross Calradia to relieve me at Sargoth.  But he didn't guard the bridge and the Vaegirs cut him off, thus surrronding him and eliminating the entire Swadian army by piecemeal.  Picking each lord of one by one.  I, who had joined the sally saw that there was no chance of victory.  As the men I called my friends were butchered Ifell back with my few remaining men to Sargoth.  I left a hundred of my own men dead, some in covering my defeat.  The Swadian Army lost somewhere around two thousand men.  We held Sargoth for just long enough for Delinard to gather the few remaining Swadian lords and save the city.  The total casualities from both sides together were five thousand.  Mostly Swadians.

Moral of this story? The AI for Harleus has no sense of tactics.

Fixed.  And actuallly the Vaegirs were quite clever in this instance.

If only my khergit army showed as much sense.

Khergits? Sense?

Ok lads we're going to circle around them and make them break their line so there easy pickings, *khergits charge head long* WAIT WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU DOING!? *Khergits slaughtered* Aw damnit.

Considering that the khergits who attack me usual attack one at a time against fifty men...

[polydamas]

Napoleon invading Russia during the winter. I don't know if I can blame him for Portugal.

[Moose!]

If america (and canada, and australia and all their allies) hadnt joined the fight, d-day may never have happened,

Canada and Australia were already at war, regardless of America's involvement, considering that they were part of the British Commonwealth.