General Topics!

[Oberon]

I didn't know there was such a guy, but there you go...no...a post by The Avon Lady in another thread got me thinking...about greatest generals...I mean, I know that there's a section down the boards for groundthumpers but that's mainly mech inf and armour...SO...

Who do you think was one of the greatest generals? What makes a great general? Was it Patton with what has to be my favourite quote on recon ("Go down that road until you get shot at") or was it Monty with the success in the desert but the failure at Arnhem....it doesn't even have to be World War 2...it could be Stormin' Norman, or even General Erich Von Ludendorff!

My choice? Hmmmm....it's a tough cookie...but it's probably Hans Guderian, with the way he rebuilt the German armoured forces in preparation for the Blitzkrieg which he helped create, of course...it could be argued that he was simply aping the ideas of Liddell Hart and Fuller, but it was the fact that he was able to put these ideas forward in a way that they were accepted by Hitler and the High command, instead of reworked and ignored as they were by allied forces to begin with.

Anyway....over to you guys...I would put a poll...but it's not really about who the best of the best is, but more of a discussion of the relative merits of each, and to see who people consider their 'favourites'