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[Lion Heart]

With unlimited ammo The Special ops would dominate. Each had a sniper and a bucket of nades it would be all day baby

 

[HotByCold]

This is SPECIAL forces people!
They are bound to have a couple of biological or chemical agents on them which will cause massive damage to the civil army, potentially killing of 99% of them in a couple of weeks.

And why the hell would they try to snipe them all down?
They're smart enough to realize that it won't work.

 

[tino]

High tech American solders have had pretty bad record against low tech 3rd world solders. Not to mention the moral and "faith" require to complete difficulty task. As soon as one high tech solder is catch alive and tortured for information, the special force lose majority of the technological advantage.

Maybe Israeli special force...

 

[Forsete]

Napoleons army vs. 1 pillbox?

I heard one german dude killed over 100 yanks just by being a gunner in one of those pillboxes at Normandie. He survived the war.

 

[Kung Fu Jedi]

Are you serious? Did I offend you by saying I would like to see how a how Marines would stand up to the Roman Army or Alexander from ancient times? Well excuse me for intruding of your thoughtful and philosophical discussing on a Special force of 4 guys vs Millions of Civil war soldiers.:lol

I was referring to your comment in which you said "The Roman Army back in Alexander's Time". You do realize that there were hundreds of years between the two right? Alexander was around long before the Roman Empire came to prominence, and they are not one and the same.

And yeah, as I've stated at least once already in this thread, it's a pretty silly discussion, with a lot of comments bordering on downright stupid.

 

[HomShaBom]

High tech American solders have had pretty bad record against low tech 3rd world solders. Not to mention the moral and "faith" require to complete difficulty task. As soon as one high tech solder is catch alive and tortured for information, the special force lose majority of the technological advantage.

Maybe Israeli special force...

You're full of shit. Where have you found out about these 'bad records', Fox News? Online blogs?

Successes you don't hear about.

 

[zon]

Would the SF dudes be allowed to wear the absolutely best in body armor? If so, give them that and then they can simply have miniguns.

When the civil war soldiers see line after line of their buddies being ripped apart so fast that barely anyone have the time to fire their rifle I doubt they'd even try to fight back.

Spoiler

lol

But really, the civil war soldiers would win. When 3,3 million soldiers are charging or searching for you it doesn't matter how well you've hidden.

 

[HyperZone<3]

Wasnt there a japanese movie wherea small group of their military was sent back in time against the samurais?

Yup.

Special Forces could spark infighting and let them all kill each other. Some steps could include:

-Doctoring up some incriminating photos using Photoshop to create mistrust
-Modern scanners used to forge orders from generals.

Or engage in a mental war

-Counterfeit currency to either bribe key people or enmasse to destroy the economy. With modern tech, there's no way they'd be able to tell.

-Assuming SF have gone back in time and are not in an alternate universe, use advance knowledge of natural disasters and predict doom with 100% accuracy via pamphlets. Also snipe a predetermined number of soldiers at long range.
I.E. "Next month, Tuesday, July 4th, there will be an earthquake in California, one hurricane off the coast of South Carolina, and exactly 4 American soldiers' heads will explode."

-Fly UAVs overhead with Morgan Freeman as the voice of God. SHOCK
-Project high definition interracial porn onto the walls of their churches. AWE

I like how this guy is thinking.

 

[RumFore]

I was referring to your comment in which you said "The Roman Army back in Alexander's Time". You do realize that there were hundreds of years between the two right? Alexander was around long before the Roman Empire came to prominence, and they are not one and the same.

And yeah, as I've stated at least once already in this thread, it's a pretty silly discussion, with a lot of comments bordering on downright stupid.

Regardless you new what I meant. Then you throw this out "Um... maybe you should just stay out of this discussion. Please!" as if I intruded on some deep discussion.:lol

 

[donkey show]

Yup.

What is the name of this movie? I must know so I can purchase it. :lol

 

[tekumseh]

When the civil war soldiers see line after line of their buddies being ripped apart so fast that barely anyone have the time to fire their rifle I doubt they'd even try to fight back.

Spoiler

lol

Here is a link to the deadliest battles of the Civil War:

http://www.civilwarhome.com/Battles.htm

Note, in particular, the Battle of Antietam, on which there were over 26,000 casualties in one 24 hour period, which actually was about an 11 hour day of fighting (commenced about 7am, finished by 4pm.)


What is there in these numbers that would suggest that the Civil War era soldiers would just simply give up?

 

[HolyStar]

Why the hell would the SF guys try to snipe them all down? Do you know how long that would take, they would have to be shooting for weeks to kill all of them (some of you guys don't know how much 3.3 million is.) I don't know why people think the SF guys would win. They only got their assult rifles, pistols, knifes, that kind of stuff. 6 rambos vs. 100 civil war guys would be much better.

 

[godhandiscen]

Air Strike.

 

[jeffy_johnson]

depends how badass the SF were. and if they were from the 41st millennium

 

[Crushed]

Look, GDJustin, I love stupid discussions like these, I really do.

But the Civil War-era army would win. This is not a comic book or movie, where the special forces can do all sorts of ninja shit and snipe 2,000 people without breaking a sweat or being found.

Also, I would like to point out that a group of samurai or ninja versus a Civil War army would probably lose as well; contrary to popular belief, swords cannot deflect bullets (yes, I've seen that video of a mounted sword and a mounted gun), nor does having a philosophy of "killing yourself once hopelessly outnumbered to avoid capture" help at all.

 

[TemplaerDude]

i like how you stuck both sides of the civil war together because you thought just one didn't have a chance.

 

["God's Beard!"]

What about 1 modern troop(batman) vs Sun Tzu and 2500 men? But sun tzu & batman know exactly each other's full capabilities, and have had 1 day to prepare.

fixed

 

[GDJustin]

i like how you stuck both sides of the civil war together because you thought just one didn't have a chance.

No, I mostly did that because we used to argue this question for sport a lot in highschool, and at first it was just one side, but then that brought up too many questions/rules. Does the other side EXIST? If so, can the SF recruit them to fight on their side? Which side is the SF fighting? How big was the North/South armies anyway? etc etc.

So... in future discussions we just lumped both armies together.

Also, limited vs. unlimited ammo for the SF was always a hotly contested point of arguement.

 

[LuCkymoON]

What is the name of this movie? I must know so I can purchase it. :lol

I would like to know this also.

 

[Javaman]

Once the Civil war soldiers find out the SF position by triangulating the sound of their fire or by surrounding them all they would have to do is hit them with a couple of old school cannons.

Well helloooooo there.

 

[marvelharvey]

I would like to know this also.

Samurai Commando

But as I mentioned, it's awful. And not the 'good' kind of awful.

Gaf thread of hype

 

[Lord Helmet]

 

[JoshuaJSlone]

If the Modern unit is acting stealthy, it would take them decades, if not centuries, to kill the entire civil army if they were able to do it well. They'd probably die of old age before they could accomplish such a monumental task.

If they have modern technology beyond weaponry, maybe they could just not directly kill any of them, and wait them out.

 

[emomoonbase]

I tried this in Rise of Nations and the civil war people won eventually.

 

[Freshmaker]

Here is a link to the deadliest battles of the Civil War:

http://www.civilwarhome.com/Battles.htm

Note, in particular, the Battle of Antietam, on which there were over 26,000 casualties in one 24 hour period, which actually was about an 11 hour day of fighting (commenced about 7am, finished by 4pm.)


What is there in these numbers that would suggest that the Civil War era soldiers would just simply give up?

The main thing that'd work against the civil war soldiers would be their tactics. Marching in neat orderly rows was bad enough against their own tech. Against a machine gun, the kill ratio would probably be staggering.