The Royal Guard has gone through its latest blunder and Princess Celestia has had enough. In an effort to whip the guard in shape, she entrusts Princess Luna to hire new advisors. Little did she know who Luna would decide to bring.
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JustAnotherHistoryBuff
I am into history, whether it be on warfare or maritime disasters. Also a Titanic enthusiast excited for Titanic Honor and Glory.
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Bet Eisenhower be rubbing his presidency in their face
I have to ask, is God Chuck Norris in this fic? Because if he is bravo.
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Sorry but when I said Chuck, I was referring to Supernatural Chuck. The writer/God.
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Not with Monty around to annoy the shit out of them all. Who knows, maybe I'll throw in a few other generals to add some flair to the mix.
I appreciate you fellow historian geek
I still love Napoleon as one of the fav generals (major sexism and moral views aside, and as ruler I have more higher up favs then him) and I love his tactics even tho the did some big screw ups. Besides egypt, russia, and anything naval. Tho besides those he usually compensated for his other screw ups by absolutely hitting the walnut brained squirrel of the coalition the second it tried to cross in front of his metaphorical car. And man he knew how to use them big guns. Tho the French rev and later simple nationalistic zeal which he cant take most of the credit for is underplayed
One of my fav is the square tatics he used against the mamluk Calvary. Those malmuk casualty numbers vs his..... Mmmmmmmm. Or the fact that being outnummbred never seemed to stop him. Tho only cause there were weakness he could exploit either in cannon, morale, or organization, that countered any number adv.
You can see I like him alot. There is this really good book on him. Biography. Covers all this and so much more in hundreds of pages. Real juicy
Also you read rise and fall of the third Reich? Classic and amazing. Took me months to get thru tho. I still laugh at the multiple hundred page INDEX. Book is one thing, but index? I mean i get it cause all the recovered documents are extensive but it isnt something you see everyday even in those books
What first caught my eye of this was the pic while I was quick scrolling. Seemed familiar, the faces too, then saw your username and I'm like we'll if its history and as an added ponies to I cant NOT check it out
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Oooooo maybe even rommel he wasn't toooo Nazi. I mean isn't that kinda why Hitler was like you kill yourslef like an honorable german or we kill you like a not good enough Nazi. I mean I k ow there was alot more going on and this is waaaaay oversimplify to point of inaccuracy but you get my point
This history pony combo reminds me of this funny pony video for many of the episodes where it's like their all stickfigures and it oversimplified and very comedic and one which has pony spitfire but in the vid when it was her part they just put a picture of a actually spitfire plane and when she was supposed to talk it was just single propeller airplane noises. It made me laugh very hard
Pls excuse my terrible spelling and grammar. Typing on phone at 2 am with eyes that wont stay open. So typing fast so i can sleep and ignoring most errors and grammar crap and not trying to writing sentences normally which is unlike me usually. Just throwing together words for minimum understanding of point cause that how little energy I got
When I talk or type this late it is usually blobs of text/speech gibberish. Tired makes me talks more about everything and anything as like something to keep me awake, but everything I say in this excessive talking state has little coherence
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Wrong Rommel was a devoted believer of Hitler at least when it came to militarism. Rommel only lost favor with Hitler after he suggested that they retreat from North Africa. Rommel hated democracy and welcomed WW2. Rommel owes his position to Hitler, also while a great tactician Rommel sucked at strategy
When it comes to good/great second world war commanders you do have a wide range of them, and not just Allied and German COs, you have Commander Mannerheim who knows what to do with limited resources and how to make defensive fortifications, you also have General Giovanni Messe who is described as being the Italian version of Erwin Rommel. He has experience, he made special forces and how to fight a defensive war. With Rommel, Im pretty sure God would have to mame a deal with Hell to get him back since he did kill himself.
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The debate about Rommel is very... polarized in many aspects due to many people simply taking sides on one end or the other. On one end, you have the Wehraboos that believe in the full clean wehrmacht and that Rommel was a Saint and all that and on the other end, you have the idiot redditors or "historians" who don't even show their evidence and try to paint rommel as a shit commander, and shit strategist, a shit person with logistics... and on that extreme end, a truly evil war criminal. Both tend to fill the online forums with their nonsense, the later being extremely prevalent on the shitposting reddit r/shitwehraboossay, and they try to preach their own facts about the "evidence" which contradicts itself. Now... it may seem I am a bit bias towards the Wehraboo end, but I take Rommel from a centrist point of view. He was one of the cleanest generals of the war in regards to conduct generally, he was not a Nazi but if anything a nationalist and a believer in Hitler and such (you really can't say he was a Nazi after you research his own opinions after he took a mandatory officer corps National Socialist political course in the late 30s), he was a great tactician, albeit he tended to be so close to the front that he jepordized the entirety of his command structure (research during operation crusader when he was nearly captured when his command vehicle broke down along with his Chief of Staff or when a Colonel was at one point in charge of the entirety of the Afrika Korps). You cannot say he was a shit person at logistics because one must remember, he had to rely on Italian logistical capabilities as well as having to deal with the meddling of Franz Halder and such. If anything, I would go so far to say he was more or less above average with how he managed to handle logistical issues on numerous occasions and you also mist remember that he himself quoted that each time they attacked, they kept one eye on the fuel gauge. His greatest triumph was probably his great retreat and rearguard actions during said retreat after El Alamein (which is remarkable how they held out for as long as they did despite the odds). Strategy wise... okay, yeah... not entirely one of the wisest but not completely shit and such. The D-Day debate is an interesting one that I would recommend you all research. His conduct definitely is noteworthy during the war (every general has a few small stains on their record... regardless) and his involvement in the July 20th plot is very debatable. There is evidence he was planning on opening the frontline (research his meeting with Sepp Dietrich on July 17th, a few hours before he was strafed) but it is debatable as much as his direct involvement. There is a picture of him and Spiedel at a meeting between conspirators but his contact with them is up for debate as well. The best one can say is that he knew but simply did not tell.
This is epic, man. Keep it up!
this is fucking great to read please more
This is bloody awesome
This has the looks of the start of a really good story. Patton. Bradley. and Eisenhower the Generals.
Shining Armor as the Capt. all we need to really stir up things is R. Lee Ermey for drill Sgt.
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Monty is coming up next.
Fellow history Boi here and while I picked up the story skeptically.... I’m very happy what you’ve done so far. I am eager to see how you approach this particularly from procurement and training/ethos perspective. I’m most interested in is how would late WW2 US shock and awe tactics/doctrine and tech merge with Equestrian medieval era equipment and what kind of industry Equestria is going to need to go to war gear. Also where exactly is the political will for a better procurement process for equipment and arms industry going to come from.
Sharing my opinion here, (not criticizing you just saying) If I had to reform Equestria’s army and choose three advisors I honestly would have gone with Napoleon Bonaparte (corps system, inspiring ethos and used to train civilian populace), Ulysses Grant (logistics, indirect advance, high command and political-military coordination advice) and Canadian General Arthur Currie (modern artillery and counter battery fire and prepared advance tactics) rather than Ike, Bradley and Patton. The three you chose make for a far better story because of their personalities and are well balanced but from my standpoint (IMO anyway) they seem bit far in the future, are used to working with a far better tech, plus they commanded a population with a far more streamlined and advanced infrastructure. Again, I like your pick as Ike, Bradley and Patton are just more interesting and work better as a trio. I just think that I’d choose diffetently
... I .... don’t have a very good opinion of Monty (Market Garden, General pompishness, Dieppe(though that wasn’t really his fault)) tbh but I haven’t done enough reading of him to make a judgement. Not to say you are wrong, but I’m curious why Monty and not say I dunno. McArthur when you already have 3 US generals?
dude this story is an instant classic in my books
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I wanted a relatively good staff officer from a different nation. Simple as that. If I wanted to add Doug, I would've needed an entirely different reason as well due to the fact of his planning before the invasion of the Philippines. If anything, I could've added Keitel as a staff officer but I am not in the mood to add German generals just yet, besides, Keitel was a lackey. Adding Monty adds to the banter and it is logical as well. Besides, who wouldn't want to see Ike try his best not to strangle both Patton and Montgomery at the same time with Bradley sitting on the side eating popcorn?
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I aim to please the masses.
Soon...
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HAHAHA!
TOO TRUE!
This is just terrific. :) Thanks for making my afternoon SOOO much better. XD
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Good to hear mate!
This is great
May Big C have mercy on their souls
Shit. XD
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Shit indeed...
Whoa, that many uploads in one day? Are you Father Christmas or something? :D
Also here is an F for Patton's semi-good day, I knew it would be budget cuts, butt I didn't knew it would be for toilet paper XD
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Lmao
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and i don't mean your story, i just mean like... the advisors are going to have to deal with a lot of shit lol
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i know lol
Yes, this is very much adequate
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Good to hear HMS Detonation
So, in simplest terms: Shining Armor left the guard in perfect running order, and Mareclellan let it be destroyed from both within and without.
Luna: If it was up to me, Mareclellan would be hanged for treason, as destroying the guard is treasonous behavior. He is lucky that his fate is not just mine to decide.
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There is probably some law in the constitution against that from during Celestia's monarch reign
I see you changed the cover photo
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Indeed. For each new advisor, the cover photo shall change.
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So you confirm that more are coming? Good. Good.
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Yes... Why wouldn't there be more? C'mon... I gotta add the other boys in at some point.
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Mmmmmmmmmh sounds lovely
Thanks to Jeopardy, I learn that McClellan is from the Civil War. A Union general who Lincoln had to basically berate into actually attacking the enemy.
So, no wonder MareClellan is so useless.
They need to find Grant's or Sherman's pony counterparts to actually lead the guard.
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Haha! Now somebody gets the reference!
If the army is in such a sorry state, I don’t even want to imagine in what miserable state the navy is, considering how much money is needed to operate a single ship, let alone a decent side fleet, they probably only have row boats, or even only “Ugg Floaty Logs”
idont know why but this part made me chuckle
just from the title i can tell im go in to like this chapter
after reading
i was right i love this chapter
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Oh boy.... you just gave me an idea.... Admiral King advising the Equestrian Navy... oh god that would be something.