Which other musical styles besides rap have battles, and for how long have they been around? [more inside]
posted by bjrn on Jun 27, 2009 - 35 answers

Help me to be awesome at the Total War series of games... [more inside]
posted by Alabaster on Jun 5, 2009 - 9 answers

I'm tired of the conventional wisdom that the French don't know how to fight, or are cowardly, or always surrender. I'd like to put together (or find) a list of the great French military victories from ancient Gaul through WWII. [more inside]
posted by Flying Saucer on Feb 7, 2009 - 44 answers

What are the best poems about glory in battle and valor in warfare? [more inside]
posted by clockworkjoe on Jun 9, 2008 - 31 answers

Names of all the riders involved in the disastrous Charge of the Light Brigade led by Lord Cardigan during the Battle of Balaclava on 25 October 1854 in the Crimean War? [more inside]
posted by complience on Jan 6, 2008 - 1 answer

How to get London - Battle on public transport? [more inside]
posted by gaspode on Sep 27, 2007 - 9 answers

Send me to war college. [more inside]
posted by Bookhouse on Feb 12, 2007 - 17 answers

Let's say you're thrust headlong into a dogfight engagement in space. Era and galaxy of your choosing. What would the real-world physics look like? [more inside]
posted by Gordion Knott on Nov 2, 2006 - 58 answers

I have been reading Patrick O'Brian's Aubrey-Maturin series, and I like it a lot. Now I want to play video games set in the era (or thereabouts). Are there any good ones that simulate the Napoleonic Wars or other European and Colonial wars of the general period? Or that have better sailing ship naval battles than the new Pirates!? I liked that a lot at first, but it's too simple and repetitive for me. I have modern computers running windows, OSX, and Linux and a PS2. [more inside]
posted by Mayor Curley on Jun 15, 2006 - 6 answers

I am trying to find an account of an actual historical battle between male and female "armies". [more inside]
posted by ontic on Oct 16, 2005 - 17 answers

I'm trying to find out what my grandfather did during World War II. He was in the 101st and I know he saw a lot of the worst of the Battle of the Bulge. He mentioned going to Hitler's retreat (I believe he means Eagle's Nest). He also won, I believe, an important medal that he refuses to accept and was invited to France to do something. He hates talking about it, he's getting up there, and I was hoping to figure out as much as I can. Sorry to be vague but I'm telling all that I know. My preliminary google searches don't turn up anything. More inside. [more inside]
posted by geoff. on Oct 12, 2004 - 9 answers