Averaged over all of WW2, one Finnish soldier was worth how many Russian soldiers.

[Lancer]

???? Edit: Supposed to be a question mark on the end of that.

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I need to know.

Include the Winter War.

Also, trivia question. What nations Napoleonic era navy was captured by cavalry?

[Dinner]

The finns never did take Lenongrad though...

[Nubclear]

Re: Averaged over all of WW2, one Finnish soldier was worth how many Russian soldiers.



Could've made an interesting and sucessful troll, but botched presentation and lack of provocative material makes this one a dud.

0/100.

[Al B. Sure!]

what country's navy was captured by cavalry?

[MRT144]

name a general that played a woman in a play

[Stefu]

10!

[Jeltz]

Originally posted by Stefu
10!

Ding ding ding! We have a winner!

[Lancer]

Stefu, I think it was alot more than 10. The Russians lost whole divisions during the winter war, then again in the attacks on the line. Finally they brought up enough artilery and pulverized the defenses.

The Dutch fleet was frozen in, the French cavalry rode up and took the ships, using cannons brought up threatening parts of the ships from which the Dutch could not return fire. The fleet then passed to the new French puppet regime, the Batavian Republic. They became the best the French had, fighting much harder at sea than the French did. Still, they couldn't match the Brits and many of the ships were lost over time.

The Brits didn't meet their match until the war of 1812 during which the US won almost every ship to ship engagement with them. It got so bad that the British instructed their captains to refuse combat with Americans on a ship to ship basis! This from the greatest fleet in the world. The Brits like to say it was due to the US ships being crewed by run British sailors, but only 8% of our sailers were run Brits.

[Lancer]

Gustav line?

[Pekka]

Lancer, yeah, but it was said that its worth 10..

[RGBVideo]

The finns never did take Lenongrad though...

Because they never advanced. Finland was on defensive during the whole WINTER war. In 1941-44 war, CGE refused to take over Leningrad.

"1 finn equals 10 russians" was, and is, a common phrase, based on the winter war.

[Jeltz]

Originally posted by Lancer
Gustav line?

Mannerheim line, after Marshal Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim.

[Pekka]

And it must be said, that Finns never even tried to take Leningrad. We didn't want it.
It wasn't ours to take, it didn't belong to us. It was Russias territory with no disputes over the area. Besides, if we wanted to go for it.. we knew we'd be doomed at the end of it.

It's the same with Murmansk support lines.. we could have destroyed it easily, but we didn't. Mannerheim ordered that the support line must remain untouched. Why would we let our enemy to have one of their main support lines that are essential to them in fighting against Germany in eastern front? After all, we were 'allied' with Germany... These things prove, that we didn't want Russia to have more suffering than needed.
And that's why we think our actions were justified at all times. We could have made (in continuation war) a lot more destruction. Instead we decided to stop and sit down and defend after certain point.

[Demerzel]

Originally posted by Lancer
The Brits didn't meet their match until the war of 1812 during which the US won almost every ship to ship engagement with them. It got so bad that the British instructed their captains to refuse combat with Americans on a ship to ship basis! This from the greatest fleet in the world. The Brits like to say it was due to the US ships being crewed by run British sailors, but only 8% of our sailers were run Brits.

True that you won nearly all the naval battles but your frigates were more like small ships of the line than the type of frigates we had. Generally frigates tended to lose when fighting a ship of the line, so you can understand why the more powerful US ships won.

Oh btw you forget to mention that in the 1812 war, the British won nearly every land battle including the routing of an American invasion column moving into Canada.

[Drake Tungsten]

Oh btw you forget to mention that in the 1812 war, the British won nearly every land battle including the routing of an American invasion column moving into Canada.

You don't really want us to bring up the Battle of New Orleans, do you?