If you were soldier in a war, which nationals would you like to fight alonside you?

[Al B. Sure!]

Paiktis:

In the 6th and 7th centuries, the Byzantines had essentially lost control of much of Greece to Slavic tribes. And then the Bulgarian empire stretched down to nearly Athens.


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[Boris Godunov]

Don't let der Oberfuhrer get to you, paitkis. We all know he's a goose-stepping twit.

[Al B. Sure!]

what did i say? I was just saying what a German had said. How could Slavs and Greeks be any worse fighters than anybody else? I mean basically, nationalities are all physically capable of the same things. A nationality that is constantly at war, however, or in preparation for war, will produce better soldiers. Russia has been in a state of war, civil war, and revolution since 1914... Russians have been excellent soldiers in history but I think the fact that Russia has never been all that internally good of a country (russians have starved and been malnutritioned), brings down the quality of the typical Russian soldier but Russia can always bring three soldiers for every soldier of another nation.


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[Bereta_Eder]

Byzantium was a multinational empire to begin with, as most of the empires were. Although it was predominatly Greek.

However, fylis (races) remained segregated.

The only exception to this were Greeks - Romans and even that is not fully certain..

[Ecthy]

Finns.

[VetLegion]

ts ts, this is not who is better objectively, its rather about stereotypes and opinions and such...

yeah should have made multi choice

yeah, sorry about banana, forgot

about kiwis I thought it was a together name for Australians and New Zealanders?

paiktis you cant vote greeks since you are ... ah, I see you consider yourself a turkish citizen? or a macedonian? rightly so ok then you can vote greeks

[VetLegion]

"The Greeks would flee from the Turks in their 19th century revolutions... Helleniphone Germans declared that Greeks had become slavs and inferiority in combat was expected. They were no longer spartans."

spartans had an interesting system of 'pairing up' soldiers... so you lived and fought with your pair to the end. they were good soldiers, but its a scary system and I doubt Greece kept it till nowadays.

[KrazyHorse]

Not. Even. One. Mention. Of. Canada.

Bastards.

[VetLegion]

most people probably thought it was part of US and voted there. doesnt mean you are not respected, cheer up

[DinoDoc]

I'm suprised that there aren't more than 1 vote for the Turks. They are certainly better fighters than the Greeks.

[HisMajestyBOB]

Gurkhas!

[TCO]

My Take:

I said the Germans. They seem pretty compotent.

marketing research criticisms:

-The poll has too many choices. I dind't read all...and most people won't.
-ideally you should have a factor that randomizes which choices are at the top. It is well known that people are more likely to pick the first answer in any survey.

(FYI: look at how much of the repsonses are for the first few choices...)

[KrazyHorse]

Look at who he's got in first few choices. Yanks, Krauts, Rooskies and Limeys. Who the hell else is there?

[Faeelin]

Paik's right. The greeks are fearsome warriors. That's why when faced with the might of the 19th century Ottoman Empire, they were able to move towards the completion of the Megale Plan.

And why, to this day, Western Anatolia is greek, despite the ferocious fight the Turks put up in ww1 against the might of the allies.

[monolith94]

I originally voted for the finns, but on second thought I'd rather vote for the vietnamese. they knew the value of stealth and guerilla fighting…