hence scorched earth and salted earth retreat methods

"In enemy land always advance"

And its all enemy land

Napoleon was a vastly superior tactician to all his enemies, he could defeat them if his army was alive

until his army starved in the russian winter he was still favoured

Never underestimate russian winters though

logistics > strategy > tactics

I think the only ones to actually manage to conqure Russia was the Mongols

Russians are no big deal

It's not like napoleon was gonna stroll into russia then decide half way to walk all the way back to Paris

Fimbulwinterr

its the problem

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5VgCddIvNuw I think I heard Tim's washer spinning down in the background near the start of the video

he might as well have conquered Moscu at that point

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FDNyU1TQUXg

Didnt the russians just abandon moskau? Even set fire to it?

Or was that WW2?

Why would they?

never abandoned it in ww2

napoleonic wars

The Nazi never advance that much didnt they?

Nazis advanced hugely into russia

they were less than a day til Moscow

Oh the NAzis were in the suburbs of Moscow

and then the winter fucked their ass

Numbers can overcome any foe

The winter is indeed the best weapon of Russia

they were right outside moscow, and got stuck at leningrad when they tried to deviate toward the oil rich middle east @Strufa

the winter was bad but also the fixation on encircling and killing enemy soldiers

Because the finns didn't want to help the nazis take leningrad

Too bad it doesnt matter in this day and age

they had their seperate wars

The nazi did screw up a lot during WW2 right?

Thank fuck they did

But every "screw up" was a strength in another area

well most were

not just the winter, the siege of stalingrad had hilter basically waste his best troops in a pointless battle over a destroyed city @momoneymoproblems with how long it took and what it cost it destroyed them

all of his elite troops never left that city

I mean i heard that if instead of killing jews they putted then into forced labor they could have won the war

Yeah stalingrad was also a problem because of how many pure casualties

but the nazis controlled 95% of stalingrad at one point