Board Thread:Warhammer 40k General Discussion/@comment-25618639-20150118044502/@comment-86.155.215.82-20150122144144

Rommel, Patton and Montgomery all achieved great successes, sometimes with poorely equipped, supplied forces, non-supportive natural conditions. Again, they won through by knowing their field of combat and applying their advantages where possible to mask their weakness. You could argue that the German were like Space Marines (Chaos obviously...) and the British were like Imperial guard. The Germans had superior tanks and some equipment with good tactics but the British had greater flexibility, good tactics, capable tanks and some good equipment. Monty sending infranty screens to dig out the Nazi mine fields, allow an armoured strike was inspired and relied not on the most gucci kit (Bolter compared to Lasgun) but discipline and spirit.

Going back to Roman era Britain, A Roman leader (forgot his name) had (if I recall this all correctly...) around two legions, some 10,000 fighting troops maximum and faced off against I believe 230,000 native Britons. By understanding his superior training and equipment, as the 'indivdual troops tactics' would probably be fairly equal, as well as the battle ground they were forced into, they created a lethal combination, allowing massive losses to be acheived by the Brits with minimal Roman losses. This was a combination of using selective force multiplers, e.g. the environment to off set the Britons massive numerical advantages. Also by understanding how both forces would fight, they won through, much inpart to forcing the enemy to not fight in a manner suited to them. 2/3