Board Thread:Lore Discussion/@comment-10870829-20130717030243/@comment-8248675-20140210040439

I don't see how discussing Roman atrocities is related to the topic, unless someone is implicating that Talos comitted atrocities similar to that, and that is likening him to Julius Cesar.

I agree that General Talos, must have been combination, of inspirations, drawn from many Roman Generals and Emperors and perhaps, not even just Roman. Alexander the Great was a great general, but I think he did lost one battle. At the end of his great conquest, when he had reached India, I do believe that he wasn't able to over come the resistance of some natives of the area. Macedonians were not used to jungle warfare and such a use of Elephants like Hindus had. He must have fell ill with something exotic there, since he have died on the way back to Macedonia. When he failed in India, he ordered his armies to turn back.

However, there was one general in history who knew no defeats and no retreats and who wasn't born a ruler of anything and never was! Generalisimo Suvorov Alexander Vasilievich! He did live a longer life then Alexander the Great, but he started as a regular soldier, even though he could have been an officer right away (his father was an old officer, he put him trough officer's school, but Suvorov decided to serve as a soldier). Through out his military carrier, he had won 90 or more battles and never lost a single battle. From what I hear, he is the only general in history to do so. His last campaign, he led when he was in his 70s. He was called out of retirement, to lead a coalition of Austrians and Russians (Along with other nations such as British and Ottomans), against Napoleonic France, in 1799. He have successfully kicked French out of Austrian Italy. After that, he had repeated the feat of Haniball. The second general to ever cross the Alpes, just in a different direction. For that deed, he was granted the highest rank in Russian Army, Generalisimo. He had died soon after his return to Russia. His full titles and ranks said that he was Generalisimo Suvorov Alexander Vasilievich, Count of Rymnik, Prince of Italy. However, he chose that his gravestone would say simply, here lies Suvorov. Some say that he was an unrecognized, Russian Saint.

Oh and, everyone probably already know that, but General Talius was designed to look like Julius Cesar, not sure if his personality or military strategy would suggest that he was based of Cesar in that. You know, besides his huge ambush on Ulfirc and his men, we don't really know much of his military feats. I wonder if he was one of the Generals in Great War. Do any books on Great War state anything about General Talius? I am not familiar with all of the books on that subject.