Again, when the Brit's see entire front lines dropping in a matter of seconds from unfathomable distances you think that army is not going to lose its taste for blood real quick?
A standard issue AR style weapon has an effective distance of over 400 yards with IRON SIGHTS on man sized targets.
Do people here really not know how effective modern small arms are?
It would be like this https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Isandlwana but the Brits are the zulu.
Who is going to bayonet anyone? The Reds are asleep. There are sentries but they get sniped before hand. Remember, the British have no concept of night time warfare. They aren't prepared for what they can't conceive.
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Like many of us have said, Marines win the psychological war first. Most Brits would just peace out.
That is only with advantage of 10 to 1 too. People here thinking 1120 to 1 is winnable for the outnumbered faction are completely delusional.
Nor is 10 to 1 odds anywhere comparable to 1120 to 1. It was "terrible comparison" because the numbers were over 100 times off still.
Oh well, everyone has an opinion. We tried nicely explaining it to you. I'm sad you have to start being insulting. This was a fun conversation and pretty fascinating to ponder.
You aren't right of course, the Marines would win easily. I can only explain the differences in force so many ways. Maybe someone else can come up with a more eloquent and easy to understand way than me. Night kiddos.
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The Marines I know would say hell yeah they would win.
they wouldn't be facing anything unimaginable. they would be facing guns, just guns that can shoot a lot farther and faster. thats not a huge leap to make. a army like that is also used to heavy casualties so thats nothing new for them. even if they can't see the marines they can still pull the bullets from their guys.
the only scary part for them would be that at first they would assume they were up against a much larger force then they actually were, once they scout out the rough size of the marine force they can just win with overwhelming force.
death would win. it always wins.
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Really? I thought modern military training focused a lot on staying alive. I figured your average soldier would be trained to avoid suicide missions and to evade and hide if you can.
I mean theres a lot of bravado in the military sure but that's because they know they won't be sent into guaranteed losses on purpose.
The odds are irrelevant because not every Brit is going to go down fighting. Huge swaths of them are going to think better of their lust for blood in short order.
There is an entire topic you can read up on when it comes to psychological warfare.
Brits will literally be dying before they can even see what is killing them. That one multiplier is going to begin a snowball of second guessing.
The British would never find the marines.. the Marines would see a scouting parting coming, they would either kill them or simply move. Marine mortar teams would never be found, ever in that era. This alone is enough to make the British give up. HE weaponry that can't be found will destroy them psychologically.
There is a small chance a sniper team would be found but highly unlikely and in the event they were found a scouting party from that era would be noticed and counter measures would be taken. The scouting party would not return if the team was found, they'd have no chance of escape.
if the brits used the old battle formations and lined up to get mowed down, it all depends on how much ammo the marines have.