Which Historic General Am I?"

[mundens]

From so many people I can't remember where I saw it first!

Erwin Rommel You scored 59 Wisdom, 85 Tactics, 52 Guts, and 45 Ruthlessness!

You're most comparable to German Field Marshall Erwin Rommel in the fact that you have very strong tactical skills and morals. However, Rommel lost in Africa despite the fact that his logicians had told him time and time again that the English were planning to shut off his supply lines. Rommel lost North Africa, because the English shut off his supply lines. The moral of this story... Listen to your logicians. And guard your damn supply lines! But that being said, Rommel was one of the greatest strategic and tactical minds of our day. Had he overrun Egypt (which was a definite possibility at the time), World War II may have turned out significantly differently then it did. Erwin Rommel entered the army in 1910 and rose slowly through the ranks. In 1939, Adolf Hitler made him a general. Rommel brilliantly commanded an armored division in the attack (1940) on France. In Feb., 1941, he took the specially trained tank corps, the Afrika Korps, into Libya. For his successes there he was made field marshal and earned the name “the desert fox.” In 1942 he pressed almost to Alexandria, Egypt, but was stalled by fierce British resistance and lack of supplies. A British offensive overwhelmed (Oct.-Nov., 1942) the German forces at Alamein (see North Africa, campaigns in ). Rommel was recalled to Germany before the Afrika Korps's final defeat. He was a commander in North France when the Allies invaded Normandy in June, 1944. Allied success led Rommel, who had lost his respect for Hitler, to agree to a plot to remove Hitler from office. Wounded in an air raid in July, he had just recovered when he was forced to take poison because of his part in the attempt on Hitler's life in July, 1944. Other leaders like yourself include Patton and MacArthur.

My test tracked 4 variables How you compared to other people your age and gender: You scored higher than 0% on Wisdom You scored higher than 85% on Tactics You scored higher than 14% on Guts You scored higher than 28% on Ruthlessness

Link: The Which Historic General Are You Test written by dasnyds on Ok Cupid

Well, I'm happy, that's exactly who I would have wanted to be!

Comments

[jaadfan.livejournal.com]

Me too!

so out of twenty-five choices, we end up about the same?
Veery Interestink

[mundens.livejournal.com]

Sounds like we'd make interesting opponents in a wargame!

But I don't think Tyrannids is a good army choice for a Rommel!

[jaadfan.livejournal.com]

mebe not, but I know as a 'nid general I don't have to worry about morality.

- Only what's for dinner

[xenogram.livejournal.com]

I reckons I'm a hippie. Like the heads of state of Russia, France and Germany apparently.

I smell a Wingnut.

[amarynth.livejournal.com]

I'd have preferred somebody more, er, democratic myself... and yes, I'm aware De Gaulle doesn't fit the bill.

[vizi.livejournal.com]

I got Charles de Gaulle (high wisdom and ruthlessness). I think several of the questions are flawed though, as they are questions that generals would not be answering in a modern context - the politicians would have made the decision for them.

[amarynth.livejournal.com]

Y'know I'm pretty sure 'logician' is not a word.

[evie-fae.livejournal.com]

You can be as sure as you like, but the Oxford English Dictionary disagrees with you. ^__~

[amarynth.livejournal.com]

Damn, it sounds so made up... like "scientician".

Or is that a word too?

[jarratt-gray.livejournal.com]

A scientist is what we have instead of a scientician so I would assume that scientician is made up. It is a complete mouthful so I'm kind of surprised, made up or not, that people would ever actually use it.

[mundens.livejournal.com]

I think they meant "logisitics staff" though, as I believe a logician works with logic not logisitics.
:)

[amarynth.livejournal.com]

I guess they just couldn't bring themselves to say 'listen to accountants'.

[jarratt-gray.livejournal.com]

I would have thought a logician was someone that studies or works with logic, not logistics.

[evie-fae.livejournal.com]

And you'd be right. I never said Logician was being used correctly. I was just saying that it's definitely a word! XP