> pretend to be moronic to provoke enemy response
> enemy doesnt respond
> tfw
one example I can think of is the fake airfield and wooden bomb in WW2
any other examples of this?
(this thread is NOT related to current events)
tactical trolling gone wrong
I think the Japanese in WW2 painted silhouettes of American bombers on their factories so the American bombers would not aim at them (for fear of hitting a lower flying bomber) it seemed really "looney tunes"
Little did they know it would just cause an actual US bomber to fly out of their factory and then bomb them
> be OP
> pretend that this thread isnt a reference to current event
> it clearly is
> nobody takes the bait
> thread slides
> mfw
no i don't think anyone's been this moronic
any chugger cope fanfics (muh baiting out dissidents, muh baiting ukrop counteroffensyiv, muh $6.2b cia psyop) falls flat when examined against what happened
> what happened
literally nothing
> conclusion
it wasnt real
anything beyond that is conjecture
uh yeah that was the point of my comment?
The opening to Verdun comes to mind
>French think the Verdun forts are obsolete and can't withstand modern indirect artillery fire
>Pierre hatches a plan to abandon Douaomont and let the Germans mass all their troops inside, then destroy the fort with their superior artillery
>the Germans on the front line realize that no one is shooting at them anymore
>a recon team of six decides to check it out against orders and ends up accidentally capturing Ft Douauomont and a stay behind garrison
>hon hon hon, things are going just as planned!
>Germans realize they've just cracked the entire eastern defensive line and rush troops into Douauomont to exploit the breakthrough
>suddenly, a French artillery bombardment!
>the fort tanks all the shells without any damage, all the Germans inside are safe and sound
>Pierre's face when
were they not accurate enough to pound the same spot repeatedly?
Most of the Verdun forts were made from inside rocky hills or mountains, the problem was they thought indirect fire could go over the side defenses and hit the citadel in the middle. Turns out they really were that strong, Douaumont only fell because some idiot private tasked to guard the armory got bored and tried to heat a cup of coffee with a flamethrower and blew everything up.
>some idiot private tasked to guard the armory got bored and tried to heat a cup of coffee with a flamethrower and blew everything up.
I feel like a vatnik asking this but do you have a source for that? Because I want to believe, it's so fricking stupid and hilarious that I want it to be true. Having seen so many "Hey sarge watch this!" moments when I was in the army I have no problem visualizing some bored moron trying to brew coffee with a flamethrower.
from the Wikipedia page:
>On 8 May 1916, an unattended cooking fire had detonated grenades and flamethrower fuel, which detonated an ammunition cache. Apparently some of the soldiers tried to heat coffee using flamethrower fuel, which proved to be too flammable and spread to shells which were without caution placed right next to such environments. A firestorm ripped through the fort, killing hundreds of soldiers instantly, including the 12th Grenadiers regimental staff. Some of the 1,800 wounded and soot-blackened survivors attempting to escape from the inferno were mistaken for French colonial infantry and were fired upon by their comrades; 679 German soldiers perished in this fire.
It doesn't mention that the Germans who opened fire at them believed it was the french Black person soldiers continuing attack after surprise destruction of the fort.
It actually does you moron
insane
how many feet of concrete?
>how many feet
13 yards so says wikipedia
>soot-blackened survivors attempting to escape from the inferno were mistaken for French colonial infantry
mfw
Reminds me of the time that the Germans in WW1 used so much chemical weapons on the Russians that they thought literal zombie soldiers were coming at them in battle.
The chemicals fricked them up so badly, they thought the undead was alive.
>Douaumont only fell because some idiot private tasked to guard the armory got bored and tried to heat a cup of coffee with a flamethrower and blew everything up.
That's the second most moronic thing in German military history, Jesus.
The most moronic thing was when the Enigma got cracked because the British codebreakers worked on the assumption that every message was being signed off with "Heil Hitler."
>when the Enigma got cracked
There was much more to it than HH.
> Douaumont only fell because some idiot private tasked to guard the armory got bored and tried to heat a cup of coffee with a flamethrower and blew everything up.
this happend in May 1916 but didn't Douaumont fall in October? (german wiki page claims that it fell after getting shelled by french 40 cm arty, no source though)
afaik thats just some of the nonsense they played up for the Enigma movie. Wetterübersicht (Weather report) was used frequently though
One other good story is the tale of DAN MOTHERFRICKING SICKLES, a 300 IQ galaxybrained genius who accidentally saved the Union Army at Gettysburg.
His full story is too epic to condense into greentext, but here are some prewar highlights:
>married a 15 year old in his 30s
>worked for the US embassy in England and promptly got banned from there after several high profile diplomatic incidents
>came back home to find his jailbait wife sleeping with the DC District Attorney, promptly ran him out of the house and executed him on the white house lawn
>became the first person in the US to be found not guilty by means of insanity
>Civil War happens, DAN MOTHERFRICKING SICKLES is a true and honest patriot and declares he will help out recruiting for the war effort
>US Army has a policy where if a group of people enlist together, the organizer can get a rank equal to the size of the group
>meant to be like groups of like 10 dudes with the leader becoming a Sgt or LT
>Sickles uses his gigachad rockstar energy to recruit over 3,000 people
>Sickles, a man with zero military training or experience, has recruited a brigades worth of people. Thus, he gets to be a Brigadier General
>Army says frick no
>Sickles b***hes to congress, many of whom are well aware of his antics and pressure the Army to give him a commission to shut him up
>Fine, but we're gonna dump him in the ONE place that will never be attacked... Western Pennsylvania.
>fast forward to Day 2 of Gettysburg, the Union is hanging on by a thread
>units are arriving to the battle piecemeal and Meade has to hold the line until they can be organized
>he decides to mass his troops on the open field outside of town, using the space to try and catch the rebels in the open and be destroyed by overlapping fields of fire
>DAN MOTHERFRICKING SICKLES, commanding the EXCELSIOR Brigade, questions the logic of Meade's plan and sees a peach orchard just in front of his line that has defilade and cover in the trees
continued...
>without telling anyone, our resident tactical genius decides to move his troops forward into cover
>there is now a sizeable gap in the Union line, which is noticed by Longstreet from across the line
>Longstreet and almost every other officer on the field were all trained at West Point and knew eachothers tactics, to abandon the line and make a gap like that is unthinkable
>Longstreet reasons that the only reason that the Union would move forward and take the orchard is if there was something there that would tip the scales in the Union's favor
>so if there was something there, then the Confederates needed to seize it
>after all, there is no reason why his former classmates would just abandon proven doctrine for no reason, right?
>instead of using his superior numbers to roll over the entire Union line, Longstreet decides to concentrate his entire force on the peach orchard
>the Excelsior Brigade is almost completely destroyed and Sickles has his leg blown off, but they manage to hold the Confederates off just long enough for the Union reinforcements to arrive
>Longstreet is thoroughly bamboozled and calls off the offensive, opting to probe at the flanks instead
>Little Big Top ensues
>fffffffff
>frick it, we ball right up the middle again
>Pickets charge ensues
>Longstreet's face when
and on top of all that, man lived to fricking 94 years old right up to the start of world war I ....
Wasn't Sickles a MG commanding a Corps at Gettysburg?
Also, I thought Longstreet's men just sort of blundered into his position because they weren't expecting the Union to be so moronic and hold a position so far in front of the main line.
The rest is as accurate as I remember tho.
You're probably right, it's been a few years since I've read up on his part of the battle and I've oversimplified some parts for readability. I just really love how Meade, a notoriously petty and irritable officer, met his foil in some random fricking guy wearing general stars
Based as frick kek
Here's a story of Tactical trolling gone right.
>Be Constantine at the battle of Chrysopolis.
>Know that Licinius is terrified of the cross.
>Raise it up as high as you can.
>Licinius shits his pants and runs.
>Licinius's legionnaires route when they see their emperor running.
>Constantine wins Because he does a little trolling.
Sounds apocryphal. Licinius was married to a Christian a used their symbols in his armies.
In 320 Licinius went back on his word and decided to persecute the church again.
He started arresting clergy, and seizing church property.
The most likely reason was because tension was brewing between Constantine and Licinius. The reason for the tension was Constantine sent troops into his territory to fight off a barbarian invasion unsolicited by Licinius.
Pretty petty of Licinius if you ask me.
Taunting an opponent who's younger/faster tends to end badly.