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[hafrogman]

I would agree, if the limited approach vector was somehow difficult to deal with, or dangerous, or full of capable, heavily armed people to take advantage of the situation.

Belgium and the Ardennes Forest were neither.

It was also full of the entirety of the French armed forces, which you may rightly argue ALSO failed to fulfill your requirements, but without the wall, they wouldn't have even had that. Just roll straight over the border and boom. Victory even faster than it happened with the wall.

France gets a pretty bad rap throughout history, but let's face it. It's not like they were ever going to win in any case.

 

[Aeson]

Have there been people there to point and laugh when that happens?

Nope.

 

[The_Warlock]

It was also full of the entirety of the French armed forces, which you may rightly argue ALSO failed to fulfill your requirements, but without the wall, they wouldn't have even had that. Just roll straight over the border and boom. Victory even faster than it happened with the wall.

France gets a pretty bad rap throughout history, but let's face it. It's not like they were ever going to win in any case.

Pretty much...

"'ey, guys, I ave zom good news! Our army is zafely beyind the fortifications!"

"Any bad news?"

"Um, we aren't zafely beyind any fortifications, and ze ones that ze army is een are surrounded by 'Bad Guys'TM"

"Why do I have ze dezire to say, 'Your princess is in another castle.'"

Well, they used to be good at it...Pippin the Short, Charlemange, Napoleon...what a wurld, what a wurld...

 

[Aurora]

Nope.

That's a good thing.

 

[Aeson]

That's a good thing.

I'm only clumsy when alone.


ok not really. :\

 

[Aurora]

I am pretty clumsy. I have never been described as "graceful". My grandparents still laugh at how I was in ballet when I was little, and how I looked cute, but was a terrible ballerina.

 

[hafrogman]

PWell, they used to be good at it...Pippin the Short, Charlemange, Napoleon...what a wurld, what a wurld...

I don't know about Charlemange, but with Napoleon and Pippin the Short (a hobbit, no less!) it's obvious their problem is they're too tall now.

 

[hafrogman]

I am pretty clumsy. I have never been described as "graceful". My grandparents still laugh at how I was in ballet when I was little, and how I looked cute, but was a terrible ballerina.

I wasn't too shabby at ballet as a child.

Once I hit 6'0" and a couple hundred pounds. . . not so graceful.


Some people move like a wave on the ocean.
I move like a rock on the ocean.

 

[Aeson]

I am pretty clumsy. I have never been described as "graceful". My grandparents still laugh at how I was in ballet when I was little, and how I looked cute, but was a terrible ballerina.

ROFL sounds like me without the ballet.

 

[The_Warlock]

I don't know about Charlemange, but with Napoleon and Pippin the Short (a hobbit, no less!) it's obvious their problem is they're too tall now.

Oh, center of gravity? Poor balance...I think you might be on to something here...

(thinks several horrible culminations of that and refrains from impugning the cultural and ethnic nature of the surrender monke...noble french peoples)