BF2S Forums Entire British Army v 100 Modern Day Marines = ?

Remember, it's the ENTIRE British Army. Every single man that enlisted from 1785 to 1781.

Some misconceptions...

• Everyone is assuming the British are the attacking force.
• Most people are assuming the British would line up in a nice neat formation and walk straight into MG fire... you must be retarded.
• Most people are assuming the fight will take place on a big open plain with no cover, where the British (as point 1) need to walk up to a Km in order to just engage the USMC.
• Everyone is assuming the British are all going to attack from the same direction and not use their superior numbers to surround and overwhelm the USMC.

If you assume all the above, the USMC then have many advantages which are not stipulated in the OP and are probably going to win.

The British would win... as pointed out pages ago.

DrunkFace wrote:

Some misconceptions...

• Everyone is assuming the British are the attacking force.
• Most people are assuming the British would line up in a nice neat formation and walk straight into MG fire... you must be retarded.
• Most people are assuming the fight will take place on a big open plain with no cover, where the British (as point 1) need to walk up to a Km in order to just engage the USMC.
• Everyone is assuming the British are all going to attack from the same direction and not use their superior numbers to surround and overwhelm the USMC.

If you assume all the above, the USMC then have many advantages which are not stipulated in the OP and are probably going to win.

The British would win... as pointed out pages ago.

All the people that also mention heavy machine guns forget that they take time to reload and the barrels burn out.

Last edited by Vilham (2008-03-16 19:09:52)

I bet that if the Brits had unwaivering courage, they might be able to charge into killing the marines.  But they would most likely by psyched out seeing literally thousands of their own troops getting killed before they are even close to rang, not even "accurate range".  I'm not trying to compare courage, both of them probably have the same amount...  just the overall fear factor coming from the marines might defeat the British army.  Imagine only seeing muskets, then all the sudden you walk into a battle with machine guns, scary sight.

Spearhead wrote:

Wouldn't the Marines run out of ammo/fall asleep eventually?  Dumb question...

Not saying they couldnt take out huge amounts of brits but there's no way they'd have a chance.

OP says both sides have "uncountable supplies of ammunition"

I think it all comes down to courage.  Marines would be able to engage out to beyond a mile with M2HB .50 Cal Machine Guns, and seeing your comrades being gunned down mercilessly at that range would reek havoc on the British Morale.

As for an assault force of Marines, they'd simply wait till dark and use Night Vision to destroy the British morale.

British Army, they had sharp shooters than and no way 100 marines armed with just there weapons can kill 100,000 armed people... British Army wins with quantity over quality.

To the person who said the British Army consisted of 12,000 men.

Wrong.

It was more like 230,000 including German mercenaries.

2,300:1

British would win.

Hmmm, a musket bullet in a kevlar = fail

PRLR wrote:

Hmmm, a musket bullet in a kevlar = fail

hhmmmm, a musket ball is on average a HALF INCH of lead......even if the kevlar was able to stop it from penetrating, the energy alone would put that person out of commission.





come on people, its called a force multiplier.
eventually the odds would fall to the british, no matter the situation.

There is only one way to solve this













Create a BF2 mod: Marines vs (a lot more) Muskets

Last edited by Mek-Izzle (2008-03-17 08:47:33)

I think we need Mythbusters on this one.

The number of bodies in the British Army is higher so they can afford to lose a significant amount of troops while they march in w/ fix bayonet The USMC small-arms weapons probably will over heat trying to cap as many british troops as possible and they will have to rely on their kabars, bayonets, e-tools, helmuts, etc for hand to hand combat. The ratio between British : USMC troops would be roughly 5000:1
That is a lot of targets for one marine to kill before he ask permission to die. 

Tough call, maybe I am biased but I will go with the Corp.

Liberal-Sl@yer wrote:

DrunkFace wrote:

Using guerilla warfare or a rolling battle field scenario the marines would stand a chance. A stand up battle, the odds are just too highly stacked against them... they have to reload some time.

That is why marines are taught alternative fire. i.e. one marine shoots while the other reloads and then vice versa

Who do you think invented alternating firing?

There is absolutely no way the marines would win. Not a chance. Not without support.