Favorite Battle in either Fiction or History.

[Arsen]

AKA:

Name a duel, fight, gunfight, whatever that you truly enjoyed from a movie, a book, a videogame, whatever. Also Historical fights can count as well.

Dark Tower Wizard and Glass - Roland, Cuthbert, and Alain battling Latigo's men before leading them to Eyebolt Canyon.

Revenge of the Sith (novel) - The duel with Dooku was much different in the book. The table was slashed in half, small chairs were thrown, Dooku kicked their ass for the first seven pages, and overall it was a great fight.

Cowboy Bebop - Ballad of Fallen Angels. First confrontation with Vicious at an abandoned Cathedral. Truly a classic and emotional moment.

For historical...that one skimrish where Napoleon fought three entire armies and won.

 

[Talon_Kale]

Battle of Farthdur & Battle of the Burning Plains from the Inheritance Cycle by Christopher Paolini

 

[Inverse Skies]

AKA:


Dark Tower Wizard and Glass - Roland, Cuthbert, and Alain battling Latigo's men before leading them to Eyebolt Canyon.

Into the thinny! God the idea of those things creeped me out, especially the warbling sound...

You can't get much more epic than say, the Lord of the Rings when Gondor is under siege, but I can also remember the invasion of Earth by Humanity (robots had taken over it) from the Dune series, resulting in the nuclear sterilisation of Earth by the constant warfare. Oh and that series had a bit where humanity's fleet continually warped through space nuking planet after planet in order to send the robots running back to their home world of Corrin. That battle was fairly epic.

 

[Raven's Nest]

The battle of Yavin...

Porkins: "uhh, I'm having troubles of my own here"

EDIT: Found the image I was looking for.

 

[Arsen]

The battle of Yavin...

Porkins: "uhh, I'm having troubles of my own here"

Stay on target..

PULL UP!

Stay on target...
BOOOOOOOM!

Edit - Okay, wrong guy. It's been eons since I've watched that movie.

 

[WingedFortress]

Jesse Custer and Cassidy fighting right before the break of dawn at the Alamo. Fuckin' epic.

And the Saint of Killers taking on a whole crew of tanks and soldiers, and finally a nuclear bomb before they just give up on trying to kill the son of a *****.

Basically, most things from Preacher.

 

[plastic_window]

The final epic battle at the end of Mass Effect is intense. Running up the outside of the citadel, seeing Sovereign's tentacles (or whatever) gripping the sides, all the while with geth destroyers and juggernauts hurtling down on you.

 

[Gxas]

WW2 with dragons, leviathans, rhinos, and laser guns.

Into the Darkness series by Harry Turtledove.

Awesome books based on WW2 and set in a fantasy world.

 

[Datalord]

Historically, it isn't really a battle, but the Czeck defense against the Soviet invasion (sounds like a chess move)
They repainted most of the road sign to say "To Moscow" to get the Russian army lost,

Also, the story of Gideon in the book of Judges in the bible, pure genius

 

[bjj hero]

The battle of trafalgar. It had everything.

Lord Nelsons unorthadox tactics proved he was a military genius.

27 Britsh ships fought a fleet of 33 French and Spanish ships. The Franco Spanish fleet lost 22 ships and no British ships were lost.

Lord Nelson lead from the front and died a hero.

Apparently Napoleon was so disgusted at his sizable fleet being so soundly beaten that he stopped all French Navy officers from being called "Sir" and its stayed that way ever since.

 

[GyroCaptain]

I've always liked reading accounts of Midway.

 

[BladesofReason]

The initial assault on Hades Hive by Ork Bigboss Ugulhard and his confrontation with Commissar Yarrick. The birth of a legend right there.

 

[elbryan108]

WW2 with dragons, leviathans, rhinos, and laser guns.

Into the Darkness series by Harry Turtledove.

Awesome books based on WW2 and set in a fantasy world.

I agree, Harry Turtledove FTW!!

 

[vivadelkitty]

The battle of trafalgar. It had everything.

Lord Nelsons unorthadox tactics proved he was a military genius.

27 Britsh ships fought a fleet of 33 French and Spanish ships. The Franco Spanish fleet lost 22 ships and no British ships were lost.

Lord Nelson lead from the front and died a hero.

Apparently Napoleon was so disgusted at his sizable fleet being so soundly beaten that he stopped all French Navy officers from being called "Sir" and its stayed that way ever since.

That battle was amazing. Nelson cut the French in half, a tactic that had thus far never been done. Drove his ships right through them, and tore them to pieces.

 

[Quick Ben]

In fiction Malazan Book of the Fallen has some pretty awesome battles, my favourite being the battle of Capustan, which is a truly amazing read.
Historically I'm not sure; there is so much to choose from. Maybe The Battle of Stalingrad. However I won't call it favourite, as that would be distasteful due to the sheer amount of bloodshed. Most facinating would probably be more appropriate.

 

[Harbinger_]

Helms Deep FTW

 

[Valiance]

I've always liked reading accounts of Midway.

Midway is fucking ridiculous, no doubt about it.

Like, how the Japanese thought they sunk two carriers, and...the tactics used by our Wildcat pilots with the weaving between each other, plane 1 being the bait and plane 2 getting on the Zeros...

It's ridiculous. It's like, how did America win it?

Anyway, my favorite battle is probably the Battle of the Bulge (Battle of the Ardennes).

 

[Aedwynn]

I always quite liked the Battle for Macragge and the Attack on iyanden Craftworld during the first and second Tyrannic Wars in Warhammer 40,000. (Being a Tyranid player this is probably not surprising ;-)

Also, I enjoyed the battles fought over the High Clerist's Tower in the Dragonlance Saga. (The War of the Lance Battle and the Summer of Chaos Battle.)

As for history, I thought of a few battles, but then I probably would put everyone on a massive downer as the only one I seem to ba able to recall is the Battle of the Somme.

 

[LordCraigus]

Historically my favourite battle is probably the Battle of Stalingrad.

 

[Trivun]

Nobody will get this one, probably, but it is freaking awesome: The Last Battle in Ian Irvine's Three Worlds cycle. Basically about 5 armies (including the protagonist's small tiny militia) turn up on a huge plain in the middle of the mountains right between a palace made of glass and a huge prison built into the side of a mountain. They all square off to fight, then a massive alien army turns up, then the small militia gets about ten more armies turn up from nowhere (no exaggeration) as reinforcements, the enemy armies that were already there either turn and run or stay and fight with the militia, and you basically get the mother of all battles (probably the biggest battle I've ever seen in any work of fiction) against these alien creatures that came from a place called The Void. It takes up about a third of the book (The Destiny of the Dead, by Ian Irvine), and since each of his books is really small font and about 600-800 pages long, that's no mean feat.