Other possible ideas for down the road:
[ul]
[li]Greatest Weapon (possibly excluding nuclear explosives)[/li]
[li]Or, to be different, Most Beautiful Weapon (would that come down to Spitfire vs sailing Frigate?)[/li]
[li]Greatest Military Quotation (excluding fictional quotes)[/li]
[li]Greatest Warship[/li]
[li]Greatest Warplane[/li][/ul]
War is hell.
You can quote me on that.
Most decisive Naval Battle setup thread if anyone interested:
Thanks, BlinkingDuck, for the Naval Battle thread. I’ve already posted.
The results from Round 36 of voting:
Arthur Percival - 8
Luigi Cadorna - 2
The boldfaced leader above is eliminated. That leaves our winner of the ignoble, craptastic and entirely uncoveted title of Worst Military Leader, according to Doperdom:
Luigi Cadorna: Lost twelve consecutively; hated, cruel
Eliminated:
Ulysses S. Grant
William T. Sherman
Pyrrhus of Epirus
Benedict Arnold
James II of England
Earl of Cardigan
Cloudesley Shovell
Douglas MacArthur
William Halsey
George A. Custer
Curtis LeMay
Lord Chelmsford
George Tryon
Geoffrey Spicer-Simson
Benjamin F. Butler
Xerxes I of Persia
Ernest J. King
Gaius Terentius Varro
John A. McClernand
Daniel Sickles
Christian de Castries
Maximilian von Prittwitz
Rodolfo Graziani
William Westmoreland
Crassus
William Calley
Carlo di Persano
Heinrich Himmler
William H. Winder
Ratko Mladić
Paul D. Harkins
Oreste Baratieri
Romanus IV of Byzantium
Varus
Hermann Goering
Zinovy Rozhestvensky
William Hull
George B. McClellan
Judson Kilpatrick
Thom Karremans
Ambrose Burnside
Gaius Claudius Glaber
Douglas Haig
Braxton Bragg
Duke of Buckingham
Maurice Gamelin
Horatio Gates
Manuel Fernandez Silvestre
Nicias
Tiberius Sempronius Longus
Frederick William Stopford
Napoleon III
Philip VI
James Ledlie
John Bell Hood
Charles Alexander of Lorraine
Zhao Kuo
Abdel Hakim Amer
Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna
William George Keith Elphinstone
Charles le Temeraire
Francisco Solano López
Arthur Percival
Many thanks to you all for playing! Hope you had as much fun and learned as much as I did.
Hooray!
Not my choice, but the one thing I really like about this particular winner - I was not particularly conversant with him before this thread.
Me learning new things = win :). Thanks for the game.
We have our anti-Genghis Khan (he won the “best” general game). Wear your crown with pride, Cadorna. 
And three cheers for our host, Elendil’s Heir, for doing all the work to make this most entertaining and informative game possible. Hip, Hip, Hurrah! 
My pleasure. Now I have to go tell all of my Italian friends the result…
I concur. For example Europe defeating Eastern encroachment would you pick Salamis or Vienna or Barcelona? Would you pick a specific battle in the American War of Independence or Hundred Years War? In general, was WWI or WW2 more significant? And where would the Battle of Ikh Bayan or the Siege of Changchun fit into all of this?
I recall from a Farewell to Arms Hemingway recounting the execution of Italian officers after the battle of Caporetto (which his hero barely escapes). Now I know more who was responsible for it.
Just stopping by to mention Cadorno et al are straight-doped again in Why was Italy’s performance in WWI so poor?
Well, that was a trip down memory lane. Best game thread ever, in my opinion. 
My thanks to you both!