20th century.

>>64094090 (OP)
when they were guys on horses with cowboy guns

>>64094102
that's too broad, you get 1 decade at most

>>64094090 (OP)
>Cheesy 80s guitar mixed with fife and drum intro plays
>Small skirmish between the British and French
>Tongue is missing as usual
>Sharpe flailing his sword around while Hagman gives cover fire
>They win the skirmish
>Messenger on horseback approaches
>"Lieutenant/Captain/Major Sharpe, you are summoned to Lord Wellington's tent"
>"Bloody ell Patrick, what's 'e want now"
>Sharpe arrives in old Nosey's tent
>His spymaster of the day is there
>As is a weasel looking British officer or French lord
>"Sharpe, this is Lord Fucksworth, who has a dangerous mission for you - you will be enormously outnumbered, deep behind enemy lines with no support, oh and Major Ducos is around so watch out for him
>Lord Fuckworth insults him for being a poorfag but reluctantly accepts that this is Wellington's best man
>"As ye like sir, Ah'll get it dun"
>Cut to Sharpe and Patrick discussing the mission
>"It dun maek bloody sense Patrick, why do they need us to tek this castle/find this woman/get these supplies/uncover this plot"
>"Oh surely as the fields o' Ireland are green, sir, God has a plan for us, sir"
>A few battles happen on the way to the objective
>Oh look it's an attractive young woman who keeps looking at Sharpe suggestively
>They fuck
>"Look Patrick! It's the thing we're here for!"
>"LOOK OUT SIR"
>Lord Fucksworth appears and betrays Sharpe
>Ducos appears
>"HON HON HON! Bamboozled you again my nemesis"
>"Bloody Ducos"
>Battle happens
>Patrick goes "AAAAAAAAAHHHHHH BANG" with the 7 barrelled gun
>Wellington arrives
>"Well done Sharpe! You've done it again"
>Sharpe and his men march into the sunset
>THERE'S FORTY SHILLINGS ON THE DRUM...FOR THOSE WHO VOLUNTEER TO COME...

>>64094090 (OP)
I love how they're all like "OPERATORS OPERATING OPERATIONALLY", but when you ask them what their secret is, they reveal that they just straight up full auto mag dump all the time.

>>64094286
Protip: Operationally operating is not mainly marksmanship

>>64094395
In their defense, they do train to deliver effective automatic fire.

>>64094090 (OP)
Odysseus and Diomedes' daring and incredibly successful night raid in Book X of the Iliad. It's been down hill ever since.

Nisus and Euryalus come close to reviving it with the slaughter the wreak in the Aeneid, but it's ultimately a failure. Although, I will say that Aeneas' nick of time amphibious landing to smash Turnus was pretty sick. But he's more of a straight combat guy, taking a coward trucd-breaker's arrow to the chest and STILL dominating and mogging the most powerful hero around and turning a guy who was happy to get locked alone in an enemy camp so he could rampage like a wolf in a sheep's pen into a bitch who runs away begging. It's just too bad about the whole out of control rage, turning into Achilles thing.

>>64094090 (OP)
90's

>>64094286
turns out bullet hoses are really fucking effective when you aren't fighting at 300+ yards

>>64094462
>Romaboo conveniently leaves out that Aeneas got senzu beaned by his goddess mother after the arrow.

>>64094090 (OP)

Late and immediate post-Cold War/pre-GWOT era (1970-1999)

>Operation Spring of Youth
>Entebbe raid
>Operation Eagle Claw
>Iranian embassy siege
>Operation Acid Gambit
>Scud-hunting
>Operation Gothic Serpent
>Operation Chavín de Huántar

Nowadays, it's just glorified death squads shooting brown people in their homes at night (with some rare exceptions).

>>64094090 (OP)

Late and immediate post-Cold War/pre-GWOT era (1970-1999)

>Operation Ivory Coast
>Operation Spring of Youth
>Entebbe raid
>Operation Eagle Claw
>Iranian embassy siege
>Pebble Island raid
>Operation Acid Gambit
>Scud-hunting
>Operation Gothic Serpent
>Operation Chavín de Huántar

Nowadays, it's just glorified death squads shooting brown people in their homes at night (with some rare exceptions).

>>64094255
I'm currently watching Sharpei piece by piece on YouTube and this is almost as accurate as it's funny. I do enjoy this pasta.

>>64094286
they job is to fuck shit up and kill people you don't gotta be a marksman for that. Just a shit load of violence and in any form you can get it.

>>64094090 (OP)
Special Forces are massively overrated. SAS were worse than useless during the Falkland War.

>>64095312
To be fair, there wasn't a lot of opportunity for them to shine there. Special Forces are underrated in Africa for example. Like just everywhere in Africa.

>>64094090 (OP)
Their most kino era was anytime they were still a clandestine unit. The Navy Seals trying to become influencers (in the 2010s and afterwards) has ruined the SF community because it worked, and now every unit wants to tell exaggerated stories to increase military recruitment.

>>64094286
>when you ask them what their secret is, they reveal that they just straight up full auto mag dump all the time.
That was the standard until that incident where those Navy Seals executed the hostage they were meant to save from the Medellin cartel in the. The Seal had his M-16 in 3-round burst, and the third round missed the cartel guy and hit the hostage.

>>64094090 (OP)
You've posted it

>>64094255
Man has a point

>>64094286
It's been decades since they revealed that yes pretty much that, and the justifications why
Gibraltar i think blew the lid off this particular SAS tactic
But SF is lots more than that

>>64094693
I've read all the books and it IS damned accurate

>>64095312
Gr8 b8 m8 8/8

>>64094090 (OP)
probably between 1990 and 2005-2010, so the period when every country had their own national camos, load bearing equipment became more sophisticated, armies still used different rifles rather than an ar15 of some kind.

>>64094255
I say this pasta makes me chortle heartily every time I see it!

>>64094090 (OP)
The Allen Dulles years

>>64094255
completely inaccurate.

Needs the busty totty of the episode to be threatened by Pete Postlethwaite / Hawkswill before bodices are ripped off and they fuck. (Sharpe and the totty, not Hawkswill)

needs Sharpe to call someone, possibly Lord Fucksworth a bastard. Failing that, everyone gets called Bastards, to get them moving, right before the big fight.

then it would be accurate.

>>64094090 (OP)
You posted it
Nothing will top how kino that moment was. The gear and weapons used are peak imo

how much kino do you want

>>64094090 (OP)
/k/id word

>>64094090 (OP)
WW2 after that it was all downhill into being a psyop

>>64094090 (OP)
70s/80s was /k/ino

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>>64094255
>pompous expert fencer aristocrat fop challenges Sharpe to a duel
>using the prancing sissy style of fencing, absolutely schools Sharpe
>"Oi, ye bloody bastard, you forgot one thing. That this is the real world, not your macaroni swinger parties back home, ey."
>Sharpe kicks his opponent in the balls and headbutts him.

>>64099656
>owwie zowwie, right in the Trafalgar

Just gonna post some neat pics

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>>64100021
>Rules of Engagement sir?
>Crew expendable.

>>64100021
>Rules of Engagement sir?
>Crew expendable.

>>64094090 (OP)
Sengoku.

vietnam, hands down. The requirement for gay ass plate carriers forever ruined any new kinos

>>64099616
This. I've gradually been working my way through the SOGcast whenever I have to do a long drive and that shit is kino. It's wild there haven't been more movies and vidya based on it because the shit they got up to is pretty much the closest reality has ever come to the usual one man army stereotype. (I guess it's probably because the majority of movies and TV since then have been made by liberal boomers who are allergic to any kind of positive/heroic portrayal of the war though.)

>>64094286
That's exactly why they carry atleast 20 magazines for ammo

>>64100864
There should just be a inglorious bastards type of flick where us troops just cut through the VC and murder their leaders and their Chinese contacts then "win" the war.

>>64102180
>inglorious bastards type of flick
Holy cringe

>>64102210
I mean a revisionist history where some SOG mag dumps Ho Chi Minh

>>64103397
Still cringe

>>64095312
wtf were the sas gonna do in a naval battle against fucking argentina being retarded and wanting some islands?

>>64104049
use covert OPs to provide air raid warning, which they did
use covert OPs to recon Argie infantry positions to help friendly infantry plan their attacks, which they did
use covert OPs to find Argie helicopters so they could be wiped out, which they did
use covert OPs to direct artillery fire on Argies, which they did
recon and find Argie airfields and then proceed to raid and blow them up, which they did
operate in advance of regular friendly infantry so they could occupy key terrain before the Argies could, which they did
find the enemy's own SF operators and attack them and wipe them out / capture them, which they did
recon suitable beaches for the amphibious assault and ensure they were suitable and clear of enemy, tedious but necessary work, which they did

some of these things were done by the Marines' own SOF platoon and the SBS as well

>>64094090 (OP)
MACVSOG

Billy Waugh's entire life was fucking insane
>70+ years old during the Afghanistan war