The Armchair General: Can You Defeat the Nazis?

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You do not think gods may be routed from their thrones, and thrust into the outer parts of the Divine Realms? Generals in Stellaris may have the "Armchair Commander" trait, which confers a slight penalty to damage and morale to armies under their command, since they're leading from the rear - possibly even from orbit, while their troops fight planetside. The French had been crushed, the Italians were on the verge of entering the war … was it not time, people asked, for Britain to fold its cards and seek peace with Adolf Hitler when Britain still had something to use as a bargaining tool? Fortunately for him and his troops, he was smart enough to acknowledge this (to himself, not to his troops) and eventually (after the disastrous loss of millions of soldiers) listened to the advice of his generals, and focused more on the political and strategic objectives of the war while leaving tactical decisions to them.

The fact that he was up against talented and experienced generals like Cao Zhen and Sima Yi didn't help. After being named Commander-in-Chief of the Luftwaffe, however, he made a number of increasingly bad decisions: halting the German Army so that the Luftwaffe could finish off the British Expeditionary Force, switching from bombing RAF installations to targeting British cities, and having the Luftwaffe supply the Sixth Army by air so they didn't have to withdraw from Stalingrad.In practice, he makes General Failure Lord Djibril (who at least has a certain ruthless ness to commend him) look brilliant.

At one point, at a staff meeting at his chateau, he has a giant can of coffee thrown away because it has gotten slightly lukewarm, while his soldiers thirst and starve in the trenches. The overweight General Miller from In the Loop is frequently accused of being an armchair general because he has spent the last 15 years at The Pentagon and away from combat.Armchair General online hosts forums – public meeting places for open discussion of various topics, sometimes referred to as a bulletin boards or discussion areas. In one of the films, he commanded his fleet as they engaged in an orbital space battle through the window of an Applebee's.

To top that, they remove its weakness to the ''only'' effective weapon Earth has against the Replicators.

As a former soldier forced by commanders to cross his Moral Event Horizon, Danny Pink of Doctor Who considers officers in general to be this and despises them as a result. In the first couple of seasons nobody ever had to deal with a Stargate in the modern age for such a long period of time, leading to many mistakes.