re: Civil War time travel question/debate

First of all you dont have 100 seals against the entire union army. You have 100 seals against whatever force is in front of them. Say you are at Gettysburg. 100 seals moving in the dead of night with todays rifles,night vision scopes, and body armor, they would easily take out any defense ahead of them. You push in the regular forces (confederates) behind them in the breach. The seals would be almost unstoppable. They would turn the tide of any battle, therefore, could turn the tide of the war.

Do the Seals get satelite support, can they paint lasers with occasional air support? Do they have infinite ammo?

Because if not, they're screwed.

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do they get an unlimited amount of ammo?

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Yes. In my original question I said unlimited ammo, assault rifles, AK's and sniper rifles. (I was informed SEALS would never use AK's, but I rolled with it because the question also involves time travel so what the hell)


Can't believe this is still going, been some good reads though.

They couldn't carry enough bullets.

Exactly. Discussed in detail throughout the thread. Lots of disrespect regarding the Civil War commanders ability to adapt to the Seals tactics in a rapid manner. Several people site that they were very familiar with guerrilla tactics and were using them well before the civil war. Like Herm said "You play to win the game" and the game at that time was line up and fight it out in a conventional manner. If that wasn't the game they would adapt.

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If that wasn't the game they would adapt.

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see my post above.

You bring them into a game that they want no part of.

The most common cannon of the civil war had a range of around 2,000 yards.

While there have been 2,000+ yard sniper kills, they are rare. World record sniper kills are 2,500+ yards.

The SEALS couldn't just pick off artillery batteries. They'd be out ranged by the cannon.

Plus, all of the black powder going off would make the Union/CSA lines very smokey which would also affect sniping.

Too many people thinking that sniping would be a huge advantage for the SEALs.

The ability to infiltrate and recon. The ability to to train and force multiply. You give a SEAL team a week or so with a subpar confederate company, and they will grow exponentially better with their weapon skills and tactics.

These are the huge difference makers IMO, not the sniping. And lol at adapting to their tactics, like the SEALs can't re-adapt. At that point, you'll be playing into their hand. Some of you are acting like you're gonna eventually circle them all up and either kill them with brute force, or artillery..... Which I don't see being the case. shite, they'll be jacking the artillery for themselves. There were literally zero to minimal counter insurgency tactics at the time. They could exploit that to the fullest, then when the north did adapt, they're on to the next trick.

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e, eventually the SEALS would run out of ammo unless they could send the good old time machine back and forth to restock. If they were limited to what they came with, then eventually the playing field would be leveled when the SEALS would have to use Civil War era rifles.

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The OP said this wasn't a stipulation though. I guess we are assuming that when they run low on ammo, there's some automatic resupply cache or something but that's the tipping point for me. The downside of that though, is when or if a SEAL happens to fall, you'd have to police the frick out of their weapons and ammo, or it falls into the hands of your enemy.

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Frick, I guess unlimited ammo means the time machine is gonna get a workout

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Yep, unlimited ammo. A Delorean will be working overtime.