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  1. Females in the Hun army???

    Aside from combat (which as you say, is maybe 1% of campaign time) why would you think that women can't keep up with an army and cause morale issues? While woman fighters were uncommon, nearly every army in the world had camp followers, many of whom were women.

  2. Europe & Damacus Steel

    There is some confusion with the term "damascus" steel, because it refers to two different things. The first is the true damascus steel, also known as wootz or watered steel, which wasn't known how to make in the west at that time. The second is pattern welded steel, which is also often called damascus, which could be made in the west even before medieval times.

  3. Mongol Composite Bow VS English Longbow

    RalliX 说:
    Palaiologos 说:
    The mongol bow IIRC correctly was unequal-meaning the upper part was longer than the lower part, exactly so it could be used on horseback without interfering with the riding.
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    Are you certain you're not confusing it with the Japanese Yumi?
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    If I remember right, it's actually the huns, not the mongols, but it's asymmetry is similar to the yumi. For exactly the same reason.

  4. Worst military ever (at any given time period.)

    KPJFormat 说:
    He means socialism is a non-Chinese idea, coming from Germany and Russia, though certainly syncretized to fit Chinese society.
    On the other hand, he's mistaken about China being a traditionally trading power; that's far from the truth. Though trade was necessary, and outsiders always desired to trade with China, up until the 1980s trade has been frowned upon, even into ancient times. Merchants were highly disrespected in pre-communist Confucian China, and the only reason folks became merchants was to afford to educate their children in the hopes they could join the bureaucracy, admittance into which was based on an imperial examination. Bureaucrats were extremely powerful in pre-communist China, serving a function like aristocracy or nobility in Europe.
    Furthermore, those that did become merchants generally peddled wares from village to village, within the same province, long-distance trade was very unsual in pre-industrial China, until the arrival of the Westerners.
    And yet furthermore, even when the Westerners did come, they were forced into little port cities like Macao (a swampy region mostly uninhabited when the Portuguese arrived), or Hong Kong (which was granted from war). China refused to import anything from the West except silver, and most of the silver came from China itself through the blackmarket in exchange for opium. The major exports of China were tea and silk, naturally.
    This is why during the Victorian period and thereafter so many westerners (and Japan) attacked China to gain access to trade ports, the Chinese were very unenthusiastic about trade outside of China.
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    Yes, that was what I meant, communism isn't culturally Chinese.

    About the trade... It slipped my mind how they turned all xenophobic for a while, I tend to be more interested in history from earlier than Victorian times. But, they only turned xenophobic and mostly gave up trade in the late 15th century, when the palace burnt down from a lightning strike and the emperor took it as an omen. But previous to that they were major players in world trade, being the source of the silk road and all.

  5. Worst military ever (at any given time period.)

    I would say the Chinese. Throughout their very long history, someone regularly shows up and conquers them. They counteract this with having an extremely strong culture. Those invaders who walked right in and took over, within a few generations they basically just become Chinese and blend into the population, and it's back to business as usual. You can see it today, the communist regime there is midway through just turning culturally Chinese. In some ways they still act by the communist rational, but in others they're going back to the old ways. For example, they're awfully capitalistic for communists, but it fits right in with the trading power that China has been since pretty much forever. It even fits in with Chinese philosophy, the Mandate of Heaven. Eventually the communist (or Mao) dynasty will lose the mandate and someone else will take power and turn their grandkids Chinese.

  6. which weapon

    True...
    "This is my rifle and this is my gun. This one's for fighting and this one's for fun."

  7. which weapon

    I disagree, since "sheathing the sword" is a euphemism for sex.

  8. which weapon

    QuailLover 说:
    I'm surprised, a Taleworlds poll about weapons, and no one has mentioned their cock yet.
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    I don't use mine against other guys, but if that's what you like to do then go for it.

  9. which weapon

    Majhudeen 说:
    Im assuming this is in an open feild or what not, or an open ring of where there is no clear obstructions, and normal clothing you'd wear on a daily basis.

    I would go for a Two handed sword due to my size, and it'd be a two handed great scimitar. Something my grandfather used and great grandfather, as well as a few of my uncles from time to time. My family's got a history for using them.
    Long and feirce looking ****ers they be.


    That and my fists and body of course.
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    Well that narrows it down, but it still depends on what the other guy has. If he has a bow or xbow then I damn well want a shield, if he doesn't then I'd probably go with a two handed sword too, a light one for speed since there is no armor to worry about.

  10. which weapon

    AWdeV 说:
    Depends. Depends on what the other fellow has, what armour we both have and at what distance we're supposed to start. :razz:
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    This, and also where it will be fought. I'd choose something different in a field than in the woods, and something different yet in a low ceilinged building with narrow hallways.

  11. Persia after Alexander (Iksander) died?

    Yes, it definitely was. If province X rebels, you have plenty of time to smash them with your army (and you could smash them really hard since the UN won't be *****ing about it afterwards) before the next province over even hears about it.

  12. Persia after Alexander (Iksander) died?

    Before the days of internet, world wide news organizations, tv, etc... it was much easier to be an iron fisted dictator and ground the opposition under your heel.

  13. Mount & Blade With fire and sword

    You are correct that it was the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. I haven't played Fire and Sword, but I assume they were just taking a shortcut. It's nearly impossible to make everything historically perfect, If they didn't do that, then it would be something else and someone else would be annoyed by it.

  14. The peculiar Institution vs Industrial capitalism

    It sucked for both obviously, but I think it was a little better for the free laborers. They always had the option to leave, and they didn't get whipped. Plus the master couldn't take your pretty daughter into the house as a sex slave or sell off your son so you'd never see him again.

  15. To yon owners of Helmets, or those knowledgeable there of.

    You could make mockups out of cardboard (not the thick corrugated, the thinner kind). That''s what many modern armorers use to make their pattern anyways.
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