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How long was a typical mercenary contract? One year/campaign season?
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Raenir Salazar posted:Out of curiosity will you be publishing in english and where would I be able to get a hold of it when published? I'd be very interested in reading it. brakeless posted:How long was a typical mercenary contract? One year/campaign season?
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Apr 30, 2015 18:06
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Man, the guys who signed up for the duration in 1618 must have felt pretty stupid by the mid 1630ies...
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Apr 30, 2015 18:09
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ArchangeI posted:Man, the guys who signed up for the duration in 1618 must have felt pretty stupid by the mid 1630ies...
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Apr 30, 2015 18:11
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HEY GAL posted:my native language is english so yes, and...amazon i guess? Does fighting ever go on during winter, or does a regiment just make themselves at large in some poor city, or do they disband for the winter?
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Apr 30, 2015 18:19
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HEY GAL posted:Meh, people dissolve their regiments all the time and then raise new ones, they probably would have been abgedankt a while into it A couple weeks ago I finally read the book from Peter Englund about the 30-Years-War and it was darkly amusing to see armies continually shrinking and growing because of this (and disease).
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Apr 30, 2015 18:28
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Joke from the BEF circa 1917: "How long are you signed up for, chum?" "I signed for seven years, or Duration." "You're lucky! I'm Duration."
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Apr 30, 2015 18:43
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HEY GAL posted:my native language is english so yes, and...amazon i guess? Was there a legal definition of what exactly the current conflict was? Did the contemporaries see the 30YW as one giant thing, or are the conflicts against the Bohemians, Frederick V, Danes, Swedes, French, and Miscellaneous recognized as separate things? Does everybody stop caring about the difference two years in?
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Apr 30, 2015 21:29
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Yes, it's like a lava lamp.
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brakeless posted:Does fighting ever go on during winter, or does a regiment just make themselves at large in some poor city, or do they disband for the winter? Libluini posted:A couple weeks ago I finally read the book from Peter Englund about the 30-Years-War and it was darkly amusing to see armies continually shrinking and growing because of this (and disease). Edit: As far as quartering and provisions are concerned, I found A Quaint Proverb: Every soldier needs three peasants. One to provide his food, one to provide his wife, and one to take his place in Hell. HEY GUNS fucked around with this message at 09:42 on May 2, 2015 |
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Apr 30, 2015 22:22
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In honor of the new avengers movie, can someone tell me about the history of comic books as propaganda?
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May 1, 2015 00:27
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Here is another channel for the cool guns list https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C-D3nN4QycM On the subject of mercenary training, in Ireland if you join a gallowglass battle (what they call their regiments) you get apprenticed to a serving soldier who you kind of squire for. Each gallowglass was supposed to have 2, although I think only one goes into battle to watch his masters back with some javelins or a bow, or even a gun if it's late enough. There is a dedicated guy in each battle to handle training of new recruits, and as hegel said all the equipment is rented from the officers (gallowglass battles are a family business), so if you lose or damage anything there is a fine. Except for your helmet, if you show up to a fight with no helmet there is no fine because you're considered as good as dead.
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May 1, 2015 08:43
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Mycroft Holmes posted:In honor of the new avengers movie, can someone tell me about the history of comic books as propaganda? I don't know about comic books, but I really dig reformation era propaganda cartoons.    "Martin Luther The heads are labelled: a doctor, a saint, an unfaithful, a priest, a fanatic, a Church supervisor and Barabbas.  "Seven-headed papacy", 1530 "The Antichist has the heads of the Pope and his lieutenants, and makes fun of the mock about the Luther satiric portraits. The Beast is sat in an Mammon altar. The text close to the image explains that the Pope’s court has impersonated the God’s altar and declares itself God. It´s identified as an idol, demanding monetary tributes as Indulgences. So, the Roman Church is condemned by its proper representations. The altar is located over a chest plenty of money with the Devil: it´s the Reign of Satan. The intention of this print is to mock about an instrument of catholic piety: devotional prints." It seems that as a 16th century ecclesiastical debate grew longer, the probability of a comparison involving the Anti-Christ approached 1.
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May 1, 2015 08:50
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Rabhadh posted:(gallowglass battles are a family business) In areas of Europe where they don't have clans, historians know war is a family profession at the elite level, like how the Piccolominis and Montecuccolis were all soldiers and only a few of them ended up famous, but it's the same at more plebeian levels, like the company I found where like a third of the guys had the last name Klepper.
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May 1, 2015 08:56
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The Antichrist is the Hitler of the middle ages.
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May 1, 2015 08:58
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HEY GAL posted:Every soldier needs three peasants. One to provide his food, one to provide his wife, and one to take his place in Hell. lol Thanks for the answers, you study some pretty interesting stuff.
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May 1, 2015 09:00
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HEY GAL posted:Is that a clan thing, like how the Mackay Regiment of Foot that worked for Sweden was not only run by a guy named Mackay, just about everyone in it had the last name Mackay as well? If you were from a gallowglass family you would go into the family business and end up an officer but they would take anyone who met a basic height/weight requirement and train them up. It's been suggested that a lot of long serving recruits would adopt the surname of the gallowglass family unit they had just joined, in the hope of a promotion. Becoming a gallowglass seems to be more of a life choice than contract based work
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May 1, 2015 09:15
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Mycroft Holmes posted:In honor of the new avengers movie, can someone tell me about the history of comic books as propaganda? Comic books as propaganda is a broad term. Political cartoons have been around since ancient Egypt, and they're the most common way someone uses a comic to propagandize their opinion. As for comic books, there are many examples of comic books created specifically for propaganda purposes, and of existing ones co-opted to push a message. Of comics created specifically for information, some are simple information guides. In Vietnam, the US army issued gun maintenance manuals in comic book form because it made soldiers more likely to read them. Then there are comics created to spread a message to a target audience. such as  Is This Tomorrow? was distributed to American children in 1947 by an anti-communist group.  An information leaflet dropped on Iraq in 1990 urging Saddam's forces to surrender.  Bilderbogen vom Kriege, a series of comic books created in Nazi Germany. Beyond purpose-made propaganda pieces, there are endless examples of for-profit comics with a propagandist theme. American comic publishers would sometimes ask artists to produce comics on provocative subject matter or pushing a certain viewpoint.  Superman, a character created in 1933, battles the Axis. Compare the caricature of Hitler to the stereotype-heavy image of Hideki Tojo.  Excerpt from an Archie spinoff sold by Spire Christian Comics.  In The Blue Lotus (1935), Tintin travels to China. This book, set during the 1931 invasion, takes a justifiably anti-Japanese viewpoint. The author Hergé worked with the artist Zhang Chongren to learn about correctly depicting China. Earlier Tintin books were commissioned to spread anti-communist, anti-liberal, pro-colonialist views. In this one, Hergé hoped to promote better racial understanding and work against the common viewpoint that the Japanese were rightfully creating a bulwark against communism in Asia. In 1954, the Comics Code Authority began enforcing rules on any comic books to be sold in chain retailers. A comic would not be approved, among other things, if it portrayed a police officer disrespectfully, contained excessive violence, any nudity, any reference to extramarital affairs, or any depictions of vampires. Early in the code's existence, they tried to censor the anti-racism comic Judgment Day, because the protagonist was black. By the standards of the arbitrary enforcers of the Comics Code, a reference to sweat on a black man's skin is too obscene for publication. How's that? I'm not sure exactly what you meant by the question, since it's such a broad area.
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May 1, 2015 10:01
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HEY GAL posted:Edit: As far as quartering and provisions are concerned, I found A Quaint Proverb: Every soldier needs three peasants. One to provide his food, one to provide his wife, and one to take his place in Hell. This is awesome.
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May 1, 2015 10:45
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Valiant Hearts: The Great War is 75% off on Steam at the moment. It's a deal, it's a steal, it's Sale of the Fuckin' Century. If you have even the slightest tolerance for puzzlers (and this one isn't particularly tricky, I'm quite dim and I got through it), you should play it, it's pretty great. 100 Years Ago The BEF begins retiring to the GHQ Line at Ypres, and one of the Canadians who's been relieved takes stock of the casualties. The Ottomans take the offensive on Gallipoli, to no great effect. The Germans are planning something on the Eastern Front to distract the Russians from trying to break through the Carpathians and into Hungary. Herbert Sulzbach goes on a pleasant night stroll, and Grigoris Balakian at Cankiri conducts a very emotional service for the arrested Armenian leaders.
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May 1, 2015 11:11
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my dad posted:They were paid to stay the gently caress away from friendly cities. I don't think people had a high opinion of them. quote:Civic leaders believed that the corporate identity of townspeople distinguished them from the surrounding countryside. Their increasing emphasis on respect for local power and orderly behaviour within the city’s walls is reflected in the council’s response to a soldier arrested towards the end of the war for drunken misconduct and resisting a local guard. Members of the council asked the soldier if he thought himself to be in ‘a village, where he might defy and brutalise people at will’, rather than in a locality in which ‘better council’ was appropriate. This is comparable to the usual Spanish cry of outrage to someone behaving himself terribly: "Where do you think you are, in Flanders?" HEY GUNS fucked around with this message at 13:05 on May 1, 2015 |
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May 1, 2015 13:01
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Chamale posted:In 1954, the Comics Code Authority began enforcing rules on any comic books to be sold in chain retailers. A comic would not be approved, among other things, if it portrayed a police officer disrespectfully, contained excessive violence, any nudity, any reference to extramarital affairs, or any depictions of vampires. Vampires? Why vampires in particular? 
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May 1, 2015 14:19
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Slaan posted:Vampires? Why vampires in particular?  I'll take metaphors for sex for 200.
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May 1, 2015 14:27
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Klaus88 posted:
That's probably it, basically vampires were the personification of kink/promiscuity. Stoker's portrayal touched on that a little bit but it wasn't like "DEY BLUDSUCKAS BE FUCKIN' ALL DE TIME" so much as "Dracula was hung like a horse and loved to gently caress."
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May 1, 2015 14:31
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I've never seen them as metaphors for sex. Sexy? Sure. But normally its more of a class thing- feudal overlords literally sucking the underclass dry. So I guess I can see an anti-communist edge in there?
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May 1, 2015 14:31
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Slaan posted:I've never seen them as metaphors for sex. Sexy? Sure. But normally its more of a class thing- feudal overlords literally sucking the underclass dry. BLOOD IS RED, THE COLOR OF THE COMMUNIST
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May 1, 2015 14:35
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Slaan posted:I've never seen them as metaphors for sex. Sexy? Sure. But normally its more of a class thing- feudal overlords literally sucking the underclass dry. There's a real strong element of seduction to the early vampire stories.
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May 1, 2015 14:42
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xthetenth posted:There's a real strong element of seduction to the early vampire stories. Yeah. See also Carmilla which was about lesbian vampires: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carmilla Vampires in fiction don't generally prey on the underclass, anyway. The typical victim is more likely some lonely middle-class/upper-class woman, often the main character's girlfriend. 
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May 1, 2015 15:00
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So Blackulas were the greatest enemy of the comics code eh?Trin Tragula posted:Valiant Hearts: The Great War is 75% off on Steam at the moment. It's a deal, it's a steal, it's Sale of the Fuckin' Century. If you have even the slightest tolerance for puzzlers (and this one isn't particularly tricky, I'm quite dim and I got through it), you should play it, it's pretty great. Your heart will be broken though. Such a pretty game.
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May 1, 2015 15:17
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Slaan posted:Vampires? Why vampires in particular? Mostly it was because any kind of horror or gore was shunned as harmful to kids.
Although you can also make a point about the popular portrayal of salacious vampires, even though I don't think it was the main reason:
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May 1, 2015 15:52
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Not to drag out the TFR derail but the guy who was interested in military arms might want to check out the milsurp thread as well. Lots of people in there with lots of knowledge about old guns, both academic and practical.
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May 1, 2015 16:06
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Phanatic posted:Is there a good book on the Allied administrative/medical efforts to care for the inhabitants of the liberated concentration camps? You're trucking across Europe with a medical apparatus intended to treat soldiers wounded in combat, and you find yourself taking care of tens of thousands of people dying from starvation and disease, so you've got to shift gears a bit. And I'd expect the Soviets to handle things differently at Ravensbrueck than the Americans did at Buchenwald, etc. My grandfather served in the 112th Evacuation Hospital. I do have a four-page history of the unit that he was given at a reunion, but it's badly written and was done so 40 years later. He died years ago, so unfortunately, the only references I have to anything they might have done is this. quote:We crossed the Blue Danube (which was muddy) up through Augsburg and started to see along the road and countryside numerous prisoners who had fled Dachau concentration camp. Our route led us past Dachau, through Munich and then down the Autobahn that runs from Munich to Salzburg, Austria. It was here we saw how the Germans had utilized the Autobahn as an air strip and hid their planes in the forests on each side, blowing [up] the alpine bridges, which we circumnavigated. We set up our fifth operational site (remember the mud) [;] some of us were on temporary TDY at Bad Reichenhall and Bertchesgaden, but back to the mud site where we still were receiving 80th military and civilian casualties. Many victims were the result of mines which saturated the area, car accidents and not to be forgotten, accidental gunshot wounds of military personnel.
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May 1, 2015 17:25
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golden bubble posted:So you're saying Generation Kill is the most accurate portrayal of the American soldier in media? It's honestly pretty close.
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May 1, 2015 17:54
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Nenonen posted:I don't know about comic books, but I really dig reformation era propaganda cartoons. More like Popeaganda, am I right? 
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May 1, 2015 17:57
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I think there was also some politicking there, with some rules of the comics code crafted to specifically gently caress over certain comic makers like William Gaines. Without the comics code, I don't think superheroes would have gotten as big as they did. It was really the only way to make an exciting story and still keep within the moral guidelines. And in 2011 DC and Archie finally broke away from the comics code, rendering it defunct. Most of the companies that were around for its conception either went under or were bought up.
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May 1, 2015 20:07
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Trin Tragula posted:Valiant Hearts: The Great War is 75% off on Steam at the moment. It's a deal, it's a steal, it's Sale of the Fuckin' Century. If you have even the slightest tolerance for puzzlers (and this one isn't particularly tricky, I'm quite dim and I got through it), you should play it, it's pretty great. Nonono, do it like you would do patent medicine. I'm thinking "GERMAN OFFENSIVES ARE RUNNING OUT OF STEAM... BUT DR GABRIEL NEWELL'S VIDEO GAME EMPORIUM ISN'T!"
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May 1, 2015 21:59
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Armoured Commander is a roguelike about commanding a Sherman tank during the Normandy breakout. Fight big cats (I've never seen a Tiger yet), get brewed up like a kettle when you get hit, pray that you escape alive. Sadly there are no playable tank destroyers.
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May 1, 2015 23:24
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FAUXTON posted:That's probably it, basically vampires were the personification of kink/promiscuity. Stoker's portrayal touched on that a little bit but it wasn't like "DEY BLUDSUCKAS BE FUCKIN' ALL DE TIME" so much as "Dracula was hung like a horse and loved to gently caress." lol what
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May 1, 2015 23:50
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I basically can't stand long running superhero comics and am only interested in them in an archaeological sense. As in, "oh ho ho ho, what did those wacky 50s era Americans enjoy?". For instance, I've read Iron Man #1, and it's is virulently racist.
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May 2, 2015 00:25
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Modern comics have been thankfully rebooted so many times that only collectors now truly need to give a gently caress about the first issues. Old comics are weird. Somebody needs to review Tin Tin In The Land Of The Soviets.
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GenericRX posted:Armoured Commander is a roguelike about commanding a Sherman tank during the Normandy breakout. Fight big cats (I've never seen a Tiger yet), get brewed up like a kettle when you get hit, pray that you escape alive. Sadly there are no playable tank destroyers. Gave this thing a go. On my first day I drove through some fields, got ambushed by an AT gun, fired at it ineffectively at point blank range while it killed off my friendly tanks with every shot, and then died upon trying to exit my tank. Nice.
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