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Iraqis called us "allaen" which basically means "gently caress" but also has some sort of relation to marriage, implying that we were unhappily married to they. I thought that was pretty clever.
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French Canadian tourists in Mexico are frequently referred to as “los tabarnacos” so I can confirm it’s a continuing pattern.
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SlothfulCobra posted:I always thought it went to a guy in Maine who ate pie. no the guy in maine is actually french
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HEY GUNS posted:no the guy in maine is actually french Los tabernacos....
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"It is not a medieval wall. It is a smart wall."
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We're gonna build a star fort, and the Spanish Habsburgs are gonna pay for it!
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zoux posted:We're gonna build a star fort, and the Spanish Habsburgs are gonna pay for it! Hehe, if you told Trump about star forts he'd establish some kind of space military.... oooooooooh fuuuu
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SeanBeansShako posted:I mean the boot fits, what soldier doesn't love to cuss?
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It doesn't have to be open cussing to be crude. Insert snide Roman graffiti here.
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zoux posted:We're gonna build a star fort, and the Spanish Habsburgs are gonna pay for it! I want to work on mah blog this weekend, so let me just THINGS I SAW THAT HEYGAL MAY LIKE and the milhist thread also may like guy makes oddly soothing videos of him making knives out of weird substances. Enclosed: Bismuth knife People are still slap-fighting about who should claim the non-existent French throne Enclosed:this shirt
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Hey Cessna, how often in your dad to day life do you have someone tell you that the war in Vietnam was won after Tet but the MEDIA betrayed our troops and lost it for us? And what do you say to them?
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Nebakenezzer posted:People are still slap-fighting about who should claim the non-existent French throne Oh, I can do you one better, the eldest son of the current heir to the Romanov throne is literally married to an jew. 
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Schadenboner posted:the current heir to the Romanov throne all hail the renascent jewish/russian tsardom and let's put poland/lithuania in there as well
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Nebakenezzer posted:People are still slap-fighting about who should claim the non-existent French throne
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HEY GUNS posted:i may have sworn an oath to this person but i was very drunk and i don't remember which romanov it was Eldest son of the current heir, and I'm not 100% sure his wife is a Jew but: you know?
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poland/lithuania is my favorite historical political thing and it's not even close
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HEY GUNS posted:i may have sworn an oath to this person but i was very drunk and i don't remember which romanov it was Was it this one https://youtu.be/fnd0qg4I_MM
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HEY GUNS posted:"It is not a medieval wall. It is a smart wall." They really are just a handsome design, you know?
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Are the points that are radiating out recessed so you can just rake them with fire?SeanBeansShako posted:It doesn't have to be open cussing to be crude. Insert snide Roman graffiti here. We call those "the classics"
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HEY GUNS posted:i may have sworn an oath to this person but i was very drunk and i don't remember which romanov it was why were you swearing oaths?
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Milo and POTUS posted:Are the points that are radiating out recessed so you can just rake them with fire? technical word for this is glacis edit: there's often a ditch between the glacis and the start of the wall though, so don't worry HEY GUNS fucked around with this message at 02:02 on Jan 26, 2019 |
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Milo and POTUS posted:They really are just a handsome design, you know?
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more early music https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KfBoVGIoobY peeved that it's called the "Orchestra in the Age of Enlightenment" series, the early modern is pre enlightenment! 
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HEY GUNS posted:poland/lithuania is my favorite historical political thing and it's not even close Were they the winged hussar dudes?
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Schadenboner posted:Were they the winged hussar dudes? also the guys where their congress was like five hundred dudes on horseback in a big field getting bribed
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HEY GUNS posted:yup Something about how there had to be unanimity not just a majority for an action or something?
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Schadenboner posted:Were they the winged hussar dudes? Yes, and they had a very interesting political system where the nobility elected their monarch but the real legislative power was in the bicameral parliment called the Sejm. Presumably someone will correct my overly simple explanation but they're a cool massive multiethnic and multiregion empire that is surprisingly obscure for something that lasted 250 years and at its peak was the most populous country in Europe. Edit: you're referring to the infamous Liberum Veto that was put in place in the mid 17th century. Basically any one Noble could veto the entire session and both prematurely end it while annuling any legislation passed. It kept the system extremely democratic and prevented an absolute monarch from existing but was extremely vulnerable to foreign powers bribing nobles. Don Gato fucked around with this message at 02:27 on Jan 26, 2019 |
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Don Gato posted:Yes, and they had a very interesting political system where the nobility elected their monarch but the real legislative power was in the bicameral parliment called the Sejm. Presumably someone will correct my overly simple explanation but they're a cool massive multiethnic and multiregion empire that is surprisingly obscure for something that lasted 250 years and at its peak was the most populous country in Europe.
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HEY GUNS posted:more early music Im upset that this episode didnt have the mention of where the intro music is from.
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Milo and POTUS posted:Are the points that are radiating out recessed so you can just rake them with fire? Star forts were never meant to be unconquerable by sheer obstacle-crossing difficulty. in fact even with a ditch a star fort is considerably easier scaling-wise to storm than an earlier fortifications. The only logistic you need is men- they’re built for maximum amount of casualties inflicted to the attacker at shortest possible time period. Like an open invitation of “come and get it- if you’re willing to lose X amount of soldiers in the process” whereas the traditional castle/keep combo is a question of “do you have the engineering prowess and logistic chain to crack it open?”
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Shimrra Jamaane posted:Hey Cessna, how often in your dad to day life do you have someone tell you that the war in Vietnam was won after Tet but the MEDIA betrayed our troops and lost it for us? And what do you say to them? Ah, the American Dolchstoßlegende. Add in a bit of "we won every battle" and "the politicians sold 'em out!" and you get the hat-trick. Personally that's the time I excuse myself and walk away.
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Valtonen posted:a star fort is considerably easier scaling-wise to storm than an earlier fortifications. The only logistic you need is men- they’re built for maximum amount of casualties inflicted to the attacker at shortest possible time period. Like an open invitation of “come and get it- if you’re willing to lose X amount of soldiers in the process”  Star forts were designed to scrape the attackers off any spot on the walls with treble-shotted canister, while the walls were sloped to deflect the attackers' roundshot from reducing them to rubble, weren't they?Sort of like how modern tanks will (hopefully) bounce any incoming AT shells, and can hose each other down with MG fire if the enemy infantry gets too close.
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Bad Angus! Bad!
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Valtonen posted:Star forts were never meant to be unconquerable by sheer obstacle-crossing difficulty. in fact even with a ditch a star fort is considerably easier scaling-wise to storm than an earlier fortifications. The only logistic you need is men- they’re built for maximum amount of casualties inflicted to the attacker at shortest possible time period. Like an open invitation of “come and get it- if you’re willing to lose X amount of soldiers in the process” whereas the traditional castle/keep combo is a question of “do you have the engineering prowess and logistic chain to crack it open?” Is that because of any big paradigm change in particular, or is it just because there wasn't particularly any fortification technology left that could really be impenetrable beyond just creating some dense killzones? Doesn't seem like there'd be much of a point in creating big tall walls to repulse footsoldiers if it's reasonable to expect opponents to have weapons to smash through them.
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SlothfulCobra posted:Is that because of any big paradigm change in particular, or is it just because there wasn't particularly any fortification technology left that could really be impenetrable beyond just creating some dense killzones? Once real artillery was in play, there's just no building walls that can stand up to sustained bombardment.
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SlothfulCobra posted:paradigm change this is most visible in the transitional fortresses from early in the development of siege cannon, like the fortress michelangelo built at civitavecchia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civitavecchia it's shorter and thicker than medieval fortresses but people haven't figured out the math that gives the "star" shape yet people came up with some weird poo poo in those early fortresses: for instance the germans invented the pillbox in the 16th century but they dropped it quickly because firing black powder weapons in a room isn't a good idea HEY GUNS fucked around with this message at 06:11 on Jan 26, 2019 |
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My favorite part in Kingdom of Heaven is when Balian casually invents the star fort while he's hanging out with Baldwin IV in 1184.
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HEY GUNS posted:firing black powder weapons in a room isn't a good idea
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All fortifications in history can be looked at as you need X resources to take this area. The effectiveness of fortifications in any specific time or place is dependent on how easy it is for an army of the time to amass X
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This man claims that this is the first time in history that three consecutive generations of Germans can live in peace. Is this claim accurate? https://twitter.com/Bergmann_Mat/status/1088918411210616832
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HEY GUNS posted:This man claims that this is the first time in history that three consecutive generations of Germans can live in peace. Is this claim accurate? I mean the battlegroup in North Afghanistan might be a bit upset to hear that.
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