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Oh right yeah, Chillbro Baggins was originally in the market for a Scots sword. I meant there weren't a lot of companies making 1796 light cavs. I think Armour Class makes fine basket hilts? Comedy answer: http://kultofathena.com/product.asp?item=501563
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MikeCrotch posted:Better hope that nobody cuts the parachute straps like that grunt did to a bunch of hummvees  Go on.
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I enjoyed Dan Jones's Templars.
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Just to add on that, here's a video Tod going down to the nitty gritty of bow power: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TdB470lo6nM A .22LR round packs more energy than any of the bows tested.
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HEMA people tend to hang in the fencing thread. https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3693186
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Has anyone read Orlando Figes's Crimea? Audible keeps giving me credits and I like listening to history.
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Biffmotron posted:I read it and liked it. I'm not an expert on the period, but Figes does a solid job presenting the Great Power politics of the mid-19th century, and the way that the state of the Ottoman Empire turned into a war between Russia, Britain, and France. He's less good on the actual military history, but then the Crimean War was such an omnishambles its not easy to write great military history about it.
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It looks like someone built some kind of modernist mosque on a submarine.
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Tree Bucket posted:I'm currently five pages behind on the thread, but which series is this? Sounds mad.
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The phalanx doesn't have musketeers hiding in it.
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poisonpill posted:Spart-webo
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I tried to find out what the original word for "If.  " was, until I realized absolutely nobody would actually get it.
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Equipping soldiers with both pikes and armour costs money, is my guess.
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HEY GUNS posted:remember how heavy your pike was? now do that wearing a breastplate and backplate 
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Fangz posted:A simple cuirass is surely much less expensive than earlier plate armour? You are less concerned about leaving gaps that might be exploited by a melee opponent, and adding points of articulation - what you have is a lot closer to a slab of metal.   The basic shape of the breastplate has remained the same, Christian's armour just includes more bits. So in a sense you're correct that the cuirass alone is cheaper, but that's only because you're not buying all the extras.
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Instead of getting the Crimea audiobook, I instead got Killers of the King. (The titular king being Charles I of England and Scotland.) I've been listening it for a bit now and the New Model Army's Irish escapades sound kind of, um, horrifyingly brutal. Am I just naive or is beating a surrendering officer to death with their own prosthetic leg a bit much even by 17th century standards?
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Florence Nightingale
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poisonpill posted:So this is almost troll-level simplistic but I assure you it’s a real question: is the difference between light and heavy infantry/cavalry just the amount of armor worn? Would the only reason you not field all heavy X instead of light X be cost to field, or were there different tactical reasons to use different troops? At least in some militaries right now, the difference between light and regular infantry is the amount of vehicles used to support the dudes. Finnish sissi troops for instance ditch almost everything larger than an ATV or a snowmobile, and as a result can operate away from road networks, which is handy when basically everything between Finland and Yellow State is densely forested and roads are sparse. But that also means they have to hump everything they need on their back, which means a lot of grumbling and also no room for body armour or fancy weapons.
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JcDent posted:Ever so slowly, we're inching back towards separating tanks into infantry tanks and cruiser tanks 
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Ensign Expendable posted:Post-war research showed that only a fraction of the men ever thrusted their pike at the enemy with the intent to kill.
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Military History Mk. IV: A Good Piking
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Tias posted:- At what point did sapping start coming into use? I recently saw Stronghold, and it would have me believe peeps straight up warmed a gigantic pig fat bonfire under castles to collapse them.
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I quit Spec Ops because the main character steers so poorly. Does that mean I beat the game?
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Who's going to pay for this well-constructed armour?
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That's 100% groovy, but it looks more "sixties psychedelia" than "modern action movie".
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Minto Took posted:*posts Bolt Thrower's entire discography* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4wRTxBhqNuY
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HEY GUNS posted:if you find out why 16th/17th c asian muskets look graceful and forwrd-leaning but western muskets look like furniture, let me know I like how the trigger is positioned waaay back so you can actually aim down the barrel without having your face right above the flash pan.
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