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@KaiserLoengramm It's difficult to romanticise the era of the Thirty Years' War, so only grimdark titles like Warhammer and Solomon Kane touch it.

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@kunley_drukpa Isn't this because SA is such a crime-ridden shithole that they don't need much persuading to leave?

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@wil_da_beast630 Similar to how in fantasy kingdoms very often endure for thousands of years with minimal change.

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@o_sneedy Note that communism had the deck stacked in their favor in espionage & diplomacy early on because their ideology had convinced so many fellow-travelers to be more loyal to the Internationale than their own countries.

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@arctotherium42 Was this simply because the best labour agitators were all Marxists so Marxist parties could just switch it off at will?

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@VileChud https://t.co/vbiD1svjdE (ctrl+f Bashkir)

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@VileChud Weren't they terribly maladapted to 19th century warfare? There's a French account in the Napoleonic wars of Russia's Bakshir auxiliaries still fielding horse archers, who of course could not match the firepower of the French formations.

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@GaiusOctavian22 This is why lefties are so paranoid about "fascism with a smiley face" isn't it?

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@prometheuus0 @kamilkazani Probably because we've built complex machinery in which the price of mistakes are extremely high, but are so productive that work done any other way is almost worthless.

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@GeoffRuss3 Oddly his "How to live to be 100" made it into my HS curriculum.

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@junker_jo Still remember arguing with a guy who thought Walter Scott was progressive because he portrayed medieval Jew-hate as a little excessive.

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@freecupofsoup To be fair, video-game style exploits of the legal system do work pretty often, when they're done by NGOs that judge shop.

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@TheBonePile @Muckraker1611 Perhap like ancient plebs their homes are only good for sleeping, so all their free time is spent milling about.

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@Muckraker1611 We walk so fast we often miss the thing we're looking for

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@PabloAntonio Xenophon's Anabasis was framed similarly

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@WeltgeistYT Seems like a moot point when the novel portrays British schoolboys, unless you mean that the more civilised the boys the worse they deal with being stranded (as opposed to the Tonga castaways who stole a boat to escape their residential school).

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@romanhelmetguy Hasn't Games Workshop already done this?

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@kisstheblade_ He even had a controlled opposition Republican named Wendell Wilkie

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@NotJonMollison So it worked the same way as in M&B Warband?

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@OneArmedBoh In the Med2 Americas campaign it's best to leave gunners in garrison and rely on the cavalry