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>>2840785
What part of Europe and what part of the 1000 years that the medieval lasted you stupid fucking cunt?

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>wow man...i love ASOIAF...it doesn't dress the medieval era up, it tells it like it really was!... This ain't Lord of the Rings, that's for sure...

>>2840785
GRRM has consistently never been able to back up his supposed knowledge of REAL medieval europe

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>>2838244
It *WAS* mobs of gunmen shooting at each other with fast firing weapons.

To be specific, artillery pummeling the enemy in advance and then the mobs of gunmen come to attack enemy positions using a firing tactic that allowed them to pour fire with the volume of automatic weapons. It was fucked up.

If you're familiar with line tactics, you'd know they'd be preceded by light infantry skirmishers who are expert marksmen. With the new firearms, EVERYONE, became skirmishers. They didn't form lines anymore.

Also the first machine guns were deployed in batteries similar to artillery pieces, and were used in support of an infantry attack.

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>>2838244
Look up the Boer War, Spanish American War and the Balkan Wars. Also it's a bit mite line infantry still, but the Franco-Prussian War (particularly what the Prussians did) provides you with a good perspective of how war evolved from line battles.

Oh and the Ruso-Japanese war too.

>>2838244
from what i've read the switch in warfare was consistent but slow and several key moments in history boosted it.

The armies still fought in lines for a while, the weapons were getting faster and uniforms were changing from visibility on the field to invisibility on the field. One moment responsible for large reforms was when the Prussians and Habsburgs fought in Konnigsgratz where the german squads picked off lines of white-clad Austrians charging in line. Reforms to change the white had been failed earlier and "The Prussians did one evening what Joseph II couldn't in a decade."

The armies then progressively used terrain (as their weapons can now be loaded in prone position, broke off into smaller units to use a larger front, and used uniforms that were a slow shift from ornamental parade dress to khakis, greys, etc.

The modernization of weaponry during the American Civil War, Franco-Prussian War, and even the Crimean War (and also multiple conflicts in Africa) largely reformed military drill.

>>2849542
>prove me wrong
How about you prove yourself right, faggot?

>>2849587
Revolutions and wars are done by leaders, not soldiers and they decide when to start or end. Kinda like when 2 guys let a mad herd fight with each other.
Also if I was wrong then media
manipulation wouldn't exist/wouldn't be effective.

>>2849542

You're kinda right, up until the "special" person. Nothing is "special" about them in the sense that they are divinely gifted or something. Anyone has the potential to be this person, it just takes the right cause and hard work. Although this may sound cliché, any old anon can go out there and TRY to "change the world," but it may not work out very well.

No, the main reason is no better system has presented itself yet. Only other options being presented are retarded systems that have failed and keep failing to this day.

>>2848753
Why are countries like the US and UK becoming more authoritarian? How much worse will it get before something gives?

Western democracies are eating themselves because welfare and pensions. You can't have a generous welfare state and a sexual revolution disincentivizing child births whodda thunk it.

>>2848245
Would probably help if you could link us the article that's got your panties in a twist chief

>>2848293

There is no such article, he's just a memelord projecting his memes onto real life

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I know exactly the type of person you mean

it's pretty cool I guess

It's shit.

>>2848090
I'm loving it

No.

This is a really really really bad attempt at shitposting anon and you should feel bad

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No.

>>2847679
Haha, he's got "cock" in his name XD

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>>2847690
god dammit anon

>>2847679
If you like spooks then go ahead, read that fucking spook-a-dook.

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>>2847446
>wesplain
>...you listen

>>2847446
People prey on the weak, and we white people are basically shattered because we've tossed our heritage out the window. Ask any white person what their culture is and they'll say "we don't have any" where as any other ethnicity would tell all sorts of shit.

We excelled so far past everyone else for a while we began to fight ourselves fornsone type info competition and while we did that everyone else caught up, and yet we still drag each other down.

Everyone hates on whites because we love to hate each other.

>equality tax

I love this Orwellian shit.

who never wore the wings in battle

>stanislaw your feathers are getting into my face again

>>2847418
Excellent meme, my friend.

>>2847418
Except they did, with various sources confirming it.

>>2846646
>you can't have morality without God

Does this mean 'God is the only possible source of morality' or 'you have to believe in God to be a moral person'?

>>2846646
Why is Ben Stiller calling himself a scholar?

>>2846646
Hitchens. I fucking hate him.

Because it's 2016.

supposedly it leads to a greater, more well rounded man
retaining power has its flip side of course; responsibility and social pressure

>>2846487
It would be a better argument if it wasn't a responsability shared between all men (in this context).

>>2846453
BTFO /pol/

>>2846453
Truly an empire of dirt.

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AND YOU COULD HAVE IT ALL

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When the winged hussars arrived

A cry for help in time of need, await relief from holy league
60 days of siege, outnumbered and weak
Sent a message to the sky, wounded soldiers left to die
Will they hold the wall or will the city fall

Dedication
Dedication
They’re outnumbered 15 to one
And the battle´s begun

Then the winged hussars arrived
Coming down the mountainside
Then the winged hussars arrived
Coming down they turned the tide

As the days are passing by and as the dead are piling high
No escape and no salvation
Trenches to explosive halls are buried deep beneath the walls
Plant the charges there and watch the city fear

Desperation
Desperation
It’s a desperate race against the mine
And a race against time

Cannonballs are coming down from the sky
Janissaries are you ready to die?
We will seek our vengeance eye for an eye

You’ll be stopped upon the steps of our gate
On this field you’re only facing our hate
But back home the Sultan’s sealing your fate

We remember
In September
That’s the night Vienna was freed
We made the enemy bleed!

Stormclouds, fire and steel
Death from above make their enemy kneel
Shining armour and wings
Death from above, it’s an army of kings

We remember
In September
When the winged hussars arrived

>>2846483
>tfw pic is from one of best threads on /his/

>>2846483
nice

>ubisoft will never drop this TAMPLARS VS ASSISSYS bullshit and make independent historical games

>>2845982
Hitler was an assassin. Of jews.

>>2845997
I wouldn't mind it if they just cut out the bullshit about everything being in the future. Just make historical games, even if they have a templar vs assassin theme