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Life isn't a video game lad

>>2424741
Did I imply it was?

>>2424723
The Red coats and the Hakkapeliitta.

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>>2423853

Because you use the blade part for the unarmored and you flip the sword and use it as a warhammer for the armored opponents.

Alternatively, if your blade is rigid, you can deliver a heck of a blunt impact by thrusts.

Also;

> Why wasn't the main weapons a club or some kind of pike with a sharp end to smash holes in the knights armor ?

It was, polearms were the main weapon for most.

> why bother with swords

Because swords are excellent sidearms and are better in many situations than polerams.

Considering how often a heavily equipped soldier in Europe would find himself either besieged or besieging, assaulting walls or fighting in corridors isn't exactly the best situation for a big ass polearm.

>>2423853
well what did you want them to have, they had yo have something asshole

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>main weapon
A sword is usually your sidearm. Most infantry would have a polearm as their primary weapon and most Knights would have a lance or something.

Also remember that the concept of "Knights" on the battlefield covers a 1000 year long period. The later on you go the better armored Knights get and weapons evolve to deal with that.

Plus in a pinch you can grab your sword by the blade and use the pommel and crossguard to strike with.

Swords are incredibly versatile and a decent weapon against just about every type of opponent. There's a reason they turn up in pretty much every culture in every part of the world at every point in history until the 1920s.

>>2423010
Because the Greeks managed to lose to a 99% disintegrated empire in the midst of a massive fucking civil war. Seriously, how they managed to piss away all of their advantages boggles me.

>>2423052
except the Turks were being supplied by the Soviets, while the Greek economy had trouble sustaining itself from the loss of men in its small population, also Anglo betrayal

>>2423088
Soviet aid was pretty negligable considering they were in the middle of their OWN civil war. And you can't really blame the Brits for not really fucking caring about Greece after being worn to the bone by WW1.

>>2422649
I don't think too different.
Generally religion doesn't change as much as people think.

Less landmines.

>>2422649
More than you'd hope; less than you'd think.

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>>2421958
thanks, have the GOAT painting although it is not what i am looking for

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Look at it's face.

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>>2421672

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>>2421674

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shat all over bushido and ruined classical japan with volley fire and meritocracy and other stuff that was considered disonorabrr so of course people are going to be pissed.

keep in mind the people writing about him are mostly butthurt people negatively effected by his crap. more nobility were negatively effected by oda than positively, and those were the people writing stuff down.

I could go into more detail but this thread has happoened enougha timwism I just don't cccarrreee anms

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>>2421077
>Yet, most of the times in japanese media, he's depicted as ruthless asshole.

Pic related is Oda Nobunaga.

>>2421077
fuck off weeb

>>2418623

>Hitler made sense

>I hate those damn Judeo-Bolsheviks who want to attack and take over everything, so I'm going to make a secret alliance with the one Bolshevik (Judeo:optional) state out there to attack the biggest state betweeen the two of us and then use that as proof of endless Soviet expansionism to justify how the Judeo-Bolsheviks are going to take everything over so I need to attack France, Denmark, Belgium, The Netherlands, Yugoslavia, and just about everyone else to stop them!

childhood is when you play with toys
adulthood is when you realize getting a job makes more sense

>>2418623
>use that as proof of endless Soviet expansionism

Are you seriously implying Stalin was not gonna invade western europe at some point in time anyway?

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German troops man a machine gun at the Vistula River during World War I.

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>>2393494

It was a Keynesian model

>>2424800
Hjalmar Schacht implementing labor vouchers and Keynesian policies

>>2424809
So the government subsidized employment in the private sector?

>>2423692
Game of thrones

>>2423692
curb your enthusiasm

>>2423730
Terrible post.
>>2423692
There are not any. Historical shows are all shit. Read a book, nigger.

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>>2423551
>Benjamin the Israeli

Into the oven he goes.

>>2423580
>BTFO'd Zulus
>gave Victoria the Empress of India title
>solidified Tories with the working class
>meme'd Tories into being the party of the British Empire

lol back to /pol/

>>2423551
10/10 politician and head of state

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Yes, democracy was a mistake.

>>2423511
>pshh...

>republic
>rJˈpʌblJk/Submit
>noun
>a state in which supreme power is held by the people and their elected representatives, and which has an elected or nominated president rather than a monarch.
>archaic
>a group with a certain equality between its members.
>"the community of scholars and the republic of learning"

>>2422939
Hello there Ironmarch friend.
/nu-pol/ is shit and won't even know what esoteric-ism is. This place is dire.

>>2422939
Thread isn't moving. How about we talk about the Hollow Earth and Agartha OP?

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>>2422939
it's in Petra Jordan