When I go back in time, can I have a chainsaw hand like in Evil Dead?
What happens when you run out of gas?

If I can go back in time, fuel for my chainsaw hand will be a minor logistical hurdle in comparison, don't you think?

If you want that would be fine, but make sure you don't go too far back. Far enough there wouldn't be gas to run it. Which would be embarrassing.

Edit: DAMNIT! Should type faster.

If I can go back in time, fuel for my chainsaw hand will be a minor logistical hurdle in comparison, don't you think?

You'll probably have a manual for cold fusion in the boot of your car, in this case.

Nah, just bring a T-Rex sized saddle. Sure, she'll be ornery at first, but think of bringing a dinosaur to an elephant fight.

You'll probably have a manual for cold fusion in the boot of your car, in this case.

Very possibly. Or my chainsaw hand will be equipped with a Uranium powered flux capacitor.

Very possibly. Or my chainsaw hand will be equipped with a Uranium powered flux capacitor.

Yes you may and go with this.

Awesome. I'll be ready for the witches.

"If you were suddely swept back in time to the Battle of Thermopolie ... do you think, in the condition you are currently in, you could hack it and live. Disregarding skills, just conditioning. "Do I get to be a Persian?

Otherwise, pretty fucking retarded question.

Not so Lu Tze. If your conditioning was good enough you could run and kill that hunchback mutant between battles with Persian Ninjas and that giant homo with the spray tan.

Considering im fat, that would make me some form of bigshot, so yes. if i was a grunt probably, just because people now a days are way bigger then they used to be.

Yeh, but the guys back then may have been far more skilled in sword-fighting than even the most enthusiastic resurrector of battlefield arts long since forgotten by the rest of the world - and know exactly how to deal with a larger, stronger, but less technically-sound opponent...

Or not. Weren't many historical armies largely composed of peasants who were recruited on the spot, as and when required (and given a few days of training?)? Dunno - I'm not a history buff.

I'd think that would be the case. Given the number of revolts that seem to happen in a lot of mideval countries you wouldn't want a large, well trained group of peasant soldiers out there.

I don't actually need fighting skills if my time machine takes me somewhere bogus. I've got a most excellent bodyguard.
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I'd think that would be the case. Given the number of revolts that seem to happen in a lot of mideval countries you wouldn't want a large, well trained group of peasant soldiers out there.Medieval.

The European middle ages encompassed a thousand fucking years of history, you really can't generalise like that at all. So don't.

The English longbowman, as an example, was an incredibly well trained peasant. It was in fact mandated by law that every able bodied man practice with this weapon, because it took so much time to master.

It's not that they didn't want well trained and equipped armies, it's that it was expensive as all hell, especially arms and armour. A mail hauberk in modern terms cost as much as a house.

Medieval.

The European middle ages encompassed a thousand fucking years of history, you really can't generalise like that at all. So don't.

The English longbowman, as an example, was an incredibly well trained peasant. It was in fact mandated by law that every able bodied man practice with this weapon, because it took so much time to master.

It's not that they didn't want well trained and equipped armies, it's that it was expensive as all hell, especially arms and armour. A mail hauberk in modern terms cost as much as a house.

Wow. How much would a full suit of plate armour cost then, you reckon?

I'm not uninformed enough to believe that there was a point in time when everyone was clanking around on the battlefield like ye olde knights of olde, dressed from head to toe in steel - but who typically would have been wearing that?

I'm not an expert either, but as far as I know mail and full plate are from different periods.

Full plate is more advanced, not necessarily more expensive. Think very carefully how a pre-industrial society would have to make something like a mail shirt.