Battle fight!

**DARPAChief** · Posted On: 6/03/2011 3:17pm

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.

**Devil** · Posted On: 6/03/2011 3:21pm

Originally Posted by captainbirdseye

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.

**Killbot** · Posted On: 6/03/2011 3:24pm

Originally Posted by devil

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

Yes you may and go with this.

**Devil** · Posted On: 6/03/2011 3:27pm

Awesome. I'll be ready for the witches.

**Lu Tze** · Posted On: 6/03/2011 3:49pm

Originally Posted by Killbot

"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.

**tao.jonez** · Posted On: 6/03/2011 3:55pm

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.

**Larus marinus** · Posted On: 6/03/2011 4:03pm

Originally Posted by All Dice

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.

**Gosai** · Posted On: 6/03/2011 4:54pm

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.

**Permalost** · Posted On: 6/03/2011 4:55pm

I don't actually need fighting skills if my time machine takes me somewhere bogus. I've got a most excellent bodyguard.

**Lu Tze** · Posted On: 6/03/2011 6:02pm

Originally Posted by Gosai

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.