Sometimes I wish I had a time machine to visit my favorite eras and then when I remember as a woman how it was even shittier before I thank heaven it’s 2024!
EmperorBamboozler on
I have gotten into arguments about this before but ancient combat was more personally demanding than modern combat in my opinion. I don’t mean warfare, obviously no ancient battle can compare in brutality to a battle like Vimy Ridge or Stalingrad, but actually killing people took **work.**
You have to stand in a mass of troops and smash into each other where you then just try to stab each other to death. You are in a hot wet mass of human bodies with sharp edges everywhere. Information is hard to come by, you don’t have good reliable communication like what you get with the radio. You just gotta keep your eyes and ears open for the flag or war drums/bugles and hope that your command system aren’t all dead. Most of the time you just have like a pointy stick and a shield, most people have some cloth armor and maybe a helmet and/or a chain mail coif in the way of defence. You are hot as fuck in that armor too, lots of people in battles died from fucking heat stroke not enemy blades. Little to no formal training either depending on the time and place. Even if you do well in combat, if you get wounded that’s probably getting infected given how much blood and literal shit get into a cut in a melee like that. Then you just gotta hope for the best because medicine does not exist in any meaningful sense.
I would *vastly* prefer to be in an ancient battle rather than like the fucking Somme, but I am too soft and fleshy. Definitely not gonna be a good soldier without a rifle.
gallade_samurai on
I always come across these “the past was better” statements and wonder, exactly when in the past do you wanna be in? Because basically everywhere sounds horrible in any time
n3w4cc01_1nt on
fr. they need to stfu and realize that rn you can talk to someone from anywhere on the planet.
also turns out that the only people that want war are old idiots in suits
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*ouch*
hey atleast it has a flared base
I wouldn’t want to be there…
Sometimes I wish I had a time machine to visit my favorite eras and then when I remember as a woman how it was even shittier before I thank heaven it’s 2024!
I have gotten into arguments about this before but ancient combat was more personally demanding than modern combat in my opinion. I don’t mean warfare, obviously no ancient battle can compare in brutality to a battle like Vimy Ridge or Stalingrad, but actually killing people took **work.**
You have to stand in a mass of troops and smash into each other where you then just try to stab each other to death. You are in a hot wet mass of human bodies with sharp edges everywhere. Information is hard to come by, you don’t have good reliable communication like what you get with the radio. You just gotta keep your eyes and ears open for the flag or war drums/bugles and hope that your command system aren’t all dead. Most of the time you just have like a pointy stick and a shield, most people have some cloth armor and maybe a helmet and/or a chain mail coif in the way of defence. You are hot as fuck in that armor too, lots of people in battles died from fucking heat stroke not enemy blades. Little to no formal training either depending on the time and place. Even if you do well in combat, if you get wounded that’s probably getting infected given how much blood and literal shit get into a cut in a melee like that. Then you just gotta hope for the best because medicine does not exist in any meaningful sense.
I would *vastly* prefer to be in an ancient battle rather than like the fucking Somme, but I am too soft and fleshy. Definitely not gonna be a good soldier without a rifle.
I always come across these “the past was better” statements and wonder, exactly when in the past do you wanna be in? Because basically everywhere sounds horrible in any time
fr. they need to stfu and realize that rn you can talk to someone from anywhere on the planet.
also turns out that the only people that want war are old idiots in suits