Eternal_Flame said
can someone give me a link to good random name generator, i need that for some kind of purpose, any one?
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Eternal_Flame said
can someone give me a link to good random name generator, i need that for some kind of purpose, any one?
Senor Herp said
Sheet fiddling continues. The history is rough, I feel, and too vague, and I am not certain the manpower is reasonable for too much or too little. Initially mistook the manpower for an abstract rather than one-to-one manpower to man. Feel less like standing armies proper and more the scale of house guard, not that that wasn't a significant portion of professional troops in the era besides men-at-arms, mind. What do you think, Syrian? And others, if they care to comment.
Panda-Man said
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Eternal_Flame said
haha, im no such people, i wonder, is my RP good enough for you guys?because, for real, i have never write so much in my life,
Meeky said
The best way to improve your writing abilities is to keep writing. Emulate others, draw upon what you like from their techniques, and you'll improve over time, likely developing your own style. Just keep writing and you'll be fine.
The one thing I'd watch for is your grammar and such. Also, always keep in mind what the limitations of the era are. Battlefield communications in the days of yore, especially the medieval era, were pretty awful; you didn't have radios, and you couldn't just yell across the battlefield to a subordinate. Thus, most orders were short and simple, and the tactics you use walking into a battle are usually going to be pretty straightforward. (I.E.: a general may tell his officers to "charge the enemy at the signal" or "move to their flank and attack" and leave the rest to their discretion, because you can't predict everything the enemy will do.)
In an upcoming battle Erimir will be in, I'll be trying to give a good idea of what sort of chaos the medieval battlefield may have had.
Eternal_Flame said
thanks for the feedback, i knew that i'm always bad at grammar,i wonder is warcraft universe is counted as medieval, excluding magic and stuff though...
SyrianHamster said Does this make sense to anyone?
Meeky said
This is reflective of feudal times. You didn't see armies of men wearing full plate and carrying nice metal swords and shields. For one, that's heavy. Also, it's really expensive to field an army so well-equipped.
Meeky said Instead, you'd have a pool of professional soldiers, such as, yes, a house guard, that really did make a living out of warfare. Knights and huscarls are prime examples of such men. However, large professional armies didn't really become a "thing" until much later; a local lord would just gather up a bunch of peasants from his fields, equip them with weapons, and march them off to war. (Consequently, you usually saw a lot of people running away and deserting their armies in battle. This sort of behavior continued well into the 1700's.
Meeky said (The Revolutionary War in the U.S.A. is riddled with examples of militia running away as soon as the enemy closes in on them.)Making sure your armies are well fed and such is important.
Meeky said Most casualties in war have historically been from disease and injuries not being treated properly, so keep that in mind. A healthy, well-fed soldier is less likely to succumb to disease than a malnourished one.
If I'm not being uncouth by butting into this line, that's not entirely true in case of our period to my knowledge, or at least were it not for the unusual circumstance of complete subcontinental balkanization causing two decades of chaos. It is around this time of serpentine gunpowder that we'd start seeing munitions-class armor start getting churned out by guild workshop. And for that matter, neither is a sword especially heavy, with the heavier end of the zweihander class reaching seven pounds at most; the issue of fatigue comes from extended combat action in less heavy and more suffocating armor, not that it wasn't heavy, but the primary source was lacking ventilation compounding extended actions. Chain-draped heavy quilt gets VERY hot, and chain is often rather heavier than homogenized plate.
It is to my understanding that this is not entirely true either. Besides gentle-blooded or knighted house guards, there were also mercenaries in the employ of lords as said guard. This in addition to further mercenaries bought for a campaign, and in addition to whatever the crown would commission. This in addition to institutions of martial familiarity like those for the English longbow meant that the core of an army was to consist of professional troops, and the core would be quite a large portion, of mercenaries and men-at-arms (knightly or otherwise.) If a belligerent was using peasant conscripts from the field, in the field, it was likely a sign they were losing already to draw so recklessly from the harvest. Large professional armies they were not, but neither were they small, with support in the form of some number semiprofessional troops drawn from the commoner.
Wouldn't this be more that the militias were typically guerrilla fighters in the first place? My understanding is very basic, but they were not meant nor expected to hold a line against the British without a dugout, they were to harry the enemy long enough for responsive action, hold fortification, or else were bushwhackers killing in the woods and dying in the woods. Dying less than British line infantry, though.
Meeky said Also, firearms for the most part brought an end to plate armor. This isn't to say that the advent of firearms immediately spelled the end of all armor, as you can see such historical troops as the Polish Hussar wearing metal armor well into the development of firearms; but you really shouldn't be standing in front of a guy with a rifle and expect your armor to get you away from the scene unscathed.
Titanic said
Any hint on what the next world event is?
SyrianHamster said
Why? You short of earthquakes and plagues?