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| Topic Started: Dec 1 2010, 05:56 PM (4,719 Views) | |
| Holben | Dec 5 2010, 03:36 PM Post #136 |
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I am forced to submit before the great truth of your statement. |
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Time flows like a river. Which is to say, downhill. We can tell this because everything is going downhill rapidly. It would seem prudent to be somewhere else when we reach the sea. "It is the old wound my king. It has never healed." | |
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| lamna | Dec 5 2010, 03:38 PM Post #137 |
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Whoa there has been a lot of talk here. But I'd just like to say that it's not Imperial Japan. During the reigns of Meiji and Taishō the Empire of Japan was a good country. Sure their were some injustices, but the same can be said of all other nations. It was when the Army started taking over the government in the early Showa era things really turned nasty. Using bribery to win a war is a legitimate strategy, it's underhanded but if it works, it's better than killing. In the end in war all that matters is victory and the butcher's bill. |
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| Holben | Dec 5 2010, 03:40 PM Post #138 |
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What do you call a hidden rule by generals? |
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| Kamidio | Dec 5 2010, 03:43 PM Post #139 |
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| Marineman | Dec 5 2010, 03:43 PM Post #140 |
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Just about every general bribed. A lot of armies had mercenaries along with regulars. They met with the enemy general and whichever side could pay the highest they went with. |
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| Holben | Dec 5 2010, 03:45 PM Post #141 |
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Mercenaries didn't make up the majority of armies until Italy in the middle ages really, unless you call the Medes mercenaries. few generals bribed really, more won by show of strength. |
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Time flows like a river. Which is to say, downhill. We can tell this because everything is going downhill rapidly. It would seem prudent to be somewhere else when we reach the sea. "It is the old wound my king. It has never healed." | |
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| dialforthedevil | Dec 5 2010, 03:49 PM Post #142 |
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Yes the ones recorded in history tend to be the ones who bribed luckily we had Tacitus writing about the punic wars and he was normally unbiased.... to a certain extent |
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| Kamidio | Dec 5 2010, 03:50 PM Post #143 |
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The Brit hired mercenaries. In otherwords, you're no different. |
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| Holben | Dec 5 2010, 03:51 PM Post #144 |
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But so hard to translate... ![]() And he did have bias about political situations. |
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| Holben | Dec 5 2010, 03:51 PM Post #145 |
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Not really, we conscripted. ANd only when we started imperialising. |
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| dialforthedevil | Dec 5 2010, 03:52 PM Post #146 |
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Look im joking about the whole Scipio thing and i know everyone hired mercenaries the majority of Hannibals forces were mercs
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| Holben | Dec 5 2010, 03:53 PM Post #147 |
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Hannibal was more of an exception in his mercenary-hiring, the main armies of the day (barbarian, Parthian, Seeucid, roman) avoided mercs. |
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| Marineman | Dec 5 2010, 03:55 PM Post #148 |
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Well Romans kind of had mercenaries, they paid tribes to fight for them. |
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| Holben | Dec 5 2010, 03:56 PM Post #149 |
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Mainly auxiliaries though. |
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| T.Neo | Dec 5 2010, 03:57 PM Post #150 |
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I never made a claim about any atrocityless war, I just said that defeating an agressor without atrocities is honorable.
Oh no. No you didn't.
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