Re: Asian History

by **peugeot407** Mon 15 Apr 2013 - 9:12

That's certainly true...

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by **Tilanus Commodor** Mon 15 Apr 2013 - 10:05

Hoop Thrower wrote:Once you start looking at medieval China at least you'll realize how interesting it really is, having gunpowder widespread much earlier means that technology and military developed in a very different way than it did in the west for starters, armor became much more irrelevant earlier and tactics went to places unheard of in Europe...

That sounds interesting indeed. Can you give some examples or send some articles/literature on that? That'd be.. thumbs up

by HAL9000 Mon 15 Apr 2013 - 11:10

Furthermore, they were the only people in the area that utilized gunpowder to such an extent, so the use of weapons designed to frighten or shock (i.e. explosives, fireworks, flamethrowers) would have been much more effective. None of their nomad enemies really used them, so the shock value would have been enormous.

by **Hoop Thrower** Mon 15 Apr 2013 - 11:41

Tilanus Commodor wrote: That sounds interesting indeed. Can you give some examples or send some articles/literature on that? That'd be..

Soldiers of the Dragon is a good place to start if you feel like reading a book, I had some other sources, but I'll have a hard time finding them again, I'll tell you if I do find them, however...

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