Notices by :spinnenrad: Festivegoat :spinnenrad: (eiregoat@nicecrew.digital), page 17
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:spinnenrad: Festivegoat :spinnenrad: (eiregoat@nicecrew.digital)'s status on Tuesday, 13-Jun-2023 00:23:28 JST 
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You say that but there's a long long history of "obsolete" aircraft being pulled back into service because the new stuff either doesn't work or isn't fit for purpose.
For example, during vietnam the americans found their fancy new missile armed spaceage jetfighters were being gunned down by obsolete migs armed with cannons. -
:spinnenrad: Festivegoat :spinnenrad: (eiregoat@nicecrew.digital)'s status on Friday, 09-Jun-2023 12:17:17 JST
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You're supposed to say "yes, they're delicious," then tell her your favorite recipe. -
:spinnenrad: Festivegoat :spinnenrad: (eiregoat@nicecrew.digital)'s status on Friday, 09-Jun-2023 12:12:01 JST
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You have folders full of foot stuff and you wonder why women think you have a thing for feet? -
:spinnenrad: Festivegoat :spinnenrad: (eiregoat@nicecrew.digital)'s status on Wednesday, 07-Jun-2023 07:18:55 JST
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Oh no, I've come across actual women into "bimboification." It's incredibly ugly, I think it's some kind of degradation thing. -
:spinnenrad: Festivegoat :spinnenrad: (eiregoat@nicecrew.digital)'s status on Sunday, 04-Jun-2023 09:45:34 JST
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It's not. But they're delighted to work something anti-White into their anti-male ideology. -
:spinnenrad: Festivegoat :spinnenrad: (eiregoat@nicecrew.digital)'s status on Sunday, 04-Jun-2023 09:24:54 JST
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It can be nice to wear a suit to dinner sometimes. -
:spinnenrad: Festivegoat :spinnenrad: (eiregoat@nicecrew.digital)'s status on Sunday, 04-Jun-2023 00:54:25 JST
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Plus, is this any harder for wheel chair users than a similar ramp without the steps?
Guard rails might be useful but that's about it. -
:spinnenrad: Festivegoat :spinnenrad: (eiregoat@nicecrew.digital)'s status on Friday, 02-Jun-2023 17:21:39 JST
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I don't think it was about the black sea as such, more about smacking down Russia before they got too powerful. It's probably comparable to proxy wars like Vietnam or the Soviet Afghan war. -
:spinnenrad: Festivegoat :spinnenrad: (eiregoat@nicecrew.digital)'s status on Friday, 02-Jun-2023 17:21:14 JST
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Which incidentally was also true of the greeks and romans. The romans had plenty of velites and other units who couldn't afford proper armour and had relatively little training, supporting hardened professionals with full armour.
The greeks also had "naked" slingers/archers etc. harassing around the flanks while the wealthy hoplites did the real work in the center. -
:spinnenrad: Festivegoat :spinnenrad: (eiregoat@nicecrew.digital)'s status on Friday, 02-Jun-2023 17:20:51 JST
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Yep. The US civil war, the crimean war and the franco prussian war were the tail end of that kind of warfare.
The last wars with really huge heavy infantry formations were the napoleonic wars. Part of the reason they did it was to help defend against cavalry, but by the end of the 19th century cavalry was becoming too vulnerable to automatic fire to be a serious threat to well formed infantry. -
:spinnenrad: Festivegoat :spinnenrad: (eiregoat@nicecrew.digital)'s status on Friday, 02-Jun-2023 17:20:47 JST
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Yes, but also before him.
His father in particular brought a formation called the phalanx to it's greatest height. They fought with enormous 18ft spears and relatively light shields and armour compared to earlier formations.
In later conflicts though it proved too vulnerable to smaller units which could be individually ordered around to take advantage of terrain (the romans were excellent at this), so it was abandoned as a formation. -
:spinnenrad: Festivegoat :spinnenrad: (eiregoat@nicecrew.digital)'s status on Friday, 02-Jun-2023 17:20:29 JST
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It's a very broad term, it relates more to the density of the formation than any particular equipment. Heavy infantry fought in huge blocks whereas light infantry tended to be more spread out.
It's not even specific to the bronze or iron age either: Heavy infantry tactics lasted up until the early 19th century. It was only when automatic weapons happened that it became suicidal to march at the enemy in a big group. -
:spinnenrad: Festivegoat :spinnenrad: (eiregoat@nicecrew.digital)'s status on Friday, 02-Jun-2023 17:19:52 JST
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> The cavalry flank was invented by Persians and imported west
That is a bold claim with a capitol B. That's like saying the persians invented swords or shields. Flanking with cavalry has been around as long as there has been cavalry. Longer actually since chariots are a thing. -
:spinnenrad: Festivegoat :spinnenrad: (eiregoat@nicecrew.digital)'s status on Friday, 02-Jun-2023 17:19:35 JST
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Heavy infantry are infantry formations where they drill and operate as a group. As opposed to light infantry which are more opportunistic and each soldier looks for individual opportunities.
Both heavy and light infantry have been employed by every major power in history about as far back as we have history. Heavy infantry absolutely were not a greek invention, and certainly not a roman one. -
:spinnenrad: Festivegoat :spinnenrad: (eiregoat@nicecrew.digital)'s status on Friday, 02-Jun-2023 17:19:21 JST
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Nice namedropping. But in reality you're the one being vague. You're just making up false (and easily disproven) statments after another, getting your ass kicked, then pretending nothing happened. -
:spinnenrad: Festivegoat :spinnenrad: (eiregoat@nicecrew.digital)'s status on Friday, 02-Jun-2023 17:18:58 JST
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Where on earth do you get this stuff? 🤣
1. No, the celts had many tactics. They were also well capable of beating the "invincible" heavy infantry you're talking about: Look up Brennus and come back to me.
2. The romano-british who faced off against the saxons were using *Roman* tactics. They had been romanised for several centuries by that point.
3. Every ancient army tried to flank around their infantry with cavalry, including the romans and the greeks/macedonians. Not to mention that a good portion of the persians' armies were... greek. -
:spinnenrad: Festivegoat :spinnenrad: (eiregoat@nicecrew.digital)'s status on Friday, 02-Jun-2023 17:18:49 JST
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No lol. Go read a history book. If you think the greeks and romans invented heavy infantry then you really need to do a lot of basic reading. Not to mention that the didn't even exist by the time the greeks started using heavy infantry, so it'd be pretty hard for them to co-invent it. -
:spinnenrad: Festivegoat :spinnenrad: (eiregoat@nicecrew.digital)'s status on Friday, 02-Jun-2023 17:18:21 JST
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I've already covered that. The Aztecs were well capable of operating in formation. And if conquering them should have been an easy job then the conquistadores were rank amateurs given that they were besieged and almost starved out more than once.
I'm not sure how comparing them to the mesopotamians makes them unorganised. And their buildings were largely comparable to those found in Spain at the time.
> you can look a everyone before Greece and Rome as they invented drill formations and line combat
No lol, no they did not.
> That's how thermopylae happened. Spartans worked together in disciplined lines and the Persians did not.
False on several counts:
1. The persians did work together in disciplined units
2. They weren't just fighting the persians, they were also fighting several other persian subjects who also fought together in disciplined units.
3. No... thermopylae happened because the spartans were aware of a choke point and guarded it. The persians had no choice but to fight their way through it until they found an alternate route, outflanked the spartans and easily dealt with them.
> The romans used line formations and the celts didn't
Again... no. Many celtic tribes used disciplined infantry formations. The romans adopted most of their armour and tactics from contact with celtic warbands. They also lost several major battles to them.
> the only time line formations and disciplined troops lost was rare and due to incompetence higher up.
I'm sorry but this just is not true. A very good example is caesar in Britain. Unlike the continental gauls the britons mostly fought with hit and run chariot tactics. So Caesar was worn down until he was forced to declare "victory" and run the fuck home.
Heavy infantry are a very effective method of warfare, but they have major weaknesses which is why ancient armies also had cavalry, artillery and light infantry. -
:spinnenrad: Festivegoat :spinnenrad: (eiregoat@nicecrew.digital)'s status on Friday, 02-Jun-2023 17:17:06 JST
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> it was just being less civilized and unable to work together properly.
Riddle me this, if they were just disorganised savages who couldn't work together, why did they have an empire the size of Spain? How did they build such a huge city? -
:spinnenrad: Festivegoat :spinnenrad: (eiregoat@nicecrew.digital)'s status on Friday, 02-Jun-2023 17:16:12 JST
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Well in this particular case it was no joke. A small number of inexperienced spaniards were able to completely tip the scales of power against a huge (by american standards) empire.
It didn't help that their emperor was spineless, but it was an impressive feat nonetheless.
It's probably equivalent to a few hundred american farmers hopping on a boat to Zimbabwe and making it Rhodesia again.
I think you're right in terms of general manifest destiny though. Trade ensured the Indians were as well armed as any european settler.
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