wunderwaffe
Being the mahout there had to be a rough job. Dude needs some more protection.
Normally i'd joke about elephants being wunderwaffen, but considering how romans used to kill them on the battlefield makes me feel bad. Poor beasts.
>>64420109Sometimes the most effective way to deal with a animal problem is extremely cruel. Wolf hooks are utterly vile in the way they work but they do work and very well. I had a issue with Coyotes that cost me two years income and i could have solved it very quickly via trapped mice and fish hooks but decided that i didn't want to do that.Using animals in war is worse than using people, i fear that in my old age i'm becoming not quite a sympathizer but slightly Greta adjacent.
>>64420187>i fear that in my old age i'm becoming not quite a sympathizer but slightly Greta adjacentLoving animals and nature, and protecting the environment for future generations isn't a bad thing and honestly should be the objective of an patriot. The problem is people like Greta say they want that but simultaneously want to replace us with third worlders and send ever more of our treasure to the "global south".
>>64417183Didn't Rome set pigs on fire to scare elephants or was that a Rome Total War fabrication?
>>64417183Hey, they worked for Pyrrhus. Well until he ran out of troops and his italian allies proved themselves cowards.>>64420336Rome Total War might concentrated kino, but historically accurate it is not.
>>64417183I'm glad they made sure to point out which one of the figures in the illustration was the elephant. I wouldn't have been able to find it otherwise.
>>64420187Good on you to care about animals but honestly at the two years income - even less frankly - I'd be pulling out the most vicious and effective means imaginable. I see it as a kind of gradient or a reciprocal situation where if you can take the L or it's not so existential/intimate of a threat then fine don't go scorched earth. But when it is then sorry animal but it's time to die even if you die horribly.I had an issue of field mice in the cupboards - clean kitchen, foodstuff sealed away, cat in house, but they were still there. Shitting by my utensils. So I have zero shame about using a glue trap, especially as I checked it every 2 hours and found one that first day by 10PM and so crushed it with a brick. Different kettle of fish to a wolf, but I have a bit of a chip on my shoulder about wolf romanticism when back in the day they were savage little fuckers. I look at a map that shows the French and British almost or entirely exterminated wolves and I think>Good.png
>>64420409>worked for PyrrhusWar elephants worked for everyone. There's a general false perception that they didn't work due to a single unfortunate engagement during the Punic Wars which gets quoted to no end. Kinda how everyone brings up Carrhae to glaze the Parthian horse archers then conveniently forget how Romans won every other war against Parthia and sacked Ctesiphon four times or so.Not to mention Romans themselves made use of elephants the instant they got their hands on them.
>>64420187i had mice eating away a complete apples harvests / shitting it upi had rats eating / shitting on garden furniture in the garage, even shit in the baby car.i put that blood thinner poison in the traps. they die from strokes, but not instantly. they become slow when it starts to do its work, and can be catched easily.sometimes i just step on them. from tail to head i roll the boot from heel to toes, very slowly. its a satisfying feeling when a bone cracks. even more the amuzing are the desperate squieky noises.when i have gloves on i hold em at the root of the tail and with two fingers i rip the tails flesh and skin off, throw em alive in the trash can like this. they cannibalize emselves there, till the last survivor is compacted by the trashcar.the not so much stroked mice/rats which are at the beginning of the poisoning process move still a bit fast. i shoot them with a pellet gun in the back legs with a light flat head pellet. so they sont penetrate, just break bones. lucky shots break the spine or hip, agonic behaviour ensures. i leave em like that over night, till the next morning to see how far they crawled on their fore legs. if they dont move, the next phase is some drops of lawnmover gasoline on their back. i call it the crawling vulcano. it is always most faszinating how fast a crippled mouse on just two legs can be.no mercy for vermin and parasites. mass destruction and torture is all they deserve.their brethren are watching from their hideouts how i do their comrades.and for weeks after each proper torture kill, i dont find no mouse trace or crap anywhere. works better than poison or traps. and its most funny.shall i open a thread next time i catch one, and /k/ desides how it is gonna die?thinking about that egg cutter tho.
>>64420210>The problem is people like Greta say they want that but simultaneously want to replace us with third worlders and send ever more of our treasure to the "global south".I give her 4-5 years before she fully embraces some form of post modernist Eco-Strasserism. There are many efforts to weaponize her, /pol/ and their ilk will probably win that battle.>>64420517>>64420674Troll AI posts.
>>64420723are you delousional?
>>64420795>delousional?I am sorry to hear about you head lice problems. In the future i suggest you try not living in a shithole like India or Russia.Anyway;Greta has supporters (i am quite sure unwanted and unasked for) from the likes of hardcore Eco-Nazis, /pol/ and people like Varg Vikernes. The amount of AI porn made of her would bankrupt the carbon footprint of a small nation. It is almost inevitable that one of these groups will get to her or she will accept their support.
>>64420187>Using animals in war is worse than using people, i fear that in my old age i'm becoming not quite a sympathizer but slightly Greta adjacent.I honestly don't think there's anything wrong with this if you're not a filthy zigger type. Using animals in war is in lesser but still real ways like using children in war, they can't comprehend what they're signed up for or handle it the way adult humans can. I'm practical enough that I can recognize throughout history there were times when it couldn't be helped, and I will also recognize that historically some animals of war were treated very well outside of battle and taken care of to a very expensive degree in ways they wouldn't have in nature. That did make up for it to some extent. But there's been plenty of pointless cruelty too.
carthage did nothing wrong
>>64420723>There are many efforts to weaponize herYes, namely pregnancy.
>>64420409I looked into the flaming pig thing after I posted. Apparently the Greeks were the first to use them as a tool to scare opposing war elephants. So it is likely Rome did the same given their love of just stealing everything from them.
>>64423038Raped award
