By coolness factor alone what Is the coolest epoch in the history of warfare?
>>64560299Napoleonic
>>64560299victoriangreeksea peoplepost ww1mars vs saturn warsconsole wars 1
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The ice age.
>>64560299Early bronze age when everyone was just skirmishing or fighting honor duels, or maybe early medevial when army sizes were much smaller and more elite
Discovery of metal.Been going down Hill ever since
>>64560299Most eras of warfare until recently had more people dying of disease and starvation than direct combat. So imagine your romanticized warrior having dysentery and dying an undignified death.
>>64560299Feudal Japan
>>64560299ww2
Bakumatsu/Boshin War Japan, where everyone was using a mix of weeb shit and 1860's Western gear, so they'd have blue Civil War-looking uniforms with samurai hats and carrying Mausers and shitSakamoto Ryoma would walk around wearing traditional Japanese clothing with leather Western shoes, and he'd carry a katana and a Smith and Wesson
>>64560299Rome post Marian reforms
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>>64560683>>64560698My favorite thing about Japanese people is that they are very much willing to try new things if it suits them, and if they do, they put a spin on it that is very much in their style.
>>64560299knights with guns
>>64560417EVERYONE FIGHTS IN THE CONSOLE WARS!WE DON'T LIKE OURS BUTT WE SURE HATE YOURSITS XBOX 1 VS PS4LET THE BODIES HIT THE FLOOR!shit truly was epic
1400-1600 europe>guns are appearing but no one is 100% sure how to use them properly, all kinds of crazy tactics being utilized>guns arent good or common enough to make armor obsolete yet so you have armored knights wearing the peak of plate armor fighting alongside gun lines and cannons>goofy experimental designs like gunswords>extremely flashy clothing, uniforms, and armor>huge armies fighting in cool formations>the last time period where fuckhuge megacastles are common and actually used>kino pike and shot tactics>crazy mercenaries in goofy outfits roaming europe and forming kino rivalries with other mercenary groups>revolution in art and technology, weapons and armor are beautiful, boats are beautiful, cities and buildings are beautiful>as for outside of europe, the euro age of exploration is beginning, technology allows adventurers to visit all corners of the world but its not advanced enough for them to just easily crush everyone they encounter, and in japan theres the awesome sengoku jidai, the period the samurai are most famous for, plus the peaks of the aztec empire in mexico and the inca empire in the andes, crazy conflicts in the middle east and india, steppe hordes battling the chinese, etc
>>64560803Circa 1500 AD, there was no technical reason for the 1911 not to exist. They had the ability to make corned black powder, primers, cases, bullets, and the 1911 itself. It wouldn't have been easy but it was technically possible. The only thing missing was the knowledge of what to do and how to do it. Everything needed existed. They couldn't have made a modern computer or jet engine (the stuff needed to make the stuff needed to make the stuff needed to make the stuff needed didn't exist), but everything needed for a functional 1911 existed besides the knowledge. All they needed was a coach and people with basic hand tools.>tfw we could have had a timeline where knights dueled with 1911's and black powder loaded 45 acp
>>64560299Rome 117AD - The Empire's heightThe 15th century Teutonic war between Poland, Lithuania and the Teutonic Knight. Pure aesthetics.
>>64560463>Early bronze age when everyone was just skirmishing or fighting honor duels>looks at mass graves full of men, women and children
>>64560299Nordic/Eurasian Bronze Age was as close to "Conan" as the world ever got, and it's still the only time period worth talking about. Everything since then has just been """politics""" and """finance""".
>>64561591"What is best in life?" "To crush your enemies, see them driven before you, and to hear the lamentations of their women".You jews love killing women and children too. It's on every page of the OT and there are even catchy tunes, like Psalm 137, that long for the day they can "dash" gentile baby's heads on rocks. Very Jewish.
Hitler: The Returnhttps://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/rest-of-world/hitler-is-back-namibian-politician-with-unusual-name-set-for-re-election-claims-no-nazi-connection/articleshow/125567944.cms
>>64562626>nooo you cant slaughter the goyim for fun even though God Just put them there to be slaves and be Toys for the Chosen people.
>>64560299World War 1 aircraft warfare.Everything before WW1 is either one-sided annihilation of people who lack the tech and resources for serious war, or both sides losing absurd numbers to hunger, starvation, and disease (and sometimes retardation) with minimal actual combat. WW1 should be kino but it's like 15% cool stuff mixed with gigantic periods of sitting in the trenches having your brains shaken to pieces by the constant artillery thuds. Post WW1 everything rapidly becomes too technical and it's just about min-maxing production-vs-capability of weapons, or the top brass dicking around with impossible goals, or worse, no one actually fighting and you just have the locals carrying out a tiring uninteresting insurgency campaign.WW1 aircraft warfare is two guys (sometimes more) relying on every bit of everything they have to kill the other guy even with suboptimal weapons and tech and almost no training. This is where the soul of man shines, making the most out of almost nothing.
>>64560299WWI, pre tech war drip combined with rapidly advancing tech. Friendly reminder the first dog fights were pilots thinking, get closer I want to hit them
New ice age era.
>>64563802This is peak Battlefield and all the other ones are rancid dog shit in comparison. Prove me wrong.
>>64560299Boshin war
>>64564174>>64560698>>64560683I played 100 hours of Rise of the Ronin and I still can't tell if it was ass or not
Warlord era China
>>64560299>By coolness factor alone what Is the coolest epoch in the history of warfare?celtic-roman warsThe Ludovisi Gaul (sometimes called "The Galatian Suicide") is an ancient Roman statue depicting a Gallic man plunging a sword into his breast as he holds up the dead body of his wife. This sculpture is a marble copy of a lost Greek bronze original. The Ludovisi Gaul can be found in the Palazzo Altemps in Rome. This statue is unique for its time because it was common to depict the victor but instead, the Ludovisi Gaul depicts the defeated.
>>64564731>celtic-roman wars
>>64560299America obviously.
>>64560417Anon the last stand was the 2004 Anti-Paid DLC Campaign against Ubisoft and HALO-cultists.
>>64563911Bf Vietnam was pretty sweet
>>64564932>America obviously.
if you just love war it'd have to be the early mongol era as the mongols. you just get to ride on your horse and conquer the entire known world for your whole lifespan
>>64560299Bronze Age Greece, Crusades or Vikings.Killing and raping shitskins during US Indian wars or European colonialism also is based.
>>64560299The expansion of the Indo-Europeans from the Eurasian steppe. >chariots riding down settled agricultural societies>horizon of ash permeated soil everywhere they expand to from burnt structures>mass violence on a scale unimaginable in later conflicts, entire continents permanently altered culturally, genetically, and linguistically, uncountable civilizations eradicated
>>64560461Truly a masterpiece of cinema.That used a budget of ~$140 million, in 1997 money. That is almost $286 million in today's dollars.My local Meijer periodically announces over the PA, that if you donate to the food pantry organization a child can be fed for as little as 25 cents, since they are using damaged or excess staples in mass bulk.That piece of shit movie could have feed kids 1,143,240,000 times.That is 1,044,054 kids, three times a day for a year.Fuck this (((gay))) Earth.
>>64560299>Renaissance PMCs>WW1 trench melee instruments and infinity pistol models.
>>64565271>The expansion of the Indo-Europeans from the Eurasian steppe redux
>>64565341Didn't really have the same effect. They were super violent and conquered massive territory sure, but there was no mass cultural and genetic replacement. The Turks came much closer, actually culturally colonizing the steppe and remaining in numerous conquered regions.
>>64560299European mercenary in Africa 1960s or 70s.
>>64561591We are talking as White men, anon.
>>64563152Amazing how quickly it changed. In WWI airframes were sometimes lumber laid out on chalk lines on the shop floor. With engines that entirely consumed their oil in a few hours of flight and coated the pilot's face while topping out at ~115mph. That's Mach 0.15. And throwing hand grenades and lawn dart out of the open cockpit.Now we have stealth coatings and A.I. assisted CAD design, additive metal manufacturing, half ten-thou CNC, nm processors, radar and datalink, supercruise, BVR missiles and PGMs with a CEP<1m.
>>64563911I want an update but they will rape it.>>64565037True, but BC2 was in general. 3 is peak for me.
>>64565401....That's what the white men did. How did you think all of Europe minus the Basques (and late arrivals like the Uralic speakers) all wound up speaking related languages? It wasn't willingly. The native Europeans also didn't just voluntarily stop breeding and have their entire male hereditary genetic contribution suddenly end. Europe was the site of one of the most comprehensive genocides in all of history, and it spanned the entire continent. It's something no other race has achieved, and all the lesser variations of it were also done by white men, such as the Aryan expansion into Iran and India, then the colonization of the Americas. Then after that for lulz white men crashed the entire bronze age world and directly caused the bronze age collapse. And it was based.
>>64565105Where is your rebuttal, insignificunt turdie?
>>64565423>native EuropeansNeanderthals? C*elts are not human beings.
>>64565426>Neanderthals?No, we're talking long after them. Whoever came before "us." Whatever you want to call it, Indo-Europeans, Aryans, "White people," take your pick. There were people in Europe long before our ancestors came from the steppes and into the rest of Europe. And we culturally and genetically erased them.>CeltsAre Indo-Europeans. We don't even have names for the vast majority of groups that came before us, because they were eradicated before writing. The Celts were one of the groups that did the eradicating.
19th century colonial wars>Kotliarevsky's troops struck in the darkness, causing the persians to fire into their own ranks in the confusion. Abbas Mirza, convinced that all was now lost, ordered his men to retreat. When Christie ignored this order, Abbas himself galloped up .. and again called upon his men to retreat. In te chaos which ensued Christie fell, shot through the neck by a Russian bullet. >more than half the battalion Christie had raised and disciplined himself were killed or wounded trying to get him off the field. Their efforts were in vain. The next morning a Russian patrol found him laying mortally wounded. "He had determined never to be taken alive". Kotliarevsky ordered he was to be disarmed and captured. "Christie made a most desperate resistance and was said to have killed six men before he was dispatched, shot by a Cossack"Niggas having a last stand of Hurin IRL.
>>64562626It's worth noting that in the Howard short stories he isn't an austrian meathead with 15 speaking lines. >"What of your own gods? I have never heard you call on them.">"Their chief is Crom. He dwells on a great mountain. What use to call on him? Little he cares if men live or die. Better to be silent than to call his attention to you; he will send you dooms, not fortune! He is grim and loveless, but at birth he breathes power to strive and slay into a man's soul. What else shall men ask of the gods?">"But what of the worlds beyond the river of death?" she persisted.>"There is no hope here or hereafter in the cult of my people," answered Conan. "In this world men struggle and suffer vainly, finding pleasure only in the bright madness of battle; dying, their souls enter a gray misty realm of clouds and icy winds, to wander cheerlessly throughout eternity.">Bêlit shuddered. "Life, bad as it is, is better than such a destiny. What do you believe, Conan?">He shrugged his shoulders. "I have known many gods. He who denies them is as blind as he who trusts them too deeply. I seek not beyond death. It may be the blackness averred by the Nemedian skeptics, or Crom's realm of ice and cloud, or the snowy plains and vaulted halls of the Nordheimer's Valhalla. I know not, nor do I care. Let me live deep while I live; let me know the rich juices of red meat and stinging wine on my palate, the hot embrace of white arms, the mad exultation of battle when the blue blades flame and crimson, and I am content. Let teachers and priests and philosophers brood over questions of reality and illusion. I know this: if life is illusion, then I am no less an illusion, and being thus, the illusion is real to me. I live, I burn with life, I love, I slay, and am content."
>>64565357>European mercenary in Africa 1960s or 70s.This
>>64560299Caveman wars. Riding your wooly mammoth, bone club in hand ready to crush your enemies. Lamentations of cavewoman as you drag her to your comfy little cave
>>64560299Late Roman Empire
>>64560927> 1400-1600 europeGuns actually first appeared in Europe in the 1300’s moron
>>64566664Dude, how do you succeed as WRE in Atilla? I always want to save Rome but it's fucking torturous.
>>64565416>Now we have stealth coatings and A.I. assisted CAD design, additive metal manufacturing, half ten-thou CNC, nm processors, radar and datalink, supercruise, BVR missiles and PGMs with a CEP<1m.And cost so large that nobody can afford such aircraft so militaries are back to WWI desings but now computer/remote controlled
>>64566701You missed his point.
>>64560299For me it's the Cold War, stuff was modern but you still saw wood on guns and a lot of the technological stuff was bulky in that magical late 20th century way.
>>64565718Boner commencing.
>>64565424>Where is your rebuttal, insignificunt turdie?To us, you are the turdie mormon-scientotologist-waco-jimjones savage https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cXA60PFXS7k
>>64565357Hell yeah
>>64568069No one cares about you thoughts opinions, feelings, words or existence.You are not even a human being.
>>64567539>Laughs in American
>>64560299>Bronze Age: enough historical uncertainty that you can mythologise the balls off it>Roman: Discipline and order personified>Early Medieval: Smaller, more personal and heroic, focus, see 'Bronze Age'>High Medieval: Amazing aesthetics, literal knights on horseback, le chevauche >Pike and Shotte: Interesting adaptation to the newly developed (and adorably primitive) firearms>Napoleonic: Watch Bondarchuk's Waterloo, if that doesn't do it for you then try to figure out where your soul went>Colonial wars: Interesting characters on both sides, brave explorers and noble savages for days, the natives generally do well enough and force the Europeans into disadvantaged situations often enough to keep it interesting>WWI: Grim, but fascinating changes and developments mid-war attempting to overcome the effectiveness of modern entrenchment and machineguns>WWII: Even if you're not a Wehraboo, Sovietaboo, Teeaboo, or Freedomboo it's still fascinating enough in terms of development and the sheer number of stories it generated>Cold War: No explanation neededIt's all good OP, more like choosing your favourite flavour of ice-cream. The other ones might not be your preference, but they're still great.
I'm not a cringy american or anything, but the war of 1812 and the american revolution were both kino. Disorganized colonials with heart, the powerful empire that's stretched thin by fighting far from home, and savages roaming around doing savage things
>>64564413that's the team ninja experience
>>64560673this was the zenith
I haven't looked at the thread yet but if anyone mentions some stupid nippon glaaze and weeb shit I'm going to loose it.Coolness would be NapoleonicCold war stuffTaipei rebellion Ghengiz khan
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>>64565423>Europe was the site of one of the most comprehensive genocides in all of historyan uncomfortable fact of life that brown scum pretends to forget nowadaysyou will be reminded
>>64565442>we culturally and genetically erased themCulturally, yes, but not genetically. Western hunter-gatherer haplogroups are still around, particularly within Germanic and Balkan populations.
>>64560956this is true. we haven't really made any significant advancements in tech, aside from electricity and the microchip, which are major, but someone from 1500 would recognize quite a lot in today's world, especially warfare, which still basically just involve throwing "rock"/projectiles at each other from ever increasing distances.
>>64565718someone had to have found a baby mammoth and raised it up to be fren. there were lots of pygmy varieties of elephants running around in the tropics too. A mini-phant with a "Hobbit" riding it on Flores fighting a Komodo dragon with a spear would be uber-kino too.
>>64571815Scandinavians also have major parts of their native haplogroup I, so do other Europeans to a lesser extent.There are also different R1/Indo-European haplogroups that aren't directly related to the most famous R1a originating from European steppe.
early modern periodit's got a little of everythingmelee, armor, cavalry, guns, artillery
>>64571484>glaaze>loose it>coolness would be>ghengiz khanYou are brown
>>64572133That sounds fucking sick. Could make a fun tabletop campaign.
>>64565598>an austrian meatheadMovie conan is well read and considerate. He spends more of the movie in quiet contemplation than he does fighting.
>>64566725paganism prevents the whole attila debuff. brute work where you shield wall in settlements while your bigger army fucks up large forces.
>>64573590>the real challenge is to save the world from cuckstianitythere are based people in that games company
Pre-history. The days when the village goes to sleep peacefully and you wake up to dozens of niggers with clubs trying to steal your bitches and pelts.Fuckin luv me pelts.
>>64565322>wants to feed brown kidsNah
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>>64560956Coil springs weren't around until the mid 1700's. But in the 1500's they absolutely could have produced some Webley 1913 pistols, since they use leaf springs/flat springs. The cartrisge used in the 1913 was even originally designed for black powder
>>64566725That's ERE you filthy barbarian
>>64562626>Psalm 137, that long for the day they can "dash" gentile baby's heads on rocksbuddy, Psalm 137 says THEIR ENEMIES will be in such that THEIR ENEMIES will want to kill THEIR OWN CHILDRENif you do not know the absolutely practical reasons why this would be so, you are an utter historylet and shouldn't post here
>>64562626>Anon is incapable of reading poetry.Many such cases. The happy person who will slay the babes of Babylon are the Persians who will overthrow them. It is recalling what has already happened to the Jews at the hands of Babylon. The point is "what goes around comes around."
>>64578070The Babylonians didn't even slaughter the kikes they just defeated them and then held their elites in custody in an attempt to break their influence over their lessers, pretty basic shit. The Acadians would ship tribes around and split them up. And everybody would hold aristocratic family as hostages in order to insure the compliance of their relatives. Jews constantly bitch about shit that happens to them despite it being SOP for bronze and iron age civilizations. I don't care about palies dying, occasionally they off a kike so its win-win for me. I want all the jews exterminated for my own benefit, I don't need to moralize about it.
