So “military action” here is defined as just conventional warfare. I dunno, I’d say blowing up the House of Lords with gunpowder isn’t a civilian activity.

Wow, quite the writeup, thanks for the effort!

Sounds like the first year is all I’ll need to really worry about in detail, then. Although, if I wanted gory detail, this thing exists and is the only work on any war I’ve ever heard of that’s contemporary, editorially independent and written with total access at the same time.

They’re firearms under Canadian law, if they fire reasonably fast or have high muzzle energy, at least. And they can - Lewis and Clarke took them as weapons on their expedition. Before precision machining you would have needed quite the craftsmen to make one, though!

The food wasn’t as bad before the rationing decades. The weather was still the weather, though.

It did (it’s not even a natural grouping), and the citation is this popular article with no citation of it’s own.

Basically, I call bullshit.

This is my backup instance while SDF is down, if that’s what you’re talking about. It has good blocked/blocked by.

In really undeveloped places like Africa, acceptable lateness goes up to hours. This is actually not super helpful, if you like getting things done, and “Africa time” is a frequent relief worker gripe.

In medieval times, late fines that didn’t set in for a couple days are recorded.

TIL the US government was still issuing hard drugs this century. Also not sure how this incident never gets mentioned in Canada anymore, and embarrassed that I hadn’t heard of it.

I should look for an introduction to the war’s actual internal history. By the 10’s it had become a kind of background war, nobody in the general public or media was really talking about battles or objectives, just casualties and ideology.

IIRC that’s an especially big deal in Finnish doctrine. Other nations emphasise marksmanship more, although massed fire and suppression always has it’s place. Back when standoffs were too short for concealment and cover to play a major role, I don’t know if it had any parallel.

I guess it could start a route sooner than a known threat, that’s true. It’s a fact that adoption of hand cannons (literally a tiny cannon tied to a straight stick BTW) was minimal, though.

Yes, but have you considered how rotten it would make them feel to admit they were the baddies? Much easier to just jerk each other off about how it’s everyone else’s fault, somehow.

It looks like the age of the porn site is waning right now, for sure.

I mean, word spreads fast, but even if it’s totally new you were already being shoved towards a wall of enemies with pointy sticks. What does a little more fear matter? The real psychological tricks you see showing up in ancient warfare (like in The Art of War) have more to do with what happens before and after battle.

The first big impact gunpowder made on combat was diminishing the importance of things like city walls. Apparently a cannon did damage in a way no catapult did. That was a long, slow-moving period; shot and pike only appears in the 1400’s Europe/Eurasia with the matchlock, which could be aimed and fired by one person, and which took less-dangerous corned gunpowder. Later on the wheel and flintlocks brought more reliability, and then the bayonet brought in the age of firearms in the early 1700s.

Did it go to shit? I don’t know about Song specifically, but the next centuries were a lot like the previous few in general.

Right after being invented it still had major limitations - tendency to form an airborn explosive dust, massive expense relative to mechanical yeeting of projectiles, the difficulty of building and moving big cannons, the difficulty of loading and aiming small ones…

I’m pretty sure the exact story here is still hotly debated. The “it was all the germs” theory gets a bad reaction from historians, as of AskHistorians last existing, but other than that…

… I then ask why my personal specific group wasn’t listed.

Mention number three by notability and population would probably be the Mayans.

Yes, but consider how many likes we’ve gotten from our mommy groups. /s

Satire, in my satire community? It’s more likely than you think.

You’re right, of course (although the HRE is a funny example). Where continuity comes in is convincing the army and police, and the ordinary people who support them economically, to respect your power instead of just totally ignoring you/killing you.

Dooo it.

Oof ouch my back.

The sacking Rome comment implies a roll-your-own medieval era situation. The language isn’t even attested much later on.