Military History General

@DeathCloud  
Samurai were actually mounted archers by default. When the enemy gets close, he uses a polearm. When he loses that, that’s the time he uses his sword.
 
Other facts:  
Japanese swords were typically only folded about eight times.  
Women can become samurai.

@ghostfacekiller39  

 
New Zealand if anything, needed a great navy.  
Why do they need a tank?
 
You know, they were lucky Japanese didn’t reach them.

Nationalists  

 
vs
 
Communists  

Ancient Greeks have Polybolos as a repeating siege crossbow weapon.
 
It’s a little different from the Chinese system of repeating crossbows as the Greek model requires one to twist the crank back and forth in order to sustain fire. The Chinese system just requires the shooter to pull the hand crank. But it’s weak compared to conventional crossbows.
 
This is the Chuangzi Nu  
 
Which is essentially a ballista that propels large spear projectiles with the power of essentially three large crossbows.
 
This is the Lian Nu  
 
A multi-shot crossbow.

French-recruited tirailleur soldiers, from the french colony of Senegal.  
 
 
And here’s the algerian arab-berber version.  
 
These guys oftenly served as skirmish and scout troops, and saw substantial use in World War I, especially in the western front. After the war, returning tirailleurs formed a certain nuclei for african (and also Indochinese) independentist movements.  
Modern-day France still has ceremonial tirailleurs, but these are recruited from France proper.

This thread is dead as dead!
 
History Of Axe

I forget, which Crusade was a war between Christians that was supposed to be a war with Christianity and Islam?

@Dustcan  
There were I believe Nine Crusades?

@SeraphimDawn
 
I guess.
 
Turns out I was thinking of the 4th Crusade.

@Dustcan  
You mean the one where they were supposed to be fighting Muslims but instead sacked Constantinople and took lands for themselves?
 
Istanbul would never have become a thing and we probably would be seeing a “Byzantine Republic” today.
 
Thanks a lot greedy Venetians.

@SeraphimDawn
 
Yep that one.
 
If I got my details right, Pope wanted to take Jerusalem. But he wanted to do it through Egypt so as to sneak around the Islamic militaries. However only Venice had the boats capable of making the journey, and they would only lend them out if they got Constantinople. So the generals straight up lied to the their armies and said that the Byzantines were Arabs and sacked the Holy City of Orthodox Christianity. This caused the Pope to excommunicate the Crusaders, broke up the Byzantine empire, and caused basically split the Christian beliefs into east and west. Ironically this let Islam spread further.
 
Um, Deus Vult?

@Dustcan  
Basically.  
Venetians controlled Constantinople’s trades and dealings for a few hundred more years before the Ottoman Turks finally conquered the city and destroyed the Byzantine Empire in 1453AD. End of the Romans.  
Though, Russia was supposed to carry the torch as the successor of Byzantine Empire, 3rd Rome and protector of the Orthodox Christian faith.

Battle of Talas 751 - Abbasid - Tang War
 
The results of this battle began Islam’s growing dominance in Central Asia Buddhism was pushed out of the region.

 
Give a German a bunch of beaten militia and he will makes an army out of it. ;-)
 
I don’t mean it offensive, just a personal point of view.