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#21:  Author: rufus,  PostPosted: Sun Aug 05, 2007 4:36 pm
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i would say gunpowder,not only totally changed warfare but put an end to the feudal system in by taking away the power of the armoured knight and so changing society forever.
#22:  Author: Blackstump, Location: Hunter Valley Australia PostPosted: Mon Aug 06, 2007 2:18 am
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iDot wrote:
8 the Australian use of cunning (send in the kiwis first )
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We should invade you for that comment!!!!! Very Happy

just cause you were scared of the 28th maori battalion aye Wink

... i think you allready have... and of course were scared of the 28th Maori Battalion, but not as scared as we are of the latest Kiwi special forces detachment

Shot at 2007-08-05
#23:  Author: Searry, Location: Finland PostPosted: Sat Oct 27, 2007 5:40 pm
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God4Saken wrote:

5) The katana "Samurai" sword, the best sword ever made, even better than Toledo steel and Scottish Claymores.


Actually Katana were made to cut the flesh of peasants and go through the traditional armour of the samurais, so why do you say that it's the best sword?
The european swords were far much better, because they could go through even the best armour of a nobleman. If Europeans had landed in Japan when those swords were used, the europeans would've conquered the island quite quickly due to superior technology.
#24:  Author: mooxe,  PostPosted: Sat Oct 27, 2007 9:07 pm
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Searry wrote:
God4Saken wrote:

5) The katana "Samurai" sword, the best sword ever made, even better than Toledo steel and Scottish Claymores.


Actually Katana were made to cut the flesh of peasants and go through the traditional armour of the samurais, so why do you say that it's the best sword?
The european swords were far much better, because they could go through even the best armour of a nobleman. If Europeans had landed in Japan when those swords were used, the europeans would've conquered the island quite quickly due to superior technology.


Are you saying superior technology always wins? Hmmmm............ Is strategy not needed?

I seem to remember the Crusades and how much trouble the Europeans had conquering the Muslims........
#25:  Author: WOLFGRAU,  PostPosted: Sat Oct 27, 2007 9:58 pm
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God4Saken wrote:

5) The katana "Samurai" sword, the best sword ever made, even better than Toledo steel and Scottish Claymores.



bla bla bla, the best of the swords/sabres etc. is polish sabre (hussar sabre) made by hundrets years of wars with tatars, turks, habsburgs, sweds, cossacs and russians. You shoud read somthing about it and second - polish lance = queen of weapon in napoleons wars. No more questions Very Happy

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Szabla
http://www.kismeta.com/diGrasse/zablocki_abstract.htm
http://napoleon.gery.pl/taktyka/lancaen.php
#26: RE Author: Meinteil,  PostPosted: Sat Nov 17, 2007 12:49 pm
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Yeah, the pike should be included: if gave Alexander an empire, then in the middle ages finally gave peasant infantry a way to bring down knights. With gunpowder, it relegated nobles to a command role while commoners got on with the job of killing.

Also, rifling. Changed the way large armies fought with firearms first, then gave artillery the range and accuracy to be useful in WW1.
#27:  Author: offog,  PostPosted: Tue Jan 15, 2008 11:58 pm
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I think many of you are looking at this in too narrow a way. It should not be weapons that changed the world but technology. The weapons are just a by-product of the ability to make complicated instruments.

I am glad some one put radio, you could also add telegraph as this let politicians directly effect combat in real time.

Powered air flight all that which followed were modification of the first combat airplane.

Directional sail and men of war as opposed to armed merchantmen.

A supply train so that soldiers did not have to live off the land.

Indirect artillery fire, until this was perfected true mass artillery was always vulnerable.

Radar, in both attack and defence.

Steam on land and sea, the rail network in Germany was a strategic weapon and main junctions fortified.

Splitting the atom.

The skill to make accurate maps, a one French king said, “I have lost more of my country due to my map maker than to the enemy”

The ability to cast very good quality steel.
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