Comments by "Asbestos Muffins" (@AsbestosMuffins) on "SandRhoman History" channel.

  1. "Sir, the tartars are attacking and the army is still beseiging Ikea" "How's Boris my cousin at command?" "Gudenuf"
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  2. amazing how close this is to ww1 fought 200 years later
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  3. seems obvious in hindsight, don't give up land so easily since vobont's system uses that land to build the trenches
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  4. nice to see the american civil war starting to creep in. it was as much a bridge between the old world fighting of the 18th century and a prelude to the modern fighting of the 20th century
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  5. ​ @deeznoots6241 his method wouldn't have worked on a larger fort with more supplies or a port but it certainly was a rare illustration of innovative thinking
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  6. 24:42 they almost built an ironclad
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  7. I'm seeing one significant flaw with all these. they're relatively immobile and not that protective when the other guy brings cannons
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  8. what a very interesting historical quirk. guess if european vs chinese tactics were going to clash it would be russia
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  9. Rogal Dorn approves of this strategy
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  10. ya but it seems clear that it also was the reason for the rapid progression of tech that had stalled for 600 years before and was fairly stagnant in ancient times. Bigger, better, cheaper guns drove society forward
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