• ZILtoid1991@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    5 months ago

    > ruins combat
> ruins warfare
> ruins swordfights
> ruins hand-to-hand combats
> ruins an entire fucking combat doctrine

Gunpowder, and its consequences...
    • Akasazh@feddit.nlEnglish
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      5 months ago

      Now if we develop an even more powerful explosive that will make wars so horrible, then people will undoubtedly stop making war, right?

      * Anakin unfazed *

    • TropicalDingdong@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      5 months ago

      Bruh the sword was hugely in use for hundreds of years that that… thing… came along.

      1796 light cavalry saber? Hello?The 1892 pattern? Swords were so important and well evolved to their function the barely had to adapt to fire arms till functional automatic fire became a thing.

      • DarkCloud@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        5 months ago

        Swords really ruined stone spear heads, sharpened sticks, and clubbing people to death.

    • TheReturnOfPEB@reddthat.comEnglish
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      5 months ago

      the bayonet was a bigger game changer at the time

      didn’t need to bother with pikemen any longer as riflemen could be both