Message from @Shortline614

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2019-12-22 13:05:20 UTC  

Like the fucking Rhodoks

2019-12-22 13:05:48 UTC  

@fvriovs It is hard to draw a hard line between a shield/wall/armour

2019-12-22 13:05:56 UTC  

For some reason it's all stock photos

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/633967804483371009/658294146091450378/assyrian-soldiers-in-battle-archers-protected-by-large-reed-mate-shields-BP28YY.png

2019-12-22 13:06:04 UTC  

Japanese just had different distinctions than europeans

2019-12-22 13:06:11 UTC  

Imagine being as advanced in 1500 AD as the Assyrians were in 700 BC.

2019-12-22 13:06:32 UTC  

Actually to be fair the Assyrians were pretty shit hot for the time.

2019-12-22 13:07:10 UTC  

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/633967804483371009/658294458051330048/20191222_140639.jpg

Warfare in Japan was fairly unique, since the only real times they had land invasions to deal with it was kinda mostly just other Japanese.

2019-12-22 13:07:49 UTC  

I mean, when it comes down to the basics,

A shield could really just be any object not made of your flesh used for ensuring you don't get it.

2019-12-22 13:07:57 UTC  

Where are his organs?

2019-12-22 13:08:09 UTC  

where are yours?

2019-12-22 13:08:13 UTC  

Whereas europe and asia were an absolute clusterfuck free-for-all eternally, spreading ideas, tactics, and strategies around from disparate places and cultures.

2019-12-22 13:08:49 UTC  

@Grok They were lost during the war

Japan managed to avoid being conquered mostly by sheer coincidence via storms; Their attempts to conquer other places largely utterly unsuccessful.

2019-12-22 13:09:05 UTC  

Kublai was furious.

2019-12-22 13:09:18 UTC  

Then the madlad tried to invade Indonesia.

2019-12-22 13:09:50 UTC  

Asians just can't seem to empire unless they're Mongolian.

2019-12-22 13:10:13 UTC  

Morning Frens <:comfort:592107824826417204>

Somehow, the culture stemming from the shittiest place to live in the entire region wound up being the big one.

2019-12-22 13:10:59 UTC  

chinese were very insular

2019-12-22 13:11:05 UTC  

and unsuccessful in conquering non chinese

2019-12-22 13:11:28 UTC  

Mongols were the pure conquest people

2019-12-22 13:11:37 UTC  

Mofos didn't bother farming at all

2019-12-22 13:11:47 UTC  

Mongols were the Zerg

2019-12-22 13:11:52 UTC  

Yup

2019-12-22 13:11:58 UTC  

China really just didn't have a reason to go conquering.

2019-12-22 13:12:07 UTC  

Some of their efforts were alright. They subjugated the Tarim Basin.

2019-12-22 13:12:18 UTC  

And they did manage to bring the Xiongnu to heel after a while.

2019-12-22 13:12:28 UTC  

they got their asses beat bymost of their neighbors

2019-12-22 13:12:30 UTC  

But, the Chinese Empires basically were always confined to China as a region.

2019-12-22 13:12:32 UTC  

when attempting to conquer them

2019-12-22 13:12:36 UTC  

such as the vietnamese

2019-12-22 13:12:38 UTC  

The Gokturks fucking thrashed them.

2019-12-22 13:12:50 UTC  

Even the Arabs got some kickings in.

2019-12-22 13:12:57 UTC  

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/633967804483371009/658295914049306625/351555_1.png

2019-12-22 13:13:02 UTC  

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/633967804483371009/658295934752522260/merry_christmas.jpg

They just about got their asses kicked in by a fucking greeks one time, too.