• ThenThreeMore@startrek.website
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    1 year ago

    It’s because people want to imagine themselves as a hero, engaging in one on one combat. A knight or samurai.

    They don’t want to imagine themselves as a barely trained serf in a block with 30 other people holding 3m long pikes trying not to shit yourself as arrows start to rain down.

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      1 year ago

      By the time of 3m pikes most infantry would be receiving pretty decent training.