Henry VIII set effective shooting range as 220 yards. Infantry at the double would cover that in about 80 seconds. Furthest range at the butts recorded as 345 yards. Against infantry your longbowmen aren't going to engaged for more than 2 minutes before the enemy has closed to knife range. How...
"To Boldly Go Amongst Them" in Tsouras ed. Cold War Hot is just such a scenario.
Thank's for the working link. You've the best of the argument at the mo' I think.
Full disclosure to Peking beforehand? The US was told repeatedly not to come anywhere near the Yalu during the Korean Confrontation but Dugout Doug just wouldn't listen. Telling Peking they would not have been going anywhere near the border and that they were nixing China being surrounded by...
When your average longbowman can put 12 arrows in the air in a minute, the point of this is what exactly? The same reasoning had the Lee-Enfield hang on later than most other bolt-action rifles. We already had the trained bowmen, other nations already had the crossbow. This device would be a...
The proposal illustrated is that of February 1942, see Morgan & Shacklady, Spitfire: the History, Key Books, 2000, p549.
In May of 1938 Richard Fairey refused to build the Spitfire in lieu of the Fulmar.
2nd of January 1940 Joe Smith forwarded a proposal for a Griffon-engined, folding -wing...
How should LBJ have approached Vietnam?
Any way that wasn't half-arsed: The US should either have got out, or invaded the North and cut the head off the beast. Unless it was early doors, say immediately after JFK was in the ground, anything else was probably not going to work.
Very good so far. Watched.
Much as I enjoy seeing the US smacked around, I'm hoping "Those People" hand Lee his head and comprehensively take the ANV apart. It'd also be entertaining to have Dan Sickles as "improbable" hero rather than prize prat.
I'm confused. This appears to be OTL: in TTL none of this is so all the underlined are exiled or dead and their lines extinguished; the Rashidi's have usurped or replaced all these folk, no?
Off topic Lycaon pictus, but I ordered Altered Seasons: Monsoonrise in paperback yesterday afternoon and had THE fastest turnaround of ANY physical item I've ever ordered on the 'net! :extremelyhappy: It arrived mid-morning.
It's a range thing; its a training thing; its an nco thing; its a logistics thing; its a combined arms thing; its a manpower thing. Hoplite beats Immortal; Iphicratian beats Hoplite; Phalangite beats Iphicratian; Hastati beats Phalangite. The spears got longer, the reach increased. The pilum had...