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Started by Syt, March 16, 2009, 01:52:42 AM

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Malthus

#2640
May 26, 2015, 07:55:33 AM
The nerds have let me down.  :weep:
The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane—Marcus Aurelius

Eddie Teach

#2641
May 26, 2015, 08:02:43 AM
Try the Smarties instead.

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Grey Fox

#2642
May 26, 2015, 08:05:43 AM
In Canada, those are Rockets.
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jimmy olsen

#2643
June 07, 2015, 10:23:49 PM
I tought I already asked this, but a quick search implies otherwise... :unsure:

Can anyone recommend some good books on pike and shot warfare? Obviously books on the Thirty Years War and British Civil War would be prominent. The Wars with the Ottomans too.
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Habbaku

#2644
June 07, 2015, 10:39:31 PM
Well, do you want a history of those periods, or a history of specifically that type of fighting?
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Barrister

#2645
June 07, 2015, 11:51:55 PM
Quote from: Peter Wiggin on May 26, 2015, 08:02:43 AM
Try the Smarties instead.



Those aren't Smarties. :mad:
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Syt

#2646
June 07, 2015, 11:56:45 PM
These are Smarties:

I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein's brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops.
—Stephen Jay Gould

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jimmy olsen

#2647
June 08, 2015, 12:07:55 AM
Quote from: Habbaku on June 07, 2015, 10:39:31 PM
Well, do you want a history of those periods, or a history of specifically that type of fighting?
The wars in general and the style of fighting specifically.
It is far better for the truth to tear my flesh to pieces, then for my soul to wander through darkness in eternal damnation.

Jet: So what kind of woman is she? What's Julia like?
Faye: Ordinary. The kind of beautiful, dangerous ordinary that you just can't leave alone.
Jet: I see.
Faye: Like an angel from the underworld. Or a devil from Paradise.
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jimmy olsen

#2648
June 08, 2015, 09:23:57 PM
So, any suggestions? 
It is far better for the truth to tear my flesh to pieces, then for my soul to wander through darkness in eternal damnation.

Jet: So what kind of woman is she? What's Julia like?
Faye: Ordinary. The kind of beautiful, dangerous ordinary that you just can't leave alone.
Jet: I see.
Faye: Like an angel from the underworld. Or a devil from Paradise.
--------------------------------------------
1 Karma Chameleon point

The Brain

#2649
June 09, 2015, 05:01:57 AM
Haven't read any book that really had the style of fighting as focus.
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jimmy olsen

#2650
June 09, 2015, 05:22:35 AM
Quote from: The Brain on June 09, 2015, 05:01:57 AM
Haven't read any book that really had the style of fighting as focus.
Really? The height of Sweden's power occurred during that time though.
It is far better for the truth to tear my flesh to pieces, then for my soul to wander through darkness in eternal damnation.

Jet: So what kind of woman is she? What's Julia like?
Faye: Ordinary. The kind of beautiful, dangerous ordinary that you just can't leave alone.
Jet: I see.
Faye: Like an angel from the underworld. Or a devil from Paradise.
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The Brain

#2651
June 09, 2015, 05:27:38 AM
Quote from: jimmy olsen on June 09, 2015, 05:22:35 AM
Quote from: The Brain on June 09, 2015, 05:01:57 AM
Haven't read any book that really had the style of fighting as focus.
Really? The height of Sweden's power occurred during that time though.

Yeah and many books on Gustavus Adolphus touch upon it but the style of fighting isn't the focus.
Women want me. Men want to be with me.

jimmy olsen

#2652
June 09, 2015, 05:34:19 AM
He was one of the greatest generals of the age, how could they just "touch on it"!? :ultra:
It is far better for the truth to tear my flesh to pieces, then for my soul to wander through darkness in eternal damnation.

Jet: So what kind of woman is she? What's Julia like?
Faye: Ordinary. The kind of beautiful, dangerous ordinary that you just can't leave alone.
Jet: I see.
Faye: Like an angel from the underworld. Or a devil from Paradise.
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jimmy olsen

#2654
June 09, 2015, 06:35:29 AM
Quote from: Ed Anger on June 09, 2015, 06:31:56 AM
http://www.amazon.com/The-Dawn-Modern-Warfare-History/dp/0803265867
Much appreciated Mr. Anger, I'll see if I can order that the next time I go to What the Book in Seoul. :)
It is far better for the truth to tear my flesh to pieces, then for my soul to wander through darkness in eternal damnation.

Jet: So what kind of woman is she? What's Julia like?
Faye: Ordinary. The kind of beautiful, dangerous ordinary that you just can't leave alone.
Jet: I see.
Faye: Like an angel from the underworld. Or a devil from Paradise.
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