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[–] [email protected] 37 points 1 week ago (4 children)

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

Gunpowder, and its consequences...
[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week 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 *

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

Don't worry, most of those are still alive and well:

While soldiers carry firearms, due to decades of tradition designed to reduce the possibility of an escalation, agreements disallowed usage of firearms, but the Chinese side was reported to possess iron rods, clubs and batons wrapped in barbed wire and clubs embedded with nails. Hand-to-hand combat broke out, and the Indian soldiers called for reinforcements from a post about 3.2 kilometres (2 mi) away. Eventually, up to 600 men were engaged in combat using stones, batons, iron rods, and other makeshift weapons. The fighting, which took place in near-total darkness, lasted for up to six hours. The Defence Ministry of India said in its 2020 year end review that China used "unorthodox weapons".

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week 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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

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