Re: [FT] (LONG) The Balance of Power -- Fighters and a Defense

On Wed, 4 Apr 2001 18:04:06 +0200 (CEST) Derk Groeneveld
<derk@cistron.nl> writes:
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>On Wed, 4 Apr 2001, David Griffin wrote:
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>> --- Shawn M Mininger <smininger@yahoo.com> wrote:
>> ...
>> > Way back in history...there was a terrible weapon
>> > called the crossbow.  This one weapon changed the
>> > face
>> > of warfare.  Suddenly, a relatively untrained
>> > footman
>> > could take down the best Knight!!!!  Did everyone
>> > just
>> > start complaining and stomp thier feet and threaten
>> > to
>> > 'tell Mommy'? 
>> 
>> I bet they did actually. They probably railed at
>> it as underhanded, just like the submarine in WWI.
>> It's in the nature of people to complain (me anyway).
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>In fact, they got the pope to forbid it as not christian.
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>Cheers,
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>   Derk

But you could use it on the Heathens, IIRC.

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