Timeline for How would medieval-era warfare adapt if all access to wood was suddenly cut off?
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| Jul 1, 2020 at 20:01 | comment | added | RBarryYoung | Disallowing wood is a huge limitation for any non-technological society because the only substitutes for building materials are heavy and expensive (stone and bricks) or impractical (mud, dirt), and there is no reasonable substitute for vehicles, wagons and farm equipment like plows. The upshot is that agrarian serfdom would probably be impractical and thus medieval feudalism never would have existed. You’re never going to get to medieval warfare because you’ll never get to a medieval society. | |
| Jul 1, 2020 at 14:33 | comment | added | David258 | Warfare is going to be the least of your issues, without trees you have lost a major source of food, fuel and building material. It's almost impossible to focus on warfare solely as absolutely everything in your world has been totally disrupted. | |
| Jul 1, 2020 at 6:31 | comment | added | encryptoferia | is just the wood missing, vines, grasses etc. still exist or all plants are vanishing? | |
| Jun 30, 2020 at 18:06 | answer | added | Elliot Schrock | timeline score: 3 | |
| Jun 30, 2020 at 14:37 | comment | added | IT Alex | Trees are also a great windbreak. I think you would find much more in the way of dust storms like the Dust Bowl in the USA's past. | |
| Jun 30, 2020 at 5:02 | comment | added | NomadMaker | Without wood, the blacksmiths wouldn't be able to craft iron, and soon the swords would all be gone, and they'd be reduced to hitting each other with rocks. | |
| Jun 30, 2020 at 1:20 | comment | added | user4574 | Even if all trees are gone, what other types of bushes and small plants remain? | |
| Jun 29, 2020 at 23:22 | comment | added | CGCampbell | OP, I think it might be helpful to narrow down your time and place a bit, at least the time frame. The difference between Viking-era (wood-handled axes,and wooden shields, boats, etc) and say, the time of the French musketeers (epees and early firearms (the swords wouldn't be affected much, but the muskets and rifles would)). | |
| Jun 29, 2020 at 21:01 | comment | added | CGCampbell | I wonder at the change of world climate and air composition when both the temperate and rain forests all vanish | |
| Jun 29, 2020 at 17:21 | comment | added | Li Jun | do they have coal? or coal also gone too? is this specifically mean for generic medieval europe or "medieval age" ? regarding wooden shaft, most medieval india use metal shaft for their weapons, so i dont see a problem, though it maybe unwieldy for pike, but i am not sure myself. and others already mention composite bow. and dirt wall exist too and depend on the technology knowledge they may can make roman concrete. | |
| Jun 29, 2020 at 17:16 | answer | added | Alexander | timeline score: 8 | |
| Jun 29, 2020 at 14:12 | answer | added | James Cook | timeline score: 0 | |
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| Jun 29, 2020 at 9:05 | answer | added | Klaus Æ. Mogensen | timeline score: 12 | |
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