Timeline for How Would the Square-Cube Law change Medieval/Ancient Warfare Between Tiny Humanoids
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| Dec 15, 2022 at 11:15 | history | edited | L.Dutch♦ | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Sep 20, 2022 at 4:43 | answer | added | ibonyun | timeline score: 1 | |
| Jun 21, 2021 at 13:51 | vote | accept | Nosajimiki | ||
| Jun 19, 2021 at 5:43 | comment | added | N. Virgo | Since the fight is inside a barn I would think that taking and maintaining control of the rafters would be the main priority for both sides, followed by getting rocks, spears, boiling oil, etc. up there to drop on the other side. Floor control would be important in order to capture anyone falling from above, since the small combatants could easily survive the drop. | |
| Jun 18, 2021 at 19:46 | answer | added | user2352714 | timeline score: 11 | |
| Jun 18, 2021 at 19:03 | comment | added | The Square-Cube Law | I would not change anything, but then that is my opinion. | |
| Jun 18, 2021 at 18:10 | comment | added | user9182 | Give them all handheld pile driver weapons, that would be pretty cool and unique and overcome the inertia/momentum disadvantages some answers point out | |
| Jun 18, 2021 at 15:17 | comment | added | Nosajimiki | @ArgentHellion I have seen that video before. Shad's video on faires, like most of the questions on WB.SE, are about how a tiny race would specialize thier weapons and tactics to do battle with a larger race. What I am more interested in here is how a tiny race would fight other tiny races. Most settings treat this the same as big races battling other big races, but the square-cube law should make this an erroneous assumption. | |
| Jun 18, 2021 at 14:36 | comment | added | Argent Hellion | I'm suggesting checking out Shadiversity and his "Weapons that a FAIRY could use", it should provide a relevant insight into the subject, since they're roughly the size of gmones or gremlins somewhat: youtube.com/watch?v=iV-g88OMzcU | |
| Jun 18, 2021 at 14:20 | comment | added | Nosajimiki | @Steve I've added the tech level of the humans as well. While it is a good point to include the use of human stuff, neither side would have these things in significant enough of quantities to be anything other than support weapons. | |
| Jun 18, 2021 at 14:17 | history | edited | Nosajimiki | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Jun 18, 2021 at 7:26 | comment | added | Steve | Being staged inside a human barn implies the existence of human-scale objects. There are probably many inventive ways to incorporate into an attack plan human-scale objects that would barely be considered hazardous to humans, but with significant co-ordinated action needed by a team of creatures to do something a single human could have done unaided, and unleash an attack that is devastating to the gnome/gremlin scale opponent(s). As such the technology level of the (implied) human population matters too. | |
| Jun 18, 2021 at 6:10 | answer | added | Daniel Hamilton | timeline score: 6 | |
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| Jun 17, 2021 at 22:00 | comment | added | Nosajimiki | @Spencer Yes but acquiring big people is difficult unless you can catch them while they are sleeping. | |
| Jun 17, 2021 at 21:26 | comment | added | Spencer | Well, in one case, a Big Person was convinced by one side to steal the other's navy. | |
| Jun 17, 2021 at 18:26 | answer | added | Qami | timeline score: 40 | |
| Jun 17, 2021 at 17:52 | answer | added | ZoTheCutestPirate | timeline score: 4 | |
| Jun 17, 2021 at 17:22 | history | edited | Nosajimiki | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Jun 17, 2021 at 16:28 | history | asked | Nosajimiki | CC BY-SA 4.0 |