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Having every peasant own a horse and be able to ride doesn't make them into a mounted warrior any more than normal peasants being able to walk allows them to be foot soldiers. They are still lacking …

We tend to think of Dragons as massively armored, so infantry with them would have no role. What if they were not so armored, and could be vulnerable to puncture wounds from lances and spearmen. Assu …

The only way you could have such a state is if there is a way to resolve disagreements that provides a universally accepted result that is then never reconsidered. So for example, if your party lost …

Unless these nanobots are sentient with above human capabilities, they need to report to someone. These reports will need to be interpreted by humans. These humans would need to outnumber the reported …

There is a Alt-History/Fantasy series that does have a military unit that incorporated women. It was a sling-staff unit of peasants throwing gunpowder grenade bombs. The women carried the bombs, and …

The wise plant does not stand like the oak against the storm, but bends like the grass... Rather than fight a tank strength on strength and losing, attack the weakness of the tank. Tank engines …

The Ancient, not Medieval Roman Army supported 300000 in an empire of 30 million plus. Medieval states, being less organized, could not match this proportion. What makes a Medieval state a Medieval …

Grow your stave branches around lumps of lead, then harvest them later for a more effective quarterstaff. Technically all you are hitting them with is the wood.

The real restriction on the range of an army is the horses. Imagine your army heading out into a place with no food. Every day you march, you need to put food in the wagon to feed the horses pulling …

There is a certain value in specializing your efforts. The main advantage of a horse is speed. A cow or oxen might be stronger or more durable, which is why they are used to draw carts and plows at t …

The Wizard would be better off casting the spell on a man-sized boulder, and then just letting it fall on the other army.

There was an Austrian Army of 250,000 men just a few days to a week's march off on the upper Rhine. There was also a 200,000 man Russian Army moving up towards the Rhine that participated in the purs …

In theory you can move a black hole. If you pump charged particles into the black hole, it keeps the net charge. This would make the hole respond to an electric field and in theory movable. Of cour …

No he cannot rule the galaxy. He might be able to kill everyone in it, but otherwise he has now way to enforce any decision he makes. Any leaving of his ship could result in his death - he's not i …

Cavalry charges with horses do not work against formed infantry in lines because the horses will not run into something that looks like a wall of their own volition. They will instead stop, and turn …