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For questions related to the effects of certain circumstances, conditions, or locality changes on war. Related tags: [civil-war], [nuclear-war], [cold-war]
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Early Sailing days in September 1066... Could Harold defeat William at Hastings, if it happened before Stamford Bridge?
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It's 1066 and William The Bastard has prepared his fleet just before September. In our timeline, bad weather delays him long enough so that Harald Hadrada arrives earlier than him, ...
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How to make a portable Thermic Lance effective against tanks/APCs? [closed]
For my near future science-fiction story, I want to create a melee weapon that is effective against modern military vehicles. You need a weapon with lots of energy/power to cut through tank armor and ...
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What could cause ranged troops to prefer depth over frontage?
I understand that as a massive oversimplification, ranged units (ie, caroleans, redcoats, tommy atkins, union men, etc) tend to prefer formations (though not always) that emphasise width over depth (...
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Minimum level of superhuman ability needed for a medieval civilization to ward off USA-level foes through fear of conflict
In my world, there is a land-locked country. The country is a little bigger than modern-day mainland France, and has a population of three million or so. The country is like a portal back to the past, ...
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How can I ensure a cavalry charge with great variation in size is a useful tool?
My Napoleonic-era fictional world has a magic system involving a handwavy bond that allows you to control animals. However, magic users are rare and which animal they bond with is fairly random, so it'...
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Design of a Skeletal Horse's Saddle
My Glorious Armed Forces have recently developed the ability to raise the dead as skeletal warriors armed with black-powder weapons. The Nation and its competitors are basically at the level of late ...
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Why would chemical weapons never be used in a science-fiction setting? [closed]
Chemical warfare isn’t a modern invention. How old it really is depends on what your definition of the term “chemical warfare” is, but archeological evidence of the first use of poisonous gas dates ...
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How to not get blood on you in close-quarters combat?
The pre-industrial humans of my world have noticed that if you intentionally do violence to someone and some of that person's blood gets on your person (including what you're wearing), a fairly ...
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How does a government that has a 'cash-for-kills' bounty system avoid recreating the 'Great Hanoi Rat Massacre'?
To put it in very simple terms, in my sci-fi setting, we have a bounty system in use by Nation A (cash for kills). Basically for every legitimate kill a soldier or police officer makes, they get a ...
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What worldly conditions would prevent low explosives (gunpowder etc) from being adopted for firearms? [duplicate]
After playing Kenshi, a world with advanced AI androids and old-world space elevators, one of the biggest questions I had was why there were no guns in the game. My first thought would be that the ...
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Would there be any benefits to domesticating theropods for long-distance running?
My Napoleonic-era world has a magic system that allows for a handwavy magic bond with animals that means they will listen to you. This bond is the same for all animals within the scope of this ...
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What can cause a phalanx/shieldwall to drift left-wards
From my own reading of Thucydides, there appears to be a tendency for a phalanx formation to drift rightwards.
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How would the combination of readily available highly bullet proof armor as well as zero visibility impact war combat? [duplicate]
How would the combination of readily available, highly bulletproof armor as well as zero visibility impact war combat? In my world-building project, there are animals that have, as a result of either ...
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Is is possible to have a WWII-like setting where battles are fought almost exclusively by tanks? [closed]
I want to make an RPG campaign consisting of tank battles is a WWII-like setting. However, I would like the world to be somewhat believable. What conditions could cause the warfare to consist almost ...
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Effect of a nuclear war on North America's geography
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A nuclear exchange between the United States and the Russian Federation wipes out nearly all of society in the mid 2010s, excluding a few lucky residents of neutral ...
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