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Re: The friendly and polite EU-related news thread
« Reply #2055 on: May 04, 2016, 04:22:57 pm »

By "medieval Europeans", I meant contemporary with Eastern Roman Empire ones. Medieval European cavalry was better than Eastern Roman one, by a long shot. The Roman cataphracts were actually unable to charge and were basically just a mediocre phalanx with horses, while medieval European knights were unleashing infantry-destroying charges, kicking asses and taking names, only stopped by awesome huge-ass castles of insane strength and durability that would be single-handedly able to stop the entire Western Roman army from doing anything; after all, castles stopped Mongols.

medieval europe >>>>>>>>>>>>> roman empire
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Re: The friendly and polite EU-related news thread
« Reply #2056 on: May 04, 2016, 04:29:18 pm »

By "medieval Europeans", I meant contemporary with Eastern Roman Empire ones. Medieval European cavalry was better than Eastern Roman one, by a long shot. The Roman cataphracts were actually unable to charge and were basically just a mediocre phalanx with horses, while medieval European knights were unleashing infantry-destroying charges, kicking asses and taking names, only stopped by awesome huge-ass castles of insane strength and durability that would be single-handedly able to stop the entire Western Roman army from doing anything; after all, castles stopped Mongols.

medieval europe >>>>>>>>>>>>> roman empire
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Re: The friendly and polite EU-related news thread
« Reply #2057 on: May 04, 2016, 04:56:42 pm »

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Re: The friendly and polite EU-related news thread
« Reply #2058 on: May 04, 2016, 08:38:41 pm »

I know Turkey isn't QUITE Europe, but is inextricably linked...

http://www.politico.eu/article/turkish-prime-minister-ahmet-davutoglu-to-resign/
http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/80890590-120c-11e6-91da-096d89bd2173.html#axzz47k0g1826
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/may/05/ahmet-davutoglus-future-turkish-prime-minister-balance

Sounds like it's due to a power struggle and possibly Erdogans ambition to turn Turkeys Parliamentary system into a Presidential (or Federal) system.
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Re: The friendly and polite EU-related news thread
« Reply #2059 on: May 04, 2016, 09:21:55 pm »

By "medieval Europeans", I meant contemporary with Eastern Roman Empire ones. Medieval European cavalry was better than Eastern Roman one, by a long shot. The Roman cataphracts were actually unable to charge and were basically just a mediocre phalanx with horses, while medieval European knights were unleashing infantry-destroying charges, kicking asses and taking names, only stopped by awesome huge-ass castles of insane strength and durability that would be single-handedly able to stop the entire Western Roman army from doing anything; after all, castles stopped Mongols.

medieval europe >>>>>>>>>>>>> roman empire
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EDIT: Also, btw, EU to fine countries 'hundreds of millions of pounds' for refusing to take refugees.

I've generally been on the side that having immigration, when your native reproduction rate is low, is good. However, the way EU handles immigration as of now is complete catastrophe.
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Re: The friendly and polite EU-related news thread
« Reply #2060 on: May 04, 2016, 10:01:22 pm »

Rome is shit
Why yes, Roman technology was less advanced than European technology hundreds of years later.
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« Reply #2061 on: May 04, 2016, 10:02:20 pm »

Can miniature siege engines still be considered siege engines? Also, Constantinople has always been butfugged by regional powers, many of whom derived a lot of the same technologies from the original Romans and developed alongside the Byzantines. Perhaps it is not the technology at fault, but the tactics and resources at hand.

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Re: The friendly and polite EU-related news thread
« Reply #2062 on: May 04, 2016, 10:02:55 pm »

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By that logic, Third Rome is also shit. Checkmate, serbs!
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Re: The friendly and polite EU-related news thread
« Reply #2063 on: May 04, 2016, 10:06:56 pm »

Rome is shit
Why yes, Roman technology was less advanced than European technology hundreds of years later.
Dude Eastern Rome was also way less advanced than contemporary European technology. Proof: Fourth Crusade.
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Re: The friendly and polite EU-related news thread
« Reply #2064 on: May 04, 2016, 10:09:15 pm »

Can miniature siege engines still be considered siege engines? Also, Constantinople has always been butfugged by regional powers, many of whom derived a lot of the same technologies from the original Romans and developed alongside the Byzantines. Perhaps it is not the technology at fault, but the tactics and resources at hand.

Well, that and their over-reliance on thick walls, which worked until someone came along with a massive cannon that could pratically qualify as a howitzer.
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Re: The friendly and polite EU-related news thread
« Reply #2065 on: May 04, 2016, 10:09:55 pm »

Rome is shit
Why yes, Roman technology was less advanced than European technology hundreds of years later.
Dude Eastern Rome was also way less advanced than contemporary European technology. Proof: Fourth Crusade.
that better be sarcasm. thems fightin words!
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Re: The friendly and polite EU-related news thread
« Reply #2066 on: May 04, 2016, 10:14:48 pm »

Rome is shit
Why yes, Roman technology was less advanced than European technology hundreds of years later.
Dude Eastern Rome was also way less advanced than contemporary European technology. Proof: Fourth Crusade.
that better be sarcasm. thems fightin words!

They were literally inside Constantinople when they decided that they would just take it for themselves, and the Empire had bankrupted itself by paying them. It would've been impressive if they'd managed to lose, tbh.
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Re: The friendly and polite EU-related news thread
« Reply #2067 on: May 04, 2016, 10:18:20 pm »

Rome is shit
Why yes, Roman technology was less advanced than European technology hundreds of years later.
Dude Eastern Rome was also way less advanced than contemporary European technology. Proof: Fourth Crusade.
that better be sarcasm. thems fightin words!

They were literally inside Constantinople when they decided that they would just take it for themselves, and the Empire had bankrupted itself by paying them. It would've been impressive if they'd managed to lose, tbh.
look the very fact that Eastern Romans has actually invited all these fighting people to fight in their stead, despite the danger of heresy (catholicism vs orthodoxy is srs bsns), means that Medieval Europeans were very, very much better at warfare than contemporary Romans. Enough to risk heresy, at least.
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Re: The friendly and polite EU-related news thread
« Reply #2068 on: May 04, 2016, 10:26:42 pm »

the only invited crusade was the first one the following ones just went to fight the Muslims on their own volition. and the ERE didn't want what they got in the first place. they asked for some mercenaries and stuff from the pope and he sent hordes of peasants and army's of brigands. please actually read up on the events you are using to prove your points. and the split wasn't that bad it was mostly a political thing about the popes primacy they weren't heretics.
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Re: The friendly and polite EU-related news thread
« Reply #2069 on: May 04, 2016, 10:37:54 pm »

the only invited crusade was the first one the following ones just went to fight the Muslims on their own volition. and the ERE didn't want what they got in the first place. they asked for some mercenaries and stuff from the pope and he sent hordes of peasants and army's of brigands. please actually read up on the events you are using to prove your points. and the split wasn't that bad it was mostly a political thing about the popes primacy they weren't heretics.
ERE asked for mercenaries == ERE were shit at military. Q.E.D.

As for "split wasn't that bad" whoo boy you don't really know anything about Eastern European history, right? There were more than one conflict that was basically all about "the heretics must be all killed".
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