Ancient Scholar
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We should try to get dogs. We have cats but dogs would be awesome. If we can breed them right we can do something like Dragon Age Origins and have a charge of hounds attack the enemy.
Paths of Civilization
- Thread starter Academia Nut
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We should try to get dogs. We have cats but dogs would be awesome. If we can breed them right we can do something like Dragon Age Origins and have a charge of hounds attack the enemy.
We already have dogs, but it would be nice to have war dogs, though.
War dogs were a pretty sub-optimal and indiscriminate weapon of war. The fact that their training usually included starvation would run counter to our values too.
Not really thinking of dogs that bite the enemy, but more like tracking and detection.
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I can't help but feel that the Ymaryn have become like Toga Himeko from My hero academia
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Well, if the Alcubierre Drive and wormholes are any indication, FTL Travel may not be as implausible as you think. The trick is that spacetime itself is not constrained by c, and is capable of unlimited expansion and contraction. Me and Bungie had a conversation about this in a PM. I could invite you, if you want.
Hmm
Got dogs from the start, but as mentioned, warhounds are usually used either as animal support for irregulars like the Blackbirds, or else they'd need to be deliberately driven feral with abuse.
Generally if you can get any pack animal to consistently attack humans to kill unprovoked they are either wild and hard to control or abused until their domestication broke.
It's very hard to fit animals into our sort of fighting without involving animal cruelty.
Ancient Scholar
Amateur Editor/Beta
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Really? Well is another way possible? Apparently Mabari in DA are magic and are really smart. So instead of being a feral animal they are more like a person.
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Why are we using Dragon Age as a reference for attack dogs? We don't need dogs that bites, do we? I do not recall attack dogs playing a significant role in history.
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War Culture – Animals of war
"Dogs were used by the Illyrian/Epirotan tribes in war, and were undoubtedly used much earlier in history. The Roman Empire, starting with Marcus Aurelius, also used dogs in combat. The Romans trained the Molossian dog (or Canis Molossus) specifically for battle, often coating them in protective spiked metal collars and mail armor, arranging them into attack formations."]
EDIT: Molussus best dog.
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maximillian
Civilised Sheep
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I do not "just" roleplay, I also lead the thread's oldest charterd party.
Omegahugger
Inattentive Idiot
Clearly we must train scores of War Crows that fly in and eat the eyes of enemy generals.
maximillian
Civilised Sheep
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- Ranch
And there's a logic and a method to my roleplaying, I am very much aware of the logical consequences and possibilities of what I advocate for, and have elaborated on how to channel them to our benefits, or at least neuter the more unpleasant aspects.
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- Canada
The heavens Hawks already have falcon if I'm remembering it right. Another incentive to integrate them. All our blackbirds could keep a messenger crow.
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- Huezil
DocMatoi
Theoretical Lover of Girls
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Susano is ALWAYS serious. Trust me, I've argued with the guy enough to know it.
TheDanishLord
Viking Warlord
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- Denmark
We may be able to turn our new DB into know thy enemy
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- Philippines
So on the topic of the new DB any thoughts on how to get rid of it? The root of the matter is we think only our enemies are worth copying traits from so we need to show our people that the traits of our allies are worthy of acquiring. I think we should continously send diplo missions to the khem so that our people will know that they are worthy to be copied despite not being our nemesis.
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Quest
The Great One
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Or we could just use a golden age.
Favoring this honestly, the social mechanisms bound up in the DB are opaque and not something we generally interact with. with WotG we at least understood and agreed on the general path forward to get rid off it. NF on the other had involves a lot of guesswork.
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Golden ages are not remove DB buttons it may give us the opportunity to lose the DB but it will not get rid of it.
Also to all those thinking that befriending the HK will help us lose the DB, it really wouldn't the DB's narrative is "Only our enemies are worthy of emulation" befriending the HK does nothing to damage that.
pbluekan
Somethin's Fucky ...
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@Academia Nut how likely are we to lose Astrological Prediction without a Place to the Stars to maintain it?
I favor keeping it.
Actually thats not how the Nemesis Fashion belief(at least, mythologically) worked.
It's imitating your enemies in order to steal their strength and weaken them. It's basically reverse voodoo, you turn yourself into a voodoo doll of them, so that when they fight you they fight themselves
In order to disprove this:
-You need to prove that imitating your enemies doesn't make it easier to beat them. We'd have to copy an enemy's traits, attack them, and then fail BECAUSE of the trait.
-You imitate an enemy, and then they become friends. This reverses the cognitive dissonance, should you stop copying them or does it screw them over?
-You befriend all possible enemies. Confuse the value, who do you hate?
It's not about allies having nothing worth learning from. It's a curse, you copy them to jinx them.
keenscythe
No longer NEET
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- WA, USA
If nothing else it will advance the agenda of the Explorers League Lobbyist's as we search for new areas for new
Besides do you realize it is already the Iron Age and we haven't even circumnavigated the Globe yet? Besides I wonder what Not!China and Not!Welsh is doing right now. (Curious Because the Ymaryn seem to be a weird fusion of them)