This is actually a pretty good read, though the size might have put off some readers. But it´s actually a pretty good story. i can´t wait to see what will happen. (ww3 maybe?)
... First, I'm afraid I have to say - Oh, the inconsistancy! The fact that they talk about crusades and aspire to wear plate armour forces me to conclude that the humans appear from sometime between the twelfth and fourteenth centuries. However, their rank structure is more akin to a modern military unit - and artillery? Really? I suppose it's possible they may have stolen some cannon from the turks... As for the archers - you say that the arrows would be useless against the armoured knights. Yet an English warbow is quite easily capable of punching through plate armour at a substantial distance - and these are marginally English troops, are they not?
Technical issues aside, however,I thoroughly enjoyed this fic, and look forward to seeing more of it.
huh...okay I am very interested now. From crusade era to what looks like WW2 era tech? All developed indepenently from the rest of humanity? Insta-tracked.
The troops are composed from all over Christendom. They are mercenaries with ethics, which means less money and worse equipment. While a good portion may have formerly been English regulars, they are dispersed and among the other nationalities. The cannon was indeed stolen from the Turks. I used the time frame of 1453 A.D. to put the armies out of the dark ages, but not quite to the Renaissance period, so the cannon was available in the Turk army, see Siege of Constantinople. As far as the rank structure goes, I need to take credit for that. I have no idea how the ranks worked back then, and felt to lazy to find out, so I just winged it. My bad.
203818 They probably didn't have enough of a population for the industrial revolution like we did. And these could be some 24th century warplanes, who said planes don't exist in 2453?
This took me a while to write up. Depending on the response, I'll post up the next chapter in a week or so, life permitting.
ZOMG 14K WORDS LONG!!!!!! X_X *dies*
This is actually a pretty good read, though the size might have put off some readers.
But it´s actually a pretty good story.
i can´t wait to see what will happen. (ww3 maybe?)
That took me a full 15mins to read it was good though.
... First, I'm afraid I have to say - Oh, the inconsistancy! The fact that they talk about crusades and aspire to wear plate armour forces me to conclude that the humans appear from sometime between the twelfth and fourteenth centuries. However, their rank structure is more akin to a modern military unit - and artillery? Really? I suppose it's possible they may have stolen some cannon from the turks... As for the archers - you say that the arrows would be useless against the armoured knights. Yet an English warbow is quite easily capable of punching through plate armour at a substantial distance - and these are marginally English troops, are they not?
Technical issues aside, however,I thoroughly enjoyed this fic, and look forward to seeing more of it.
ooh! interesting... I likes this
huh...okay I am very interested now. From crusade era to what looks like WW2 era tech? All developed indepenently from the rest of humanity? Insta-tracked.
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The troops are composed from all over Christendom. They are mercenaries with ethics, which means less money and worse equipment. While a good portion may have formerly been English regulars, they are dispersed and among the other nationalities. The cannon was indeed stolen from the Turks. I used the time frame of 1453 A.D. to put the armies out of the dark ages, but not quite to the Renaissance period, so the cannon was available in the Turk army, see Siege of Constantinople. As far as the rank structure goes, I need to take credit for that. I have no idea how the ranks worked back then, and felt to lazy to find out, so I just winged it. My bad.
Tracked. And 500 years worth of advancement in 1000 years? Not bad for a group of mercenaries from before the renaissance.
Dat end. I came Awesomeness.
203818
They probably didn't have enough of a population for the industrial revolution like we did.
And these could be some 24th century warplanes, who said planes don't exist in 2453?