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so he planing on making crude grenades?
I'm enjoying the build-up.
The campaign aspect would make a great tabletop game.
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Grenades are explosive so no, this is something even more ancient: fire-pots. Simple clay pots filled with highly flammable liquids (oil, tar, liquid fat) and a wick which are then lit, thrown and the results are... Go look up pictures of third degree burns. They dont generally kill someone outright unless they get doused but the splatter from them sets everyone else around them on fire to various degrees and causes hideous wounds. This being a time in history where there is no such thing as hospitals or wound treatment beyond rudimentary levels (Nuru is an exception, the knowledge does exist, just severely limited) it means these wounds will turn septic quickly, gangrene will set in and your history. Assuming you dont bleed to death or die of shock first.
If he wanted to make grenades he needs high quality (fast expanding) powder, fuses and cast iron tubes or spheres.
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Glad you are enjoying it.
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so more like a molotov cocktail then, interesting is this a weapon that already exist in this world or is this gonna be a nasty surprise for the zebras
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Yes, a molotov is very similar only it has LESS "stick and burn" capability than oil or tar. As for being new? Nah, the militaries of this time were quite familiar with filling large, rounded (specially made) pots with oil and having catapults launch them as flaming missiles at some poor bastard. Not cheap though and usually used to fire up a town or city during a siege in order to try and burn them out. It also works at chasing defenders off the walls prior to attack. The cost is very high though as you can imagine just how much all of that oil costs at a time when mass production does NOT exist! That is why tar and pitch were favorites, put it in a cauldron, boil... I think you know the rest from medieval history. Does this mean the tribals know? Hmm... Does this mean those outside of the inner military cloister know or those who work the siege engines? Hmm... Do the Sebanwi and Rwasa know? Halim made some remarks once about their inability to lay siege due to a lack of basic knowledge...
We shall see who knows what.
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so like greek fire some will know how to make similar weapons but hoard the knowledge to keep the advantage, make me really look forward to when we have for scale battles with verik
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Correct, not everyone knows how to make or operate something.
Example:
Ismat griping about how Xerin and his private mercenary company are the ONLY ones who know how to make and operate the large defensive ballista at Alzamard. Also, that he keeps the locals AWAY from the machines (under threat of death) so no one can see how they operate or are made.
Whatever secrets a nation may have are kept exactly that: a secret. Greek fire is one that was taken to the grave because it was so powerful the Greeks could destroy anyone on a whim at sea. Kind of like being the only country on the planet with torpedoes and your life depends on naval supremacy. You REALLY dont want that knowledge to fall into the hands of ANYONE, EVER.
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Kept thinking about it: You know it might make for an interesting battle map game, card objectives, set army numbers and point driven. Can you make it from A to Z without losing your army while completing as many objectives as possible while your opponent has to counter you rapidly and then wipe your forces from the map with a numerically superior force. That would actually be interesting to me, would take topographical maps though. Regional ones, but you dont get to see the area till you are there and only scouts can report on what is there, otherwise it remains just terrain without anything else visible. Hm...
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I hope you'll get a copy of Little Wars by H.G. Wells.
I was thinking about a game where the plans to take the Tax Boat gets played out like a skirmish (say less than thirty pieces on the map or playing board).
Ooooh boy. When the boss’s goons start making plans for themselves, monkey wrenches abound! I have a suspicion that Tasid’s sick little role playing session with this fake-Nawra will lead to unforeseen consequences, both for himself and perhaps even Fareed.
Beyond that I have no idea what to expect.
Some songs just have too many parallels
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So it's recorded somewhere. No storage medium is forever, and people who don't know to look for the record probably won't. Reading and writing aren't obviously useful when you're in a low tech civilization and surviving is difficult. It doesn't take much of a cataclysm to lose specialized knowledge, including how to farm well, because only a few people have to die. That is the risk of specialization.
In Alzamard, an enormous city, how many people actually knew anything about farming before the collapse and exodus? How many skilled farmers were killed in the chaos? How many people had the time and resources to devote to a relatively large engineering project when surviving became hard? How many people passed on the knowledge successfully? Of the inheritors of the knowledge of irrigation, how many used it? Of the people who ever did irrigate, how many were raided and killed for their abundance of food? Of the ones who managed to survive, how many gave away their secrets to outsiders? There are so many points of failure here, and it doesn't take a conspiracy to put pressure on any of them. Irrigation canals aren't computers, sure, and they're a hell of a lot more obvious, but they are still vulnerable to being forgotten.
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I had prepared a long response but I decided to just look at something... You dont even follow this story, your a troll trying to start a fight but I will say this as an example for others if they read what you have said:
-The canals at Iuny were not forgotten, they were just no longer maintained after a point and degraded till they just ignored them. Also, what part of Tasid being a lazy bastard who does not bother to maintain anything cant you understand? He is an example of the focal point of why things break down only rolled up into one character.
-This is a feudal world where you do not own land, the nobles do or maybe a handful of others, the vast majority serve chieftains, nobles or kings and queens. That is how this world works, it is in the dark ages. Serfs, peasants and slaves are the norm as serfs are bound to their land and lord while slaves are an obvious choice for hard labor such as hauling and volume tasks.
-Look at what happened to the Library of Alexandria. Knowledge was not "just forgotten" it was actively destroyed by Christians and Muslims. However, it lived on elsewhere or was rediscovered through archeology. Secrets abound and live on hidden away in libraries, clay tablets under the burning sands of Arabia or in their ancient ruins. One has but to look and seek out answers. Knowledge has never just been "lost," it has been ignored to the point of fault. Neither forget that a blade into the back of an inventor as he finishes his secret masterpiece only for it to be melted into slag by his assailant counts as "just forgotten." It was purposefully destroyed. But, maybe his diagram hidden in a nooky will be found one day or someone else will have the same idea. Knowledge will always live on somewhere, somehow.
-Long ago the Greeks learned how to use steam power only they decided not to use it because they would have to get rid of their now useless slaves somehow en masse, the knowledge was never lost, just ignored for over a millennia.
Nothing is ever "just forgotten." Someone has to go to great length to FORCE the issue. But... Can you or an army kill everyone, everywhere who knows something and truly wipe the slate clean?
Let us hope that Veric does not look like this next chapter...
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Although, if he could pull off the protective gear for that... he could defeat an army like this...
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In any event, enjoying the story. Especially enjoy the world building and all the little details.
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You can make grenades with coconuts and black powder... they're rather nasty.
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Your comment of Greek Fire has me thinking of Archimedes' Laser.
Polished plates forming rings in a concave dish concentrating light into a tightened, focused beam.
So Nawra wants to leave using a certain 'someone' as excuse and get the trade agreement over with, Nyah and her father feel something bad about to happen where they're going, Halim either waits patiently or rushing things by removing the blockade, risking the lives of many, and all the good that came to Verik and company.. will it backfire... also Tasid is still the same filthy bastard.
Got some questions about the story, at what point of the story are both Nyah, her father, and Halim are located in the map right now? Also, what background is Verik and what does his name mean, wanted to know for awhile?
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Halim is running around the north east quadrant of #35. As for Verik, you will have to wait, that is something I am withholding till book 3.