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    Default Re: light spear balance (vs. swords) in 1.2

    Quote Originally Posted by A Terribly Harmful Name View Post
    Known but not adopted by the Chinese.
    Do you really want to get me started into Nomadic Cavalry and styles employed by the Chinese?
    They did have both around EB's time period.

    Quote Originally Posted by A Very Super Market View Post
    After Kublai Khan died, the empire quickly broke up into pieces, and disintegrated shortly afterwards. Only the vast imperialist domains of various European powers can be called great empires.
    Most of the empires under Mongol control kept their territory intact (abet fractured) and lasted about 200 years. Most Imperialistic European empires lasted less than 100 years.

    If the Mongols were bad administrators, then whatever the Europeans were doing was far worse.
    Last edited by Intranetusa; 09-30-2009 at 21:27.
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