It remindes-me a gay parade. but with kats.
I didn't know the Scots knew of phalanx tactics. Or that the battle of Stirling Bridge did not, in fact, feature a bridge.
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A bit? That's like making a movie about Rommel with no tanks. And set in South America. In 1987.
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Well to be fair, they ran out of money for both a bridge battle and a castle battle and inaccurate face paint.
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they mooned them till they could take no more?
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I have yet to see any cinematic depiction of anything concerning military history and/or war- fighting- melee- you-name-it, come close to the actual thing.
Edited to add what I forgot cause my ferret sounded very ill and had to be checked, except Stalingrad. That is not too bad.
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