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Having characters die of dysentery or infected wounds is also a natural occurrence. It just makes for a poor story. Having a lead character be so spiritually rolled and willpower deficient that he’s engaged in multiple homosexual encounters, formed emotional bonds through said encounters and...

To a large extent this kind of reveal needed a much larger lead up. Coming into this cold and on such a standard hot button topic is just bad form. As it is, it comes across as an info dump, with the exposition character dropping a bunch of self contradictory sexual nonsense and everyone else...

I think that’s the fastest I’ve abandoned ship on a story before, well done? Pan sexual, saving it for marriage, BDSM sex addicted sixteen year old is certainly an novel take. Just one I have absolutely zero interest in following further. This honestly read more like a character assassination...

I’m fairly sure it still requires more upfront workout of your smiths then mail, and you can’t offload a much of the work onto less skilled workers. However I’ve heard good things about lamellar’s durabilty and protection.

The big use I’ve read on longbows is that they tend to outrange the other guys archers. So you can start shooting at them before they can, so your archers are set up and the other guy has got to close to range. As archers tend to be lightly armoured this means that you can cause them to fall...

If you can get it to stick. You’re already make a whole bunch of cultural changes already. You need to convince your farmer class that having a strong male child or man practice for hours a day on a hard physical task instead of working towards supporting the family via farm work. This is...

I’ll add that adding longbowmen to a fantasy or historical story is pretty commonplace, just like adding horse archers. Both were excellent units in service at the time that have an outsized impact on both history and the battlefield. Both were also super fucking rare and generally an intrinsic...

So there is a distinct difference between a longbowmen and just an archer. Drawing back the kind of weights you need for an effective longbowmen takes a very heavy and particular build. You need to be able to draw 100-120lbs over and over again. At least 5-10 times for volleys and several...

Throw out any idea of getting decent longbowmen in a generation. That’s the kind of thing that takes decades and more of proper nutrition and physical training to be able to do. If the institutions for it aren’t in place already you just can not get the number of men with the physical strength...

More then population growth, an increase in productivity per person and a general increase in efficiency through better technology you could very well arm and mobilize larger percentage of the population then one percent. Additionally better metalworking techniques, an increase in free labour...

The city was meant to be tax exempt so it could pour that money into the crown’s university project. Tywin fucked with the wording, making the city exempt from paying taxes both to the crown AND to the lord who’s landhold and fief it was. This leaves the lord in a fucking mess, he’s committed to...