Re: Re: Terror in war

From: John Hughes <john.hughes_at_RZqdNaDskxRdhxYgFi1V7VmMu3hWrJXVzpSi_pRdxhCsHSP-JSltDxePfLOxFWlx>
Date: Thu, 23 Aug 2007 11:07:23 +1000


At 11:10 PM 22/08/2007, you wrote:
> > In fact its interesting that none of these factoids make it into the
> > Sartar Rising books. But then who would buy a game where you get to
> > play Nazis?
>
>Nazis? Both of these incidents were taken out of Thucydites' "History
>of the Peloponnesian War" and were perpetrated by the Athenians. In
>413, the Athenians and their Thracian mercenaries captured the Boetian
>city of Mycalessus without seige or assault and:

Very different society. You can't just unthinkingly transplant events from one culture to another.

Let me give you a hint: kinstrife.

Or are we preparing the ground here for another gratuitous retcon?            

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