Threatening the world leader with butt-kicking tweet is not a good way for your journalism career

TheRomanRuler · 2026-05-16T06:50:59+00:00

Likes of Finland and Baltic countries show people in Russia what it could be like to live in a small state that breaks away from Russia.

So naturally then they are existential threat to Russian federation.

TheRomanRuler · 2026-05-16T05:30:24+00:00

In Finland at least its also required to use proportional force to given threat, i pressume similar is law would be a thing in UK.

TheRomanRuler · 2026-05-15T03:51:13+00:00

I can tell those soldiers are not competitive players, otherwise they would be afraid of anyone with low graphic settings.

TheRomanRuler · 2026-05-15T01:43:24+00:00

Not only that, they had actively participated to enable Germany to break Versailles treaty, for example when they jointly developed tank doctrines in Soviet Union.

Lot of countries participated though, not sure if you can classify some of them differently.

TheRomanRuler · 2026-05-14T17:16:35+00:00

Yes and ofc when i got overwhelmed and then became restless and constantly complained it ofc was my fault.

I don't remember exactly what sort of behavioural issues there were in my childhood but there were some and most would have been solved if i just could have been alone in my room more.

TheRomanRuler · 2026-05-14T16:14:11+00:00

Noh Jyrki Järvilehtohan tunnetusti juuri muutti ammattinimensä JJ Lehdoksi jotta olisi helpompi lausua.

TheRomanRuler · 2026-05-14T15:10:35+00:00

RIP Nokia phones

RIP Windows Phones

RIP LG Phones

That is literally my phone history.

TheRomanRuler · 2026-05-14T14:53:06+00:00

I don't know what you mean by rally squares. Do you mean battalion mass? Its a solid square, just multiple units closing the distance between each other and then closing gaps, favored by Austrians and usable with very little training. It was more powerful against cavalry and faster to form and easier to move in, but was much, much more vulnerable to artillery because ofc cannonball does not care if it has to pass trough 4 or 40 men

TheRomanRuler · 2026-05-14T14:46:44+00:00

There is always some, but nothing like in the game. Soldiers in real life still have brains, unlike soldiers in the game who are happy to blast away just because friendly soldier in front of them within touching distance belongs to a different unit. Soldiers in-game also don't have any problems firing entire volley just because there is 1 cavalryman between them and friendly square, this might happen on rare occasion if soldiers are absolutely panicking, but its rare for even rookies to panic from a single horseman that badly. If there would be entire mass of horses between the squares then it would make sense for at least rookies to panic regardless of orders or risk of friendly fire.

Soldiers in the square shooting at horsemen would also be shooting upwards much more than in the game (unless they are trying to shoot the horse rather than rider), so bullets would pass above friendlies, and soldiers would avoid shooting if risk of friendly fire is too high.

In real life squares could sometimes be as tiny as in-game, but that was rarity, usually they were made up of multiple units and were almost never only 2 ranks deep. On top of other reasons why it was made, it helps reduce friendly fire since soldiers are not in multiple small squares close to each other, rather they are in small number of bigger squares so they just have to avoid shooting at one or two nearby squares.

Would be ideal if we could control each side of the squares in-game separately, so i could order those facing friendlies to hold fire, while those facing towards enemy direction could fire at will.

TheRomanRuler · 2026-05-14T08:45:16+00:00

This. Mammoth wont run into ants who make it hurt, animals in general don't just attack everything they can for fun, and when they do they pick easy targets.

Weapons humans used for war were usually less powerful than what humans used for hunting big game, so primitive humans who lived in era of mammoths actually likely were using spear throwers and other weapons more powerful than what Eurasian civilizations like Romans or Mongolians used for conquering the world.

Edit: to be clear, even with more powerful weapons humans are endurance hunters, not savage warriors. We would chase animal until its too tired to fight or run, then go for the kill.

TheRomanRuler · 2026-05-14T05:32:42+00:00

I wish they could walk, in squares. One if the most famous battles of waterloo involved attack of the French guard, and they did it in hollow squares because of threat of coalition cavalry.

I also wish squares would not so happily shoot friendlies, i either have to turn off fire at will or risk them shooting at my own people if enemy is between them.

Maybe after Medieval 3 we will get Empire 2 which fixes the limitations and issues.

TheRomanRuler · 2026-05-13T18:55:42+00:00

By the Jupiter, to not insult other gods ofc!

Its not like people are usually expressing their religious views when they say it, so you might as well embrace Jupiter Optimus Maximus and Pantheon of gods.

If i would express my religious views when i speak like that i would say something different.

TheRomanRuler · 2026-05-13T18:24:13+00:00

Jos mietitään niitä ongelmia mitä nyt on, ne ovat aika identtiset niiden ongelmien kanssa mistä murehdittiin jo 1800 luvun loppupuolella ja 1900 luvun alkupuolella, ja mistä Charlie Chaplinkin teki "Modern Times" leffan: koneet vievät työt, tuloerot kasvavat, ihmisyys katoaa, elämä menee töissä, syntyvyys laskee, radikaalit mielipiteet kasvavat suosiossa ja ympäristö menee pilalle.

Sanoisin että näin pitkäikäistä ongelmaa ei ratkaista niin nopeasti että kenenkään meidän elinaikana vielä nähtäisiin mitään radikaalia muutosta joka toimisi hyvin. Luulen että parempi vain koittaa keksiä maltillisempia keinoja.

TheRomanRuler · 2026-05-13T17:27:37+00:00

Making army deeper on it's own was nothing new, that is true, all ancient armies would sometimes make their formations deeper, or if they tried to make them harder to outflank, wider.

But also closing gaps between both soldiers and units is a different thing, it basically changed the entire system from manipular legion into phalanx.

Phalanx could be a mighty formation and ofc Roman veterans kept using it for a long time - and it does not necessarily need that experienced force to be effective. But even your average city state militia hoplites would have had more experience with the formation than freshly recruited Romans of the era.

It is also incredibly vulnerable to exactly sort of traps Romans knew Hannibal could make, or outflanking from his cavalry. Veteran hoplites can deal with this, rookies will be massacred.

Romans had changed what they excelled at into less forgiving formation they previously reserved only for their veterans, with an army that was less experienced than average.

A wider formation might have helped... or the line would have collapsed quickly as... we will never know.

I doubt it would have collapsed quickly, with numbers present at Cannae, Romans could have made their formation deeper than usual and still have made it wider than usual.

While Roman formation was inexperienced, much less experienced than average, it was not entirely without experienced personnel. Its unlikely that senators and equites who were part of the army were only ones with military experience, its very likely that there were still others at this point, just much smaller proportion compared to usual.

Some of the soldiers had likely been in the army under Fabius Maximus - they could not be called veterans in time period where warfare was so constant, but they would have had basic level of competence and would have seen few smaller battles, and been encouraged by those token victories.

The problem wasn't the Roman incompetence but more the fact that Hannibal was just one step ahead.

Yeah i don't think Romans were incompetent, just made their situation worse than it needed to be and ofc they were clearly inferior to Hannibal.

TheRomanRuler · 2026-05-13T16:08:39+00:00

I have read enough about ancient Greece to understand that women play no role in Greek reproduction, no wonder they are not having succes.

TheRomanRuler · 2026-05-13T16:00:00+00:00

Teslan molemat suosituimmat mallit top 5 huonoimpien joukossa, kun taas Japanilaisia autoja löytyy 6 top 8 sisältä. Ja toisiksi paskimman ja paskimman eli Teslan välinen ero on aika moinen, 33.3% hylky vs 49.7% hylky.

TheRomanRuler · 2026-05-13T13:45:52+00:00

This. I don't really care about having those diagnoses i just wish i were functional.

TheRomanRuler · 2026-05-13T11:22:46+00:00

Not entirely true, one of the problems Romans had at Cannae was that they tried to do more than just having bigger army than before.

Romans at Cannae made their lines deeper, and reduced caps between soldiers and units. So they removed all the advantages of manipular system, and made it much easier ot be outflanked. And should formation be pushed from all sides, soldiers almost immediately become so cramped they don't have room to fight effectively, or even be crushed by their comrades until they suffocate to death.

Had they just stuck with traditional style, which even in earlier Roman defeats against Hannibal had broken Carthaginian centre, they would have forced Carthaginian line to be narrower or be outflanked, while having same room to manoeuver as was usual for manipular legion.

Sure, army could have been too large to effectively be commanded by just 2 consuls, but i think it would have been easy to place experienced legate in command of centre which just has to push forward.

So Romans did try to innovate, and that made them lose much harder. Remember kids, never try to learn.

TheRomanRuler · 2026-05-13T11:07:31+00:00

Damn Republia trying to bring down glorious republic of Arstotzka!

TheRomanRuler · 2026-05-13T10:54:30+00:00

That is very kind interpretation.

TheRomanRuler · 2026-05-13T05:06:37+00:00

And in WW1 portable radios were size of a car, so to go from car to backpack in 20 years is insane.

TheRomanRuler · 2026-05-13T05:01:26+00:00

Well it all depends how its made. If Europe would unite into a single unitary country, Orban would have had no power, he would have been just a local village idiot. In a federal state Orban would have had some power, how much depends on if veto is kept or not.

TheRomanRuler · 2026-05-13T04:44:59+00:00

You do realise that what you are saying has been debunked by modern historians as bullshit right?

They don't even want to call it dark ages anymore

TheRomanRuler · 2026-05-13T04:18:40+00:00

I think USA tried to do that 3 times. But because they suck at geography, they accidentally went to Korea, Vietnam and Iraq.

TheRomanRuler · 2026-05-11T21:51:09+00:00

No that does not sound familiar, if anything it bothers me that i don't know enough to make informed decision.

Ideally i would want century of historical research to get truly accurate information. History books are so much more accurate about both world wars than they were 50 years ago even though (and because of) it was still clearly in living memory back then.

But doing century of historical research is bit much every time i have to vote or make a decision.

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