Yes, it was upgrade of khopesh.
Yes, it was upgrade of khopesh.
Yeah that’s literally 2 clicks from the basest of searches:
(Hokien, Hakka, Matsu and Wuqiu are some of very many southern languages of Chinese, and Formosan is the Austronesian group of languages spoken by indingenous population)
Because they are sucked to the same boot.
It was probably inspired by Egyptian khopesh since it was used in Ethiopia even before the kingdom of Axum. Thing is, the blade is sharp on both sides. So you could either use its inner side as big sickle to reach around enemy shield and try for the weak spots like neck, face or armpits, or if the enemy didn’t had a shield you could turn it to outer side and in this case it was similar to Persian shamshir in being excellent weapon against unarmored opponents.
Two more interesting thing about it was 1: the designs varies greatly, most were shorter and wider, the curvature also varied; and 2: it apparently worked quite well considering it has been in use for possibly over 2500 years and some Ethiopian emperors even organised special elite units wielding it.
It do looks longer than it is because of proportions. It’s very thin and the handle is pretty short compared to European blades because the blade is also very light so it don’t need much counterweight.
I imagine Russia would
Start a hot war against USA in the central Atlantic? Pentagon would go ballistic, as in “ballistic missiles”, and even if the war stayed conventional, Russian navy would be in a huge disadvantage there.
Sword but very curved and yet not very famous (Ethiopian shotel)
During the Cold War there was a chance USSR would intervene. Who would intervene right now?
37 people didn’t
They can also use their navy to make a full blockade.
Dems? None, but Trump could get some lazy rep hawks to vote harping on how dems are incompetent at imperialism and he would be better. After all elections in US are usually decided not by % of supporters but who mobilises their voters better to move their butts to booth.
I mean Ukraine “victory” plan is, depending on version, either: a) The same as usual, that is unconditional surrender of Russia, which obviously won’t happen; b) Ostensibly the same but aimed at excusing themselves before the west from starting the actual peace negotiations; c) Manufacturing conditions for open NATO intervention
None of those is something that would impress US, but they will likely go with a) because collapse right now would be a political bomb and after elections it would be something entirely different regardless of who wins (like Afghanistan proven, nobody in US even remember that rout now).
America can’t stop tons of drugs and weapons getting delivered into America every day
As if they even want to. War on Drugs is very effective method of controlling population (and was engineered by Nixon administration first) and padding the prison slavery. Also, as affairs like Iran-Contras proven, letters are deep in this.
While it would be good news, from the tone and source i call bullshit. It sounds just like every other “orc horde incoming” propaganda i ever read and especially in the mouths of isn’treali media it also sounds like preemptive justification of incoming massacres.
Moderate wing of fascism is bored with being moderate.
Memories of the Lost, Endless Space 2 main theme
I mean, it’s the WotC. They do want to turn your normal rpg game into a collectible where you need to buy into new edition or “edition” every three months because this is exactly what worked for the little colour cardboard pieces which made them rich and be able to encroach over other hobbies.
At least be glad they didn’t yet tried to do expansion boosters for rpg where you buy 20 kg pack of books for ungodly money and try to hit that rare Sword Coast sourcebook but all you get is the 13 copies of Monster Manual.
Hezbollah confirmed it, he’s really dead.