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<blockquote data-quote="Neonchameleon" data-source="post: 8474451" data-attributes="member: 87792"><p>Also <em>Boat Barbarians</em> who just come to raid and carry off anything not nailed down firmly. The vikings spring to mind, as do the Barbary Coast Corsairs. And for that matter European slave traders on Africa's west coast. Finally there's <em>encroaching farmers</em> definitely including Homesteaders into Native American territory.</p><p></p><p>And the <em>big</em> reason horse barbarians have historically had a lot of success is that when you spend all day in a saddle and you use bows to hunt you get civilisations of expert horse archers. And horse archers were, until the rise of gunpowder, man for man among the most dangerous battlefield troops there were. Most barbarians, however (other than boat barbarians and farmers) were people pushed to the fringes and generally not that much of a historical threat.</p><p></p><p>Offa's Dyke isn't that hard to cross and is pretty easy to cross back. What it is is basically impossible to cross <em>by accident</em>. It's impossible to cross it and not know you've crossed it and basically destroys any form of plausible deniability.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]147613[/ATTACH]</p><p></p><p>Absolutely agreed. And <a href="https://acoup.blog/category/collections/the-fremen-mirage/" target="_blank">here's a link</a></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Neonchameleon, post: 8474451, member: 87792"] Also [I]Boat Barbarians[/I] who just come to raid and carry off anything not nailed down firmly. The vikings spring to mind, as do the Barbary Coast Corsairs. And for that matter European slave traders on Africa's west coast. Finally there's [I]encroaching farmers[/I] definitely including Homesteaders into Native American territory. And the [I]big[/I] reason horse barbarians have historically had a lot of success is that when you spend all day in a saddle and you use bows to hunt you get civilisations of expert horse archers. And horse archers were, until the rise of gunpowder, man for man among the most dangerous battlefield troops there were. Most barbarians, however (other than boat barbarians and farmers) were people pushed to the fringes and generally not that much of a historical threat. Offa's Dyke isn't that hard to cross and is pretty easy to cross back. What it is is basically impossible to cross [I]by accident[/I]. It's impossible to cross it and not know you've crossed it and basically destroys any form of plausible deniability. [ATTACH type="full"]147613[/ATTACH] Absolutely agreed. And [URL='https://acoup.blog/category/collections/the-fremen-mirage/']here's a link[/URL] [/QUOTE]
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