I completely agree with OP. I actually HAVE seen combat. I actually HAVE killed at least one man maybe more. I just got back from my second tour in Iraq last week. I've seen men shot and crying out in pain. War is evil and should only be done as a last resort. When I first joined the military I was all high on notions of glory and honor as well. That all goes out the door when you shoot a man a watch him fall. There is no honor in killing, no glory in death. Anyone who has participated in even on battle will tell you the same. War is ugly my friends, there is no room for glory just death.

All warriors fight for different reasons. The only naivety here is the belief that you are invincible in battle. You are just a man and no matter how brave you are you can still be bested in battle. You can be flanked by calvary or drive your horse into a spear flinging you to your death.

War is chance, a warrior brave and skilled may die at the hands of a novice. Heroes are men of chance who have found themselves on the right side of fate.

Only a child believes the battlefield is ever fare

OP, the celts fought for every reason under the sun. Young men dedicate their unwed lives to Morrighan, fighting, raiding, and plundering for the sake of fun, and to get that young wildness out of their system. Old men protect, young men destroy. That is the way of life, yet should be done with honor both ways.

>>1084
Warscythes are superior

Any of these would do.

Khopesh! It's an axe and a sword, all in one!

The Knights of Metal.

the knights who say "ni"

the nine ringwriaths of Sauron

apparently, somafera is so obscure that it does not even have a wiki page. The only thing I could find about it was some strange, badly constructed amateur websites.

This is interesting. Who has the knowledge to enter these states? Teach me. Like the post before me I can find very little information of any use.

>>2096
I could talk for ages about the subject, but I'll just give you this link to save myself some time.

http://www.uppsalaonline.com/uppsala/somafera/somafera%20-%20the%20body%20wild.html

>>1725

very nice

no complaints here

>>1714

This is a silly discussion.

One data point does not a trend make. She might be proof of concept, but you're certainly not proof of consistency, or correlation.

Women = weaker. You're a statistical aberration, little more.

>>1714

This is a silly discussion.

One data point does not a trend make. She might be proof of concept, but you're certainly not proof of consistency, or correlation.

Women = weaker. You're a statistical aberration, little more.

Hard and fast!

Large Phalanx who can ditch their spears for short swords if needed and a large group of archers behind making arrow volleys as quickly as possible. As long as the phalanx doesn't move too slowly the only option for the enemy is charge the large row of waiting spears (suicide) or get chewed to pieces by the continuous arrow volleys (suicide).

Pre-emptive nuclear strike.

>>16
>Who here has put metal to flesh and bone?
Metal lipstick container was thrown, but it didn't hit bone.
>Who here has lain with his enemies woman?
I seduced my enemy's boyfriend just to get her jealous.
>Who here has seen a man die from battle?
Someone died by accident in a cheer leading competition.

>>418

oh you

I have stabbed a man for taking my beer
I have killed countless of fish for food
I have tired to hunt boar with just a knife, but was unable to finish it do to the injuries the boar gave me.
Killed a bovine with an axe for food.
I have dissected human cadavers for science.
All the women of my enemies where nasty slags. The kind I would not touch in fear of STDs.
I see death everyday since it is my job remove the decease from the public. but I have seen a few people die from doomed-from-the-start battles. I.e. trying to stop a train by throwing themselves, stopping cars the same way, bungee jumping without a bungee cord, trying to pull a Houdini with a rope around their necks, or trying to dodge a bullet at powder-burning-close-range. I have seen a man shoot his face off with a shotgun. I have seen a man get shot at and heard his death gargle. I've seen a woman die from cancer while holding her husband's and child's hands. I've seen the after math of a woman whom was choked to death by a jealous lover and was thrown off a cliff into the sea. I seen the death of a 6 month old baby whom died during surgery.

>>1903

Excuse me, but I highly doubt that a barbarous female, such as type you covet, would wear such refined bows.
This creature is a proper woman modeled to a gentleman's taste.

>>2011
No one said she was a barbarian, just that she was REAL.

Some barbarians are wise and wordy, some are as thick as a brick shit house... what unites us is fighting drinking and wenches! and rape and burning things!

>>2062
Please stop perpetuating that stupidity. Thanks.

http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=barbarian

Hahaha, leav him to be stupid... remember that assassins come from the word Ass, the back low part of the body, and Sin, something unholy...

Then an Assassin is some body that kills you sinning with their... ass...

>>2085

No they're assasins because assasins used to be really fat and sit on peoples faces. That's how they killed most of the royalty. They would offer to read the king a bedtime story and right as the king was falling asleep they would sit on his face smothering him. That's why in most royal courts there was a rule against people being fat.

The sin part comes from the gluttony associated with being fat but some assasins just had really slow matabalisms.