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From: J C Lawrence <claw@cp.net>
Newsgroups: nu.kanga.list.mud-dev
Date: Wed, 24 Nov 1999 14:16:34 -0800
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Organization: Kanga.Nu
On Mon, 22 Nov 1999 23:40:37 -0500
Travis Casey <efindel@io.com> wrote:
> That's the context in which I spoke of a few hundred being the
> average size. Naturally, there were battles in the medieval
> period which involved a lot more soldiers -- but they were vastly
> outnumbered by the local "wars".
A good comaprison might be the warlord era in China (cf Sun Tzsu
(there's a mirrored copy in the Lirbary)). Many many local hotpots,
many many small scale skirmishes, border shifts, and covert actions.
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