The poet they probably shouldn’t have sent. I watch anime and am sometimes accused of reading books. I'm writing a long gay giant robot story in verse—probably this millennium's best yuri mecha epic poem, through lack of competition.


'Now praise those names on tombs of steel engraved | And toll this rotting country’s countless bells.'


dante
@dante

it's crazy that no one these days is talking about how a dedicated society of horse archers could easily overwhelm basically any settled civilization. but i'm thinking about it all the time, which is one of my charm points


SunshineMoon
@SunshineMoon

Obligated to list various Byzantine strategies for overcoming this problem, in increasing order of clownery:

-Make the army so cost-efficient the Pechenegs eventually sue for peace because they literally can't afford to keep beating you

-Simply grant land to a different group of Pechenegs on your side of the border to raid them back

-Promise to swear fealty to a Mongol khanate then spend years not answering their letters and pretending they got lost in the mail

-Rush all of your troops to whatever border they're scouting out to make your whole country look way more fortified and inform them that you definitely rule all the land from here to the western sea, please don't check

-Promise to swear fealty to two Mongol khanates and let them fight it out


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