Re: Re[2]: [MUD-Dev] Depth of realism

[J C Lawrence <claw#cp,net>]

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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