10-26-2006, 09:00 AM
Quote:Soldiers who are starving will be little if any use in battle. You need strength to shoot a bow or wield spear and shield.
I know, Sean, I've done both.
Quote: If you were Xerxes King of Kings, would you go off to punish the Yauna Beyond the Sea with an army that would be skin and bones by the time it reached Athens?
Of course not, neither does what I wrote earlier support such an interpretation. I would go expecting success to provide me with enough food to allow my army to fight or defeat to remove the necessity of foraging.
Quote: Grinding grain is slow and tiring,
Know. Done it. Mind you, I had two small girls produce enough flour for a couple of rolls in an hour, last Monday.
What would your lower figure be?
