History questions not worth their own thread

[Tee Kay]

I'm making a Mongol scenario for C3C and I need UU ideas for:

Bagan
France
England
Georgia
Hungary
Srivijaya
Poland
Nanzhao/Dali
Khmer Empire
Dai Viet
Jin Empire
Xi Xia

Time period will be AD1200 - AD1300. Ideally I'd like the UUs to reflect their military strengths during that period.

 

[Huayna Capac357]

France- Chevalier for Knight (yes I know it's pretty much the same, but French Knights were very famous)
England- Welsh Longbowman of course!
Khmers- You could go BtS are do Ballista Elephant

 

[Mad Man]

Hungary-Bombardhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bombard_(weapon)
Poland-Jewish mercenaries
Xi Xia-Camel Cannon(by far the most interesting weapon they had)

 

[Lord Baal]

Hungary-Bombardhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bombard_(weapon)
Poland-Jewish mercenaries
Xi Xia-Camel Cannon(by far the most interesting weapon they had)

A cannon that fired camels? Awesome.

And I'm willing to fight for Poland, so long as I'm paid exorbitant sums.

 

[Huayna Capac357]

A cannon that fired camels? Awesome.

And I'm willing to fight for Poland, so long as I'm paid exorbitant sums.

This I think?

 

[Lord Baal]

This I think?

Still cool, but I like my idea better.

Although, think of that with a modern machine gun!

Xi Xia. **** yeah!

 

[Cheezy the Wiz]

Hungarians should definitely get some kind of irregular unit, to reflect the hell they gave the Mongols.

 

[Mad Man]

This I think?

That's probably it I looked Xi Xia up on wikipedia because it has a cool name and I didn't know anything about it and one of the first things I read was this

Their extensive stance among the other empires of the Liao, Song and Jin was attributable to their effective military organizations that integrated cavalry, chariots, archery, shields, artillery(cannons carried on the back of camels), and amphibious troops for combats on the land and water

so if I'm horribly wrong don't blame me blame wikipedia but it still sounds like a win to me

 

[Mad Man]

Hungarians should definitely get some kind of irregular unit, to reflect the hell they gave the Mongols.

The Black army perhaps

 

[ParkCungHee]

Is it only in retrospect, or was it apparent at the time, that the Tudor dynasty was inevitably going to end up mixed up with the Scots?

 

[bombshoo]

This I think?

How does the camel operate that gun if its all the way on its back?

 

[say1988]

That actually is a relatively common thing (in areas where camels are common mounts).
It supposedly goes all teh way back to Egyptians with crossbows. It is a pretty logical leap to mount a small cannon or such on a camel's back if it can handle the weight properly.

[q]Although, think of that with a modern machine gun![/q]
Probably was done at some point. Though it at least used gattling guns.

 

[Mad Man]

You might say its the predecessor of the technical.

 

[Lord Baal]

How does the camel operate that gun if its all the way on its back?

With great dexterity.

Probably was done at some point. Though it at least used gattling guns.

A camel with a gatling on its back? Awesome. I can just imagine one of those suckers killing Tom Cruise and Ken Watanabe right now. Come to think of it, I can imagine a lot of things killing Tom Cruise.

 

[Masada]

You might say its the predecessor of the technical.

Classic, drive-by camel! So that's why the African Americans took to it with such alacrity coming as they did from Ethiopia

/rasism.

 

[Mad Man]

Classic, drive-by camel! So that's why the African Americans took to it with such alacrity coming as they did from Ethiopia

/rasism.

I don't recall too many African Americans using technicals or camels for that matter thats more of an African-African or African-Arab thing.

 

[Masada]

I don't recall too many African Americans using technicals or camels for that matter thats more of an African-African or African-Arab thing.

Stop reading your revisionist literature.

 

[Atticus]

I tried to ask this already in the similar OT-thread, but got no responses. Perhaps here people know better:

When is it legal to make/distribute copies of a printed book? I know there's limit in copyrights that lasts 75 or something like that years after the euthors death, but doesn't that include only the text? How is it with specific printings of the text?

 

[Padma]

I tried to ask this already in the similar OT-thread, but got no responses. Perhaps here people know better:

When is it legal to make/distribute copies of a printed book? I know there's limit in copyrights that lasts 75 or something like that years after the euthors death, but doesn't that include only the text? How is it with specific printings of the text?

First disclaimer: I Am Not A Lawyer.
Second disclaimer: Copyright law details vary between different countries.

In most cases, if you have already purchased legitimate copies of the work, you can resell them at will. You cannot make new copies of the work without permission (and probably paying royalties).

Once the copyright has expired, and the work is in the public domain, you can make whatever copies you want.

Note: a specific printing of a work, particularly copies for academic use, may include additional text/illustrations for discussion/exposition, and those parts are copyrighted separately, and may not be included in a personal reprinting, even though the *original* text is in the PD. (Unless the new/added text is alo in the PD.)

(If I'm missing your exact question, let me know, and I will try to get more explicit.)

 

[Atticus]

So do you mean that if I buy, let's say, collction of Shakespeare's plays in English, which has been published a year ago, I can scan that specific book and put it in the internet, if I omit foreword &c?

I assume translations behave like authors on these things.

Perhaps my problem is more clear, if I try not to tell it in general form, so the reason I'm asking this is that I've been searching books on a certain subject, and found out that they can be really hard to find. However the internet has proven out to be very helpful on this matter, and I'll have to take back some bad words I've said about it's limitations. For example there's not a single copy in Finnish libraries of a book I need, and Amazon search gave one copy from around 1800 that would have costed about $1200. I managed to find it scanned on a netpage, but it was 1000 jpg-files of which you have no preview, you can only type in the page number or click "previous" or "next". So I though I might download these photos, and create a pdf out of them. And as I want to help others who might be interested, I'd like to put that pdf in circulation.

I also understood while searching for all these books, that it wouldn't be a bad idea to scan some myself. Many of these books are essential for people who are studying the subject, but very hard to find, and mostly extremely expensive. They are published for libraries to buy, with prices up from 100 euros. I see distributing them freely as part of geographical equality.