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目的战舰与多用途船的区别，决定了谁能维持海军力量。青铜时代到铁器时代早期、维京时代，多用途商船即可参与海战，非国家势力也能挑战国家；17世纪后目的战舰主导，只有国家能负担，非国家势力基本被排除出海权竞争。 
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ACOUP（A Collection of Unmitigated Pedantry），Bret Devereaux 的史学博客，从古代史视角审视历史与流行文化。
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Comment on Collections: Pre-Modern Armies for Worldbuilders, Part III: Paying For It by Basil Marte
In reply to Mark Magagna. It also has an interesting place in American historical politics. Its late 18th century statesmen wanted their new polity to run on an entitlement-based self-equipping model...
Comment on Collections: Pre-Modern Armies for Worldbuilders, Part III: Paying For It by thdannewitz
In reply to Tracy W. most of the time, but it can get worse
Comment on Collections: Pre-Modern Armies for Worldbuilders, Part III: Paying For It by Terry
In reply to Arilou. If you have time there's the advantage of being able to sell to town militias and local big men looking to fit their own troops, but you still run into the problem of having to of...
Comment on Collections: Pre-Modern Armies for Worldbuilders, Part III: Paying For It by AiryW
In reply to Tracy W. This also works for why your players should come up with characters who generally try to cooperate. Sure it will be really fun for a bit to be a too cool for school lone wolf whi...
Comment on Collections: Pre-Modern Armies for Worldbuilders, Part III: Paying For It by Alien@System
In reply to Kaiphranos. While liturgies don't really happen any more, Bret's above framework does give an interesting way to look at modern philanthropy. Basically, instead of going through the effor...
为世界建造者准备的前现代军队，第三部分：为此买单
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Collections: Pre-Modern Armies for Worldbuilders, Part III: Paying For It
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Comment on Collections: Pre-Modern Armies for Worldbuilders, Part IIb: Officials, Contractors and Professionals by Hector
In reply to scifihughf. @Scifihughf, Also, I wouldn't exactly call Czarist Russia a military powerhouse (although the contrary narrative made famous by Stalin on the left and i guess by some modern ...
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Comment on Collections: Pre-Modern Armies for Worldbuilders, Part IIb: Officials, Contractors and Professionals by 8roomsofelixir
In reply to Doctor Science. The Qin method was simply state-enforced mass mobilization, similar to the Han method. In fact, the Han mobilization system was a direct continuation of the Qin system. A...
Comment on Collections: Pre-Modern Armies for Worldbuilders, Part IIb: Officials, Contractors and Professionals by NVA
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