captain-price-official:

charlesoberonn:

I like how Nero, the main antagonist from Star Trek (2009), isn’t even a dictator or soldier. He’s a miner. But he can terrorize the galaxy because his mining vessel has technology from the future.

It’s like if a 15th century France was terrorized by a guy with a bulldozer.

To be fair anyone with a bulldozer today is capable of terrorizing most communities.

It probably couldn’t take down a serious reinforced defensive wall through ramming but it could take a door or gate, divert a water feature, undermine a wall.

Armor it up like Killdozer or one of those tank-body combat engineering vehicles or one of those Israeli armored dozers, give it reliable maintenance and fuel support, yeah, it could take 15th cen. France.

Oh that reminds me, you ever hear how Hannibal’s elephant army was eventually defeated?

He knew he couldn’t take Rome’s defenses directly, he had to lure them out, so he menaced the area, sacked a city close enough Rome could see the plume of smoke

And the competent leaders were like “wait him out” but the effete citizens were like “we can’t just LET THEM DIE we have to do something, we HAFF to” so they mustered armies that got their ass kicked

So instead the Romans instituted a dictatorship that could crack down on that shit, and turtled up in Rome while he rampaged, sending expeditionary forces far off to chip away at his supply chain.

And then once the elephants had mostly died from the foreign food and climate, and his armies and allies had deserted from unrenumerative boredom, they mopped him up