Best HFY Stories: What Do The Low Tech Humans Know Of War?

[@El.fish.the.chocolate]

An existence of infighting had greased the war machine to always be ready.

[@RiversJ]

All you need on a fundamental level is a stubborn refusal to polish the truth and hostile rejection of any ideology, goal or sentiment as being anywhere near as important as the primary task, survive and kill. We have many examples of completely useless parade armies today and even more becoming so, even in countries that presumptively have everything they need to know better yet they don't.

[@El.fish.the.chocolate]

@RiversJ more true

[@slipknawther]

They worship a box of chicken bones taped to the bottom of the hyperdrive when we told them it was silly and had to go they smiled then proceeds 3 weeks of being unable to fix the drive and all the humans said was "Betty demands her offering, sacrifices are to be made" in further note when a human "mechanic" says it's important don't question it next ill speak on "percussive maintenance" and the 15% reduction of down time across the star fleet since and the shrines to the mechanic/machine gods

[@lucasclaxton612]

"Take me to your leader." Best line outa this ine lmao.

[@TheHighborn]

I didn't get it

[@ernestoprogames6597]

@@TheHighborn basically, when te alien asked for the colonel "take to your leader", he was speaking with the leader, te colonel in that case

[@jeffafasf4968]

@ernestoprogames6597 No that's not it. An alien coming to a human and saying "Take me to your leader" is and almost century old cliche line in science fiction. The line troopers were chuckling because in cannon they were actually hearing and alien say "Take me to your leader".

[@TheLastRhapsody]

What do humans know of war? You could as much ask what a fish knows of water, or a bird knows of the sky.

[@holycarp1676]

I'd say instead: what a deer knows of venison, or a cow knows of beef less a thing needed for life, more a thing that could be your future or a way to survive, hated as it may be

[@jnachtig2]

I am sure the Vrosqil were thinking "If we had allied with the human, we would own the galaxy".

[@y0ur_name_here]

What separates the Infantry from everyone else? We run towards the sound of gunfire.

[@koathekid8255]

And so do people trying to film it like idiots

[@mcsleuthburgur1034]

Just off the title, if someone's running around a battlefield with impressively primitive technology, what are they doing that makes up for the tech difference? That's what you need to watch for

[@davidtherwhanger6795]

If you look back at war you find that many of the things we use today are updated versions of tactics or tools from back in the day. So yes. Just because you have a modern assault rifle doesn't mean that guy with an old musket, but knows what they are doing, can't kill you.

[@noppornwongrassamee8941]

If that musket is rifled, he might actually have more range than your fancy modern battle rifle, and he's going to make his one shot count.

[@alexfranz817]

I think SG-1 said it better when they reminded the resistance Fighters about how one being a weapon of Terror and the other being a weapon of War.

[@lekeris7014]

@@davidtherwhanger6795 Americans had rifled repeater rifles at least 20 years before the army stopped using muskets, and even in ww1, armies were using bolt-action rifles, which were the firearm development of the century, before the start of the century. (prussians stole the early french design of bolt-action rifles and im sure you can figure out when the prussians fell)

[@BrunoMaricFromZagreb]

Primitive THIS,primitive THAT...I sometimes wonder if these pragmatico-phobic xenos know what DOORKNOBS are,if they speng so much time obsessing over *"advanced"* "technology".

[@NCHSNAFUBR]

Reminds me of a book called "School of Fire" by David Sherman and Dann Craig from the series "Starfist". Similar context but no aliens, just foolish humans versus smarter humans.

[@anathardayaldar]

So all this fighting humans do today is just preparation for a space xeno invasion?

[@krevor4095]

Of course. You think we enjoy it? Well, some do, but do you think we hate each other? Well, yeah, sometimes, but do you think we're just being petty? Oh, wait, I think I see your point.

[@whatsawigwag2590]

Replies yes sir, takes off helmet puts on his Bernard cap. How may I help you sir?

[@jacak47410]

That was a fun one.

[@richwalter3107]

" the grand Olde Duke of Yourke....he had ten thousand men..."

[@IaIaCthulhuFtagn]

Lol, better hope none of those blast holes are from mortars instead of explosives.

[@DasHeino2010]

Imagine what we do once we have the DOOM and HALO weapons! :3

[@anathardayaldar]

I kept hearing "Roscoe"

[@Llangion]

He said the thing! 😆

[@luzifershadres]

Luckly for their sorry armys, the Terran military seem to have taken up an mix of american, prussian and frech style leadership system.

[@internetzenmaster8952]

Of course the ones sent to bail the xenos out/show em how it's done are the Marines.

[@damienmccuinn1956]

Is there any more to this universe?

[@Ale_10010]

Is this a repost??? I could swear to god i have heard him narrate this exact story like 3 diferent time

[@tzmmm]

Are you reuploading stories you've already done?

[@NetNarrator]

Nope, and I never do this outside of very specific circumstances (which I divulge if I do!). If people think I've genuinely made a mistake, I always say - Find the original video and link it. If you do and I've genuinely made a mistake, I'll post a new one to replace it!

[@chrisdufresne9359]

It's likely a bug on KZbin side. I've seen videos pop up and then watched them. Then, the same video was unavailable without being a channel member. My favorite was a video that I commented on that was then released to public after a good bit of time. I had people asking about how my comment was so old.

[@Ale_10010]

Im not a member but i could swear i have heard you narrate this exact story before@@NetNarrator

[@JohnTheRaeder-xf5sh]

Noice!!!

[@Primearch-GG]

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