Best SciFi Storytime 1528 - A New Kind Of War | HFY | Humans Are Space Orcs | Its Morbing time

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[@davidatkinson47]

Don't kill it, man, you just started it! (check your spelling).

[@davidatkinson47]

Onboard.

[@RexMK-]

Eleves: Humans are inferior, because they can't use magic Humans: Let me show you a magic trick I call Shelling

[@stevedixon921]

Humans have magic 'words' (or words of power) of a sort, they are: ready, aim, fire, and reload

[@RexMK-]

@@stevedixon921 And just like that the enemy army is reduce to red mist.

[@freedomfighter2054]

And eventually it will coalesce into a lake

[@RexMK-]

@@freedomfighter2054 Red Lake Redemption

[@garberasandor9699]

Human: I cast "nuke"

[@chrisdufresne9359]

The birth of Dakka is a great thing to see.

[@widdershins5383]

Bless the dakka with more dakka, as only dakka is acceptable lol

[@EvilPaladin11]

There will never be enough daka. Never.

[@platinumchromee3191]

Still needs more dakka and WAAAGHH

[@catgodkain5158]

Eh its wha dey stoopid pointy ears get..load again ya gits

[@Random_Tech-Priest]

WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

[@noppornwongrassamee8941]

The way the human General talks makes me think that he's a transplant from a modernish Earth. Maybe the only one, or maybe part of a group (although I suspect the doctor being another such transplant). And the General or people like him was where the knowledge to build gunpowder weapons and the tactics to use them came from (not to mention building an economy that can produce such weapons as mentioned in the story), because you don't just invent all those things overnight.

[@mill2712]

Either that or the Elves so held up in their old ways, did not notice or ignored advancements in technology that other races made (Humans in particular) And apparently, it came to bite them.

[@johnnymellon7414]

Pretty much all entities waging succesfull campaigns, be that before or after the invention of gunpowder, were well aware of economic and logistic requirements. Considering that the elf mentioned magic existing, it might very well be, that they either had no interest or even distain for conventional sciences beyond a certain degree. And I get the impression that the "time" is off. At first it sounded like the rebellion was going on for maybe a year at best, but the longer the story went on, the more I got the impression that this has been a process going on for many years if not decades. Might very well be, that if the elfes in the story are very long lived or immmortal, that to them it started "yesterday", while in reality the rebellion started 20y ago

[@noppornwongrassamee8941]

@@mill2712 Nah. From what the general said, they built these weapons and economy to support them in a few months. Maybe a few years at most. Almost certainly inside a single human generation. That's way faster than how these weapons and tactics developed in real life, and real life had the existence of constant European warfare to drive that development (which still took centuries). Remember, these humans had NEVER used these weapons in real combat before this battle. That wouldn't be true if they had spent centuries fighting each other and refining their tech and tactics. So at the very least, they didn't actually invent these weapons and tactics; they must have gotten them from somewhere else, whether it's humans from another world or just an independent human polity outside the elven kingdom. And again, the way the General and Doctor talked compared to how the other characters talked makes me think the General and Doc are transplants from modern societies.

[@FedralBI]

I totally aggree. One doesn't jump from inventing muskets to Napoleonic tactics in a single generation without outside interference.

[@labella9291]

@@noppornwongrassamee8941 Kind of a Yankee in King Arthur's Court thing going on.

[@ArcAngelDeeznuts]

Early modern infantry tactics, Love to see it in these kinds of stories. And I think the german names are a reference to prussia or the Landsknechts

[@steyn1775]

nah, germans

[@riverraven7359]

@@steyn1775 that's what they said...

[@riverraven7359]

The first landsknecht type unit in the German states was the Marine infantry of the Hanseatic League before George Von Frundsburg made the idea famous.

[@samg1158]

​@riverraven7359 so would this be pre-WW1 infantry against rank and file middle ages mounted warfare?

[@dameoncrites1217]

Elf's: Humans know no magic Humans: heard of black powder?

[@oli3645]

Boy I can’t wait until they figure out grape and canister shot… whole triangles will be cut through the elven lines by the mother of all shotguns

[@truekurayami]

Ok canister shot is a new on to me, I know grape shot is the original method for the "Shot" in shotguns, and was more artillery than smaller arms, so please what is Canister shot?

[@calvingreene90]

@@truekurayami Grape is the equivalent of buckshot canister is the equivalent of bird shot, more pellets but shorter ranged. Usually loaded into the gun in a canister for speed of loading.

[@truekurayami]

@@calvingreene90 Ty, for the clarification and also teaching just how far back speed loaders have been a thing.

[@widdershins5383]

@@truekurayami desperation is also a great means of innovation lol

[@truekurayami]

@@widdershins5383 As they say Necessity if the mother of all invention. And desperation has been her main motivator

[@monsieurduquack5440]

Perhaps that human king said something along these lines when firing their first shot. *Hail to the king, baby*

[@matejlieskovsky9625]

Stabsärtztin is pronounced closer to stabs-arts-tin and means something like "female doctor of the army". Source: allegedly learned some german in secondary school. Edit: see Rethlit's reply for someone that actually knows what they are talking about

[@jasperzanovich2504]

That is a good approximation.

[@Rethlit]

A closer translation would be: "(female) staff doctor", with staff just being the support organisation of the army. Also, the second 't' is silent/pronounced together with the 'z'. Source: I am german.

[@redraptorx1066]

Elves: you humans are weak! human: cannons go WAPOW!

[@dantreadwell7421]

Hoo boy, Napoleonic weapons, sounds like. . . and tactics, though without the hard learned skill to use them to greatest effectiveness.

[@mill2712]

It could be the era of pike and shot or the revolutionary war era.

[@truekurayami]

@@mill2712 While all three are valid, I think given how the Humans were using German phrases and names, was more likely set to be Napoleonic over Revolutionary, especially since the Revolutionary War era was more about Gorilla Warfare then what was implied

[@dantreadwell7421]

@@mill2712 true enough

[@benjamintherogue2421]

Somewhere out there is a Dwarf raising his mug to the humans before striking the earth on a new fort.

[@vicroc4]

"'Tis grapeshot and musket, and the cannons lumber loud. There's many a mangled body, a blanket for their shroud."

[@IRMentat]

The knife ears really need to work on their espionage

[@masterpython]

I don't think they had any. Obviously no Elf had been close enough a Human army base or navy ship to here target practice or salutes.

[@ombrepourpre7562]

More like the author need to work to learn to build believable story. Because this one is not 🙄

[@Elyseon]

They were too arrogant to imagine the humans capable of such things.

[@cantharelluscibarius2244]

"Smithus and westonus! I cast fast lead up your [Censored]"- powerful human magic spell

[@davidteh3807]

Muskets and canon ?!? Who invented gun powder !! Isekai or visited innovation ?

[@involuntaryanalysis]

This one struck me as more Isekai, or sudden, unexplained portal-like phenomena.

[@Cleruian]

Shot and pike!

[@xxXXRAPXXxx]

The elves ware just too stuck up their own assess to see anything. When you live for thousands of years a rapid technological growth of someone unimportant would go unnoticed until it was too late. They ware just too sure of themselves as well as stuck in their long life view (where things can take hundreds of years but humans must to the same in single digit years.).

[@mbr5742]

To bad the elf survived. Only good pointy ear is one you can use as fertiliser

[@truekurayami]

Well that makes him a fairly good one. Keep him prisoner and feed him what humans can't eat and you will have more fertilizer then just his corpse alone.

[@RealArcalian]

Greetings, Mentlegent! For the Rhythm that is Algo Well, they were right, a storm DID come. Just not the one they thought.

[@allenmorgan1007]

For the Algorithm, For the Author(s), For the Disembodied Voice!

[@terryhiggins5077]

Napoleonic weaponry/tactics, Germans, and a King Frederick......Fredrick the Great is that you?

[@xavierzaxavier5873]

All i can think is some from futuristic humam crash into this world be taken as slave by elf...wait and rise up a army fight for human freedom....

[@truekurayami]

This does seem very much like an Isekai set up, Now if it is just the standard crashed on another world Sci-fi, or interdimensional/planar like most of the genre's name is known for.

[@mikkelnpetersen]

Elf: "What kind of magic is this?" Human: "AlakaBOOM"

[@MrMorlow]

That german pronunciation was hilarious 😂

[@JRRodriguez-nu7po]

Iron, death of stars and enemy of magic.

[@emmetcoyne6436]

Dose anyone know a story like this but goes till completion, love the concept but these stories tend to be one-shots. So if anyone knows a multi part story about elves getting perforated, it'd be much appreciated.

[@SoldierGeneral64]

Closest I can think of is Release that witch manga or Drifters. Whenever there is a manga there will be a light novel as well if that is your preference. They also made a. Anime for one of these or both can't recall.

[@emmetcoyne6436]

@@SoldierGeneral64 I actually tried starting release that witch, I'll give it a second try. Thanks for the recommendation, and they did make one for Drifters but Release That Witch was cancelled.

[@schlechtername8432]

Its Sci-Fi not fantasy, but I can really recommend the Safehold Series by David Weber. The main character is trying to start the industrial revolution on the last human planet, where technological progress is banned by a global church. While doing that she starts a huge war against said church wich obviously doesn't really want to use all the new weapons she introduces.

[@medical-cyanide1526]

there was this one shot that i have forgotten the name of on HFY I think. crude summary is the elven society needed more magic to power their cities and they used all of the magic they had to keep themselves alive for indefinitely so when they found the human plane where the humans had a magic of their own and no way or no how to use it they would come every few hundred years for a culling, go on a murderous ramage for a bit before returning as heroes, they did this for a while and for the majority of their history the humans put up no fight, it become a sport of sorts before eventually the humans started to get a bit organized, this at first did nothing, their weapons primitive. next the humans were more organized, better arms and armor, they injured and killed a few elves but still ultimately lost. the third and final time of note, the elves arrived, magical shields up, ready for a slaughter! they got their slaughter, however not as they expected, with the sound of a thousand thunderous claps their army torn to shreds by a human encampment on a hill. their army shred to bits as their proud and mighty magical spells fell under the onslaught. as the general of this army pleaded for mercy, their only answer? "the United States of America doesn't deal with terrorists" before being executed. other than some paraphrasing and some holes being filled the story ends there to my knowledge.

[@emmetcoyne6436]

@@medical-cyanide1526 I think netnarator did a reading of that one recently, or maybe it was agro squirrels, but I do remember commenting on that video

[@calvingreene90]

To freedom. My the damned long ears learn fast enough that we can let them have theirs as well.

[@klappstock943]

For the Algorithm and the story

[@johndoe-uy4ol]

For anyone who's wondering where the story came from like the original idea it came from Netflix and it's a movie called The King

[@merlinathrawes746]

Not bad for a first outing with cannon and (I assume) muskets.

[@Gilhelmi]

Replace "long-ear" with "redcoats" and the story still works quite well.

[@hanzzel6086]

Eh, not really. This is more Napoleonic era weapons and tactics. And the Revolutionary War was more about hit and run. The Continental Army didn't stand much of a chance in a straight fight like this until very late in the war, and 90% of that was because of the French, with Washington providing 7.5% (and Luck providing the rest).

[@kennethhummel4409]

Ain’t technology great!

[@mllhild]

So there author made a big blunder that breaks suspension of disbelief. Armor was still used even in World War 1. What he should have gone with was the Pyke and Shot formations of the musket age.

[@jasperzanovich2504]

Only if you got steel and manpower to spare.

[@ImperialGuard322nd]

When your enemy is still relying on melee, and you have muzzle loaders, armour is a good investment.

[@calvingreene90]

In WWII Mad Jack Churchill is documented to killing an enemy with a longbow and not only carried a sword into battle when he was forced to leave it behind to evacuate wounded and went back to get his sword. It is difficult to tell the difference between the wound of a sword and bayonet, the documentation may be lacking. That does not mean that carrying a sword and bow was a meaningful thing in WWII. The people that got the most benefit armor aside from helmets in WWI were tank crewman. if you have muzzle loading rifled muskets with Minié balls you can stop both cavalry and infantry charges without meaningful number of enemy soldiers getting within melee range. Study Pickett's Charge.

[@jasperzanovich2504]

@@ImperialGuard322nd and then you fight them with your pointy stick until you find a gap in their mastercrafted armor? No, more guns are the solution.

[@ImperialGuard322nd]

@@jasperzanovich2504 have you looked at the development of warfare? There was a very long overlap between the introduction of firearms and the discarding of armour in widescale use. More guns is not the solution. Better technology and tactics are the solution, and arming troops entirely with muskets only because viable after the development of the bayonet. Before that they were also using pikes, you know that 16-18 foot pointy stick. And even at the start of the 1700s you still had some pikemen on the European battlefield.

[@Ryu_D]

Thank you for the video.

[@LtCWest]

Gunpowder. The great equilizer ^^

[@johnnyjet3.1412]

I have a wonderful lecture about a Heroic young Captain of Artillery by the name of Harry S Truman

[@callisto1556]

good one

[@fturla___156]

All other countries have armies, while the Prussian army happens to have a state.

[@ChucktheSpicyChicken]

Pov: karl franze is done with the elves shit.

[@WingManFang1]

Everyone writes the Elves as evil or the enemy it seems, but what ever happened to them being the good guys and people just wanting to bang them???

[@gmailquinn]

1 too arrogant 2 better material came along and society isn't happy with this particular material

[@genericuser984]

neat

[@abrr2000]

too many of these stories boil down to "humans are amazingly good at war"

[@georgeridden1705]

No shit. Why does it called "Human are Space Orcs" then?

[@abrr2000]

@@georgeridden1705 Orc's aren't "good" at war though. Depending on your source material orcs are cheap grunt units you can throw at an enemy in massive numbers to overwhelm better opponents. Also, this video isn't under the lable "humans are space orcs."

[@georgeridden1705]

@@abrr2000 say that to the Warhammer 40K Orks. Especially the axe something I forgot klan.

[@xxXXRAPXXxx]

This one was more about elves being stuck up their own assess until it was too late to do anything. Basically their long life and being on the top of the world for tens of thousands of years (or even longer.) made them blind to rapid tech growth (such speed would be for them so unreal they would just not see it at all.).

[@medical-cyanide1526]

Huh, that thumbnail was from starship troopers

[@AgroSquerril]

yarp

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[@calvingreene90]

That elf formation is just stupid.

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[@mstrfool]

You know, I can't help but remember the many examples of why it is unwise to piss of savages. Zulu Dawn ring a bell? Heheheh...

[@kevincaruthers5412]

Savages, savages, barely even human...

[@chriscahill1005]

why would you put your archers in the front that's where your spear men go with heavy infantry next with archers in the rear since they can shoot over the rest with the light cavalry acting as a rapid response screening force since light cavalry isn't much for a charge like heavy cavalry is

[@bignasty4874]

He's a writer. There should be little fear He's gonna be given period specific technology and expected to unfuk a war. I hope I can still have a little faith in that Rube Goldberg masterpiece that is our federal government. My faith for my fellow man was actually respectable at one time. My faith has been ever-waining of late. Social media has provided an invaluable tool in re-tooling my regard for people in general. It has provided a platform for those so inclined can make permanent video records of themselves telling us how duuuumb they are. I don't want to be disappointed in mankind, but disappointed I am.

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Should have tortured the elf . Not to get information. Just for the fun of it.

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For the algorithm