Slings might be the goat for grug/k/, but I am partial to the Atlatl myself. Just a good solid low tech solution to &quot;I want to throw this spear harder and further&quot;. The ancient natives probably didn't even have a term for concepts like &quot;moment arm&quot; or whatever, but they were still able to figure it out. I'm a sucker for this kind of ancient problem solving. <|endoftext|> war should not be civil. it should be to torture and terrify your enemy into submission, to kill everyone he has to defend himself without losing anyone yourself. playing chess with human lives is a ye olde nobleman cope, from when they didn't really consider them human lives and war was about their own honor and greatness.