Dudes with boats have been OP for the longest time. From the sea peoples to the Vikings to all of the major European colonial powers to the American Navy. With many more stops in between 😅
The Austronesians even abused this strat way before anyone else realized how strong it was.
Ever since the devs patched in the air power update it’s not as bad as before. But still, land mains have been begging for a nerf to naval power for the longest time and the devs don’t seem to care at all.
former naval powers:
i guess we’ll just put planes on boats?
continental powers:
FOILED AGAIN!
Continental powers:
guess we’ll develop missile technology that can target a giant ass ship carrying planes from 100 km away.
AFAIK the boat dudes are countering that with lasers.
At least according to this entirely credible source.
Naval powers:
we’ll put missiles on underwater boats
Continental powers:
we’ll build missiles so powerful that it will destroy all life in the ocean and on land
naval powers:
um. yeah we can put those on boats, too. not sure why you thought that would stop us
Continental Powers:
then we’ll build a global nuclear suicide option, that isn’t a missile … just the biggest, most enormous nuclear bomb that would be equivalent to having a world ending asteroid hit the planet and kill all our enemies, our friends and every living thing on the planet. It would be like being stuck in the same room with everyone and threatening everyone with the suicide bomb strapped around your chest that would blow up the entire house.
Continental powers really gonna ragequit? That’s bm
Really that’s just using planes to beat planes and boats.
Just wait until the non-human Underwater People attack in 2027
I, for one, welcome our new non-human underwater people overlords.
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There’s a spectacular podcast that covers this part of history:
Fall of Civilizations Podcast - 2. The Bronze Age Collapse - Mediterranean Apocalypse
https://youtu.be/B965f8AcNbwNeat, I’ll have to look in that. I’m always interested in ancient history.
Reminds of ancient history that references the Minoan Eruption … which is associated with the Bronze Age collapse. I’m just an armchair historian and I remember reading about it years ago.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minoan_eruption
The interesting part is that Santorini Island was the source of the eruption and it is in the headlines right now with continuous earthquakes that suggest that it may be ready to blow up again. The last time it blew, it was known as one of the largest volcanic eruptions in recorded human history. It basically wiped out the Minoan civilization which was thriving at the time and set the historic clock back a few hundred years in human civilization.
I had the chance to go on a cruise visit to Santorini Island with some friends of mine a few years ago. As we stood on the cliff side village of Fera and looked at the islands below, my friend who is a well read history buff described to us that the islands we were standing on, as big as they were, was like the rim of a loaded shotgun that could be triggered to fire at any given moment. He pointed out how all the island made a ring, that was the rim of the barrel and then pointed at the big island in the middle and said that if anyone ever sees that island sink suddenly, then everyone that stood there and saw it would be dead within the hour.
Beautiful place though.
That podcast covers all sorts of ancient civilizations and why/how they vanished. It’s easily my favorite podcast I’ve ever listened to. His episode on Rapu Nui (Easter Island) is especially good (and tragic). Only 1 or 2 episodes are created a year.
I’m jealous of your visit to Santorini. I’ve yet to make it to the Mediterranean.
It’s amazing to learn all this history and then go to visit the locations you read about. It was always a dream of mine to see the Mediterranean.
I’m also not wealthy so the traveling we did to these places was always on a very tight small budget.
Go to a website called vacationstogo.com … once there register a basic account with just an email so that you can link to a page on their site called “30 day ticker” where you’ll find a huge listing of discounted cruises from everywhere in the world, including the Mediterranean.
With airlines, last minute flights are discounted by the last few days or a week before they leave. Cruises are discounted a month or two before they leave because the companies want to fill the boat even if people are paying the bare minimum. And most people are not willing to risk booking a cruise within 30 days because they have to plan for it. We never cared and just booked whatever we could find.
The two week cruise we were on to visit Santorini started in Rome and I think we paid about $500-$600 CAD for the all inclusive trip. We met other Canadians on the same trip that had booked a year ahead and paid $10,000!!
Last minute prices for cruises, I wouldn’t go any other way.
That’s a great podcasts! Might only release one or two episodes per year, but they are bangers!
“No one knows who they were or what they were doing” -Spinal Tap (about someone else)
Oof, if this is what the c people did, imagine if they had run into the a or b people!?
Everyone knows C is superior
Ahhh, but the meme works best when you consider the inherent fragility of the cardboard. Disease and climate change across the Mediterranean and the Levant are also considered to be huge factors, much more influential than anything particularly unique about the Sea Peoples, who were likely motivated by many of the same pressures anyway.
