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Nestor_II  Title: I Would Walk 500 Miles
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Could I destroy the entire Roman Empire if I traveled back in time with with a modern Marine infantr |
The one other thing the Marines have or might have is where all the resources are. Oil, Gold, Silver and Gems, with all that knowledge of resources they could set themselves up a nice little kingdom in short order.
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Kanga_Roo  Posts: 439
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With effective leadership and political savvy, yes. Cortez did not defeat the Aztecs alone he used tribes with a grudge as allies.
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aon_mixed  Title:
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Could I destroy the entire Roman Empire if I traveled back in time with with a modern Marine infantr |
before GPS really took hold at the troop level, the Marines used to employ a system called PLRS
http://www.fas.org/man/dod-101/sys/land/plrs.htm
its been out of production now for 8 or so years, but it would have been perfect for the scenario as presented
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Sith_Mauler Posts: 1,851
Registered: 2002-12-21 13:40:03
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Kanga_Roo posted:
With effective leadership and political savvy, yes. Cortez did not defeat the Aztecs alone he used tribes with a grudge as allies.
They usually dont put career colonels in charge of MEU's. This is the final check in the box for those motivated Marine Colonels that wants to earn his star.
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JD_HOGG Posts: 2,846
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Ptilk posted:
The majority of those Marines would be off on their own (in small groups) and taking over their own personal kingdoms before the Roman legion ever got in sight of them.
The support guys would probably mostly stick around whoever ended up in command after the senior officers fought with each other in a grab for power. As the single most technologically advanced group of people on the planet, they would offer their services to the most powerful (and most generous) group of indigenous people around and live like gods with hot and cold running whores and slaves to do everything for them.
The entire MEU would dissolve into disparate groups of highly trained and capable people, each group of which was set upon making the best possible lives for themselves. 2 years after they arrived in the past, the entire region would be fragmented into hundreds of enclaves of warriors led by tech guys. 10 years after arrival, the most powerful of those groups would have taken over completely and 4 or 5 different nations would have been set up that either agreed to ignore each other, or actually worked together.
30 years after arrival the "New Rome" would stretch for thousands of miles and continue growing, the only limit on the speed of growth being how long it took to get the natives up to a workable knowledge of advanced tech.
100 years after arrival, "New Rome" would control the entire world, it's people able to subjugate any other nation on earth.
200 years after arrival, "New Rome" would be a failing, decrepit, and corruption laden corpse of it's former glory
300 years after arrival, "New Rome" would be a legend
500 years after arrival, "New Rome" would be a fantasy tale that no one of any education background at all believed in....but those unbelievers would be doing that doubting on computers while flying on planes between continents.
1000 years later, no one would be alive because of the horrible nuclear war that destroyed the earth, except Mithan, who was born 1000 years earlier than he would have otherwise. And he was happy.
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Aethelgrin Posts: 198
Registered: 2001-12-20 11:30:54
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Could I destroy the entire Roman Empire if I traveled back in time with with a modern Marine infantr |
Okay now let's see how well they would do taking the ammo-usage of the Iraq war. Any takers?
"By some estimates, U.S. forces expended nearly 250,000 bullets for every Iraqi insurgent that they killed."
http://www.upi.com/Business_News/Security-Industry/2009/05/05/Iraq-war-on-terror-generated-huge-demand-for-Army-ammo/UPI-81671241535490/2/
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Caledric Title: Pew! Pew! Pew!
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Aethelgrin posted:
Okay now let's see how well they would do taking the ammo-usage of the Iraq war. Any takers?
"By some estimates, U.S. forces expended nearly 250,000 bullets for every Iraqi insurgent that they killed."
http://www.upi.com/Business_News/Security-Industry/2009/05/05/Iraq-war-on-terror-generated-huge-demand-for-Army-ammo/UPI-81671241535490/2/
Now if you were to look at the amount of bullets FIRED AT insurgents per insurgent killed that number would be way way lower... like in the teens or 20s.
That number includes the amount of rounds shot at the firing range and destroyed because we cannot bring it back to the states.
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Mangler_SC Title: Bellybutton Lint Collector
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Caledric posted:
Aethelgrin posted:
Okay now let's see how well they would do taking the ammo-usage of the Iraq war. Any takers?
"By some estimates, U.S. forces expended nearly 250,000 bullets for every Iraqi insurgent that they killed."
http://www.upi.com/Business_News/Security-Industry/2009/05/05/Iraq-war-on-terror-generated-huge-demand-for-Army-ammo/UPI-81671241535490/2/
Now if you were to look at the amount of bullets FIRED AT insurgents per insurgent killed that number would be way way lower... like in the teens or 20s.
That number includes the amount of rounds shot at the firing range and destroyed because we cannot bring it back to the states.
Excuses, excuses...
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excuses?
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Cuttlery Title: Wanna see what you missed?
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Could I destroy the entire Roman Empire if I traveled back in time with with a modern Marine infantr |
After going home and reading up a little I think that the Marines would get ass whooped just because of the archers but it really depends on where they are teleported to. Part of the problem with this is that they cant just bunker down to actually take Rome, and they cant take Rome without air and armor support.
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