A Boring Dystopia

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submitted 8 months ago by Ultragigagigantic to c/aboringdystopia

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[–] [email protected] 21 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Good thing history also tells us how these formations were defeated and fell out of fashion

[–] darelik 16 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I'm not a time traveller or anything but could you tell me how

[–] [email protected] 20 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I believe the answer was high maneuverability to circumvent them (the formation is slow to move in) and/or explosives/area of effect.

Get a grenade, molotov or tear gas canister in that formation and they'll not have a good time.

[–] Bricktamland29 12 points 8 months ago (2 children)

I also believe a vehicle of just about any size bigger than like a golf cart should do the job.

[–] voracitude 14 points 8 months ago

Not if that vehicle is vulnerable to spears, like a horse, or a Prius.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Excellent suggestion actually, a solution much newer than the retirement of the Testudo.

In that category, also bombing from an aircraft, heavy munitions, armor piercing rounds, chemical, nuclear and biological warfare, pit traps, land mines, incendiary rounds, rod of god, sonic weapons, disorienting weapons, etc.

I believe a decent guerilla warfare tactic would be explosives/area of effect/molotovs/thermite by drone.

[–] glimse 12 points 8 months ago (1 children)

How is this an image of a boring dystopia

[–] BertramDitore 11 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I don’t know anything about the context of this photo; but I imagine it’s the hundreds of riot police surrounding a bunch of history nerds.

[–] glimse 3 points 8 months ago (1 children)

It's a funny picture I'm just not sure how it fits here

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

Shield walls are dystopian, duh.

[–] Smoogs 6 points 8 months ago

They should just build real houses to live in

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago

Martial Arts is for defense only. They have nicely penalized all attackers.