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  1. On a Pale Horse (Umamusume/Youjo Senki)

    Oh definitely. The thing is...what would consist of "stakes" for her?

  2. On a Pale Horse (Umamusume/Youjo Senki)

    It doesn't break SoD but it's also very much not in character or belivable for the soviets (other than Stalin) to go around murdering people like you propose. I seem to have missed where they defended Stalin. Mind providing a link?

  3. On a Pale Horse (Umamusume/Youjo Senki)

    Sure, and as noted that works for the story just as well as any other explanation, doesn't make it a realistic explanation.

  4. On a Pale Horse (Umamusume/Youjo Senki)

    Which USSR? Stalin? Sure, but he wouldn't be massacring them for being Ume, he'd be massacring them because of his delusions about conspiracies and traitors. USSR under more sane leadership? No, not any more than they went around slaughtering jews. Not that I can't imagine lots of Ume running...

  5. On a Pale Horse (Umamusume/Youjo Senki)

    True. That seems...unlikely. Historically lower stakes duals were still combat, just to "first blood" or even with blunted weapons or other limitations that ensured no one would get seriously hurt. Those are quite useful in many cases, but when facing a group of infantry that doesn't break and...

  6. On a Pale Horse (Umamusume/Youjo Senki)

    That's fairly normal for RL racetrack crowds. Race tracks can accommodate much larger crowds than stadiums.

  7. On a Pale Horse (Umamusume/Youjo Senki)

    Nope. The way one became a noble is generally by getting together a crew who could fight and either getting organized and trained well enough to keep the other gang's away or serving some one else well enough they felt like rewarding you. In the sense that if they are well trained and equipped...

  8. On a Pale Horse (Umamusume/Youjo Senki)

    Very true, but again the point is those nobles were running the show because they got a group of people together to train and fight, not because they could ride a horse. The advantages an Ume has might let them become nobles, but even with those advantages it's highly unlikely.

  9. On a Pale Horse (Umamusume/Youjo Senki)

    A Lancer on his horse has a lot of those same advantages, and as noted will end up dead very quickly against trained and disciplined troops There was a very brief period of that between when armor evolved to the point that worked and when missile weapons evolved to the point they could deal with...

  10. On a Pale Horse (Umamusume/Youjo Senki)

    This is wrong, or at least extremely misleading. While it's true that a group of well trained and equiped warriors can easily (especially if they're disciplined and trained in fighting together) crush a rabble of poorly trained and equipped rabble, even if greatly outnumbered. What is not true...

  11. On a Pale Horse (Umamusume/Youjo Senki)

    Apparently so. My first reaction was that that's weird all the references I know of have charioteers as violent hooligans at best, poor gutter trash at worst. However after reading about the olympic games, and ancient horsemanship some more it becomes clear - theChariot races were not (unlike...

  12. On a Pale Horse (Umamusume/Youjo Senki)

    Fair enough, but the greek city states were as I noted quite exclusionary in general and very elitist. I'm not talking about the greek patriarchs treating Ume the same as they treated human women, just that they wouldn't treat Ume differently than they treat everyone who isn't them. Also, now...

  13. On a Pale Horse (Umamusume/Youjo Senki)

    Sure, but 1)You don't do that on the first day or in assessments. 2)Lying about statistics is bad, for athletes it's VERY bad. I doubt it. Not any more than they had a section for women or slaves. I agree with about the modern olympics, but given how elitist and exclusionary the greek...

  14. On a Pale Horse (Umamusume/Youjo Senki)

    Remember we're talking about the person who describes coming in second in multiple national competitions as "average" so I really wouldn't trust their definition of "average".

  15. On a Pale Horse (Umamusume/Youjo Senki)

    Two prroblems with this. First, while reducing the weight and thus increasing the distance she'd travel when both feet are off the ground, that is AFAIK a relatively small portion of the running time and thus the increase would be fairly minor overall (and possibly countered by the issues with...
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