• KittenBiscuits@lemmy.today
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    24 days ago

    I came in to make some joke about expecting an armored tiger brigade, but then got distracted by the one poor UNarmored fella who is definitely there not of free will being made to follow the bigwig with a weird pig-fish kite on a stick.

    Is it to frighten the enemy? Or just to get them to stop in their tracks trying to figure out what the heck they’re looking at?

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      24 days ago

      A draco standard - Scythian in origin, they were used by the Persians and Romans because the standards made an eerie whistling sound which frightened horses who weren’t trained to get used to it.

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        24 days ago

        Aha! The origins of Whistlepig!!

        Alas, I still want to see a legion of Battlecats a la Masters of the Universe.