04-08-2004, 05:50 AM
Quote:</em></strong><hr>What a shredyard of military equipment and other stuff means to german inhabitants in the neighbourhood means is self explanatory.<hr><br>
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I think you mean "junkyard". But what it meant...your remark made me think (this phenomenon occasionally occurs...).<br>
INFLATION!<br>
I mean, here you are, a happy-go-lucky barbarian society where metal is still relatively rare. Those who sit on bog iron and "mine" it have it made: top of the barbarian economic heap.<br>
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Then here come these Romans, get themselves chopped to pieces, and their equipment gets on the metal market. Disaster! Suddenly your precious bog iron plummets in value! Ruined speculators throw themselves off the roof of their wattle-and-daub offices! German armourers suddenly have to compete with cheap, ready-made Roman swords and mailshirts! Suddenly, every Thorismund, Daigalaif and Hereward can afford a mailshirt!<br>
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In short: economic chaos! The Clades Variana must have been an evil Roman plot to destabilise the economy of the Barbaricum all along! <p></p><i></i>
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I think you mean "junkyard". But what it meant...your remark made me think (this phenomenon occasionally occurs...).<br>
INFLATION!<br>
I mean, here you are, a happy-go-lucky barbarian society where metal is still relatively rare. Those who sit on bog iron and "mine" it have it made: top of the barbarian economic heap.<br>
<br>
Then here come these Romans, get themselves chopped to pieces, and their equipment gets on the metal market. Disaster! Suddenly your precious bog iron plummets in value! Ruined speculators throw themselves off the roof of their wattle-and-daub offices! German armourers suddenly have to compete with cheap, ready-made Roman swords and mailshirts! Suddenly, every Thorismund, Daigalaif and Hereward can afford a mailshirt!<br>
<br>
In short: economic chaos! The Clades Variana must have been an evil Roman plot to destabilise the economy of the Barbaricum all along! <p></p><i></i>
Andreas Baede
