Timeline for Creating an incompetent antagonist
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| Nov 26, 2018 at 14:39 | vote | accept | Belgabad | ||
| Nov 26, 2018 at 12:34 | comment | added | The Nate | The Seven Military Classics of Ancient China contains a translation of the Six Treasures of the Dai Gung. You'll be well served reading that, @Belgabad | |
| Nov 26, 2018 at 9:54 | answer | added | SRMM | timeline score: 0 | |
| Nov 25, 2018 at 19:25 | comment | added | Bob Jarvis - Слава Україні | One problem you're going to have is to explain why the Imperial commanders are so stupid, but the rebels are so smart. Where did the rebels gain their experience? Obviously not by fighting the empire, who'd also be gaining experience. So why such a difference? | |
| Nov 24, 2018 at 2:49 | answer | added | Giu Piete | timeline score: -1 | |
| Nov 23, 2018 at 15:04 | answer | added | Gustin | timeline score: 0 | |
| Nov 23, 2018 at 10:06 | answer | added | Paul Johnson | timeline score: 1 | |
| Nov 22, 2018 at 16:39 | answer | added | user17926 | timeline score: 0 | |
| Nov 22, 2018 at 14:13 | answer | added | Ruther Rendommeleigh | timeline score: 0 | |
| Nov 22, 2018 at 11:42 | answer | added | Stig Hemmer | timeline score: 0 | |
| Nov 22, 2018 at 11:22 | comment | added | Angew is no longer proud of SO | Reminds me of the trench-building chapter in "How I won the war" (the book). It's simply a commander enforcing his learned, out-of-date knowledge instead of listening to relevant experience from his subordinates. It was written for comedic effect there, but you can easily imagine a naive commander acting exactly this way and considering himself right. | |
| Nov 22, 2018 at 0:34 | answer | added | whisperycat | timeline score: 0 | |
| Nov 22, 2018 at 0:08 | answer | added | wetcircuit | timeline score: 5 | |
| Nov 21, 2018 at 18:35 | answer | added | R.M. | timeline score: 41 | |
| Nov 21, 2018 at 18:22 | answer | added | Chris Sunami | timeline score: 3 | |
| Nov 21, 2018 at 18:00 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/StackWriting/status/1065303960616083456 | ||
| Nov 21, 2018 at 17:52 | comment | added | Jedediah | Most revolutions which were successful have, in fact, happened in an environment of corruption, inefficiency, and incompetence. And it's very common for revolutionaries to have falling-outs, particularly as they are winning, because their goals were similar enough to draw them together, but not really the same. | |
| Nov 21, 2018 at 17:38 | answer | added | Rasdashan | timeline score: 3 | |
| Nov 21, 2018 at 17:36 | comment | added | Alexander | Then you may follow 300's example - the Empire is evil and inefficient, but it's not falling apart, its leaders are not necessarily stupid, and they are getting their way through vastly superior numbers and resources. | |
| Nov 21, 2018 at 17:31 | comment | added | Belgabad | @Alexander this is definitely more of a drama | |
| Nov 21, 2018 at 17:22 | answer | added | Cyn | timeline score: 5 | |
| Nov 21, 2018 at 17:20 | comment | added | Alexander | Is your story a drama, like "300", or a comedy like "Spaceballs"? | |
| Nov 21, 2018 at 17:12 | answer | added | Amadeus | timeline score: 7 | |
| Nov 21, 2018 at 16:32 | answer | added | Matthew Dave | timeline score: 16 | |
| Nov 21, 2018 at 15:51 | history | asked | Belgabad | CC BY-SA 4.0 |