OT - Counting God

[narf poit chez BOOM]

That seems...Rather improbable.

[Randallw]

I have a book where an alien empire sends a scout to land in medieval England. They do the big "tremble at the might of our energy weapons bit" before being cut down by arrow fire. The Knights, and their men at arms, then take the ship and conquer the aliens

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_High_Crusade

I have the 2003 edition.

My favourite bit is right at the end when they encounter humanity again and ask the captain if the Holy Land is free of the pagans. The captain, a loyal servant of the Israeli empire, says yes it is.

I didn't know there was a movie, and I was interested in seeing it, that is until I realised it was German. I have seen exactly two German fantasy comedies, one about the 7 dwarfs, whose favourite game is beating themselves with wood, and a Star Trek spoof where the Spock character wears a pink uniform and gets worse after that. German humour escapes me.

[narf poit chez BOOM]

Think I read that book. Rather improbable, too. Most people who practice war would be good at it.

[Ed Kolis]

Not when the opposition doesn't also practice war - where's the arms race when your enemies usually just keel over and surrender, as is the case in both those stories? It's not really war in that sense, more like harvesting of crops