WIERD HYPOTHETICAL: Your thrown back in time 600 years, what do you do?

[TheStinger]

Originally posted by OneFootInTheGrave
When we are talking support than it would be the best to take a Battleship on nuclear power with the crew. Well than... you could rule that is for sure as long as you are there, not just Europe but everywhere and there is no need for a laptop either you have all you need on board....

But i want my tank

i'm not going back if can't have it

[KrazyHorse]

I'd bring a solar-powered laptop with satellite Internet connection and sit wherever I land endlessly refreshing at the Poly URL and staring glumly at the "server not found" message.

[Vesayen]

Originally posted by Al'Kimiya
I would invade the holy land from the infidels, ending the jewish diaspora and build the third temple as Messiah.

[Vesayen]

Oh and to avoid backstabbers.....

Before you go, research kings of the time who were dying of them incurable diseases, bring back medicines and cure them, perform a few other miraculous life saving favors for them. Saving peoples lives goes a long way to loyalty .

[Gangerolf]

AD 1402...

I would go to Greenland and check out how the Norse colony there was doing, try and find out why it disappeared 100 years later.

And I would take a trip to Vinland of course. With my modern weapons I would massacre the skraelings and establish a permanent Viking empire there.

[Aeson]

Originally posted by Vesayen
Oh and to avoid backstabbers.....

Before you go, research kings of the time who were dying of them incurable diseases, bring back medicines and cure them, perform a few other miraculous life saving favors for them. Saving peoples lives goes a long way to loyalty .

Yah, look at how people treated Jesus...

It's human nature to envy. Putting yourself in a position of power will almost always lead to someone wanting what you have, willing to do what it takes to displace you. Some sort of alarm/surveilance system would be a good idea for any megalomaniacs. Just make sure to set up a reliable electrical source before making your move... and even then you'd be vulnerable to sabotage of that electrical source.

[Bugs ****ing Bunny]

Mike got my picks exactly. I'd take loads of antibiotics and steroids, plus as much saffron and nutmeg as I could carry. Then I'd set up shop as an apothecary and make a small fortune.

[Bugs ****ing Bunny]

Actually, I'd take loads of viagra too.

[Vesayen]

Originally posted by Aeson


Yah, look at how people treated Jesus...

It's human nature to envy. Putting yourself in a position of power will almost always lead to someone wanting what you have, willing to do what it takes to displace you. Some sort of alarm/surveilance system would be a good idea for any megalomaniacs. Just make sure to set up a reliable electrical source before making your move... and even then you'd be vulnerable to sabotage of that electrical source.

Did Jesus save the life of the king of France, that of his some of his ailing familly members, then wipe out the British to show how much I like em?

[Aeson]

I'm just saying, you'd make enemies no matter how you came to power. I'd think if you showed that much power (wiping out a nationality) even the king of France would be after your head secretly. Too much risk in leaving you alive. So be prepared to kill anyone and everyone... which doesn't seem like a fun existance to me.

Besides, no one wants to be Hitler.

[OneFootInTheGrave]

Are you sure about that?

Besides, no one wants to be Hitler.

I would rather say there are steps to becoming Hitler, and many if given the right environment would behave in the same manner given the opportunity. There are plenty of madman running around just the society stops them fulfilling their potential most of the time. (after it creates them first of course)...

[Aeson]

I'm giving people the benefit of the doubt.

I'd agree that given the proper environment, most people could be warped into doing atrocious things.

[Faeelin]

I'd want ot help a modern civilization. Some one who believes in human rights (at least for their own people; outsiders can go to hell), has a history of R&D, and has the potential to change the world.

1400: The Doge of Venice receives an offer he can't refuse.

1401: The Arsenal (think skunkworks of medieval era; it was the place where the venetians developed new weaposn and occasionally ships. The place turned out warships in HOURS) develops a steam powered machine gun, and takes it against g gian galeazzo.

1402: Venice annexes the duchy of milan, and by 1450 rules over a federation of italy.

1453: Turkish cannons at constantinople face the Venetian army. Hot air ballons let venetian artilleryman use pintpoint accuracy, saving the city for christendom.

[chequita guevara]

Originally posted by Sonic
That's why I'd go to Lithuanian Great Duchy - we were pagan at a time, so, no inquisition/which burnings. And Wizards were respected much.

Not in 1400 it wasn't. It was a Catholic Duchy with tolerance for the Orothodox Church.

[chequita guevara]

I'd take a list of where each of you was going, then show up and kill you and hide your body before you could do any damage to history. Then I'd fling all of the corpses in Stromboli and pitch myself in aftwards.

BTW, I'm wondering how any of youn could carry a tank in your arms, let alone a battleship.