So your stuck in the year 100... how do you conquer the world?

[BeBMan]

I'd scare the hell out of the others by crying "OMG!!! YOU ARE TEH PWN3D!!! " to everyone I meet. Then they would think I'm a messiah or whatever and therefore they'd all follow me

[Ted Striker]

I take charge in Rome, with my Harem of 100 of the hottest women in the Empire, and a summer home in Constantinople, (or whatever the hell they called it at that time).

Instead of trying to beat up the Germans, I get them on my side and they fight for me. Eventually I get them into the Empire somehow with some kinda political deal. Instead of going head on against the Persians, we flank all the countries around them and avoid direct confrontation, isolating their punk asses. Head east until we hit the Pacific.

[Qilue]

Originally posted by Lancer
Sulpher, saltpeter and a match. Hell I don't know!

75% potassium nitrate, 15% charcoal, 10% sulpher

http://riv.co.nz/rnza/hist/gun/gunpdr.htm

EDIT: note that I typed the proportions prior to googling the url.

[Agathon]

The stipulations: You and everyone/everything within 50 feet of you when you read this post find yourself in the year 100, in exactly the same spot your currently sitting at.

Great... scalped and ass-raped by indians.

[JohnT]

What would Agathon's Indian name be?

I vote for "Cherry-Assed Loud Mouth".

[Ted Striker]

BeBro will you take charge of my harem??? Bitte????

[Agathon]

Shuddup Wife-Makes-Him-Look-Ugly.

[JohnT]

Me, my Indian name would be Mauled By Bears.

[Agathon]

Well, at least I'm not in NZ. I'd rather be scalped than eaten by Maoris.

edit: 100 AD. No Maoris – rather I get pecked to death by giant birds (the moa).

[BeBMan]

Originally posted by Ted Striker
BeBro will you take charge of my harem??? Bitte????

Of course

[Vesayen]

Originally posted by Zulu Elephant


Yeah because, as a load of people who spend far too much time playing computer games a posting on the internet, we are JUST the sort of people you would expect to find it easy to branch out into cannon making

.....no, because alot of apolytonites are college grads and work in technical fields and have a good knowledge of chemistry.... AND are also coincodentally, history buffs so have some basic knowledge of cannon design .

[Agathon]

If you have a cannon, you can use it to hunt Wisconsin White Tailed Deer.

[Vesayen]

Re: Challenge:

Originally posted by VJ
Ok smart guy Vesayen: As a typical Apolyton user, would you like to share with us the exact method of refining gunpowder, the material fundamentally required for the use of cannons (without the help of almighty Google, which you can't really use if you're stuck in the year 100)?

EDIT: Just for **** and giggles, I'd also like to hear how Lancer would try to manufacture gunpowder if he'd be following his gut feeling?

I don't need gunpowder, black powder is way easier to make.

Get some sulfur which is easy to find. MAKE my own damn charchoal by heating wooden ashes and find a source of saltpeter(pottasium nitrate).


3/4'ths part potasium nitrate, and one fourth parts charchol and sulpher...

Mix them all together using water(so its less likley to blow up in my face), let it dry.


Metal working, is easy. Everything I learned from having a grandfather as a carpenter and highschool shop class will tell me what I need to know. Bronze is not the ideal(sic-crappy) material for a cannon, but it will do. Build a forge, melt down copper and tin-both of which are relativley to easy find... melt it down. Make a clay mold..... metal working, is easy.


I am 110% confident I could build a functional cannon.

[Vesayen]

Originally posted by Agathon
If you have a cannon, you can use it to hunt Wisconsin White Tailed Deer.

I didn't post my plan .

I think massive explosions from black powder mixed with improved agricultural techniques would be all I would need to get the local indian tribes behind me.

[Agathon]

Anyone can build a howitzer.

http://www.buckstix.com/HowitzerTools.htm