So what you're telling me, is that my method of looting while fighting in video games is historically accurate
Scavenge and looted *during* battles, in fact. And yes, ancient armies relied on forage to supply themselves in addition to what they brought with them.https://twitter.com/unbabybearable/status/1223785141283082240 …
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Where “live off the land” meant mostly living off those already living off that particular patch of land. I feel like “forage” in those terms can be obscuring. Invading armies are predatory.
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So did a lot of armies scorch the earth behind them or is that just dramatic storytelling, since they may have to retreat the same way?
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A lot of armies scorched their own earth as they retreated, so their enemies would have nothing to forage or loot (cf. Napoleon's invasion of Russia)
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If I remember right, armies had a bad habit of getting distracted looting the enemy baggage train instead of actually fighting the enemy. At which point the other side regrouped, counter attacked and massacre the looters.
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