Poll: What percent of something would you have to destroy to decimate it
Conversation
Replying to
Define “decimate”
Quote Tweet
Unfortunately, the idea lives on. twitter.com/omriceren/stat…
Replying to
Can we have "Nonanigate" or something for "destroyed 90% of it." I feel like that would be a useful word to fix this problem.
3
Replying to
Just ran into this recently
Quote Tweet
A common victory condition in Triangle Strategy is “Decimate the enemy forces”, but this must be a mistake because the battles do not actually end when you have destroyed 10% of the enemy units.
Show this thread
read image description
ALT
2
This Tweet was deleted by the Tweet author. Learn more
I’m polling how many people know this and are inclined to be irritatingly technical and literal 😆
1
11
Show replies
Replying to
I’m voting purely on the Roman historical technicality. Which is clearly not the common used today!
1









