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airehead
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 Posted: 01/03/05 - 17:35 Post subject: Question for invaders....
Is it pillage or burn first????
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Posted: 01/03/05 - 17:36 Post subject:
Pillage, then burn.
You don't want to burn the plundered before they are pillaged.
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bpdou
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Posted: 01/03/05 - 17:39 Post subject:
| HighHeat wrote: | Pillage, then burn.
You don't want to burn the plundered before they are pillaged. |
Unless you're in some poor village, in which case you might as well go ahead and burn, cuz there's nothing there to pillage.
Edited to ask:
What I'm wondering too is would you rather pillage, maraud, or ransack?
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Posted: 01/03/05 - 17:41 Post subject:
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Posted: 01/03/05 - 17:46 Post subject:
| bpdou wrote: |
Unless you're in some poor village, in which case you might as well go ahead and burn, cuz there's nothing there to pillage.
Edited to ask:
What I'm wondering too is would you rather pillage, maraud, or ransack? |
why, they all mean the same thing???
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airehead
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Posted: 01/03/05 - 17:58 Post subject:
ON WE SWEEP WITH THRESHING OAR....WE ARE YOUR OVERLORDS!!!
I wonder if this is what my cat dreams when he dreams...
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Posted: 01/03/05 - 17:59 Post subject:
I'm more into ravaging.
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Posted: 01/03/05 - 18:00 Post subject:
| HYPERASHEL wrote: |
why, they all mean the same thing??? |
Yes, but they all have a different tone. I mean, really, it is far more classy to maraud than to merely ransack.
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Posted: 01/03/05 - 18:03 Post subject:
| airehead wrote: |
Yes, but they all have a different tone. I mean, really, it is far more classy to maraud than to merely ransack. |
well the ones the Bpdou listed are all synonyms, but as for the tone, I'd maraude, ransack, then pillage, then burn 
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HighHeat
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Posted: 01/03/05 - 18:05 Post subject:
Ravaging, however, is not classy at all.
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Posted: 01/03/05 - 18:06 Post subject:
| HighHeat wrote: | | Ravaging, however, is not classy at all. |
No, but sometimes it is necessary to resort to that.
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Posted: 01/03/05 - 18:08 Post subject:
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No, but sometimes it is necessary to resort to that. |
I never said it was wrong. 
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Posted: 01/03/05 - 18:21 Post subject:
Pillage then burn
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Posted: 01/03/05 - 18:27 Post subject:
hmmm thinking maybe confused pillagers burnt first and this is why stolen goods are referred to as "hot".
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Posted: 01/03/05 - 18:32 Post subject:
I don't know... Ravaging connotes a certain wonton lust absent in mere pillaging, and marauding seems to imply a sense of urgency and roving - I'd say one would maraud many villages in one evening.
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