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Originally Posted by GirlySports
War had honour back then. And music! (although I'm not sure you wanted to be a trumpeteer in an army since people shoot whatever they can hear first)
Today it's just roadside bombs.
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I don't know if I would even agree with that, there was pseudo beliefs in honor by nobility, but the fights in the trenches were every bit as dirty and nasty and cruel as they might be looked at today.
Remember there was no Geneva convention back then, so wounded were routinely finished off with the justification of easing their suffering. Drum head trials of enemy and friendly combatants were used. Rudementary biological warfar was used on fairly common basis back then as well.
The whole no quarter given or expected was not an honor code, and slaughtering your enemy driving into their town and burning it to the ground were common practices.
Even the oriental honor codes that people talk about are badly misunderstood and never lent themselves to the battlefield.
The only thing that gained you honor in war back then was winning, and it got worse during the crusades.