Empirical evidence suggests that the average life span of a military lieutenant during wartime in the olden days (1618-1918) oscillated between the ages of 18 and 28.
So that Thundercats quote is right, because the same average lifespan applies in fantasy worlds with professional armies.
What measure was a lieutenant? Just a subaltern officer, a chess piece of middling value (neither so high nor so low). They nearly never wrote history, they just served under colonels who, in turn, served high-ranking and famous military leaders like Gustavus Adolphus, Frederick the Great, or Arthur Wellesley.
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jueves, 23 de mayo de 2013
THUNDERCATS
In the Thundercats cartoon, Episode Three, a ruthless mercenary general delivers the Quote of the Year 2012 (IMHO):
"They are expendable... as are you, Lieutenant!"
"They are expendable... as are you, Lieutenant!"
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