User blog comment:Markurion/How many of you put a bullet in Godchild in EC?/@comment-101.172.85.70-20120723015344/@comment-101.173.127.253-20120724021947

Aleksandr: You clearly misunderstood my point. The examples you listed are fights where the inferior force where not far behind when it came warfare technology. For example, the Americans might have been a smaller force, but they also had guns and canons as weapons. The example I listed where savages with spears and bow as weapons and Europeans with guns and canons. The savages where stuck in a stone age society, and the Europeans where beyond the renaissance.

Another example, the Opium Wars. China was clearly a superior force when it came to numbers, but they were still stuck in a medival era. The western powers destroyed them with their heavy artillery technology, and China had no chance. The First Opium War resuletd eith China losing 18,000–20,000 of their men and Britain lost only 69, while 451 where wounded. That war is a prime example that warfare technology plays a big role in war.