I am a British-Zimbabwean who used to live in Australia. One time lecturer in politics and international relations, student of geostrategy, stay at home dad.
@rorysutherland@OgilvyConsult@Ogilvy I worked a long while in universities. Feels like someone, somewhere read this and said "do all that, but exactly opposite!"
@M_Jay94@baba_nyenyedzi About 1870 actually. In some places, particularly Zimbabwe, modernism and brutalism were captured by the right and transformed into authentically beautiful architectural subcultures, but I don't understand fully why or how.
Nearly finished a 6mm hobbit/halfling army for playing tomorrow night. Have played with them on Saturday and defeated an orc war band. Everything shoots, everything scoots, I attack by retreating, and defend by retreating... π
@Clint_Davey1 I am told that they would also double tap as pairs to give the impression of heavy machine gun fire when trying to herd targets away from/towards specific points.
@Clint_Davey1 In a lot of that terrain the choice was limited to helicopters, motorbike, horseback or on foot. Fuel or no fuel, cars, trucks and tanks were not getting in there.
@TFL1728 Not to be that guy, but the Monroe Doctrine a) had no inherent authority in the early 19th C, and b) to the extent it was enforced, more often than not, it was by the Royal Navy.
Otherwise, totally correct.
Been working on a big painting project for a couple months. Romans for the 4th Century. We are going to fight the war between Constantius II and Julian (was never fought because Constantius died right at the beginning). @pendraken 10mm. Cav and slingers (in post) left to paint.