jack of all trades yet master of none, aspiring multilingual, law graduate, history buff, arcade stick nut, tabletop wargamer and DM, 80'stalgic console cowboy
Engra Deathsword, also known as the "Butcher of Praag," was a mighty Champion of Chaos and lieutenant of the twelfth Everchosen Asavar Kul during the Great War Against Chaos.๐บโ๏ธ
A truly classic art by Adrian Smith. It hung on my wall for quite some time in fact!๐ผ๏ธ
#WarhammerArt
In 1956 Peter Cushing invited a film crew into his Kensington home to show off his hobby of painting miniature toy soldiers and battling with them using rules created by fellow hobbyist H.G. Wells.
The iconic actor was an old-school wargamer.
Mind blown?
Peter Cushing Trivia
He was an avid collector, painter, and wargamer who owned over 5,000 hand-painted figures.
Cushing particularly enjoyed historical wargaming, specifically focusing on the Napoleonic era.
***WHO WOULD WIN?***
A bunch of working-class kids from Queens with no academic education โ the kings of campy power metal, Manowar.
โThe lyrics to their song about the Iliad suggest a careful and thorough reading. The songwriter has โฆ paraphrased several passages from the poem, adapting them to the melodic structure with great dexterity, and partially reinterpreting them โ but never altering or disrupting Homerโs original narrative.โ โ Professor Eleonora Cavallini
Or a Yale-educated feminist with the entire progressive press and Hollywood behind her?
โWilson makes so many mistakes that, taken together, they begin to undermine the readerโs trust in her translation. Straightforward blunders include attributing a speech to the wrong character, introducing a character who does not exist in the Odyssey, and mistakenly swapping another one. Among Wilsonโs other mishaps are numerous mistranslations, omitted lines, and factual errors.โ โ Professor Richard Whitaker
Friends, we could replace DEI academics with tattooed KISS roadies and end up with a higher academic standard ๐ค
"Heaven and Earth" (1990) deserves some love.
It broke the record for most horses used on set at 800, depicts commanders relaying orders with messangers, officers leading formations and huge armies.
All before CGI.
@Diro_Goodboy@HashionDiscord Well try me, don't throw the towel just yet, name at least one thing that you deem cool enough to entice some curiosity. E.g. Eightpoints is just the Northern Wastes, but better; so you could do way better than me, as I guess, you are surely more cultured in the lore