Eakin was fucking stupid to cross-check Pavelski when they were up by 3 deep in the 3rd. They can claim the refs won you the game all they want but only a great team can score 4 goals against Fleury in 5 minutes. You guys deserve this win and you as fans deserve to celebrate.
I'm raising a glass to both Pavs and a great round two!
Name: Baldwin
Class: Knight (Lance primary, Bow secondary) -> Baron (Staves)
Bases:
HP: 22 + 1*2 = 24
Strength: 7 + 1 = 8
Magic: 0 + 1 = 1
Skill: 3 + 5 = 8
Speed: 2 + 0 = 2
Luck: 3 + 0 = 3
Defense: 7 + 1 = 8
Con: 10 + 2/2 = 11
PCC: 1 - 1 = 0
Growths:
HP: 30 + 30*2 = 90
Strength: 15 + 45 = 60
Magic: 0 + 50 = 50
Skill: 5 + 50 = 55
Speed: 0 + 5 = 5
Luck: 0 + 5 = 5
Defense: 15 + 45 = 60
Con: 15 + 10/2 = 20
Skills:
Trait: Eager Recruit
Citizen Skill: Pivot
Level 5 Skill: Morale
Level 15 Skill: Adept
Level 25 Skill: Confident Warrior
Affinity: Night
Description:
Baldwin is 39 years old, 5'10", and hails from the southern end of Aquittany. His buzz cut hair is dark blue, and he sports bushy mutton chops and a mustache (but his square chin is clean shaven). His heavy armor is comprised of many mismatched pieces that he cobbled together from wherever he could find them, with a large variety of different colors and sizes. Baldwin did modify some of the armor pieces so that they would fit him better, with obvious cracks, chips, and cuts here and there, but he never bothered to actually repaint anything, so he's like a walking art project of earthy and cool colors: greens, blues, blacks, browns, with his favorite purple helmet topping it all that usually covers his eyes. He tends to talk fast and loud, repeating things if he doesn't think the other person is getting it.
Baldwin is very enthusiastic, perhaps even overzealous, about whatever he sets his mind to. When he sees other people being apathetic about something (especially something he cares about), he will often explode at them for their supposed "laziness." He judges people by his own warped code of ethics and chivalry, mostly based around how good someone is in a fight, and has a hard time understanding people who don't share his love of all things war. That said, if he does deem someone worthy or admirable, he is willing to help them out if they need something, but there's a good chance that he will only make things worse (not in his eyes, though). Despite his general stupidity, however, Baldwin has a remarkable knowledge of history and languages, being able to speak over 12 languages fluently. Ask him about any military event in the past, and he will talk your ear off about it.
Background:
Baldwin grew up in southern Aquittany to a family of scholars and
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I generally like /r/combatfootage as a sub. Sometimes some really rare and interesting combat footage gets posted and generates some interesting conversations. However it's also a potential goldmine for badhistory. Today is an example of really badhistory being posted.
One of the users makes this post, linking to some footage of the Battle of the Somme. The first comment is a good one explaining the background of the footage.
The second highest comment (sorted by best as of the time of this post) has this to say about WWI.
>Just makes you sick to think of those guys going over the trenches, knowing they would die, die by the thousands.
>And the idiots giving the orders didn't say "Hey, this isn't working. We need to try something else."
Several things wrong historically about this comment. The first is the idea that the men went over the top knowing that they would die. For the most part that's inaccurate, as soldiers going over the top had a range of emotions, with some being quite confident in success, some just worrying about letting down their comrades, some afraid, and a few thinking that it was a waste of men and resources. The latter attitude has become the dominant one of WWI historiography, something that /u/NMW talks eloquently about in this comment about Basil Liddell-Hart.
Another piece of badhistory is calling the generals idiots. Again this is part of the historiography of WWI, the idea that the generals sat safe and sound miles behind the lines with no idea or care about what the reality was like at the front line. The British Army saw something like a 33% casualty rate (wounded and killed) during WWI. Among British generals the casualty rate was 18.5%, which is a rather significant number.
The final piece of badhistory is the idea that the commanders didn't try anything else. They tried many things. They tried digging tunnels under the opposing lines and then blowing the lines up (this would prove somewhat successful in limited trials). They tried poison gas. They tried tanks and other armored vehicles. They perfected the art of a rolling artillery barrage. This consisted of the artillery firing just ahead of the advancing soldiers in the hopes that it would keep the opposing forces pinned deep inside their tren
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