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@HeresyJunkie Fantastic idea. All absolutely genius but I get such a disconnect seeing all these models painted to unbelievable standards and yet everyone looks (mostly) completely normal. I think when you see master painters it’s like they should have a glowing aura around them or something.
#onthisdayinhistory 1519 – Hernán Cortés arrives in Mexico in search of the Aztec civilization and its wealth. It would lead to the fall of an empire and the deaths of hundreds of thousands.
The Astra Militarum (Imperial Guard) of #Warhammer has many historical influences. But with commissars, a disregard for casualties, weak infantry and legions of tanks, the Red Army of the 1st half of the 20th century is the most obvious.
#warmongers #warhammer40k
Technically, there was no such things as Vikings. That was the Scandinavian term for “wanderers” and it was what some locals did, but was never a civilisation or term used to identify themselves.
#onthisday 1066 – Following the death of Edward the Confessor, the Witan meets to confirm Harold Godwinson as the new King of England; Harold is crowned the same day, sparking a succession crisis that will eventually lead to the Norman conquest of England.
#onthisday 1777 – American Revolutionary War: George Washington's Continental Army goes into winter quarters at Valley Forge, Pennsylvania. The rest as they say is history.
In 401 BC, the Persian Empire was in civil war. Cyrus the younger vs his brother Artaxerxes II. Cyrus had a secret weapon. A contingent of Greek hoplite mercenaries. The Persian light troops had no answer to the heavy infantry in their phalanx formation.