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Hmmmm.... Iiiinteresting what you have knowledge of, Mr. Holier-Than-Thou :3 I see how it is. Piety in the streets, the most degenerate heresy (that game has "honey" in its name, but isn't about baking and/or eating cookies. A good and proper heretic wouldn't even touch that with a 10-foot pole) in the sheets, eh?

I agree. Very silly of you to not think of that.

Well, yeah. Vestaria Saga III. Those ladies don't even have mighty full beards that could maybe entice Ruben.

One of the closest competitions possible occured for the Handball championship in Germany 2014. There are no playoffs in the Bundesliga, so placement is decided by points (2:0 for a win, 1:1 for a draw, 0:2 for a loss) and then goal difference after every team has played everyone else twice. This tends to lead to season finales where the winner has been decided weeks in advance, but this was certainly not the case in the season 2013/14. Leading up to the final matches, it was quite clear that the championship would be decided between the Rhein-Neckar Löwen (I personally prefer their old, old name, SG Kronau/Östringen, because it can be shortened to "Krösties". Plus, "Lions" is a little pretentious in my mind) and the "Zebras" of the THW Kiel. In the 29th match (out of 34) of the season, the Löwen managed to beat Kiel 29-26 in a home game, which allowed them to catch up in points (49:9) while having a significantly better goal difference (+184 vs. +161). At this point, the championship looked like the Löwen's to lose - as long as they would win all five remaining matches, they should be fine. However, Kiel did not agree with that assessment. In match 30, while the Löwen got a convincing 34-26 win in an away game against the Bergischer HC, Kiel managed to decimate TSV Hannover-Burgdorf 37-20, helped a lot by Hannover being weakened by some player injuries. With that, the goal difference difference went down from +23 in favour of the Löwen to just +14. The weekend after that, the Löwen only barely managed to eek out a win against the HSV Hamburg (no relation to the Hamburger SV football club), while Kiel got another huge win: 46-24 in Lemgo.This actually put Kiel ahead of the Löwen by a 7-goal margin, and if I recall, it also lead to some grumbling from the Krösties if Lemgo really tried as hard as they ought to. However, the win came at a price: Filip Jicha, Kiel's team captain (and today's head coach), injured his ankle after landing on his teammate's foot after a jump shot. He decided to grit his teeth and still play the remaining matches, but this turned out to be a poor (or at the very least very expensive for him) decision, since I think he struggled with that injury for the rest of his career. The Löwen then struck back the following two matches: First with a 42-19 in Eisenach (who ended up relegated that season) while Kiel managed to beat their big Rival Flensburg 33-25, and then with a 41-28 against Melsungen. Kiel managed to answer that one (their match was a few days later) with a 35-21 in Lübbecke, but the Löwen still went into the final match with a +7 goal advantage. On top of that, Kiel had - on paper - the stronger opponent for that final match, too. They were playing Füchse Berlin, who managed to win the cup (the less important competition, but still a big deal) a few weeks earlier, while the Löwen were matched against Gummersbach, a lower-mid tier team at this point. However, Gummersbach absolutely refused to be the fall guy for Kronau/Östringen: They only trailed by two goals (19-21, which is quite a lot of goals) at half time. Meanwhile, Kiel had a bit of a tough start as well, only leading 9-7 after almost 20 minutes (one third of the total playing time). However, Berlin, also riddled with injuries, then collapsed: Kiel managed a 8-1 run until half time, putting them at a 17-8 lead... and dead tied with the Löwen. In the second half, the Löwen then managed to step up their game, increasing their lead to 29-21 in the first eleven minutes. However, Gummersbach then managed to fight back, keeping the game a bit closer. Kiel's second half against the Füchse took the opposite turn - Kiel again didn't have the greatest start, only gaining a single point of goal difference until the 48th minute, but then managed to increase their lead to 34-20. Kiel's coach Alfreð Gíslason took a time-out at this point, four minutes before the end of the game... at which point the race with the Löwen was dead tied again, with the Löwen being up 39-32 at that point in time. That game's score wasn't shown in the Kieler sports hall, but the team was informed by a replacement player (Dominic "Mini" Klein) that it's back to 0-0 at this point. And Kiel then increased their lead even further, to 36-20 and 37-21. However, they then yielded two goals, going back to +14 with the end score being 37-23. Because that +14 was only enough to tie the Löwen four minutes earlier, the Kiel team did not think that it would be enough for them, that those two last yielded goals would've cost them the championship... but as it turns out, Gummersbach managed to not only prevent the Löwen to increase their lead, they even managed to close it by two goals, ultimately losing 35-40. Gummersbach's players even celebrated this loss after the full time whistle, much to the consternation of the Löwen, who lost their chance for their first championship title by only two goals. As a bit of a happy end for them, though, the Löwen did manage to win two championship titles in 2016 and 2017, plus a cup win another year later. They have since fallen down the rankings a bit, only finishing 4th or 5th between 2019 and 2021, never really in a position to challenge the champions of those years, and having a pretty rotten season 2021/22, finishing 10th (of 18 teams). I haven't been following Handball as closely as I used to, but I think a large part of their decline is that their star player, the playmaker Andy Schmid, has been getting older. He went back to his home country of Switzerland after this last season, at an age of 38. He's always been the "brain" of the Löwen's offence, famous for his passing ability, but also a dangerous scorer in his own right.

Has trouble counting past three. Probably related to his (façade???) worship for the emperor - somebody able to count would surely have figured out that that figure has been dead three times over at this point. Imperialism - not even once. Unless it's Europa Universalis and you've reached Dip tech 23

The word "Assassin" being derived from the Arabic word for "weed smoker" (hashishin) is an excellent little piece of etymology.

Continues to show his obsession with heresy. It's OK, Wraith, you can eat the cookie. Nobody is going to judge you much, except maybe for the Emperor, and who cares about him?

That one is your imagination - BinBla has functionally the same RNG system as the games following it. You do have lower hitrates across the board because of a couple reasons: Most weapons just have lower hitrates by 5 or 10% compared to Blazing Blade (although the Killer Lance is actually a little more accurate in BinBla) Enemies have better stats in general Enemies have actual Luck stats, unlike BlaBla Your own units have somewhat worse stats Those things add up, so you often see 70-80 displayed hit in match-ups that would give you 100% accuracy in BinBla or SacSto. It makes swordies with good Skl - Deke (especially on normal difficulty) and Rutger (especially on hard) in particular - much more valuable than they are in most other FE games. Fun fact: Compared to Iron Lances, Iron swords are 5% more accurate against enemy Swordies and Lancies. It's one of the few examples where going for weapon triangle advantage isn't strictly the best choice (another one is the Hammer, which is just a terrible weapon), although there's still the damage dealt/taken advantage present. Slim Lances are unironically a pretty good weapon on cavaliers for this reason, specifically against mercs and myrmidons. In later stages, once you can buy them, Killer Lances with their high strength and good accuracy (+5 compared to iron lances!) are awesome. The crit is just an added bonus!

Hector (in Binding Blade) - Sean Bean

A wonderfully named region in western Germany is Ostwestfahlen, "East-West-phalia", located roughly 100-150 km south of Bremen.

Is obsessed with heresy of any shape. Very suspect. Possible cryptoheretic.

I have been traumatised by the new Electric Callboy music video. Help.

Oh, absolutely. Aragon is already my vassal (I was in the process of politely asking France to return what land they had taken from them before I yoinked them from Castile), Castile is a shell of its former self, Portugal is chaining bankruptcies... And I believe there's one or two Irish minors that I can vassalise diplomatically, so there's a foothold into Albion available without beating (or, more realistically, desperately fighting them while unloading troops elsewhere) the British navy. Endgoal: Make London Irish. At some point, I'll have to deal with the Osmanoglus, though. Turks who pick Quantity as an idea group are rather scary, since they get a total of +83% to their land force limit. I think they have 300k+ troops right now, compared to my own 100k and France's 90k.

Anne Frank's diaries were initially published with a lot of her written sexual thoughts omitted. Keep in mind that these are the diaries of a 13-15 year old girl, published posthumously by her father, so that's really not very surprising. In any case, if that (or specifically, Anne writing about her attraction to girls) was the reason, there's definitely editions that the puritans shouldn't take offence from.

Yeah, I did recognise your boy Good to hear that the 'stache didn't lie, though.

HON HON HON! VICTOIRE POUR LA PÂTE DENTIFRICE! Which, OK, is green in that screenshot, but that's just because I'm in peace deal menu. I daresay that this is every Englishman's worst nightmare - the #2 and #3 powers on the continent now ruled by one king. Invading Britain is still quite the ordeal, since they get some disgusting bonuses to their naval combat. Wait, did I miss something or is that old coot in the bottom center really not @Saint Rubenio's favourite character? Because he kinda looks like he would be.

OK, but why tho Seems like the guy is named "Heimler" in English FE11 and the wiki uses that as his FE1 name too, which would be pronounced differently in German (first syllable rhyming with "lime"), so maybe Himmler is closer to the original pronunciation. But still, I personally wouldn't insist on putting the literal #2 nazi's name into my translation patch of a game. If you must, call him "Himler" or something, which would have the same pronunciation anyway.

While we're on the topic of mass murder in French territories, authorised by the Powers That Were At That Time, in this case the Jacobin-led Committee of Public Safety... The last words of the former Queen Marie Antoinette were, "Pardonnez-moi, monsieur. Je ne l’ai pas fait exprès." - "Pardon me, sir, I did not mean to do that." - addressed to her executioner. When being led to the guillotine, she had accidentally stepped on his foot. And while we're on the topic of La Terreur: Around the same time as Marie Antoinette's death, one of the many factional disputes of the French Revolution was fought: Between the Indulgents, led by Georges Danton, one of the instigators of the governmental terror, who now wished to end it as well as the raging revolutionary war, and the Hébertists, named after Jacques Hébert, who thought that more terror was what France was needing, alongside radical de-christianisation of the country. The winner? Well, neither. Both groups were executed for treason, although "working against what Maximilien de Robespierre deemed appropriately revolutionary" probably would've been a more honest accusation. From the incorruptibe Robespierre's perspecitve (i.e. the correct one), the Indulgents were too conservative and the Hébertists too radical, so off all the heads went. Robespierre defending the decision to have Danton executed brought us this beautifully ironic quote: "I tell you, whoever trembles at this moment is guilty, for innocence never dreads the public surveillance." As it turns out, Robespierre only survived Danton († 5 April 1794) by less than four months: On 10 Thermidor (or 28 July 1794, if you insist), he himself was guillotined, following the coup of 9 Thermidor, which marks the end of La Terreur.

Not all crusades were called against Muslim states in the middle east, or even against non-christians in general. Specifically, the Albigensian Crusade was waged between 1209 and 1229 against the Cathar heresy in south France, and it turned out to be a full-blown genocidal affair, even though the number of victims to the crusaders has most likely been exaggerated. The commander instituted by the pope, Abbot Arnaud Amalric, reported that during the sack of Béziers, the entire population of 20'000 was massacred without discrimination - men, women, and children. Later, it was reported that when asked how to tell apart Cathars from Catholics, Amalric replied, "Caedite eos! Novit enim Dominus qui sunt eius." - "Kill them all! The Lord knows those that are his own.", or "Kill them all; let God sort them out", as it's commonly quoted as. It would seem that the thought of a Cathar escaping death by posing as a Catholic was harder to bear by this man of the church than the thought of killing fellow Catholics. That said, the extend of the massacre of Béziers is likely exaggerated. The population before the crusade is estimated to be between 10'000 and 14'000, and it seems that the city continued being a city (which, well, implies inhabitants) afterwards. Still, it was a murderous start to a murderous campaign. The next target was the city Carcassonne, which capitulated after a two-week siege. Most inhabitants (including a large number of refugees from the crusaders) had already fled the city through secret passages, but out of the 500 remaining people, 400 were killed. The year after, another 400 Cathars who refused to convert to Catholicism were burned to death in the city of Minerve. This brutality ended up extending the war, since it turned many local nobles, who initially were loyal to the pope, against the crusade. Eventually, the crusade was "taken over", so to speak, by the French king Louis VIII (the grandson of the Louis from my previous post). His war was officially still part of the crusade against the Cathars, but realistically, he was looking to integrate Occitania into his domain.

For the latter: Eat Cookies Do Heresy Denounce Imperialism (unless it's the casus belli in Europa Universalis IV) ??? Profit

I'm surprised it isn't "piñanas". (I'd also say something about very sensible people over in Galicia and Basque country, but, er, I'm not sure if I should say that about the region that had terrorist separatists until fairly recently)

Didn't know the Spanish were bunch of Hegelists Go ode ye.

Nothing like some implied sexual violence to quickly and cheaply establish that a villain is sufficiently evil to be murdered without any moral implications. (Not that post-Kaga FE was immune to this. Narcian, Gheb, Valter...)

Hippos do move much faster than one would think, even on land. 30 km/h is no joke. So I think the real question is: What's wrong with every other incarnation of the Knight class in the series?! .gnipyt ,lleW .sdrawkcab gniklat s'eH If oron epref erth espa ceat thew rongs pot sapp roach.