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Man, I just fell down a wikipedia hole reading about naval line battles, like with tallships and that, and movies and video games really don't communicate the scale of historic naval battles at all do they? Like the battle of the Nile, one of Nelson's most famous victories. The French ship L'Orient exploded after a fire started belowdecks and a thousand sailors died in the explosion.
A thousand dudes on one ship gone in a flash of gunpowder that was so powerful that it ejected material in a radius of more than 500 meters, and actually burst seams on nearby vessels, nearly sinking them with the concussive force alone.
It's kind of staggering even imagining the brutality of naval warfare of the time. Dudes missing 3/4 of their limbs propped up on deck barking orders and whatnot.
Man, I just fell down a wikipedia hole reading about naval line battles, like with tallships and that, and movies and video games really don't communicate the scale of historic naval battles at all do they? Like the battle of the Nile, one of Nelson's most famous victories. The French ship L'Orient exploded after a fire started belowdecks and a thousand sailors died in the explosion.
A thousand dudes on one ship gone in a flash of gunpowder that was so powerful that it ejected material in a radius of more than 500 meters, and actually burst seams on nearby vessels, nearly sinking them with the concussive force alone.
It's kind of staggering even imagining the brutality of naval warfare of the time. Dudes missing 3/4 of their limbs propped up on deck barking orders and whatnot.
Master and Commander is pretty good, at least. (I'm thinking of the movie; I haven't read the book.)
Man, I just fell down a wikipedia hole reading about naval line battles, like with tallships and that, and movies and video games really don't communicate the scale of historic naval battles at all do they? Like the battle of the Nile, one of Nelson's most famous victories. The French ship L'Orient exploded after a fire started belowdecks and a thousand sailors died in the explosion.
A thousand dudes on one ship gone in a flash of gunpowder that was so powerful that it ejected material in a radius of more than 500 meters, and actually burst seams on nearby vessels, nearly sinking them with the concussive force alone.
It's kind of staggering even imagining the brutality of naval warfare of the time. Dudes missing 3/4 of their limbs propped up on deck barking orders and whatnot.
Dude. Oh, dude. The mental imagery of a cannonball punching through a hull and showering everyone within ~30-40 feet with wood splinter shrapnel is utterly horrifying, that shit was absolutely barbaric. Sailors getting minced by grape shot, cannonballs scoring direct hits just punching a human being into an assortment of flying limbs and blood trails, actual footage of a real golden age of sail naval battle between two powers like Britain and France would far FAR exceed anything in even the most gruesome horror movie.
Man, I just fell down a wikipedia hole reading about naval line battles, like with tallships and that, and movies and video games really don't communicate the scale of historic naval battles at all do they? Like the battle of the Nile, one of Nelson's most famous victories. The French ship L'Orient exploded after a fire started belowdecks and a thousand sailors died in the explosion.
A thousand dudes on one ship gone in a flash of gunpowder that was so powerful that it ejected material in a radius of more than 500 meters, and actually burst seams on nearby vessels, nearly sinking them with the concussive force alone.
It's kind of staggering even imagining the brutality of naval warfare of the time. Dudes missing 3/4 of their limbs propped up on deck barking orders and whatnot.
Dude. Oh, dude. The mental imagery of a cannonball punching through a hull and showering everyone within ~30-40 feet with wood splinter shrapnel is utterly horrifying, that shit was absolutely barbaric. Sailors getting minced by grape shot, cannonballs scoring direct hits just punching a human being into an assortment of flying limbs and blood trails, actual footage of a real golden age of sail naval battle between two powers like Britain and France would far FAR exceed anything in even the most gruesome horror movie.
Hey, that little kid has a sword, look at him go!
Oh....that grown man just kicked him into a pile of burning debris.
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Man, I just fell down a wikipedia hole reading about naval line battles, like with tallships and that, and movies and video games really don't communicate the scale of historic naval battles at all do they? Like the battle of the Nile, one of Nelson's most famous victories. The French ship L'Orient exploded after a fire started belowdecks and a thousand sailors died in the explosion.
A thousand dudes on one ship gone in a flash of gunpowder that was so powerful that it ejected material in a radius of more than 500 meters, and actually burst seams on nearby vessels, nearly sinking them with the concussive force alone.
It's kind of staggering even imagining the brutality of naval warfare of the time. Dudes missing 3/4 of their limbs propped up on deck barking orders and whatnot.
Dude. Oh, dude. The mental imagery of a cannonball punching through a hull and showering everyone within ~30-40 feet with wood splinter shrapnel is utterly horrifying, that shit was absolutely barbaric. Sailors getting minced by grape shot, cannonballs scoring direct hits just punching a human being into an assortment of flying limbs and blood trails, actual footage of a real golden age of sail naval battle between two powers like Britain and France would far FAR exceed anything in even the most gruesome horror movie.
The Patrick O'Brian series of Aubrey/Maturin novels, the source of the movie MASTER & COMMANDER, gives a very good sense of this, altho the main characters purposefully do not take part in fleet actions in the novels.
EDIT- Just scrolled up and read some of the earlier posts. The O'Brian books are very much worth reading; Itunes has all of them as books-on-tape read by the late Broadway actor Patrick Tull, who performs the dialogue with great skill and panache.
Man, I just fell down a wikipedia hole reading about naval line battles, like with tallships and that, and movies and video games really don't communicate the scale of historic naval battles at all do they? Like the battle of the Nile, one of Nelson's most famous victories. The French ship L'Orient exploded after a fire started belowdecks and a thousand sailors died in the explosion.
A thousand dudes on one ship gone in a flash of gunpowder that was so powerful that it ejected material in a radius of more than 500 meters, and actually burst seams on nearby vessels, nearly sinking them with the concussive force alone.
It's kind of staggering even imagining the brutality of naval warfare of the time. Dudes missing 3/4 of their limbs propped up on deck barking orders and whatnot.
Dude. Oh, dude. The mental imagery of a cannonball punching through a hull and showering everyone within ~30-40 feet with wood splinter shrapnel is utterly horrifying, that shit was absolutely barbaric. Sailors getting minced by grape shot, cannonballs scoring direct hits just punching a human being into an assortment of flying limbs and blood trails, actual footage of a real golden age of sail naval battle between two powers like Britain and France would far FAR exceed anything in even the most gruesome horror movie.
The Patrick O'Brian series of Aubrey/Maturin novels, the source of the movie MASTER & COMMANDER, gives a very good sense of this, altho the main characters purposefully do not take part in fleet actions in the novels.
EDIT- Just scrolled up and read some of the earlier posts. The O'Brian books are very much worth reading; Itunes has all of them as books-on-tape read by the late Broadway actor Patrick Tull, who performs the dialogue with great skill and panache.
Gee, thanks. After spending all that money to get the complete collection, I now have to spend more money to get the audiobooks!
Man, I just fell down a wikipedia hole reading about naval line battles, like with tallships and that, and movies and video games really don't communicate the scale of historic naval battles at all do they? Like the battle of the Nile, one of Nelson's most famous victories. The French ship L'Orient exploded after a fire started belowdecks and a thousand sailors died in the explosion.
A thousand dudes on one ship gone in a flash of gunpowder that was so powerful that it ejected material in a radius of more than 500 meters, and actually burst seams on nearby vessels, nearly sinking them with the concussive force alone.
It's kind of staggering even imagining the brutality of naval warfare of the time. Dudes missing 3/4 of their limbs propped up on deck barking orders and whatnot.
What sucks even more is that dying in battle was practically an outlier. Most sailors died as a result of disease coupled with malnutrition.
The Royal Navy lost about 6000 men in battle, 13 000 to drownings, shipwrecks and fire and 72 000 to disease and wounds not caused in battle(accidents). Though a portion of the last part probably did include wounds sustained in battle that caused infection.
Even so disease alone probably killed more people then all the other causes put together.
The sky was full of stars, every star an exploding ship. One of ours.
Man, I just fell down a wikipedia hole reading about naval line battles, like with tallships and that, and movies and video games really don't communicate the scale of historic naval battles at all do they? Like the battle of the Nile, one of Nelson's most famous victories. The French ship L'Orient exploded after a fire started belowdecks and a thousand sailors died in the explosion.
A thousand dudes on one ship gone in a flash of gunpowder that was so powerful that it ejected material in a radius of more than 500 meters, and actually burst seams on nearby vessels, nearly sinking them with the concussive force alone.
It's kind of staggering even imagining the brutality of naval warfare of the time. Dudes missing 3/4 of their limbs propped up on deck barking orders and whatnot.
Dude. Oh, dude. The mental imagery of a cannonball punching through a hull and showering everyone within ~30-40 feet with wood splinter shrapnel is utterly horrifying, that shit was absolutely barbaric. Sailors getting minced by grape shot, cannonballs scoring direct hits just punching a human being into an assortment of flying limbs and blood trails, actual footage of a real golden age of sail naval battle between two powers like Britain and France would far FAR exceed anything in even the most gruesome horror movie.
Especially since many naval vessels had what we would view as children on board (children who had combat roles). Both as officers apprentices, and as powder boys (since the gun-decks were cramped children were used to haul gunpowder to the guns).
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O'Brian makes the point that for Midshipmen, the "entry level" officer's rank in the Royal Navy, 15 or 16 was considered too old. 13 or even 12 years old was the preferred age range.
O'Brian makes the point that for Midshipmen, the "entry level" officer's rank in the Royal Navy, 15 or 16 was considered too old. 13 or even 12 years old was the preferred age range.
Ship/powder boys (recruited from orphanages and seamen's families) could be as young as 6-8 years old when they first went to sea.
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The Captain of L'Orient actually had his 12 year old son with him. They were both seriously wounded by cannon fire, with the son losing most of a leg, before the ship exploded. Some harrowing tales from those days.
I give you... HMS Manligheten, built between 1901-1903, pictured here in 1906.
HMS Manligheten was classified as a "pansarfartyg", which I'm told was known as a coastal defense ship in English. Not quite a battleship, but they had a smaller draft and were thus popular in Nordic navies due to their coastal terrain.
It's more equivalent to a armored cruiser in terms of capability. It only had two 21cm L/44 guns and a secondary battery of 6x152mm and 10x57mm guns (6 of the 57mm guns would later be replaced by AA guns), which means that the armaments were about equivalent to the USS Pennsylvania class, although packed into a much more compact hull.
"The western world sips from a poisonous cocktail: Polarisation, populism, protectionism and post-truth"
-Antje Jackelén, Archbishop of the Church of Sweden
I give you... HMS Manligheten, built between 1901-1903, pictured here in 1906.
HMS Manligheten was classified as a "pansarfartyg", which I'm told was known as a coastal defense ship in English. Not quite a battleship, but they had a smaller draft and were thus popular in Nordic navies due to their coastal terrain.
Three Pansarskepp more deserving of being called "Not quite a battleship" were HMS Sverige (Sweden), HMS Gustav V, HMS Drottning Victoria (Queen Victoria).
In picture we can see HMS Drottning Victoria and HMS Gustav V at rest in a calm sea.
The history behind these ships are among the most unusual in Sweden. The first ship of the class, HMS Sweden was funded by private individuals in the pre-internet equivalent of a Kickstarter.
In 1911 the Liberal party under Karl Staaff came to power, and as they had promised in the election they drasticly reduced funds to the military (Great job there. Reducing the military budget in 1911... needless to say that military budget was drasticly increased 3 years later). As a part of that cutback the plans to build an "F-boat", a new more capable coastal defense vessel, was scrapped. Well, some people in Sweden weren't happy about that, not happy at all. In 1912 not one but two separate associations were formed. "Nationalinsamling till förmån för sjöförsvaret" (National fundraiser for the benefit of the coastal defence) and the more famous "Svenska pansarbåtsföreningen" (Swedish armored boat association). Svenskapansarsbåtsföreningen was founded January 26th. By joining each member pledged to contribute a sum equivalent to 1/3rd of his annual taxes, each year between 1912 and 1914, for the purpose of building an F-boat.
By May 4th the association had raised 17 million SEK, and since the money required to build an F-boat was at that time 11.6 million they decided to approach King Gustav V (who was technically the High commander of the Swedish military, and that title was a lot less ceremonial in 1912 than it is now) with their offer. 22nd May, after a Parlimentary hearing, the king ordered that the navy would start to build what would become HMS Sweden. HMS Sweden was launched in 1915, and put into service in 1917. HMS Drottning Victoria and HMS Gustav V were put into service in 1921 and 1922 respectively and were the largest ships to ever serve in the swedish navy.
Despite being very compact (with a displacement of 7600 tons) it had a very respectable armament and a top speed of 23 knots. At the beginning of WWII they were armed with:
Main battery:
4 x 283mm/L45. Bofors M/12 (~11 inch), mounted in two turrets.
Secondary battery:
6 x 152mm/L50 Bofors M/12 (6 inch)
4 x 25mm Bofors autocannons M/32
AA armaments:
4 x 75mm/L60. Bofors AA-guns M/28
6 x 40mm Bofors AA-guns M/36 (the same model that would grace almost every allied ship in the war)
3 x 20 mm Bofors AA-autocannons M/40
4 x 8mm AA-mgs M/36
P.S: During most of WWII HMS Drottning Victoria had the service of Skeppshunden Nicke (Nicke the ship's dog). He mustered 1940 at the rank of Able Seadog, but were later promoted to Corporal and to Sergeant in 1943.
(Nicke in his parade uniform. With him are the Birgit and Margit Forshell, wife and daughter of Captain Forshell, as well as Barbro Ericsson)
Seadog Nicke's servicebook, and essential part of any sailors documentation.
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-Antje Jackelén, Archbishop of the Church of Sweden
further naval history: you see upthread some examples of dazzle camoflage, or in more colloquial terms, 'the ol' razzle dazzle.' Ships painted like these guys
saw service beginning in WW1 through the end of WW2.
in an era when naval gunnery was usually sighted using manual triangulation (two overlapping scopes with a known angle between them), dazzle camo was thought to make rangefinding more difficult, and also to disguise ships' heading.
By the end of WW2 radar made this sort of thing mostly irrelevant, but the british navy still painted similar designs on their ships as a morale booster (competitions would be held between crews)
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Sweden actually never used Dazzle camoflage. Dazzle camoflage was only used by high seas navies, while Swedens navy was mainly intended to be used to defend the archipelago.
As such, Swedish ships had camoflage that was supposed to help them to do this
(I am NOT HMS Göta Lejon. I am totally just a part of this small island. Just one of 80000+ Islands. Nothing to see here.).
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Oh, and if you think "That would be waaay easier to see if it was in colour!"
This is a WIllemoes-class fast attack craft.
This is also a Willemoes-class fast attack craft.
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The painting of ships has a long tradition! Ancient people would often paint their vessels, and Horatio Nelson would have a pattern (black and yellow stripes, such as on the HMS Victory) after him, Nelson's Chequer. It aided in differentiation of friendly ships vs enemy ships in the heat of battle. Obviously you'd look for the colors, but it wasn't always so easy, especially if a vessel had lost it's masts!
The Royal Navy just spent a ton of money on a the cosmetic micro transations, that's all.
I think at that scale they're clearly macro transactions.
Not when compared to the price of the ship itself.
Mobile games are already charging like One-Fucking-Hundred USD or more for some of their bullshit (Galaxy of Heroes, I'm looking at you), so 'micro transactions' can just be assumed to be said sarcastically and possibly with a wanking motion included for effect.
Also, those Swedish ships are amazing. It's a real life 3D eye puzzler thing, and I really do want to see the sailboat there, but at best I can kind of pick out where one end is and maybe some detailing that probably isn't natural terrain.
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Considering what American culture has swallowed as irrelevant or forgivable since then, it may be difficult to imagine that allegations of a consensual extramarital affair might really have caused an otherwise-favored presidential candidate to leave the race. Yet anyone who was following American politics at the time can tell you that this occurred. For anyone who wasn’t around, there is Bai’s book and an upcoming film based on it: The Front Runner, starring Hugh Jackman as Hart.
But was the plotline of Hart’s self-destruction too perfect? Too convenient? Might the nascent Bush campaign, with Atwater as its manager, have been looking for a way to help a potentially strong opponent leave the field?
“I thought there was something fishy about the whole thing from the very beginning,” Strother recalled. “Lee told me that he had set up the whole Monkey Business deal. ‘I did it!’ he told me. ‘I fixed Hart.’ After he called me that time, I thought, My God! It’s true!”
What is really disheartening is that it took so long for this to come out.
Anyone here watched the Netflix (US) show Empire Games? I'm curious, but I'm not expecting the actual history to be very accurate
edit: nevermind, i watched half an episode and gave up on it
the facts seem okay, if a bit big-man-history-y? but also, they're doing their darned-est to try and make it ominous/portentous/dramatic. I understand why they're trying to do that (it's a show), but i found it cringe-worthy
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A thousand dudes on one ship gone in a flash of gunpowder that was so powerful that it ejected material in a radius of more than 500 meters, and actually burst seams on nearby vessels, nearly sinking them with the concussive force alone.
It's kind of staggering even imagining the brutality of naval warfare of the time. Dudes missing 3/4 of their limbs propped up on deck barking orders and whatnot.
Master and Commander is pretty good, at least. (I'm thinking of the movie; I haven't read the book.)
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Dude. Oh, dude. The mental imagery of a cannonball punching through a hull and showering everyone within ~30-40 feet with wood splinter shrapnel is utterly horrifying, that shit was absolutely barbaric. Sailors getting minced by grape shot, cannonballs scoring direct hits just punching a human being into an assortment of flying limbs and blood trails, actual footage of a real golden age of sail naval battle between two powers like Britain and France would far FAR exceed anything in even the most gruesome horror movie.
Hey, that little kid has a sword, look at him go!
Oh....that grown man just kicked him into a pile of burning debris.
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The Patrick O'Brian series of Aubrey/Maturin novels, the source of the movie MASTER & COMMANDER, gives a very good sense of this, altho the main characters purposefully do not take part in fleet actions in the novels.
EDIT- Just scrolled up and read some of the earlier posts. The O'Brian books are very much worth reading; Itunes has all of them as books-on-tape read by the late Broadway actor Patrick Tull, who performs the dialogue with great skill and panache.
Gee, thanks. After spending all that money to get the complete collection, I now have to spend more money to get the audiobooks!
What sucks even more is that dying in battle was practically an outlier. Most sailors died as a result of disease coupled with malnutrition.
The Royal Navy lost about 6000 men in battle, 13 000 to drownings, shipwrecks and fire and 72 000 to disease and wounds not caused in battle(accidents). Though a portion of the last part probably did include wounds sustained in battle that caused infection.
Even so disease alone probably killed more people then all the other causes put together.
Especially since many naval vessels had what we would view as children on board (children who had combat roles). Both as officers apprentices, and as powder boys (since the gun-decks were cramped children were used to haul gunpowder to the guns).
-Antje Jackelén, Archbishop of the Church of Sweden
Ship/powder boys (recruited from orphanages and seamen's families) could be as young as 6-8 years old when they first went to sea.
-Antje Jackelén, Archbishop of the Church of Sweden
HMS Manligheten was classified as a "pansarfartyg", which I'm told was known as a coastal defense ship in English. Not quite a battleship, but they had a smaller draft and were thus popular in Nordic navies due to their coastal terrain.
Also "Manligheten" means "the manliness".
Here pictured in 1941 after a refit.
-Antje Jackelén, Archbishop of the Church of Sweden
Yeah my pants are farty too
In picture we can see HMS Drottning Victoria and HMS Gustav V at rest in a calm sea.
The history behind these ships are among the most unusual in Sweden. The first ship of the class, HMS Sweden was funded by private individuals in the pre-internet equivalent of a Kickstarter.
In 1911 the Liberal party under Karl Staaff came to power, and as they had promised in the election they drasticly reduced funds to the military (Great job there. Reducing the military budget in 1911... needless to say that military budget was drasticly increased 3 years later). As a part of that cutback the plans to build an "F-boat", a new more capable coastal defense vessel, was scrapped. Well, some people in Sweden weren't happy about that, not happy at all. In 1912 not one but two separate associations were formed. "Nationalinsamling till förmån för sjöförsvaret" (National fundraiser for the benefit of the coastal defence) and the more famous "Svenska pansarbåtsföreningen" (Swedish armored boat association). Svenskapansarsbåtsföreningen was founded January 26th. By joining each member pledged to contribute a sum equivalent to 1/3rd of his annual taxes, each year between 1912 and 1914, for the purpose of building an F-boat.
By May 4th the association had raised 17 million SEK, and since the money required to build an F-boat was at that time 11.6 million they decided to approach King Gustav V (who was technically the High commander of the Swedish military, and that title was a lot less ceremonial in 1912 than it is now) with their offer. 22nd May, after a Parlimentary hearing, the king ordered that the navy would start to build what would become HMS Sweden. HMS Sweden was launched in 1915, and put into service in 1917. HMS Drottning Victoria and HMS Gustav V were put into service in 1921 and 1922 respectively and were the largest ships to ever serve in the swedish navy.
Despite being very compact (with a displacement of 7600 tons) it had a very respectable armament and a top speed of 23 knots. At the beginning of WWII they were armed with:
Main battery:
4 x 283mm/L45. Bofors M/12 (~11 inch), mounted in two turrets.
Secondary battery:
6 x 152mm/L50 Bofors M/12 (6 inch)
4 x 25mm Bofors autocannons M/32
AA armaments:
4 x 75mm/L60. Bofors AA-guns M/28
6 x 40mm Bofors AA-guns M/36 (the same model that would grace almost every allied ship in the war)
3 x 20 mm Bofors AA-autocannons M/40
4 x 8mm AA-mgs M/36
P.S: During most of WWII HMS Drottning Victoria had the service of Skeppshunden Nicke (Nicke the ship's dog). He mustered 1940 at the rank of Able Seadog, but were later promoted to Corporal and to Sergeant in 1943.
(Nicke in his parade uniform. With him are the Birgit and Margit Forshell, wife and daughter of Captain Forshell, as well as Barbro Ericsson)
Seadog Nicke's servicebook, and essential part of any sailors documentation.
-Antje Jackelén, Archbishop of the Church of Sweden
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It's better basis for religion than we got today.
saw service beginning in WW1 through the end of WW2.
in an era when naval gunnery was usually sighted using manual triangulation (two overlapping scopes with a known angle between them), dazzle camo was thought to make rangefinding more difficult, and also to disguise ships' heading.
By the end of WW2 radar made this sort of thing mostly irrelevant, but the british navy still painted similar designs on their ships as a morale booster (competitions would be held between crews)
Pluto was a planet and I'll never forget
As such, Swedish ships had camoflage that was supposed to help them to do this
(I am NOT HMS Göta Lejon. I am totally just a part of this small island. Just one of 80000+ Islands. Nothing to see here.).
-Antje Jackelén, Archbishop of the Church of Sweden
This is a WIllemoes-class fast attack craft.
This is also a Willemoes-class fast attack craft.
-Antje Jackelén, Archbishop of the Church of Sweden
I believe she even inspired a film, of course being Hollywood they had to exaggerate.
Gold plated ships incoming!
I think at that scale they're clearly macro transactions.
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Not when compared to the price of the ship itself.
Mobile games are already charging like One-Fucking-Hundred USD or more for some of their bullshit (Galaxy of Heroes, I'm looking at you), so 'micro transactions' can just be assumed to be said sarcastically and possibly with a wanking motion included for effect.
Also, those Swedish ships are amazing. It's a real life 3D eye puzzler thing, and I really do want to see the sailboat there, but at best I can kind of pick out where one end is and maybe some detailing that probably isn't natural terrain.
I love it so much I tried to do a simple dazzle pattern on my Imperial Guaard Valhallan tanks for Warhammer 40k.
What is really disheartening is that it took so long for this to come out.
the fact that he was a frontrunner, and that it took lee Atwater to force him out of politics, is a fact that democrats should be ashamed of
edit: nevermind, i watched half an episode and gave up on it
the facts seem okay, if a bit big-man-history-y? but also, they're doing their darned-est to try and make it ominous/portentous/dramatic. I understand why they're trying to do that (it's a show), but i found it cringe-worthy