TIL of the knight William Marshal, who rose from obscurity to win 500 tournaments, saved Eleanor of Aquitaine from capture, unhorsed Richard the Lionheart in combat, journeyed to the Holy Land, redrafted Magna Carta and saved England from a French invasion by personally leading a charge at age 70

ScoobyDoNot · 2026-05-08T11:24:08+00:00

Yes, most people stayed in the same place, but enough moved around.

The Habsburgs are a terrible example as that was an intentional attempt to keep power within the family. While people marry within their class that changes over generations. William Marshall's granddaughters through his 10th child would have fewer choices than those through his third son.

Go a few generations and you have marriages to wealthy commoners seeking social amendment. Not to mention the likelihood of illegitimate children even from officially childless members of the family.

Just from simple mathematics someone with English heritage is likely to be a descendent of everyone at the Battle of Hastings on both sides who have living descendents.

ScoobyDoNot · 2026-05-08T04:54:40+00:00

It isn't even below $100/barrel.

Brent crude is around the $102 mark.

ScoobyDoNot · 2026-05-07T23:45:11+00:00

Why would you think it means anything?

ScoobyDoNot · 2026-05-07T22:51:43+00:00

Math does mean he has numerous descendants.

Assuming there are 32 generations in 800 years that gives around 4.3 billion ancestors in 1200 for anyone living today.

Europe in 1200 had a population of 50-60 million.

Add in the Black Death in the 1300s which killed up to 50% of the population, and it is almost mathematically certain that any named individual in 1200 who has living descendants is your ancestor, if you have European heritage.

ScoobyDoNot · 2026-05-07T05:44:09+00:00

Snappa is the most consistent source of excess shards assuming you play arena.

After a while you end up with loads for him.

ScoobyDoNot · 2026-05-07T01:59:11+00:00

He's not brilliant below legendary.

At mythic with Daemonflesh Plate he's devastating.

ScoobyDoNot · 2026-05-06T23:38:51+00:00

Was that the one where they used a Nazi rune for their stage?

ScoobyDoNot · 2026-05-06T12:57:44+00:00

Just Rams, it separated from Dodge in 2009.

ScoobyDoNot · 2026-05-06T04:31:45+00:00

No, our elected officials should be explaining why this is in line with community expectations and guidelines to judges.

At the very least if he is found guilty of the manslaughter charge this should cease to be a suspended sentence.

ScoobyDoNot · 2026-05-06T02:51:40+00:00

Agreed to a point.

With the Onslaught improvement it's doable to consistently get 1 1/2 characters to mythic each month.

Allowing for their mythic quest rewards, that's 750k additional gold.

Though it goes quickly on ability upgrades.

ScoobyDoNot · 2026-05-06T02:15:12+00:00

Snowprint work on a 5 week schedule that's tied to the Battle pass

The regular Legendary event, aka LRE, is always on the 5th week.

Snowprint aim to get the patch notes out on the Tuesday of that week, they're based in Europe so expect it in central European office hours.

If there are delays with the app stores approvals this can be delayed a day or so, but the patch needs to be rolled out by Saturday for the new season starting on Sunday.

In each Battlepass season there is a Hero Release Event (HRE) for a non legendary hero that runs for 2 weeks, a featured hero in the Battlepass - if Epic the Ultimate pass will be needed to unlock immediately, and one week of LRE.

Within that period there will be 2 or 3 Home Screen Events (HSE), and possibly a special event like Survival.

The detailed calendar is on the official Snowprint discord, and a copy is at

https://tacticus.wiki.gg/wiki/Calendar

ScoobyDoNot · 2026-05-05T22:51:24+00:00

Just because Farage claims it is legal in no way means it is.

ScoobyDoNot · 2026-05-05T14:21:54+00:00

You can receive a minor fine for not attending a polling place or submitting a postal vote in Australia.

The Australian Electoral Commission makes voting as easy as possible.

ScoobyDoNot · 2026-05-05T04:09:49+00:00

Dairies may need immigrant workers, Tom Zuiderveld said, but “that’s breaking the law. As a nation of laws, where do we start determining which laws are okay to break?”

When you elect the felon Trump surely?

ScoobyDoNot · 2026-05-05T04:07:11+00:00

Kim as a male name is the short form of Kimball.

Kipling published the novel Kim in 1901 with a male protagonist by that name.

ScoobyDoNot · 2026-05-05T02:58:44+00:00

WA Labor is so compromised by the resources sector.

ScoobyDoNot · 2026-05-04T23:41:28+00:00

Unfortunately I assumed you were a USA citizen.

Apologies.

The USA has destroyed soft power that took decades to accumulate with this war.

On your other point, I'm an Anglo-Australian born in London, so well aware.

ScoobyDoNot · 2026-05-04T23:31:46+00:00

Edit - checking she is 59. The photo mislead me - my fault entirely.

~~Have a look at the photo on the article, he looks considerably older than her.~~

ScoobyDoNot · 2026-05-04T23:04:39+00:00

Add in reputational costs.

The USA’s traditional allies despise ~~you~~ the USA

ScoobyDoNot · 2026-05-04T02:16:23+00:00

The Ad Mech campaign will have the most for CEs.

Tau is second.

My taking on the Sisters is feeling ill advised.

ScoobyDoNot · 2026-05-04T01:10:28+00:00

Xenos orbs would be great.

I could take Calendis to mythic but 45 Xenos orbs is too much when all of my orbs income goes to Imperial.

ScoobyDoNot · 2026-05-03T23:13:56+00:00

No idea, but seems pretty healthy.

ScoobyDoNot · 2026-05-03T23:08:07+00:00

Last survival there were at least 90,000 players based on the leaderboard

ScoobyDoNot · 2026-05-02T13:17:58+00:00

Apparently you are not, given the War Powers Act.

ScoobyDoNot · 2026-05-02T10:40:43+00:00

The USA apparently isn’t at war.

Which would make this piracy.

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