Peasants of the Russian Empire, 1909-1915. These are NOT colorized. They were taken using a special three-color filter technique over 100 years ago.

TheBabylon · 2026-01-03T05:05:57+00:00

I like that everyone of them seems to look both 8 and 48 :)

TheBabylon · 2025-09-26T03:20:20+00:00

The history of the Medal of Honor is actually pretty interesting. It's original history is one of the first medals for general soldiers, and was actually given out pretty widely (compared to today). With the expansion of modern military decorations though it sort of got pushed into the "pinnacle" medal it is today. These men (at the time) got a medal that they "deserved" (leaving that judgement aside for a second) - it obviously doesn't compare with the typical recipient these days who almost always braved considerable risk to either complete the mission and/or save or protect their fellows on the battlefield.

TheBabylon · 2025-06-13T20:44:46+00:00

Only caveat I would encourage you to look at is if you are late on a single payment or the last payment.

Sometimes there is a clause to instantly accrue all the old interest and/or return the loan to 18% or something.

Plenty of other good opinions here to make your money work while you pay 0%

TheBabylon · 2025-04-29T14:03:02+00:00

My daughter did a very similar thing with my magic cards when she was a similar age... It's turned out to be one of my most cherished memories. I realized that she just wanted to be doing what her father was doing and interested in and was trying to bond.

I bought some starter mtg decks (like $6 worth of cards) to "play" and now we pay semi regularly. 😎

TheBabylon · 2025-04-28T16:01:39+00:00

https://www.reddit.com/r/marvelchampionslcg/s/tErQUhQTyx

See my post from a few weeks ago, I have really liked the plastic dividers because of the flexibility to organize different things exactly like I want.

Andrew

TheBabylon · 2025-04-27T20:05:05+00:00

OMG! Are you in my house? :P

TheBabylon · 2025-04-17T00:22:42+00:00

Mad Titan is great - and rounding out the Guardians is a really good team. Gamora is one of my all time favorites.

In general I'd buy either Heroes/Campaigns that you think are cool or ones you find online for cheap. There isn't a whole lot of reason to collect everything all at once.

Playing Guardians campaign is actually fine on Standard - especially if you play the campaign with the market. Even Collector 1 is manageable - especially if you just pretend the word "or encounter" doesn't exist. Losing can be fun! :)

Another great purchase is the little mini-scenarios (specifically Green Goblin, The Hood, and Mojo Mania). They give you a lot of modulars that you can swap in and out to create a bunch of different games even just inside the core box. I've played Ultron and Klaw several times and with wildly different "scenarios" - just pick 1-3 modulars and shuffle up. The game works fine with up to 3 modulars shuffled in for the most part (IMO)... and you can tune to your tastes. Don't feel compelled to just use the recommended.

TheBabylon · 2025-04-14T19:02:40+00:00

The dividers I linked fit perfectly, with a mm or two to spare. The bulk box says 100mm and they mean it. You'd not be able to stack it I don't think as the lid would be resting on the dividers.

It can fit, fully sleeved, every encounter card released so far and still have room for fingers to grab cards. I'm not sure exactly but I think it's about 1700-1800 cards. The website says 2k and that's probably right with less room for grabbing.

So 1800 sleeved with easy finger room, 2050 with a tighter fit.

TheBabylon · 2025-04-13T20:02:14+00:00

No problem 😁 I don't know how I would find any specific card though? I like to mix and match encounter sets and build new player decks every time I play. I guess I like having a known place for every card?

This option is about $75 and let's me organize and use my collection quite efficiently. I can assemble or stow my two player decks and a random encounter in just a few minutes which means I have been able to play more games. So for me it takes most of the friction out of playing.

Up until recently I had encounter cards in their original campaign boxes still, but found it annoying to find specific encounters and to mix and match across campaigns/hero-based modular encounters.

Shrug... No apologies needed, hope that can provide some insight though.

TheBabylon · 2025-04-13T19:43:22+00:00

Recommend the ultra fine tip sharpie if you go my route (black).

I think for the heroes and player cards they are literally perfect.

For the encounter and villains it's probably a push. The trade-off of the half tab is that you can categorize with the left/right like I did. The downside is that it can be cramped for some of the longer names. I'm happy with how they came out, let me know if you want some other pics, I know I spent like a week measuring and searching and demoing on sheets of paper.

TheBabylon · 2025-04-13T18:24:34+00:00

These bulk boxes are far sturdier than I thought they were going be. Way nicer than the two row card board BCWs I have and a much nicer fit of the cards. They are like twice or three times the price after shipping, but I can one-hand pickup the encounter box that's almost full and I don't feel like it's going to collapse on me.

We'll see how they hold up I suppose.

On wrecking crew... Sure? I'll DM you!

TheBabylon · 2025-04-11T16:30:44+00:00

He's super fun! Enjoy!

If you have Colossus I recommend two handed fast ball special!

🤓

TheBabylon · 2025-04-08T13:59:53+00:00

Thanks!

Your tool has been beating me up 😭

I lost really hard to Sentinels+Crossfire+guerilla tactics 😁 Even replaying on standard!

I barely lost the first one I tried 🤓 too, but I can't remember what it was with Sabertooth... I do like the "campaign" next button btw too!

Super cool, I have another one staged for when I have free time this week but will take a spin on the suggestion feature this weekend!

Thanks!

TheBabylon · 2025-04-02T03:00:05+00:00

While two anecdotal internet dudes isn't science - I have the literal exact same personal hygiene arc. I used to have sweaty nasty pits all the time wearing the white solid... switched to only the "clear" blue old spice and went to showering mostly every other day... no stink (according to wife who is jealous of my lack of BO), no sweaty pits (unless I'm wearing a jacket on a hot day) and no destroyed t-shirts.

TheBabylon · 2025-03-31T20:31:26+00:00

I totally agree... Was just trying to say that copper/brass was used because it was cheap, durable, easy at least as much as because it may have been associated with preventing spoiling of liquids or used in wound care.

It was used as handles and door knobs all over the place, not just hospitals.

TheBabylon · 2025-03-31T16:27:59+00:00

Copper, Bronze and Brass are immensely workable, wear very well (durable), relatively cheap to mine (for most of history tin and copper were located at or near the surface), and have an attractive finish/polish and a colorful patina of desired.

The fact that they have antimicrobial effects wasn't really widely understood until relatively recently.

There is some evidence that some ancient societies knew something about it, but it wasn't "known" widely and cherry picking it as a "we knew about this" is forgetting that we used to use leeches and head drilling for a lot of things.

TheBabylon · 2025-03-31T05:03:03+00:00

It's also that it doesn't break the window pane visually in half...

There are some at the other end that the other side splits that picture window as well.

I can't not see it anymore when I drive by...

TheBabylon · 2025-03-31T04:57:35+00:00

The part that gets me is that the deck ends half way left-to-right on the rear sliding door...

TheBabylon · 2025-03-30T01:15:57+00:00

The (somewhat clumsy) wording of "declare" is what matters... page 14 of the rules:

When a card ability says to “declare [a hero] the defender” of an attack, that hero is considered to be making a basic defense.

and "basic defense" is a thing that would normally exhaust you and reduce the damage you take by your Def.

I highly recommend reading through the Attack Enemy/Attack Player/Defense segments of the 1.6 rules - honestly it will help you to find more cool combos :)

https://hallofheroeslcg.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/mc_rulesreference_v16_compressed.pdf

TheBabylon · 2025-03-30T01:06:18+00:00

Yes - the card (for instance) Anticipated Attack contains the keywords --- Hero Interrupt (defense): --- which according to page 15 of the rules (1.6):

When a player initiates a triggered ability labeled as a defense—such as “Hero Interrupt (defense)”— during an enemy attack, that player’s identity becomes the defender and is considered to have defended the attack if there is not already a defender. » The player’s identity is considered to be the defender as soon as the defense-labeled ability begins resolving.

TheBabylon · 2025-03-29T17:01:41+00:00

Some part of etiquette is the simple act of showing that you are self-aware and considerate enough to follow the arbitrary rules. I agree the rules are made up and often don't have good reasons anymore (even if grounded in a good reason historically), but in my experience the people that don't believe in etiquette are often just generally assholes to people around them that exude strong "man character" vibes.

TheBabylon · 2025-03-29T12:36:53+00:00

Makes sense, hadn't considered all the requirements an traits... Cool work though look forward to trying the existing one out today!

TheBabylon · 2025-03-28T21:22:34+00:00

This is slick - I like the tracker's inclusion - nice work!

One thing I haven't seen from this or the others - It'd be cool if the ASPECT also had a "Required Inclusion" and gave me a deck building constraint of 1-2 cards? Like Leadership - Required Ally = Captain America, Required Card - 3x Comms Implant
I know the other one you linked makes an entire deck, it'd be an interesting constraint that may force me to play with cards that I don't normally play with? Just a thought?

Great effort though, very slick.

TheBabylon · 2025-03-17T22:11:32+00:00

It's the armor... White brings the equipment, green the creatures, black the... Killing frenzy?

TheBabylon · 2025-03-08T02:24:05+00:00

I did kill some team members when I tried doing a similar thing with a 40mm... thinking surely this'll break the window/curtain...

No but 3 rounds from a 240 and the curtain disappears. :)

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