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| Tango01 | 03 Nov 2018 10:22 p.m. PST |
…. Demonize King George's German Auxiliaries. "SINCE THEIR arrival in the colonies during the American Revolution, the Hessians have endured a sinister reputation, so much so that the writer Washington Irving was able to immortalize them in his timeless classic The Legend of Sleepy Hollow. To the Americans in 1776, Hessians were among the most hated of all the King's forces. Even the Declaration of Independence condemned them and their "mercenary" ilk as instruments of "death, desolation and tyranny."…."
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| Cyrus the Great | 04 Nov 2018 6:44 p.m. PST |
Not to mention, they were all werewolves! |
| Narratio | 05 Nov 2018 12:10 a.m. PST |
Not all of them… I'm sure I read in a comic somewhere that some of them were demonically possessed vampires. |
| Tango01 | 05 Nov 2018 11:22 a.m. PST |
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paints his first three ships from the starter set.