#Birgade

[alexsheilamac]

Birgad 1/1

Part 2 / Part 3 / Part 4 / Part 5 / Part 6 / Part 7 / Part 8 / Part 9 / Part 10 / Part 11 / Part 12

[heinrichderfinkler]

Recruitment poster for the Walloon Legion

[littlecornerinbrooklyn]

Whenever rich people complain about "stress" I like to analyze how much of it was self-caused.

Moving apartments IS stressful--was there a reason they HAD to move or was it just to satisfy the allegiance to the performance of upward mobility?

Having an empty fridge on a Monday morning IS stressful--did they consider not leaving town to "relax at their country house" in order to take care of basic tasks at their primary residence? No? Then I actually don't care.

And I get that a lot of these folks are playing out their promised suburbia-lite existence with very little introspection to their desires of owning multiple properties/having a white couch that stays pristine/"getting away from the stress" but I also...don't give a shit?

Most of us are stressed about things outside of our control, not the installation of a flood tub in a home that sits empty 300+ days out of the year. Save your sympathy for those who need it.

[rooster-does-art]

Battle of Gettysburg - Day 1

July 1

10:00 AM

I Corps Arrives at Gettysburg

"Forward, charge!" The Lieutenant Colonel ordered, and in response the 6th Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry Regiment lurched forward. "Align on the colors! Close up on that color! Close up on that color!" Their commander shouted, as the stragglers from the broken 95th New York and 14th Brooklyn Regiments joined them. In one strong mass, they moved across the field and charged towards the unfinished railroad cut, where Davis' Brigade took cover.

At 10:00 in the moring, just as Buford's cavalry were buckling under the pressure of Confederate attacks, the 1st Division of the Union I Corps arrived at Gettysburg. Moving quickly from the south of town, the division's 2nd Brigade was the first to arrive in the scene, quickly deploying at McPherson's ridge, north of the Chambersburg Pike. However, just as they were relieving the cavalry troopers deployed there, Davis' Confederate brigade moved up and struck them hard. Caught in the middle of deploying their forces, they were unprepared to receive the attack and were soon fighting a desperate battle, as some regiments began to retreat.

Meanwhile, south of the Chambersburg Pike, the 1st Brigade, of the 1st Division, of the I Corps began to deploy. They were the famous Iron Brigade. Wearing their unique black Hardee campaign hats, they were easily recognizable. Deploying in front of Herbst woods, they soon saw Archer's Confederate Brigade marching out of it.

Upon seeing the Iron Brigade waiting for them outside the woods, one soldier from Archer's brigade remarked: "“Here are those damned black-hat fellers again… ’Tain’t no militia – that’s the Army of the Potomac!"

The Iron Brigade let loose a volley of musket fire against Archer's brigade and soon the two were engaged in heavy fighting, as the 2nd Brigade continued to struggle agaisnt Davis' brigade.

Moving up to the front to assist in the fighting, I Corps commander, Major General John Reynolds, moved behind the Iron Brigade, urging them forward. However, as he was doing this, a stray shot struck him. He soon fell, dead, leaving I Corps leaderless.

Despite the loss of their commander, the Iron Brigade were pressing hard against Archer's Confederate brigade. Soon the brigade was charging the Confederates, forcing them to retreat. During their retreat, the Iron Birgade managed to capture a great number of prisoners, including Brigader General Archer himself.

However, the fight was far from over, because of the right the 2nd Brigade collapsed under the pressure of Davis' Confederate brigade, leaving their right flank exposed. Quickly, the Iron Brigade began to swing right to face the new threat, as the 6th Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry Regiment, which was held back by the Iron Birgade to act as a reserve, charged forward.

Struck by heavy musket fire, the regiments of Davis' brigade took cover in an unfinished railroad cut that ran parallel on the northern end of the Chambersburg Pike. However, while pinned in the cut, the troops of the 6th Wisconsin managed to outflank them and capture a good portion of the brigade.

By 12:00 noon most of the morning's fighting had subsided. There was now a lull, as fresh units from both sides began to arrive. For the Union, the rest of I Corps and XI Corps arrived to strengthen their defenses. For the Confederates, Pender's Division, of the Third Corps, arrived to join Heth's mauled division.

For the defense of Gettysburg, I Corps deployed on the west of town, while XI Corps moved north of town, ready to cover the roads there.

For two hours there was no fighting, aside from the occational artillery exchange from both sides. However, that would soon change, as another intense Confederate attack would strike, this time targeted at where I Corps and XI Corps met. Meanwhile, far to the north, a new force arrived, the Confederate Second Corps.

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Featuring @whirlwindflux @flashmod and @a-spoonful-o-generosity as members of the famous Iron Brigade. All three wear the iconic black Hardee campaign hats, which was different from the blue forage cap worn by most Union troops.

[27-moons]

I want to wish a Happy Valentine’s Day to The Ghost, one of the greatest leaders alive, The Commander of Al Qassam Birgades, Mohammed Deif and to his late wife Widad Asfuora. Israel assassinated his wife and children. Here is a letter from his beloved wife before her murder:

[tiredgremlintime]

Since the lyrilusc tri birgade deck is called bird up would that be Lulu’s catch phrase?

[otomegema]

Upon hearing the voice actor for Keith I am Looking-- but also, the vibe Gilbert gives off? I like it. Even Silvio looks good I mean, this is essentially the red flag birgade comin' in like we knew the other princes prob had issues but these men? *chef's kiss* Fucked up.

[barbucomedie]

Albert Shako of the Rifle Brigade from the British Empire dated between 1844 - 1855 on display at the Rifles Museum in Winchester, England

The Albert style shako was designed by the Prince Consort Albert and were incredibly unpopular in the British army. They were often abandoned for the forage caps by the Rifle Brigade.

During the Crimean War the Rifle Birgade was issued with the early Enfield rifles that gave them an advantage against the Russian skirmishers.

Photographs taken by myself 2023

[soraka-in-warhammer40k]

I wonder what will happen to Detachments in 10th Edition

Because right now with Nephilim it does not seem to make much sense. So, before Nephilim dropped, you essentially had 12CP, and if you wanted to refuse paying the "troop tax" because you wanted many units from a non-troop unit but they'd go over the point limit if you put them into Brigade/Patrol detachments, you could pay extra CP (usually 3) for Vanguard or Outrider detachments respectively.

So there was a real choice. But with CP down to 6, and with your Warlord Trait and Relic costing 1 each, going that road would either mean starting the game at 3CP with zero extra abilities, or if you picked any you come close to 1 or even 0 CP.

Now you essentially run a Batallion or a Brigade, put your Warlord in there to make it free, and use your 6CP to gear up AND have some points over, because starting with 0 severely locks you out of rerolls and strategems.

So generally, what is the design purpose of those things?

One point of it is to limit the number of specific unit types or exclude them from the reguar army - Fortifications, Flyers, and Lord of Wars come to mind. But right now aside from the limits on flyers and "don't be as stupid as to bring a 6 CP cost Ultraheavy detachment to a 2000p game" they don't do much. Of course it is also to stop cheese armies like "I just bring every heavy support thing in the codex three times and blast you off the table"

When the two most used are essentially "just throw in there whatever you want", the point of it is essentially lost. So #1 prediction for 10th: Generalist Detachments will get nerfs. Patrol with all options besides troops reduced to 1 (from 2) Batallion will be seen as the "small brigade", so it will have 1 mandatory in every slot (besides flyers), and the Birgade itself will probably have more mandatory slots as well, probably on the troop slot.

Another reason they exist is that they keep troops relevant, which goes a long way to keep base units as the iconic faces of their armies - and since you HAVE to take them for efficiency, you want to build on synergies - or you try to minimize your costs with the cheapest option aviable. It's why Orks have Gretchens. In a world without troop tax, those would be entirely pointless.

At the same time, it makes any detachments that do not need troops special. GW essentialy throws a hurdle at you but also gives you the option to build around it. The problem right now that there is no benefit to picking those. You still bring 2000 points to the table one way or another, just because you spread them on different models does not warrant the steep price you got to pay for them.

To have this design make sense you need to make those more attractive. So #2 prediction for 10th: The highlighted unit type will get a specific buff. My idea was that for example if you pick outriders, you get a short pregame move, and if your units already have them (because Outriders, duh), you add range to it. This could be done for every unit type of course.

If this seems too random, also consider Faction-Specific perks instead, such as Marine units of the type benefitting more from specific doctrines, or T'au units benefitting from specific Mont'ka or Kauyon rulings.

In theory a third point of various detachments was to have an army of "multiple parts". So you could have one group with a subfaction choice good for holding the backline, and one for dashing into the front. With the recent tournament rules this has been forbidden, everything with a variable subfaction needs to come from the same one. No more mixing chapters, clans, or septs. I can see why they did it from a balancing point of view, but it still does hurt the concept of detachments overall.

Of course, all this just makes sense if you keep the system. For all we know GW could for 10th edition just throw their hands into the air, say "just bring whatever models you want we don't care", refuse to elaborate further and just leave the room. Not very likely to happen and I think since in the future there will still be a troop tax - and therefore options to avoid troop tax - we won't be seeing the end of a detachment system anytime soon.

What we will get however are faction specific detachments in addition to the regular, like Farsight's "The Eight". That sounds like a fun idea to give niche units a chance to take center stage, especially if you mix in the idea of specialist detachments. You can load them up with really crazy relics and warlord traits, and then lock those behind very specific unit choices. Would make it easy as hell to balance. Sure, you want the "super-cannon/ability"? Better jump through some hoops then and take some limitations!

[alexsheilamac]

Birgad 12/12

Part 1 / Part 2 / Part 3 / Part 4 / Part 5 / Part 6 / Part 7 / Part 8 / Part 9 / Part 10 / Part 11

[zonjy]

"London fire Birgade are recruiting right now apply online | CMW NEWS" on YouTube

[metalgeartwilight]

I guess I’m doing art again!?

[rooster-does-art]

Battle of Gettysburg - Day 2

July 2

4:30 PM

The Texas Brigade Attacks Devil's Den

The artillery bombardment has just ended. The attack was about to begin. As they waited, their division commander road by them and, in a loud voice, said: "Fix bayonets, my brave Texans! Forward and take those heights!" With that, the Texas Brigade cheered and prepared to launch their attack.

On July 2 General Robert E. Lee, commander of the Army of Northern Virginia, found himself facing an enemy dug in a strong position. The Union Army of the Potomac were occupying the high ground and Lee wanted to dislodge them. Despite complaints from his trusted officer, Lieutenant General James Longstreet, who wanted to march the army away to a place where the Union would be attacking them instead of the other way around, Lee decided to plan for an attack.

His plan was a two-pronged attack. Up on the north, against the Union's right flank, the Confederate Second Corps was to attack Culp's Hill. However, this was to only be a diversionary attack, as the main assault would come further south. Targeted against the Union's left flank, the Confederate First Corps was to strike the Union forces at Cemetery Ridge, where the Confederates believed the Union left flank was.

However, they were wrong. In reality, the Union left flank extended further south from Cemetery Ridge. Occupying positions from Cemetery Ridge down to the base of the Little Round Top Hills, the Union III Corps held their ground. If the Confederates went through with their original plan, the Confederate First Corps' right flank would have been enfiladed by fire from III Corps as they moved against Cemetery Ridge.

But nothing went according to plan that day.

Having difficulty navigating through unfamiliar terrain, while also trying to remain undetected, the Confederate First Corps didn't get into position until 3:15 in the afternoon. But by that time, the Union positions had changed.

Major General Daniel Sickles, commander of the Union III Corps, saw some high ground in front of his corps. Fearing that Confederate forces would place artillery there to shell his positions, and remembering a similar incident that occured to him a few months ago during the Battle of Chancellorsville, Sickles decided to take it.

At 2:00 in the afternoon, despite being told by General Meade to hold his ground, Sickles advanced his corps and occupied pieces of terrain that are now known as the Peach Orchard, the Wheatfield, and Devil's Den. However, despite now holding higher ground, Sickles' move is often considered as a blunder. By moving forward and ahead of the main line of defense, Sickles not only created a gap between his corps and the neighboring II Corps, which was on their right flank at Cemetery Ridge, but he also exposed the Union left, leaving it open to attack.

Such an attack came at 4:00 in the afternoon, when Confederate forces, who have adjusted to the new tactical situation and deployed appropriately, began bombarding III Corps' positions with artillery fire. For thirty minutes the men of III Corps were subjected to an intense bombardment. Then, at 4:30 in the afternoon the Confederates attacked.

Stepping up first, General Hood's Division divided into two assaulting forces. Brigadier General Robertson's Texas Brigade was to attack Devil's Den, while Law's Alabama Birgade was to head for the Round Top Hills. However, due to the terrible rocky terrain, the two assaulting forces got mixed up. Some Texan Regiments from Robertson's Brigade ended up heading towards the Round Top Hills, while some Alabama Regiments from Law's Brigade went to Devil's Den. Despite this, the regiments heading for Devil's Den struck the Union line hard.

More rocky and confined terrain awaited the Confederates at Devil's Den. Despite this, they pushed on and engaged Ward's Union Brigade that defended the position. The fight was tough and intense, but eventually the Texans and Alabamians managed to push out the Union troops from Devil's Den.

However, the capture of Devil's Den could not be fully exploited, as General Hood was injured and taken out of action early in the fight, while his division's scattered brigades were too far from one another to coordinate further assaults.

At 5:10 in the evening, as one portion of Hood's Division secure Devil's Den, the other half was fighting an intense and difficult battle at Little Round Top.

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Featuring Kayla from @techbro-arts and @duran301 as members of the 1st Texas Volunteer Infantry Regiment, as they fight their way through the boulders at Devil's Den. Kayla is a color-bearer and is carrying a flag that I don't think I'm allowed to post here, even for historical purposes. So, for anyone who wants to see the full image, message me on Discord.

[backwardblackbyrd]

also, by season 7 I do kind of feel for strauss lol

her clown bergade really does be getting in some shit