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Weapons Check War Hammer
The war hammer, as crude as it seems, was a practical solution to a late-medieval arms race between offense and defense. From the 14th century, steel plate armor spread amongst the warrior classes. The angled and hardened surfaces of plate armor were
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Opening Round
By the time of the Second World War, “Field Artillery” almost felt like an antiquated concept. In a world with heavily-armored tanks, long-range shelling, and high altitude bombers, it felt almost quaint to wheel out a glorified cannon onto the battl
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Becoming The Desert Fox
In late October 1917, a detachment of German mountain troopers weary from hard Alpine fighting on the Isonzo front were crossing the river Torre with a group of Italian prisoners. The ordinarily calm waters of the river had swollen into a raging floo

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