Frederick has never quite understood the Power of Time.

But the assembled host here understood a thing or two about conquest. Frederick spent the better part of a decade smacking around Austria and France. Peter conquered Sweden... eventually. Zhuge Liang defeated Meng Huo seven different times. Nader Shah beat back Russian invaders, then extended his empire to Pakistan. Gudit couldn't pass by an opportunity to take over a new territory and burn its Christian churches, so the story goes. So, yeah, this plan isn't surprising me TOO much....

- Count Dolby von Luckner