Count, isn’t Sanssouci located in Potsdam? Or, back in Frederick’s time, was it far enough outside the city proper as to escape from the odors of fish and flatulence? Only getting swallowed up by the expansion of Potsdam in later […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
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True, but Sanssouci wasn’t completed until 1747, and our Frederick is from 1745, and so still has the Potsdam of his father in mind, I figure. But, yeah, this line should probably read, “The Potsdam Garrison!? I wouldn’t bury Maria […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
So much to talk about today. First of all, ugnaughts. Second, Napoleon’s totally rad dream of crushing England through AT-AT attack reflects two changes to the timestream brought about by Frederick’s actions. In “normal history”, 1806 Napoleon would have known […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
So, this episode is another exercise in our main characters being horrible people. It also points out the soft spot that the Count and I have for The Empire Strikes Back, and The Empire in general. The Empire was evil, […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Why, this episode puts me in mind of a story. Back in the fall of aught-four, one of my roommates had mixed up two batches of sangria for his birthday party. There was a batch mixed with red wine and […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Today the creator of the Yurito character essays pressed into my clawlike hand the draft of an awesome story he is working on with Euler as the central figure. The story is written as Euler’s diary, complete with Leonhardian mathematical […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Opinions vary widely as to Napoleon’s tactical ability. In terms of overall strategy, the man was perhaps the greatest who ever lived. But when it came down to the tactics of the individual battle, historians like Alan Schom have painted […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Hmmm… I just realized that I placed Napoleon’s word bubbles squarely over the main visual joke in panel 3. Underneath all those words is a Maddenesque battle plan for taking down the Americans. You can kind of see the yellow […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Now, you or I might not realize the connection between the taking of a small American frontier town and the collapse of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, but then again, that is why we are not Napoleon. Seriously, though, an inordinate amount […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Frederick and crew must have been *into* their discussion of Austria to somehow miss a mass abduction perpetrated by a Thoremerson. –Geoff