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Arquinsiel: Jun 1, 2006; "There is no such thing as society. There are individual men and women, and there are families. And no government can do anything except through people, and people must look to themselves first."

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It's why I bought up the Imperial Assault stuff to make sure I had every expansion. I got that vibe of the RPG line hitting splatbook saturation, and that usually means a new edition. X-Wing 2nd ed didn't seem to take off in the same way that 1st did, Armada and Legion just never really took off and Destiny is already dead. Shifting things from company to company either means a line-wide refresh or trying to shuffle legal responsibility onto an entity that can be let fail.

# ¿ Aug 1, 2021 23:55

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# ¿ May 10, 2024 22:49

Arquinsiel: Jun 1, 2006; "There is no such thing as society. There are individual men and women, and there are families. And no government can do anything except through people, and people must look to themselves first."

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smug jeebus posted:

I was gonna wait until January to see if Legion came back locally, but you guys are really making me feel like I should dump my Imps now

I intend to keep playing Imperial Assault with friends. I just wasn't banking on it being easily available going forward. If you are having fun with Legion then there's no reason not to hang onto your Imps and try get games in where you can :shrug:

# ¿ Aug 2, 2021 00:37

Arquinsiel: Jun 1, 2006; "There is no such thing as society. There are individual men and women, and there are families. And no government can do anything except through people, and people must look to themselves first."

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Robert Facepalmer posted:

I also wonder how well Legion actually is doing. All the people I know personally that are playing it have a few actual figures, but the large majority of their collections are printed. As far as it going away forever and ever, now that the rules are out and the community is established, I could see it being like the Decipher CCG where there is gently caress all official product, but a decently stable fan community.

I never bought an actual Legion product because I don't play but I have a fuckton of random printed figures I grabbed off Ebay just for the fun of painting them. Presumably people aren't putting a whole pile of effort into making sculpts of Ewoks wearing Rebel Trooper gear for a game that nobody plays.

# ¿ Aug 2, 2021 04:27

Arquinsiel: Jun 1, 2006; "There is no such thing as society. There are individual men and women, and there are families. And no government can do anything except through people, and people must look to themselves first."

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Chill la Chill posted:

I was hoping for an Ewok box set for a long time just so I can field a proper Endor rebel force.

Get to ebay and buy some 3D prints so.

# ¿ Sep 6, 2021 00:41

Arquinsiel: Jun 1, 2006; "There is no such thing as society. There are individual men and women, and there are families. And no government can do anything except through people, and people must look to themselves first."

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The way I paint white stuff is I spray them white, give them a ridiculously heavy wash with GW's black shade, spray them white again but very lightly, and then drybrush white over that. I've not done stormtroopers yet, but here's how it looks on a mech of approximate size.

# ¿ Nov 19, 2021 04:38

Arquinsiel: Jun 1, 2006; "There is no such thing as society. There are individual men and women, and there are families. And no government can do anything except through people, and people must look to themselves first."

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Those are called "Beach Troopers" in the LEGO games :pseudo:

# ¿ Nov 30, 2021 16:14

Arquinsiel: Jun 1, 2006; "There is no such thing as society. There are individual men and women, and there are families. And no government can do anything except through people, and people must look to themselves first."

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You should see the little paddling pools they have setup for themselves so.

# ¿ Nov 30, 2021 17:02

Arquinsiel: Jun 1, 2006; "There is no such thing as society. There are individual men and women, and there are families. And no government can do anything except through people, and people must look to themselves first."

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You may as well buy the core game too while you're at it, just to do some Rebel Commando types.

# ¿ Dec 6, 2021 20:00

Arquinsiel: Jun 1, 2006; "There is no such thing as society. There are individual men and women, and there are families. And no government can do anything except through people, and people must look to themselves first."

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Yeah, that's a sweet Bossk.

# ¿ Apr 12, 2022 10:51

Arquinsiel: Jun 1, 2006; "There is no such thing as society. There are individual men and women, and there are families. And no government can do anything except through people, and people must look to themselves first."

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I wish I had any pictures of it, but in the way back when days of D20 I used to take cocktail swords and shave them down to make lightsaber blades for RPG characters. Worked reasonably well.

# ¿ Apr 12, 2022 18:33

Arquinsiel: Jun 1, 2006; "There is no such thing as society. There are individual men and women, and there are families. And no government can do anything except through people, and people must look to themselves first."

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Ugleb posted:

The May 4th retail bundle offer is kinda blowing my mind.

For the price of a core set (£110 these days apparently), you get a core set and six expansions including a choice of commander.

I chucked stuff into a cart and the expansions alone added up to over £150. So it is something like 60% off.

Very tempted to grab the clones bundle and sell the core set off later as I already have two. I could maybe use the B1's from it to take me up to six squads, but I don't see myself needing a third squad of Droidekas, or 6 squads of phase 1 clones. Maybe a third Barc? I dunno.

I spreadsheeted this up using Element Games prices and the savings are �139.43 for the OT boxen and �146.41for the Prequels. It's making me strongly consider just dropping a fuckton of cash on all the clones and clankers I would ever need.

# ¿ Apr 25, 2022 11:37

Arquinsiel: Jun 1, 2006; "There is no such thing as society. There are individual men and women, and there are families. And no government can do anything except through people, and people must look to themselves first."

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Probably worth the saving to ship it over to you. Try throw a US address into the checkout and see what happens.

# ¿ Apr 25, 2022 15:37

Arquinsiel: Jun 1, 2006; "There is no such thing as society. There are individual men and women, and there are families. And no government can do anything except through people, and people must look to themselves first."

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Arquinsiel posted:

I spreadsheeted this up using Element Games prices and the savings are �139.43 for the OT boxen and �146.41for the Prequels. It's making me strongly consider just dropping a fuckton of cash on all the clones and clankers I would ever need.

Turns out Darksphere have the bundle even cheaper. I just need to decide what commander I want for the Seperatists now I guess.

# ¿ Apr 29, 2022 17:39

Arquinsiel: Jun 1, 2006; "There is no such thing as society. There are individual men and women, and there are families. And no government can do anything except through people, and people must look to themselves first."

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Imagined posted:

Man I'm happy for y'all but the fact that seemingly everyone but North America got awesome deals really sticks in my craw! 'Ooooh the Asmodee store has a sale that takes things down to still higher than normal price on Amazon after shipping oooh'

North America is already usually dirt cheap so I struggle to feel too bad for you. I have bought from Amazon US and eaten the shipping cost to Ireland because that was the cheapest way of getting the Armada core box, for example.

# ¿ May 4, 2022 21:31

Arquinsiel: Jun 1, 2006; "There is no such thing as society. There are individual men and women, and there are families. And no government can do anything except through people, and people must look to themselves first."

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Since my giant box o' droids just arrived can you post a guide to how you did those? They look great.

# ¿ May 7, 2022 17:56

Arquinsiel: Jun 1, 2006; "There is no such thing as society. There are individual men and women, and there are families. And no government can do anything except through people, and people must look to themselves first."

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Much appreciated. I'm guessing a white primer for the B1s and black for literally everything else will do well enough. I'll be off to GW to buy paints soon it seems.

# ¿ May 8, 2022 17:31

Arquinsiel: Jun 1, 2006; "There is no such thing as society. There are individual men and women, and there are families. And no government can do anything except through people, and people must look to themselves first."

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I haven't even looked at assembling the droids yet, having gotten side-tracked onto basing materials.

# ¿ May 26, 2022 01:27

Arquinsiel: Jun 1, 2006; "There is no such thing as society. There are individual men and women, and there are families. And no government can do anything except through people, and people must look to themselves first."

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Did FFG ever do spare standard bases seperately? I got a bad can of army painter white and there was a bit of a whoopsie when stripping the clones that ended up being gritty.

# ¿ Jun 21, 2022 00:38

Arquinsiel: Jun 1, 2006; "There is no such thing as society. There are individual men and women, and there are families. And no government can do anything except through people, and people must look to themselves first."

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Yeah I'm not going to muck about with those. The base attachment is shakey enough with the standard ones and adding more texture seems like a great way to be repairing bases forever. Plus I just need four, so I'd rather not have four clones who really stick out.

# ¿ Jun 21, 2022 10:56

Arquinsiel: Jun 1, 2006; "There is no such thing as society. There are individual men and women, and there are families. And no government can do anything except through people, and people must look to themselves first."

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PMing now.

In other news, it has taken me this long to realise that unlike most other wargames, when they give you all the options in a box they really give you all the options. There's no pile of spare arms for these clone troopers.

# ¿ Jun 21, 2022 21:23

Arquinsiel: Jun 1, 2006; "There is no such thing as society. There are individual men and women, and there are families. And no government can do anything except through people, and people must look to themselves first."

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Just make a Mustafar version of him?

# ¿ Jun 22, 2022 11:13

Arquinsiel: Jun 1, 2006; "There is no such thing as society. There are individual men and women, and there are families. And no government can do anything except through people, and people must look to themselves first."

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I've been toying around with a list builder for my clones and I'm kind of surprised at how few units I need to include before I hit 800 points. I haven't really bothered with too many upgrades beyond a special weapon trooper here or there, and looking into all the other types feels like a lot of effort before getting a feel for basic combat.

# ¿ Jul 7, 2022 01:21

Arquinsiel: Jun 1, 2006; "There is no such thing as society. There are individual men and women, and there are families. And no government can do anything except through people, and people must look to themselves first."

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I only got to 8 units with Rex. I guess throwing Padme in there just because she came in the deal probably isn't the best idea, and the ARC Troopers seem rather spendy for such small units.

# ¿ Jul 7, 2022 15:56

Arquinsiel: Jun 1, 2006; "There is no such thing as society. There are individual men and women, and there are families. And no government can do anything except through people, and people must look to themselves first."

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StashAugustine posted:

Arcs were busted as hell on release, got nerfed until they were strong but overcosted, then both they and the faction as a whole got hit even harder without getting points cuts; so yeah they're not that great right now. Padme is a strong option and honestly doesn't really need upgrades herself that much. A generic clone commander is also a strong pick up- cheap, you can fit one into any corps centered list easily, and the pack has generic command cards as well

Looking at the Phase I Clone Trooper card it seems I can add one generic trooper and exactly one variant of any kind. I've got two cores, an ARC box, the specialists box, Rex, Padme, the Phase I upgrade box, and an AT-RT. Seems like I have way more than I need TBH, and plenty of options to dick around with. I could probably stretch to five or even six full Corps if I really wanted to be silly and run minimal units. I haven't even thought about looking at the Seperatists.

# ¿ Jul 7, 2022 23:14

Arquinsiel: Jun 1, 2006; "There is no such thing as society. There are individual men and women, and there are families. And no government can do anything except through people, and people must look to themselves first."

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Irritatingly difficult to photograph these on my desk compared to most other things I've painted over the years, but the tester unit is complete. I actually really like how fast these were to paint, so I might not bother doing any blue detailing on them and just leave them as Shineys. The later units will get some markings to differentiate them somehow and make them fit with Rex.

# ¿ Jul 8, 2022 19:22

Arquinsiel: Jun 1, 2006; "There is no such thing as society. There are individual men and women, and there are families. And no government can do anything except through people, and people must look to themselves first."

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The Strangest Finch posted:

in order to get that set up in 500 points I need to drop a lot of upgrades from the standard troopers.

It took me a while when playing X-Wing to grok that just because a ship has an upgrade slot doesn't mean that you need to use the upgrade slot.

# ¿ Jul 15, 2022 11:00

Arquinsiel: Jun 1, 2006; "There is no such thing as society. There are individual men and women, and there are families. And no government can do anything except through people, and people must look to themselves first."

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I bailed at the start of second edition and nothing I have heard has made me regret that decision.

# ¿ Jul 15, 2022 11:06

Arquinsiel: Jun 1, 2006; "There is no such thing as society. There are individual men and women, and there are families. And no government can do anything except through people, and people must look to themselves first."

God Bless Margaret Thatcher
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Endman posted:

I painted some Battle Droids

Contrast paints and some quick and dirty battle damage got these done super fast

Really successful contrast job. If you want to take that battle damage up exactly one notch, where you've got the large splodges if you put a little black smear in the middle it looks like the progression goes burnt paint > bare metal > carbon scored metal. I used to do it on all my second hand BattleTech stuff wherever the old lead minis got dinged up in the process of stripping the paint.

# ¿ Jul 16, 2022 01:35

Arquinsiel: Jun 1, 2006; "There is no such thing as society. There are individual men and women, and there are families. And no government can do anything except through people, and people must look to themselves first."

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Pb and Jellyfish posted:

A bunker I made for terrain, definitely messed up and drybrushed way too hard, but it looks fine at tabletop. Anyone have suggestions on how to make it look more sci-fi/Star wars-y? Preferably something removable so I could use it for something like Bolt action too

Get yourself a bunch of scatter terrain bits like crates and the like and build them so they lean against it. You can have sci-fi crates and wooden crates to switch out. Maybe add a little cable port and then build a set of radio antennae/hypernet nodes that plug into it.

# ¿ Aug 17, 2022 15:05

Arquinsiel: Jun 1, 2006; "There is no such thing as society. There are individual men and women, and there are families. And no government can do anything except through people, and people must look to themselves first."

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Probably not the best I can do with what I have, but good enough to get me to a newbie tournament in October?

799/800
8 Activations

Clone Captain Rex 100 + 27 = 127
--Aggressive Tactics (15), Offensive Push (4), Recon Intel (2), Portable Scanner (6)
Phase I Clone Troopers 52 + 43 = 95
--Z-6 Phase I Trooper (23), Clone Commander (Upgrade) (20)
2x Phase I Clone Troopers 52 + 46 = 98 x 2 = 196
--DC-15 Phase I Trooper (26), Clone Commander (Upgrade) (20)
Arc Troopers (Strike Team) 27 + 51 = 78
--DC-15x ARC Trooper (31), HQ Uplink (10), JT-12 Jetpacks (10)
Arc Troopers 78 + 60 = 138
--Fives (40), HQ Uplink (10), JT-12 Jetpacks (10)
BARC Speeder 55 + 26 = 81
--BARC RPS-6 Gunner (21), Long-Range Comlink (5)
BARC Speeder 55 + 29 = 84
--BARC Ion Gunner (24), Long-Range Comlink (5)

# ¿ Sep 15, 2022 20:36

Arquinsiel: Jun 1, 2006; "There is no such thing as society. There are individual men and women, and there are families. And no government can do anything except through people, and people must look to themselves first."

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I think I can do that with what I have. I'll juggle things around a bit and see what I come up with. Thanks.

ETA: moved stuff around. Realised that I hadn't put all four squads of Phase I Clone Troopers in the previous list somehow, and dropped a BARC to fit them back in. Kind of impressed at how close to just being starter box content this is, and simultaneously looking at all my other boxes of clones and being sad.

800/800
9 Activations

Clone Captain Rex 100 + 21 = 121
--Aggressive Tactics (15), Offensive Push (4), Recon Intel (2)
Clone Commander 60

2x Phase I Clone Troopers 52 + 23 = 75 x 2 = 150
--Z-6 Phase I Trooper (23)
Phase I Clone Troopers 52 + 26 = 78
--DC-15 Phase I Trooper (26)
Phase I Clone Troopers 52 + 40 = 92
--Fives (40)
Arc Troopers (Strike Team) 27 + 51 = 78
--DC-15x ARC Trooper (31), HQ Uplink (10), JT-12 Jetpacks (10)
Arc Troopers 78 + 62 = 140
--Echo (42), HQ Uplink (10), JT-12 Jetpacks (10)
BARC Speeder 55 + 26 = 81
--BARC RPS-6 Gunner (21), Long-Range Comlink (5)

Call Me Captain�, Ploy�, Take That, Clankers!��, Air Support��, We're Not Programmed��, Attack of the Clones��, Standing Orders��

Arquinsiel fucked around with this message at 16:10 on Sep 16, 2022

# ¿ Sep 15, 2022 22:11

Arquinsiel: Jun 1, 2006; "There is no such thing as society. There are individual men and women, and there are families. And no government can do anything except through people, and people must look to themselves first."

God Bless Margaret Thatcher
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Arquinsiel posted:

I think I can do that with what I have. I'll juggle things around a bit and see what I come up with. Thanks.

ETA: moved stuff around. Realised that I hadn't put all four squads of Phase I Clone Troopers in the previous list somehow, and dropped a BARC to fit them back in. Kind of impressed at how close to just being starter box content this is, and simultaneously looking at all my other boxes of clones and being sad.

800/800
9 Activations

Clone Captain Rex 100 + 21 = 121
--Aggressive Tactics (15), Offensive Push (4), Recon Intel (2)
Clone Commander 60

2x Phase I Clone Troopers 52 + 23 = 75 x 2 = 150
--Z-6 Phase I Trooper (23)
Phase I Clone Troopers 52 + 26 = 78
--DC-15 Phase I Trooper (26)
Phase I Clone Troopers 52 + 40 = 92
--Fives (40)
Arc Troopers (Strike Team) 27 + 51 = 78
--DC-15x ARC Trooper (31), HQ Uplink (10), JT-12 Jetpacks (10)
Arc Troopers 78 + 62 = 140
--Echo (42), HQ Uplink (10), JT-12 Jetpacks (10)
BARC Speeder 55 + 26 = 81
--BARC RPS-6 Gunner (21), Long-Range Comlink (5)

Call Me Captain�, Ploy�, Take That, Clankers!��, Air Support��, We're Not Programmed��, Attack of the Clones��, Standing Orders��

Quotin' myself for context. I have realised I don't actually have enough ARC Troopers to do the squad with Echo, the Strike Team, and Fives with the Phase Is. Is it better to drop Fives or Echo?

It's also interesting that the sprue only has enough jetpacks for three troopers, but gives you stands for four, and only has four regular backpacks. That seems like somewhat of an odd oversight.

Arquinsiel fucked around with this message at 18:04 on Sep 22, 2022

# ¿ Sep 22, 2022 17:50

Arquinsiel: Jun 1, 2006; "There is no such thing as society. There are individual men and women, and there are families. And no government can do anything except through people, and people must look to themselves first."

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StashAugustine posted:

Well the 501st box is missing stands so save em lol. I'd probably cut the strike team and add a BARC back in?

That's a good point. It'd give me way more points to mess around with.

# ¿ Sep 22, 2022 21:53

Arquinsiel: Jun 1, 2006; "There is no such thing as society. There are individual men and women, and there are families. And no government can do anything except through people, and people must look to themselves first."

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Ugleb posted:

Well, the London Grand Tournament has done it again with their table game. At least it isn't polystyrene blocks from the dumpster this time.

I wasn't aware that this was on, but it's probably not the best level of event to bring my total newbie rear end to. I'm considering heading to the Bad Moon Cafe's beginner tournament next weekend though.

# ¿ Oct 1, 2022 23:27

Arquinsiel: Jun 1, 2006; "There is no such thing as society. There are individual men and women, and there are families. And no government can do anything except through people, and people must look to themselves first."

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I'm just assuming that my AT-RT will need custom storage and transport if I ever get around to building it.

# ¿ Oct 25, 2022 23:17

Arquinsiel: Jun 1, 2006; "There is no such thing as society. There are individual men and women, and there are families. And no government can do anything except through people, and people must look to themselves first."

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I have nowhere near that much stuff to worry about, so I think my GW skirmish case will do for most of my infantry at least. The STAPs, Droidekas, BARCs, and AT-RT are all the big stuff I am likely to own at the moment, and I've assembled the BARCs so I can pop the sidecar off easily.

# ¿ Oct 27, 2022 00:41

Arquinsiel: Jun 1, 2006; "There is no such thing as society. There are individual men and women, and there are families. And no government can do anything except through people, and people must look to themselves first."

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Taking bets on the figures being a different scale?

# ¿ Nov 9, 2022 20:46

Arquinsiel: Jun 1, 2006; "There is no such thing as society. There are individual men and women, and there are families. And no government can do anything except through people, and people must look to themselves first."

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Apparently MCP is 32mm, and Legion is 35mm to 40mm depending on whether you measure to eyeline or top of head. Seems likely they'll be incompatible so.

# ¿ Nov 9, 2022 21:07

Arquinsiel: Jun 1, 2006; "There is no such thing as society. There are individual men and women, and there are families. And no government can do anything except through people, and people must look to themselves first."

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Nash posted:

AMG doesn�t give me a lot of faith in the future of Legion. Constant errors, packaging issues, and releasing a second Star Wars miniatures game just make me wish it was back with FFG

To be fair, Legion was itself a second Star Wars miniatures game to Imperial Assault, which had a competitive mode that looks to be about as many figures as this on the table.

The thing that I'm *really* curious about is comparing the Shatterpoint Kenobi to the Legion Kenobi and thereby working out if it'd be worth getting Ventress to run as a proxy for Maul, who is a smidge (presumed) dead by the time the Seperatist army actually fights anything else you can buy.

# ¿ Nov 10, 2022 05:12

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# ¿ May 10, 2024 22:49

Arquinsiel: Jun 1, 2006; "There is no such thing as society. There are individual men and women, and there are families. And no government can do anything except through people, and people must look to themselves first."

God Bless Margaret Thatcher
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StashAugustine posted:

If it makes you feel better they've confirmed Legion Ventress next year iirc

Actually it does, thanks.

# ¿ Nov 10, 2022 05:20

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