The scene where they drop behind the Atreides lines and kill the standard infantry easily is meant to demonstrate how good they are. Idaho is the best Atreides fighter (excepting Worm Leto and maybe peak weirding Paul).

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3/ Marshal Richelieu made this punishment general. It produced an effect that characterized the spirit of the French soldier." What this tells us is that French soldiers cared more about participating in the attack on the fortress than they did getting drunk on cheap Spanish wine. #skystorians

2/ it was quite difficult to prevent soldiers from getting drunk on duty days. An idea came to several colonels, in whose number I was, to deprive all of those who had gotten drunk in the trench of mounting the next one...

Luckily Gates had the best American general with him: Arnold

I think that’s ex post facto reasoning. Congress would’ve been delighted if he’d won the battles he fought, especially the major ones like Brooklyn Heights

I’d rank Louis and Carlos as the two most important decision-makers of course, but all they had to do was say yes. Galvéz was on the ground. And we of course know that Washington never won a battle he commanded.

Thanks!