In the early seventeenth century, Spain was fighting three wars at once: the eighty years war, the 30yw, and one more that doesn't have a name. For the first time in history,the silver current was redirected, and went east to Europe instead of West to China. The Ming currency got fucked up
October 30, 2025 at 5:32 AM
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I finished a unit of armoured Mercenaries for By Fire and Sword. These models also suit well for 30YW with the typical wear of Bandolier Reiters.
October 12, 2025 at 8:05 PM
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list 3 things you can talk about for 3 hours with no prep
1. Letterpress printing
2. Infantry tactics from the 30YW to Napoleon
3. Mid-era Sonic Youth
1. Letterpress printing
2. Infantry tactics from the 30YW to Napoleon
3. Mid-era Sonic Youth
list 3 things you can talk about for 3 hours with no prep
1. the feces of various species
2. lunch meat
3. sweetbreads
1. the feces of various species
2. lunch meat
3. sweetbreads
list 3 things you can talk about for 3 hours with no prep
1. Virginia Woolf
2. Leonard Woolf's wife
3. Adeline Virginia Stephen
1. Virginia Woolf
2. Leonard Woolf's wife
3. Adeline Virginia Stephen
September 25, 2025 at 10:22 PM
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30yw, you say
September 25, 2025 at 12:35 AM
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I've got a theory that the reason cuirassiers are used so counterintuitively in the 30yw is not that they are part of some "baroque way of war," still less that they are degenerate and only Gustav Adolf reinvented the charge, but instead that they are filling in for lancers, ad hoc
September 24, 2025 at 8:13 PM
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Back from High Germany after marching around Nordlingen in the service of Gustav Adolphus! Cracking historic event everyone gets involved in. Great place, still walled, plenty of preserved architecture, residents proud of their history. Will do the event again if invited!
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September 18, 2025 at 2:00 PM
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Imagine in our world having around 20 different entities claiming to be the United States at once and fighting to the death for it, and you have a good picture of the 30YW
September 11, 2025 at 8:33 PM
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Just assume ISIS-style atrocities and you basically can't go wrong in describing the 30YW and other especially nasty parts of the Wars of Religion.
Even the less horrific parts are 'merely' things like Louis XIV getting Huguenots to emigrate by sending roving thugs to rape the women among them.
Even the less horrific parts are 'merely' things like Louis XIV getting Huguenots to emigrate by sending roving thugs to rape the women among them.
Even I didn’t appreciate how insanely violent the 30 years war
September 11, 2025 at 9:09 PM
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Counterpoint: this is a fairly accurate representation of the licentious behavior (in the general sense of moral license to do whatever) that a holy war mindset has often enabled historically.
Soldiers in the 30YW felt a license to rape, murder, loot, and otherwise commit any crime imaginable.
Soldiers in the 30YW felt a license to rape, murder, loot, and otherwise commit any crime imaginable.
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April 10, 2025 at 8:53 PM
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Cruise to the UK with my sister - there was a #ThriftScore!! #WhatAreYouReading #BookReviews #20thCenturyHistory #MilitaryHistory #GermanHistory #30YW #PikeAndShot #WarsOfSuccession #7YW #RevolutionaryWars #NapoleonicWars #Muskets #HolyRomanEmpire #Electors #WargameResearch #HistoryBookChat
April 6, 2025 at 11:07 AM
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There has never been a prestige 30yw series
August 16, 2025 at 1:44 AM
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I love your collection and sometimes I regret not to have started my 30YW journey on the 10mm road.
March 29, 2024 at 6:17 AM
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Painting some 15mm 30YW hajduks. There's over 50 of them, so I've divided them into 2 groups for painting. This is known as a Hajduk Split.
November 7, 2024 at 5:32 PM
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Knowing the worst the world can get is freeing. If it will literally never get worse than the Global Crisis (an entire period of crisis throughout Eurasia of which the 30yw was only a part), then why not be at peace?
April 21, 2025 at 5:36 AM
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I'm reminded of a historian of the 30YW who told me (and I can believe this) that when Germans at the end of WW2 were saying "well, it's not as bad as the Great War was" - they were referring not to 1914-1918, but 1618-1648. En masse.
December 4, 2024 at 7:57 PM
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30YW-ass levels of idiotic shit leading to much nastier much more idiotic shit
absolutely wild that a DOGE stray dog getting manhandled by a fifteen year old is the cause of what's looming in front of DC now
August 11, 2025 at 11:38 AM
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No British troops marched through those lands. In WW1 local uprising took power, in WW2 local uprisings plus Red Army and Vlasov’s people (specifically Prague) and US Army (Pilsen). There was an English volunteer regiment in 30YW, but they fought against the invading Swedes IIRC.
October 9, 2023 at 11:03 AM
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LOVEBITES / Soldier Stands Solitarily [Official Live Video from "Memorial For The Warrior Souls"]
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November 24, 2024 at 8:11 PM
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Ok did you know we have the actual diary of a 30yw merc and you can read it? Preserved almost whole. There's so much fucking child death, you have zero idea
July 17, 2025 at 3:31 AM
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I wrote a (so far unpublished) book with this guy so you should listen to his stuff
(the book's also set in the 30YW, we're all cultured here)
I wrote a (so far unpublished) book with this guy so you should listen to his stuff
(the book's also set in the 30YW, we're all cultured here)
Tides of History: S5 E104: Being a Soldier During the Thirty Years War: Interview with Dr. Lucian Staiano-Daniels
What was it like to be a soldier during the Thirty Years War? I spoke with Dr. Lucian Staiano-Daniels, author of the upcoming book The War People: A Social History of Common Soldiers during the Era of...
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December 7, 2024 at 11:31 AM
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This morning's post sees the #ECWtravelogue visit Firenze looking at #EnglishCivilWar #Warsof3Kingdoms #30YW stuff. Plus a tip for last minute Xmas shopping www.keepyourpowderdry.co.uk/2024/12/fire...
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English Civil War wargaming , British Civil Wars, Wars of the Three Kingdoms.Home of the ECW travelogue a tourists guide to the English Civil War,
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December 16, 2024 at 6:19 AM
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The First World War had plenty of atrocities, of course, but there was a casualness to the abuse of civilians in Congo 2 that fits the 30YW better.
June 4, 2024 at 11:52 AM
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Finally, the Battle of #Lemgo article is published (1638). It would never have made it to print without the excellent input of my co-author, Dr Kathrin Zickermann from UHI Centre for History
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LOVEBITES / Soldier Stands Solitarily [Official Live Video from "Memorial For The Warrior Souls"]
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February 13, 2025 at 10:59 AM
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