Carson

By the time of the Crusades, there had already been a Muslim incursion so deep into France that the ensuing battle (Tours) was fought midway between Nantes and Paris. The Muslims owned Sicily. They owned Spain. They were deep into India. They weren't a peaceful retiring civilization happy to tend their gardens. In fact after the First Crusade, the Muslims continued to conquer, eventually taking down the Byzantines and all the Balkans. The First Crusade was an audacious and courageous strike against a force that the crusaders felt menaced all Christendom. Were they justified? That has to be determined by your own moral compass. But certainly they weren't just picking on the poor oppressed Mohammedans.

Here in Hagia Sophia, on May 29th 1453, after 900 years of being a Christian cathedral, in the final hours of the Fall of Constantinople, a large number of Christian men, women, children, nuns, monks, priests, and others sought refuge from the Muslim invaders. The Ottomans surged inside and massacred them. On its holy altars they enacted “perversions with our women, virgins and children” including “the Grand Duke’s daughter who was quite beautiful” and forced to “lie on the great altar of Hagia Sophia with a crucifix under her head and then raped” Those who were not murdered were enslaved. Hagia Sophia resembled a “public brothel” before it was turned into a “stable for their horses”, with toppled altars used as troughs. The Hagia Sophia’s main Crucifix was then paraded “in mocking procession” with “spitting and blasphemies and curses”. “Behold the god of the Christians!” They jeered

But but but, muh Xp for G-g-gold. And my 45 year appeal to authority. "as a" Nope. LOL. Twitter is tiny island in a much larger sea.

The Trope repeated about XP for Gold is just false. It is a solution in search of a problem The system is poor and several Dragon articles have alternatives that were BETTER Dragon 35,36, and 95.

in the 1700s they would’ve executed this guy for this

Make Orcs Evil Again

Perhaps the biggest example of how 40k is now just a plot with a neat setting is how boiled down all of this is, like you had dozens of various regiments in the Second War for Armageddon all with unique aesthetics and now we’re just stuck with Cadians and Krieg.