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>ARMCHAIR COPELORD: THE MAIDEN'S WAR review by slovak schizo length: 769 pages took me about a week to read, but i managed to plow through the last 400 just today >basic observations: the book, to my surprise, didn't devolve into outright shit sexual stuff shoehorned in. there are some hints which i will describe later, but in general they were very limited. relationships are developed in a subtle way instead, the book has issues with awkwardness in some of the interpersonal interactions. the most obvious of these is the obsession with blushing. every chapter includes at least one scene where the character ends up in a mildly romantic/sexual/suggestive/embarassing situation, and thus ends up blushing. sometimes there are multiple such scenes per chapter. it is very obvious that armchair copelord is a weeb. another common theme is the 13 year old princess pouting during conversations, which also, to me, sounds kind of weebish. in the initial scene, one of the characters, 17 year old sophie, has to undress from a school uniform. i was half expecting one of the characters to be late for a meeting and run to it with a slice of bread in her mouth, but it never happened. the actual military scenes where fighting is described are great, with close quarters bayonet and trench combat described vividly, as well as cavalry charges. the tactical aspect is also touched upon, but never in too much detail to make it overly boring. it's obvious that copelord did actually serve in the army. the book can be split in two halves - the first half is mostly preparations; units moving around, shit happening in the background, slightly boring; while the second half is mostly combat scenes and dramatic intrigue.
>characters + interactions: there are three main points of view used in the book sophie rose - 17 year old reservist from the kingdom, she gets called up into the army along with other people from her town. she ends up on the frontlines, and later barely escapes an encirclement. her relationship is the closest with tony, another soldier. princess arilin catherine wehrherz - 13 year old princess, daughter of the king of the kingdom. to help her handler, general patricia macmahon, save her military career, she joins her along the way for patricia to command a female cavalry unit. relationship closest with patricia, but not sexual. patricia has a close relationship with walter haas, another general. an important thing is that she is also a bastard child, born to the king out of wedlock - the king had his former wife killed and married his mistress, bringing arilin into the royal family. she has a sister and a brother who was born in the previous marriage june anjanou - imperial elite cavalry/dragoon. most scenes just show combat, and are purely military in thats sense. >basic plot the kingdom and the empire are in another war. the kingdom is initially pushed away from a heavily defended strongpoint, but later recaptures a lot of land, while the empire digs in around a strategic ridge. sophia is thrown into the fight along the ridge. patricia realizes that the empire is going to pull a true and honest feint - draw the royal army into a fight at the ridge, then encircle them, destroying the bulk of the army. but the royal chief of staff is a retard and continues the fight, until the empire manages to encircle the army and take them all POW. the brother of arilin is killed in combat, causing a succesion crisis, and the chief of staff kills himself while surrounded in combat, causing walter haas to become the new chief of staff. sophie and her unit manage to escape the encirclement. the book ends at this cliffhanger
>overall opinion: wheelchair copelord should stick to writing military fiction, because the book is decent, unlike his very shit takes on real life wars.
Russia is a Potemkin Nation, with a Potemkin leadership, a Potemkin Army, a Potemkin (or Kunetzov) navy, a Potemkin People, and ultimately, a Potemkin future where it is abandoned and the paint scrapes off to reveal a rotten structure.
>Russia is a Potemkin Nation, with a Potemkin leadership, a Potemkin Army, a Potemkin (or Kunetzov) navy, a Potemkin People, with foreign Potemkin supporters, a Potemkin currency, a Potemkin economy and ultimately, a Potemkin fate where it is completely abandoned and the paint scrapes off to reveal a deeply rotten structure on the verge of collapse
Grayson Roberts
I remember that talk about russians from a finnish retired intel officer he concluded that medvedev wouldn't be given power because he seemed too soft looks like medvedev has realised and is overcompensating?
Justin Bailey
don't you anons sleep so much better when realising that hundreds of ruskie die everyday killed by weapons paid of by your govs? I do
Camden Jones
poles must be sleeping extra well, hope those PT-91s proof themselves worthy
Grayson Butler
feels good
Dominic Morris
All economies are Potemkin-ish nowadays though. It's a pick your poison type deal.
Ok, thanks, but why the fuck would you read that shit in the first place. At the most, maybe I'll watch an episode when the anime comes out but I'm not sending that dork money or wasting my time on his foray out of fanfiction.
Benjamin Wright
From the creators of >all sides torture POWs >every government is corrupt like kremlin >but what about X? And the list goes on and on So youre either stupid or malicious
sucks that my government will still do business with them and my so called citizens would suck mongol and jewish ass on the other hand i sleep well whenever i find a yank complains about Ukraine knowing that the yank taxes are helping Ukraine
Dominic Parker
i downloaded a pdf for free, i wouldn't give copelord my money
Ryan Long
>All economies are Potemkin-ish true, but many have the material basis (or other strengths) to retain or regain strength after their facades slip russians right now are deconstructing their basis to fortify the facade
gazeta.ru/politics/2022/07/17/15136676.shtml video of Medvedev REEEing, also who the fuck are the people he always keeps around when he talks, fucking gramps already looks like a decaying corpse
Brody James
but you gave him your valuable time
John Wright
Don't be disingenuous, you know it's absolutely true that the global economy in 2022 is an extremely lean house of cards. If you see this as covert zigger concern trolling you should spend less time here. >deconstructing their basis to fortify the facade If their petrochemical and agrarian industries really run on borrowed western tech and experts this is absolutely true. And if true, what the absolute fuck were they thinking
