Tim_Pollard

Did Tolkien provide much of a description for the uniforms and armour for the Men and Elves of the Last Alliance? I'm thinking about painting up a Last Alliance army for ME:SBG and I'm thinking about colour-schemes.

There's a few things I've seen myself:

• Gil-galad is referred to as having a silver shield that reflects the stars in the Fall of Gil-galad, and The Shibboleth of Fëanor apparently state that he got the name of "Starlight" from his silver shield with white stars on it.
• I've seen a couple of people say that Elendil's personal guard wore black uniforms (which presumably also means that the other Men of Arnor and Gondor wore other colours)
• I've also seen Tolkien's picture of

I kept wanting to copy and paste this same post in reply to various comments on https://www.reddit.com/r/Warthunder/comments/tyb6gz/gaijin_support_fixed_my_squadron_rp_bug_that/, so I decided to make it a separate post, and link to it instead.

If anyone with more knowledge wants to double-check my numbers that would be appreciated.

Squadron RP is calculated based on both your activity and the total activity of your squadron:

https://wiki.warthunder.com/Squadron_Vehicles#Description

For every 200 research points earned, an "activity point" will be added to the squadron's collective pool. Every 3 days, these activity points will be converted into an amount of research points towards t

tl;dr: Most players with win rates higher than 33% will probably be losing RP with the suggested change to rewards.

Most people are just assuming that it's a 20% buff to rewards on losses and a 20% nerf to rewards on wins, so if you've got a 50% win rate you'll break even.

But that's not quite right, because the suggested change is changing the multiplier that applies to your match time, and the main reason the winning team wins is because the other team runs out of spawns, meaning that the losing team gets knocked out first.

So the average player on the losing team has a lower play time than the average player on the winning team.

In my case I believe between Air RB and Ground RB it com

tl;dr: In Air RB if your win rate is higher than about 30% you'll probably earn less RP on average with the new multipliers. In Air AB, Ground, and Naval it's less significant, but still probably going to require a win rate below around 45% to break-even. So the average player with a 50% win rate will earn less under the proposed new system.

Changing the multipliers from 1.4 and 0.6 to 1.2 and 0.8 sounds like it's even, but it's not because most players do worse in matches they lose on average compared to matches they win. There's obviously exceptions (matches where I do really well, but the team lets me down, or I do terrible but my team carries me), but those are exceptions.

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Does anyone know of a way to buy a book of just the Troparia and Kontakia in English rather than a full Menaion?

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My parish is gradually adding a little more English to our services. We had been just scrambling to look up the troparion and kontakion each Sunday morning on someone's phone when it came up.

This was a bit of a pain so I've started printing out a couple of weeks worth at a time from https://www.holytrinityorthodox.com/calendar/ ; after a year we'll end up with a couple of folders with at least one troparion and kontakion for each day.

While it's not huge, there is a little bit of work in formatting everything so they look

G'day,

For some reason the front two meters/yards of my pumpkin vine is nice and green and healthy, but the rest of the vine is dead or dying, and this has been continuing for as long as the vine has been growing.

Fruits start to form near the end of the vine and look great for the first week or so, but then the dying part of the vine starts to get close and they shrivel up and die.

These pumpkins came up out of some compost in a bed I was preparing for something else, so I haven't really been taking good care of them, other than a little bit of watering (we get pretty good rain here, so I haven't watered much), this is likely part of the problem.

I'm not too concerned about trying to sa

I've been noticing that I'm seeing a lot of wedding dresses on Zombies, so I checked the JSON; and unless I'm reading data/json/monsterdrops/zombie_default.json wrong, 5% of zombies (or 10% of female zombies) spawn with wedding dresses, and debug spawning a few large groups of zombies shows around that number.

My inclination is to change this to 1%, which is a nice simple change, but is there some lore reason for this that I'm missing? (Did the a significant portion of the population go insane in a way that made wearing wedding dresses seem like a good idea?)

While I was checking it I also noticed Cassocks, Thawbs, and Haori seem to be way to common as well, which again is a simple fix.

Letter to the Glibelian Ambassador dated 4th of Solu in the 7th year of Emperor Halak II [Approximately 2nd of December 2031 AD]

Dear Ambassador Gras XVII, Hand of the Red Council, First Lord of Bosae IX, etc.,

Greetings and Salutations.

To answer your queries I will need to first explain a bit about what makes humans special.

While I was on my recent tour of Earth I was shown a video of a human hunting a kudu (a local herbivorous quadruped). Kudus are much faster than humans, so the kudu easily sprinted away, but they also lack the humans' endurance, so whenever it had to stop and rest the human would close the distance. Eventually after the better part of a local day of this sprintin

Sadly I've lost my Fenix L1T :-(, so I'm looking for a new EDC torch.

Purpose: General EDC; shining a light into basements, car engines, etc. I did occasionally use my L1T as a [mediocre] spotlight in the woods.

Size: No specific requirements; just a standard 1xAA torch

Battery Type & Quantity: 1xAA, though something with a 2xAA extender might be cool.

Price Range: <$50

Type: Pocket carry

Lumens & Beam: >100 lumens, more spot than beam

Switch Type: End-cap forward clicky by preference, but see below.

Anything Else? Waterproof and reliable

The UI is the big deal for me; I want something where I can easily turn on dim mode or bright mode straight away (I