{"id":2433,"date":"2014-09-19T09:26:02","date_gmt":"2014-09-19T13:26:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rocketshipgames.com\/blogs\/tjkopena\/?p=2433"},"modified":"2014-09-19T09:26:02","modified_gmt":"2014-09-19T13:26:02","slug":"the-druze","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocketshipgames.com\/blogs\/tjkopena\/2014\/09\/the-druze\/","title":{"rendered":"The Druze"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An\u00a0excellent piece of artwork I picked up in one of the silent charity auctions at this year&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.novaopen.com\/\">NOVA<\/a>, finally up on the wall:<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_2434\" style=\"width: 540px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rocketshipgames.com\/blogs\/tjkopena\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/20140919_085219.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2434\" class=\"wp-image-2434 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rocketshipgames.com\/blogs\/tjkopena\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/20140919_085219-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"20140919_085219\" width=\"530\" height=\"397\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2434\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Contact!<\/p><\/div>\n<p>That a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.infinitythegame.com\/infinity\/en\/2012\/miniatures\/druze-shock-teams\/\">Druze\u00a0Shock Team<\/a> from <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.infinitythegame.com\/infinity\/en\/\">Infinity<\/a><\/em>, a mercenary unit. They are indeed related to the actual <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Druze\">Druze<\/a> here with us today in real life. One of the things I really appreciate about <em>Infinity<\/em> is its very diverse universe, with many ethnicities,\u00a0lots of references\u00a0to modern day, and some backstory connecting this age\u00a0to theirs. Tons of games have their Russian, Nazi, and American stereotypes. Not that many games have a unit with a real connection to a relatively obscure\u00a0religious community in the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Levant\">Levant<\/a>\u00a0of which the vast, vast majority of Americans have without doubt never heard. To me that&#8217;s definitely one of the ways\u00a0it really comes through that the game is European (Spanish) in origin.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An\u00a0excellent piece of artwork I picked up in one of the silent charity auctions at this year&#8217;s NOVA, finally up on the wall: That a Druze\u00a0Shock Team from Infinity, a mercenary unit. They are indeed related to the actual Druze here with us today in real life. One of the things I really appreciate about &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rocketshipgames.com\/blogs\/tjkopena\/2014\/09\/the-druze\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[397],"tags":[18,281,274],"class_list":["post-2433","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tabletop","tag-art","tag-infinity","tag-miniatures"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocketshipgames.com\/blogs\/tjkopena\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2433","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocketshipgames.com\/blogs\/tjkopena\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocketshipgames.com\/blogs\/tjkopena\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocketshipgames.com\/blogs\/tjkopena\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocketshipgames.com\/blogs\/tjkopena\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2433"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocketshipgames.com\/blogs\/tjkopena\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2433\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2435,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocketshipgames.com\/blogs\/tjkopena\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2433\/revisions\/2435"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocketshipgames.com\/blogs\/tjkopena\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2433"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocketshipgames.com\/blogs\/tjkopena\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2433"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocketshipgames.com\/blogs\/tjkopena\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2433"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}